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

[Nkansah Rexford]

Nice ideas. I totally agree with all that.

However they all seem to be labour intensive and the site should be worked
on constantly by by dedicated and assigned persons.

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.

Thanks
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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