Quote: The following criteria determine the inclusion of artwork in the
Elite Gallery:
Completed artwork which shows no immediately apparent or significant technical or compositional weaknesses.
Artwork that demonstrate thoughtful incorporation of a variety of techniques, proper placement of focal point, balanced
composition, and expression of concepts or emotions.
Proper descriptions must be included for consideration for inclusion in the Elite Gallery. Proper descriptions should
generally include: number of layers, brushes/effects/techniques used, links to scans or stock images in the submission,
proper credit to members for scans/scan websites/vectors, collaborating artists if relevant, difficulties and obstacles
encountered in creating the artwork, time spent, and the artist's personal judgment on how effectively the piece
achieve the original concepts.
From http://support.minitokyo.net/policy/
Note that once an item is in the Elite gallery, it might not stay there.
If you feel something should be in the elite gallery when it's not, or shouldn't be in the elite gallery when
it is, simply report the item so we can move it, providing us a (one or more) reason(s)
to move it.
Note that the section I copied and pasted from the policy does not mention anything about originality: it's the
concept and quality (execution) that matters. Originality in an item is a bonus- but it's no use having something
original, but poorly executed in the elite gallery.
If you ask me, my personal definition of an elite gallery item is something worth
downloading- it should be pretty balanced in all aspects and be a good quality image :)