Neil Kolban wrote:

> Do you consider it "cheating" to use 3D models from the web that are
> other peoples work as part of your composition?

I personally consider it boring. Art by amalgamation.

> Is it common practice to take these models and combine them with our
> own to build scenes?

Common here. On other forums you would get jeered (in contrast to most 
original POV images being simply ignored).

> Is that considered poor practice and that to be considered a "good
> POV-Rayer" we should be building our own models?

You can see in the 'Hall of Fame' on the POV-Ray website that many "good 
POV-Rayer(s)" use 3rd party models.

> What about for competitions like the IRTC?

You can go to the IRTC page and see for yourself. It has long been 
accepted that a person who spends two months texturing a pre-made model 
will receive higher scores than a person who makes something from 
scratch (leaving perhaps only two weeks for texturing). No other 
competition with which I am familiar (except perhaps POVCOMP) would 
allow this.

  -Shay

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