DW IV - Mini #2 - 2D - War General Pet Portraits
War General Pet Portraits!
The rules are simple Artists are to render a single pet in a picture-framed 2d Illustration. No multiple creatures in one image and dont include any part of a master/owner in the image. Pets can be a dog, a small dragon, a multi-headed worm, a bear, a pet demon, an undead pixy, a small cute robot, basically anything that is smaller then a bear and can fit into a house. A pet giant robot is not what we are looking for. Pets can be from any time period, any race and any unnatural race (undead, demons, robots etc). Your pet must include your teams logo somewhere on his body or on his accessories. How you incorporate your teams logo into your entry, we leave this up to you.
You have 9 days (2 weekends plus 5 days) to finish with the following specs:
- Create a single illustration in full color.
- You can use any software package to achieve your final result.
- You MUST include a picture-frame in your final illustration.
Additional Notes:
- Artists cannot switch teams during challenges. If you were on Polycounts team in our first mini challenge or main event, you must remain on Polycount's team during this mini challenge.
- As always, entering a mini challenge is optional. It is not required.
- Posting your work in progress in this single thread is ABSOLUTLY MANDATORY.
- You can only submit ONE 1000x1000 (up to 1000x1000. Smaller dimensions are fine) 350k final image and this image must include your teams logo, your War General Pets name, and your personal name and/or contact details.
- Only 1 entry per person. Do not create or try to create multiple entries with different user names.
- Yes, entering both the 3d and 2d sections of this challenge is fine.
- Final submissions are final. If you upload your final image 4 days before the deadline, do not ask us to change it. Make sure you are happy with your image before you submit it into the system.
- Public voting starts June 3rd and ends June 7th. When public voting is over, each teams best entries are gathered together into a single pool and a grand mini champion will be chosen and announced with all other Dominance War IV event champions in mid June.
Start date: Friday May 22nd 2009 - 1:00am Eastern Time
End Date: Monday June 1st 2009 - 11:59pm Eastern Time
2D Submission link:
2d: http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/minis/join_polycount_2d.html
Good luck to all those who enter!
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Posting this for you guys I think your mods are sleeping hopefully they dont get mad. Feel free to edit this later on Jesse or Adam.
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oh gawd, dont know what to do!
Are we to show our work here and edit the post
in order to avoid messy thread?
First idea:
Little update on weasel pet:
Still very flat.
I've changed the colours a bit.
Have to add volumes and make it more
"Oil painting" looking. Never did that before.
I Wonder if I'm abble...
A fake flash light could be fun.
But wonder if the curator would appreciate
Thinking about going pirate on this one. I really love tarsiers, they're my favorite animal.
There is a lot of moves on other sites.
We're gonna be surrounded! And have to surrender :poly122:
A last update for the weasel. It seems that we can't
post final work yet. Anyway, I'll upload it later on
and wait for a while just in case I change my mind
about details. Let's 3d!
I like your tarsier pirate very much. Will keep an eye on it.
Be careful with its leg. Seems to be twisted in your last version.
Can't wait to see more.
I should be joining you guys as well. here is my quick wip for this one, will still be adding onrnaments for the creature.
cheers!
garagarape: I fixed the leg, all is well. I just need to post an update
Jeff MD: Nice! I like the dragon/fishy type thing you got going. Pillows are always a nice touch for a general pet. Interested to see how you add to it.
On a different note:
I looked around and it seems this 2nd Challenge isn't as popular as the first. I didn't count more than 75 2D challengers through all the forums combined... Lol, almost seem like if you submit you have a high chance of getting into the top 20 or even 10.
I hope I will have the time to finish this since I'm very busy these days
Framing isn't definitive.
Now we are four.
Go go go Polycount team!
Nice for you to join in too, funshark! go team polycount!
another update for me
cheers!
Quality over quantity! So not a lot of people entering 2D....but from what I see, we got the quality side down
(pssshh go for a squirrel!)
It doesn't seem to work yet (going to the #1 mini).
Is there something wrong about it or will it be fixed later on?
Thank you.
Wicked-J : You may want to tweak your colors ( especially the purple ) to match with each others. Maybe crop your pic on the both sides too. otherwise, nice start
I wonder if we need to hurry.
Still impossible to commit final work.
Hope you'll find time to finish it.
Over all I'm happy with this . Hope you guys like it...
I like the soft lights and colours,
the claw rips on the frame.
One vote for you
funshark - very fantasy-feeling! I like it, good job
Wicked-J - It turned out really nicely! He looks like Captain Jack Sparrow a little bit, if you ask me...
Jeff MD - Really like where this is going, hope you get it finished!
I seriously thought my entry "Swigg" http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/minis/uploaded_images/WarGeneralPetPortraits-2D-polycount_2d-WarGeneralPetPortraits-122-img_5b4641903.jpg had a chance, but i guess not... No thanks to this stupid rule
Rules State::poly127:
Remember the following notes from Mini Challenges page: "The amount of artists sent from each team is determined by the total amount of participants on each team. If a team has more then 20 participants, their best 3 artists move into the finals. For every 15 participants over 20 (4 at 35, 5 at 50, 6 at 65, 7 at 80, 8 at 95 etc) an additional artist moves into the finals.
Once the best participants from each team have been found [view the best from each team below], they will be judged by a panel of Dominance War IV Final Judges and the Mini Challenge World Champions will be revealed in June 2009."
Why is this "rule" even included in the competitions. Polycount and 3dTotal are being stripped from the possibility of a 2nd or 3rd place rank in the final 2d judging process because there weren't enough entries. "Not enough entries" WHAT? You need 20 entries to qualify for 3... Does anyone else find this to be stupid or is it just me thinking clearly here.
Obviously the real problem is to seperate the judging by forums, it's was bound to create these kind of tensions.
In the end I think these minis really have to be takeen as light-hearted forum vs forum challenges, and as a forum Polycount didn't do too well this time around, just through lack of participants.
Think of it this way if 20 people entered and only 3 had a good chance of winning, then those 3 good ones would take 1st, 2nd & 3rd right. But what if only 1 out of the three made it because only 19 entered, then you have two other quality entries that arn't even recognized in the competition. It doesn't make sense. They should just set it up as a "best" 3, 4 or 5 and those submitted move on to the finals.
All I know is Polycount could use the other two 2d entries to their advantage instead of just one. I'm just questioning something that doesn't click to me.