/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.1700452]

wtf is this shit /ic/ ? Did that nigga just steal Chhug ?

Is it ever coming back or RIP ?

[Anonymous No.1700456]

I was about to tell you you're an idiot and need to learn to spell, but cghub is seriously gone. What the hell?

[Anonymous No.1700461]

>>1700456
learn to spell because of one wrong letter that is right beside the right one on the keyboard ? damn, you must be bored.

RIP cg

[Anonymous No.1700467]

CG Hub is kill.

Only time will tell if this is permanent or not, though I have asked a few of the prolific posters there and they seem to agree that it's gone for good. Which makes sense given that they were running into financial troubles, and had to resort to the CG-Pro service.

On the flip side, maybe it'll be a breath of fresh air. People will stop trying to be the artists they see on the front page all the time (Mostly legend of the cryptids style work) and produce some more original works.

[Anonymous No.1700469]

>>1700452
Holy jesus no!

[Anonymous No.1700474]

>>1700467
>though I have asked a few of the prolific posters there and they seem to agree that it's gone for good.

I have asked even more prolific posters and they all seem to agree that I should tell you to stop spreading retarded bullshit.

[Anonymous No.1700495]

I'd shrugged it off as them not being able to keep it up, server problems, or being hacked.

Then I noticed their facebook page is out of commission too.

[Anonymous No.1700496]

>>1700495
Anyway, does it have to do with the Heartbleed thing that's been going around lately?

[Anonymous No.1700498]

>>1700495
I seriously doubt they'd just vanish from the face of the internet without as much as giving a simple statement as to why.

[Anonymous No.1700504]

>>1700467
>legend of cryptids
I don't really like that style, repeatitive stuff witout much variety, girls have the same face, same for guys.

>>1700474
did they even save the content before that ?

>>1700495
guess it's been hacked then.

[Anonymous No.1700513]

>>1700504
It's card illustration, there are dozens of artists working for them, all need to follow certain style guidelines, otherwise the art would be inconsistent as fuck. still a Ruanjia illustration looks nowhere the same as say a Brad Rigney or Dave Rapoza illustration.

[Anonymous No.1700530]

>implying Feng Zhu didn't buy up CGhub in order to shut it down and direct traffic to drawcrowd

[Anonymous No.1700541]

>>1700474
I prefaced my statement with 'Only time will tell' I did not yell 'zomg CGhub is dead 4eva!', it may return it may not. I don't know.
I'm only relaying information from other artists.

Stop being so aggressive, what are you 12?

>>1700504
Eh it's samey, but the publishers behind it dig that look and it sells so it's understandable. It was never the most interesting thing on the site though for me.

[Anonymous No.1700542]

>>1700530
How is that site anyway? I don't really like the look of the layout.

[WHERE No.1700544]

>>1700530
>drawcrowd
wow, visibility is way better here. art mosaic was so horrible on cghug. I used to randomly click on things without even knowing what it was gonna be, ends up 3D 90% of the time.

[Anonymous No.1700697]

I wonder if conceptart.org will return to its position of prominence now that cghub has fallen.

probably not. why are all these great art sites dying, /ic/? sijun, eatpoo, CA, and now CGHub? If this continues, will we all be reduced to posting sonic fanart on DeviantArt?

[Anonymous No.1700729]

>>1700697
There's no way cghub is just going to vanish out of nowhere. Someone must have hacked the site or some other shit happened. If the site owner had money problems, he'd have at least tried to get donations or some shit and made a statement about the future of the site, instead of taking it down completely out of the blue.

[Anonymous No.1700735]

Stop living in a cave you fucking NEETS.Put on the fucking news.Heartbleedi s spinning the shitstorm so hard right now,you're lucky that it's just CG hubs.

[anonymous No.1700736]

I just read that all cghub users personal information is up for sale on some auction site. suxors. i hate asshole fuxxers.

[Anonymous No.1700741]

>>1700729

can someone with a facebook account confirm that CGHub's facebook page has also mysteriously disappeared? Because that would seem to indicate more than just a late check to the hosting service is at fault.

