Ego is a terrible thing

[bicc39]

Ego is a terrible thing.
I am relating this story here because telling you
people is cheaper than telling it to a psychiatrist.
Each year during the summer a group of us buy beach
badges at the New Jersey shore. We basically live there.
One of my friends is in the same employment circumstance as
myself and goes with me during the week when most of you are toiling
in the fields. My friend is a painter. Watercolor mostly.
Awhile ago I talked him into trying his hand at computer art and he
has purchased Corel Painter 9 and Adobe Illustrator 10.
No Zbrush yet, but I am working on him. A few pieces of his work has been sold,
much to his surprise and my distress.
I have a few pieces of software myself, Maya 6, Carrara 5, Zbrush, Adobe Photoshop and a few more.
In any case, at this particular beach last year, a contest was announced.
You were to submit a design for this year’s beach badge. The winner got
his design used on the badge and the season free.
Challenge.
I ask you now to look at the software mentioned above.
Impressive right?
Between us we can handle any work.
For the week after the contest was announced we went our separate ways
and worked on the contest piece. As you might guess when my friend asked
me how long I was spending, the reply he got was “a few minutes."
Sure.
Now, another friend of ours has access to printers that would do justice
to any computer work. Commercial quality.
We went to him and he obliged us by printing up our entries.
Between the quality of the printing job and our efforts, we had two
good entries. We took them to the beach office and filled out the forms.
The woman that took the entries oooowed and awwwed!
We are in!!
The days passed. No phone call. No letter. No email.
After about two weeks, we asked when the results would be announced.
We were told the winner had been notified and the contest was over.
We asked about the winning entry and were told they had no more details.
Ok. We lost no big deal.
We have purchased this years beach badges and basically had forgotten the contest.
Until this morning.
I ran into the woman that took our entries last year. We got to talking and she asked
me if I would like to see the artist. I said sure.
Drum roll please.
The artist is five years old; she was four when she created the winning entry.
By smearing a piece of paper with three colors. Blue, sand color and yellow for the sun
She did it with her fingers in less than two minutes.
I thought of this while I was reading an article here about how an artist lost
the CG challenge.
Know exactly how he feels.

We were robbed.

[lemonnado]

Snicker..... You can't compete with kids. And specially kids with pet's!
Cmon.... post your badge entry here!
Or even better.... make a challenge out of it!
CG Badges only!
No kids!
And no Rover operating the mouse either!

Lemo

[bicc39]

Nice looking child, looked to be mannered, polite, well behaved.
Hated her guts.

[mikala]

You competed against a kid?
You're braver than I.
They create the coolest stuff.

[billrobertson42]

I agree with Lemo.

Pix please.

[lemonnado]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule

That's not your webpage bicc39?!!!

Lemo

[spaceboy412]

with these type of non-artist community challenges i find what has happened to you to be true. most "common folk" have a childs sensiblity of art, simple primary colors, simple geometric shapes, etc. i've always been disgusted by the childish requests i've gotten for commisions. usually at that point i'm like "do it yourself".

[billrobertson42]

Wow that page is just wrong.

[wckedsunny]

Nothing new

We dont understand art and graphics has nothing to do with softwares.

When I went to college to study advertising, I realized this. I used to come first but in college.... last

Softwares are only to make our work fast and easier. It cannot create anything.

and regarding the kid thing by an article published By NAture magazine( or some similar magazine) Humans losses all thier creativity by the age of 21


A child will try more creative things , more innovative things, we adults will just recreate stuff already there.

No hard feelings , check out works here on this forum, we use this software to just create monsters and creatures again and again, lemo is still stuck with His greebles, mytholon with his paintings, me with my comics.

But these things are already there in the world we just recreating it.

Because they all are so similar we try finding differnece in each of them.

Creativity itself suffers by this, innovations are less, no good stories thats why special fx industry is booming and we learning and creating same effects again and again.

What happened to Bic shows what I mean. If we have to become real creatives start thinking like a child.

That will take you to heights- cant say about money but to creative heights for sure.

(No gurantee your girlfriend will like you after that, think only at your own risk)

[lemonnado]

Wow that page is just wrong.

I disagree... The whole site is wrong!!!

Lemo

[bicc39]

Love the site, poster could be a relative.
Have confession about beach entry.
I have kept nothing regarding cg "creations".
If I am trying to learn something like displacement mapping, I keep the
things that I make as a form of homework until the project is complete.
Most of the things I have made are looked at, with disgust, a few days
later and deleted with haste.
This actually led to a problem.
Had made a form of abstract painting in zbrush months ago.
Friend of mine asked me how I was doing in trying to learn the "new stuff".
In a hurry, send the painting. Obviously sent as a condensed jpg file to save
downloading. Looked at it a few minutes later and deleted it.
Two days later friend calls, used my "thing" as a screen saver.
Book guy saw it and wants to use as a cover.
The only thing that saved my ass, was that when you send a file on aol,it keeps a copy.

Regarding beach entries, the guy that printed it for us, kept my friends because he liked it.

I suspect he was the beach kid's Father.

[bicc39]

ok, you don't know me.
You don't know my name or my work.
Only a few people know about this site and my name here.
The odds are in my favor, if not, hell with it.
This is the "thing" that now graces a book cover. ( slight variation)

You see why it was first deleted.
Only use is as a background

Good luck at Waldenbooks.

[womball]

Hahaha, that website is awesome! I wonder what his "superior art skills" can produce.

[wckedsunny]

Is it a blood clot ?

A thunder storm ?

red clouds ?

I ahve failed to understand the creativty behind it

Need to start thinking like a child

[bicc39]

simple answer, there was no creativity behind it!
You are looking at.......nothing.
Was truly just doodling, was asked how the learning was
doing I sent this to show someone .
For a few days, thought it was a bad joke.
Ended up on the cover of a mystery novel.
If I worked my ass off in a marathon session for days
on end, they probably would not have used it.
Got paid back at the beach.
Poetic justice?