I've had plenty of arguments with other artists about the legitimacy of the use of a computer in the fine arts. My opinion is that it is no different than picking up a camera, brush, chisel, etc. It is a tool. In art school you are taught a rather straightforward process to making art: 1. Get an idea 2. Choose the best tool/method/media to represent your idea. 3. Render your idea. 4. Rework. rework. rework. The computer is just another possibility in your scope of media choices. It's almost the same lame argument people have about the computer in the workplace: If you're not getting dirty and sweaty doing it, you're not really working. It's like you have to inhale oil paint fumes and get cancer in order to have worthwhile work to look at. That's just wrong.
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I've had plenty of arguments with other artists about the legitimacy of the use of a computer in the fine arts. My opinion is that it is no different than picking up a camera, brush, chisel, etc. It is a tool. In art school you are taught a rather straightforward process to making art: 1. Get an idea 2. Choose the best tool/method/media to represent your idea. 3. Render your idea. 4. Rework. rework. rework. The computer is just another possibility in your scope of media choices. It's almost the same lame argument people have about the computer in the workplace: If you're not getting dirty and sweaty doing it, you're not really working. It's like you have to inhale oil paint fumes and get cancer in order to have worthwhile work to look at. That's just wrong.