April Gallery 2004-05-07 - By Russell L. Thomas
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In a message dated 5/7/2004 3:00:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, LISTSERV@(protected)
.CALIGARI.COM writes:
> I can understand why it took a bit longer to post the results for
> April's gallery as there is some really outstanding stuff this month.
> With all due respect to the winners, my personal favorites
> tend to be
> Marcel's Barthel's statue.
Dave,
You nailed that one on the head, I have already e-mailed Marcel congratulating
him on his victory, a discerning eye can easily see that his was the best peice
, modeling/rendering/composition, no offense to the great work by others, and
yes art is subjective. If you want to respond with a disagreement, show how any
other peice surpassed (or even tied) in modeling and texturing. This is my last
day on this e-mail account, so I won't be recieving the digest anymore, but I
just finally had to say something about the rankings of the winners, now and in
the past I have really fealt disallusioned ;)with the still image contest, it
has nothing to do with my work (I have only entered a couple times in 5 or 6
years and felt fine with my placements), I just feel sorry for the people who
are losing to work that is less than theirs. Not a rant at Roman or Caligari,
but the judging has been a mystery to the masses for quite some time, many are
bewildered on many an occasion. Well to show no hard feelings I will try to
enter a farwell image in next months gallery, rip me as necessary if it even
gets noticed.
I want to repeat my congratulations to everyone in the galleries, it is not
that I think anyone's is bad, it is just time and again the judges seem to fall
under the spell of shiny objects or atmospheric lighting effects without
rewarding modeling/rendering/compostion with an emphasis on subject matter and
complexity. Just my two cents (actually many feel this way based on the
comments spread across the internet in many forums), farwell digest.
Russell L. Thomas
3DAllusions
www.3dallusions.com
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