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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:36 am — Post subject: The Guild of Fine Artists
Shorah, all--
With the announcement that the MORE project will be targeted to allow for the inclusion of User Created Content (UCC), there’s naturally been a great deal of focus on the activites of the Guild of Writers and Guild of Maintainers, because they're the two guilds responsible for the content everyone is clamoring for: new Ages. But as Chogon touched on in his press conference of July 3rd, there are many types of UCC that don’t fall strictly under the auspices of Age creation. And it seems like there's a significant number of creative people who are itching to be able to make a first-hand contribution to the success of Uru, but who feel at a loss because they don't have any kind of 3D skills, or a place in the Big Five structure-- photographers and Photoshop artists, sketch artists, painters, fiction writers, musicians, and 2D animators, just to name a few.
Back before the GT shutdown, here on the MOUL forum, Tweek had proposed the idea of a Guild of Fine Artists: a new organization that would unite all of those non-3D creatives. It was also pointed out in that same thread that a similar organization had been founded during Prologue known as the Guild of Artisans, and that their organization could conceivably be revitalized. Guild of Artisans actually had a hood during the GameTap iteration of MOUL, but not much representation when I contacted them; like many of the long-standing Cavern groups, a significant portion of their Prologue membership didn’t return for the second round. Tweek, in the meantime, got some good feedback on the idea of the GoFA, but wound up putting it on the back burner in favor of devoting his energies to completing other projects-- I spoke to him via PM after the press conference, and he said he was still working on it, but had been very busy.
I think now, in this exciting period of planning, is an excellent time to take the idea off the back burner and return it to the front. I would therefore like to reiterate the call for the founding of a new Guild of Fine Artists/Artisans, in pursuit of the following two goals:
1) To create a go-to group that can be used as a resource for the production of Uru-related art-- not only for inclusion in UCC content authored by the GoW, but in every capacity, for whomever desires it.
2) To provide a specific environment within the Uru community dedicated to allowing artists of every discipline to communicate, trade ideas and share skills.
My only reservation in re-tabling this proposal is that I always got the impression from the materials in Kirel that Cyan envisioned the Guild of Cartographers as being the ones to play the former role, not a new organization. But then, I don’t know whether or not the GoC shares that opinion. I’m hoping to get feedback from them on this, and from Tweek, and from the old Guild of Artisans, and from anyone else who has an opinion and might be interested.
So… anyone interested?
With the announcement that the MORE project will be targeted to allow for the inclusion of User Created Content (UCC), there’s naturally been a great deal of focus on the activites of the Guild of Writers and Guild of Maintainers, because they're the two guilds responsible for the content everyone is clamoring for: new Ages. But as Chogon touched on in his press conference of July 3rd, there are many types of UCC that don’t fall strictly under the auspices of Age creation. And it seems like there's a significant number of creative people who are itching to be able to make a first-hand contribution to the success of Uru, but who feel at a loss because they don't have any kind of 3D skills, or a place in the Big Five structure-- photographers and Photoshop artists, sketch artists, painters, fiction writers, musicians, and 2D animators, just to name a few.
Back before the GT shutdown, here on the MOUL forum, Tweek had proposed the idea of a Guild of Fine Artists: a new organization that would unite all of those non-3D creatives. It was also pointed out in that same thread that a similar organization had been founded during Prologue known as the Guild of Artisans, and that their organization could conceivably be revitalized. Guild of Artisans actually had a hood during the GameTap iteration of MOUL, but not much representation when I contacted them; like many of the long-standing Cavern groups, a significant portion of their Prologue membership didn’t return for the second round. Tweek, in the meantime, got some good feedback on the idea of the GoFA, but wound up putting it on the back burner in favor of devoting his energies to completing other projects-- I spoke to him via PM after the press conference, and he said he was still working on it, but had been very busy.
I think now, in this exciting period of planning, is an excellent time to take the idea off the back burner and return it to the front. I would therefore like to reiterate the call for the founding of a new Guild of Fine Artists/Artisans, in pursuit of the following two goals:
1) To create a go-to group that can be used as a resource for the production of Uru-related art-- not only for inclusion in UCC content authored by the GoW, but in every capacity, for whomever desires it.
2) To provide a specific environment within the Uru community dedicated to allowing artists of every discipline to communicate, trade ideas and share skills.
My only reservation in re-tabling this proposal is that I always got the impression from the materials in Kirel that Cyan envisioned the Guild of Cartographers as being the ones to play the former role, not a new organization. But then, I don’t know whether or not the GoC shares that opinion. I’m hoping to get feedback from them on this, and from Tweek, and from the old Guild of Artisans, and from anyone else who has an opinion and might be interested.
So… anyone interested?
