At 9/8/09 02:36 AM, LegolaSS wrote:
i would like to see something about users useing tracing or free hand copying from existing pictures... i know its already in the rules but it could use with a bit of buffing up... i suppose you want to make sure that the rules cover as much grey area as possible...
So wait, are you saying we should allow tracing (free hand copying is close enough to using references that its fine) or disallow tracing?
At 9/8/09 02:54 AM, squidly wrote:
I don't frequent the art portal since I frequent Deviantart for that, and well, I don't know, most of the time I'm here I'm either on the forums or listening to music/playing a game, I guess there just isn't room in my schedule to do a fourth thing, while in Deviantart, the art outnumbers everything else, and it's the main focus of the site, so I only have two things to do on that site, that is check up on my profile and view art.
Maybe if you posted some work here as well you would have more incentive to visit it. I mean you visit DA because you have work there, why not here?
To summarise, I can't do more then three things when I'm on a site.
Hmmm someone needs to learn to multitask ;)
At 9/8/09 03:33 AM, robin1232 wrote:
I did review alot of 3d art on it, it would be nice if you included models in there too.
Hmm it would help against theft and would help the mods know what is a user created one and what is a premade one, interesting idea.
also, I dont anymore since 90% of it was deleted
The problem we have currently with 3-D stuff is that not too many mods know that much about that media. Also alot of 3-D programs do so much work without the artists hand that it isnt fair to those who really spend time on their work (rather than type in a few numbers, or use preset models) to have to compete with the lazy ones.
At 9/8/09 03:40 AM, kiwi-kiwi wrote:
I think what you did here is great and a step forward for the community, but I'd just have to ask one thing, why don't you make the art portal like the flash portal?.
The flash portal is full of garbage, some great stuff, but its largely junk sadly. The art portal is trying to be junk free, we want those who spend time on their work and have talent to be recognized for it, instead of getting clumped in with a bunch of 5 minute doodles and crappy MSpaint stick figures. The scouting system eliminates the need to have to delete a users work just because its bad. A user can have as much crap on their user page as they like, and can showcase their work for whatever reason there as well as long as it doesnt break any rules. If we implemented a blam system users couldn't do that.
At 9/8/09 04:11 AM, J-qb wrote:
I still think a weekly/biweekly/monthly gallery would be very neat. I love these frontpage submissions, but what im talking about is a themed collection of some 20? artworks. so the theme could be "heaven and hell" or something, and 20 pieces from the artportal that fit the theme are selected by mods to be displayed that week(s).
Im thinking the theme of the gallery could be announced a week beforehand, and poeple could get the opportunity to enlist their art for that gallery.
That idea is so fucking awesome it makes my cooch quiver.
At 9/8/09 04:27 AM, FurryDemon wrote:
Your an art mod now? I liked it when you had that sword level...
Sorry to disappoint.....
Well I dislike the scouting system, but I'm pretty sure all of us are going to say that.
Care to elaborate why? And not everyone dislikes the scouting system.
At 9/8/09 02:24 PM, gumOnShoe wrote:
I think when you go to scout someone there should be a way to view all of the images the user made in the option. So, you feel the urge to scout this person and the images come up for your review, and then you make your final decision. Instead of seeing one image and just clicking yes a couple times.
I think you don't quite understand how scouting works. In the scouting section, when you click on a thumbnail, I would hope you view the rest of the user's gallery before you scout. And you don't have to scout each image, just hitting "scout this user once" does the trick.
Eh, you can see on my art page I have a rather rough sketch of what I would look like as a clock. Its not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. But, shouldn't that still be able to be placed in the portal and just receive a low score? Its rough, maybe, but its a character I'd use for a flash if I were going to make a clock film. I don't understand why an art mod would relegate that to personal profile only as was done.
The scores in the art portal aren't really an good indicator of much because art is so subjective. There are amazing pieces that have low scores for whatever reason (users being homophobic seems to be a big one), and rather mediocre ones that have high scores (fanboys). Certain styles seem to warrant certain scores as well, even though they dont reflect the quality of the work. While we art mods realize that art is very subjective and what one person finds crap another will find great, we try to use our best judgment to distinguish between something that we dont personally like, but is still good work, and just flat out bad art.
At 9/8/09 02:25 PM, Lost-Wisdom wrote:
The scouting system is flawed. There's a lot of talented artists out there yet it takes a long period of take for them to get taken off from the scouting feature.
Sometimes artists aren't eligible for scouting, you need to have 4 pieces to be even have to option to be scouted. Also because users can only scout 2 people a day sometimes a few people have to wait a little bit. Generally though good people will get scouted within a few days of being eligible if they appear in the unscouted section.