[anonymous No.1700742]

cghub fb page has been deleted and is lost which means it was someone on the inside

[Anonymous No.1700761]

I'm missing the joke..

[anonymous No.1700804]

its not a joke. cgh has been hacked and looks to be toast. app is dead. fb page is deleted. the site may be gone for good. back to conceptart.org for me.

[Anonymous No.1700980]

>>1700736
Huh? What data? Cghub doesn't require the users to register with their real name or address or anything else that would be relevant. Why would some hacker auction off random usernames and passwords without any useful information attached to them?

[Anonymous No.1700982]

>>1700980
Data worth a ton.
The possibilities of what they can misuse it for are endless, the simplest example would be this: now they make bank with a ton of valid email addresses they can sell or send spam to themselves.

[Anonymous No.1700985]

>>1700452
Nothing of value was lost, DevientArt is still up

[Anonymous No.1700988]

Has no one on the inside posted anything anywere? No twitter, facebook or blog post or anything at all from some mod or admin who knows what's up? Say what you want about ca.org but at the very least if the site went down, people would instantly know whom to ask for explanations. Does anyone even know who the site owner of Cghub was?

[Anonymous No.1700991]

>>1700985
except that hardly any worthwhile artist even uses DA anymore, meanwhile almost every pro who works in the industry used cghub. It was the single most global site as well, with tons of asian artists posting work that they otherwise would never have posted anywhere else other than some obscure password protected chinese blog.

[Anonymous No.1701018]

>>1700988
>Does anyone even know who the site owner of Cghub was?

I think Manley mentioned something once about CGHub being owned by some guys in Eastern Europe. Manley wanted to hire the same web-designer they contracted to build CGHub's layout, but that guy told Manley that the Eastern European guys had specifically added something to his contract about not working for Manley.

[Anonymous No.1701021]

>>1700991
>except that hardly any worthwhile artist even uses DA anymore
I'd disagree. There's a quite a few great artists posting there, but definitely not of the quantity that CGhub had.

Everything else you're spot on.
>Didn't bother saving my favourite artists' pictures
I do hope it isn't actually down for good.

[Anonymous No.1701032]

>>1701018
>added something to his contract about not working for Manley.
That's awesome.

[Anonymous No.1701035]

>>1701032
its total bullshit too.How can people believe such incredibly stupid rumors.It's highly unethical and a career suicide to contract somebody especially a freelancer to NOT do work for somebody else...

[Anonymous No.1701040]

rumored to be ran / started by blur in la hollywood.

made by company from russia working out of la.

[Anonymous No.1701043]

>>1701035
not really you wouldn't sell to direct comp etc...

[anonymous No.1701136]

the owner of cghub is some dude andrew jones and manely went to ringling with, and some other dude that was a director at blur. here is the whois record for the dude.

Registrant:
Full Spectrum Digital
4205 Cahuenga Blvd. Apt. 210
Toluca Lake, California 91602
United States


Domain Name: CGHUB
Created on: 03-Nov-04


Administrative Contact:
Duncan, Ryan [e-mail]
Full Spectrum Digital
4205 Cahuenga Blvd. Apt. 210
Toluca Lake, California 91602
United States
3109851294

[Anonymous No.1701138]

>>1700496
Unlikely as fuck.

[Anonymous No.1701139]

>>1700735
The likelihood of this being Heartbleed related is slim to none.

[anonymous No.1701140]

here is his cghub link...if he had one.

my friend works at gnomon and told me today this guy is the owner. http://rduncan.cghub.com/

the whois record i pulled from the domaintools website. he also shows up as a graduate of ringling along with andrew jones in google search.

[anonymous No.1701141]

here is a direct link to one of the cghub domains that shows he is the owner. the cghub domain whois is hidden unless you have a membership on domain tools, but this should work for everyone. t

https://whois.domaintools.com/cghub.us

[Anonymous No.1701142]

the facebook page has been deleted. if it was heartbleed the facebook page would still be there.

[Anonymous No.1701150]

here is a link with more recent contact information

https://whois.domaintools.com/cghub.us

[Anonymous No.1701155]

Did anyone else get refunded their membership money?

