Welcome to the Studio!

**Riess** · 11th Jun 09 12:53 PM

Welcome to the Studio.

Here, you can showcase the results of all kinds of creative activities, and seek serious advice and criticism from our experienced and talented members. The old forums for visual art, writing and web design were merged to form this place where artists from all these disciplines meet and, hopefully, interact and cooperate.

About the Studio:
Technical Restrictions
Behavioral Rules
How to post images
Internet Relay Chat
Community Activities
Tutorials, Guides and Resources
The Dump Threads

We hope you enjoy your time here. If you have any questions, then feel free to PM any one of the studio mods:

Starfisher, Chrome, deadguy, Riess, Handarazuur

**Riess** · 11th Jun 09 12:54 PM

When posting here, you should - in addition to the Posting Guidelines - know and stick to the following rules:

Technical Guidelines

We have a set of thread icons to quickly identify Studio threads as containing either visual art, writing, or web design. Please use these icons when you post your work here.

If you post a picture with a width of more than 800 pixels, please link to it or use smaller preview images ('thumbnails'). This is both to make viewing threads more pleasant, and to prevent breaking the layout when you exceed the default width of a thread.
Pictures behind spoiler tags will still be downloaded by the browser and might still break the layout. They are therefore not exempt from this rule!

Note that the Studio moderators may edit your posts to include icons and hide excessively large images, to save you the trouble of doing it yourself.

If your thread contains many images please attach a warning to the title, preferably with a mention of the combined file size of all files, so that the people on slower connections have an idea of what they have to deal with inside.
An example of this might be: "Some photographs of sheep (280k)"

Writers in particular should make sure their posts are legible. If you want to draw readers in, good spelling and punctuation go a long way.

Behavioral Guidelines

Act respectfully. We wish to create an atmosphere in which artists can give as well as receive constructive criticism in order to help everyone improve at what they do.

If you critique someone's work, try to be helpful. Bear in mind that different people have different tastes. Pointing out someone's work is "bad" will help no one; focus on what to improve, give examples how to do so, and point out parts that were well done.

Don't attack other people's work, and do not flame critics who were trying to be helpful.

As outlined in the Posting Guidelines, our position regarding theft of intellectual property is very clear:
Do not claim others' work as your own, and if you refer to others' work, make it clear that the work is not yours.
For example, if you were to quote from a published novel, you should reference it properly (i.e., "This paragraph is from Bleak House by Charles Dickens.")

Please don't request artwork done by others. The Studio's purpose is to showcase your own work and encourage cooperation, not to request or commission work.
It's generally understood that if you start a thread you either have something interesting to show or are interested in creating something.

**Riess** · 11th Jun 09 12:55 PM

Image hosting

To make your images visible to other users, you have to have them stored on a public web space that allows hotlinking, i.e. the display of the image stored on that web space on another site.

Thankfully, there are several sites made exactly for that purpose, examples would be:
http://photobucket.com/
http://imageshack.us/
and our very own
http://hosting.reliccommunity.com/
which is open only to members of the RelicNews community.

To make your images visible in a thread, use [IMG] tags:

[IMG]http://hosting.reliccommunity.com/uploads/14335/20090611031502-hwtransp.gif[/IMG*]
(* remove this)

gets you this:

**Riess** · 11th Jun 09 12:56 PM

The Studio Community

Internet Relay Chat

The Studio IRC channel is
#art
The server is
irc.hwcommunity.com
You can join via web interface:
http://hwu.hwcommunity.com/irc/irc.cgi
type /join #art

Community Activities and Creative Projects
Here, we will collect worthwhile threads to look at in which several of the Studio's inhabitants have worked together to create something greater than the sum of its parts.

Collected Community Projects:
Homeworld Ship-tans
Let's make an audiobook.

Tutorials, Guides and Resources
Here is to be a source of resources and tutorials that may help you in your artistic endeavors.
coming soon™

**Riess** · 11th Jun 09 12:57 PM

The Studio Spam Threads

There are a series of threads for you to post unfinished, unpolished, or unsatisfying work that you don't deem worthy of an own thread in the Studio. These are the Spam Threads and this is their history:

Art Spam
The forerunners of the Spam Thread legacy, these threads contain sketches, doodles, WIP renders, and other visual art scraps.

Writing Spam
The little brother of Art Spam, these may contain short pieces of writing, fragments, and maybe poetry.

Writespam History

Photo Spam
As if the title wasn't self-explanatory enough, these threads are there to accommodate all those smaller endeavors into photography. Grab a coffee while you wait for everything to load.

Photo Spam History

The Fanfiction & Fanart Spam Threads

Like their big brothers in the main Studio, these threads contain unpolished or unfinished pieces of art.

Homeworld Art Spam
Homeworld, the picturesque telling of an epic journey across the vast gulfs of space, the title that first made Relic a success and is still in the hearts of many some ten years later - here is the fan art to the games.

Homeworld Art Spam History

Warhammer Art Spam
With Dawn of War came the financial breakthrough for Relic Entertainment - Here, artists can put their efforts to recreate the grim, dark future of the associated Warhammer 40,000 universe in all its blood-spattered, visceral glory. Just remember that it needs more Dakka. No exceptions.

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