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Explanation For Stills and Animations Deadlines

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Recently, due to your feedback, the Challenge deadlines and voting/commenting policies have changed to allow a more fair competition to occur.

The Upload And Edit Deadline:

All uploading/editing of Stills/Animations in your member area will end approximately 15 days before the competition ends. This will allow a further (approximate) 15 days where only voting and commenting will be allowed.

Again, this was completed to allow approximately 15 days of just voting and commenting over all the uploads, allowing no late entries and a member to compare entries and provide more accurate results.

When will the next Challenge(s) be introduced?

Approximately on the 15th of the last month of the present Stills or Animations Challenge. This will be via a two-monthly Newsletter to all members, and additionally, you will see it on the front page at that time.

How Many Times Can I/We Enter?

Simply put - as many times as you want! This is for both Stills and Animations. And yes, you can be in a partnership too!

Member's Who Can Vote and Comment:

ALL members can now vote and comment on Stills and Animations, whether they have entered a Challenge or not. However, please do so in an honest and sincere way as we are sure you will. Your comment(s) just might make a difference to the artist.

Additionally, voting statistics will allow trends to be seen and queried.

STILLS:

Create an image or animation using your favourite rendering program and associated tools that will be your interpretation of the subject for the current bi-monthly round (Stills) and quarterly round (Animations).

Again, as a member, you can create as many images or animations as you want to enter, but we must stress that they must be different to your main concept/idea.

You may use any 3D rendering program(s) to make your images and any associated programs such as 3D modellers and conversion/texture applications. Conversion programs meaning a program like the free Irfanview to convert your image(s) to JPEG format if necessary, and texture programs meaning a program like Photoshop to create your textures if using image-maps for UV-Mapping.

You may use paint programs, image editors or similar programs to apply changes to your image AFTER YOUR FINAL rendering - in other words, post-processing will be allowed in small scale ONLY. (Please remember, this IS a 3D competition).

Such examples include:

o- You can add text information like > Name, Title, Email address, Your Copyright etc., to your image.

o- You can gamma-correct and adjust the contrast/brightness of your image.

o- You can add lens-flares.

And that's about it Cheppers. Please don't abuse this rule.

BUT, if your usage of such facilities are deemed as 'OVERUSE' of said methods whereby the original 3D rendered image is no longer recognised as a true 3D rendered image, then your image will be deleted from the present Challenge and you will be asked via email to submit another one conforming to these rules.

Your image can be any width and height, as long as the file is under 350 Kb's, (any image over this limit will be automatically deleted), and it *must* be a JPEG (.jpg) file, no other format will be entered into a challenge.

ANIMATIONS:

The rules for animations are exactly the same as for the Stills. The maximum file size for animations is 12Mb's. When you upload your files for the animations section, you will also have to upload a thumbnail image. The thumbnail image that you upload must be 140 x 140 pixels at 72dpi.

PRIZES:

There will be a prize for each Stills and Animations Challenges for September 2008. This may continue after these Challenges, but this will remain entirely on the response received. In the event of any joint first winners, those members will each receive the same prize.

WHAT IS ALLOWED, AND WHAT IS NOT ALLOWED:

ALLOWED:

A nice 'clean' image depicting the topic. *Mild* nudity will be allowed ONLY IF the image *really* conveys the topic - any image submitted that leans in any other way at all will be removed.

NOT ALLOWED:

Any image where racial hatred, porn, vulgarity, abuse, (whatever is deemed 'bad'), is submitted, will be deleted. Please note: The appropriate authorities WILL be informed if necessary.

UPLOADING YOUR FILES:

When you go to the 'Upload Area', you will be presented with a 'browse' button to locate your image from your computer, and you will need to complete the following:

1)	NAME:
2)	COUNTRY:
3)	EMAIL:
4)	COMPETITION SUBJECT:
5)	COPYRIGHT:
6)	JPGFILE UPLOADED:
7)	3D RENDER PROGRAM USED:
8)	TOOLS USED:
9)	RENDER TIME:
10)	HARDWARE USED:
11)	DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Copyright: Our copyright notice applies to all entrants and all images and animations. Click here to read. Of course, if any further queries arise, click here to contact us.

Kind regards,

The TC-RTC Team