susuexp wrote:I'd like to see a SciFi contest, maybe even broken down into subgenres (though that might make it too specific). Or "Music", which is a rather open category.
Apart from that, I think that rather than "anything goes" we could have topics that make use of particular features, so maybe a custom target competition, where you use a CT in the piece and also make it available on the library. Or a topic focused on make-clothes, possibly "high fashion". So there is a lot of leeway in what is in the image, but there are restrictions on how you get there (I'm personally biased towards a "no image textures" competition, because I try to do everything using procedural generation anyway).
Yes, i agree with that, particularly with the idea to force the competitants to use more than the default assets, but no image texture for the body mesh seems a bit too puristic for me.
Other proposals:
-contemporary topics, maybe from a big global news story
-common events in peoples' lifes, like holiday, illness, birthday, etc
-rebuilding scenes from famous oil paintings or sculptures, e.g. the Laokoon-group
-working off the palette of human emotions
-3D Celebrities