Ok, I thank everyone for participating. And I do hope that everyone enjoyed it. I know some people have some frustrations and I don't intend this to be the last contest that I hold and it likely will not be the last contest that is done by the PSU Phashion group. So, as such, we would like your input as to what was done well or could have been done better. It probably will be atleast little while till we do another one, so don't get your hopes up. But the idea is always there.
My Comments
The idea of a theme was something that was pushed by me personally. The theme was never meant to be something that was strictly judged upon, but was more of something designed to spawn more creativity and direction in the entries.
The event was split up into two groups. Photoshops (based on screenshots) and Fan art. Now, the leading reason for this was that both me and Arika agreed that we really wanted it to be open to people that may not normally participate. By design it was meant to be more creativity based, while on the other hand, the fan art portion was mean tot be skill based. That may not have been very clear in the initial post, but that was the intended purpose.
Also, the judging didn't have extremely strict judging criteria, but more of loose guidelines. But there was by no means any biases. The judges didn't discuss any works with eachother before judging, and had there been any biases from one of the judges it would have been counteracted by the fact that there were 4 very different judges there.
I don't want this to turn into a flame war or anything, lets keep this civilized. If you respond, you don't need to answer all the questions on the survey, they're just again, giving it direction. So lets go:
#1 The contest was designed to feel like a phantasy star contest even though it took place out of game. How do you think this format worked out?
#2 The contest was split up into two groups, photoshop (based on screenshots) and fanart. Sadly, we did not have a good turn out for photoshops, but do you think that this idea could have worked out? Do you think a straight screenshot contest would have been better? Or should it have been left out entirely?
#3 There were two judging stages. The selected judges, who chose the winners of the out of game prizes, and the open judging, which took the cream of the crop and allowed everyone to participate for the in game prizes. This was done for a couple different reasons, mainly that we wanted a lot of community participation. Even if you did not have the skill or time to have an entry, we still wanted you to participate and critique other works. Do you think that this served its purpose?
#4 Similarly, the participants were told to upload their works to the fanart thread. This was also meant to spawn more community participation. In some ways, seeing other peoples works can scare off some participants or can cause community biases and other problems. Do you think that this worked out well or not?
#5 Themes can be limitting and can help. Originally I wanted a crossover type theme that included fashion since it was me and Arika of the Phashion group organizing. Would you have rather had a very strictly enforced theme? Or a crossover theme with something outside of PSU?
Overall I know we can't satisfy everybody, so I only hope that we satisfied and a majority. So heres the more broad question:
#6 Is there something you think that we did poorly and could have done better? If so, why?
And finally because this is an art related contest:
#7 What is your favorite work, and what do you think they did better than everyone else?
#8 What work(s) did not make it into the final poll that you think deserved to be there. What could they have done to improve, and what did they do good?
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