Hello all,

I would like to give my point of view to this discussion.

I have no idea how renderosity was years ago. I`m here since about 2 years and from the beginning the forum was not very interesting for me.

There was nearly no activity in any category and the gallery was full of poor renders with very bad taste.

The thing which disappointed me the most were and are the comments under the pictures, the huge number of positive comments under pictures of teenage looking girls dressed like prostitutes. Renders with a little higher artistic level get very little or no reaction.

The quality of the comments made it very clear that there is very often not even a little understanding of art and also of the technique to create the art.

I would like to give an example:

A typical comment under an artbreeder picture or another photo which is manipulated with photoshop is, how realistic the hair looks like or how great and realistic the smile is and what a fantastic artist someone is.

Really? Realism in a photo? And they think it is a 3d Render? But the best comes, when the artist responds to the comments with the words: "thank you". When I realized, that the gallery here workes like that, I've decided to delete all my pictures of my gallery. 

So what is a solution?

I have no idea.

I thought one reason of being part of an online community like a 3d forum is knowing other artists and discussing art and techniques to become a better artist. I really don't see nothing of it here at renderosity. I don't know if it was better in the past because I was not here, but if so what happened? 

One idea I would have:

A very different type of contest!

A contest with a professional jury who gives not just a vote, but also an explanation why someone get the prize.

A professional analyze of a picture or an animation which could be a big help for all the beginners, who wants to know what good art is about. 

And another idea would be a creative discussion about the renders of a competition.

A very interesting thing for a competition could be, that not a theme has to be done but something like:

1.the most interesting use of light or

2.the most realistic render or

3.the most emotional face expression or

4.the most interesting interaction between two persons or

5.a special emotion in a render like: joy, fear, courage, despair, happiness, sadness, curiosity etc etc.

The point is forcing the people to be really creative and not just posting girls with big boobs and asking their social media friends to vote for them.