[Anonymous No.1701156]

why is the cgh fb page gone? wha happened????

[Anonymous No.1701157]

>>1701156
Read the thread.

[Anonymous No.1701159]

Doesn't any of the officials of cg have twitter ? or any artist ? somebady care to check ?

[Dtective No.1701169]

found this.

[Anonymous No.1701171]

>>1701035
>1701035
I asked JM about that at the sf workshop years ago. He said that cgh made the developer promise to never work with massive black.

[Anonymous No.1701173]

>>1701169
>9
yeah they also said that cghub would be trendy on twitter today, so they know what is going down.

[Anonymous No.1701178]

>>1701157
I did read the post. heartbleed is not affecting facebook according to news reports. someone had to have gotten into cgh accounts and deleted everything. it is bs that they haven't made any announcement.

[Anonymous No.1701187]

Fuck cghub and fuck Ryan Duncan. I needed to get into my messages today to get a client email and #########!!!!

[Anonymous No.1701190]

Anyone ask the moderators what is going on? They have to know.

[Anonymous No.1701231]

>>1701035

>its total bullshit too.How can people believe such incredibly stupid rumors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause

[Anonymous No.1701233]

really sad to see this site go down. it was the best concept art / illustration gallery on the web.

[Anonymous No.1701236]

thankfully i post in many places, a sad day indeed years of posting in a sketchbook gone, almost as horrible as when ca.org went down...

[Anonymous No.1701245]

>>1701236
who the fuck are you ? gtfo.

[Anonymous No.1701246]

>>1701169
stay tuned for us anon. you have our thanks.

[Anonymous No.1701263]

>>1701245
probably a 100% better artist than you'll ever be even if you got 10 life times, cunt.

[Anonymous No.1701289]

>>1701263
>that sony projector
stop projecting

[Anonymous No.1701299]

>>1701263
-stabs him in the balls- i said BACK THE FUCK OFF?!

[Anonymous No.1701307]

>>1700697
Hopefully more artists will come to /ic/
This place is slow

[Anonymous No.1701328]

it is seriously unprofessional of cghub to not make any announcement about what is happening. What are they hiding?

[Anonymous No.1701369]

cghub still works for me i dont get it.

[Anonymous No.1701370]

its your cache. ctrl return.

[Anonymous No.1701432]

>>1701370
Thanks

[Anonymous No.1701462]

You know what, I'm kind of happy it's kill. I always wondered if I would miss the CGhub train as I did with ca.org etc., but now that it's dead I don't have to worry about that.
New possibilities.
Glad I actually saved stuff from there instead of favoritinng them though.

[Anonymous No.1701469]

>>1701462
You are stupid as shit if you don't understand why it's bad for everyone that pretty much no decent online art community exists anymore. At the very least, should you ever get good enough to be able to dabble into freelancing, you'll be sorely missing the job list board on cghub, which was amongst the best and most reputable you could find.

[Anonymous No.1701483]

So where's everyone moving to now? drawcrowd doesn't seem to be a good replacement.

[Anonymous No.1701495]

At first i thought it was a cordinated hack by jason manley since he vocally hates cghub.

Than i though maybe they were accuired by deviant art. the only website with that kind of dough.

Than i realized there servers and the company who built it was working out of Ukraine and as we know that location is under annexation so wonder if russkys had something to do with it.
i have heard they have taken down some web servers there as well as cable companies etc..

[Anonymous No.1701507]

>>1701469
You're stupid as shit if you don't realise that it's easier to just send your work to studios, and talk to other artists, art directors and clients like a human being instead of relying on a website to do it for you.

Be proactive not reactive.

[Anonymous No.1701513]

Any kind of speculation is premature. We'll have to wait for their announcement.

That being said, I'm sure Feng Zhu is behind this.

[Anonymous No.1701530]

>>1701507
>having options is bad

Yeah, networking is sure going to get easier if more art communities die out, you fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.1701535]

>This

i really don't see how a major if not the only universal site for artist suddenly vanishes.

