OFFICIAL Eorzea's Next Top Model Discussion Thread

[Percimont]

Yay!! Congratulations to Adeline! Congratulations to Adam! Congratulations to everyone! And thank you to Tyriont and all of the judges! What an exciting cycle! I'm glad I was tipped off to this and get to enjoy following these talented participants! I fear that SE will ban me from using exclamation points if I continue, so, that's all for now. Congratulations again...!

[Kaelah]

Phew drama. Knew it was coming. xD Well my 2 cents is that even if Adeline did have friends vote for her sometimes, personally, I almost always gave her a 2 or a 3 because the majority of her shots were simply stunning! Her and Eirwen were both neck and neck for me. Judge scores should usually top the balance anyway. :3 It's a prizeless comp too so I don't understand all the rage but hey ho. I can understand from other models I guess since it can take hours or days even to get the shot you want but still, models should know that if they put that effort in, the judges will reward them for it. If you get 2s or 3s across the board there are enough judges that it should still keep anyone in if they deserve it.

Anyway I digress, great cycle guys. I had a lot of fun judging it. ^^

[MissBrunHilda]

It's a prizeless comp too so I don't understand all the rage but hey ho.

This. Five thousand times this. When I was drowning and beleaguered in my screenshot-crazed 3.5~4 weeks, I was being the meanest bear in all of Phoenix. Submissions of 32 shots? And of those 32, the prettiest pearls in all of the clamshell folder, there were an infinite amount of slightly more misshapen pearls.

I was so fortunate to have some friends there to help me through the energy drink crashes, the mini melt downs (for the love of Thal, why won't the weather change?! Whyyyy!!!), and the reminders to please take a break and murder some monsters. Despite this, I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. I entered this competition as a total newbie, but I'm leaving as a slightly more polished newbie.

I've loved watching the way everyone's screenshots changed and evolved throughout this one. I'm looking forward to subsequent rounds and cycles!

PS:

Round 4 of the YouTube Fanvote is live!
With another very special note from Rongi regarding what the Fanvote is and how it's going to affect the upcoming video cycle.

#TeamYouTubeIsTheHardestCycle

[Minorinz]

It's a prizeless comp too so I don't understand all the rage but hey ho.

It's like asking why are you putting much effort into this anyway? It's a prizeless competition. Everyone is motivated differently, we can say.

.. and yeah, cycle 4 should probably start after a while, I agree :P

[Adeline]

Hello and Good morning all. I was waiting a bit to say anything to make sure all the negative steam had passed. I just wanted to say I'm so happy that I managed to win (Eirwen and I were so close!), and thanks to everyone for supporting me during this cycle and for liking my shots, from both the Fans and judge's perspectives.

I hope to keep interacting and supporting ENTM in the future (either by offering advice, voting, or trying out to be a judge in future cycles). I hope to keep in contact with all of you, for you're all great people. Good luck current YouTube Contestants! You're all fantastic so far. I can't wait to see what future blood Cycle 4 will bring ^_^

Also I want to say a special note to Adam. Congrats on your host reward! You really have grown during this whole thing (I'll admit that your initial GC pick had me flabbergasted lol), but even since then you have indeed grown tremendously and have become such a valuable asset to ENTM. You're someone that I've really grown close to and love poking fun with! (Senpai notices you but really you are on the same level of Senpai lol). As far as yesterday and the whole drama lhama that happened, don't feel too bad about it. You didn't mean to sound the way you did, and I'm sorry for taking it that way. Honestly the whole issue had come to a boiling point and it's good that at least that it's out of the way.

To all the rest of Cycle 3 cast/judges, I hope to stay in touch and talk to the lot of you in the future, either through ENTM or just casual convos It's been a blast and everyone has produced some amazing and original concepts. Thanks to Ty/Rongi and the rest of ENTM crew for making this a thing!

