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Hi everyone,
I was wondering if any new contest is planned for next weeks or months, as there had been no Valentine, Fantasy, or even Summer Sizzle contest this year.
Well, I guess we have to "thank" Covid19 for this, but still, I'm curious to know if something is planned for the future.
Thanks in advance for your answers!
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I was wondering the same thing. I've bee away for quite some time due to illness, and I'm just now getting back into things. I was surprised to see that the contests had stopped and was curious if I had missed some announcement or event while I was away?
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Contests were postponed due to low participation and it was harder and harder to get prizes donated. I'm sure we can revisit them soon.
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People we'rent doing them for the prizes. I liked the competition and the challenge. Give away a few points or store credit and run with it. It would really be nice to see these come back.
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I agree to a degree. I think the "big three" contests should stay: Fantasy, Alien Invasion and Halloween. Each contest should, in my opinion, take two months between entries and judging. The other six months should be "lesser" contests, or maybe we can call them rallies. The smaller contests should be geared towards newer artist. I know that it can be very daunting to want to enter here, or anywhere for that matter. Disappointment... well makes people sad. So, I would limit participation, even if that seems counter-intuitive, to "rallies" or the "lesser" contests. Content artist, those individuals that are actively selling items on the marketplace, and any individual that placed in the previous contest would not be allowed to participate as a contestant, although I think they should be offered the opportunity to judge. Store points, or whatever they are called, should be allocated to the rally with half the total going to "winner" prizes. The other half would be divided up among contestants that have a submission that meet certain criteria, like 10 number of likes. (Half and 10 are just arbitrary numbers) That way more of the newer artist can feel a sense of accomplishment. The half set aside for "winner" prizes would go to the top five (again another arbitrary number) contestants based on their best submission. I, personally, wouldn't do "places" in these rallies; I would just highlight the top five submissions and give each an equal share of the point prize. Ideally, I would do a contest (2 months) followed by a rally (two months), or two one month rallies.
Why do I make this suggestion? It took me about two years to start to have a realistic chance at placing in a contest. At least, a chance to place consistently. I can be a stubborn &%^&^&#^(@er though. Most people I meet, and I meet a lot of people in a year, don't really have that type of mentality to stick with a hobby for that long without feeling some type of improvement. Contest, or more accurately, rallies, especially if there is some type of incentive to make them more popular with amateurs, could be a good way of giving new artist a way of gauging their improvement. Limiting them to amateurs levels the playing field and will set them up for success.
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I agree with babathie.
Contests are a good means of encouraging folks to post their work and improve their skills.
Award points rather than product. Some of the product prizes are unusable if the winner renders only in Poser or DAZ. Or, uninteresting if the prize does not appeal to the winners. Let the winners spend their points on what they desire.
Limit entries to non-professionals to encourage new artists.
Feature a viewers' choice award based on # or views or # of likes or some combo thereof.
A couple contest categories to consider:
1. Short stories with illustration. Lots of postings in the gallery have renderings and elaborate story-lines. Why not recognize the genre?
2. 5 panel story line renderings. Lots of postings in the gallery feature some sort of short story line with related or sequential renderings.
3. Poser only and DAZ only renderings.
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A Prizeless Contest?
All Hallow's Eve approaches, I have a bit of extra time and I started the evening with an idea on my walk and came home and spent the last several hours getting an entry started. I really am enjoying the process, and now, I see that so far, there is no Halloween Contest. Not like I'm going to delete my work, and I don't see myself posting it elsewhere because it is a bit risque (in relation to the sort of work I have been doing in the last year or so), but not having a contest to submit this to is a bit of a bummer. At this point, I don't personally care about a prize, I think just a few points and possible bragging rights would be enough for me. I've already seen a couple of posts with this same thought.
Admins, consider, if you will a prizeless contest. We all understand that things are really tough all over for most of us. At this point a contest, even without a prize, would help restore a sense of normalcy to this place (Normal here? I know right!). Many of us come here to forget what's going on in the real world, and that's bonus enough for me. Edited by user Sunday, October 11, 2020 3:43:38 AM(UTC)
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Contest are in fact good for member moral and the lack of contest for 18 months to 2 years would be a good reason to infuse some member participation.
With that said.. In regards to prizes. I gave free comics away for years but I have to admit that not every winner wanted to read a Shadoman BDSM comic so I can understand opting for more material prizes that could be used in rendering more images.
Premier Advantage Memberships was in fact a good prize to offer it allowed some members a taste of what being a Premier Advantage Member could be like on a regular basis.
