Corona rendering contest

[danielmn]

I wondered if Corona, would ever considering sponsoring its own rendering and lighting contest.  Either with user models or a given scene.

I thought about posting an unofficial challenge even. Or even a weekly challenge thing. Would anyone be up for this.

[FrostKiwi]

It doesn't make sense in the context of a renderer.
With competitions you usually define a goal, style or genre. Then you have tools which you craft towards that goal. People use renderers for different things. ArchViz for instance is only one of them. If you now define a goal, style or genre it excludes a big portion of the tools user base, which dont specilize in that style.
If you make the definition too loose, it becomes a subjective bullshit competition, where you cannot compare works of different styles.

ArchViz competition is being done by evermotion already. One Genre -  use which ever tools you want to complete a master piece.
It doesnt exactly work the other way around.

IMO

[Tanakov]

It doesn't make sense in the context of a renderer.
With competitions you usually define a goal, style or genre. Then you have tools which you craft towards that goal. People use renderers for different things. ArchViz for instance is only one of them. If you now define a goal, style or genre it excludes a big portion of the tools user base, which dont specilize in that style.
If you make the definition too loose, it becomes a subjective bullshit competition, where you cannot compare works of different styles.

ArchViz competition is being done by evermotion already. One Genre -  use which ever tools you want to complete a master piece.
It doesnt exactly work the other way around.

IMO

You are right and wrong at the same time, making a corona exclusive contest is not a bad idea. Its just that the theme of the contest would have to be well defined.
If you define all those things that you mentioned except style, it's all ok. But first why?

The only reason I can come up is "Corona Renderer Start screen" or other junk for the webs.

[Ondra]

We already sponsor a plenty of contests ;) In some of them you get a price just for participating ;). We were also thinking about doing our own contest, but so far there has been too much work to fully develop the idea

[fellazb]

We were also thinking about doing our own contest, but so far there has been too much work to fully develop the idea

Priorities :)


Simple Definition of priority

    : something that is more important than other things and that needs to be done or dealt with first

[maru]

Yup, starting an "in-house" competition is not a bad idea at all, but it would require a lot of extra attention, which we currently cannot afford.

Another idea is "mini challenge" like on one Polish CG forum max3d.pl (and probably some others) - so basically this is just between forum members and there are virtually no prizes - the deadline is pretty tight and once all the works are submitted there is open voting. The winner comes up with the topic for the next edition.