Well first of all, i just want to congratulate the great idea the administrators had to have done this fabulous site about CG.
I follow for some months now the different challenges, and challengers in the same time. I can see there’s some excellent works, excellent meshes and most of all : excellent ideas. That’s a great thing to see all of you from different countries, challenging their own way, having their own vision of CG art.
There’s some people who have a professionnal touch inside this massive members, and that’s why now i’m writing to ask some confused questions about the challenge threads poll.
Effectively i saw (as i already said) some excellent work, and however i noticed that members don’t care about these ones coz there’s not “known”. And to the contrary, people who are known by their names or profil, are more often visited, commented and adulated than the others… I take two example :
First the thread of Pascal Blanché (who is a great artist) for this challenge last update :
As you know it’s a nice model and it has alot of comments, woooohooo, GREAATTT, etc…
To compare it, i choosed a beast of Sivel who’s for me a kinda same beast in its form :
Nice uh ? However this one don’t have the middle of the comments it merits nor views… It was the same when the “stars” system was working, and now i understand why administrators deleted it.
As a professional in CG, between this 2 images, my choice is done. It’s only wips, but however by the quality of the Sivels one there’s no comparasions.
Another example with the one of Equinnox :
Nice model, muscles, and clean modelisation, and however to compare it with another samelike beast if you take the .:STRIKE:. one :
there’s no more comparasion too… this last one is a piece of art, and there’s some comments, views, just because maybe equinnox is more known in CGTALK than …:STRIKE:.
I don’t search to bother you all with this kinda of reflexion, but maybe all of you should go in more newbies threads, and comment them, to help them in their scenes, models, etc… coz even if newbies they are, they have sometimes same level, and sometimes higher than the known guys (i respect however).
Please, just give an eye on some of them, coz maybe one day they’ll be professionals too, and maybe sooner as you think.
So i ask them not forgetting too, they were newbies one day, and they have to respect the new CG artists, as all of you need to respect good work, and admit it.
So guys keep going on your threads even if nobody’s looking at it… coz you do that for yourself first… and for your own pleasure…
for example toxichimp is another example of ‘lost good modeling’