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Red_Rook
June 19th, 2006, 11:54 PM
E.O.W Round 25: VOTING THREAD



TOPIC: Cafe

Deadline For Voting: Monday 26th June

Please vote for your personal favourite artwork from this round. Please remember that your vote should reflect an equal weight of aesthetic impact, adherance to the brief, and idea development.

Your votes will be public.
Please help strengthen the activity by leaving criticism for the artist you vote for, and for any other artworks you can manage!

posting thread (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=69223)


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vinc
http://home.wtnet.de/~apohndorff/Paavo/spaceport.jpg
"20 Years without war!" says the speaker: "This should also have played a role, that humanity can enter space for few bucks." Another voice answers. "Yah, you r right, today is a great day, the star of the first tourist-class spaceship will start in a few seconds!"
I looked from the monitor to the TV, a large spaceship which was designed in an oldschool style spitted spoke and the red lights began to blink. A countdown began.

So this is heavens gate, i thought giggling.


Destinatus
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e111/Destinatus/ca_sketch/heavens_gate3.jpg
The last task for the dead souls wandering the earth is to find heavens gate. Upon entering the gate all knowledge and the purpose of life is acquired. In life ignorance is bliss but in death complete knowledge of the universe brings about the highest form of serenity.

speculart
http://www.dudleybirch.com/sijun/barrow2.1.jpg
To find yourself at the Barrow Gate means you have lived your life to the full and pleased the gods. Your reward awaits you.

ferak seg
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h13/ferakseg/heavens%20gate/heavensgate.jpg
After a cataclysmic event certainly caused by human behaviours, all the life seems to have left the city. But there is still shadows which are waiting to take their last path, grumbling their bitterness and judging their ow, mistakes. If you listen carefully you can hear in a last sad breathe: "if only, we had..."

Mr.Blonde
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~wbrach20/jun02/gate2-3.jpg
Millions of souls make the pilgrimage to Heaven's Gate, Nevada. God opens the gates to heaven once a year and He brings the faithful with him to heaven. Upon entering the light, the blasphemers and unrepentant sinners are instantly vaporized.

artiphats
http://www.artiphats.com/artwork/heavans_gates_fin.jpg
The Seven Portals to the Seven Heavans.
In a mountain range that exists on the edge of the physical plane, where the spiritual touches the tangible universe, stand the gates to the heavans. Seven portals, each a doorway to the realms of the Gods, are said to be the beginning of the soul's final journey. All who wish to be one with the Highest must pass thru a portal, and each portal is meant for different types of beings. A human who is passing on, finding favor with the Ancient Ones, will pass thru "Semilode enlu Gatifee - The Portal of the Third". Seen here to the lower right, The Portal of the Third is decorated with a pattern representing The Prayer Rugs of the Watchers, who keep the portals safe and hidden from the eyes of the Fallen.

cognition.sb
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f107/cognitionsb/Heavensgate2-cognition.jpg
The Gachlican Monks have developed a way to induce portal expansion with highly focussed particle cannons. They've named this phenomena 'opening Heaven's gate', as it leads to an alternate dimension completely untouched by human and alien lifeforms. The monks now offer a tour service to likeminded people, enabling them to experience the wonders of this destination. The cross-dimensional shuttle is loaded, and for no longer than 10 hours the patrons pass through a summoned portal and dock in 'Heaven'. When the alotted time expires, the command centre will reopen the gate.

This seems to have negligible affect on the environment of both worlds, and strict guidelines have been set up to maintain this situation.

J.Mac
http://www.mdx5.com/conceptart.org/jmac_eow26_heavensgate.jpg
Following the road of burning embers to the land of fire, is the only path to The Gates of Heaven. This is a journey of the body and mind. where the weak will pray for an quick death but if you can endure the quest. The rewards are unimaginable.

