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  • Satira CapriccioSatira Capriccio Posts: 523
    edited December 1969

    Sadly, I tend not to visit deviantART near often enough. Possibly because it quickly becomes so overwhelming.

    Consequently, I also don't update my gallery regularly, so then I start avoiding doing so since it's always such a pain. But it was really rather painless this time because of the changes in uploading. (I'll probably still procrastinate because that's just me.)

    As I was responding to comments today, I noticed that the Browse More Like This is really ... Not At All Like THIS! Is it based purely on the category? Or are there other factors that affect what kind of images are displayed in Browse More Like This?

  • Sky HndxSky Hndx Posts: 142
    edited December 1969

    Just recently hit the seven year mark at dA but I left. It's pretty much a popularity contest there and most of the active members are young people who don't give much feedback. All they seem to care about is pageviews, watchers and llamas. I did a search for 3D art and found about 1,130 pages of mostly S&M fetish renders and that seems to be about all they look for over there.

    I've had better luck and feedback at Renderosity.

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    Sky_ said:
    Just recently hit the seven year mark at dA but I left. It's pretty much a popularity contest there and most of the active members are young people who don't give much feedback. All they seem to care about is pageviews, watchers and llamas. I did a search for 3D art and found about 1,130 pages of mostly S&M fetish renders and that seems to be about all they look for over there.

    I've had better luck and feedback at Renderosity.

    Well, that's the value of this thread. I'm watching 98% of those listed now and, while there are some boring pinups (because everyone does that at some point, male or female), most of them aren't fetish content. Many are especially educational about their processes and thus even better - one gets to look at cool pictures and also learn new things (Laticis, Jabba, wancow, and many others, and I do DS tutorials as well). The more people from this thread you watch, the more different methods and styles you will see. I personally am loving it when I thought DA was a 3d desert a month ago.


    I do give constructive criticism on renders that I think aren't hopeless but could be improved, or that I think are really exceptional, and many others give helpful feedback as well. Even if you don't have a membership you can still put "please critique" in your description and you will absolutely get responses.


    You do still get renders that are obviously "onehanded" and therefore a hot mess, but I just don't bother with them past glancing at the icon (because they're not looking for real feedback anyway).

  • MuzeMuze Posts: 182
    edited December 1969

    I tend to not post there as often as I should. I usually have my head burried in the sand, working on product creation.

  • Seliah (Childe of Fyre)Seliah (Childe of Fyre) Posts: 336
    edited December 1969

    Sky_ said:
    Just recently hit the seven year mark at dA but I left. It's pretty much a popularity contest there and most of the active members are young people who don't give much feedback. All they seem to care about is pageviews, watchers and llamas. I did a search for 3D art and found about 1,130 pages of mostly S&M fetish renders and that seems to be about all they look for over there.

    I've had better luck and feedback at Renderosity.

    Oddly enough, that was my exact experience with Renderosity, and the primary reason that I wound up completely deleting my gallery over there. I found Rendo to be nothing but T&A shots, and I don't do those, period... and it was entirely too much of a clique for my liking. I used to post all of my artwork and freebies on Rendo. I removed all of it and left for a few years (after being with them for several years). I only recently have gone back to putting some of my freebies back up there... but as far as my artwork, I only very rarely post it over there.

    DA has a lot of similar issues, yes... but oddly enough, I have gotten some very good constructive feedback on my image posts from DA through the notes/private-messaging system, whereas in Rendo, not ONCE did I get anything constructive from anyone. On Rendo I was lucky if anyone even bothered to GLANCE at one of my images. At least with DA I've had some folks looking and gotten some intelligent comments.

    I could care less about the popularity crap. I don't care about pageviews, llamas, points, or any of that garbage. I don't do any of it. I'm there for different reasons than that. I kind of use DA like my digital journal in a way. *shrugs* My art gets posted up there, along with snippets of creative writing (some of it transcripted from RP sessions with other writers), and I do occassionally do some stamps. I like the stamps a bit, but that is certainly not my focus in my gallery.

  • Carola OCarola O Posts: 3,823
    edited December 1969

    I know I have a mixed array of things up on DA, including mature content. But that's just the way I am and that's also the reason why I have tried to sort my gallery so people will have a choose what to look at when (or if) they visit.

