But you made that choice because you liked how it looked. If you’re making expressive, almost surreal art and not just trying to “trick the eye” with photoreal, I think it’s cool!

The ability to break physics but maintain believability is the coolest thing about computer graphics. :D

So, I guess it depends what you were going for, and I think the previous advice wasn’t bad, but you’ll always get people trying to push that realism perfection even if that’s not what you’re trying to do.

Beautiful render, I really like what you did with this. :)

Love it! An experience easily applicable to TF2 as well LOL.

What was the hardest part of this project for you? :)

I think they’re going through some growing pains is all.

There was that little fiasco a while back where “giveaway” items didn’t include lifetime support (understandably) and they didn’t denote this clearly, and their standards with participating creators could have been a little better too, which resulted in a lot of items getting review-bombed like crazy.

I admit I even did this to one product because it was actually removed from my account before I had a chance to download it, because the promotion was over. They since fixed that though.

People also do dumb things that hurt everyone involved, like leave 1-star reviews that are essentially customer support questions. “Would not work.” Or something.

I dunno, if it were ArtStation or something I’d probably be like “Yeah they’re being fishy!”

But the CGCookie / Autotroph / Superhive people are good folk, and I don’t think anybody’s getting filthy rich off Superhive. Could be wrong, but I’d love to hear what they have to say about it before assuming deceptive behavior.