Elfwood is back up. And, despite some discussion about making everyone start all over from scratch, all the galleries appear to be intact.

WOOHOO! I was afraid they were gone forever!

And where is it found?

Elfwood is here: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/ And as for WHAT Elfwood is here's the blurb from their main page: Welcome to largest SF&F art and fiction site in the world! We have over 170000 original SciFi&Fantasy pictures, and 15000 stories online! [9262 fantasy artists: 148783 pictures] - [1718 sci/fi artists: 22265 pictures] - [2202 writers: 14647 stories] - [ 3317153 comments ] In other words a rather largish fantasy and sf art site. :) DeanCarl

As an elfwood gallery member of gallery 743, I was overjoyed when Thomas re-opened. The reasons for it's temporary closing need not be repeated, but they were serious, and nearly caused serious legal repercussions. Anyway, WAHOO, Elfwood is back!

WoW I am glad to hear Elfwood is back up! That is great! :-)

Personally I think Renderosity is a better site. ElfWood is not the same place it once was. The art police... I mean the E.R.B. showed up,with there hostile attitude, and now every body is ratting his neighbor out. Not to mention the fact they are a little anti 3d over there. I've been trying to get them to take my gallery down since before the big blow up but they are slower than continental drift over there.

Cybermonk... first of all, there is an easy way to remove your gallery. In the extranet (when that gets back up) is a simple button that says "Delete my gallery". You do not e-mail Thomas or the ERB or anybody else for that. And who said they were anti-3d? The only reason the ERB exists is because of people who were using the FANTASY and SCI-FI gallery for totally unrelated matters, or were posting fanart which is explicitly forbidden from Elfwood in the terms of service. Elfwood is a free site, we play by Thomas's rules. And he has already been sued at least once that I know of by an author who saw fanart of her comic book characters on Elfwood. Finally, I have no idea what you mean by "Anti-3D". As long as the image is fantasy (if in Lothlorien), or Science Fiction (in the Zone, ONLY), then nobody has any problem with it. Also, R'osity is actually more for people who do computer aided work, regardless of theme. Elfwood is for artists with Fantasy or Sci-Fi themes, regardless of method (I've even seen photos of sculpture). Trying to compare them is like comparing apples and oranges.

Hey I tried that delete my gallery thing. It doesn't work. I also wrote Mirar and he said that he would add me manually to the delete que. That was like a couple of weeks before the big blow up. As for anti 3d I read somethting Thomas wrote as to gallery submissions that was kind of a negative shot at Bryce. Also I've read stuff on some of the email groups that seemed to indicate alot of the artist felt negatively about 3d. Anyway I relalize its a free site and that Thomas has provided an opportunity for a great many artist. As a member of Gal 91 myself included. I know that in princible the ERB is a good idea but in practice they are way to hostile and not to thorugh in there accusations. But as you say its his site and he can do as he wishes. All I want is for them to remove my gallery as I no longer wish to be asssociated with EW. It's not the same place it once was. Maybe I just like orages better.