OFFICIAL Eorzea's Next Top Model Discussion Thread

[PureEclipse]

Simple fixes

1. allow people with 1 post to count for their votes...not everyone is a forum troll and choose to post in threads that are negative...there is a lot of them here, maybe some people enjoy these kind of thread types only...

2. Drop % of such and such needing to be in the picture...so long as the theme is expressed then that is the end of it.

3. Add in a save per cycle as I mentioned earlier (this is an actual thing on SyFy Face/Off) and no it wont show favoritism it will show that people have bad weeks in real life or something that prevent getting that all epic shot in, or maybe the wrong shot was used instead...it just boggles the mind how we can go 4 or 5 shots in a row with a person near top each time and suddenly have like 3 votes, for the 6th shot or something..its obvious something went wrong that week for the person.

4. I also humbly suggest a break before the next cycle...it seems (from what I am seeing of this current round specifically) is people are burned out on not only the voting but also choosing how to implement said votes, Ninja is right around the corner as well, so why not take a step back let everyone including judges breath and start it back like first week of November?

5. Last one, I humbly ask people to take some actual time on voting, I am seeing a lot of names tossed down every week just because (this is what it feels like this cycle) What I do for my approach is I remove the person with my handy dandy awesome trying to stay in the lines paint shop cutting tool, and look at the photo itself, than compare to what the person is doing in the photo and see how they add or take away from it. It takes about 30 minutes for me to get through 6 photos, but the 6 are the ones I think have what it needs to begin with.

that's all.

one more damn thing

This Round, it's Throw Back Thursday! Our models posed with Crystals as their background, just like in Cycle 1!
Crystal color, gear color, time of day, location, and weather were all the models choice!


That was the rules for this round so for anyone saying I voted for you because you followed the rules while the others didn't....please stop it, all 6 models used the rules as stated right above. Is there crystals> check, model > check , gear color > check, time of day > check, location/weather > check

[Parodine]

5. Last one, I humbly ask people to take some actual time on voting, I am seeing a lot of names tossed down every week just because (this is what it feels like this cycle) What I do for my approach is I remove the person with my handy dandy awesome trying to stay in the lines paint shop cutting tool, and look at the photo itself, than compare to what the person is doing in the photo and see how they add or take away from it. It takes about 30 minutes for me to get through 6 photos, but the 6 are the ones I think have what it needs to begin with.

that's all.

That's really impressive that you do that. But I don't think you can really ask the majority of voters to do something akin to that. It's not like we're handing them a syllabus with criteria that needs to be met other than the theme of the week. If people want to vote on the overall impression at first glance matching the theme, they should be able to do so. If they want to spend an hour going through them and analyzing different aspects, then that's awesome too.

This is supposed to be a casual screenshot contest. And I'm afraid we'll be taking ourselves too seriously otherwise. But that's my impression as a contestant, I suppose. There's nothing to gain other than a title and, hopefully, some fun. There's not really a way to judge the 'quality' of the votes since your opinion of the pictures may be vastly different to someone else, etc.

This Round, it's Throw Back Thursday! Our models posed with Crystals as their background, just like in Cycle 1!
Crystal color, gear color, time of day, location, and weather were all the models choice!


That was the rules for this round so for anyone saying I voted for you because you followed the rules while the others didn't....please stop it, all 6 models used the rules as stated right above. Is there crystals> check, model > check , gear color > check, time of day > check, location/weather > check

To be completely fair, what you're reading is the changed theme. The original prompt which was included in the original post and email to the contestants said 80%.

Now, I don't really care whether the background was 40%, 50%, etc. I also don't want anyone to drop from the competition because of it. But it does bring up a good point about being careful not to change rules on the fly.

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I hear you on this as well. I definitely don't want photos to be disqualified at this point for it or models to step out because it.

[PureEclipse]

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Very true on that count, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, never judge a book by its cover...oh nvm.

The reason I stated this last one is because once again I feel people are jumping before looking (and only Kirk is allowed to do that) when it comes to votes for these photos. Btw I was almost counted you this round, it was damn close, but Jayzan had that really silly grin...

[Parodine]

Very true on that count, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, never judge a book by its cover...oh nvm.

The reason I stated this last one is because once again I feel people are jumping before looking (and only Kirk is allowed to do that) when it comes to votes for these photos. Btw I was almost counted you this round, it was damn close, but Jayzan had that really silly grin...

It's np! I love all the photos this round. And like I said earlier, it's very impressive that you cut models out to look at things too. It's something else to ponder when I'm making the shot.