Stylized Animal Challenge - Oct 2007 - DINOSAUR (HERBIVORE) - VOTING

[miss.lynette]

Hello, it's Lynette from 2DArtist Magazine, here! This is to announce that the VOTING thread is now up and ready for your fantastic final entries to be posted!

Please post your Final Images in this thread!

800 or 1024 size is fine. Please post all entries before 8th November 2007 10:30AM GMT.

Only entries posted before this date in this 'Stylized Animal Challenge - Oct 2007 - DINOSAUR (HERBIVORE) - VOTING' thread, will be eligible for Voting.

Voting will then start immediately afterwards and will run until 15th November 2007 10:30AM GMT

I will post to commence the Voting. Voting will be the same as last month with each voter putting forward their top 3 in order, 3pts for a 1st place, 2 pts for 2nd and 1 for 3rd. This means that will have to choose carefully! Feel free to give a reason for your choice as it will be good feedback for all of you!

Thanks again for the enourmous amount of work you have all put in, as usual!:)

Best of luck!!


Lynette - 2DArtist/3DTotal

[ScaryPotato]

Mushroom-lovin' Stegosaurus

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k35/BigScaryPotato/ScaryPotato-StegoFinalSm.jpg

[grenogs]

dipl-O-docus
good luck everyone, its been fun :)

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x279/grenogs/dinodinkyjpg6.jpg

[Sawa]

:)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras2.jpg

[Linbar]

Stegoceras
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs20/f/2007/304/5/b/Stylized_Stegoceras_by_chengshuwan.jpg

[gnahz]

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s288/gnahzCA/dino5.jpg

[daveneale]

:scribble:

[Baron von Badan]

Iguanadon-thumbs-up!

[chennai creature]

stylized animal challenge final work

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p66/vijayamarnath/charecter%20designs/old003.jpg


my other works (www.vijayworks.blogspot.com)

[Nightblue]

Modern day dino?

[Chate Noire]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y131/chatenoire/Triceratops.jpg

[Kawin p.]

timidity Triceratops

[Paweu]

Barely made it :)
Diplodocus.

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa202/paweu/diplo_final.jpg

Good luck guys!

[Einen]

:canadian:

http://pici.se/pictures/pSUgAVgeU.jpg

[Warin-Zoo Mags]

wow! there are so many interesting concept and creativity and unique works this month!

I wish you best luck all, the voting time will start on 8th and run until 15th!

:))
WarinG

[ScaryPotato]

Einen, I hate you! I was feeling pretty good about my stegosaurus, and then you post that beautiful piece?!? Curses! The lighting on it is so lovely, great work indeed :)

[miss.lynette]

Good morning! :)

Just to announce that voting starts here and now!

Remember we're choosing our top 3 entries: 3pts for a 1st place, 2pts for 2nd, and 1 for 3rd!

Good luck everyone!! :)


Best wishes,
Lynette
www.2dartistmag.com

[Chate Noire]

1st - Einen, with the cutest Stego ever, wonderful expression, lighting and texture.
2nd - ScaryPotato, with the second cutest Stego =) I know this challenge is about the animal, but I just LOVE the background.
3rd - Paweu, mainly because of the crazy perspective and how well it works with the Diplo's expression, almost as if he's saying, "I'm, like, SO much higher than y'all".

Other favorites of mine are daveneale's and Sawa's, and I like the crazy under-the-influence look of grenogs' Dipl-O-docus.

[mumi]

am i late? (:
my dinosaur:
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/278/dino01zo9.jpg

[miss.lynette]

Hi mumi,

I'm afraid your entry was submitted too late. Thanks so much for taking part, but I'm afraid we'll be unable to vote for it due to its late entry - I'm very sorry.:(

Please don't forget to try your hand, or Wacom, at the Carnivore Dino comp which is currently running here in the CA forums: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=109633

Best wishes,

Lynette - 2DArtist Mag

[Baron von Badan]

what a pity!

