Weekly Brief/Challenge?
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- rascuache
Just a gauge of interest really.
I've been reading about the things Tom Muller has been getting up to via his blog, namely the Whitechapel forum stuff:
http://www.hellomuller.com/blog/…
I had intended to get stuck in to the next one, but it seems that those briefs/challenges might be finished now, so I was wondering if anyone on here might be interested in doing something similar?
Obviously, I'm assuming that something like this doesn't already go down around here. Surely it's the perfect place for it? If it does, please point me in the direction...
Basic format could be: Someone sets a brief, lasts a week, vote on a winner (maybe???), winner sets new brief.
Be interested to hear everyone's thoughts & ideas, even if they're the typical Koo Bee Enn fare :D
- trooperbill0
sounds good tho we're all rushed off our feet already lol.
- duckseason0
I like the idea.
I've been extremely busy lately, though.
- rascuache0
Ha ha, yeah I kinda thought that might be the case for a few people :)
No need for everyone to go crazy over it, in we could work a time constraint in to the brief. You're not allowed to spend more than 30-60 minutes, perhaps?
- shapeaspect0
Sounds like it could be fun. I do like the idea of a 60 minute time limit on it too.
- Amicus0
How the hell would you police the time constraint? Someones gonna cheat...
- rascuache0
Well, you couldn't, it would be down to people to be honest...
I'm sure most people on here are capable of that, right?
- monospaced0
Instead of a time constraint, just have a relatively short deadline, that way everyone who's actually going to enter will do everything last minute anyways and voila, problem solved.
And, as long as there is no "prize" involved, and we are the judges, it's not some bullshit spec work competition, but instead it's good, healthy design.
- whereRI0
so who is gonna set the first brief?
- monospaced0
Here's an EXAMPLE from the Whitechapel forum that rascuache referenced in his post. If you head over to the later posts you'll see the entries and you'll note that clearly, several entrants spent many, many hours on their submissions. Others spent significantly less time. In all fairness, this is how school was (if you subjected yourself to that like I did) and how the real world operates, and it makes for a healthy discussion on timing afterward. I move to have a simple deadline instated as opposed to the time-limit.
- zr0
Maybe there's a way to ensure the deadline is kept? screen capture software perhaps.... When people upload the final piece, the capture can serve as a readymade 'making of' for other people to learn from.
- I don't get what you're suggesting here, but simply not considering late entries would be a solution.monospaced
- Screen capture software running at 1fps or something so there's timelapse footage of each entryzr
- That would be NSFWmonospaced
- I wanna see the secret sauce!zr
- You can't handle it.monospaced
- whereRI0
surely it shouldnt have to be policed so harshly, if there is a tight deadline like monospaced said, and we rely on a little honesty and integrity of people , its more about just doing stuff than winning right?
- whereRI0
would it be strictly print/still design or could we throw some motion in there? or would it be stuff that is open to interpretation?
- That would all depend on the brief.monospaced
- yeah i guess, just thought it would be nice to have interpret style briefs instead of 'design a cover' but wutever, i think its a great ideawhereRI
- great ideawhereRI
- zr0
Yeah it seems I'm just overcomplicating it - would be cool to get that kind of footage but is unneccesary. ^ Keeping it open to whatever suits the brief would be cool.
whereRL - have you done any 5 second projects?
(http://greyscalegorilla.com/blo...- not really, the last time was life drawing in college :)
id love something to take out the monotomy of workwhereRI
- not really, the last time was life drawing in college :)
- whereRI0
@ zr, you havent buy chance bought greyscale's new lighting thing have you? ive been wondering if its worth it, it only 60$ id love to drop the time on global illum renders...
- zr0
ok what about some photoshop tennis type thing. you have 20-30 mins then you have to pass it on
- monospaced0
Well, since you brought it up, and there is—and will be—interest from users, would you be writing the first brief?
- rascuache0
Well this picked up steam overnight!
I agree with WhereRI and Mono, I don't think it's necessary to police it so tightly, it's only a bit of fun, and ultimately it's up to each "entrant" to decide how long they want to spend on it.
I think it would definitely be cool to keep the briefs open to any medium though, so everyone can get stuck in, whether they're an animator, illustrator, whatever. Could make it harder to judge though?
I haven't really thought about a first brief yet, or a format. We could brief on a Friday, submit at any point during the week up to Wednesday, then judge over Thursday, Friday start over.
As a (probably shite) idea for a brief: I'm just about to RSVP to a friend's wedding invite, which was pretty much a boring, stereotypical run of the mill type deal. How about designing a better one?
Can be for anyone you know, anyone you don't, for fictional characters if you like??
Totally open to suggestions on everything :)
- i_monk0
We suck at this sort of thing. Black books, print exchanges, the typeface...