Ok, I've decided that since this community has given so much to me, I'd like to give something back, so I am running a contest. The prize will be a $25 gift certificate to the Renderosity Marketplace that I personally will purchase for the winner once he/she has been announced. Here are the rules: The theme: FEMALE FANTASY. You are to portray a strong female fantasy character in any way you see fit (assuming it does not violate the TOS, obviously) -- This can be, therefore, anything ranging from a sorceress, to a medieval princess, or a warrior.... whatever. Software: Obviously, POSER, since I'm posting it in this forum. However, you may use any other software in conjunction with it: Bryce, Photoshop, PSP, whatever you like. Postwork: ALLOWED. However little, or however much you wish. Deadline for submission: Will be at noon, Renderosity server time, Saturday, May 22 (my birthday!!). You must post your entry in the Poser gallery, not in the forum here, with "Ferguson's Fantasy Contest" as the title. I will be running searches under that title, so if you don't write it exactly, I won't find it, and your entry won't count. :( I know there are countless fabulous artists here at renderosity, so please make sure it counts!! :) ONE entry per person please. Contest starts today. :))) If I haven't been clear on anything, feel free to post your questions here and I will answer them. :) Thanks, and I hope everyone enjoys themselves! :)

My kind of game. =P I love to give it a try at least...

Please do!! And tell your friends because I think it would be a lot more fun to have more people playing. :)

Great Idea! I'm in! Good luck to all!

Cool, I'm thrilled!! I can't wait to see what people come up with, this is so exciting!!

Very cool! I'll give it a go aswell :)

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YAY, Jenni!! :)

Count me in. :)

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How kind of you to put up a prize and everything. I will go get rendering right now! Hugs Elgyfu

You guys rule. :) And as for kindness, well you know what, I've had generosity bestowed upon me by the members of this community, much beyond my imagination... it's the least I can do.. and is only the first of many things, I hope. :) ps/ I forgot to mention this, I just noticed, but these must be new images, not posted previously. Sorry for the ommission, folks!

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Cool...might give a stab at it meself... Cheers

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I am never alone!"
                -Jesse

:O)

OK Jess, I am in!

What a wonderful idea ... good luck to all :) I will try to go along with that. Thank you Ferguson for these superb contest idea :)

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Well I'm sure my meager efforts will be eclipsed by others but I'm game!

I'm thrilled everyone is so cool about this. :) And I will run other contests in the future too. :)

I'd give it a shot!

MISTDRAGON

Great!!!:O)

Oh YES!!!! I am so in waves hi to Jess, Jenni, and Dall this is a great challenge :o)

HI BACK, JANIE! :))

Count me in, too! My favorite genre, thank you for the contest!

FlyByNight

Cool, FlyByNight, and it's my favourite genre too, so... :) (although I really need to start using Michael more, I think). Glad to see you on board!

Hope you don't mind if I give this a try too. ;)

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Not at all!!!:)

I'm in, hopefully! :)

Count me in! :)

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I would love to give it a try, but I would like to know if it would be OK to render it in Vue or do you want it to be rendered in Poser? genny

Female Fantasy? Kind of a stretch for me wink, but I'm in!

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What the heck....I will give it a shot as well...I need something to keep me occupied :-) XXX Love you Moron....

Right on, I'm excited that so many people are playing... yes, you can all still join, and of course it can be rendered in Vue, just as long as it's a Poser character. :O)

Well let's just see if I can find a little time to get something done myself. Very good idea Jess, I'm sure many people will be taking part, if not then well, we'll have to make them evil snicker.. You say strong female fantasy, but can that also include Gothic/Dark? You know me hun hehe. hugs

Yes, Mike, of course... Anything that might fall into the fantasy genre... I'm cool with it.:) This way we should see a lot of different stuff, which should be a LOT of fun. :)

bookmarked

:O)

Excellent idea! I'll play too! Thanks for this!! Pati

Yeah! Excellent idea! I'll play too! Thanks a lot for this!! Pati

COOL!!!! I'm looking forward to it! !

Gosh! I must be hell crazy and brave but I'M INN!! LOL Thanks Ferguson for answering my IM ;) Kisses Alejandra

It's my pleasure, Alejandra, and welcome to the contest!!:O))

Ok Im going to play too:-)I hope I can have something that was worthy of the look atleast8?)bye calum

Calum, you're too modest. Of course you'll do something great!! Welcome aboard, and good luck to you too!!:O)

OK you got my interest awoken. It will give me a reason to put the new toys from a previous challenge to immediate use. Let the playtime begin.

I see a lot of high caliber doodlers entering. This is going to be interesting. I am in!! :o)

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Great!!! Welcome to you both, I look forward to your entries... GOOD LUCK!! :O)

I haven't done anything creative in quite a while. This might be just the "push" (read: shove) I need grin Thanks!

Cool, Nathalie, you too!! :) THis is so much fun, it's sickening. LOL I have much more fun running these than participating... I think I'll have to have more. :O)

Question? Can she be portrayed in a more gentle manner? The reason I ask is I have something in mind, but I'm not sure it would qualify??

Yes of course... she could have a "quiet strength". It doesn't have to be "in your face" at all. :O)!!!

good grief, i only just found thid thread (boohoo) gonna work on something later! seens ome entries so far and wondered what they where for, now i know! excellent entries so far, well done peeps!

