I remember back in the day when GA had monthly Handpainted contests. It was pretty amazing. We saw so many artists improve drastically with regular participation.
Aw snap. Handpainting challenges sound awesome! I'd second the theme strategy rather than always providing concepts directly since I think variation could be nice.
We could do a handpaint skype community group [so people who are willing to share or help each other can do it !] and decide there. We take every good suggestion and we put them in a randomizer or people who interest in "administrating" it decide. Personally i have a lot of free time, ideas and i could prepare some…
This is to gauge interest we might or might not have for this. This could be monthly or weekly challenge. Or bi-monthly or whatever. This would be along side our already existing character challenge/environment/hard-surface/firearms (what happened to firearms :P ?) Things we need if we are to do this. 1. Enough interest…
Hum, maybe not a contest because the word "contest" make people go crazy about rule and law and in the end it became a mess, just an Handpaint Monthly Art Jam. That way, it allows people to do whatever they want and learn about technique. I'm all about the "meh baking AO on zbrush is cheating blabla" but that's the fast…