The Graphics Wars

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The Graphic Wars
Contest Ends: October 1st​

Wait, what?

The Graphics War, each soldier will build themselves an army to fight for them! Then your armies will fight it out until just one Army remains standing, but how do you know your army is winning? Support, the army with the highest support has the most troops and will claim victory in the name of their lord.

I still don’t get it…


Well then, let’s cut to the chase. This is a contest. The idea is that each contestant must submit only one of each of the following:

~ 1 Signature (300 – 400 pixels wide, 100 – 150 pixels tall)
AmazingSpiderman3.png
~ 1 Side Bar (100 – 150 pixels wide, 300 – 400 pixels tall)
LadyLuck.png
~ 1 User Bar (350 pixels wide, 19 pixels tall)
FinalFantasycopy-1.jpg
~ 1 Avatars (100 pixels square)
PandarenAvatar.jpg
~ 1 Large Piece (400 – 700 pixels wide, 400 – 700 pixels tall)
IronColossus1.png

Yes, you must submit five pieces of work. (All examples were created by me)

The Catch!

They must all follow one theme, they need to fit together, no, not like a puzzle, I am talking about one thing in it unifies all the pieces. Maybe they all use characters from (insert generic anime no one actually cares about here) or maybe they are all about outer space, or cats, or maybe they all only use blue and purple colours.

The Rules!

~ You may only submit one package.
~ You can change your submissions up to a day before the contest ends
~ You may put your name or a symbol that can identify you on your work
~ Custom brushes are allowed
~ Custom fonts are allowed
~ C4Ds are allowed
~ You may use any Renders you wish to
~ You are not allowed to show your work before the deadline, you are encouraged to! Post your work and get feed back on how to improve! Be warned! Other contestants may lie about what looks good and what doesn’t! Nothing wrong with that, this is a war, you want to get the upper hand in things.
~ State the theme you aimed for when submitting your work, the clearer the better
~ When submitting post in this thread, the submitting outline is below
~ You must follow the size limitations posted above
~ When you post your work for this contest please state that it is for this contest for the judges to avoid

Submissions


Theme:

Signature: (Talk about it here, the effects done and how it fits with the theme)

(The Graphic)

Side Bar: (Talk about it here, the effects done and how it fits with the theme)

(The Graphic)

User Bar: (Talk about it here, the effects done and how it fits with the theme)

(The Graphic)

Avatar: (Talk about it here, the effects done and how it fits with the theme)

(The Graphic)

Large Piece: (Talk about it here, the effects done and how it fits with the theme)

(The Graphic)

Order in the Graphics Zone!

High Judge:
Pineapple
Judge: BattleMapsta
Judge: Sil3nt

Appeal (50)

Looking at each piece individually, how do they look? Do we want to look at it all day or does it make use feel like how we feel when we swallow a toothpick on fire covered in parrots?

Signature: X/10
Side Bar: X/10
User Bar: X/5
Avatar: X/5
Large Piece: X/20

Effects (50)

Are your effects overpowering, are there too many of them? Like in a strange bondage orgy fantasy or is there nothing there? Such as the case some girls have probably told you.

Signature: X/10
Side Bar: X/10
Avatar: X/5
Large Piece: X/25
Note: Due to the nature of User Bars it has been removed from this category​

Theme (100)

Does the theme you chose shine through each piece you made or are they all different from each other? Did you make 5 various styles of tacos or did you make 2 tacos and 3 nachos?

Signature: X/20
Side Bar: X/20
User Bar: X/10
Avatar: X/10
Large Piece: X/40

Max score Possible: 200
Minimum Score possible: -200
 

esb

Because none of us are as cruel as all of us.
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This looks really cool! I would join but I don't thinik I have time with school starting next monday... >_<

No Deadline yet?
 

Pineapple

Just Smile.
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This looks really cool! I would join but I don't thinik I have time with school starting next monday... >_<

No Deadline yet?

Not yet. It will probably be atleast 1 month+ I have yet to decide.
 

Rhymer

You can change this now in User CP.
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Sounds cool. I'm in, even though I made my first sig yesterday :D
 

BANANAMAN

Resident Star Battle Expert.
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Hmm interesting. Ima see if i can schedule some time for this contest.
 

