CG HUBS
Hi, I am Chip, the owner of cghubs.com.
The new site took off during the last two weeks and it gathered lots of submissions. While doing several rookie mistakes in the beginning, I feel that the site is stable now and I can dedicate my time to work on additional features and user requests.
Please, do consider it when submitting a design to any of the other art sites out there. Each submission motivates me to work on it even more.
With a baby on the way, I'm trying to focus on what's relevant for the site and work only on those features.
Any help is appreciated. Any submission is appreciated.
http://cghubs.com/
The new site took off during the last two weeks and it gathered lots of submissions. While doing several rookie mistakes in the beginning, I feel that the site is stable now and I can dedicate my time to work on additional features and user requests.
Please, do consider it when submitting a design to any of the other art sites out there. Each submission motivates me to work on it even more.
With a baby on the way, I'm trying to focus on what's relevant for the site and work only on those features.
Any help is appreciated. Any submission is appreciated.
http://cghubs.com/
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Only the bottom 10% matters and I have to scroll to see more.
the need in the market has been filled.
I wouldnt try to compete head on with them, but find some other niche and be unique about it.
2cents
The main reason I chose the cghubs.com domain name was to keep the same idea as cghub.com. It's easier like this.
I know the site is still young, I know the submissions are not yet up to par with the old cghub.com site or the newer ones, such as Art Station. The market is not saturated, and there's always a place for a better alternative. I keep working on the site every day and add more and more features.
I know about all the other projects, the Kickstarter one, the (maybe) new CG HUB one and the other sites, such as DrawCrowd, CG Society and more.
We are a small team of CG enthusiasts and we will keep building the site, improve it and promote it to artists.
Thank you,
Chip
C'mon, give this gentleman a break, i found this website a nice effort in itself, a compliment instead is due here. I remember the humble start of cgtalk, they had their server in a garage.
Still I think the criticism is entirely valid, if he took it and moved onto something less generic and more unique, say taking the concept of CG hub and making it animation hub with animated tiled gifs a place for 3D and 2d animators getting the right people on board he would be catering to a non existent market, then he would have my full support.
Sure catering to a non existent market is a good idea in any business sense as long as there is demand. But that doesnt mean you have to do that, or there is even desire to do that.
Theres a ton of competition in this industry, but you wouldn't go around telling a newer environment artist the market has been filled and you should switch to animation. Instead you'd offer advice on how to make his/her environments better. Same case here in my opinion.
You might have a point if this wasnt trying to rip off/mimic CGhub in more than just functionality. Name + gear based icon... Part of the criticism is to be something a bit more unique in not just market, but also branding. Theres nothing wrong with trying, but if so it shouldnt be a direct attempt at copying another brand.
I will be adding faceted search this week, support forums and improve the frontpage.
Thank you for your replies, comments and critique. Every little helps.
Our new CG Hubs has slowly evolved into an indie community of CG artists, designers and painters. We need your help to promote and share this Indiegogo campaign - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cg-hubs/x/8150997. A very detailed description and project story can be found here - http://cghubs.com/about/.
We need more people to get involved, support our campaign, share this event and help us acquire the funds we need to keep it working. We want to ask you to publish a press release, write a blog post, share on social networks or just tell your friends about our initiative.
We also want to ask you to create a free account and upload your art. Every upload counts.
Looking forward to your answer,
Ciprian
"I'm not trying to rip anything off, it's just the fact it's easier to approach people with my new drink "Brocacola" if it tastes and fizzes similar the already established brand".
sorry, couldn't resist poking a hole in that one. but good luck!
Fair enough, but all jokes aside, take a more serious look at this project.
EDIT: In fairness I like the site layout, I think with the closing of CG Hub though you have to expect a little bit of stick for the name
Thank you for your edit @Torch, I expect a lot of mixed reactions, just like 3 months ago, when I first announced it. I'll continue working on the site, regardless of negative comments. I have some powerful competitors, I know, but we're slowly getting there.
I'm not too sure about your naming choice either. CG Hub was terminated leaving the community in disappointment yet your name is so similar it brings back bad memories.
@JohnnyRaptor, thank you for your kind words, we're working on the site day and night, fixing bugs, improving features, testing, adding tiny features and more. We won't stop during the campaign and we won't stop after, either.