What about bringing back the Brawl Contest?
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One of my favourite contest on Polycount that i did not participate in (did not know how to modell or texture) Was the Brawl Contest. Is there a possibility any time soon that we will see this coming back?
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@zachagreg Here's the thread from 8 years ago, the tl;dr would be that the participants had to choose a fighter (character artists) or a stage (environment artists) from any fighting game and remake it as they saw fit.
Anyways, I think the brawl one was around the time I joined polycount. We should have more challenges in general. We rarely have any of them.
https://polycount.com/discussion/208507/the-bi-monthly-character-art-challenge-february-march/p1
https://polycount.com/discussion/209269/monthly-environment-art-challenge-march-april-2019-59/p1
I missed the old style epic contests, as an environment artist there was Unearthly Challenge, Brawl, Mutant, Escape... then Allegorithmic had Throne Room, there are a bunch I'm probably forgetting. Artstation has their challenges every few months, but I don't really get that excitement and sense of community from those, plus there isn't ever really any twist to those, they have the theme announced for the concepting guys, and you might as well start working from then, because there is no twist or anything interesting. There usually aren't any sort of prizes either (not that i think they are necessary), almost feels like you are doing spec work to get people to visit the site. I guess if you need to make a portfolio piece anyway, or are trying to make a name for yourself it works.
Most of the contests/challenges these days seem to be on a smaller scale, where you end up with more people completing the challenge, because some either won't join an large scale challenge, and others might not have the time to see it through, I know I'm guilty of this myself. So it might be hard to get people hyped for a large challenge if it is simply a brawl do over on one of the monthly challenge threads.
Writing the announcements, drafting rules, getting graphics together, contacting companies for prizes, etc.
It's a fair amount of time and dedication. Difficult for us to run these days, with jobs and families. But I do see the value, would love to see another big one if y'all are up for it.
Well, except that I've disabled points for admins. Oops.
https://polycount.com/activity
I do love how Gib is still high up on that leaderboard though
Artstation has the concept phase for their challenges, which they encourage people to pull from for the latter stages and several people might work on the same concept, but even then the stylistic choices can set entries apart.
If anyone wants a challenge to all work on the same concept there are the monthly art challenges anyway.
Oh and @wirrexx asked for their account to be locked, no mystery cabal thing here. They even asked for their posts to remain, in case those can help others. Similar thing with @FrankPolygon. Some people just need a break from social media and all its demands, understandable.
As for another Brawl, most people just don't realize how much work is really involved in managing a big contest like that. To make it big and special takes a great deal of effort. Anyone remember Fred's meltdown?
If someone wants to get something going, start drafting something up. Bring your energy and excitement, be ready to carry it through for everyone! I could easily set up a new forum section for it. Make us a banner for it, and I'll stick it up there. Etc.
Fighting games are in kind of a new golden era, I think it would be cool if we celebrated it a bit. A lot of work from some artists back then still holds up real well too