[Anonymous No.1701554]

>>1701513

[Anonymous No.1701697]

it was definitely feng zhu. you know how the chinese are with hacking. he hacked doug chiang's style. LMAO. he must have hacked cghub.

[Anonymous No.1701701]

fuck drawcrowd. fuck cghub. fuck ryan douchelips.. long live /ic

[Anonymous No.1701713]

>>1701701
hi manley.

[Anonymous No.1701740]

>>1700741
It redirects me to my personal feed, so it seems it's gone.

[Anonymous No.1701742]

>>1701701
cghub dies and traffic on /ic/ doesnt increase the slightest, I did register on drawcrowd tho.

[Anonymous No.1701745]

>>1701483
CGsociety would be my guess.

[Anonymous No.1701755]

[Anonymous No.1701787]

So what's wrong with going back to conceptart.org?

[Anonymous No.1701795]

>>1701787
well anon kim jung manley communist dictator has tight control over said sight. he also exploits many artist and is essentially the epitome everything wrong with the world.

supporting that site is directly supporting him.

It is with great displeasure we have come to this point but there is no return. Unless someother fag or hopefully committe creates another site i think a majoity of commercial artist will stick to more generic forms of connecting such as facebook tumblr twitter instagram etc..

The problem with sights like CA/Crimson Daggers and Drawcrowd is they are ran and tied closely by the owners name as to profit ie. exploitation of the community for their own gain.

CGhub was more akin to deviant art where it had no visible direct owner unless you were trying really hard and even than the connections were a bit blurry.

[Anonymous No.1701800]

>>1701787
I'd love it if people did. Manley did some fucked up things but goddamn. Just stop giving him money. That community was fantastic. I'd understand jumping ship if there was a solid alternative but there isn't.

Ah I miss it. Place was on fire.

[Anonymous No.1701826]

>>1701800
what happened?

[Anonymous No.1701834]

>>1701826
He essentially closed all borders and controlled the press did unjustifiable stealing of artist profits and enslaved countless people and placed them in work camps. "many of which died." He than secured his borders of North ConceptArt.org and Split from Massive Black and Tad "South ConceptArt.org" during the conceptart.org civil war of 2009-2010 though there were skirmishes before this such as when Marko split.

He has made countless threats to other non hostile comunites and people such as cghub, MB, Tad, saying such things as " i will enihalate you" It will be as if you community never existed etc..

He is essentially a Nazi and Communist dictator of the entertainment and commercial art world.


Having said all this the appeal of the sight is at an all time high as it's still the best option vs Crimsondaggers etc..

I just want a place to take place in part of the community. I mean besides ic which is the only place i actually post.

[Anonymous No.1701836]

slim pickings.... (pic related)

would you anons donate to restart cghub????

Manley is the bomb, why so much hate all he did was say blizzards art sucks.....???

[Anonymous No.1701839]

>>1701836
where is this anon? just your local area or what.

[Anonymous No.1701844]

>>1701800
Honestly the thing that keeps me away from conceptart.org right now is not even Manley and his jewish business practices but how fucking convoluted and impractical the site has become. All this social network bullshit everywhere, those terrible new thumbnail layouts in the sketchbook section... You don't even see how many people currently browse what sub-section of the forums or who is online etc. Just terrible all around.

[Anonymous No.1701847]

>>1701844
I see your point but i actually think the design is an improvement at least compared to how it was a few months ago.

The thumbs aren't bad at all and i actually prefer it. easier to look at work before you click etc.. + the words are still there. much better for viewing images vs small thumb.


They need to cut about 60% of the main topic threads. No need to have so many fractions of subjects that are essentially the same.

Just hit it with a minimalism bat all around but that will never happen.

The popular thread feature is pretty cool and have seen it work well on previous forums.\

Get rid of the social share bar. no one needs that in 2014 we all no how to copy past links.

