"Unrealistic boobs" is just one of many variations on "I like a different brand of hot sauce". Happens a lot in art. Clearly, you like 'em that way. Which means that criticism can't touch you, assuming you're making this for yourself. (If you were selling it, it'd be a different story of course.) On the other hand, if you do like praise from others, it's good to have that kinda feedback. Hopefully, the people who like it just the way it is are saying so, too.

My point - to tie this all back to the original question - is that it's kinda hard to get truly bad criticism, but the worst for me (assuming I ever get around to making my own) would be criticism that didn't have much thought behind it, on art you put a great deal of thought into.

As of right now, Epoch (of Clara Ravens fame) is not happy with Octane. Here's his take (along with two commission pieces):

https://www.epoch-art.com/2013/03/26/new-commission-renders/

When you say "favorite character", I take that as meaning it's not simply the artist's skill in rendering, but also the character's story (to the extent they have one), and what situations they end up in. Given that:

The paladin - Fullytank
Pink Pussycat - Finister Foul
Invincible Girl - Finister Foul
Syndori - Hitman3x
Nico Robin - Zzomp

Whoa there, Fredfred. Tiffany didn't say anyone gets sent to prison because the judge/jury are jealous; she said people don't like the rich and famous because they're jealous. Don't you think you're overgeneralizing there?

How about the detrimental effect she and everyone like her has on society? showing that a spoiled, truly stupid person with no discernable personality incapable of offering anything to the world can be more respected than a doctor, or scientist or a street cleaner, or a working single mother?

It's not her fault the other side agreed to settle for $6 million. And it's certainly not her fault that people will watch her on television.

What message does that send to little kids?

Since when did Affect3D become the round table on looking after the little ones? Good gawd, Fredfred, you're all riled up! Someone get this man some 3D porn!

@'l_mirukulab':

Like matthacker mentioned you can customize this. I set my controls for Maya style navigation. Actually I don't know if its really Maya style as I've never used Maya, but its I think its the same as in some others like Cinema4D and Unity and I set it to this in Blender. Go to Window -> Workspace -> Customize… and check out the Viewport Shortcuts at the bottom.

I have mine set to:
Orbit: Alt+LMB
Pan: Alt+MMB
Zoom (Dolly): RMB

I don't remember what the defaults are, but this has proved invaluable for me.

HOORAY! Thanks!
Err… except that it's not working for some reason. I keep double-clicking the blank to enter a new shortcut, then putting in, say, Ctrl+LMB for Orbit, clicking Apply and/or Accept, and nothing changes. If I go back to the Customize window, it's back to Ctrl-Shift-LMB or whatever it was originally, as if I'd cancelled out of it.

Kinda wish viewport control in Daz was more like it is in Illusion Software's old Digitown scene editor. Or any of their programs that let you move the camera around, really. Holding down shift or ctrl to switch between pan, zoom, and rotate was so much better than having to go up to the little icon every time. (Or have I simply not used it enough to learn a better way?)

Agreed, hzr…

Well, out of curiosity, suppose I was someone with some 3D-programming chops, regularly attends SIGGRAPH (I don't, but what if?), and so on. How possible is it to write one's own plug-ins for some of this software, if one knew the algorithms (or even just wanted to experiment)?

This thread finally pushed me to DL Daz and try it out. Since it's free, all I'm spending so far is my free time… Of course, I would run immediately into problems. The Install Manager defaulted to installing itself on my already space-starved OS partition, so I had to go through a lot of trouble to move it and a lot of other things, which caused other programs to break and require my attention. Long story short, I only got to devote maybe an hour or two to actually playing with Daz Studio a week after I decided to DL it. And part of that was figuring out how to make the Smart Content tab see the Genesis Essentials content that was supposed to automatically come with.

I can put a room in a scene and a figure in that room, and that's about it so far, heh. I can't even put hair or clothing or even a second prop in that room, or if I can, I can't seem to place it properly on a figure. (I can edit the figure somewhat, which makes me wonder to what extent I can change what shaping options are available on a given shape, or whether I can make my own shapeable props from within Daz Studio, or if I need to actually start shelling out bucks for additional props, software (do I need Z-Brush? Bryce? Poser? Photoshop?), etc.

Really good composition. The framing from the two men in front, combined with the use of focus, brings us right to the two central figures and locks us there. Great textures, too; nothing here looks stock. (The handcuffs on the wall look plastic when I'd expect a more metallic look, but given how long I had to look to notice them, this should not be a big concern.)

I don't know that I'd say you achieved "mature", but she looks good to me. Hair's a bit unnatural looking in the way it drapes (I'm betting you see it too), but that's probably hard to fix. I'd say the face and pose are both winners.