Last Man Standing 3 - ROUND 1 / Matches 1-24

[strych9ine]

Last Man Standing 3 - Round 1 / Matches 1-24

Polish up that hefty set of brass balls, ladies and gentlemen, because they're about to be plucked out of your pink little hands by the freshest crop of entrants. Out of pure masochistic pleasure and a loathing for spending my free time wisely, Last Man Standing lives on through year 3 in what promises to be its most massive cycle yet.

A planned 360 contenders (not counting pussouts) over 4 rounds. 456 new pieces of artwork. 1 winner. And not one 1-on-1 battle. Shit is going to get intense.

The complete listing of LMS3 Round One matches can be found here:
http://www.lastmanart.com/lms3/round01


Topic: Underneath It All

The topic, as always, is completely open to interpretation, allowing for you to visualize your concept through any subject matter you deem fit. This is an illustration-based contest, and you will be expected to turn in a completed piece that stands on its own without the aid of a description. Both traditional and digital mediums can be used, but the majority of your piece must be painted/drawn with little use of photography and 3D modeling.


Round Breakdown (links to discussion threads):
Round 1 (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1534573) - 360 competitors in 72 matches of 5 / 72 advance
Round 2 - 72 competitors in 18 matches of 4 / 18 advance
Round 3 - 18 competitors in 6 matches of 3 / 6 advance
Final Round - 6 men enter, one man leaves...


Judging: Every round will be judged by an incredibly talented group of judges... the list is still being finalized, but it will be a relatively static panel throughout the competition. Each piece will be judged based on technical execution, creativity in the interpretation of the topic, and overall impact. All judges decisions are final. No whining!

Judging Panel:
Aleksi Briclot
Rob Carney
Brian Despain
Dan Dos Santos
Irene Gallo
Jon Foster
Gregory Manchess
JS Rossbach


Important note about the thread layout:
There is one match in every post. The entries correspond as follows:

User1 vs User2 vs User3

Image1 is User1
Image2 is User2
Image3 is User3

Users listed in White have PUSSED OUT.


That about does it for the intro. On to matches 1-24 of the 3rd Last Man Standing thunderdome.

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FallenDamage
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HP


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[strych9ine]

If you do not see you entry that you submitted or I put your piece under someone else's name, pm me and let me know. Other than that, enjoy the show.

[Saturns Gate]

Niiiiiiiice! :D

[S.C. Watson]

Score - Cody, awesome work man.

My pic looks a little washed out though... :/ aw well. It's in. That's all that counts :)

Thanks to everyone in Match 12 for sticking through it!

Best of luck to everyone!

~Oreg.

[Beelow]

God dammit my guys kicked ass! I am not going to sleep well tonight.

[Burtzum]

Jessibean! What the hell? We've got some sort of mind-link going on or something. Creepy.

[Jason Rainville]

The secret's out. PatriciaS likes tentacles :D

Amaaaaaazing

[Ilaekae]

Cody, no matter what I do, I can't get anything after Match 12 (except for one or two pieces) to show. Is this a problem with anyone else?

[arttorney]

You guys are good, inside of my match and out. No safe harbor in Last Man Standing. Well done.

I'm not having that image problem, though loads are glacially slow.

[Xpose]

Well I got smoked! eh at least I didn't puss out. Still learned a bunch. Thanks Cody again!

[voraz]

Great stuff. There has been quite some surprises, fantastic work from some people I didn't know!!!

[Alday.J]

Congrats everybody, I scroll down and see goodies after goodies. Good luck to Match N°5 boys and a special thanks to Cody for take the whole thing on his shoulders. Great, great event.

[Dougbot]

Wow, great stuff! Easily the best first round I've seen in the LMS competitions. I lost my round, everyone turned in great entries. Beelow's was cool, I like anything sci-fi, Burtzman's was simply beautiful, and hats of to stevekim! Fuck man, that piece is awesome! At least I'll come in before Coits...because they didn't hand anything in.

Great work by all.

[zephyri]

Wow, some seriously awesome pieces of art in here! First impressions, Jessibean, Faxtar, Tom Garden, HP, Bluefooted and Yumiko, all amazing pieces., but congrats to all who finished!

