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

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Douglas,

Given the large amount of good community sites for artists, such contests or systems should better run there.

The blender.org gallery can simply stick to a compact overview of quality work people do with Blender. It hasn't been updated for ages, volunteers come and go...

I also think it's for blender.org more important to show *who* works with blender (like professionals, studios, researchers, game studios, etc) than showing that Blender is good enough to make quality graphics. We're past that point really :)

There's a couple of people working on a makeove for blender.org, a proposal will be available soon (1 week or so).

-Ton-

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On 24 Apr, 2013, at 19:42, Knapp 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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