![]() ![]() Google+ is not an official social media outpost for SK.On days when we post more than once about anything, we see more “unlikes” than on days with single posts. Facebook users don’t tolerate much in the way of frequent posts. We post one piece per week, on Fridays, unless something we can’t ignore comes up during the week.Will the SK community probably appreciate it?.Is the piece, you know, good? Is it awesome, even? (You bet this is subjective.Is it stolen? We don’t encounter much stolen art, but if we see something we remember from elsewhere, we will check that out to the best of our ability before posting.A post consisting solely of an uploaded image, with no indication of who made it, is not helpful. Is the artist credited? We want artists to get credit, recognition, and web traffic for their work.Is it a proposed addition to the game? We have to be careful about appearing to endorse or commit to specific proposals.Is it currently entered in a staff-run contest? To avoid the appearance of impropriety, we may leave it alone until the judging is over, or we might post it in a separate post about contest winners.On occasion, we do post the same artist a couple weeks in a row. Did we already post something from this artist recently? We try to mix it up, adding in fresh faces without leaving established folks in the dust.Verbiage of any type we couldn’t post on the SK forums is a definite minus. What’s the artist commentary like? Comments that are amusing, insightful, touching, useful, intelligent, are a plus. ![]() ![]() Is it hosted on an appropriate website? There are certain sites we can’t/won’t link to: sites that summon a bunch of popups, that make you click through a bunch of pages to get to the art, that have inappropriate ads, that require signup to see the art, that contain malware, and the like.If you create something totally amazing and then post a blurry photograph of it, well, we might post it anyway. Is it nicely presented-is it scanned in well, or does it have a neat “Here’s how I made this” section? That sort of thing.Does it appear to have taken considerable effort, skill, talent, determination, creativity, or a mix of the above?.On top of that, on Friday mornings, I do my own search to see whether anything brand new has popped up.īy the way, by “fan art,” we really mean any Spiral Knights-related thing created by a player-videos, homages, fun screenshots, mashups, music, master’s theses, cosplay, podcast episodes, etc. In addition to Aphrodite’s efforts, any member of the SK team can bring stuff to our attention, and players can post about pieces on the SK forums and social media. Links to 10-20 candidate pieces are gathered into a document for consideration. That’s a fair question!ĭuring the week, Aphrodite does a basic sweep of the main sites where SK fan art is commonly found-deviantArt, Tumblr, the Treasure Vault section of the SK forums, and Reddit, usually. With some regularity, players ask what factors we consider when deciding which pieces to feature. As many of you know, most Fridays are “Fan Art Friday” on the Spiral Knights Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ outposts. ![]()
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