I was recently offered a free domain name and 120 meg of free web space from Fortunecity for having a popular web site. Since they never got back to me about it I thought it was a hoax. But I've noticed that they have indeed increased my web space to 120 meg! So I was wondering if this idea would fly? I'd like to add a kids page or pages that contains 3dmodels and 3dpics made by kids. Maybe have a few age groups like: 0-5 6-10 10-16 Maybe also a page laid out like a refrigerator with 3dpics made by youngsters taped to it. The whole point is to give kids a place to post stuff that will be seen by other kids. Without needing to build their own web page. Could be kinda cute;-) Would this interest anyone? Or is 3d out of the scope of kids this young? Scott Ayers iamsba@aol.com

I think it's a great Idea, I encourage my kids to create with 3d. and they've made a few images.Kids have Great imaginations, and You never know we could prolly learn some things from them as well. count me in for participating Hawkfyr

That's a great idea Scott. Paul

I really want to give the young kids a place to post thier stuff and not get criticized on it. That way they won't feel ashamed to keep doing it and get better at it. I don't have any kids but I know a lot of you do. So I need to know if they are actually smashing out 3d type pics on your computers? Or if they would even like a kids gallery to start giving 3d a try? I'd rather do this on my site instead of here. So the young ones won't come anywhere near the nudity that gets posted here for us adults. Obviously. I would not be able to allow any kind of nudity at all for such a place. So if this kills the whole Idea. please let me know now. thanks, Scott Ayers iamsba@aol.com

Be ready to monitor it, though. Some of those kids are going to try load to things best put in an adult gallery or best not posted at all. Make sure that there are solid guidelines so kids (hopefully) understand what is appropriate. Can the kids autopost or does it have to be manually inserted? Even though it is more work, you may want to have final approval before it gets displayed. The teen-age group, especially, will try to abuse the acceptibility guidelines. One last thing, you may want to break down the 10-16 age group into 10-14 and 15-18, or something similar. Technically, 17 and 18 year olds are still kids. They get excluded from the kid stuff but not allowed into the adult stuff, either. Be prepared for a lot of Pokemons!

I figured the stuff would just get e-mailed to me so I could check it first. Then post it for them. As far as the age limit goes. I pretty much think once you hit 16 you would not want to post anything to a kids gallery and are surfing on your own. By then you should be able to handle nudity without much trouble. I'm going for the really young kids in the pic area. And hopeing for more 3dmodels from the older kids say from 10-16 who have better control of the mouse. But I'd really love models from the younger kids too. That would be really neat. Probably just messes of blobs stuck together or crazy looking things. But I'm thinking they will be proud to say they have a pic or a model posted in some guys gallery on the web like us adults. ;-) Also. There will be no program limitations either. I would allow any file format to be posted as far a models go. I'll recommend .obj format though so others can use them. Scott Ayers iamsba@aol.com

heya; scott: i'm wondering why you want to limit it to only 3d stuff. kids like to draw and paint, too, ya know ;) you could have two sections, 3d and 2d art.

It's a good idea Scott. But, like bloodsong says, don't limit it to 3D. Not that many young ones use 3D, but they all draw. I have a friend that has a Kids page she posts their scanned work to as alot don't have computers either. But, the imagination I see in these is great.

Well.I'm not sure If I can handle a ton of drawings. I wanted to make it a 3d kids gallery because it would be different and would stay with the theme of my web site. But I wasn't sure if any kids around 5-10 years old were actually using your 3d programs to make stuff with them. I'd really like to keep it 3d related although I wouldn't be very picky about how much was painted and how much was rendered. As long as it relates to a 3d rendered pic in some way. If this is over their heads. Let me know. It was just an idea. ScottA

hmmm... sorry, i dont know any kids. 3d or otherwise. :)

(i gotta quit thinking about thinks after hitting the reply button) well, you can put out feelers. like this... but i mean, how were you going to 'advertise' the availability of your site to kid 3d artists? if you use the channels that you'd use to 'get the word out' to ask for interest levels, you' have an idea. um, unless you were just gonna post to search engines. or unless you were planning to get all the poseramaite's kids to join it. ;) (i guess the only kids with 3d programs are the ones whose parents have them!)

Come up with a suitable, not to big button/banner and I'll link to you. I have kids, they're a little young for 3d yet but they are usually fascinated by the computer. I've just got hold of renapd and steve-can't-rememeber-his-last-name's santa figure and a load off accessories. Now that kind of stuff does hold kids intrested. Just one last point. I have unlimited web space on my site (that's right, as much as I like - free, for as long as I like), and I have used quite a lot. When you are talking of jpegs at around 300k each 120MB won't neccesarily go a long way, especially if you split into so many sections. Would you not be better going by subject heading instead and show the kid's ages. That way, subjects that don't prove popular can be removed eventually. Perhaps you could put a limit on how many images are in the gallery at a time, then rotate them out.

Thanks for all of your suggestions everyone. I guess I will have to abandon the idea. At least for now. I guess 3d is too hard for the kiddies. Thanks, Scott Ayers iamsba@aol.com