Art Capture Method

Most people know what chiaroscuro is, baha. Which was the point of my comment.

@Evan: I was going to go all, NOW I HAVE TO HUNT THIS DOWN. But it's been done for me.

As for the judging system... there could be a basic points system, to start out with? Palette, shading, dimensions, subject matter, honesty, overall awesomeness, or something like that. It'll be easier to work forward for a specific way of judging if you start with a semi-useless layout like that.

 

I think that the best way to resolve the issue of judging criteria, the issue of who's currently qualified, and the issue of participation is to (like many have suggested) hold a test competition (or maybe a series of Beta-Test Competitions).

Here is how I envision them working. We'll set a theme (not a pokemon) and ask any interested members to submit their work. The prize will be determined after all the submissions have been sent, but every participant will win a monetary reward for participating (maybe somewhere between $3,000 and $5,000).

After all the submissions are made, anyone interested in becoming an art reviewer/critic/jurist will judge every piece of work (except their own if they submitted) on a 100 point scale. They can and should choose categories in which they wish to judge the art on, ranging from creativity to technique and beyond. The idea here is to not only understand the judges way of thinking, but also what criteria they each use to judge a piece. From the submitted judging, we can then extrapolate a system based on how each person does it.

And, of course, average out the scores to figure out who won.

If we have a ton of participation, I might change a few things here and there, but I think this might be the best way to get some real scenario feedback.

 

I think that would work, but, I for one would like to give both participation and judging a go. Any way to get around this?

 

I would talk to Kasumi. She's an admin on Bulbagarden Oekaki and would probably be thrilled about this. She would probably help you make this happen if you talked to her.

EDIT: here's the link to the oekaki site. unfortunately you must be a member to contact anybody but still, it could be useful:
http://oekaki.bulbagarden.net/index.php?pageno=0&sort=2

 

I would agree; it'll move us from the realm of 'this is how we could do it' to 'this is how some will do it'. It'll also likely give us an idea of the sorts of things we'd be submitting, and the level of competition that we'd have.

 

I agree whole heartedly. And hopefully I can enter something into the contest, even though my art is terrible =)

 

This all sounds like an excellent idea, but most parts of spriting, you have to take a picture off a sprite resource website, and then do recolouring, devamps, revamps and splicing using the resources off the internet. That's why I'm wondering, are we able to use stuff off the internet to do pixel art?
If we were, I would suspect a lot of people copying and pasting pixel art off the image websites.

 

I'm all for this idea. I'd definitely want to become a judge in the spriting section

I VOTE YES.

 

I apologize if I wasn't clear. In this trial event, you can both participate AND judge.

This will work by having it so that you judge every piece EXCEPT your own.

Since the scores will be averaged over all judges, it should only be a minor difference if a piece has one less judge.

This gives us a baseline for participation, how these events should run, general judging guidelines, and potentially allow me to pick an art staff (without the need to pass a test). Or in other words, if you judge in this event, it might be considered equivalent to a test and you pass if you perform well.

 

LOL HKim silences ALL!!!

So when does it actually start being integrated into the URPG?

 

After we test it, go 'whoops', fix it a little, test it some more, and decide further refinement is more effort than it's worth.

 

Indeed. As I see it, I'm thinking of doing a few tests, refining it each time and adding in a few more details. After the first test (which I hope to have up by this weekend) we should have a few qualified people selected to help out.

 

And our Trial is up:

http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showthread.php?t=78303