Spectacular - FAQ/Answers/Questions

[botched]

Sorry if this post seems a bit remedial... I'm kind of new around here. I've searched through this thread, but I've not found a satisfactory answer.

Regarding the use of photos in 2D entries... What's the official rule? In most of my illustration work, I combine drawn, painted, and photographed elements (all my own, of course) into the final image. Whether it be a bit of tree bark texture here, or a patch of cloud texture there... Is this not allowed?

[coochaki]

hi...
can i use speedtree plugin?

[Ducklator]

whats the deadline ? I mean when's the battle finish ?yeah, it's the last day that you have to finish your work and send it. 05 December.... :)

i have a doubt, whats exactly the size of the final image? because i am working in a 3000x3500 and 300dpi, the finalimage should be 2657x3636 and 300dpi? thanksyou need to 'crop' or adapt your image in 2657x3636... the rules are rules, you know...:shrug:

It's only that I can answer...:D

[Mibus]

i have a doubt, whats exactly the size of the final image? because i am working in a 3000x3500 and 300dpi, the finalimage should be 2657x3636 and 300dpi? thanks

2657x3636 is an example - as long as you're in the same ballpark when it comes to pixelcount, then you're set.

I have modeled and textured one of the cops three months ago.
Is it considered prefabricated?

Yes - you cannot use work that was created before the challenge begun, even if you made it yourself.

[ahbeejieh]

Hi. Just wanna ask what's up with this FTP thing? Is that some kind of program where uploading of high resolution images will be faster and easier? Tnx in advance!

[OrO]

well the final image sent for to the judges will be a loot biger...the ftp is a program that you cand find almos everywhere...the people from the contest will send you a server adress and using the ftp you will send your image there..but note thiss,the ftp dosm't make the upload a loot faster..it depends on yout internet connection..it just generates some form o link to the server or database

[ahbeejieh]

well the final image sent for to the judges will be a loot biger...the ftp is a program that you cand find almos everywhere...the people from the contest will send you a server adress and using the ftp you will send your image there..but note thiss,the ftp dosm't make the upload a loot faster..it depends on yout internet connection..it just generates some form o link to the server or database

Ok. So how do we get the server address? And tnx again for the response.

[Mibus]

Server info will go out soonish, probably late next week.

[LexLe]

Question exciting me
If at me work on height 2411pixel
On length 3636 pixel on 300 dpi (landscape)
It will be accepted???
Or it is necessary to do 3636 on 2657 pixel???
Excuse for my bad English

[ArtisticVisions]

Mibus:
There's been a claim over in my entry thread (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=273801&page=3&pp=15) (middle-low part of the page) that my new concept for too much like andreja concept (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=280620&highlight=andreja). Frankly, the only thing similar that I see is the fact that they both have a character in the air, but maybe I'm missing something: do you think they are too similar? :shrug:

[Mibus]

LexLe, that's fine.

ArtisticVisions, I think gardogg was just pointing out a vaguely similar entry so you knew not to get caught with something similar; at this point I don't see any real similarity at all.

FTP info is out - http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/spectacular/final_image.php

[vrf]

The countdown clock only goes to the start of December 5th GMT, right? If one were desperate, couldn't one still be submitting entries for 24 hours after the clock expires?

All entries must be submitted by Midnight at the end of 05 December 2005 (GMT)

Or is the clock just off by a day?

[Mibus]

Off by a day - thanks for pointing that out :)

[chrismoose]

mibus,

i had uploaded my .rar file yesterday using freshftp. it 'seemed' to go okay. today i thought i would go onto the competition site to check and it says that i have not submitted the final image file. is there any way you can check that.

if i havent sent it properly then perhaps someone could write a little tutorial on how to upload an image to the competition site address using a freely available (to everyone) ftp program?

show us how you did it: what text/addresses etc go where. stage by stage.
As i tried to reupload my file again just before coming here and this time i got errors in my ftp program.
all the best,
chrismoose101.

[FrozZT]

I think its becouse you havent submitted your final image as a milestone(jpg). But it seems weird not to get any confirmation on the transfer of the ".tiff" file? Submit the final image the usual way(as a milestonein your thread) and i think that'll solve it! :)

[Mr. Meen]

First time entering a CG challenge- exciting stuff!

Can use a piece of my own existing artwork within my challenge piece, as part of a the BG. Its a piece of digital graffiti I did at the begining of this year and I havent shown it to anyone yet???


TKS

Mr MEEN

[Mibus]

chrismoose101: Use a ZIP file instead of RAR and let me know if you still have trouble :)

Mr. Meen: No. All art in the challenge should be made during the challenge.

[chrismoose]

Mibus,

I right clicked my Tiff, -send to comperessed (zipped) folder. this time allowing it to be a .zip file instead of a .rar file. sooo.. i now have a .zip file ready to go at about 6mb.

i do the same freshftp setup using the challenge.com address, the password etc. and i am getting an error in the ftp program.

maybe it is me and my ftp program or maybe something on your side. If it is on my side then again, perhaps someone could detail how they successfully uploaded thier image zip file to the comp' site.

regards.
chris.

