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ANWO Q1 GFX CONTESTS
FIFTH ROUND VOTING

Please read the following voting procedure.

PROCEDURE

• First and foremost, everyone is allowed to vote in this topic, including the contestants. However, the contestants may not vote for their own entry.
• You must vote for 2 entries. If you vote for any more or any less, your vote will not count.
• Voting will close Friday, May 13, 2011 at or around 9:00 PM CST.
• When voting, PLEASE try to provide some sort of explanation and/or feedback as to why you're voting the entries you choose.

• For this round, points given will be distributed as followed:
  1. 1st place - 3 points
  2. 2nd place - 2 points
  3. All other contestants - 1 point

THE ENTRIES...

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ENTRY A

Source Image(s): Link
PSD: http://www.mediafire.com/?lalbzybmbqlbdev


ENTRY B

Source Image(s): Link



ENTRY C

Source Image(s): Link



ENTRY D

Source Image(s): Link

My heart's vote: CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

Actual vote: BD

DB

BD

Not too many entries this round...
Also, dunno if it's just me but none of these really stand out to me. =/

Wel this pretty much proves that most of us don't do a very good job when it comes to real people.

BD, I suppose.

Preaching to the choir here but yeah all these entries were subpar

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ABD
BD

Vote = AB

I'm not sure why you guys did so poorly. Real people or not this was pretty bad. If you treated the picture (of the person) like color palettes then you could have worked from there.

Also, why pick a person and not make a banner to highlight that person? The theme of your individual banner/grfx should fit THEM. It's not "hey let's throw on some smudging and some funny textures".

If you're not going to take the contest seriously then don't enter. Half ass submissions only hurt this contest even more and overall insult what its purpose is. It's not the theme, it's the contestants and their submissions. If you don't know what you're doing, then go look up a tutorial. God knows their are so many of them out there.

Never making a good entry could also be considered detrimental to a contest, but in the history of GFX contests it's never been the case. What ruins the contest are people who aren't good and bash everyone else's entry. The point of GFX contests is to be good or get good. If we're not good at real people then we'll learn.

Also I think I speak for the four contestants when I say that I'm sure we didn't have that much time to take this round too seriously since it's finals week (well for me it's hell week, midterms/trimester) since we go to college. Sure not the best or even a good excuse but maybe you should take everything into consideration and jump off that high horse of yours. Also, no more discussion of this in this thread, take it to discussion thread about the gfx contest if you're not going to vote

Never making a good entry could also be considered detrimental to a contest, but in the history of GFX contests it's never been the case. What breaks the contest are people who aren't good and bash everyone else's entry. The point of GFX contests is to be good or get good. If we're not good at real people then we'll learn.

Also I think I speak for the four contestants when I say that I'm sure we didn't have that much time to take this round too seriously since it's finals week (well for me it's hell week, midterms/trimester) since we go to college. Sure not the best or even a good excuse but maybe you should take everything into consideration and jump off that high horse of yours. Also, no more discussion of this in this thread, take it to discussion thread about the gfx thread since you're not going to vote

I do take everything into consideration and I still see half-assed graphics for this round. You guys need to take more pride into your work. These are bad, because it seems like almost none of you gave any thought to this. If you did, I apologize but this is a trend that has been happening for a while.

It's about the fun too but if you're going to enter, take it seriously. We keep saying "the point of the graphics contest is to learn" which is totally true (which is why I suggested the psd files). But if none of you take it seriously, what's the point? From all the graphics contest we've had, we should be seeing better submissions. This is why I say you guys are half-assing it. You guys KNOW better. You've SEEN better. So if you're not going to "learn" and put forth the effort, then don't enter because it is a waste of your time and other people's.

It's such a small forum, everything counts these days. I am just very disappointed in you guys and have been for a while.

And, the presence of good graphics entries (or lack of) can kill a graphics contest, especially if we see no improvement. You said it yourself, it's not about being good and bad. We all know each other's work from over the years, which is why I'm bashing you guys now. I want to see what you've learned! I want to see you having fun and learning through the graphics. Not just submitting for the sake of submitting.


Now the reason I didn't enter is because of the lack of time and chaotic weeks I've been spending back home helping my parents with their work. I did not want to submit a half assed entry so I didn't enter. Simple as that.

Take it to the other thread, and while I've admitted to what you posted ergo you wasted your time posting a reply, it was our decision for better or for worse. And your decision to not have done so was your decision and that's fine. But this is the end of the "argument", this thread will be for voting.

If you want to bring new stuff to the table then show us what you can do and be GOOD at it. If we choose to (which I actually have been looking up tutorials/experimenting) then that's our choice, not yours.

I'll vote BD.

But seriously PZ, I didn't come here to start an argument. You started the argument. I came here to tell everyone my views on what is going on here and how to improve. I care about this forum, which is why I said anything in the first place.

Which is fine and all. Also I never said you wanted to start an argument, but rather that you posted in such a way that could have been done without provoking anyone while sounding arrogant. But so long as that's cleared up then alright.

Entry A [rhfs] - 2 Votes
Entry B [Masaki] - 6 Votes
Entry C [Eltoshin] - 0 Votes
Entry D [PhantomZero] - 6 Votes

First Place = PZ + Masaki
Second Place = rhfs