[smugbug]

Cody, you're fookin' gorgeous! Seriously, thanks a mills for taking this task up.

And amazing works everyone who didn't puss out! And to all in Match 21 - you guys rawk! This was totally worth the effort for me - even after not making it to R2, it'll still be worth it!

[Jessica Hook]

Cody, no matter what I do, I can't get anything after Match 12 (except for one or two pieces) to show. Is this a problem with anyone else?
I think maybe it's a bandwidth issue? Because I can see like half of the entries at a time, then I refresh (which is taking forever), and I see a different set of entries... while some of my co-workers seem to load the pics just fine.... so I don't know what that means :)

Wow excellent turnout all around! Congrats to everyone who turned in a piece. More and more smiles (each time I refresh :p)

[Ilaekae]

I think you're right, Yumiko. I just keep emptying the cache and hitting reload and everything comes up after about 20 tries.

[strych9ine]

FYI, I forgot to add reservist Plate to Match 9 like I initially intended, so yeah. He's there now.

[davi]

just wanted to give props to: icon burtzum Rusty metalpiss romance HP Stokes fedezz trevor bluefooted nephilim Hurricane Vorace Helzon, truely stunning pieces.

and big props to strych9ine/cody for putting this all together!

[Pau1Winslow]

Makes me cringe to think what a stupid idea it was to keep pushing the deadline and not even get to finish my image, but I reeeally didn't wanna puss out :) I was really looking forward to coro's entry, I'm sure he said he was done with it ages ago in that revelations live feed with oblio?

There's some really kick ass entries here, btw. Congrats all round.

[Kian]

Excellent work!
Dave, alxcote - Dudes, you kill me till i'm dead!
Well done

[mirskov]

Boom!! Congrats to everyone who finished! Really awesome entries.

MATCH 15 : great fight guys. Fedezz - i love yours !! <3 , Xia- dang brother!!! Awesome!!

[Alday.J]

It's even better at second look.

Jake, Icon, Dougbot... And everybody in match 3, in fact...

m@, JL.Alfaro, Rusty, Manu Is MAlin, Green Topaz, Oregano and Chris Noeth, Fedezz, Trevor, Bluefooted, Nephilim, coreykoalakiller, Björn...

Ilakae [is that all vectors ?], MWIllustration, Main Loop, Vorace, Helzon, Kian, Alxcote... And Yumiko [it seems to me you tried another approach. Something in the way you painted it, maybe that's just me.]...

You guys and gals just ROCK ! :)
No really, congrats, peeps.

[Faxtar]

Congrats to everyone, some really amazing stuff. My hand is getting tired from having to "Save-image-as..." so much.

[Victor B]

congrats to all who turned in an entry, special thanks to Strych9ine for organizing all this madness.It was a priveledge to even be in round 1 , to everyone in match 10 kudos, Faxtar I belive you took match 10.

[viag]

great work everyone , this is madness ! No this is CA !:anime:

[Dian3]

Congrats to everyone, some really amazing stuff. My hand is getting tired from having to "Save-image-as..." so much.

ahaha me too.

[shadoman]

Holy God!!! Nice show folks, nice show. Congrats to everyone who entered and those who move on.

[mwillustration]

wow, soooo many great pieces!
this is seriously gonna be a bear to judge.
there are so many matches that have more than one really great piece.

great job to everyone in match 21 with me!
and great job cody for putting this all together of course.

[lyon]

Cody - Thanks for putting this together. What a blast to participate and to see all the other entries. There is some fantastic work out there.

Too many highlights to pick them all out. Shelly W. and Jason C., especially loved 'em. Matt Dixon, way fun man. Xaya, don't know your work yet, but I really like you painting! Very nice. Zephyri... powerful painting! Steak-tron, love how you have used the lighting in yours. It is like some vaccum formed bas relief or something. Cool stuff man. Dave Palumbo, that is way fun. Made me laugh out loud, the guy's face is perfect. robogabo... dang Tucson brother, nice painting.