[ActionHank]

Hi! In instructions page ('Your Mission' subtitle) is written "...Each challenger should provide an accompanying written description of their scene..."; where is needed to send that written description, and in what format file should be? Thanks!

[Mibus]

maybe it is me and my ftp program or maybe something on your side. If it is on my side then again, perhaps someone could detail how they successfully uploaded thier image zip file to the comp' site.

Hi Chris - you have to use the filename that's given to you. I've renamed yours, and it works fine :)

Hi! In instructions page ('Your Mission' subtitle) is written "...Each challenger should provide an accompanying written description of their scene..."; where is needed to send that written description, and in what format file should be? Thanks!

That's a very good question :). You should put in the "Notes" field for your Final Image upload. I'll adjust the submissions page so it's clearer.

[chrismoose]

mibus,

so thats it? the tiff is uploaded? all my wips are uploaded and im finitoed?!

thanks very much.

regards,

chris.

[Mibus]

It sounds probable. I'll be sending out emails to all "completed" challengers, starting from later this week.

Did you enter your story in the "Notes" field of the final JPG submission?

Did your FTP'd image have a thumbnail show up on the "Upload Final Image" page?

[Screenblind]

Hello worthy admins,

Please could you explain to me the difference between a Final Colouring WIP milestone and the Final Image. I realise that this will vary from entrant to entrant and that an answer is not exactly vital, but some kind of definition would be helpful to me.

Many thanks in advance.

[Mibus]

The Final Image just has whatever "finishing touches" or "polish" you want to add.

[Screenblind]

thankyou for your swift reply! *scampers off to buy polish*

[chrismoose]

hi mibus,

sorry for the delay. yes the tiff image is there and i have completed all my story bits and final image submission. so thats me done then. thanks for everything.

regards,

chris.

[AndyH]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but does your final image HAVE to be at least 2657 pixels across? Will you get marked down if you render it at, say, 2000 x 2500?
Truth be told, my image looks ugly as hell in an extremely high resolution, and my computer is creaking under the processing strain just to calculate reflections and shadow maps!
Could i submit a slightly lower resolution render and still be judged fairly?

Cheers.

[cLos71]

All systems go and image was uploaded succesfully.

Question: When i got to the uploading instructions -- hostname, password, etc. What about the file name? Do I have to use the file name in the instructions page or is that an example. They do say follow these instruction presicely, this threw me off.

Also what's the rule on entering more than one image?

Thanks

[fgdf]

Hello - i submited a wrong image to WIP section any chance to have it fixed?? cheers!!
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=273740&page=9&pp=15
post-> http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=2838104&postcount=127
should be an http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=2838104&postcount=128 image

[AndyH]

Me again!

Ive finished my entry and im now ready to submit it via FTP.
Im no internet whiz, and FTP is pretty new to me. The only real experience i have with it is where you upload it automatically via an interface (like ballistic's book image submission page) or by dragging the file into a window. All i get with the submission form for this is the passwords etc.
Help!

Also, has your zip file got to be named exactly the same as the one on the ftp information page?

Thanks in advance.

[cLos71]

Also, has your zip file got to be named exactly the same as the one on the ftp information page?

Yes I just checked to see if my image was uploaded and it wasn't so I used the name provided in the FTP info and then zipped the file and re-uploaded. Second later when I hit refresh, VOILA there it was. It'll be your confirmation that the file was uploaded successfully.

[Mibus]

Andy H - the sizes given are approximates. Don't go too far lower, but as long as it's roughly "print-res", then you'll be fine. I'm assuming you use the ftp:// link from the BSW?

Open Explorer, type in "ftp://username:password@hostname" (where username, password, and hostname are given to you by the challenge system). Do the drag-and-drop thing then go back to the Final Image page to check. (The file may or may not "appear" to disappear from the FTP location due to security settings on our side).

You absolutely must use the filename given. If you don't, it won't work :)

the_fgdf - I'm not sure I understand what you want to do? If you want the duplicate post removed, let me know.

[AndyH]

Thanks mibus! Its working now!
All i have to do is sit back and wait for the judging, which will probably be delayed loads like the M&S challenge was :p

[banzato]

edit: SORRY i forgot that file name.

Hi, when I'm uploading my final image into ftp the upload stop and continues when I have 10 sec to finish upload. What can be? size of file? error in conection? Thanks

edit: SORRY i forgot that file name.

[alancamara]

Hi, i wanna send my final image in hi-res. Can I send by ftp program? Because i use Macintosh and I didn't get send on the browser. I work with Adobe Golive. Thanks.

[alvin-cgi]

Hi, I have re-read the FAQ section, and one of the question really bugs me::shrug:

"Q: How early do I have to start submitting milestones?
A: As early as possible. Although there is no due date earlier than the final closing date, part of the final judging vote puts emphasis on Community Interaction, which means that people who 'hold back' their work in progress till the last minute can be penalized.

