Talk:Controversy Concerns/@comment-78.88.183.114-20120808184710/@comment-53539-20120811132022

The art work and quality are fine, some of those the chinese fans pulled up are better looking then the wining entry. But the original concern with the contest was the sheer number of entries lacking originality. Like a remarkable amount, not just one or two entries, lots.

Remember the ones criticising the entries were passionate fans who were amongst their fandoms stablity of its loyal group. In other words, the ones who are veterans or knowledgable enough. When you have fans at this level, they get fed up with seeing the same old things, are more likely to criticise, etc, etc, etc. I really don't have to explain this too much since you can visit Vocaloid Otaku forums and experience it. :-/

Either way, no one is saying the artwork is bad, nor the wining entry good or bad in itself, artwork is something thats hard to judge. I've seen contests where a 6 year olds drawing won because people liked the drawing, even when faced with more experienced artists.

Note prior to the Japanese fandom cracking down on this very issue suring 2009, the number of Vocaloid Miku, Kagamine and Kaito variants was numerous. Producers were making little effort and little adjustments to make and produce their own characters. Furthermore, the intrroduction of UTAU meant fans had other means to show their creativity in making their own vocals.

But when the fandom does things like this;

http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=9&q=fanmade+vocaloid&offset=24#/d31o86j

or

http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=9&q=fanmade+vocaloid&offset=24#/d31vn0o

Or even this

http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=9&q=fanmade+vocaloid&offset=48#/d4oysnu

You can easily see how contests end up being very closed to originality. YEah these weren't in tis contest as far as I know, but their PRETTY MUCH along the same design issues.