By Nita Ravalji 
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Bart Veldhuizen
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
22 Comments
great idee! only a girl could imagine that :)
Wow - that's a pretty sexist and condescending statement. Sadly, you obviously intended it as a compliment :-(
How so? I don't know any guys who regularly use hair irons, I think he means guys genuinely could not think of this, but girls can. Idk how that's condescending.
I wrote this comment, because before I've seen who have made it, I thought "oh cool, a image made by a girl"
so I must be sexist and condescending but I love those works
I'm not attacking your appreciation of the image - it's just a shame you couldn't express it without commenting on the artist's gender, which is ultimately irrelevant to the quality of the work. Do you reference the gender of all the artists' work you comment on, or only females?
I don't comment male artists images, I'm very sexist
and with out joke, I was referring to the gender, because this image is expressing the gender, and I like that
so yes, I'm sexist, and yes, I'm condescending, you're a troll
*Sigh* you've missed the point entirely - maybe it's a cultural thing :-( It's also a shame you thought I was trolling you - I assure you I wasn't. Anyway, we can both agree that it's a great image
it's not cultural to like some gender more than an other it's a choice, but I must stop to feed the troll and agree with you, it's a great image
In this particular case (which I am aware happened 14 days ago), I do lean more with your general sentiment. It wasn't necessary to assume this work was done by a woman.
Apparently, not only a woman could've imagined this concept, esp. since
this 3D work was based on original 2D concept art done by a Bill Pressing (as credited right there on Nita's CG Society page).
I personally wouldn't have addressed this comment as so much as sexist and condescending as much as just addressing the fallacy of the crude assumption. I say this, because, while his comment might've been classifiably "sexist," I don't think e5dy's comment was necessarily condescending.
I think he was speaking to the cleverness of the theme--a topic of women dealing with curling their fussy hair, to which generally only women relate--thus leading to the creative idea of Medusa dealing with her peculiar hair. I don't think he intended to come off as condescending, even though, regardless, it was sexist.
(And by "sexist" here, I mean it in it most literal form: the making of an assumption or assignment of a notion, merely on the basis of one's sex. Whether accurate or exaggerated, positive or negative. Male or female, we're all generally sexist to some degree, in more ways than we realize.)
To look at things another way, if this had been an image of a guy drooling over this sexy Medusa and then turning into stone, and a woman commented here, even in a negative tone, "Only a guy could've created this," such the comment probably wouldn't have been considered "sexist" here--even though, technically, it is sexism.
The problem with human's sole act of identifying "sexism" is that we tend to only recognize the negative forms of it. But, say, if we were all on sinking ships, the men would be expected to put all the women first on lifeboats--even to women who aren't our wives or children's mothers.
Such an instance is literally a sexism--that is, an assignment to the notion that women are to come first. It's a noble trait, and to many men, it's a natural and ready sentiment to put all the women in a safer situation first. But technically, it's still literally sexism--it's just not sexism against women, which tends to be the only form acknowledged as "sexism." We fail to recognize the other areas of technically sexism, in favor of noticing what we regard as patronizing forms of sexism.
With that all said, I do agree that e5dy's assumption was rather baseless, esp. since just a bit of reading would've thwarted his assumption. I don't think he meant to be an offense, but I think it only became "offensive" upon the fact that, apparently, not only a woman could've imagined this concept.
Sorry for the essay. I've had this view stored for a while now, and like stored water that leaks through a new crack, I leaked here. lol
Actually...
http://bpresing.deviantart.com/art/Greece-170500709
This was based on concept art from a guy. Nita even says so right in the credits who the artist was: Bill Pressing.
'Kay. Leaving now.
*writer throws a smoke boob--um, bomb, and disappears*
Great work!
great image! only a indian could imagine boobs like that (don't look after me, I'm running away)
Classy.
original illustration is by Bill Presing : http://cdnpix.com/show/imgs/d9e0e56ad67f45b91f0e29fd4db7e22d.jpg
i just molded it in 3d.. Thanks anyway.. :)
-Nita
So you 'just' molded it in 3d? :-)
Pretty impressive, and you've captured the style/mood/feel very well in my opinion. (and in relation to the sexist comments it's kind of funny the concept is by someone named Bill. Propably not a girl... :-) )
This page might as well have been about a bridge given how many trolls are under it... Trolls, or just peeps who don't really understand what 'sexist' means.
I'm the only one whose been accused of trolling here so far, so I'll assume you're referring to me ;-) e5dy's original statement -"only a girl could imagine that" - promoted a stereotype based on both the image subject, and the artists' gender. That's most definitely sexist language. He was incorrect as well, but that's beside the point. The fact that he intended no offence doesn't mean it isn't sexist. Sexism doesn't mean you don't like women, it means you don't regard them as equals, and thus tend to stereotype them. Anyone who doesn't get that, doesn't actually understand what the term 'sexist' means, and probably doesn't understand what constitutes 'trolling' either.
Just to be crystal clear, I love the image, it's a fantastic homage to Bill Presing's original.
It's e5dy's original post I didn't like.
I'm so impressed by how well the 3d artwork matches the 2d reference! Great image!
Awww, that snakes, like them))
This is great!