CCC XIV MOC Critiques Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:25 pm
Hey all,
During the CCC I try not to comment on any entries to avoid any appearance of favoritism, but it kills me to keep silent. So at times in the past I have done general 'contest thoughts' threads: [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtop ... y&start=12]CCC II[/url], [url=http://vignettebricks.blogspot.com/2005/03/ ... tries.html]CCC II vig category[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7065]CCC III[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9550]CCC IV[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10527]LEGO Castle Contest[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12793]CCC V[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtop ... =3&t=20342]CCC VIII[/url], to point out my praises and generally make all of the comments I would have made when individual MOCs were presented the first time. Those take many hours to write, though, and so a few years ago I turned to a different format, a 'MOC critiques' format. Tony did this for [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtop ... =3&t=12825]CCCV[/url] and [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtop ... =3&t=16664]CCC VI[/url], and I did it for [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtop ... =3&t=23307]CCC X[/url] and [url=http://classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 8&p=274907]CCC XI[/url]. Rather than simply praise the good, the idea here is to offer more constructive criticism and point out areas for improvement, upon request. Some ground rules:
1. I will only offer feedback to those who ask for it. Post your request in this thread.
2. Please only request one entry feedback per week, rather than just ask for feedback on everything. This is so I don't get completely swamped.
3. Please provide a link to your entry in your request.
4. If you ask for a critique, you have to be prepared that that critique might be negative. I want to try to highlight how a MOC could be improved, rather than just praise the good things.
5. Just a note - in some categories there were a lot of very high quality entries. So it's possible there's nothing particularly wrong with your entry, it might just be that another one was a little bit better (especially with multiple judges scoring, one judge might put entry A on top and another put entry B on top).
Note that I'm not trying to present myself as an expert MOCer here - I doubt I'd have been able to pull of an honorable mention given the high caliber of entries this year. I'm just a guy who has judged a lot of contests over the last decade plus and I've looked at thousands of MOCs
Thanks,
Bruce
During the CCC I try not to comment on any entries to avoid any appearance of favoritism, but it kills me to keep silent. So at times in the past I have done general 'contest thoughts' threads: [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtop ... y&start=12]CCC II[/url], [url=http://vignettebricks.blogspot.com/2005/03/ ... tries.html]CCC II vig category[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7065]CCC III[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9550]CCC IV[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10527]LEGO Castle Contest[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12793]CCC V[/url], [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtop ... =3&t=20342]CCC VIII[/url], to point out my praises and generally make all of the comments I would have made when individual MOCs were presented the first time. Those take many hours to write, though, and so a few years ago I turned to a different format, a 'MOC critiques' format. Tony did this for [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtop ... =3&t=12825]CCCV[/url] and [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtop ... =3&t=16664]CCC VI[/url], and I did it for [url=http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtop ... =3&t=23307]CCC X[/url] and [url=http://classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 8&p=274907]CCC XI[/url]. Rather than simply praise the good, the idea here is to offer more constructive criticism and point out areas for improvement, upon request. Some ground rules:
1. I will only offer feedback to those who ask for it. Post your request in this thread.
2. Please only request one entry feedback per week, rather than just ask for feedback on everything. This is so I don't get completely swamped.
3. Please provide a link to your entry in your request.
4. If you ask for a critique, you have to be prepared that that critique might be negative. I want to try to highlight how a MOC could be improved, rather than just praise the good things.
5. Just a note - in some categories there were a lot of very high quality entries. So it's possible there's nothing particularly wrong with your entry, it might just be that another one was a little bit better (especially with multiple judges scoring, one judge might put entry A on top and another put entry B on top).
Note that I'm not trying to present myself as an expert MOCer here - I doubt I'd have been able to pull of an honorable mention given the high caliber of entries this year. I'm just a guy who has judged a lot of contests over the last decade plus and I've looked at thousands of MOCs
Thanks,
Bruce