In the words of DarkStarRising:
"Sadness within sadness,
Darkness within darkness,
a shadow of a form lays upon the floor,
looking at herself
looking at her own shadows of loneliness"

DarkStarRising, there's still plenty of time. Deadline is noon on Saturday, May 22, so... Looking forward to seeing your entry. :O)

DarkStarRising: I posted linkup to this contest at DSA on Saturday, guess you missed it.

yes i did hangs head in shame was relooking through images, my god, osme of them are amazing, and there was me gonna put up mine, lol, me thinks not now, deff no contest, andyhoo, good luck everyone else :)

In the words of DarkStarRising:
"Sadness within sadness,
Darkness within darkness,
a shadow of a form lays upon the floor,
looking at herself
looking at her own shadows of loneliness"

DarkStarRising, that's really too bad. :O( It would have been great to have you along... hopefully next time!!??

I was just looking through all the entries and they all look so amazing. Ferguson thanks again for having this contest, because it has inspired some wonderful ideas on this theme. Good luck everyone !!!!! :)

Las, thank YOU for participating!! Yes there are a lot of great entries, and yours is one of them.:O)!!

Jessie, this is a great idea and such a delight to see all the beautiful images!!! Gonna work on one too S Hugs Caro

I'm in on this one. Lots of fantastic entries so far, been watching. Going to give it a try tho. :)

Caro, that's wonderful you will be participating!! Can't wait to see your image! :) brat526, I just saw yours and it's gorgeous! :O)

Well finally some inspiration, due to your contest so thank you lots S Caro

OH well then YAY! :) I've had that lack of inspiration so many times, including like NOW, lol, so it makes me happy when someone else is inspired. :)!!

Hi again. You mention that the contest ends on Saturday, May 22 at noon Renderosity time...so that's US Mountain standard time? Just want to make sure because I'm going to need every minute I can to finish my entry. ;) Thanks very much, take care! SnowS

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Wow..that's my son's birthday..and I think in the spirit of the day I'm going to try this myself and Happy Birthday Ferguson HUGS I know..I'm pushing the time limit.. since it is Thursday I think LOL I better get a move on.

SnowSultan, I believe Renderosity is on Central Standard Time. I think that's an hour's difference from Mountain Time if I'm not mistaken?? :O) I'm on Eastern time myself.

Elfenone, thank you! :) Looking forward to your entry as well. :) May 22 is a good day. Tell your son we share birthdays with Lord Laurence Olivier and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... not bad company. :O)

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You're right, thanks for letting me know. I'll probably get mine finished by Friday night just to be safe. ;) Thanks! SnowS

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I do not speak as a representative of DAZ, I speak only as a long-time member here. Be nice (and quit lying about DAZ) and I'll be nice too.

Ooooh, I've never tried to enter a contest! I wanna play too! Happy early birthday Ferguson and thank you!

You're welcome, SnowSultan. :O) And selkins16, GREAT, you still have time, so it will be fun to see your entry too!:O)

This is a wonderful idea! Please count me in.

Warm Regards,

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Right on, Nancy, looking forward to it! :O)

I am in. I hope it dosen't need to be an action pose. Great contest thanks..

No you can pose her any way you want to, Zephre. :O) As long as it fits the theme, no problem at all. :) And you're welcome! Thank YOU all, though, really... I've never had so much fun as running this contest. :O)

Well a few of my friends have been trying to get me to enter and I posted one perfect for this challenge before I even realised it was going on...I have zero confidence when compared with some of these guys so never keep up lol.I may try again,I have improved a lot lately because I've been a bit driven by circumstances...so maybe I'll try another for you in the next two days-after all,it is to show our appreciation to rosity:)

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:O) If you could do one, that would be great, Armorbeast... and if not, I know you've been going through a lot lately, so no one would demand it of you, obviously, at a time like this in your life. I appreciate your even taking the time out to post a message here. :O)!!

well after much deliberation, i pasted my entery up!
as said before good luck at all who enter!

In the words of DarkStarRising:
"Sadness within sadness,
Darkness within darkness,
a shadow of a form lays upon the floor,
looking at herself
looking at her own shadows of loneliness"

DarkStarRising, I saw it and it's excellent. You underestimate your talent, methinks. :)

4 hours to go in the contest and it's up to 80 entries so far, I don't envy his task of picking 1 out of all those pics, it would sure drive me over the edge!

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LOL, that's why I'm not picking!! Once the deadline comes and goes today, I will download all the images to my pc at home, and my family will go through them, blindly, ie/ they won't know who did them, and they will pick. IT's the only truly fair way I could think of because let's face it, some of the people in the contest are my friends... and I want to make sure everyone has a fair chance.:O)!!

It would be cool if you put all the entries onto one web page so everyone could see them as a whole body of work. I'd love to see them all, since thier was so many entries I'm sure that I havent seen them all..

All you have to do is go to the galleries and do a Search for "Ferguson's Fantasy Contest," and they all come up. :)

I am so pleased you had a wonderful birthday Ferg!!!! your contest turned out fantastic, I have enjoyed all the entries so much!one great big kudos to all the artists!!!!!! blessings, Spiritfoxy

I agree, the entries were extraordinary!! :)

one thing that has not been mentioned is where your gonna post the winner??? im assuming in this thread? but whatever hapens can i say it was an honour to be part of such an outstanding competition!

I'll post the winner in the Poser gallery where I announced the "end" of the contest. People seem to cruise the galleries more than the forums, so... :))