foleypro opened this issue on Oct 05, 2003 ยท 22 posts
electroglyph posted Mon, 06 October 2003 at 11:38 AM
I've sort of given up on the cover contest. You have to turn in a final render 2550 x 2984 pixels. It takes a week for Bryce to do that on a good machine with any premium render settings. Yes you could do the smaller size and then hope you could render a 300dpi cmyk tiff later but what if you can't finish in time to submit to Rosity? The covers are two months apart. Can't Renderosity announce the theme earlier and give more time? I recognized AgentSmiths tricycle, Gevidal's castles, and a lot of other models in other's works. Lot's of people are going into their hard drives and digging out pieces from prior works just because there is no time to set anything up from scratch in the allotted time. You just have to hope that the theme will involve something you already have or you're lost. I also consider Poser models to be setup prior to the contest. DAZ has spent years doing all the Vicky and Mike morphs. The skin textures and clothing you can buy also had several months of setup before they were sold. Without a little more time Poser folk will have a definite advantage and continue to have the lion's share of entries.