Does that mean IF your entry don't get "enough" community interaction or don't have "many" viewers or questions with your entry... you are likely out of the game!?... though you have put as many as your wip into it but still don't get much response... well, out of luck then... please tell me this isn't "true"...:D cheers

[Mibus]

Does that mean IF your entry don't get "enough" community interaction or don't have "many" viewers or questions with your entry... you are likely out of the game!?... though you have put as many as your wip into it but still don't get much response... well, out of luck then... please tell me this isn't "true"...:D cheers

No. It's really for people who deliberately hold stuff back until the last minute in an attempt to get an advantage (by not sharing ideas).

Hi, i wanna send my final image in hi-res. Can I send by ftp program? Because i use Macintosh and I didn't get send on the browser. I work with Adobe Golive. Thanks.

Yup, that's fine. The FTP information is given to you on the Submit Final Image page.

[OrO]

sorry about my final zipped image..it dosn't look like that.the transfer wasn't complete because my internet came crashing down:scream: i will send the image later today

[alvin-cgi]

Hi Mibus, big thanks for you to clarify that!:thumbsup: CGTalk Rock!:buttrock:

Now I am back to my computer, more sleepless nights...:D

[OrO]

anybody i have a question..i have tryied to send the image via ftp it send but at some time during transfer it stops and sends out an error..i used severel ftps and also internet explorer..pls help :((

[Mibus]

What error?

[OrO]

hello again,i have managed to send it and the image looks ok in the preview..i think there was a problem with my internet connection..just to be sure would it be to much if i asked you to see if the image looks ok?if it got there completely..thank you very much

[max112358]

can anyone tell me how exaclty you send the final TIFF image? never done it before. I have the image ready to send but I don't where to send from.

[alancamara]

Hi Max, you can send your image on the browser. Have a thread on the top at the forum 3d-2D with all instructions about this. You can send also by any ftp program. :thumbsup:

[alvin-cgi]

Hi, I have a question, when I take my image to difference computers, and all display are difference on screen, i.e colors, shadows etc... so how do I know the judges are seeing the "correct" image?:curious:

Thanks:)

[rawwad]

I want ask you same question as alvin_cgi

[MichaelZHsee]

hi mibus,i have a problem regarding submitting my challenge image to the milestone,seems like i couldnt get through,followed exactly the procedures just like i did all this while but after awhile loading,i'll still be in the same page,as if nothing happened.not even receive any 'errors' notification.thank u:)

[rawwad]

I have a question: After I send my final TIFF image, I will see this. Is my sending correct ? :shrug:

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4568/toto7nj.jpg

[Screenblind]

I have used links to other sites in the text which accompanies my Final Image - is this allowed?

Also I am a little unsure if I have uploaded my final tiff correctly, is there anyway that a generous admin could check this for me? I used 'create archive' on my Mac to '.zip' the file, but don't know if that is acceptable either...

Answer greatly appreciated
Beno

[Euphrosyne]

I tried to zip my tiff image with tugzip and it won't work with tiff files are there any free zip downloads that will work with tiff files or is there a specific program I have to buy? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. It would be a shame to have worked so many hours and not be able to submit my final image. I also tried to use the compress option in Photoshop but it didn't reduce the file size or change the tiff suffix to a zip suffix what am I doing wrong?

[alvin-cgi]

Ok... I am confuse here, I got the hostname, username, password and filename... so when I have connected to FTP(FTP program, don't know why the browser doesn't work...), why there is no folder inside the CGtalk ftp... should I rename my zip file to the given filename before copy it over? Or there is a particular folder inside FTP that I need to copy the zip file into??? Please help.:shrug:

[Mibus]

alvin_cgi: No folders. Rename your file to the filename you're given and place it in the FTP.

Euphrosyne: You don't need a TIFF-specific compression program. Try 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/)?

Avatarist: Links are fine. Your images are all considered uploaded by the system - you can check the final TIFF is OK yourself by revisiting the Submit Final Image page.

rawwad: Looks fine to me...

sh@ke: You might want to try again; it might have been a temporary server issue? If you keep having trouble, email me (robert@ballisticmedia.net).

alvin_cgi: Calibrate your monitor for print the best you can :). The judges will do likewise - I think the target is the same as for the books, so sRGB, gamma of 2.2.

[Screenblind]

Many thanks Mibus/Robert

I've checked the image/properties and am a little concerned that it appears as a lo-res version (ie. it displays as 800 x 585 pixels and says it is 153.18 KB (156860 bytes)) - is this normal? - I was kind of expecting to be able to see the hi-res...

Any answer appreciated, sorry to be a worry-nuts - its' my first challenge

thanks

[Euphrosyne]

Thanks for your help Robert.

I appears that my problem was a host problem because when it finally went through I had done the identical proceedure that I did in the begining. I spent a whole day downloading various software and trying to get through, I am so releived that I finished a few days early and had time to patiently work with this. I shudder to think what it will be like when it really gets busy at the end and people can't get in. Anyway Oh joy, Oh joy I did it!

