Concept Art Ideas

[Hiruty]

hey what are some ideas for the next concept art contest
Mine are: Mech,Space, Dead, Sculpture and hell

 

[Bloodbane7]

Has there been one just for like creativity or something? Instead of a theme how about something like creativity? Or most fantasy and things like that.

 

[Hiruty]

hmmm creativity dont we need that to make the concept XD

 

[Bloodbane7]

Lol thats true but I mean like in general "Most Creative" or "Most Fictional"

 

[Pyritie]

the last thread, for reference: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/submissions-archive-359/concept-art-competition-150199/

 

[Avator]

I think Bloodbane means 'Imaginary creature/environment'. You'll need to get some more details about it to set boundaries or everything will be allowed, which is not what anybody wants if you have to compare apples with bananas.

 

[Bloodbane7]

Yeah, something like that and it makes more sense to do that

 

[Hiruty]

how about a very vague theme and the creature make a micro/mini theme. EG Mechanism and they can do robots, tanks, a factory.

 

[Arowanna]

Will there be a new Concept Art Contest... Or is this forgotten

 

[Hiruty]

i think forgotten

 

[Arowanna]

Well, that's to bad :S

 

[Arowanna]

Still dead..?

 

[Hiruty]

yep D:

 

[Arowanna]

I really want it back! :>
There's nothing better than Concept Art!

 

[Avator]

Drop it already, will you? This thread has been dead since april. You've been necroposting ever since. This can be closed and archived.

 

[Pyritie]

oh avator

 

[Arowanna]

@Avator, *sigh* I just want a new Concept Art Contest...
I could post a new Thread every time I wanted to ask about this particular contest, but that would be even more stupid…

But let us not get Off-Topic here...

 

[Xatoga]

Agreed. Bump for justice, we need another one of these. Its like, the easiest kind of contest to set up and would probably have a pretty large list of contestants. Why are we not doing one monthly or something?

 

[Hiruty]

yah D:

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

can we please define what concept art is to begin with?

 

[Avator]

Agreed. Bump for justice, we need another one of these. Its like, the easiest kind of contest to set up and would probably have a pretty large list of contestants. Why are we not doing one monthly or something?

You say that in a dead contest thread?

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Concept Art contests are easy to set up, harder to judge. Besides, it seems half of the community is uncertain about what concept art means.

Anyway, I'd probably join in.

 

[M0rbid]

Me too...

 

[Arowanna]

Concept Art, in my opinion:
When you create something new, not based on anything you’ve seen before (Fan Art).
A new race is one kind of “concept art”, but it doesn’t have to be more than a helmet…

Example (Games):
The Concept Artist draws seven (a lot more in real life) helmets, then they choose one of them and the 3D Artist makes a render of it... Simply put.

What the Wiki tells us - Concept Art

Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and/or mood for use in films, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product. Concept art is also referred to as visual development and/or concept design. This term can also be applied to retail design, set design, fashion design and architectural design.

But of course, we can just name the contest "Free Drawing #1 - Repulsion" or what ever... But "Concept Art" sounds so catchy!

Concept Art contests are easy to set up, harder to judge.

True story.

Edit
A fun thing would be Matte Painting, despite that I totally suck at it

You say that in a dead contest thread?

Most people don't bother about the "Contest Submission" board, but once the contest lives there's usually more action...

 

[Hiruty]

okay so lets call it Concept Art NOW we need a topic or genre

 

[Deleted member 157129]

I'm horrible at suggesting genres, but one could be Greek Mythology.. or any other mythology. Generally, mythologies have a lot of fantastic ideas that spin in many directions and can be interpreted in many ways. Forcing each concept artist's individual interpretation to deviate a lot from another's, even if it represents the same legend.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I'm horrible at suggesting genres, but one could be Greek Mythology.. or any other mythology. Generally, mythologies have a lot of fantastic ideas that spin in many directions and can be interpreted in many ways. Forcing each concept artist's individual interpretation to deviate a lot from another's, even if it represents the same legend.

Sounds like an interesting idea

 

[Hiruty]

kk that sounds good mythology so we can have great and massive creatures from past futer and present GREAT theme :3

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Well then, somebody host this?