[ScaryPotato]

Here are my votes:

1st - Einen...The lighting and colours blow me away!
2nd - Chate Noire...I really like the ho-hum feeling of the whole piece, and the smoothness of the colouring stands out for me too.
3rd - grenogs...The super-saturated colours are awesome, your guy reminds me of a kids toy with his pose and out of this world colour scheme.

Okay, so I am about two days late writing up this stuff, better late than never though, right?!

grenogs - Zany pattern and wild colours. My first thought is it would look great in a kid's story book. Anatomy is stiff, but it makes it look like a toy, and I like the effect.

sawa - I can't remember the name of your guy, but he looks like a very old and worn out on for sure! Overall it's very good, but I'd like it more if there was more texture on his skin.

Lindbar - Another head-butter! I like the interaction between him and the border, the pose could be pushed a bit further though. Having the foot not face us directly would help it read a little better, but a nice character nonetheless:)

gnahz - I think you could do a few little things on yours to spruce him up - he seems a bit out of it now! His body needs somekind of texture or patterns, and his eyes would really liven up with a more lively expression. Those plates on his back look like flower petals to me, but it is kind of nice that way actually.

daveneale - Textures are lovely, and the pose is very unique/cool. His face though might be a bit too unique, bordering on Picasso! I do really love the style, but the extreme stylized head doesn't seem a perfect fit for the more standard looking body.

Baron von Badan - Your bucktooth iguanodon is a good friendly concept, but is too sketchy in my opinion. A little more time fleshing out the anatomy would help this eager dino out!

chennai creature - I really like how you paint, but it's tough getting an immediate sense of the type of dino you have there...you seem to have a thing for really big teeth, heheh! If you tried over-exaggerating the most distinct features of a particular animal it will have an instant improvement I think.

Nightblue - Very nice take on a modern day dino! I don't particularly like how it is SO cow-y, but the textures and especially the look to the eyes are wonderful!

chate noire - I just noticed the fine texturing on your dino as I write this up! Very subtle work there...the dreary and sad mood is captured well, and I lve how you put your colours together. I'd like to have seen him tied into the background a bit more (that part looks unfinished?), and his back foot looks a bit twisted compared to his knee, but your clean style is very appealing to the eye!

Kawin p. - Good playfulness in your entry, he doesn't look scared of the bug so much as happy to be playing with it. You should erase a bit of the line closing his tail off from his butt at the top to make it look attached to his body. The style is nice and cartoony, try breaking body shapes down separately (spheres, cylinders, cones etc) rather than drawing the outline of the guy. With practice it will help out quite a bit:)

Paweu - Your pieces are getting better and better! Very polished dino, with nice textures and veins....woul like more facial expression in him, but still, each of your drawings is better than the last!

Einen - What can I say? This takes the cake for me. Wonderful colours and lighting...such a nice expression! A happy stego is a good stego. I just wonder what he's supposed to be looking at ;)

It's too bad there weren't more entries, there were a lot of sketches earlier on that I was hoping to see put up finished in here. A good round this month though...now I'll see you all in the carnivorous dino contest!

[Hopsy]

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s118/Hopsypeti/Stylized_2007oct_Dino_Hopsy_final.jpg

[Hopsy]

Hello,

Sorry, I had missed the deadline. I thought that not in the morning but 10.30 in the evening.
Good luck to everyone.
:-((
Hopsy

[miss.lynette]

sorry hopsy.:(

[mumi]

1st Linbar
2nd ScaryPotato
3rd Chate Noire

[Turps]

1. Sawa
2. grenogs
3. Linbar

[tom-3dt]

Hi All,

Loved looking through the entries :) Here's my favourites

1. Nightblue
2. Einen
3. Scary Potato

Thanks!