[Mibus]

Avatarist: That's normal. We only show a mid-res image (max size 800x800), it's enough to know the upload worked.

Euphrosyne: Good to hear!

[evanfotis]

Hello Mibus, I'm trying to upload my final image using dreamweaver.
I used all your ftp settings, and uploaded the zip. I could view the zip in the host directory.
After hitting refresh in firefox, the page still says I havent yet uploaded my tiff image.
I tryed again, after I saw you have a given file name as well, so I renamed my zip file to the one in the ftp settings page.
What happens with the zip I uploaded with the original filename?
How do I delete it?
Should I rename also my tiff image, or just the zip that contains the tiff?
TIA
Evan

[evanfotis]

Ok, guys, I seem to have solved the problem.

I renamed my zip to the filename given in the ftp settings and was accepted.

[ilusiondigital]

Hi, Robert, yesterday, i uploaded my final image in tiff compressed in zip (with the zip´s name of the upload page) but today nothing appears, it says no have submit your final image??. Is this ok? or need upload again my image??


Thanks Mibus

[Fish-KAart]

Hello. I recently sent you the letter about проблемме with passwords and a post of work on competition. You have answered me and have sent the new password. Using the new password I do not manage to create here the theme. Whether Tell-can I still учавствовать in competition and that to me нада for this purpose to make..???

[Ducklator]

hey, hello Mibus, I have 3 questions:

1. when I entered to the challenge, I wrote my name as "adrian hdz." but one month ago, I posted a new thread (in the finished work forum) and I received a mail from CG and it said that I was written my name wrong, and I must to writte it complete, so I wrote "adrian hernandez". My question is, if I regitered myself like "adrian hdz", this could be a problem?:shrug:

2. Can you extend the deadline one day more?? :D (hahaha, I had to ask)

3. I don't know if you can help me, but... by mistake, I modified the configuration color in the Photoshop and I haven't idea how I can restore it... I'm not an expert in Photoshop, instead of solid colors, appears small points of different color....:banghead:

thank you....:arteest:

[Mibus]

ilusiondigital: Your filename was slightly off - it was xxx_yyy.zip.zip, instead of xxx_yyy.zip. I fixed that, you should return to the Final Image page to double-check the image looks OK.

Fish-KAart: I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. Could you please re-phrase it?

Ducklator: 1: I can fix that up for you. 2: Nup :p. 3: I don't use photoshop - try the forum:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=14

[Fish-KAart]

:curious: I shall try... My name Klementeva Alena. my nikname-Fish-KA(or Fish-KAart) It my 3 CG Challenges.Each time i cannot registration end posting my work- nikname and the password. Fish-KA-my nikname in Machineflesh -http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=136779.Fish-KAart-my nikname in Master and Servant 2D
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=237730
... Now in any way can not post my work. :cry:
I pliss very much ask to give me mine nik and mine password. About it in lette-Alain Klementyev <fish-kaart@mail.ru> Re: Your login details for CGTalk 01 Deck
My enathe works-
http://guro-games.com/artforum/viewtopic.php?t=3208&sid=ad569db958c5306362bbeab62a1cfa22
http://ccitadel.fatal.ru/alena/my-familyr.jpg
http://www.cgtalk.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=8394&page=4
http://www.cgtalk.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=9281

http://forum.hofarts.com/viewtopic.php?t=345
its my work for Spectacular - 2D
Help mi,Plissss:cry: :cry: :cry: I veri wont be in Spectacular - 2D
I veri wont my nikname-Fish-KA and my password-name my san I remember it always :blush:
My trouble in that I badly know English language :cry:

[tarrzan]

hey Robert, I keep tryiing to upload my final tiff, but this always keeps coming up: Warning: unlink(./challenge10/tmp/148728_108758.ZIP.TIF): No such file or directory in /home/httpd/vhosts/server5.cgnetworks.com/httpdocs/challenge/get_info.php on line 44
BAD=-

I must've tried to 10 or so times, and followed the directions to the T.... please let me know what I'm doing wrong, and what I should do! thanks so much

[ilusiondigital]

Tons of thanks, Robert. Your help is very appreciated.

[SquishMe]

Two quick questions if I may:

When will the final judgement be announced?
When (roughly) will the next challenge start?

Thanks :cool:

[zman]

Hi mibus

I just found out a few days ago that my older email adress (zman@artofgaming.net) doesnt work anymore (because my subscription to the old domain name has ended) so I updated my new email (ziv@zivcg.com) in the user CP.
The thing is, I noticed when I log in to the contest page to submit milestones that it hasnt updated there and it stil says my email is zman@artofgaming.net.

I just fear that I might lose some information that would be sent to that adress... (I just uploaded my final tiff submission, was I supposed to recieve an email confirming that its ok?)

thanks

[Versiden]

hi Mibus

i'm really having alot of problems rendering out my final image at a high resolution. (memory errors)
Would it be possible to submit a low resolution final and then upload a high resolution at a later stage? there wouldn't be any differences between the two versions except for the resolution.

