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2024-12-09 23:04

Krill

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2980

Release id #248155 : Hiking Home for Christmas

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2024-12-14 15:24

4gentE

Registered: Mar 2021
Posts: 285

Since I rarely rate gfx at CSDb, I don't have an elaborate method. But I will say this.

Producing, rating and appreciating artwork has some real metrics, just like rating cracks. Or fan heaters. Some things work, some don’t. It’s not all “artistic impression”, magic and “feeling”, there’s actual science. To a point, producing artwork is a craft not unlike any other craft. So I’ll be allowing myself to share my thoughts on this here artwork without going into actual “art” territory, just the craft. By no means is my intention to push my views on anyone, I just want to explain myself and the way I observe artwork. Open the pic, read this, and decide for yourself if I make sense or not. And, please do forgive me for the length of this “review”.

Lighting and atmosphere are great. Nice, lush aurora-ish setting. Pixelling is OK. This “diptych” idea is getting old quickly and it was not that great in the first place. And shouldn’t that “deer” be further in the distance to make it kinda work in the first place? Two pics without a clear border, pretending to be in the same space but in distorted proportions (collaged in un-creative and un-interesting way that is). Deers are exquisite, ellegant creatures, this is a deformed evil boar or at best a bull with antlers. You don’t have to be accurate, but you gotta get the essence right. And a bunny? What? Xmas bunny? Did the author mix up his cliches? Is the demoscene so embarassingly superficial that you can take easter stuff and shove it into xmas? And they won’t notice? Reminds me of how Chinese ebay sellers used to wish me “happy easter” at Xmas time or vice versa all the time, because they just didn’t know, they just wanted to play nice and sell. Someone told them those crazy rich europeans like to be sweettalked. So, this is the general feeling I get. CK just wants to play nice and sell. And it’s OK. It’s a nice motive for holiday wrapping paper from China. But all that 10s. C’mon.

Also, the pic raises some questions, and doesn’t answer them, which is an ambiguous thing. Like, why is the bunny a humanoid biped, while the deer is not? Also why is the bunny in one style and the deer in another? On the other hand, some unanswered questions are not ambiguous nor ambivalent. Like why crop "the deer" (oh God having to call it a deer almost hurts) just above the hooves? OK, I understand not everybody can “feel” their way to a decent framing. But "don't cut off fists and feet" is surely mentioned at the very beginning in every "photography for housewives" type thriftstore book.

I think the pic would actually look & feel better without that "deer". Having a classic fore-mid-back dynamic. It would make for so much more interesting framing. The bunny about to leave the frame to the right and giving one last look over the shoulder. Now THAT would be visual "storytelling". This? Nah.

I spoke to a friend about this pic. He goes: "But why don't the 2 subjects communicate? He (author) always misses that opportunity when doing these 2 subject pics." Then he goes on and answers himself: "Oh, I see, when you take and collage readymade objects, you can't be that flexible with positions/figures/poses."

And this is a near 10 picture. So, you see, to me personally, all this AI/wirejob racket is just the top of the iceberg in this case.

2024-12-14 16:16

Peacemaker

Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 275

2024-12-14 16:19

4gentE

Registered: Mar 2021
Posts: 285

Wow. You win. 👏

2024-12-14 16:23

4gentE

Registered: Mar 2021
Posts: 285

Try wrapping your minds around this. These are the facts. A year ago, in a discussion with similar theme to this one here, it's been said and repeated that the gfx artists initiative is "chasing people away". Me, "being on their side", got accused of the same. A year has passed. I see same people discussing. Peacemaker is here. Oswald is here. A whole bunch of other old coders (sorry for not giving each of you a shout out by name) are here. Just like last year. You know who is not here? The Sarge is not here. Electric is not here. Deev is not here. CreaMD is not here. Spider-j is not here. OK, Sander just got back thank god. So, yes, you guys are right that people "get chased away". But you're the ones doing the chasing. Newbies are not chased away, look how Critikill came fresh to make jolly good fun of us all. It seems that top gfx artists are in fact getting chased away, along with a bunch of others. Don't you wiseguy coders regret that? Making top gfx artists shut up about gfx?

2024-12-14 16:29

CopAss

Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 21

how I vote:
#1 composition: most important, if it's bad then the picture won't interest me. the essence of a good composition is to generate emotions.
if it's cliché then I won't interest.
I don't look at the implementation at this time.
#2 implementation: what gets to this point will definitely not be under 6 points.
here I look at the colors, the technique.

2024-12-14 17:05

Higgie

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 127

This is how I vote:
I find Sanders' set of indicators quite useful to rate an image.

I must admit, however, that first impressions are already effective before I apply the parameters mentioned. This first impression determines whether I even take a closer look.

Direct conversions or AI receive a -10 penalty in my ratings (usually normalized to one point based on the scale provided), regardless of what other indicators would suggest at first glance.

BTW:
I must say, however, that this explanation of my voting behavior has significantly slowed down my creative flow. I believe that it is fundamentally unnecessary for me to explain my voting behavior here. After all, I am free and I fear that this explanation could reduce the magic of my votes. :-D

2024-12-14 17:19

Shine

Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 369

Well,

i vote ONLY 9 or 10, if i like something and seldom a 8 when people are beginners (to motivate them).

SERIOUS VOTING SERIOUSLY? Well, ... .. .

To make a science about voting on CSDb is really weird! Sorry!

2024-12-14 17:26

CopAss

Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 21

Quoting Shine

Well, i vote ONLY 9 or 10, if i like something and seldom a 8 when people are beginners (to motivate them).

If someone rightfully gets a lower score from me and if they can overcome the "hist", they will learn from it.
If I give them a higher score, I lie to them and they believe it's good.
By doing so, I only do them harm.

2024-12-14 17:27

Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094

2024-12-14 17:28

Higgie

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 127

@Shine:
It's less of a science but rather reflecting on what you think when you vote for something. At least that's how I would call it.

edit: I think Oswald is just thinking about what lame meme he might come up with next. ;)

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