Costume Design Contest - Don't Hate Me Dev Team
Cetric posted the following in another thread here and it got me thinking that this deserves a thread of it's own.
Cetric:
Meanwhile on other places on the internet.... The work people do for
free. Broadsword should take note. Not just in the art department, but
systems, mechanics, PvP, pvm, events, game mechanics, achievements,
questing, you name it.
\End Cetric
Now that we have a few house design contests under our belts and we have
shown the Dev Team that we do indeed have the game's best interest in
mind (for the most part! lol) maybe they could offer up a costume design
contest.
Just some thoughts.....
The Dev Team could give us the basic char template artwork so all submitted designs start off with the same size, shapes, etc. Give us the rules on what the requirements are for submissions. JPG, gif, I dunno, not my field but maybe someone else who does graphic arts can offer up these details.
In order to qualify all designs would have to be submitted in all views (north, south, east, west, bending, walking, dead up, dead down, CC, EC and what ever else I'm missing). Yeah, to me it's a lot but maybe that's what it takes to do this.
As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't care if it were just the
Dev Team that has voting rights. In fact I think that would be best. To
keep things viewed as being fair by all parties the designs would be
submitted to a disinterested 3rd party who would remove any names,
labels etc that would identity who the designer is and then submit them
to the Dev Team.
Anyone caught posting their designs to either forum prior to the contest would be disqualified.
Basically, what I'm trying to do here is to make it as easy as possible for the Dev Team to say Yay and not Nay. Have any thoughts, ideas on how to make something like this happen/work? I'm sure there are tons of artistically creative people that would love to have the opportunity to do something like this.
Kind regards.
AW
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Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
Ranger/Archer/Tamer is my happy-RP place.
Devs! Take help from the community and let's all win/win! All the love~~~~~
Arthur: "Be quiet!"
Dennis: "You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!”
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
To be fair I should say I don’t care about the look of UO beyond ease of play.
The castles and keeps are somewhat different, we create them in game, using in game tools. You couldn't do that for costumes. As for 'user generated content', would the eowmu count? The notes say: I do wonder if those very pretty paperdolls you posted have all the matching outfits and animations on the avatar, or if they can only be viewed static, on the paperdoll.
The game has been running over 20 years. Because of that a lot of people have learned world building and art rendering, etc on those, and if any were even glanced at by EA a lot of it could be really cool. Ultimately it’s up to them but this picture is one of thousands of examples that people do love the game and are dedicated to improving/expanding it.
*you pick up the paper and it reads( http://www.andrea.net/uo/general/art/) *
I understand that a for profit business cannot profit or use non contracted artist art for the same reason why there are no more seers, igms, councilors, companions and don't forget the companions oh and briefly lived advisors , but surely you can draw inspiration from it or enter into a contract with a artist the same way you do with the event moderator program . Having been a volunteer briefly back in the day until they found out I was not my grandmother and was actually a 10 year old I have often considered applying for the Event moderator, position but after what clops did I doubt bonnie would even consider me since I know she kicked me from the program for being under age back when she was the lead of that program *waves to the dark lady and winks and blows her a kiss before ducking around a corner* .