-Jesse

yAdam
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6784/heavensgate4b2mv.jpg
A dig site in the syrian desert revealed an enormous monolith, made of unusual alloys. After months of research small areas of writing were deciphered to reveal that this was refered to heaven's gate by whoever constructed it. Further reading told of a connection between it and the cygnus x-1 black hole. It has been theorised that such dense material would be necessary in creating a stable shield against radiation types, that could be emitted from a black hole.

bumskee
http://home.exetel.com.au/bumskee/con/eow_heaven.jpg
High on top of the hill lies pathway to heaven; where the winds will guide you to the heaven.

spyroteknik
http://www.aovs02.dsl.pipex.com/pearlysml.jpg
'Pearly'

Gateway for soul filtration, pure souls travel high, dark souls travel low, your destination is predetermined, face the light and enjoy the ride.


Tom Garden
http://tomgarden.co.uk/Webpics/E.O.W_02.jpg
above the clouds, they found a mighty wall, which had a hole....to heaven

Some_Guy
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/some_guy/Sketchbook2/536-HeavensGate.jpg
"Those sons of bitches, first they ravaged the earth with their greed for power. Then they found the last hole in the ground with anything decent to drink and built their towers on it. They even had the audacity to call the place Heaven.. "

IcyM
http://www.carotellogallery.com/CA/Ivan/icym_eow26_heavensgate.jpg
"Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever". As the honored and noble warriors sail into the great sea, eventually they come to the a place where the waters are calm and they see a new beginning...

stewart one
http://www.robotarm.se/gallery/pictures/skiss262.jpg
When the humans have all but whiped themselves out, the gates of heaven will open, and the earth will once again be reclaimed by the armies of heaven who once ruled this very place.

Zeitwolf
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/eow26.png
The USI "Iru Loko" ist the most secure and most known prison of Stedtfeld Systems and is located on Iru II-A on an island, underground and most of the building under sea level. Here the most savage beast and the most dangarous beeings are kept, far away from the puplic society, the USI is the only building on the planet. Built from an alloy only known to some scientists who invented it, the only way to enter or exit is the tower that arises overground for about 100 metres. No prisoner or beast ever escaped, no one ever left dead and also because the tower is the only source of daylight it is called "The Heavens Gate" by prisoners and keepers.

Red_Rook
June 19th, 2006, 11:57 PM
sorry about the absurdly long delay guys, i was travelling :x and im a dipshit

chaosrocks
June 20th, 2006, 12:20 AM
ha!..Didn't think you'd post it....;P..and you didn't

chaos

stewart one
June 20th, 2006, 03:03 AM
Yay voting! My vote goes to speculart. Very moody and not really what i expected. But really nicely done!

Zeitwolf
June 20th, 2006, 03:25 AM
My vote goes to speculart either. The mood, and the lighting and choice of colours are great. And I love the stag.
J.Mac was close second.

And I'm glad nobody went for a Star Gate :)

MasumiX
June 20th, 2006, 04:22 AM
Wow what a difficult Vote, i'm still undecided, but speculart is certainly one of the top three... *sweat* can I vote more than once?

Simon Boxer
June 20th, 2006, 05:10 AM
Voted for bumskee - something about the subject matter is just so phenomenal. I get a really strong sense of fate, and love how nature melds around the 'gateway'. Simple yet effective. The colour choice is very effective for a pathway to heaven.

Kian
June 20th, 2006, 05:21 AM
Easily Bumskee! Without a doubt the best executed. Also the best concept. Its simple, beautiful and communicates the message.
Great work mate :yayca:

Mr-Joe
June 20th, 2006, 08:20 AM
I voted for bumskee, I really like the colors, and its simple, I like the trail of clouds and 2 trees sitting ontop of the hill. Nice job !

Everyone else had some real nice art work and concepts. :hatsoff:

Hideyoshi
June 20th, 2006, 09:47 AM
__:::bumskee:::__
cool stuff:
speculart, Mr. Blonde, J.Mac, yAdam, Spyro, Stewart One!

artiphats
June 20th, 2006, 11:37 AM
Spyro gets my vote. I love the colors, textures, and depth. The light from the sun against the dark sky is killer.

