Comments on: VisionBin – Share your (Blender) art online

By: NathanKP

NathanKP — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:08:09 +0000

Vision Bin is a really cool site. Its bound to get even better with time as well. Its nice to see it featured here on Blender Nation. NathanKP - Imagination Manifesto

By: Bakedbeing

Bakedbeing — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:02:11 +0000

Heya Dion, good to see another resource out there for the Blender community!

When I got there tho, I was pretty off by the site leading with google ads on a generic template. When you put more effort into your revenue than communicating the content of the site then to me it appears your first priority is revenue streams, asking for something from the community before you've offered them anything. It looks like every page that appears when you enter an incorrect URL and are spammed by domain squatters.

While you say that the DeviantArt crew get it wrong, they do lead with the art first, and they do seem to offer something more concrete on first inspection (which is what you'll get from most visitors, a quick inspection).

By: Bakedbeing

Bakedbeing — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:02:11 +0000

Heya Dion, good to see another resource out there for the Blender community!

By: Reaction

Reaction — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:45:24 +0000

The most important thing will be to get rid of (or not use at all) those pesky trojan/virus laden ads – which apparently have popped up AGAIN recently on the Model Repository site. I've now given up on that site for good – I simply don't see why my willingless to share my models should be repaid with the possibility of a trojan or virus. If the same advertising provider is used on VisionBin then it'll quickly die a death from mistrust.

By: Alain

Alain — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:15:35 +0000

It looks not professional enough.
Very important is to increase to quality of the models, else no one will ever use this site for professional use.
It's also very important to hide all the useless information on the site such as google ads and other publicity !

Lastly is it's absolute important to give the site a professional design, or would you ever buy a car designed by untalented amateur ? ;-)

Kind regards

Alain

By: Maurice Raybaud

Maurice Raybaud — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:18:43 +0000

Good idea. Could it have spaces allowed in logins?

By: basse

basse — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:24:02 +0000

ok, created account and played around a bit more. it works better when you are logged in, naturally. but still, lot of "dead ends"..
for example when you upload picture, you end up into page saying thanks, but instead maybe you could end up back into managing files, or go straight to your portfolio to view the uploaded work. so maybe it's just me, but it just bothers me when websites do this.. after action, there is just message, but then you have to go through main navigation links to get back to where you were, especially when you are uploading stuff, you are afraid to press back-button because everything could explode :)

also, "my profile" could hold information of latest uploaded works etc.. links straight to them. now it's all split into several "my" sections, which is a bit confusing.

… yupyup, i go back play some more, maybe i can make up some friends even .. heh.

By: basse

basse — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:47:46 +0000

navigation needs improvement.
for example, when you first come to the site, there is very little information about any content. you only get "view examples" that leads to you projects and works.. so maybe, there could be a button to browse projects and users..
and there could be a list that shows up recently updated and new projects/works.

also, when you click "view examples" you get a random and latest lists, which is nice.. also most popular list is good. i just don't understand why this is under "view examples" button. but, what happens if there is a project that is not popular or new? how does user find those?

and, when viewing a project, you don't really go into "project page". it's just a general information, but there is no navigation links related to the project. things like "members" "releases" .. etc. so could be nice to have an actual project page, with additional links on the side/top that are always there to get you around the different areas of the project.
now on top you only have "home" "about" "my account". which are not that helpful.. but ofcourse good to have too.

hmh, so to sum it up.. general feeling i got when i first got on to the site "empty, where is everything?" and then after i found some images, it wasn't clear who made them, what was used to create them.. and i sort of got lost not knowing where in the site i am. is this a project, or just random image.

maybe i create an account to see it's full functionality.

By: HRTC

HRTC — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:25:43 +0000

Doesn't look too bad… petty I don't have much to show. :)

Can we upload things made in other 3D packages?

By: HRTC

HRTC — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:25:15 +0000

Doesn't look too bad… petty I don't have much to show. :)