1) Was that directed by the same guy that did Fantastic Mr Fox or something, otherwise I'm not seeing the vengence connection.
2) I voted "Down the Rabbit Hole" as the top choice myself because it was well produced, covered a internet history perspective that is not common, and was produced by an outsider. I do like to promote outside works that deal with the fandom in this way because it helps show them that we appreciate those efforts.
I'm not going to have any shame in that those intra-fandom didn't produce better, I'm just glad someone extra-fandom was able to do something good.
3) I kind of called SonicFox's victory, and I think there is something to be said about a certain ambiguity of the category of this award. Were we voting for the quality of the fursuit or the quality of the person wearing the fursuit?
I'm going to say that this has shown the fandom may be voting on the later when making their decisions here. And at that point if we're instead asking for the content of a fursuiter's character to be awarded, then why are we only allowing the furs that own fursuit to be praised in that way?
I suspect that if such a thing continues that the category is going to cause some contentions with the fursuit designers themselves and they will see it as a cult of personality test of the wearer, rather than a fair analysis of their craft. Thus, they may develop their own awards like the writers (Coyotl), though to do so they'd need to develop a guild. Which would be cool to see.
1) Was that directed by the same guy that did Fantastic Mr Fox or something, otherwise I'm not seeing the vengence connection.
2) I voted "Down the Rabbit Hole" as the top choice myself because it was well produced, covered a internet history perspective that is not common, and was produced by an outsider. I do like to promote outside works that deal with the fandom in this way because it helps show them that we appreciate those efforts.
I'm not going to have any shame in that those intra-fandom didn't produce better, I'm just glad someone extra-fandom was able to do something good.
3) I kind of called SonicFox's victory, and I think there is something to be said about a certain ambiguity of the category of this award. Were we voting for the quality of the fursuit or the quality of the person wearing the fursuit?
I'm going to say that this has shown the fandom may be voting on the later when making their decisions here. And at that point if we're instead asking for the content of a fursuiter's character to be awarded, then why are we only allowing the furs that own fursuit to be praised in that way?
I suspect that if such a thing continues that the category is going to cause some contentions with the fursuit designers themselves and they will see it as a cult of personality test of the wearer, rather than a fair analysis of their craft. Thus, they may develop their own awards like the writers (Coyotl), though to do so they'd need to develop a guild. Which would be cool to see.