Challenges are good but its sorta like "Here is a challenge' and folks rush off to their labs and start cooking up stuff.

How about tag team challenges?
4 artists go into the steel cage and 2 walk or crawl out!
Well, not that intense but could be more fun than being hit with a chair.

Great modeller but not so good with the scene layout, find a team mate thats good would scene composition. Have seen other sites when artists collab and the end result can look better than what the 2 artists do on their own. Can be a good learning experiance working with another person.

Maybe at the end of the year a great collab battle royal!
4 on 4 collab battles!
Let bounce the metaballs of art!

Some time ago, I don't remember which gallery, they had a group collab project.
We had to do a room with a toybox, somebody started the scene and people added to it.
At the end we had an interesting scene.
This is a way to get a community, projects that people do together.
We keep the regular challenges too, that will not change.

Collaborative challenges would be a great way to build more of a 'community spirit'. It also seems like a good way for less experienced Brycers to learn some tricks, and the results could be especially interesting when artists of different styles get together.

We have just had a really good, totally impromptu, challenge over at daz in the commons forum.

THe challenge was set by a 5 year old, who told us what she wanted us to render, and she would give a prize to the winner.

The prize was an image made by said 5 year old.

There were 41 entries, and we had tremendous fun with it, and lots of interaction during the challenge.

It even inspired one modeller to produce some of the items she said could be included, which were offered free during the challenge.

Now do we have any 5 year old brycers.

Forgot to mention this 5 year old uses Daz studio.

CrazyDawg asked :
*1, where has the family feeling this forum had when i signed up on it gone..you could come on here at anytime and you would see wip's, comments, little jokes made by regulars and new members..it seems to have gone and even though i don't post much i miss that.

*The biggest change I noticed was when the format changed and you could no longer see who had been posting to a thread without entering it. I really miss that aspect of the old format. I can't explain why, but I know it makes a huge difference.

But I have also noticed a huge drop in the flamewars and such. Maybe for the same reason? I don't know. But if anyone was around here 3 to 4 yrs ago, the flames were always popping up and being put out by AS.

For me, I feel like the new thread format is terrible. I still hate the unintuitive having to go back to the top to get out. And I hate not being able to pop into a thread where I left off.

Thank you Chohole for remembering the day.

Attached Link: Spring Morning

Age: 39

Area: West Texas, USA

How long have you used Bryce?: Since Bryce 4.0... about 1999

What kind of art do you create usually?: anything and everything

Would you ever move over to Vue?:  not likely... use Carrara pretty much exclusively, now... but still play with Bryce, and these guys here are a lot like family... which is probably why I visit so seldom, lately.  :o)  In fact, am enjoying watching my 3 yr old son (Bryce) learning to use Bryce. He can come up with some pretty surreal stuff sometimes.

What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? (*must be in your gallery for us to see): * probably Spring Morning (linked above) was really pleased with the colors, the mood, the depth... one of those where I couldn't take my eyes of that little white render line as it slowly progressed... probably watched the whole thing render.

Beautiful image Eric, I can understand why its your favourite.

Attached Link: Kanchi

Age: 52

Area: Netherlands (Holland)

How long have you used Bryce?: since Bryce 1 (MAC at my office), later versions in PC

What kind of art do you create usually?:  Sience Fiction and Landscapes
Would you ever move over to Vue?:  I am so used to the Bryce interface that getting used to other progs needs time. have some 3DS experience tho.
What is your most favourite Bryce art that you have done and why? My Retropolis images  and Raumpatrouille Orion images and animations. Feel free to visit my website at www.hennyvanveenendaal.nl and leave a nice note in my guestbook please :)