[Anonymous No.1701864]

i stay away from ca because the site loads so slow for me. no time to waste

[Anonymous No.1701902]

>>1701839
just a general search on a popular cg site

Apparently UBISOFT is doing a campaign drive with the aim of hiring 600 people over the next three years

the way ca.org was even 5 years ago was a million times better than this trend following shit....

pic unrealated

[Anonymous No.1701948]

>>1701902
yeah i keep hearing that. i used to lurk there back in 2010 ish but didn't start getting serious about art until late 2011 really. are you a working pro or just browsing options for the future?

[Anonymous No.1702081]

>>1701948
a bit of both..... tons of work in advertising at the moment......

[Anonymous No.1702109]

Hopefully cghub gets its shit sorted. Til then all you fuckers bitching look like the bunch of angsty cunts you are. Go draw.

[Anonymous No.1702196]

>>1702109
tips fedora

[Anonymous No.1702632]

Hey, I managed to change my host files and go in and manually save all my favorite favorites and compress them into a .zip. Would anyone be interested in them? That was my favorite site for finding awesome art... :(

But yeah I can put the file up on 4shared or something... i-if anyones interested..

[Anonymous No.1702633]

>>1702632
Yes please!

[Anonymous No.1702635]

>>1702633
Woot! Ok, i think its just under 200 pics, but ill try and get it up.

[Anonymous No.1702644]

>>1702635
>>1702633

Aww yiss. Let me know if it works

http://www.4shared.com/zip/I-Ux1F52ba/CGHug.html

[Anonymous No.1702807]

its still down randis

[Anonymous No.1702814]

>>1701836
I'd say he went downhill around the time he made a post explaining how he could have bought a Ferrari with the amount of time he maintained the site and a huge amount of butthurt over how many people were surfing the general forum.
TAD also turned into a shithole and Manley into an even bigger turd burglar.

Also shit like this
http://cryptcrawler.deviantart.com/journal/CA-Org-TAD-Are-Stealing-Artist-Royalties-357909498

[Anonymous No.1702843]

>>1702807
i don't even want to paint like this, but i took 1 look at my art and i just want to throw my computer away

[Anonymous No.1702850]

At least cghub took the korean invasion with it. No more halfanime girls on the front page...

[Anonymous No.1702858]

>>1700544
Almost every piece is in shade of blue and images seem to merge into each others.
They need a border...

[Anonymous No.1702873]

>>1702644
Thanks, works great!

[Anonymous No.1702882]

>>1702644
Why isn't the 20 seconds counting down/the website forcing me give them acces to fb/google+/etc,etc ?

[Anonymous No.1702889]

>>1702644
>cghug.exe
no thanks.

[Anonymous No.1702893]

>>1702850
I feel like a xenophobe but it really irked me how much uninspired over-rendered eastern art was on that site. Makes illustration feel like a cheap commodity.

[Anonymous No.1702906]

>>1702889
your loss broquina...

[Anonymous No.1702909]

>>1702873
Whew.
>>1702882
I honestly dont know what youre talking about, haha sorry. All I use the site for is transferring pics I take from my phone to my comp. But with this file I compressed it with winrar and then uploaded it and then hit 'share' and it just gave me a direct link.. everything else is on the site itself.

But yeah, there are about 200 images in there that I manually saved last night which took a good 2 hours. I didnts save a lot of some of the really amazing ones as they were by some really popular artists that you could find in multiple locations.. but whateva. Just enjoy!

[Anonymous No.1702913]

>>1702906
well...the file was a .zip and it should have been enough, I don't see how dowloading pictures require an .exe file.

also. never, never dowload an .exe file from 4chan, ever.

[Anonymous No.1702915]

I feel like cghub is taking a steaming stinking shite all over us and are hiding the truth about what is really going on. Complete bloody fucking bollocks all around. Get your head out of your arses you gormless cunts. CGH needs to give us some answers.

[Anonymous No.1702919]

>>1702644
care to make that into a simple zip file ?

[Anonymous No.1702923]

>>1702919
How do I do this? Sounds like the site I hosted it at is a pain in the bum. I tried copying the link in an incognito tab and it asked for the social network poop and the timer wouldnt count down. I have the file in a simple .zip, I just need a good way for peeps to DL it, how do I do dis?

