Thunder: it was about a month before people started really making fun of me for my work. I wasn't particularly offended, and you have no idea the good it did as far as mod quality goes...
HLP isn't just a place to make people feel good. When I came here, people posted under the strict understanding that people would be ruthless in their judgements of second-rate work. Complimenting everything and pampering the semicompetent makes all the nice things you have to say absolutely worthless to everyone, including in the eyes of the creator, insults their intelligence and emotional stability, and moreover denies them the ability to improve their work based on constructive criticism, which is one of the most valuable things this forum has (quickly becoming a had, now) to offer.
Lots of people here are clever, more or less skilled in modeling, and willing to learn. You do them no service by saying "well... this and this could be improved a bit, but overall it's good enough- you deserve a gallery for your genius!" You do us no service by making us sift through the same dozen semiskilled sketches 50 times to find something we like. You do the community no service by allowing everyone's abilities to stagnate in the absence of something to aspire to. Having a gallery should be one of the most prestigious honors that can be bestowed in HLP, not just something that's tossed to every yahoo with a pencil and a scanner or TrueSpace. If they're willing to do work, but not yet good at renders, put them in their place, give them all the advice they should need ('S what we've got a full complement of semiprofessional 3D artists here for, no?), and get them to do better. When they can do something that earns genuine admiration, they get a gallery. If they continue to suck, they can try and start a campaign, something that can be enjoyable no matter how bad the head is at modeling, rendering, or drawing. Sound fair?
It is time for us to join together and
end the iron reign of "not bad"! SEMISKILLED RENDERERS OF THE HLP, UNITE!
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