Hello to everyone! The Landmark Contest was a great idea and there were a lot of great inspiring models. However I have to say that I am a bit disappointed about the results. The winner probably deserve the 1st place: great model (literally! ).
2nd place might be ok: for my taste it is not so good, but definitely something that could receive an award. The 3rd place, well, no way for me it can be 3rd: there are so many better models!
And the same is true for about half of the Excellent Awards models. There is even a basic ârule violationâ: the Chinese mask is not a landmark - it is a mask!
And some models are not original at all - I know it is a matter of taste, but there were many better models deserving a mention.
So, 1) What do you think about the results of the contest?
And 2) Just as a curiosity, do you think my model was better of at least one of the 12 Excellent Awarded models?
Thanks for reading my 1st topic ever, and looking forward to read your answers.
I largely concur with your evaluation. The challenge with your submission is that it targets a niche audience, limiting its widespread appeal. Introducing a multicolor version might have broadened its attractiveness, yet it seems it still lacks that distinct âwowâ factor to truly stand out.
The contest embraced not just landmarks but models inspired by them, a deliberately broad criterion meant to encourage a wide range of creative submissions. These competitions prioritize the originality and creativity of the idea over technical modeling prowess. Ideally, your entry should be both imaginative and skillfully executed.
I think the mask falls into the âinspiredâ wording of the competition. While it may have been a push of the guidelines I think it fits into the contest.
The last time I saw a thread like this was in the Year of the Dragon contest.
Some people wondered why the selected models won the awards.
I think my model is very good and I have put a lot of effort into it, but why didnât it win the prize?
But contests are subjective.
You think youâve done a good job and described it in detail, but others donât.
No offense, if your work is in color like your description, it will be more attractive than monochrome.
The mask? If you define landmarks as things that can be seen from afar, it definitely doesnât fall into that category.
You have âTower of Pizza Gameâ in the contest. Well, itâs already clear that it doesnât belong in the contest, itâs a game and therefore falls under Games, certainly not Landmarks. Moreover, it doesnât even depict any landmark.
We have some gears toy in the Floral Spring Contest, seems to be a fidget toy.
Likewise these wildly creative ideas for the lamps. A model that already exists, I say for example I have created a flower. I entered this flower in the Floral Spring Contest. In the Lamp Contest, I just make a mini change by adding 3 holders that hold an LED and then I put it back in the Lamp Contest.
Honestly, I donât think itâs any fun that way! I realise thatâs why I donât even look at the contests any more. I used to look at the models at the beginning.
From what Iâve seen @VariatoM itâs all a matter of whatâs gaining downloads and likes sadly⊠Looking at your model I mean thatâs immaculate and truly talented work. It blows my mind when I see something relatively simple to model win or have thousands of downloads. But thatâs what the trend has become.
I noticed someone added âBunny Earsâ to a Benchy⊠Boom thousand downloads⊠donât let it bear down on your hard work though. As the title states itâs a âContestâ and maybe in the beginning it wasnât so much prone to non intricate models, but ever since the bat mobile IMO theyâve been pretty ehh and Iâm not trying to down play those designers talents either. Itâs just I still dont grasp how all these designers pump out their entrys and gain that main downloads so fast⊠They really need to stick with 1 contest a month in my honest opinion so we actually get a nice list of entries with talented designs versus people pumping out subpar work. Maybe atleast start the month with 3 contest at once so its all done at the same time versus staggering them.
Either way Great work and you definitely deserve praise, itâs also something I wouldnât have needed or wanted to print but that doesnât mean itâs not a great piece of work. Sell that .stl man
Schön, Sie finden es ist âlandmarkâ inspirirt? - Ich nicht.
Sie fragen sich warum? - Weil ich eine ausreichende Schöpfungstiefe nicht sehe. Schöpfungstiefe ist auch der Grund, warum Sie nicht alles schĂŒtzen lassen können, nur weil Sie denken, Sie haben etwas erfunden.
Und genau deswegen verliere ich dann auch die Lust, mir einen âContestâ ĂŒberhaupt noch anzusehen.
I totally agree. I thought that multicolor would have improved the downloads, but as a designer I choose to keep the model white to give a more âconceptualâ looking (and it is also easier to use it as a bookshelf - as this was the purpose of the model).