Tom

[Baron von Badan]

1st - Nightblue
2nd - Einen
3rd - grenogs

[daveneale]

1st Einen
2nd Scarypotato
3rd Linbar

[Sawa]

1st Linbar
2nd Einen
3rd ChateNoire

[grenogs]

1. paweu
2. einen
3. sawa

[Einen]

1. daveneale
2. ScaryPotato
3. Chate Noire

I'll add some comments later this evening. :)

[Paweu]

My votes:

1st - Einen
2nd - Chate Noire
3rd - daveneale

And some comments:

ScaryPotato - Great picture, the background is incredible. The only complaint with your stegosaurus is that his texture seems a little blurry and he looks a bit like he was cut out and pasted here. But overall the picture is amazing!

grenogs - Very dreamy :) The colors hurt my eyes a little ;) I love the details, like the green reflecting on the bottom of your dino (I think you could add a little of that to the feet). Very nice job with the sky!

Sawa - Nice textures and lighting, I especially love the eye! Great job with the line thickness. There is only a little problem with the tail - the texture looks great but the perspective is off a bit and the light is reflecting on the wrong side.

Linbar - Hahaha, very funny! Nice painting, I like how you handled the skin. The right foot could be a little bigger - it seems smaller than the left, and with the shadow it's casting on the body the whole leg seems too short.

gnazh - Nice picture, very cheerful colors. Your dino has a lot of personality, always makes me smile :)

daveneale - The quality of your pictures is always superb and this one is no different! You always take the stylization to the extremes, but this time it works really well - although his head is a little disturbing :) But he's so cute in that pose, and the lighting and texture are simply amazing. And the footprints add a great touch. You're always very inspiring!

Baron von Badan - Nice paintery look and nice job with the lighting, it adds depth to the picture. You could try to make the colour of the background a little different to make your guy stand out more and spend some more time working on his anatomy.

chennai creature - nice and funny picture. You could use some blacks or more contrast in the foreground, because it looks a little washed-out. But great entry!

Nightblue - very impressive painting, and great idea :) Too bad we only vote for three pictures.

Chate Noire - beautiful dino! I love the colors and the cartoonish style, but most of all the expression and the pose. Incredible!

Kawin P. - funny one! Nice facial expression. You could define the lines more, add some thickness in the shades. Great job with the roach :)

Einen - The best picture this month. Period.


Hopsy, mumi - Too bad you guys didn't make it on time. Especially Hopsy, definitely voting material you've got there. And mumi - it's always nice to have some vectors around here :)

[miss.lynette]

helloo,

i nearly forgot to vote - eek!

ok, here we go... tough decisions again this month - i wish we could have 5 winners! :(

1 - daveneale
2 - einen
3 - paweu

thanks everyone! another great competition!!

remember: voting ends at 10.30 AM on 16th November! hurry if you haven't yet voted!

Lynette - 2DArtist

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1st Einen
2nd Grenogs
3rd Nightblue

[Kawin p.]

my vote
1.Einen
2.Scary Potato
3.Linbar

[miss.lynette]

hi guys! voting time has now come to an end! I will be back shortly with the results! good luck everyone.:)

[miss.lynette]

hi everyone, sorry for the long delay! here are the results from this month's challenge:

1: Einen
2: Scarypotato
3: Linbar

Congratulations guys! Can you email me ASAP so we can discuss the Making Of details and get your prizes sent out to you?:) Please email to lynette@3dtotal.com :)

4: Daveneale
4: Chate Noire
4: Nightblue
5: Grenogs
6: Paweu
7: Sawa

Congratulations everyone! If you'd like your contact email address or a website to be featured with an image of your entry in the next issue of 3DCreative Magazine, please email me with:

your ConceptArt name
your real name
your email address
your website

You'll all be entitled to receive a download link for the next issue of 2DArtist magazine, so if you guys can all send me your email addresses that would be fantastic!:)

thanks so much and see you in the Carnivore thread ;)

[ScaryPotato]

Congratulations Einen with your fine looking stegosaurus:)
I'm thinking that this round was a really tight one with all the different votes being cast from everyone, exciting stuff!

[Linbar]

I got 3rd!! Thanks everyone! :^^:
Congratulations to Einen and Scarypotato!

thanks Paweu and ScaryPotato for the comments :)

[Einen]

Great challenge ScaryPotato, Linbar, and all you other guys as well. :) Thanks for the votes and all the kind words!

Now let me see y'all do your best in the next round as well, ya hear? ;)