After this is over I'm going to write a book called "Wooing giant sponsers and getting free magazine ads"... Put your readin' glasses on folks... Catagories: It's impossible to have a large group of genre or theme based catagories. With the desire for large prizes goes the ability to have catagories for say, Sci-Fi, Midevil, Fantsy, etc, etc, on and on. The catagories must be taken down to a workable number. This is what exsists so far; 100% Pure Bryce - no imports - no post work allowed General Bryce - imports allowed - postwork allowed Abstract - Imports allowed - postwork allowed ---------------------------- Landscape? - This should be a 100% pure Bryce catagory, but with Bryce 5 owners having a HUGE advantage with the tree lab... Modeling? - I would personally like to see this one. Prizes: If I can get even more multiple copies of prizes, I would be open to more catagories, of course. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each of the catagories. Prizes for each specific placement in each catagory will be the same. Meaning the grand prize for one catagory will be the grand prize in all catagories, all will all 2nd places, 3rd, etc, etc. Each Grand prize winner in each catagory will recieve 2 large prizes along with 3-5 smaller prizes. 2nd place winners will most likely receive 3-4 prizes. 3rd place winners will recieve 2 or 3 prizes. Want to make it so that the smaller prizes that the 2nd and 3rd place winners recieve won't just be the same, smaller prizes of the 1st place winner. Prizes will be Bryce and/or 3D related. Also, new "Freestuff" items that are available exclusively only to members who take part in the contest. Another incentive, and sort of a "prize" for all that enter. One entry per member. Can't have someone winning in multiple catagories. That would be unfair to others and unfair to the multiple winner if we made he/she relenquish one of the wins in one of the catagories. Entering: With the number of entries (hope, hope) voting will most likely have to be done initially by the members of Renderosity to bring it down to a certain number of finalists. Finalists will be voted on by recognized names/faces in the Art/3D world. Specific method of voting is still being digested from the examples given by humorix and everyone else. ISP's will be logged to prevent multiple entries or self voting. Members will have to provide scene and or post work files. ANY version of Bryce (including demo's) can be used for any catagory. If contest is a hit, we'll most likely host it twice a year. Contest - Prior and Post will be in the Renderosity Magazine. I'm working on having announcements in other magazines. There will be advertising on other websites. (thanks to you all for giving me links and etc.) My biggest pet peeve about contests...is the time alloted for working on your entry. Meaning that I myself would like a fair amount of time to work on something that was to be my best work. (No, I can't eneter, I was just making a point) That being said...members should have at the very least, two months to work on their entry from the point of contest announcement. Actually, I would prefer three. What's your thoughts on that? Without bringing out my big book of notes, that's what is going on as of now. *Sponsors want to know that there is going to be the largest amount of entry's possible, with as much exposure as possible of their product. If a magazine or website is to offer ad space, they want to know the same things. Members want a prestigious contest with cool A$$ prizes. The trick has been getting them all together, almost all at once, lol. I would like to be able to announce the start of this contest sometime in December, January latest. AgentSmith

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