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Good im 100.1% in!

Now screem for me!

Im on rizzles team!

we could compete by like matching 2 ppl up and the winner gets a point for there team and team with most points at end of competition wins.

Rather than people saying "I'm on so and so's team", it'll be better if the team leaders discuss who should be on whose team, like Rizla said. It's more likely to end up fair that way.

Great! I'm in no position to organize this thing with my schedule currently, so is there anyone that wants to take responsibility and make this entire idea into a reality?

I need to finish my portfolio first. However, afterwards i'll "sponsor" it with free hosting, a subdomain, and webpage design.


I need to fill up my portfolio anyways.

I think it would be funner if every week the teams change. Thus, every week the teams get mixed into a pool and the leaders pick.


I'll do an extremely basic website...Navigation bar over head with "members, gallery"

The gallery will have a sub navigation "battles, collaborations, misc".


Each page will have simply preview thumbnails with a link to the full version.



Really simple, but easy to do, and I can get that online relatively quick...once i'm finished setting up my home super network! (2 portable wifi devices, 2 laptops, 2 desktops, 2 printers)... i'm reformating everything right now.

Agreed. However, I think us in the AC should vote on who we think should be the leaders, after we've decided how many teams there should be. I can think of about 5 people that would be great as leaders (both in the quality of their posts, and their skill on PS), but if we only had 2-3 teams, then... quite obviously, we couldn't fit all 5 in.
Maybe we should decide how many teams there should be first in this thread (we could vote on it), and then create a new thread with a poll with most of the active AC members and then let everyone come and vote on the leaders?

mabey me need to know how many ppl will be in it first before teams are dicide?

What I need right now, is a NAME for all of this.

Maybe also, we can start a deviantart group, and set the thumbnails to lead there, to the full version.

I still think it would be best to have random teams each week, it`s more fair and fun.


Either way, once the leaders are chosen please add me to msn: dvanha@fes.uwaterloo.ca, we'll talk about it.

your name is dom....but seriously what do you mean???

I agree Dom that random teams would be more fair, however, I think it will be an issue of overall organization. How do you select random teams and still accommodate a range of skill levels? Perhaps changing on a monthly basis would be less chaotic. I think it will take team leaders quite some time to organize a team...unless you have a randomizing matrix or something In which case, good idea.

Ill help organise this if needed...whoever is taking charge get my msn below and contact me

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Battle of the Arts????

I wanna be on a team!

Oh, Rek and Riz and whoever the next capt will be, please make fair teams i dont want like Dys, Snudge, Broken and well the more advanced people all stuffed on one team please!

This is what i'm thinking:

set up the gallery on the website to lead to a deviantart group page. On that page users will submit their work. That way, we have a deviantart group with a website.

The website will have member bios, the gallery, and a link to this forum.

Every week or so, on this forum, we post a new competition, for example: 4 person team, abstract background (800x600), using 1 of the provided stocks.

We would post ALL of the entries on the deviantart group and the website, and have a vote for members only. Winners would have it noted in their profile, and each week's winners would be posted on the front page. On top of that, at any time members could get together and do a collaboration, without any rules, and submit it to the website/deviantart group. This would also be linked in their profile.

We would need a name for this group, and a comitee to overlook applicants.



Just to clarify: Everyone that would want to be a part of the deviantart group/website would be on the same "team", just every week they would make their own teams to submit a work of art.



^ Atleast all of that is what makes the most sense to me. If it's sucessful for the first couple months, I could host us a forum as well.

Agreed to la leet.

Even though I'm new to the forums I definitely think the randomization on a monthly basis idea is great. People asking to be on "so and so's" team would end up making everything unfair with all the skilled people on one team and everyone else stuck on another. Anyway, it's always a great learning experience to collaborate with different people.

What this project needs right now is a head organizer. I can't quite tell who wants that position at the moment. I don't even know anyone's personality all that well to nominate someone.

First of all we need a list of names of people even interested in being a part of a team. Once that is accomplished then the task of having team leaders and such can be achieved. After that we can deal with websites, events and whatnot.

This is soo hard to organize on a forum...

So we got :

3 teams
?????

Lets all dicuss things one at a time.

I think some people in the forum want the teams to be a bit more exclusive. (As in have prospective members sign up for teams and then either be accepted or denied based on team decisions versus just dumping anyone that wants to join on a random team.) I didn't exactly realize that until I read some of the comments that were added to the other thread.

Perhaps we could have "apprentice" positions on the teams for people who are still learning? That way things won't get too sticky with higher level gfx artists having problems working with people who are just starting out and then we can still include everyone who wants to be part of the team.

For example, people in apprentice positions could compete with apprentices from other teams and get critiques from profficient artists once the competitions are over? That's just one example of an activity that we can have on the teams for apprentices.

Just an idea. It would be nice to include everyone, in my opinion.

[EDIT] Btw, I think anything from 2-4 teams is just fine.

Okkai then

Skill level restrictions
3 teams.

3 Skill levels.

Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced

Up to the leader of the team to distribute artists into the 3 skill levels.

This would also help organising the participants into the 3 teams, as they could first put artists into the above skill levels then distribute from there, to ensure there is a fair amount per team.

Edit*

Just noticed that there is currently 14 people listed in the other thread.

We'd need at least 1 other to get the ball rolling, 5 per team is a decent start.

What will regulations be regarding late applicants, after the teams have been organised?

I think new applicants should always be accepted onto a team regardless, they will just be assigned to the team with the lowest amount of members. In the case that the teams are even or that two teams tie for lowest amount of members they will be assigned at random. (dont know how random assignment will be done but their is a multitude of options to handle it, well get there when we get there.)

I'm in, don't have much time though.. Hope this will be interesting

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http://www.silkroadforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=56471

Hmmm, ill Join i team i need to learn to use PS better. Dunno what qualifications are but if im not qualified enough i dont have a problem with that.

read my post right above yours!!!


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