Very questionable, unless of course there’s some illegal street racing involved which makes it very cool.

You’re right, I wouldn’t. None of what I said is specific to 3.1, and I do use Blender for ancient techniques (visible vertex color) rather than old software (even though I would like something simpler).

As to why anyone would do it? Familiarity and a “workstation” feel I’d guess, especially the more in-era stuff is added (software workflow, CRTs, scanners/printers). Maybe it’s just another way to avoid the modern mess of ads, AI, frequent updates/changes etc.

For someone producing a retro project, I could also see using an older OS as something akin to method acting (similar-to but-not-quite ‘dogfooding’). Stew in the exact design language and technical sensibilities you’re trying to replicate, rather than reading about it or looking at screenshots.

Bryce 3D was also just an example (and LGR’s video being the exact sort of energy I’m talking about), though I’m not sure how the newest version would compare on workflow and aesthetic. Seems like it’s more focused on realistic landscapes.

Sure, but when you’re doing a 5-hour render and it’s using something like 1/64th of your CPU (for LGR’s Threadripper example) that is a lot of room for improvement even if you don’t care about ‘maximum’. Especially for rendering multiple frames.

I mean a slight upside is that it is a lighter workload and it shouldn’t impact system usability.

I’m guessing the big issue here will be software lacking support for multi-threading. At least that’s the impression I got watching the LGR video on Bryce 3D.

Even some light threading or ability to user newer instruction sets/math etc might help but probably no easy way to do that unless some really smart people make patches or something. And even then, I might see someone so inclined to do so via WINE or even just that they’d use Blender instead.

The artist actually does do advertising stuff (including merch and crowd-funding) on imgur (+reposting/rehashing too) and reddit so I sorta get it, but posting art by someone-who-conducts-themselves-in-a-manner-you-dislike is counterintuitive.

I wasn’t even entirely sure it was this until I saw the mention of Patreon on the image, as the talk of signatures in the comments is jumping the shark a bit.