Well why not? There are a few of these on the net, if we get it good enough I'll try to do my best to get it into the 3D world magazine, I'm a regular at the forums and the editor has the occasional drop in.
Although in the forums they have a whole animation going, but there was one group of people from CGtalk doing a huge 3D model, I was it the WIP in the 3D world magazine and looked sweet.
Quote: "3. I call on sepp, Ooga, and bigAdd to help me moderate this if it takes off. not because these gents are my best friends or anything its cause they are regulars of this forum and are plenty trust worthy to do a good job. if they are willing that is."
Awww thank you, I am willing, I am doing my a levels, but I can still contribute.
If my PC allow's me to sign onto my forum (Sometimes I can, its being a pain) then we can use that for discussion and try to keep up to date on here, if not use someone else forum.
Quote: "5. The holder of the scene(person with the strongest comp) will be in charge of rendering(ex. shaders, sampling, lighting). so if he has a good renderer then that’s a bonus for this community"
I would recommend this person owns a recent version of Blender, C4D, Maya, 3DS Max or similar and has good enough knowledge to use it AND is a trusted member of this community. (Names that crop up in my mind are Big Add, Dark Coder, Ooga Booga, Oolite(Not a regular Joe, I trust him) and some others)
Also we will need to have as many backups, so when we have a backup ready, the main comp person will need to send the whole scene to all the back up people, even if they can't use the file format, we just need the files.
We all should use the universal format .3ds or obj, .3ds would be better, I don't know the texture compatibility of .obj
Also I will check if Oolite will want to help, he's a good modeller and I know him from another forum. (well two other forums now)
Quote: "This can take place instead of one contest(which would be up to winner of this last one once that mess gets clean up!) then after it is done continue with contests as usual or trade off?"
Contests should continue, I might need support with it though, especially with this running, as you can see I am getting sloppy with the comps, forgetting to post important notes, and once I missed people's entries
so as it was when it started you and/or BigAdd might want to continue to help if you have the time
Of course this is a good idea, now all we need is ideas, writing is my hobby, so maybe I could think of a story within a freeze frame.
Of course, we will need a concept artist, I will ask Jonny if I catch him on MSN, but due to him not being as active I'm guessing he is busy or away, so if no dice I'll look around for places, my mum and sister are illustrators so hopefully concept artists won't be hard to find.
And well alls up to the community