[Anonymous No.1702925]

>>1702843

Randis is a phenomenal painter, but he's also got like 25 years of painting experience. Unless you're in that same weight category, no shit comparing your work to his is going to make yours look bad.

[Anonymous No.1702930]

>>1702923
>http://www.4shared.com/zip/I-Ux1F52ba/CGHug.html

that's already a zip file...I don't know, put all your picture in a zip file with Winrar, upload that zip file, profit.

[Anonymous No.1702987]

Damn. So much drama. Can't people just draw and live peacefuly?

[Anonymous No.1703057]

>>1702987
Werd.

Mothafukkas in here griping about the artists who make these sites we all use need to step up and do better if they are gonna run mouth like a bunch a ungrateful beyotches. I am sure none of the pros that make this shit happen love getting haxxed or dumped on but they all seem to keep at it anyway, which is good for me and good for all of us. It has to take some thick fukkin skin to put up with all this troll bullshit, especially when it costs these dudes serious benjamins to have these sites up in the first place. talk about bitin the hands that feed us. WTF.

I got a long way to go to get where Randis and some of u other badasses skillz are. i said my peace. Back to my sketchbook. I'm done here. Lates.

[Anonymous No.1703095]

>>1703057
later manley.

[Anonymous No.1703155]

>>1703057
cool if you're defending cghug, but if you're talking about CA then gtfo. I hate people doing art ONLY for profit.

[Anonymous No.1703195]

>>1702925
well when you put it that way... i keep thinking that the digital art that gets posted here is being made by 16-25 year olds. Every time someone posts a nice painting i think to myself. Oh great she's probably 16 and a beautiful girl like Charlie Bowater.

I don't get jelly I just sink in my chair...

[Anonymous No.1703197]

>>1703155
lol anon everyone is doing art for profit

i got bills, i want a nice car, i want a pool. And unfortunately My only abilities are drawing and painting. If I were smarter I'd go be an engineer, software developer or stockbroker like the rest of em.

[Anonymous No.1703418]

>>1702930
UPLOADED IT TO MEDIAFIRE

http://www.mediafire.com/download/goha0h5ddgzf9b7/CGHug.zip

Welcome, welcome

[Anonymous No.1703420]

>>1703155
i wasn't going to comment but you made me SMH. what are you talking about? cghub is a for profit business promoting commercial artists and commercial art almost exclusively. it sells banners and subscriptions. it makes companies pay to post jobs. wtf do you think the entertainment and concept art and illustration industries are? that ain't fine art for art's sake. so by your reasoning, guys like stephan martiniere, ryan church, feng zhu, or the thousand others doing commercial art are guys you hate? can't buy pencils, and a new wacom with rocks and garbage. takes cash for that. I would bet your parents pay for everything.

[Anonymous No.1703437]

Nothing wrong with making cash with art. Last I checked, being a starving artist sucks balls. All these sites gotta make money. I sold two paintings this year and got my new wacom and laptop. That's what it's all about.

Any word when cgh is coming back?

[Anonymous No.1703444]

>>1703197
well said. you are following your heart though. that is smarter than most of em in banking or the stock market who just follow the cash and end up miserable. plus nothing keeping you from investing later anyway. my mentor tells me to follow my heart and the money will come. art is just a long road

[Anonymous No.1703450]

>>1703437

It's never coming back, friend-anon. The light has gone out in the digital art world. Now is only Sonic fanart and amateur mangakas forever.

[Anonymous No.1703461]

No more CGHUB.

Sad day. Project CGHUB is officially closed.

The reason behind this extremely tough decision is personal and will remain private. It’s absolutely not connected with business or any kind of technical difficulties.
On behalf of development team I would like to apologize to CGHUB users and fans for abrupt project closure and delay with its announcement.
If you have any kind of questions please send them to [e-mail] . Can’t promise replies to everyone though. CGHUB wasn’t ideal, but we loved it SO MUCH! :*(

Team Shakuro

[Anonymous No.1703705]

>>1703461
Whoa..
Wut.

Damn.
I never even used the site but it is a sad day when a classic webternets closes down.