Back in my election I was talking about starting a new concept-artist geared contest. Well, here it is.
MOAR stands for MOdeler ARtist. The contest's goal is to improve age quality by rewarding modelers who can work off concept art and by rewarding (and identifying) good concept artists.
Here's the general flow:
As you can see, there will be two winners and the whole contest could take a while--it's really two contests.
The artists can only submit one picture of a place. This picture will be judged by intriguingness mostly. No part of the art can be labeled--the picture should clearly show everything important. The view must be drawn as if you're standing there (ie. no map-view).
A group of modelers will have to model the place pictured. Generally, no scripting, sound or story should be included. The winner will be judged on model quality and how loyal the place is to the artist's general feel of the place.
Ideally, the place shown in the artist's art should be only a very small part of an age so that the modeler's don't have too hard of a time.
This contest isn't really starting now. This is just meant to test the waters and field suggestions and comments. If there aren't enough people who are interested then the contest won't be started very soon (or ever, if there never are enough interested people).