Now that the FreeStyle integration is really happening, it's time to select a great artwork for the 2.67 Splash screen!
Ton Roosendaal writes:
Hi all,
After 5 long years of hard work, FreeStyle has made its way in Blender. Cartoon and NPR rendering is cool stuff! To honour the efforts from Tamito Kajiyama (and everyone who helped him) we'd like to select a FreeStyle rendered splash for the 2.67 release.
I need your help to mine the web to find the best image, or just submit examples here! We only have 5 days for it though... on May 1st we should be able to pick one.
Tamito will help doing the selection with two other artists (to be confirmed).
Thanks!
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Take care people! The style for the FreeStyle Splash screen is not free. Don't forget to fill the form first, avoid creating something new for Blenderfoundation.
https://chicobox.googlecode.com/files/AwfullModerators.zip
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http://repositoryb.blogspot.com.br/2013/04/blog-post.html
Not to mention the nice Danish guy who had his work deleted twice. Sad.
Are you serious? Even reading your "proof" I see nothing wrong with what was said or done on the moderator's part.
First of all, no one is entitled to anything on a free, private forum. A moderator can delete anything he/she wants. It's in the TOS that everyone agrees to.
Second of all, the person I'm assuming you're defending was being kind of rude about requirements set for the splash screen. You are FREE to post an image within the given requested specs.
Third - BLENDER COMMUNITY IS A FREE AS IN COST COMMUNITY! Why get all up in arms in something we spend little if any money within?
We are not entitled to anything. They are not awful moderators. They're people trying to keep things organized, volunteering their own time to do so. If you don't like it, you don't have to post, visit or socialize within the "hard judgments" of the rules of the board.
Agreed.
Back to topic, I'm very excited for this release. I've tried Freestyle in the past and I can't wait to start using it again. Great work, and thanks to all involved!
Look Taddmencer,
After Ton's post there was already many pictures uploaded and no complains. (One of them re uploaded his pictures, the Danish guy, mStuff) the others don't yet.
The only specification, by Ton, was:
"You can get the 2.66 splash .xcf template here:
http://download.blender.org/demo/test/
Note it's there in a double resolution too. At one moment I'd like to have the splash scale with DPI setting as well. "
Which lead to many interpretations. My point is that the moderators removed the pictures ruthlessly.
People who were posting pictures there were also working for free and whiling to be treated with respect.
If you want use the TOS to constraint the community creativeness don't count on me.
Yours,
Ortiz
Francisco, I suggest you step back, cool off and try to realize that equating a template requirement to a ruthless dictatorship is ridiculous. If you seriously get that belligerent over such an issue, your attitude is only going to burden you with needless conflict through your life.
Look, Francisco, I don't know if you really get what's going on here.
This is not some evil moderator out to surpress the world of art. (Why do people assume that all moderators are out to get you? Really, these are people who devote hours of their own time to maintain our favorite websites.) Nobody is trying to prevent people from posting their artwork on the forum.
The fact is, though, that this is not a "Hey everybody! Come post random stuff!" forum thread. This is a competition. It is a fairly informal competition, but it is still a competition. It is an opportunity for artists to have their work featured as a representative of a great piece of software.
Now, surely you understand that all competitions have rules. I could sit here and list every reason that there are rules, but I will assume that you are a rational person who can understand it on your own. I will simply say that rules are there to keep a competition from degrading into a pointless free-for-all where people get hurt and any greatness is lost in the fray.
This particular competition has three basic rules:
1. The image must be created with Blender (not too hard to figure out).
2. The image must make use of Freestyle rendering.
3. The image must be fit into the template, so that it will fit into the splash screen properly.
Perhaps it could be made more clear in Ton's post that rule #3 is a rule, but I think anyone who uses Blender enough to be interested in this competition will realize that the splash image must be a specific size so that it will fit in the splash screen.
Now, do any of these rules sound unfair or ruthless? I don't think they do. To me they sound like reasonable requirements to make sure that everyone is keeping their submissions up to a good standard. Why, then, do you think it is "ruthless" to enforce these rules?
If you actually have some reason that it is unfair to make sure that people follow the reasonable rules of a competition, let me know. Otherwise, please take a moment to think things through before you cry wolf on the moderators.
Yours,
LswaN
I'm very cautious on people who are angry at opposing views for others. He can post in freedom, any thing he want conserning the matter. You can choose not to look or respond to what he post. He is not wrong , he is expressing the knowledge he has and trying to share it.
if you think that's bad moderating i've got news for you. it isn't.
i've been banned before for proving a mod wrong on a mmo forum with a game screenshot of what i was asking in my first thread after they had closed my first thread and told me my class didn't have that skill and to "do some f**king research before i posted in the forums." that was a bad mod.
Dude that was wrong what happend to you.
Hopefully we are all humans, so we make bad dissions a lot and some good ones. It take a long time to learn how to be fair and understanding in situations.
I think free style is a welcome addtion to Blender. As long as it does not take away freedoms. Look up GNU and Richard Stallman.
Cheers... :)
yea, i was mad about it at the time but i can't help but laugh when i look back at it just because it was so ridiculous.
i'm quite excited about freestyle and it isn't going to be taking away any of our freedoms.
he's upset that the mod deleted posts and consequently decided that it's unfair to have to use the template provided for the splash. that's what he's saying has limited our freedom in this.
the blenderartist mod's post was just phrased in a way where it could be taken a bit harshly when it wasn't meant to be.
I haven't used freestyle - but I'm really really excited to see this be a big part of Blender. REALLY really excited.
stop your bitchin.
so excited!