Tons of great work in here. I need to comment on many more. Too many nice paintings! I can't wait to see what you all do in the next round. Those in match 13 good luck and great work!

[Vorace]

My 1 gig/month bandwidth limit just exploded ... but it was totally worth it!


Wow...just wow so much amazing entries

Cant name all the ones I loved...too much hehe

[stevenderose]

Great job to all the people in each of the three threads.

[rpace]

This was truly a great effort all around. So much beautiful work that it doesn't sting in the least knowing I won't be in round 2!

Cody, thanks for all the work, too.

~Richard

[Jason Snair]

Match 7...way to step up. That's gonna be a hard one to choose.

[ArtByZak]

Yes, a lot of great stuff. This is my first LMS, so I was wondering something:

To the judges, how do you weigh a person's technique vs. staying on topic? If one entry really screams "underneath it all" but is rendered in a simple style, and another is a visually stunning piece of artwork, but has nothing to do with the topic, who would win?

If this were a job assignment, I would think producing a work that stayed on topic would be of more use to an art director than something that was beautiful but off topic.

I would hate to have to judge this. There were too many pieces I just didn't understand. I'd stare at the piece, and try to figure how it fit the topic. How the essence of the image related to our assignment. Sometimes I'd get it, sometimes I'd just scroll down to the next image.

Regardless, I can see some people really spent a lot time on this, which is good.

I would like to see, if possible, the stand-in's names written in a different color or something, so I can know who came through to pick up the slack of a puss-out, and maybe that puss-out's name in parentheses behind it, so we can know who let us all down.

[ConceptCreature]

Man, it's amazing how some matches had FIVE completely solid artists!! It'd be one thing if there were three mediocres and one or two that stand out, but there were a few matches that, if I was one of those amazing artists (which turned out I wasn't) I'd be pretty heart-broken having such stiff competition.

[Sept13]

Nice! It's going to be one tough competition, thanks everyone!

[Sorknes]

Well.... I'll just....

*opens inspirations folder..... saves.... saves.... saves.... saves.....*


Nice work, everyone! Some darn good pieces and really good ideas there! :D

[hurricane]

wow, they are all great!!!
Thank you for those (2) that stuck with it and kept the fight going!! Ilaekae
and arttorney, great job!!!! :lifedrawing:

the rest of your crazy people, awesome job!!!

i hope i get to round 2 !

cheers and thanks Cody for a great job arranging it all

[Diphallia]

great work everyone , this is madness ! No this is CA !:anime:

THIS IS CA (http://www.ca.org/)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ikuru]

:ilaekae: This is really Spartha! :mod:
Again thanks to you Cody dude, fer making it all happen!
And 2 everyone fer putting up a Insane fight!

My top Personal fav, this first matches.. GreenTopaz (love ur stuff) Sept13 (wtf!? :D crazy concept! ;)) but really all of you!
my mind is blown away...

[Gulzaar]

wow xia, you handed my ass down to me badly haha, oh well. Some real nice entries, shame about the amount of puss outs. Just wish there were more in my match :D

[Summer Pudding]

icon, stevekim, m@, e-beef, young paddy1, bluefooted, pau1winslow, kian, alxcote, and Main Loop, thanks a million

Pete

[Rusty]

welldone fellas, you all deserve a wank!

...Jase

[nobody_knows]

I sent e-beef's wrong file by mistake and instead delivered the version previous to the actual final. I just wanted to show the real version if I hadn't fucked up. I know its too late but I just wanted to share.

[Mitze]

So many great pics cannot even begin to name them. Everytime i look over the threads i find a new favourite i missed.

For the guys in my round 14 or 15 i knew i was going to get beat i just hoped it was'nt going to be as bad as it was.
Good luck

[Ilaekae]

First impressions...Great job, Everybody!

I'm thankful that round 20 held its own with two great entries from Hurricane and Arttorney, and that I didn't embarrass myself as much as usual, but wish we hadn't had two pussouts.

And Cody...if there is an award of some kind somewhere in the universe that is appropriate for the amazing amount of work you put into this event, I'll find the bastard and ship it to you. Sir, I bow before your greatness.

