That's actually a neat idea. I like the format of the environment noob challenge but I don't enjoy environment work as much as I like characters and VFX. I'd love to participate in a similar thing with characters. I'm sure it will help me improve a lot(which I need to).
I like the idea of a predefined concept to work from instead of a theme and some specs. Give people the freedom to interpret the concept the way they like be it stylized, hand painted, low poly or next-gen. We could set up a concept voting thread soon to start posting concepts and voting for them. If the response is good…
haha, I feel the exact same way. I love keeping an eye on these threads to learn all kinds of neat tricks from different people like the environment challenge thread, I just do not have the free time for it. Still, I hope it takes off
I would love to participate in a monthly challenge. I'm really jealous of the noob environment thread, and agree that they've got a good format for this type of challenge. I hope we can get something similar going for character art. I would also like to propose some sort of submission and voting procedure for selecting…
finding a concept everyone wants to work on isn't likely to happen. start by posting 3 different ones that have a different style or theme, and see which is most popular, then everyone who wants to take part makes that one. as an artist you will rarely ever be tasked with working on something you truly love. get used to…
Of course anyone will be able to participate. Maybe we should start discussing ideas here already. I think Kapoff's suggestions in the original post are good. I guess we need to decide on a concept the most poeple would like to work on and start. Are there any other steps we need to take before jumping in? Should we wait…