The Team fortress 2 contest proved there is indeed a markets for art generated by communities like ours. The contests run by GA could easily be slightly modified to be used to export art from contestents into future games. In fact there are probably a handful of titles that could use the rigs and characters generated from…
Man, I would love to see a Polycount Civil War contest! That might be enough to bring me out of retirement (to lose embarrassingly, but so worth it.) I'd gladly kick in $100 or so to fund a contest if it resulted in a full-on penis militia battling for the black and green :D
The problem with this is that this isnt a poker tornoment. The main goal of people who compete I feel isnt to win the prizes at the end. It to compete with other artists, share in a sense of community and push themselfs to be better artists. Sure prizes are nice if you win but I just don't feel that people who are entering…
This reminded me of an interesting idea for a contest I had yesterday, and while it may or may not be feasible, it may be worth thinking about so that it can possibly bring more ideas to the table as far as a community contest goes. Anyway, the idea: Sometimes you hear stories from civil wars about brothers fighting each…