I'm at the end of my tether here, pls help ;p

[zman]

Versiden - this is a very familiar problam :)
you just have to find ways around it ...
did you try rendering crops of your image (like the top half and bottom half) and then putting them togheter in PS ? thats what I did (lots and lots of crops and passes).

[Versiden]

Versiden - this is a very familiar problam :)
you just have to find ways around it ...
did you try rendering crops of your image (like the top half and bottom half) and then putting them togheter in PS ? thats what I did (lots and lots of crops and passes).

hi there, yes I have and it still gives errors. I'm trying seperate passes right now too see if it'll work (diffuse, spec, ambient..)

thx for the reply

[Dbeyond]

:buttrock:................

[Dutchman]

A little question that may be answered by myself, but I still want to know it for sure:

Everywhere is it said that the challenge ends a midnight of december 5, while in the instructions is said: 'The Challenge runs 05 September 2005 - 06 December 2005. No late entries will be accepted.' There might be people who understand it wrong (or is it meant so?!), and entry there final on the 6th!

Will the deadline now be extended one day (december 5 midnight, to december 6 midnight), due to this 'fault'? :rolleyes: :shrug:
-Gijs

[Atris]

Hi Robert! I've tried to upload my tiff image many times. But Final Image Status is "There was an error loading your file. Please try uploading again". All my attemps were unsuccessful. I can't understand, what's a problem? Please, can you help me with it? Thank you in advance.

[immortalx]

i have to submit final zip file .i submitted before in elemental 2 by your own ftp.i (ftp://ftp.i) dont have cute ftp .how to submit final tif zip file .pls clarify

[Mibus]

Atris: I manually processed it, it went OK. What did you use to make the ZIP? Some of the tools we use don't like it...

Dutchman: It's mentioned as the 6th in a few places, so I've altered the auto-countdown to that. It was probably meant to be the 6th, and I mis-transcribed it into other places.

SquishMe: We're hoping that judging will be a fair bit quicker this time than last, but we're still not putting a definate timeframe on it yet. The next challenge should be early next year, but there hasn't even been an internal date set yet.

[alvin-cgi]

Hi Mibus, I have uploaded my final image while ago(28 Nov), went through few times checking, everything looks fine, so I take that is OK.

Another question, I just amended the story of it(not the image), can I update my story...

Thanks

Alvin

[Mibus]

Sure, just post the Final Image JPG milestone again, with the amended text. (Or if you really don't want to do that, email me with the updated text).

[Steve-h]

When I uploaded a mile stone image today the time left indicator said 20-something hours, now it says 2 days 8 hours! What's going on Mibus? Is it hours or days?

[Steve-h]

>It's mentioned as the 6th in a few places, so I've altered the auto-countdown to that. It >was probably meant to be the 6th, and I mis-transcribed it into other places.


Ok I scrolled up, got it! The auto-countdown has been altered.


Thanks

[Mibus]

Yup I have been fiddling :)

It's now standing at about 1 day 20 hours, and should count down evenly from now.

[Atris]

Atris: I manually processed it, it went OK. What did you use to make the ZIP? Some of the tools we use don't like it...


Robert! Thank you very much for your help! :)

[Dutchman]

Dutchman: It's mentioned as the 6th in a few places, so I've altered the auto-countdown to that. It was probably meant to be the 6th, and I mis-transcribed it into other places.
Whooooo! :scream: Wow Mibus, really great of you to do that! :thumbsup: 24 houres more to make the image 'perfect'! :twisted: Thank you so much! :)

[OmeN2501]

Yessss! extra 24h I sooo needed that :D Thanks man!

[Versiden]

Dutchman: It's mentioned as the 6th in a few places, so I've altered the auto-countdown to that. It was probably meant to be the 6th, and I mis-transcribed it into other places.


awesome.. thx ;p

[alvin-cgi]

Sure, just post the Final Image JPG milestone again, with the amended text. (Or if you really don't want to do that, email me with the updated text).

Thanks Mibus, I have just updated the story!:wavey:

[alvin-cgi]

Hi Mibus,
Under the "Terms and Conditions for Artists" no.8 "Artists may to use the images created for personal promotion. e.g. submission for EXPOSE' and other galleries."

I am wondering if I could submit my competition image to "Art of LightWave 3D Book", (I hope my work can get publish in book ;)) as a personal promotion...

[SoniaNotRed]

Due to technical problems I was unnable to produce a HiRes pic and finished my WIP with an image of 1000x667 px and 72 dpi. Someone suggested I should upload it anyway, so the question is: should I? Or there's really no point in it?

Thanks in advance.

[Staszek]

on 100% of upload i had an error!! i have to upload from beginning.. oh dam..
why??? :( its going from beginning... i dont have net problems..

[Mibus]

I am wondering if I could submit my competition image to "Art of LightWave 3D Book", (I hope my work can get publish in book ;)) as a personal promotion...

Sounds fair to me :)

on 100% of upload i had an error!! i have to upload from beginning.. oh dam..