One thing I am impressed by is the range of approaches taken to solving this competition. People seem to be more open to experimenting a bit more than they usually do, and that;s a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

All of you who came through and submitted...I suggest you stand and take a bow. The applause you hear is for you.

[Carnifex]

curse you,competitors! awesome job :D
artbyzak,i think most didn't go with this kindof picture because of the (suggested) size restriction. :)

props to everyone.

[Kan Muftić]

Hey Björn,
Yours turned out really well, brother!

[Tony Shasteen]

Great work everyone! I'm really impressed by all the amazing pieces here. It's both inspiring and intimidating.

-Tony

[xia]

It's been ages!
Thanks Cody Again for everything.

Great job Everyone who didn't pussed out!
Many great pieces to mention!

Match 15!!!!! I am so proud of you brothers!!! mirskov, fedezz, mitze, and gul for sticking up ALL the way thru and finish the job!!!
GREAT WORK GUYS!!!

Peace!!!
:)

[amer-nazri]

mindblowing! all a yal!

[strych9ine]

One error on my part:

Klara's piece in match 17 managed to slip through the cracks and I managed not to post it up. No pussout for her! Sorry Klara, it's up now.

[Serpian]

aaaaaauyyyaauurrgnngghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta keep my head unexploded for the other two threads though...

[MattGamer]

good jorb everyone. wehoooo

[JessiBean]

Holy goodness... I don't know if I've absorbed it all yet, will take a couple more days. BRILLIANT work in here and the other 2 threads... Burtzum: Seriously! WTH? Great minds...?

Plus, LOTS of :heart: :heart: :heart: for Cody, you awesome thing, you!

[Beelow]

Wow, great stuff! Easily the best first round I've seen in the LMS competitions. I lost my round, everyone turned in great entries. Beelow's was cool, I like anything sci-fi, Burtzman's was simply beautiful, and hats of to stevekim! Fuck man, that piece is awesome! At least I'll come in before Coits...because they didn't hand anything in.

Great work by all.

Shut up. Your entry was and is still badass. Kim and Burtzum kicked ass. I should be the one that is worried. I am dead. :xpld:

[Mr. Visions]

Jessibean! What the hell? We've got some sort of mind-link going on or something. Creepy.

I think we all do, haha - Congrads to my VCU peeps, you guys rocked socks. Best of luck to both of you.

[Burtzum]

I think we all do, haha

hot damn we should start a people-floatin-about-in-water-themed show.

[ChaoticKnight]

To match 14, AKA InvincibleWombat, Stokes, Chupacabra, and Nisse-Bula:
Holy crap.
I can't believe how much ass you guys kick. Congrats for not fallin out and awesome pieces!! Nisse-Bula where the hell did you come from? I couldn't find examples of your work anywhere! :D

And to everyone else, amazing work...
I also have a folder of my faves that is well above 50 pieces. A few of my absolute faves include ProstateSunrise, Icon, sept13, Rambozo, DavePalumbo and Pan. But in general everyone's work is so amazing its painful xP.

[Shelly Wan]

:medusachow: i love how many aquatic scenes there are in this competition~ i love so many of the entries, and i am amazed at how many CAers i never heard of turn in such stunning works~~ Good luck everybody!

[alxcote]

No pussies in our match! Nice work everyone.

[ArtByZak]

Hey, Carnifex, I kept within the restrictions: less than 1000 pixels across and under 500kb. My image was only 500 pixels across, and 481k or so.

I wish I could have made it even bigger, because it lost soooooooo much detail when I shrunk it down. If I'm fortunate enough to move on to round 2, I'll probably do something a lot simpler. This piece took so long to finish.

[Alday.J]

Chingwa, I just saw your entry again and then realised that you made an adaptation from a Japanese fairy tale, am I right ? That's the crucial moment of the story. Excellent, that fits greatly to the topic. I got the tale in mind, but can't remember the title. Can you enlight me ? Thanks. ;)

[0kelvin]

Here are a few comments for the pieces that stood out for me in this thread. I'd have loved to be able to comment on all of them but alas, there are only so many hours in a day.