Sil3nt

SUP?
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They must all follow one theme, they need to fit together, no, not like a puzzle, I am talking about one thing in it unifies all the pieces. Maybe they all use characters from (insert generic anime no one actually cares about here) or maybe they are all about outer space, or cats, or maybe they all only use blue and purple colours.

What if all of them use stocks, or all of them are sprites. Are there specific limits to this rule? I would understand the relation if they were all sprites but what if the relation is simply all use C4D's or Renders? I'm guessing you would just ask/pm but I'm just getting this out there
 

Knight7770

Hippopotomonstrosesquiped aliophobia
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~ You are not allowed to show your work before the deadline, you are encouraged to!
Is that a typo, or am I just totally misunderstanding this rule? It seems contradictory. :confused:
 

Sil3nt

SUP?
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I think it was a attempt at humour, I was like wtf? when I read that too. I'm guessing you are encouraged to show your work.
 

duyen

New Member
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I think it was a attempt at humour, I was like wtf? when I read that too. I'm guessing you are encouraged to show your work.

Yeah I think Pineapple was trying to do something like "I don't like it, I LOVE IT!" but failed miserably.
 

Pineapple

Just Smile.
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It was a play on the Sig contests where you cannot show your work :p

Silent:

Let them do that, they will lose big time on Theme category, and thats half there grade.
 

esb

Because none of us are as cruel as all of us.
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I'm not quite clear on the theme. What's better, 5 tacos or 2 tacos and 3 nachos? And it's a serious question >_<

Also, what are the requirements for a judge.
 

undeadorcjerk

The Ulitimate TheHelper.net Lurker
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1+ monthes... hell. If I joined, I would procrastinate the hell out of this. Fuck it.

I

AM

IN.
 

Jedimindtrixxx

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i can judge!
 

Sil3nt

SUP?
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I'm not quite clear on the theme. What's better, 5 tacos or 2 tacos and 3 nachos? And it's a serious question >_<

The 5 tacos are better. It's better to have the complete set of all 4 ninja turtles than 3 turtles and a barbie doll.

+I think userbars don't contribute much and should be taken out. They are very easily made and the small sizes don't give you much space to showcase your abilities. Meaning they will probably look similar to each other.

Also

The Graphics War, each soldier will build themselves an army to fight for them! Then your armies will fight it out until just one Army remains standing, but how do you know your army is winning? Support, the army with the highest support has the most troops and will claim victory in the name of their lord.

Are your effects overpowering, are there too many of them? Like in a strange bondage orgy fantasy or is there nothing there? Such as the case some girls have probably told you.

Also
I think Appeal should be removed and replaced with Originality and Technique (T > O). I've seen some very unique looking works but the person just didn't do well in executing it.

Also

I sent you a pm =D
 

Jedimindtrixxx

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so..... can i judge? please? pretty please? PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE WITH CHERRIES ON TOP?

damnit whens pineapple gonna get on!

EDIT: and who cares about spelling -.-" lmao
 

undeadorcjerk

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so..... can i judge? please? pretty please? PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE WITH CHERRIES ON TOP?

damnit whens pineapple gonna get on!

EDIT: and who cares about spelling -.-" lmao

Dude. Wait more then two hours for a response. I highly doubt you'll be picked as a judge. Pineapple will probably want someone reliable that has been around for awhile. Its nothing personally against you.
 

Battlemapsta

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If I were given a chance, I might participate to judge. I got good judgement in art and I can judge quite well; but not from a technical view point. I'm not too good in making the art but I am good in judging it basically :p
 

esb

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Well nachos and tacos are someone related, as tacos and barbies aren't, so I'd still like for Pineapple to answer this :p.

I think userbars don't contribute much and should be taken out. They are very easily made and the small sizes don't give you much space to showcase your abilities. Meaning they will probably look similar to each other.

I think userbars are great, for the reason you posted. It's a chance to make something unique, yet something simple. As in, a userbar has certain 'guidelines', but the participants would need to still make it somehow different from the others.
 
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