As mentioned earlier, the digital art community 3D Commune has really pulled together and come up with a lot of numbers. I don’t know why. Other communities have sprung up and died off, leaving just a handful of contributions to remember them by. For a while I thought the modelling community (as in real models) would take over as the leader in online contributors, but they went the way of others. Perhaps another community could eclipse the 3D Commune? For now, they seem the solid leader and I spoke with a few more just recently.

Anita Scripter (Contributor 190) began as a doctors assistant doing angiograms, which she went on to do for twenty years. “I was living back at my parents house, not working,” she says “when the dr my mother worked for hired me and taught me to do angiograms.” A process which involves “[taking] photographs with special Zeiss cameras and after injecting fluorescein dye into a vein. I taught myself the film developing and took over that part of the job too.”

Holly Burson (Contributor 247) is a 3D artist who got into it after becoming “inspired, after seeing all the other artwork online.” She continues with it and one day hopes to be remembered for creating an artwork. Aside from the computer art, Holly is an avid reader, but 3D art is her main hobby and passion.

Fran, (Contributor 240) is now in a comfortable position after being a Medical Technologist and a BBS sysop a position which lent itself to “a lot of headache, handholding, pounding the pavement the lo tech way as well as hi tech and a lot of creativity.” While not creating “3D worlds - Bizarro 3D worlds”, Fran maintains a positive outlook outside of the technical realm, “I like to be proud of the fact that although I am disabled in real life, I am more than capable in my world. I want to show people everyone has a role and job to do.”

Anita, aswell, is disabled and although she claims to have been “never very good at actual hand drawing,” persists with the digital medium. “I do computer art,” she says, “and love it. Count High sounded like a cool project and a fun idea for an image.” Holly says she joined because of the topic at the 3D Commune while Fran’s reasoning is more reflective, “sometimes it pays to be a part of history. Other times it pays to make history. This is one of those times.”

Posted by Adam R. Box on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 7:44 am.