Why does Scratch Team only feature games, interactive projects, and animations but not artwork made by artists? I mean, they have spent a lot of time making it and many of them are insane (I mostly follow the Warrior Cats community and holy their cat art), although these art projects have little or no code lol (removed joke as this upset some artists.).

I guess I'll leave some art here (to help you guys know how awesome they are):
+ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1439363140 (cat)
+ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1437652265/ (more cats)
+ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1399057491 (cat cat cat)

Man, why do they have so many views and loves (removed joke as this upset some artists.).

Note to the artists who are reading this topic:
We're not hating the art community,
The point of this topic is to give the art community a chance to shine to everyone (as most people on the site, including me before knowing about yours, have little knowledge about the community). I created this topic because I care a lot about your community. I've seen your talents, they are truly awesome and the jokes I made above were meant to encourage the community to evolve into something that's close to our general community


Thank @CSwitch for the suggestion, this would make featuring art much more sense.

CSwitch wrote:

(#58)
What if there were different rows on the home page for each type of featured project, like:

• Featured Games
  
• Featured Animations
  
• Featured Art
  

That way, different kinds of featured projects can receive the same amount of recognition! They don't need to use this list, though. It's only an example.

Reserved

The art community isn't an object, you cannot pick it up and move it. The art community is anyone who makes art on scratch. While groups have formed within the general umbrella, you cannot just move it.

How would this even work? And besides, what you have named I have seen happen in most ‘communities’ and not limited to the art community. Other than the forums, I find that misinfo is more common than fact. That's why new forumers often ask dumb questions about bot moderation- it's what they were told!

Edit: OP changed, post is now inaccurate

your post doesn't even seem related to your topic title to me
like how would we even do that?

Nvm, I have a better suggestion

Done

after seeing what happened with the hate on the simple tutorial project, I don't get how the ST will feature art itself

i think they intentionally want more interactive projects for a general audience. lots of them actually do have art, just not as the main focus.

AdaVesta_ wrote:

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after seeing what happened with the hate on the simple tutorial project, I don't get how the ST will feature art itself

Why don't they try it? In case people (especially artists) love that? Art community is awesome but that's carrotly sad when most of the art projects didn't have a chance to shine to the general community

nam2546701 wrote:

AdaVesta_ wrote:

(#7)
after seeing what happened with the hate on the simple tutorial project, I don't get how the ST will feature art itself

Why don't they try it? In case people (especially artists) love that? Art community is awesome but that's carrotly sad when most of the art projects didn't have a chance to shine to the general community

maybe. I've seen speedpaints get featured before…

Blue_Retro_Dragon wrote:

(#8)
i think they intentionally want more interactive projects for a general audience. lots of them actually do have art, just not as the main focus.

We post the exact second…..

nam2546701 wrote:

AdaVesta_ wrote:

(#7)
after seeing what happened with the hate on the simple tutorial project, I don't get how the ST will feature art itself

Why don't they try it? In case people (especially artists) love that? Art community is awesome but that's carrotly sad when most of the art projects didn't have a chance to shine to the general community

Thats largely true, but Artists on Scratch have a highly dedicated sub-community. I agree that ST should feature them more, but I think the reason for their non-feature has to do with the amount of code it has.

Art projects tend to have little to no code and interactivity. I only know one user each whose BOTH in the art and technical or art and games community. In general, the art community has almost no overlap with that ST likes.

HaycatD wrote:

(#12)

nam2546701 wrote:

AdaVesta_ wrote:

(#7)
after seeing what happened with the hate on the simple tutorial project, I don't get how the ST will feature art itself

Why don't they try it? In case people (especially artists) love that? Art community is awesome but that's carrotly sad when most of the art projects didn't have a chance to shine to the general community

Thats largely true, but Artists on Scratch have a highly dedicated sub-community. I agree that ST should feature them more, but I think the reason for their non-feature has to do with the amount of code it has.

Art projects tend to have little to no code and interactivity. I only know one user each whose BOTH in the art and technical or art and games community. In general, the art community has almost no overlap with that ST likes.

Agree, I don't like the fact that they don't turn their cute characters into an interactive project.

*Asked the artist to know how they think about this suggestion

HaycatD wrote:

I think the reason for their non-feature has to do with the amount of code it has.

Art projects tend to have little to no code and interactivity.

^ Adding on to this, the Scratch Team views Scratch primarily as a coding platform. Projects that only contain art don't feature any coding. This is fine, rules-wise — the Scratch Team won't remove these projects from the website — but if the Scratch Team is looking to say “Here's some cool projects that we think show a great use of Scratch as a programming language!” (which is what they do when looking for projects to feature), then the project should have some sort of coding aspect to it.

Examples of art that also have a coding aspect include speedpaints, parallaxes, an animated scene, etc.

Another quality that the Scratch Team often looks for when featuring projects is how remix-able the project is. After all, the Scratch Team highly values remixing, especially in terms of code. I think a project that is just art with no code is tough to remix. How might someone remix it? A recolor, perhaps? Adding a mustache to the character? My impression is that these sorts of remixes can be seen as disrespectful to the original artist. If code is involved in the art project, this gives Scratchers additional material to work with when remixing their project.

Is coding not art?

Elijah999999 wrote:

(#16)
Is coding not art?

I mean, can you draw code? /j
What I mean here is art projects drawn by artists on drawing programs .

what happens to artwork made by non-artists?

Rejected, I think:

Quoted from The Informal and Unofficial List of Rejected Suggestions:
7.7 Change the types of projects to be featured
The Scratch Team has a list of types of projects they are looking to feature in the Propose Projects to be Featured studio. Such a list has existed for years, and the Scratch Team is happy with the kinds of projects they have been featuring. While some Scratchers are unhappy with the types of projects being featured, it is ultimately up to the Scratch Team to decide what to feature.

No support at all. This is a CODING website, not an art platform. A project is featured because it is CODED WELL, which is the point of the platform.