I think what did end the lack of participation was that the same people always won the top three prizes and honorable mention simply because they were "awesome artist". What irked me was that in most cases these same artist hardly ever posted on a regular basis in the main gallery.. so they were what.. Contest only members?
I think that any vendor who supplied a prize should be a Judge along with members of the staff. More judges means a more diversified pool of interest in one entry or another, but the fact remains given how points are tallied will be the artist who pop out the best images will win, unless we have a ruling that to win the artist must have contributed lest say a dozen pieces of art during the previous 12 months of any comics and this can be varifide by going into there gallery and looking at the non contest images they posted.
So I vote to bring the contest back... offer less less prizes but let the vendors who supply items be judges and all participants be REGULAR GALLERY Posters who supply at least 12-24 gallery images per month prior to any contest to eliiminate any contest trolls
My 2 cents and nuff said
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Hi guys, From my side, I totally agree that the winners can select any item they want from my store, any item they choose (not me to specify what to give away) I know that my store is not that big yet as just I recently Joined CGB & Rotica , but if Admin & Moderators need to revive Contests, I have no problem that the Winners can select which item they want from my store (& I don't wanna be a judge in the contests) ;-)
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Shadoman, you sound like you want MORE restrictions on entrants with a requirement that the winner be a regular poster in other forum areas.
You have some issue with the past winners obviously, but for the rest of us, it makes zero sense for the judges to be looking at bodies of work outside the contest. Basically, you want someone judged for their ability to have free time enough through the year to please you with a steady online presence, but it's a contest of art involving ONLY the piece(s) submitted.
Terrible idea and would end up disqualifying anyone who's work you have never seen before.
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Originally Posted by: KableSelec 
Shadoman, you sound like you want MORE restrictions on entrants with a requirement that the winner be a regular poster in other forum areas.
You have some issue with the past winners obviously, but for the rest of us, it makes zero sense for the judges to be looking at bodies of work outside the contest. Basically, you want someone judged for their ability to have free time enough through the year to please you with a steady online presence, but it's a contest of art involving ONLY the piece(s) submitted.
Terrible idea and would end up disqualifying anyone who's work you have never seen before.
What I am saying is that for the Prizes that were offered in the past and many were simply awesome, the contest attracted certain artist who rarely posted art to our galleries between contest.
Once a contest was posted they came in posted their art and in fact some of it was simply flawless and beautiful and based on the point system we had in place got top marks for all three criteria in the judging trust me I was a judge and and the same groups of say 4-5 artist landed in the top three placement and the honorable mentions.
I truly saw some artist who Posted here on a regular basis and were on the cusp of making the grade. overshadowed by the occasional artist who just dropped by to win prizes.
I do not think that a criteria of having a contestant create art for this site on a regular basis to enter a contest be a restriction.
How long has it been since YOU posted a piece of art here. No need to answer I checked, and if this criteria I suggested were applied to a contest you would not be allowed to enter it.. So I can see why you find this objective.
Is it too much for a contestant to post 1 or 2 images a month here and share their great work with other? Instead of popping by every 6-8 weeks, drop a couple awesome contest images and walk away with over $100 worth of prizes.
I will admit that as a Premier artist, and that is where most of my material is posted, I do not drop off enough images as I should. Usually I will do a batch of 5-10 in one sitting a few times a year. But during the holidays I post one of my older store comics to the Premier gallery that totals 80-110 pages and that usually makes up for my lack of contributions during the year..
As a judge I just got used to not entering contest, but I played by the rules and it pained me to see an occasional contest troll pop in here and drop art that I had to say was damn near perfect and see it edge out someone who is a regular here.
This is not about restrictions it's about fair play that says if you post art here on a regular basis then you get to contribute head to head with another contributing member and not the occasional contest troll who does not post anything here at all
Nuff said
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I agree with Shadoman's ideas, but recognize that contests seem to have gone away due to lack of vendor enthusiasm.
As someone who does post frequently, I understand that works posted in the gallery are FREE to viewers (except for some Premier posts) and the site benefits from these works as they attract visitors to the site, who may buy stuff from vendors. Said differently, gallery posts enrich the site and, indirectly, paid-content providers.
It's more than a bit distressing to see the same individuals win every contest while contributing little to the site during the course of the year. It would be a nice gesture to have a contest that recognizes those who freely contribute to the gallery,
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To respond to everyone's requests for contests to return, the Management at CGBytes/Renderotica have been very aware that contests have been missed and we are currently working on the development of two upcoming contests. Details and Themes will be announced soon, so watch the Community Manager's Blogs for those announcements. Thank you to everyone for your patience.
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