How feasible would it be for FDev to in the future provide some Official creativity templates and/or tools so that the more talented in the ED community can design and build some artwork and models for inclusion in-game? Not for me, I'm an awful artist! 
Designs are submitted via the forum (jpg), filtered (for breach of rules and/or lack of quality) by the community & mods, and chosen for inclusion every month via competition. Winning submitters receive prestige from the community via the newsletters for their excellent contributions, said designs* could be purchased by other CMDRs in the ED-store, and the submitters could possibly receive ED-store credit or similar based on their designs' sales.
There are a few CMDRs who want to have a chance to see their own artwork on ships, and there's certainly talent out there.
I assume FDev are using creativity tools to preview their designs; later down the line can we see cut down versions of these for the artists/modders to play with?
Design field suggestions:
Designs are submitted via the forum (jpg), filtered (for breach of rules and/or lack of quality) by the community & mods, and chosen for inclusion every month via competition. Winning submitters receive prestige from the community via the newsletters for their excellent contributions, said designs* could be purchased by other CMDRs in the ED-store, and the submitters could possibly receive ED-store credit or similar based on their designs' sales.
There are a few CMDRs who want to have a chance to see their own artwork on ships, and there's certainly talent out there.
I assume FDev are using creativity tools to preview their designs; later down the line can we see cut down versions of these for the artists/modders to play with?
Design field suggestions:
Artwork (via templates provided by FDev for each model?):
[*=1]Ship skins*
[*=1]Bobbleheads! (model required)*
[*=1]Ship dashboard skins*
[*=1]Station module skins
[*=1]Advertising board skins (not sure whether it'd be taken up, but hey)
Model (need to be very high detail; assuming professional software tools required?):
[*=1]Bobbleheads! (skin required)*
[*=1]Ships
[*=1]Station modules
[*=1]Ship wreckage
[*=1]Comets, asteroids & other space objects
[*=1]Weapons
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