[Bf-docboard] Blender contest to fill up gallery with great new images.

[Willie Pierce]

I like this idea but as an additional note...

why not instead of a panel of judges have blender users vote... criteria say originality, composition, lighting, actual model... this would give an over all score and that could be the ranking model.

as for prizes. I'd say any that get over x score out of y votes per month get a 10% off your next purchase promo code.  promo code would be a one shot and limit one code per purchase.   

On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> We should have a picture contest with payed prizes. These prizes might include selections from the blender store or perhaps cash or computer things.
> 
> 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 blender.org 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Each submission should be creative commons so that it can be freely shared.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Judges should be pro artists, perhaps a few should be famous photographers too.
> 
> Judging should be based on relevance to theme, lighting, composition, use of new blender features, originality, use of textures and compositor.
> 
> We could make a yearly calendar based on the top photos and sell it.
> 
> We could make and sell a DVD including all the submissions, videos and pictures for the year.
> 
> Judges would give the top 3 artists critiques of their work so that they can improve and also see why they were picked.
> 
> 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.
> 
> So those are my ideas. I look forward to hearing everyone else's thought about my ideas.
> 
> Thanks for reading.
> 
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