I'm sorry that I forgot this in my starting post here - obviously we are very happy about every single member that is participating in our Challenges and I'd like to say a really big thank you to everyone who did and not just the winners.
Without you participating our Challenges would not happen. Unfortunately when you vote for winners you'll also have people who can not win. I can not disclose any details from the voting process but I can assure you Soran that you did not come out with zero points. It just wasn't quite enough for one of the three top places.
Comco is right by the way. The main idea of the Challenges is not to find out who the coolest artist on this forum is so we can all worship him. It's just about participation, trying to broaden your skills and maybe on the way learn something new. The program you use doesn't matter at all in our voting process. It's just the end result that matters. So you won't find someone saying "Ah, he doesn't use Maya but just that free program that I don't like. I'll vote him down". Generally I can assure you that the voting process is as fair as it gets (if you have doubts about that please contact an Admin. They can check our voting thread and are a neutral party in the Challenges). I agree that this time the participation and the overall "helping each other out" idea wasn't really excecuted that well. That's why we don't have a Most honorable Member by the way. This Challenge had some issues - it wasn't announced properly and its timespan (and deadline) was really short. That's because we kinda put it together in a hurry to have it ready for Halloween. The Senseis are addressing that problem and the next Challenge will be properly held again just like the previous one. Think of the 7th one as some sort of Mini-Challenge.
Despite these issues we sincerely hope that the HalloweenChallenge was fun for you anyway and that you are looking forward to the next one. We are already tossing some ideas around and I have a feeling that we'll come up with a cool theme