Icon - Love it! Subtle and clever!
Dougbot - Very cool. I like it a lot.
Patrick Ballesteros - A lot of people did the "tiny creature piloting a robot suit" concept, but I love all the cool little details you threw in there.
ArtByZak - Aw man, I thought mine was going to be the longest image, but you beat me by 27 pixels. Great stuff, man.
GreenTopaz - Wow! You just keep getting better. Great work!
Romance - Very nice work; creepy, sad and a little disturbing. I knew it was yours as soon as I saw it.
bluefooted - I'm just a huge fan of everything you do. This is no exception.
Sept13 - Aw, how sweet. Love it, but it's perhaps a little too nicolas-esque.
Ilaekae - Haha, I never know what to expect from you.
PatriciaS - Very funny!
Vorace - Great creature design there.
Helzon - Haven't seen your work in a while, you've improved a lot!
daveneale - Love those little guys.
alxcote - You really did a lot with a simple concept. Great work.
Yumiko - There are a surprising amount of mermaids in this round, but yours is one of the best!



Eric

[Chingwa]

Heya Alday... Nice catch man! It's based on "The Crane Wife" (tsuru no ongaeshi), and is indeed depicting the crucial moment in the story... It's really a rather touching story of two beings who loved each other very closely. However there are underpinnings of greed and other less noble human characteristics as well. The final painting comes across rather ominous, and loses the touching aspect to the tale which I regret a bit...

[Springborg]

Amazing with such a huge amount of great artwork in all the LMS threads.
Icon, Stevekim, m@, manu is malin, JessiBean, bluefooted, alxcote just to name a few from the first 24 matches.
And good luck to Art_Addict and Helzon in my match - can't believe that Coro pussed out! and good luck to the rest of you.

[Chuck,mate.]

sweet mother of all that`s good and pure...

excellent round. so many crazy pieces here. poor judges. ;)

Rob - yours is spectacular in particular. great job, Buddy.



(hope I`ll find some balls somewhere someday, and enter LMS 4. amm... yeah.)
P.

[redehlert]

bluefooted's piece currently graces my mac desktop.
blue....you are the pooh. turn that into a print for purchase, and you have a buyer. bravo, my dear....bravo.

and karla...stellar execution on the topic...that's a riot.

helzon...mike...buddy....i'm thinking it's round 2 for you. congrats!

there were so many incredible entries that i just wanted to take a moment before work and say my hat is off to you all.

cheers,
dave

[dariocoelho]

never got any notification that i'm in. too bad because i really would've like to participate.

some strong entries, though...

[bluefooted]

Thanks, Red :bashful:

Based on all the comments, I'd say there's some wonderful work here. But I can't get the first pages of any of the LMS threads to load. Stupid computer!

[ikuru]

blue. try refreshing it sometimes... that normaly helps, but I guess you allready did that....

[Chris Noeth]

Wow! So many fantastic entries! Pure Eye-Candy!

There are too much really good entries to name them all.
One is really frightening me. It is the image with the spider from Tony Shasteen. I hate spiders and this image is like a nightmare getting real... CREEPY!

Best,

Chris

[Carnifex]

Hey, Carnifex, I kept within the restrictions: less than 1000 pixels across and under 500kb. My image was only 500 pixels across, and 481k or so.

I wish I could have made it even bigger, because it lost soooooooo much detail when I shrunk it down. If I'm fortunate enough to move on to round 2, I'll probably do something a lot simpler. This piece took so long to finish.

ah,i'm never good with remembering such things.
right now my guess would even be that it's you moving on,if not alone for the effort.

[ArtByZak]

Thanks for the kind words, Carnifex. That piece took me forever. Nobody's really been commenting on it, so I don't know how it's being received. Naturally, like everyone here, I'm hoping to move on. Guess we'll see soon.

[lumadfred]

wow! congrats to all!

[flaptraps]

hey great job everyone, and to everyone in my group, awesome stuff!!!

[Dirty C]

Congrats Chanman. Now ya gotta be nice to me at school :)