While some more communication would be greatly needed here… openly stating certain things might further cause confusion, even if we are just brainstorming before settling on something. People are bound to see one of our comments talking about various rulings and take that as the actual rule rather then something we might be discussing.
I do also feel like we have been trying to rush this far too much on here. While keeping people updated is nice and all, committing to any sort of set schedules or dates just isn’t right at this point. I’m pretty sure how Derpi goes about it is that they already have a generic background pre-made for the collab and just announce it on top like usual. From there they have quite a few months to get everyone to participate and also have artists take their commissions, free or paid, for the collab and get them made. There are also simply more active artists on there to create those entries and flying spots are limited on their final images too. Their actual final background sizes are also colossal to make it much easier to accommodate the 1000+ entries they get. This means that spacing is a complete non-issue there…. while for us it will be entirely dependent on whatever that background design ends up being. While resizing characters and assets shouldn’t be any issue on my end, sizing up or down the background itself might be a problem as it could cause visual problems with it. I certainly don’t expect a massive turnout here, but if there’s the potential that I could be constrained by the background it won’t look too great if I have to start mashing characters against each other for them to fit properly.
We currently have it as somewhat of a free for all while also stating a theme, potential assets/props, and optional poses for everyone to have. This can put more pressure onto artists feeling like they have to submit something specific for a given theme while also juggling options for poses and actions the character could be doing. This is all without knowing of any sort of limits on pose options, what games will be there to make poses for, if they need to draw in their props (dice, cards, etc.) or if the final image might have some they could use, or any number of other factors.
First off, no one NEEDS to be in any sort of themed pose or outfit. Basic sitting or standing poses will be accepted along with not needing any sort of clothing at all. For all artists interested but unsure on the theme, just make something normal outside of any theme involvement and you should be fine.
Secondly, in regards to our discussing of this overall here. Would it be possible to have mods on the discord server for Ponybooru just create 2 new channels for us about this? One in which only those of us involved in setup and rules to post about decided upon rules and additional notes and one for community discussions. This way we wouldn’t have to make our on personal chatrooms or whatever about this and keep it open, while also having a quick reference place for people interested to see what rules are currently set as well as bring up any concerns they might have in regards to them directly. This should help to clear any confusion and allow members to more readily bring up questions regarding rulings or just general questions we might not have thought of yet. It will also give everyone a central and easily accessed location for all of this information instead of being split between two different forum posts like we have now. While we can still monitor stuff here, being in channels on discord will allow an easier method for people to contact us with simple @’s and such.
Overall here….
Artists can submit whatever basic pose they would like with no issue. Clothed or not. In the theme or not.
Rules are entirely subject to change. Ideally with some notice but seeing as we are still getting the hang of this, you will most likely just have to pay attention to the main rules post here. (or on Discord if we get something up there)
Rules are not entirely set in stone. If you have questions or concerns about them, then just ask one of us and we should be able to at least try to work with you if your concern is reasonable.
Deadlines shouldn’t be brought up until at least 1-2 months from now I would personally say. But there’s a good chance we might never come up with a set timeframe until later this year. Don’t worry about it and we should let you know with plenty of time to spare if we do come up with something for a deadline. We should not be rushing this by any means anyway. :3
Speaking for me only here…
If you want to contact me more directly, just poke at me on the PB discord. I go by the same name on there. I think I’m also the only one with a green name there too. :)