 

[Avator]

It's still not nearly enough.

You know, you can just believe me if I say a contest is going to fail big time, because I've never been wrong about failed contests before.

 

[Pyritie]

It's still not nearly enough.

You know, you can just believe me if I say a contest is going to fail big time, because I've never been wrong about failed contests before.

You are probably the biggest pessimist I know on the hive. You say pretty much all contests are "doomed to fail" yet they never are.

 

[Avator]

Please Py, you should know better then anyone that I've been right so far. You've hosted contests that I said wouldn't succeed and it came true. If I'm the pessimist, you're the blind optimist (which is not a good thing ). I bet you're going to host this as well.

 

[Pyritie]

Find me some contests that I hosted (or approved) that didn't "succeed".

 

[Hiruty]

none

 

[Avator]

Take a better look Hiruty. I'm not talking about the default contests like Zephyr, Modelling or Phoenix... You know very well what I'm talking about Py, so I'm not going to try to prove myself to you. I've done that plenty of times.

If you so badly want to prove yourself, go host this contest and you'll see.

 

[Pyritie]

You know very well what I'm talking about Py, so I'm not going to try to prove myself to you. I've done that plenty of times.

When? I don't remember a single time you "proved" anything to me. All I've seen you do is bitch on contest submission threads about how X contest will never work.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Avator, why is this not going to work? Elaborate. I don't know you at all, so I'm not going to trust your word for it for one second.

 

[Avator]

I already told you: There are way too few people for an actual contest. And then I'm not even talking about the ones who will not finish with an entry. This contest thread has been up for a while, it's been dead for a while, and after that, the pages are only filled with discussions about whether or not this is going to work. There's nothing to trust me about, it's just plain for everyone to see.

 

[M0rbid]

Well seeing the fact that there were quite a lot entrys in TWIF's concept art contest...
(this contest failed after the actual contest because of the judging issues)

I think you are wrong with this argument!

 

[Avator]

I'm not talking about the previous contest, I'm talking about this contest.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I'm not talking about the previous contest, I'm talking about this contest.

Well with the music contest and threads planning that I've noticed that very few people out of those who actually enter really put forth an effort to plan or get a contest hosted. Once the contest is on the banner at the top, more people notice and enter - including some people joining the site just for the sake of the contest.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Yeah, like Wherewolf says, far from all of the potential contestants bother to look for a planning-thread. We've got plenty of decent artists around that might join if they like the theme and have the time. You can't decide whether or not to host this because of the activity in here.

 

[Avator]

You shouldn't start a contest and promote it afterwards... If you want to have any chance of success, you'll have to advertise it now. So what have you been waiting on for so long?

 

[Deolrin]

...When a contest starts there's a huge flashy advertisement in the "Notifications" saying "X CONTEST HAS BEGUN". That's when people realize a contest has started and that's how most contests get all of their contestants.

 

[Pyritie]

You shouldn't start a contest and promote it afterwards... If you want to have any chance of success, you'll have to advertise it now. So what have you been waiting on for so long?

You do realise that using notices to promote contests has increased the average number of contestants by a substantial amount, no?

Contest submission threads have always had a small number of participants sign up before the contest begins.

 

[Avator]

...When a contest starts there's a huge flashy advertisement in the "Notifications" saying "X CONTEST HAS BEGUN". That's when people realize a contest has started and that's how most contests get all of their contestants.

And that's when it's too late, because that way you'll always take risk, which is where most contest hit the cliffs.


Py, you know very well that the amount here is way below of what any other 'low-participant' has. Even with those people, this is not going to work.
If you're so sure this is going to succeed, why haven't you done anything? Go ahead and host it.

 

[M0rbid]

I'm not talking about the previous contest, I'm talking about this contest.

And could you please give me one reason for this upcoming contest being a failure and the other one being a success when seeing the amount and quality of the entries?

 

[Avator]

What? Sorry, I don't understand that question :S

 

[M0rbid]

What? Sorry, I don't understand that question :S

What is it that makes this contest different from the previous one?

 

[Avator]

the amount of people showing interest. It may be the same kind of contest (meaning the same type of entries are required), but it's still another. That means that the previous contest may have been popular, but that is no factor of this one's popularity.