thanks, Ken !
8-D

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I hadn't thought of that, maybe I'll give it a go. 

Marc Schimmler wrote:
> Steve, voting is in my eyes not a privilege but a must. There are
> always too few voters and in my eyes voting has also become worse
> in the last rounds. I would be glad if you did your voting to
> improve the quality of voting too.
> 

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Reading between the lines of many of the postings, it seems that many povers
were intimidated by having a whole year ("a whole year and that was the best
you could do?"). I mean, just because you have a year, that doesn't mean
you're going to do nothing else but work on one picture.

For me, it was a nice opportunity - I have a family, etc, etc., and the
extended period meant I could find the free-time needed to complete a
picture.

Perhaps everyones expectations were unrealistic - both of themselves and of
others?


Gilles Tran <tra### [at] inapginrafr> wrote in message
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>
> Though there are occasions when it's possible to turn out a good POV pic
> quickly,  a really impressive POV picture usually requires a combination
of
> available time, previous experience and talent that few people have (just
ask
> Jaime Piquer Viveres or Nathan O'Brien). It's no wonder that some of the
former
> POV artists "retired" the day when they started having kids, or a
full-time
> job. I think the very nature of POV, and particularly its steep learning
curve,
> explains much of the situation.
>
> G.
>
>

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Steve wrote:

> I hadn't thought of that, maybe I'll give it a go.

Even if you can't vote, please comment on as many as possible!

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Er wot ws dat?

Ken wrote:
> 
> Rico wrote:
> 
> > By the way, please correct my english if necessary. Actually I'm not very
> > sure of what I am writing. You know that french people isn't very good at
> > "exotic" languages.
> 


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There were a few excellent images. And others which, while decidedly amateurish,
did look like the author had really tried. I respect that. But what annoyed me
most (as in most recent rounds) was the overabundance of Poser people. Sure, OK,
they look good - but they should add a little spice to the scene, not BE the
scene! They usually look like below-average quality mannequines, aniway.

One of these days I'm gonna enter myself and then you'll see!
Maybe...
I hope...

Margus

Marc Schimmler wrote:
> 
> Well, I looked through the stills images of the horror round and I have
> to say that I had expected to see a higher level of quality. A few very
> good pictures showed up (I'm not saying which until the voting is over)
> but I have the feeling that the quality drops from round to round.
> 
> Am I wrong?
> 
> Did anyone use the full year for her or his image?
> 
> Marc
> 
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Perhaps with the horror round we've seen that 1 year to work on a submission
doesn't necessarily result in better quality images.  Perhaps IRTC could
have shorter "long" rounds of say 3 months or so??

Bryan

Marc Schimmler <sch### [at] icauni-stuttgartde> wrote in message
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> Well, I looked through the stills images of the horror round and I have
> to say that I had expected to see a higher level of quality. A few very
> good pictures showed up (I'm not saying which until the voting is over)
> but I have the feeling that the quality drops from round to round.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
> Did anyone use the full year for her or his image?
>
>
>
> Marc
>
> --
> Marc Schimmler

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Bryan Garnett-Law <Bry### [at] bigpondcom> wrote:
: Perhaps with the horror round we've seen that 1 year to work on a submission
: doesn't necessarily result in better quality images. 

  No. What we have seen is that even if there's one year for making the
image, most people start making it 2-4 months before deadline.
  I remember reading articles of people who started just about 1 month
before deadline.

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Rico wrote:

> By the way, please correct my english if necessary. Actually I'm not very
> sure of what I am writing. You know that french people isn't very good at
> "exotic" languages.

	English is an extremely forgiving language every place but in
the classroom. You better than most high school graduates and
many college students in the US. 

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Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote in message
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>
>   I was also disappointed because there are so few images posted by the
> regular users of this news server...            ...Perhaps it was a too
laborious
> task.
>

    Eek! Guess I'm kinda guilty of that. Though, it's not that it's too
laborious, I merely dabble with POV and just hang about in the irtc groups
'cos I think it's a really worthwhile competition that produces some
outstanding artwork on occasions. Now that I'm unemployed my dabbling might
get me somewhere and I might even be tempted to submit an entry, but, for
now, I'll just remain a spectator...

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