It's possible that your FTP client is just complaining because of the security settings on the FTP, and the upload actually worked. Check the "Final Image" page for a thumbnail - if it's there and looks OK then you've finished :)

[Ducklator]

Ducklator: 1: I can fix that up for you. 2: Nup :p. 3: I don't use photoshop - try the forum:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=14

1: Thank you:)

2: I can see that the deadline change for hours... enough for me:twisted:

3. thank you, I fixed the problem...:thumbsup:

[nebezial]

i have tried uploading the zipped tiff, but every time i do it doesnt show up...i really need to know if you received..cause it showed on the ftp adress thanx

[batcha]

Hi mibus i m afrad about my tiff image upload i used ftp first time will u pleas check its uploaded properly or not thank you.

[beelow]

how long does it usually take for you guys to recieve the ftp file? I just sent it and am not sure if you have recieved it.

[LexLe]

"If this image is not correct, please try refreshing your browser. If that does not work, try uploading it again!"
How it to understand???
"Every time you upload your file, please click "Refresh"! It will update to show you your most recent TIFF upload.""???
I spoke mine that at me not the standard size of a picture :sad: :sad: :sad:

[HamsterFly]

I have the same problem as the LexLe !
image is 300 dpi 3636 pix height
noncompressed tiff archieved with zip
and its write that is incorrect what i must do ?? help please

[beelow]

I am still wondering if you guys have recieved my entry??? I need to know. thanx mibus!

[LexLe]

I have the same problem as the LexLe !
image is 300 dpi 3636 pix height
noncompressed tiff archieved with zip
and its write that is incorrect what i must do ?? help please

Ja voobshe ne ponimaju!
vse vsegda bylo pravilno :(
don't know! :sad: :cry: :eek: :shrug:

[OmeN2501]

Seme heer I uploaded but its just not there! Should I try again? Its after midnight already....

[Kapow]

i have tried uploading the zipped tiff, but every time i do it doesnt show up...i really need to know if you received..cause it showed on the ftp adress thanx

Same thing happened to me. The FTP images seemed to have been fine, but in the final entry section, it says nothing has been sent yet.

Oh, well. Hope it works out for everyone. Good luck!



Chris

[OmeN2501]

Me again - who I have to contact about ftp file upload? I have lil question to people in administration :]

[Dutchman]

Me again - who I have to contact about ftp file upload? I have lil question to people in administration :]
As far as I know Mibus is responsible for all technical issues of this challenge.
First post on this thread:
'Technical Support
For all registration errors, or technical errors while using the Challenge site, please email me (Robert Mibus, robert@ballisticmedia.net).'
I'd try that! :) Good luck to you! :thumbsup:

[6800AD]

just downloaded my final zip file....think I had a problem any administration people to help out......actually it was downloaded befor the deadline.....but in the sleepy mood I think I downloaded the tiff fille instead of the zip one....hope this doesn't affect the entry.....

[6800AD]

sorted out the problem......Sent the good zip file so all is well....cheers

[Mibus]

OK guys it looks like these are the finalists:


http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/spectacular/entries.php

We got about 300 people in! Everybody should check if they're in there and that the right pic got used.

Any discrepancies should be emailed to me (robert@ballisticmedia.net) ASAP so it can be sorted out. We are going to start judging VERY soon.

[Ducklator]

Weeee!!! I'm there!!

hahaha.... Good luck to everyone..!!:thumbsup:

[wueste]

Good luck everyone! Happy judging!

[vrf]

Thanks for all of your work, Robert. It really felt like the challenge engine ran more "smoothly" this time. :thumbsup:

[MichaelZHsee]

welldone everyone and goodluck:thumbsup:

[Mibus]

Thanks for all of your work, Robert. It really felt like the challenge engine ran more "smoothly" this time. :thumbsup:

It was my pleasure! I'm glad you thought it ran smoother - I'm trying to iteratively improve the process, I still have a bunch of things in mind (especially with the final FTP uploads) - but that's for the next CGChallenge :)

[LexLe]

Dear Mibus!! Thanks! :thumbsup: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[vrf]

Maybe it also ran a little smoother for me because I used it during the low traffic times.

One thing that might help everything run better is limiting the number of milestones that people can submit. I just clicked on a challenge page that had over 200 images in it... for seven milestones! It gets a little bit silly, really, with all the angles and slight color tweaks that get uploaded. It's like a bandwidth contest or something.

A cap at 30 or so would be very reasonable. It would give people plenty of room to change directions if they needed do, but at the same time encourage them to "complete" a milestone before rushing to upload yet another image. But maybe it doesn't happen often enough to be a problem?

Anyhow, thanks again, Mibus!

[beelow]

Thanx again robert you are the man!!!:thumbsup:

[Atris]

Hi Robert! I need your help again! Something is wrong with my final entry. There is not my large image in http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/spectacular/entry.php?challenger=8933 and there is not my image
http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/10/8933/8933_1133693599_large_tiff.jpg too.
I've received a message that my challenge entry has been successfully uploaded and processed. But now I see the problem with it. What's wrong? Thank you in advance!