    I do admit that I like to look around but I am simply not comfortable or skilled enough to actually give constructive critic to the work most people have put up. On occassion I do write a few words on some pictures, but I'm not overly good with that either tbh. I try to give feedback, but it's hard when all I can see is an artist that are so better skilled than me, I mean... what on earth could I possibly bring to that artist? And words like, "really nice pic" gets old after a time *shrug*

    /C

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,976
    edited May 2013

    Folks please feel free to comment or give critique on my works even if you feel that "you're not good enough" or whatevs. Feedback is awesome and it is always possible to open dialogue and bounce ideas between you and me.

    For example, my most recent drabblework (not the wyvern, but Gummi Tortoise) got pushed further by SickleYield dropping a perfectly innocent comment "Eeeeee! I demand that he be rendered in a Gummy Forest." 'cause she liked it that much, and then I just ran with the idea (see the follow-up drabble).

    Your comments/critique == inspiration fodder for me.

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  • Carola OCarola O Posts: 3,823
    edited December 1969

    Skiriki said:
    Folks please feel free to comment or give critique on my works even if you feel that "you're not good enough" or whatevs. Feedback is awesome and it is always possible to open dialogue and bounce ideas between you and me.

    For example, my most recent drabblework (not the wyvern, but Gummi Tortoise) got pushed further by SickleYield dropping a perfectly innocent comment "Eeeeee! I demand that he be rendered in a Gummy Forest." 'cause she liked it that much, and then I just ran with the idea (see the follow-up drabble).

    Your comments/critique == inspiration fodder for me.

    *giggles* Oh my, that sounded awesome, now I have to run over and take a look at that :)

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,976
    edited December 1969

    See? There you go. I'm receptive to ideas and suggestions from others, I put my own spin to them and ta-daaaah! :lol:

  • Carola OCarola O Posts: 3,823
    edited December 1969

    Indeed, oh and I ended up not buying any candy despite my craving for it.. I ended up buying yoghurt with the taste of cloudberries, suddenly my candy craving disapearred for osmething much much better :)

    (I spent a lot of years living up north in sweden.. so cloudberries are something I really love, too bad they aren't growing where I live now :( )

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,976
    edited December 1969

    *snaps her fingers*

    Cloudberry shader. That's what we need.

  • Carola OCarola O Posts: 3,823
    edited May 2013

    oh yes.. that would be amazing. Which makes me wonder, is there any props for berries like cloudberry, raspberry, blueberry etc? *need to truly search the store*

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  • AsgardNorthAsgardNorth Posts: 26
    edited December 1969

    Ack, quit getting updates to this thread. Seems I need to check out more. To those that have followed... Thank you. Still learning DA etiquette, so pardon me :)

  • JennKJennK Posts: 834
    edited December 1969

    I would love to get feedback on DA anything helps even if it is good, bad or just a hey nice work. I would love to continue to improve and feedback helps not only with tecnique but as Skiriki pointed out with fostering ideas among each other. I am going to do my best to start leaving feedback evennif it is only to say "great work "

  • SemicharmSemicharm Posts: 376
    edited December 1969

    I just recently got around to updating my DA page and started posting freebies too. (see sig for linky).

  • Joe CotterJoe Cotter Posts: 3,259
    edited May 2013

    Ken Gilliland said:
    I have a little bit up on DA...

    http://kengilliland.deviantart.com/gallery/

    In honor of all of your birds :) <- click smiley. </p>

    My dA site

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  • DaleCar_06ae99e4f4DaleCar_06ae99e4f4 Posts: 178
    edited December 1969

    Yep.

    Here it is. Be warned. Adult content

    http://dalecar.deviantart.com

    Enjoy
    Dale

  • KickAir 8PKickAir 8P Posts: 1,865
    edited December 1969

    These are the stats for one of my deviantART groups, #Characters-of-Color. As you can see it's usually a pretty quiet group, but for the last three days it's been getting a lot more pageviews! Has it been rec'd somewhere? I'd love to post a thank-you, so if anybody knows I'd appreciate a link.

    screenshot.01-06-2013_14_.42_.54_.jpg
    740 x 530 - 78K
  • SnowSultanSnowSultan Posts: 3,648
    edited December 1969

    Sometimes that happens to me too, I'll get a bunch of new favorites on an old image and I have no idea what the reason is. :)

    BTW, I'm already a member of too many groups to really join any more, but if you'd like to add any of my appropriate images to your group (characters of color), you're certainly more than welcome to.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,260
    edited December 1969

    ...yeah a member of a few groups myself. Really does something for the hits on your pics. Had someone fave a really old pic from my sketches folder the other day that actually was a mistake (though a sort of humourous one) I made when I first started using Daz Studio.