I might make a multicolor version in the future, just to check the feedback of the audience. Thanks for the answer and the suggestions.
I understand your viepoint. But to some degree I think that good memories should not influence the result. Otherwise the same should be true for the many âHarry Potterâ modelsâŠ
Well, then I can submit an X-WIng which is inspired by Tattoine. Donât get me wrong: the mask has a great presentation, but that is an attempt to push the guidelines. In my opinion the âlimitâ was exceeded. I would not penalize the model nor the author, but neither award it. However I respect the final decision and your opinion too. Thanks for the answer.
I know your feeling. And to a large degree I agree with your viepoint. Fortunately (or unfortunately) the contest guidelines were very âopenâ, so from this viepoint I think that the Tower Pizza Game could fit the contest. I can even arrive to see that in this specific case what was awarded is the creativitness connected to the landmark. But then I cannot see how to award the phone stand: man, another one! I can turn my model too into a phone stand, as you will probably agree. What is sure for me is that the mask was not fitting the contest.
I agree that it could fit the competition. But Bambulab urgently needs to adapt and clarify the guidelines or criteria. Do you know the Burschendenkmal in Eisenach? Or other similar âlandmarksâ, like the Statue of Liberty? I could take any figure Iâve created, put it on a pedestal and could have entered because I was âinspiredâ by the Statue of Liberty or the Burschendenkmal.
But I donât want to argue, thatâs just my opinion.
Iâm not sure how one would think my Leaninâ Tower Of Pizza game wasnât âLandmark Inspiredâ exactly as the contest states (and confirmed by an honorable mention by the actual contest creators.) When I started conceptualizing this, I started off making a game with pieces that looked like the actual tower in Pisa. But then I became bored with the idea and lost interest in finishing it. Then my weird brain came up with the tower of âpizzaâ idea as a play on words, and something more fun and silly for kids than architectural columns. It took a lot of prototype pizzas to get them just right and then eventually came up with the spinner integrated into the piece holder. Iâve spent hours and hours working on it and at least a couple rolls of filament. I am currently working on ditching the cardboard box and making a round holder/lid for the game that actually looks like a section of the famous tower for maximum theming. The $40 gift card is a small but appreciated prize, as creating the game was a true labor of love. âGrazieâ to those who get the connection to the famous landmark.
I had designed a pillbox with an innovative locking lid and it didnât even get a participation award. Sadly it is what it is. I just gotta keep learning and hopefully someday will make something award worthy.
well, i thought your thing was great⊠honestly better than mine a buddy had pulled it from you and my girlfriend had seen it, she wanted it right away. but because yours, like mine, was too small for all her vitamins and supplements and i donât think much of scaling such things, i had quickly constructed the dins completely myself again to the required size. did you ever notice with your model that you can print it in petg, but it doesnât flow as well as with pla? because many people also like to use petg for such things because it is food-safe. but then I found a good compromise for myself⊠everything made of petg except for the slider, which was in pla⊠then it went well⊠oh well, I designed a different holder where the things can be sortedâŠ
Second, an XL version is almost complete, many people Iâve talked to need something for supplements and vitamins like you mentioned so Iâll be happy to release that very soon. I really like the tower you made for the pill boxes btw.
Neat to see a forum member who actually tried out my design, even if you made your own version. Thank you again.
do you want the stl from the tower? then you can reconstruct it and make it fit your size. possibly with a third slot, for morning, noon and evening⊠two times were enough for my girlfriendâŠ
Ah so noch ein tip, verunde anderes. nicht einfach eine rundung raufklatschen⊠mache erst eine fase beispiels weise 2mm, danach verundest du die kante der fase die nicht auf dem boden ist mit 7 mm⊠es lÀsst sich wesentlich entspannter drucken.
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a buddy had pulled it from you and my girlfriend had seen it, she wanted it right away. but because yours, like mine, was too small for all her vitamins and supplements and i donât think much of scaling such things, i had quickly constructed the dins completely myself again to the required size. did you ever notice with your model that you can print it in petg, but it doesnât flow as well as with pla? because many people also like to use petg for such things because it is food-safe. but then I found a good compromise for myself⊠everything made of petg except for the slider, which was in pla⊠then it went well⊠oh well, I designed a different holder where the things can be sortedâŠ
