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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 7683376" data-attributes="member: 50895">Well considering I am a person that has been playing D&amp;D games for 30 years, yet I have never purchased a single miniature yet. Some of my friends do have collections of minis we've used for play, however, I even played games where we used Monopoly game pieces (terrier, shoe, etc.) or even slags of metal and tiny dice to represent our PCs and monsters - which just needed reference pieces for playing on a gridded space. Our table just doesn't need accurate minis to play the game.That said, I've been playing with 3D modeling and rendering programs (for animations and still prints) since 2000, and am quite skilled at creating detailed 3D designs. In fact since I am a pro game cartographer, sometimes creating top-down views of specific objects are difficult to replicate (that look good) using Photoshop or other graphics tools, so for some elements on a map, I create a 3D model and render the image as a top down and use as map objects in my work. So I have the skills to create excellent 3D minis, only I wouldn't because I neither care nor intend to use actual miniatures in my RPG gaming, now nor in the future.Here's a 3D model, top down view of an aboleth, I created some 6 or 7 years ago for a game, and I use as a map object, now and again. (ah, it seems attached images aren't allowed in these blog threads so I'll post my aboleth in my<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?257465-Gamerprinter-s-Map-Emporeum/page19&amp;p=6730526#post6730526" target="_blank"> map emporiem thread</a>).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 7683376, member: 50895"] Well considering I am a person that has been playing D&D games for 30 years, yet I have never purchased a single miniature yet. Some of my friends do have collections of minis we've used for play, however, I even played games where we used Monopoly game pieces (terrier, shoe, etc.) or even slags of metal and tiny dice to represent our PCs and monsters - which just needed reference pieces for playing on a gridded space. Our table just doesn't need accurate minis to play the game. That said, I've been playing with 3D modeling and rendering programs (for animations and still prints) since 2000, and am quite skilled at creating detailed 3D designs. In fact since I am a pro game cartographer, sometimes creating top-down views of specific objects are difficult to replicate (that look good) using Photoshop or other graphics tools, so for some elements on a map, I create a 3D model and render the image as a top down and use as map objects in my work. So I have the skills to create excellent 3D minis, only I wouldn't because I neither care nor intend to use actual miniatures in my RPG gaming, now nor in the future. Here's a 3D model, top down view of an aboleth, I created some 6 or 7 years ago for a game, and I use as a map object, now and again. (ah, it seems attached images aren't allowed in these blog threads so I'll post my aboleth in my[URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?257465-Gamerprinter-s-Map-Emporeum/page19&p=6730526#post6730526"] map emporiem thread[/URL]). [/QUOTE]

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