midazolam opened this issue on Mar 08, 2004 ยท 14 posts
Hoofdcommissaris posted Fri, 12 March 2004 at 3:26 AM
I vote for bodi! The difference with the challenge in the 2D forum (hardly ever been there, and will keep that up for now, due to work pressure), or better, the lack of it might be the biggest cause. People who like to compete creatively, involving images and pushing those pixels around, might be genetically driven to end up in the 2D forum. The theme is attractive to me, but mixing the mediums (or programs) is something that comes naturally, and not putting too much 3D in the mix (it is the Photoshop Challenge after all) is logical. The end result for a Photoshop challenge should be in the 'technical skill' I think, while a 2D challenge would be more of a 'creative skill' kinda thing. That difference is now very small (because of the broad range of interpretations and 'translations' of the challenge). Maybe narrowing down the end resultmore to Photoshop wizardry and less to the creation would give a challenge here an edge. But maybe most of the forum visitors are not likely to be challenged at all. Then nothing will help. Otherwise I would be interested to see what happens if the start of the challenge is a (hires) photo, and the contestants are asked to do something with that particular photo. http://www.worth1000.com/ shows there are enough people on this planet that want to flex them Wacom muscles and make extraordinairy things. But I can imagine they once started with 4 entires too. I am a bit fuzzy/bizzy/dizzy. But my vote goes to bodi.