[MVDB]

OK guys it looks like these are the finalists:


http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/spectacular/entries.php

We got about 300 people in! Everybody should check if they're in there and that the right pic got used.

Any discrepancies should be emailed to me (robert@ballisticmedia.net) ASAP so it can be sorted out. We are going to start judging VERY soon.

For everybody who's wandering if his or her image got uploaded and submitted, here's the link again! Can't get enough of seeing all those masterpieces together..

entries count in 2D: 162
entries count in 3D: 144

Good luck everybody! :buttrock:

Thanx Mibus!

[jugeras]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Cant find my entry among the final images.

Mibus - Ill be straight forward... H E L P!

Tnx in advance. did thid before and saw my image when i uploaded the tiff. somehow i cant find it among the entries. efinitely within the cut-off

tnx again.

[Akok]

Hi, Mibus
It's my first challenge.And I doubt, whether correctly I have made all?

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/spectacular/view_entries.php?challenger=9459

Thanks

[Dutchman]

Yeah, I'm with the finalists! :scream: All turned out well due to the very cool technical knowlegde of Mibus, as I had uploaded my final TIFF only 10 minutes before deadline! :twisted: If there had been any error, I wouldn't have made it, but Mibus was to good to script no errors in the final-upload-script! :D Thanks for that, man! ;)

[walrus]

Hi, Robert!
Any idea how long you think judging may take this time 'round?
Cheers!

-mike

[OmeN2501]

Dutchman ... dude... I uploaded mine with less than 1 min to spare -___-
Server that night was a magicbox to me - no slowdowns, no errors - must say - Im highly impressed with organization of this contest

[Mibus]

Any idea how long you think judging may take this time 'round?

Not as long as last time :)

Maybe it also ran a little smoother for me because I used it during the low traffic times.

That would help. Between midnight and 4AM GMT the servers have the lowest load, so that would be a good time.

One thing that might help everything run better is limiting the number of milestones that people can submit. I just clicked on a challenge page that had over 200 images in it... for seven milestones! It gets a little bit silly, really, with all the angles and slight color tweaks that get uploaded. It's like a bandwidth contest or something.

I think if we limited people they'd be just as likely to submit the bare minimum WIPs, which is *not* what we want :). Maybe a better way of viewing entry milestones is needed?

jugeras: All sorted. You (and a couple of others) had uploaded files with a double extension - ".zip.zip". I extended the "completed?" script to accept those.

Akok: Sure you are. Sort by username, you're on the first page.

FWIW if any of you have ideas on how to improve the process, you should drop me a note.

[jugeras]

WAAAAAAAAA! Your just great robert. tnx a ton+++. cheers. :love: :buttrock:

[Mibus]

jugeras: Check your email - the ZIP ended up being corrupt (too small, 192kb!) and you have to re-upload ASAP.

[jugeras]

yup all done robert. tnx for sorting the thing out.

is it ok?

[xric7]

hi all,thank you all very much,cgtalk,Mibus and all people who participated.all we did the great job.:thumbsup: :buttrock: :applause: :wip: :beer: :bowdown:
good luck to everyone.
cheers.:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[DeeVad]

Just a message to thanks CgTalk Spectacular challenge, and the organisator, cause it was so well made that I could do my art and not really think of the technical view of the rules. Really well made, congratulation and my best luck for all participant in 2D as in 3D !

[1541]

Unfortunately some of the JPEGs (originally TIFFs) have been compressed to much and sport visible compression artifacts especially around hard edges.

[batcha]

Hi robert got ur mail i have uploaded my file and mailed to u.

[(o)ne]

Congratulations to everyone :applause:

[batcha]

Hi mibus i have mailed u my images but still i cant c the final image. pls reply me.thanx in advance.

[Mibus]

batcha, it's all taken care of, it was just the weekend :)

[batcha]

Thank you very much mibus .

[MikeTheHunter]

I know many people have asked about it, but I didn't see an asnwer other than "it won't take longer than the previous ones".... can you give a strict date of when the results are annonced? Please? Pretty please with sugar on top? :)

[MVDB]

be patient, tic tac tic tac...
The suspense is a killing thing! ;)

[OrO]

if you don't chill you start to loose it....so chill...the silence:arteest: :surprised

[MikeTheHunter]

Heh... easy for you to say :D

[Mibus]

I know many people have asked about it, but I didn't see an asnwer other than "it won't take longer than the previous ones".... can you give a strict date of when the results are annonced? Please? Pretty please with sugar on top? :)

No :)

Realistically at this point, the winners are likely to be announced shortly after the Christmas / New Year break. Judging is well underway, so I'm hoping it will be first or second week back in January. (Though that depends on the judges schedules an our holiday schedules too!)

[LadyMedusa]

Are we allowed to post our specttacular enties on other websites and/or our potofolios now, or do we have to wait until the winner has been picked and anounced?