Destinatus
June 20th, 2006, 11:59 AM
Voted for bumskee's, speculart's looked a little too dark and scary for heavens gate to me.

Wholewheat_keyboard
June 20th, 2006, 02:32 PM
Wow lots of really nice art,

~ Bumskee, Cognition.sb, Speculart, J.Mac, spyroteknik, and stewart one all did very nice work and deserve recognition

But I ended up voting for Tom Garden because his piece really stood out to me, I really liked the feel of it. It seemed really creative and interesting and had what I felt was a more 'heavenly' atmosphere than the others - Nice work Tom! :angel:

J.Mac
June 20th, 2006, 03:12 PM
finally i thought this day would never come.... heh

Bumskee got mine for colour, and composition. my mane crit for this one is the path you designed could use more work, it helps make it have space but it also is weak in its design and cause it to flatten alittle bit.

Cognition.sb, Speculart, spyroteknik, and stewartone are up there in my opinion as well. everyone did a great job i really enjoyed this.

-Jesse

IcyM
June 20th, 2006, 04:19 PM
Wow. Great topic and sweet work from everyone. Had to go with MrBlonde's tho. Its got great mix of emotion, action, and the fact that the gate is etheral than physical. Awesome shot!:^^:

marco nelor
June 20th, 2006, 11:03 PM
yea this is an incredibly hard vote, unfortunately. shit, im undecided

Thefultron
June 20th, 2006, 11:21 PM
very glorious all around

BeamUs
June 20th, 2006, 11:33 PM
I voted for yAdam because I really liked his style and consistent brush strokes. Where you inspired by Half Life by any chance?

spyroteknik
June 21st, 2006, 06:14 AM
cracking entries all round guys, i voted for ferak seg, storytelling in it was great, but was a tough choice indeed

speculart
June 21st, 2006, 09:04 AM
Bumskee for me. Tough one but I just love the serenity in it.

Form
June 21st, 2006, 10:04 AM
it was a hards tossup between bum and blondie... but ill give it to bumskee in the end cos of a few little juicy details i cant go past. Nice work to everyone.

Lohan
June 21st, 2006, 12:02 PM
bumskees was obviously the best technically, but i think it lacked the great ideas of some of the other ones.

Vulgar`
June 21st, 2006, 12:45 PM
It's between spyrote and Tom Garden.

v - Tom Garden

yAdam
June 22nd, 2006, 01:52 PM
Hey BeamUs, thanks. I think I might have been slightly infuenced by hl2 (the bottom bit of the gate actually looks like a direct copy of those barrier things :^^;: ) but I had been playing metroid prime 2 the day I did it and I was just trying to design something that could have been in a similar universe...

Voted for bumskee....

MattGamer
June 23rd, 2006, 05:38 PM
mr. blonde - i love it! the concept as well... so freakin cool. lol

Kian
June 23rd, 2006, 05:43 PM
bumskees was obviously the best technically, but i think it lacked the great ideas of some of the other ones.

Dude, I have to disagree. The gentle, naturalistic concept is spot on IMO for the gateway to heaven. To be honest, Bumskee's piece screams concept, WAY over technical accuracy. If you can't feel the emotion from his piece, you really are missing out.
Sorry to sound like such a fan-boy Bumskee, but honestly man, i love that image.

chaosrocks
June 23rd, 2006, 06:35 PM
Speculart--
the whole Barrow thing is cool. and the gate to heaven being not altogether a good thing..(Faerie etc.) besides its shiny, and I do like shiny ;P
chaos

bumskee
June 25th, 2006, 07:47 PM
Thanks everyone for the nice words AND votes! :) Thanks kian for sticking up for me, heh, I did think I had more "idea" in there rather than "execution" but everyone is entitled to their opinions I guess. Onto the next EOW...