Is the Gallery section starting to resemble 3DWH?
-
Sounds like a great idea--WIP gallery. Might help those intimidated by the fabulous renders as well.
Could add another specialty group for Car modelers too. Or is a young people's forum needed?
@unknownuser said:
How many times can a car model be "Modded" by adding increasingly bigger rims, rear wings, and lowering the vehicle?
Don't know, but as long as there are pubescent boys, there'll be someone to do it, Scott.
-
OK, hear what you are saying.
There is both the Kerky Forums and the Twilight Forums for instance where they separate the WIP Gallery from the "Finished" renders...This may rather look a technical separation only but that is all we can do now (I cannot inspire "better" posts with this - only "organize" the Gallery).
Added a poll as a global announcement running for a whole week.
-
Great, but where's the voting buttons?
-
@unknownuser said:
Great, but where's the voting buttons?
Hehe... Good catch, Stinkie!
Locking the topic "locked" the voting, too.
OK, I unlocked it now...
-
Well ... it's still early, isn't it?
-
To me? Yes. Only 8 a.m.
-
Isn't to me, sadly. I have a 2 year old who is wide awake at 6. Bstrd. Er ... sorry about the OT, folks.
-
Well, I've been up since about 6, too (maybe that's the problem?).
(And sorry for the OT here, too)
-
I think I may be one of the annoyances that you are talking about. I post wip's to get constructive criticism, which I try my best to act upon. Even so, I agree that a wip thread is needed, and that the gallery should have sections for "common" posts such as renders, cars, and creators that have specific wip threads for all their works.
-
You mean like a WIP sub forum?
-
Yes, thats the gist of it.
-
Competed works only in main section, WIPs elsewhere.
-
I find the distinction between 'finished' and 'in-progress' to be nuanced, subjective, and irrelevant to the work itself, which is what I assume the gallery is about, not to mention that it would be a self-applied criteria; some folks never think anything is 'done' since they are ever trying to improve it or are simply of the unsatisfied sort. WIP threads might be encouraged to be so titled if the voting finds wading through same too burdensome.
'Criticism' is in this context I think maybe not the most appropriate for what might be better termed help or opinion. It just sounds a little negative, though I know it need not be construed that way..., and I do appreciate the OP's sentiments.
As far as the subject matter goes, trash or subjects which do not appeal to any one of us, whether wheel rims or textureless architectural models, can just as easily make their way to the WIP or Finished Gallery/s, so that in and of itself will offer no relief...
-
Personally i disagree that the distinction between finished and in-progress has to be nuanced and subjective. I think a thread that starts of detailing the very beginnings of a project, where the author knows theres is still a lot of work to be done, can easily be labelled a work in progress compared to a piece of work that has been taken as far as the author wants.
-
I voted yes but I also think most forums that have separate WIP and Gallery threads have two sections that are nearly identical. The modo WIP and Gallery are pretty much the same.
This is kind of inevitable. If someone posts something in the Gallery and you think the lighting isn't so great do you not say so? If you do make a comment, then that thread becomes identical to a WIP thread.
Further, someone who is showing work that you think is a 'box with a photograph stuck on the side' might consider it done and show it in the Gallery section. Separating the two sections does nothing to shunt works of a lower quality to one area and works of a higher quality to another.
One way around this is to have a Gallery section that is chosen by the moderators. modo has a WIP and a Gallery in their forums but there's a separate Gallery that is not a part of the forums. Inclusion in that section is determined by Luxology. And it's not a forum, there's no posts just the images.
-
I say leave things the way they are, It just takes a click to get out of a thread with works one may feel trivial, and then you can ignore it from there onwards.
Maybe folks could use 'WIP' in the title also.
-
Well, that could work, but then you would have to link to another thread to show the finished work
-
@unknownuser said:
Well, that could work, but then you would have to link to another thread to show the finished work
or you could asked for the thread to be moved.
just suggestions.
-
Yeah, but then you would have to move the thread every time you post a finished/ new project...:/
-
But imagine how organized it will be...
(masterpieces before the sketch...)
Advertisement