[Percimont]

Can former models (especially those from Cycle 3) please give me their opinions on this matter? Do you love/hate/tolerate critiques? Do you welcome constructive criticism and insight into why you did or did not get someone's vote? Would you prefer that we stick to the voting and keep our opinions to ourselves? I like to think I'm being helpful, but I'm afraid I come off as arrogant and scathing. My opinions do not necessarily reflect the majority, so hopefully they can be taken with a grain of salt.

[Kaelah]

Can former models (especially those from Cycle 3) please give me their opinions on this matter? Do you love/hate/tolerate critiques? Do you welcome constructive criticism and insight into why you did or did not get someone's vote? Would you prefer that we stick to the voting and keep our opinions to ourselves? I like to think I'm being helpful, but I'm afraid I come off as arrogant and scathing. My opinions do not necessarily reflect the majority, so hopefully they can be taken with a grain of salt.

As a cycle 2 model, I loved them.

[Adeline]

Can former models (especially those from Cycle 3) please give me their opinions on this matter? Do you love/hate/tolerate critiques? Do you welcome constructive criticism and insight into why you did or did not get someone's vote? Would you prefer that we stick to the voting and keep our opinions to ourselves? I like to think I'm being helpful, but I'm afraid I come off as arrogant and scathing. My opinions do not necessarily reflect the majority, so hopefully they can be taken with a grain of salt.

I really enjoyed everyone's critiques. I think they add insight on what each of us needed to work on to produce better pics. I don't think anyone that ever did a critique ever meant to sound mean or evil. They just wanted to say why they chose/didn't choose pics of ours, and what we can do to improve them.

For every critique I got (from both fans/judges), I always tried to use every bit of info I got to influence the following week's shot. I will say that you can't please everyone, and it can be hard to get everyone's insight, but I always tried my best to please everyone. Unfortunately, you can't as well and that's something a model has to keep in mind~ many fans/judges like different things, and you will always end up disappointing one person.

I will say Perci you critiques were always helpful, and I think you have a great idea of what it takes to produce a good shot. I hope to keep seeing you around ENTM ^^ whether trying out in the future or handing out those critiques!

[Percimont]

Thanks to everyone for the feedback!

I always found your critiques insightful and helpful.

I will say Perci you critiques were always helpful, and I think you have a great idea of what it takes to produce a good shot. I hope to keep seeing you around ENTM ^^ whether trying out in the future or handing out those critiques!

Thanks, Flare and Adeline for the positive comments! I'm glad that you found my comments to be useful.

I really like the ENTM community and look forward to sticking around as a part of it! (I even remember Marik from the ARR beta forums! We frequented some common threads, though I went under a different name that I no longer remember.)

[Yamimarik]

I really like the ENTM community and look forward to sticking around as a part of it! (I even remember Marik from the ARR beta forums! We frequented some common threads, though I went under a different name that I no longer remember.)

Well aren't you a sweetie! I wish you could remember your name so I could remember if I remembered you or not hehe, yeah I love being part of the community, though lately life dictates me otherwise atm, but usually I'm kind of talkative and opinionated here and there.

To your earlier question, personally I'm torn between voter critiques. Like Kaiyoko said earlier, especially about certain things said in critiques, if it isn't helpful feedback whether it's praise, or an actual critique it's not really helping anyone. Some judges and voters did this during the competition, and it was honestly just a waste of the models time if you're not going to be constructive with your comments. Personally, I didn't really pay attention to most voter critiques just because, even though it can come out as a popularity contest, I wasn't trying to please the public in a way, I was trying to better my techniques/shots/etc. by what the judges constructively told me through out the competition. But I never allowed comments, negative, positive, or constructive ever dictate or change the actual style or who I was. I appreciate any constructive criticism, but please let it be actual criticism and not something like "I hate it, because it's not the right gear I like...", or "I hate your colors because I hate brown..." things like that definitely aren't helpful in a competition setting.

ANYONE READING THIS PLEASE TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, IT'S MY PERSONAL OPINION Not attacking anyone, just how I personally feel.