Scarlet Quercus wrote:
I have no RL artistic skills, so I turned to SL specificly to render avatars for my RPG characters from other games. So yes, I consider avi creation art.
I just want to clarify that what I consider art in my situation is the rendering of my avi for the specific purpose of image capturing and presentation into another game as art, no differenent that if I was using DAV Studio or another 3D art rendering program.
While I think content creators certainly are artists (clothing/skin creators, etc), I think avatar assembly is a talent, but isn't inherently art. It's what you do with the avatar after that makes it art or not.
That said, I think someone that starts with the stock linden shape and mods it themselves into a unique avatar shape would fall into the same class as a content creator, and hence be considered an artist. I started with the stock shape for my avi and have been working on perfecting it, off and on, for five years. I don't really see this as any diffferent than sculpting; it's just in a virtual medium.