From ArtPearl:

"Interaction"  This can be interactions between people (good or bad), interaction with or between animals, and even abstract interactions between shapes and lines between colors... I'm sure people will find more variations.

I think this theme will be a great challenge!  This challenge is for everyone, regardless of their creative tools.  Everyone can enter, whether they are using 2D, 3D, fractal, animation or any other software;  whether they are photographers, writers or even musicians.  The challenge arena is open to all.  Come and join in, test your creative tools against all the others!

Let's run this until the last week of March, I will give you a day or so heads up and if anyone needs more time they can let me know.  You may enter an existing work if you like, but we would prefer to see a new work created for this challenge... it IS a challenge after all, lol!  You may enter more than one work, but remember that in the voting, each entry will be judged separately.  Please, please, please put titles on your entries, especially if you have more than one.

Letus see  your inspiration!!!

~Viv

Attached Link: lily by the window

michael

Oh, yes! This is beautiful!

why, thank you very much! ...you just made my day!  :)

michael

I dont know if this will do. I mean, there is an interaction between organics and none organics.

thank you helle!  :)

i think your organic/inorganic interaction does quite well - nice interpretation!

Thank you Michael. :)

That's terrific!  Of course animation is allowed, as long as the file size will load here or in the gallery!  What fun :)

~Viv

Thank you Viv, that is why it is so small. I have a bigger version, but it was 400 KB :-)

Attached Link: Black and White

She is very lovely, Anna.

Helle

Lovely!

cool animation, helle - how did you do that? (lol, can you see that it's been awhile since i've peeked in here?)

pretty neat - thanks for the how-to, helle!  one of these days i might just have to check out some software that was intended to be used to create art, lol, instead of going the cheapskate's route! :)

Well I must say Michael, that what you have used until now, looks pretty awesome and Pro to me.

awww helle, you are too kind - thank you!  :)

what happened to all the artists who used to submit such wonderful works to this forum's monthly challenges?  ...perhaps we should offer free cookies for each entry submitted?  there's got to be some way of rekindling the spirit of competition!  :)

maybe if the winning piece/artist were to be featured on the next rr newsletter cover...?

just a thought, viv!

michael

Everything seems real quiet. I wantz0r challenge!

 I am thinking that suggestions are needed here!  Does anyone have any?  It feels like most people are more in their comfort zones when they participate in a challenge specific to their preferred software.   This arena is so much fun because it allows so many different types of expressions.  Interest seems to come and go here, and lately even my going to all of the relevant forums and challenging members to come here has not been working.

I will keep my thinking hat on, but if you have any suggestions... or even want to start a challenge thread here with a great idea, please be my guest :D

~Viv

the idea that jumps to mind is the one i suggested in my last entry - arranging for front-page visibility in the rr newsletter for each month's challenge winner; just a modest announcement, perhaps with link(s) to winner's (or top-3 entrants') works.  people seem to respond well to opportunities to gain a wider viewership of their works...

just a thought...

michael

I agree with bang, but that is really a no brainer, cuz any site wants viewers to come back, if you entice the creators to pull in more viewers with a 'humble mention'. I mean, we're not talking an article here, so there really wouldn't be that much 'oh we couldn't possibly do that, it's too much'.

But holds up finger I think tresamie was lookin' fer challenge ideas!

I dunno why, but May makes me haiku-ish, probably some old primary skool flashbacks, similar to coloured tissue paper, a pencil and dipped in glue, see? flower!

My suggestion for the death of May slash June challenge is a haiku with supporting image

Or since a lot of the gallery ends up portraits, and a challenge is a challege outside the comfort zone and everyone generally has a character they dig...oooOOOoooo, yeah

a fan art challenge

Whether its your fave Lost character
"Kate, you lied to me..." /end nasal

maybe Starbuck as a girl (-heart Katee Sackhoff)

Wolverine in drag (rah hahahahahahah!)
"Dood, you shoulda wore stilletto's..."
'They were bub, do you know how much I weigh?'

or maybe another childhood inversion

What if there was this good wizard Lemagrag (like legolas but different)
and he is constantly terrorized by the Frums, and small race of diminuitive blue...no green funky pixies.

et cetera(cubed)

If I were completely unabashed amoral or otherwise bereft of the concern for artistic sensitive albeit metaphorical skin, I'd suggest a 1 page story board/comic. 6 image minimum, 6 word minimum...

Ok, done for now...no wait....thoughtful pose, yeah I'm done

:b_funny: @ VanDoe

 Actually, I was looking for any ideas that might draw more attention and/or ways to let more members know we even exist. :b_cool:  Thanks for all the interesting ideas so far... I am still open to more!

~Viv

Well after more thought on the subject, usually a contest has a prize, now money is really hard for some people to give up, even if it's their site, and such gift certificates, well, don't really count, unless you have to pay vendors, then it costs something, unless of course you also not only own the site but are also a vendor, uh oh.

So, enticements

1. get some popular vendors to front some prize-a-rella (one thing from my store)
   -the artist will obviously use it, which is advertising for that vendor
   -if the vendor is in agreement, that nulls any monetary tax issues on loss of cough virtual product and/or book-keeping

I mean, if every month, there is a monthly freebie, this isn't altruism in its barest sense, it's advertising cuz that page always reads: 'and for more great stuff, check out my store'

1. some kind of web badge/graphic to go on the artist homepage and/or MyFacedotcom, if this is about bragging rights, 'whadya want a medal? Fine, here' BAM!
   -maybe at the end of the year, these can translate into some form of gift certificate-ish thing, or if the winner is a vendor, a lighter house take on 1 item.

2. Bite the bullet and give house money(gift certificate) & honourable mention in the newsletter

thought i'd sneak in a quick dumb question:  is the 'interaction' challenge still active? ...dead?  ...been decided and i missed it?

ok, so i had 3 dumb questions, lol...

I know this challenge has not gone well, but let's vote on it and move on!  Maybe we can really come up with a great theme for the next one.  The voting will be in this thread, after this entry.  You get to choose your 3 favorite entries, giving each of them 3, 2 or 1 points.  Remember, you are choosing an entry, not an artist.  If someone has posted more than one entry, you need to indicate which is your choice.  

Your vote should look something like this:

Inter - "Action" - 3 points

Name - "Title" - 2 points

come-to - "Gether" - 1 point

Feel free to nominate Honorable Mentions or make comments.

~Viv  

well, viv, you may have to decide the winner, looks like... i've poked my head in almost daily to see if anyone's voted yet, and am disinclined to vote if the answer continues to be 'no,' on the grounds that i wouldn't want to turn out to be the one who unilaterally determines the challenge winner.  you on the other hand, as moderator, would be a logical choice if any one person is to make that determination... what do you think about that idea?

michael

Hi! What's the score??? and where's the mod?

I will be setting up a new challenge next week.   Glad to see you back in circulation Thunderstone!

~Viv

so i guess the challenge i and others entered is officially dead?  :(

 I honestly felt you were all winners, even tho the participation was minimal.  I hope you will be pleased with the new challenge I will be setting up.

~Viv

And to answer the question as how to make these chalanges better give Renderosity gift certificates or have them posted on one of the emails that goes out. I know I would LOVE to be in one!

Is this Forum still active?

Waiting for next challenge with baited breath :)

Actually found this Forum by chance and maybe a "note" in other Forums may lead folk to this Forum ?

It seems like such a good idea to have this one. Most folk like a Challenge.

Goodluck !

@Tracybee

No, it stopped being active last year March... Since then I've been doing the challenges in the Bryce forum. Might do the Poser one if I get really bored and RL is not happening... :lol: