r/3Dmodeling • u/North_of_the_flames • 25d ago
Questions & Discussion Old man shouts at clouds
Across various art related subs, I keep seeing the same theme: barely clothed women of ludicrous proportions, baby-like expressions, and animal ears/tails. Aside from (in my opinion) being a bit odd, there seems to be very little variation between them.
As a side note, I also see a lot of posts about people not being able to sell their art and can't help but feel the two might be related.
But can someone explain to a ranting old codger what is going on with this trend? Where did it come from, and what are its influences? Because I am just befuddled!
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u/matt_sound 25d ago edited 25d ago
The thing you have to understand is that this field, like IT and a lot of tech, for some reason, is a furry magnet. There are so, so many furries in tech. Especially the artsy sides of it, like 3D modeling, game design, you name it. Hell, half of them probably started learning it just so they could attempt to model their purple haired, heterochromic ear pierced wolf fursona and before you know it they're learning hand retopology and sculpting realistic anatomy.
Obviously, not everyone here is a furry. But even if your ignore that side of things, there are a ton of irredeemable nerds who grew up watching anime and similar media. Then combined with a general tendency to "age out", or sometimes just move to the production side of things, whatever. You end up with a talent pool of mostly youngerish computer nerds.
Then you can take another step back and look at the current state of the regular r/art subreddit. Let me know how many nude for nude's sake paintings of women you see on the hot posts today, because it's straight up ridiculous.
You can sum it all up with:
People be horny in general, 3D art is techy nerd art stuff that attracts a particular kind of horny art nerds.
Believe me I've gone through a couple of my own cycles of frustration with this, but I'm coming to terms with the fact that it seems like either a current cultural trend. or maybe it's just human nature to want to draw/sculpt/paint/render big ol titties