[ASM scene] Assembly graphics compo question

[Elina Kallunki||Vantte Kilappa]

>I agree with everyone else that this entry isn't in the spirit of  
>fair competition - but in my eyes it is a legitimate use of stock  
>photography.

Now that I'm reading these, it's perhaps time to admit that I was in the
graphics jury. We discussed this image and saw that it's a stock photograph
with very little manipulation, but under the information at that time, we
cocluded that the image was public domain and that it did not break any
copyrights.

Even after this, I was against allowing the image to be shown, just because
it was 'lazy', and felt cheap against the other entries in the compo. This
was perhaps a bad choise of words, as a discussion ensued and the majority
of the jurors were of the opinion that it was not our place to decide what
a definition of lazy is and whether works should be disqualified just
because they don't display effort.

In the end, the image was fairly graded and that decided its fate. Some of
the jurors just liked it more than I did and it passed the screening
threshold. Simple as that.

Possible copyright issues aside, I think the other jurors were right. It
was indeed not my place to say that the image shouldn't recieve a fair
chanse just because it wasn't the product of much work, and especially the
jury should grade the images mainly on whether they look good, as long as
the compo rules were not broken.

I don't know about you, but I liked the previous Drawn Graphics / Freestyle
Graphics -division. Even though it may seem arbitrary, some kind of a
division like that feels necessary, concidering that photographs,
renderings and pixel art really aren't the same.

- Warma / Faemiyah