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@sundancer – well that’s half an hour I’m never going to get back. And, obviously, I disagree with just about everything the guy in the video says. It just sounds like snobbery to me. We’ve had the old “analogue is better than digital” argument since the first CDs came out in 1984. It isn’t. Half an hour to say “I don’t like the style of art” then admit everything else in the game is pretty much the same, then moan about how sculptors aren’t as good – not because they’re not very good miniature sculptors but, because, somehow it’s the fault of the medium they’re using…. nah. (ok, 20 minutes then – I got so bored I put it on x 1.25 just to get it over more quickly).

There are some amazing digital sculptors out there. Just two examples: compare Cyber Forge with Unit9. Cyber Forge (a spin-off from Titan Forge) are more “traditional” heroic-like minis – big heads, big hands, relatively simple details (but what details there are, are super-crisp and a joy to paint). Unit9 is still quite stylised (large-ish heads and hands but less “heroically scaled” than Cyber Forge) but their minis have infinitely more detail.

But it’s *because* of digital sculpting we have a choice of types of sculpt to choose from. Both are excellent. Trying to recreate either of these using “traditional” modelling would result in lower quality sculpts with less detail. I’d take digital sculpting over “analogue” all day, every day. To try to pretend someone pushing sausages of greenstuff is a “better” way of making minis than digital sculpting is… well, misguided at best. “Analogue” can only result in “analogue-looking” minis.

A good “analogue” sculptor with a ball of greenstuff can’t create the types of minis a digital sculptor can. But a good digital sculptor *can* create the same style of minis as the “analogue” sculptor. And then lots of other styles not available to the greenstuff guy.

Bah.

Maybe I’m just ranting.

I hate people who claim vinyl is superior too – because I don’t believe they *can* “hear the digitisation” of the recording on digital recordings either.