@GabrielWB hey you've been tagging every image from this artist as sfm. Are you sure the non-animated stuff is? Is there any confirmation from the artist that these are afm screenshots with filters or something?

Veraducks said:

@GabrielWB hey you've been tagging every image from this artist as sfm. Are you sure the non-animated stuff is? Is there any confirmation from the artist that these are afm screenshots with filters or something?

@Veraducks

Yes. Great example would be post #4618676 and the accompanying Twitter thread over here where he goes into detail about his workflow and how his images are constructed.
SFM is used for posing, lighting, and setting the scene, and the images then get a pass over with Photoshop. He shares occasional WIP images on his Discord (currently invite only)
And to this day, he still uses this method. An example of about a month ago would be post #6391377 and the WIP

That said...

In his older works (post #5409856, post #4592919 for example) the remnants of the 3d base are very visible, because his edits were limited to shading and small fixes.
But as he has been progressing in experience, his work has slowly been shifting to do more and more work in Photoshop.

As he puts it:

GerMERRT — 03/23/2023 12:49 AM:
ye i used to just do sfm renders, and then i started adding lineart,
and then i started adding lineart and also touching up shading,
and then i started doing lineart/completely recoloring/reshading/doing everything
myself and just using SFM as the base thing

The problem is that I don't actually know where the cutoff point is. If someone were to use a poser tool like MagicPoser to create an image, I would never think of tagging it with something silly like magicposer_(medium) for example.
I've been reconsidering this myself, but I've just put it on the backburner and just kept adding it because I still think that SFM still plays a bigger factor here than just posing (the correct lighting for example as in post #4967791, WIP has been deleted unfortunately).

I would definitely appreciate a second opinion.

That sounds like the workflow of a trace rather than it being actually SFM as the medium. Due to Twitter shitting itself, I can't view that thread at the moment, so I can't look into it more.

Given how a lot of his recent work has very clear details that are impossible in SFM - like specific cloth and skin textures and folding - I think it's a bit misleading to be tagging the medium. Buuuut I also can't verify.