If i am traiting not so apparenty well to the Admistration of Renderosity with the first comment i add in this theme, i have to give a right specification to contrarest:
I came here, to this web art, after seing other ones. They look with aspects interestings, but not with other ones. 'deviantArt', it was, by percentage of quality, the best, but i perceive, maybe wrongly, some prepotence, and some panel of experts( recalc: maybe i was wrong). Also, devianArt, has an 'important problem', for the users: the interface. It mas be more funtional. Renderosity interface is, probably, the best i see in all internet, for a website where are many persons, and a lot of movement. I hope, they will never change it for another more artistic but with a sensation of closed, and with difficulties of searching the places.3dCommune, in the person of Pinhead, invite me, very friendly to post my calamities postcards there, but i had a misantertanding because of Pinhead's eyes problem: didndt receive an answer till one month later, when i was already in Renderosity. Also Art4All and others, as Runtime, there where friendly (i am not north american, an my english is not clear). So, i decided a more funtional place, more biggest (the web structure gives also the sensation of something very big with clear signals to doenst lose for the new people).
In the first times, i see the Adm Team; their faces. And, in my appreciation, i think they are very potable persons. Almost all, they have a clear photo (they are many critics here, that they dont have any face in their Bio-homepage). And i have to signal again, that this is a company situated in the first place in digital art, and the manoeuvrings they have to do to maintain this level it couldnt be ok for all. In my opinion theres an 'excess' of horrible posers, that maybe they take it with tolerance; but, for me, and not only for me, its excessively and this is taking out interesting persons, not apparentle commertials artist.
With the AOMs and AOYs, its just the same. I think terragen winner Pascal Strimmaker is a ''clear'' just AOM. But i find others, like AOYs, really injust. But the injustice is in the condition to be a winner (ranking, etc, with Adm decisions). In Art, the opinion of the majority never survive more than one siecle. The majority condemned Beethoven, Rainer Maria Rilke, Kafka, James Joyce, (the list its a scandalous). But they survive across the times situating the majority in the correct place: the ignorance world -and they never are condemned there. Its the justice for the majority: they have their dish of lentils, and nothing more.
I was a competidor in athletics and others terreins. My mentality was like the prototipe perfect of a competidor, but i didnt have luck one day, and had an accident in my neck. That accident, throw me away from competitions but bright my mind. In a competidor mentality, the others are your enemies if you want to be the winner. And not also this, you have to be maquiavelic, and make frauds, etc, if you want to be a professional winner, doesnt matter the social section where you are, its just the same. A just winner are exceptions. Maybe, here, are more exceptions, but dont think so. For me, Pascal Strimmaker, for example, is an exception.
Before a football match, the manager study the enemy, with the unique purpose to win him. Like a war, and some times they are deads(see cyclist Pantani. But there are much more, and Pantani didnt make more 'frauds' as the others winners. But, here, agein, the majority opinion is another)