<p dir="ltr">Nice ideas. I totally agree with all that.</p>
<p dir="ltr">However they all seem to be labour intensive and the site should be worked on constantly by by dedicated and assigned persons. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Considering the current number of contributors and updaters of the site, that wouldn't be plausible unless much attention and personal are assigned to it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks</p>
<div class="gmail_quot<blockquote class=" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I feel that the gallery is also a very central point of the web site. I think we should do everything we can to make it the best collection of blender art and perhaps a learning too, so I put together some ideas as I worked today. This list is only ideas and totally open to improvement and debate.<div>
<br></div><div>We should have a picture contest with payed prizes. These prizes might include selections from the blender store or perhaps cash or computer things.</div><div><br></div><div>We should have 3 top pictures each full release of blender. The very best picture will become the blender opening picture when this is not used to feature a <a href="http://blender.org" target="_blank">blender.org</a> film or whatever. The other two will be added to the gallery or perhaps the top 10 or more. Adding one a day would keep people coming back to see what is new.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Each submitted picture should include the blend and ideally a video of the blend being made including a voice over with subtitles if the speaker is not a native speaker. If the person has a really bad computer than they my submit a pdf showing how the blend was made. The idea here is that it can be used as a tool for others to learn from.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Each submission should be creative commons so that it can be freely shared.</div><div><br></div><div>Each submission should be made using the SVN version of the upcoming blender release and should feature the use of whatever new features the release will be adding.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Judges should be pro artists, perhaps a few should be famous photographers too.</div><div><br></div><div>Judging should be based on relevance to theme, lighting, composition, use of new blender features, originality, use of textures and compositor.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We could make a yearly calendar based on the top photos and sell it.</div><div><br></div><div>We could make and sell a DVD including all the submissions, videos and pictures for the year.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Judges would give the top 3 artists critiques of their work so that they can improve and also see why they were picked.</div><div><br></div><div>Judges should be pros and perhaps famous It might also be nice to have so judges that were photographers or fine artists to get a new perspective.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So those are my ideas. I look forward to hearing everyone else's thought about my ideas.</div>
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