  • Carola OCarola O Posts: 3,823
    edited December 1969

    I know I have browsed around now and than, and usually finds a pic here and there that is catching my breath so I just HAVE to fave it *smiles*

  • victordel99victordel99 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    DAZ 3D - Web Badge

  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933
    edited December 1969

    Alright, chances are few that there's a lot of people like me here, but for the lurkers' sake...

    That's me: http://mustakettu85.deviantart.com/

    No pinups or anything remotely erotic (TMI: I'm asexual, so I simply don't understand this stuff), a lot of traditional media, the genre is SF&fantasy;, quite a lot of fanart: primarily The Elder Scrolls (non-Skyrim; depictions of my take on Altmeri culture dominate, yet there's a dose of ALMSIVI stuff planned) and Star Wars. My main "real-life muse" is one Finnish drummer, so there are various characters based on him, too.

    The gallery - http://mustakettu85.deviantart.com/gallery/ - is organised in folders. The main, "featured" one is reserved for stuff that I deem more or less good. There are more deviations than that, actually. The folders on the left are arranged by subject matter, hence some images might be filed under several folders.

    If you want to browse my gallery by media, then dA has the handy "Browse" links especially for you:
    http://mustakettu85.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/digitalart/3d/ - "original" 3D (I do some original modeling, but not as much as I'd like to, due to time constraints)
    http://mustakettu85.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/fanart/digital/3dfanart/ - 3D fanart.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,260
    edited December 1969

    ...beginning to really dislike the "View More Like This" feature as it viewing a single work take longer to load, particularly if you have a slow connection. I wish they had an option to turn it off.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,999
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...beginning to really dislike the "View More Like This" feature as it viewing a single work take longer to load, particularly if you have a slow connection. I wish they had an option to turn it off.

    +1 also I suspect it is only really of any use if tags have been properly used
  • CypherFOXCypherFOX Posts: 3,401
    edited June 2013

    Greetings,

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...beginning to really dislike the "View More Like This" feature as it viewing a single work take longer to load, particularly if you have a slow connection. I wish they had an option to turn it off.

    You do.

    Your browser is your own, and your browser doesn't need to listen to what the server tells it to show. :)

    Here's a pretty good list of remediations for the MLT block: http://parallellogic.deviantart.com/art/How-to-Remove-More-Like-This-350297521

    Enjoy!

    -- Morgan

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,260
    edited June 2013

    ...thanks. I need to find everything I can to help minimise the lag from unnecessary page elements.

    Just set it up and it works beautifully.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • cwichuracwichura Posts: 1,042
    edited June 2013

    "More like this" was getting me a small few extra views in the beginning. But since they changed it again, it's back to being 100% useless. All it is now is a popularity mechanism to make the popular more popular, and the unknown even harder to discover.

    It seems you need around 40 favorites to a deviation for that deviation to "register" now, and be possibly shown to other users. For a while you'd at least have others of your own deviations show up as being similar. Now they just attach the most popular deviations from the category you posted your image to at the time you posted the image (it looks like they just take the top entries from the popular in the last week view, which ranks deviations by # of favorites). So you get a lot of stuff that has absolutely nothing visually in common listed as similar to your deviation, and unless your deviation gets enough favorites to change that, it will forever be associated promoting other people and never will you be promoted back in return.

    They've said several times it is based on how people favorite your deviation. E.g., tags are meaningless to the system. If you get enough favs to the deviation, they group it based on what the other deviations the people who faved it have faved.

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  • cwichuracwichura Posts: 1,042
    edited June 2013

    BTW, for those that use AdBlock+, these are the custom blocking rules I currently use for deviantArt and daz3d:

    
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  • kittenwyldekittenwylde Posts: 151
    edited December 1969

    cwichura said:
    "More like this" was getting me a small few extra views in the beginning. But since they changed it again, it's back to being 100% useless. All it is now is a popularity mechanism to make the popular more popular, and the unknown even harder to discover.


    And here I thought I'd left high school behind long ago! :lol: That's what the new "Undiscovered" thing sounds like, too. Only the popular kids get noticed there. Whatever, I'm just glad to get a chance to look at all the cool stuff people are doing with DAZ, all in one place.
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