[Mibus]

Lady Medusa: Go for it :)

In other news, we'll be announcing the winners on January 13th - now you all have a date to write in your calendars!

[GonzaloGolpe]

Ooohoo!!january 13th!!:thumbsup: 11 days after this date is my birthday,haha,will you give me a present?:beer: Good luck to everyone!!:arteest:

[vrf]

Looks like it'll actually be a LUCKY Friday the 13th for the winners. Or do the winners know a bit ahead of time?

At any rate, it's kind of funny that it's on Friday the 13th.

[walrus]

Robert -

Are you allowed to say anything about how the judging works?
Do the judges appoint points based on some mutually-agreed on system? Or a CGTalk-defined system? Do they have long e-mail debates about the merits of various pieces? Do they judge seperately in isolation, or is it a process where they work together? Do they have a pre-defined set of criteria that they have to abide to, or is each judge "winging it," so to speak?

I can understand if you're not allowed to tell us, but I've long been curious. I'm sure others have been too.

Thanks!

-mike

[Mibus]

I'm sure it won't hurt to discuss it a little :)

The judges are allowed a fair bit of flex - we don't force them to vote on any particular points, since then we could nearly pick the images ourselves. We point out the guidelines, inspiration - all stuff that's publicly visible - and let them make up their own mind on which images they like, and which images they feel fit the theme. After that, each of the judges independantly votes on the images. If they want to collaborate that's up to them, but AFAIK they usually don't.

When reviewing the images they can look up the challenger info, story, threads, etc. etc.

After all that it gets smacked into a spreadsheet, tallied, we compile the challenge results page, make a feature article, write up a congratulatory thread, then let everyone know :)

[walrus]

Thanks, Robert, I'd always wonderred about that.
Cheers...!

-mike

[GonzaloGolpe]

I have a question. Some threads have dissapeared!I can´t see my entry,hehe. Where is it?Where´s Wally?:surprised :)

[spyroteknik]

yeah, that is weird, the threads are still there (as in searchable) but only 3 pages in the thread, you're not alone gonzalo, mines gone awol too :)

[Mibus]

I had a quick look at both threads and they look OK to me.

Can you be more specific?

[GonzaloGolpe]

Mibus, this is what I see on my screen:

http://www.gonzalogolpe.com/sam.jpg

Only 3 pages. For example, I can´t watch my thread into these pages. If I look at the entries, I can see it:surprised

[Mibus]

There's an option with a drop down, along the lines of "Show threads from the last [1 month]" - change that to "since the beginning".

[GonzaloGolpe]

hehe...D´OH!! thanks:thumbsup:

[duddlebug]

Hi Robert...

For aLL us retards who can't stand a little bit of suspense... is there a time we can expect the results tomorrow? (and don't tell me there's any kind of delay...it'd ruin my friday 13th)

I know y'all are in sunny Australia and we're all over the world, so was just thinkin' about what time we might hear the news. is there any point waiting up late GMT, because you'll be on your way to work at my bedtime, for instance...?

go on... give us a GMT clue.... teehee...

:)

[MoonVisionStudio]

Jonny, Ya made me laugh out loud with your post! I am glad I am not the only one on pins and needles (although I fear they will just turn to spears that will impale me when I am disapointed once again). I would imagine that they let the winners know before the general public, is that true?

[MrFreeman]

:wavey: He He He .....not long now for the results..

as Mr. Duddlebug said - any chance you chaps could let us know what sort of time the results might appear (GMT). Last time it was old news before i new the results were up so go on Robert...please put us out of our misery and give us a clue :beer:

[Mibus]

They should be up by 5PM Australia/Adelaide local time. They may be up earlier at the discretion of someone who is not me, but I can't speak for that :)

[OrO]

congradulations everybody!!! and lots of thanks to the forum leaders for the support an fast response!! cheeres :beer:

[Staszek]

Thx CG talk!!! i love you all!!! im so happy!!! aaaaa

It was really enjoy to watch and learn from artist around the world.
Congratulations to all artist in the challenge !
I hope to see and make more in the next challenge!

[LexLe]

Hi all!
To all winners my congratulations!
Whether the question to Robert-is planned the edition of the catalogue "Spectacular" ?
Yours faithfully LexLe

[jugeras]

:bounce: great challenge as always :bounce: happy new year to all again :thumbsup: and congratulations to all winners!:bounce:

[DoInferno]

I won´t wait the resulsts to say:

Congratulations everybody! Winners and non-winners!

[Priest_]

I was just wondering when the next one starts? Sorry i'm new :rolleyes:

[Mibus]

February sometime is the plan :)

[Priest_]

Ok. Thanks for the info... :D

[V_Shane]

I missed tha past 2, I won't be missing this next one!

[Mordalles]

february! yay! that's awesome. only two months to go! :thumbsup:

[imbusion]

well there is only a week left of February... we should be hearing word soon. :)

[V_Shane]

February sometime is the plan :)


hopefully sometime very soon, I'm beginning to get backed up on work again, I was hoping to have started this soon while I have small amounts of free time....soon maybe...soon?