[WAR II] Graphic Arts!

[FedoraChar]

Name: Char
Team: Phoenix Battalion
Entry: This isn't sacrilegious, is it? xD (lugia's one of my favs, tho)

[PTGigi]

My entry is a bit obvious /o/

Name: PTGigi
Team: Prism League
Entry:

[XaiakuX]

Since it's practically midnight. Imma close up shop for this week and get to grading. Thanks for your entries, all! It's gonna be a real tough call, this week.

New week's theme!

Vintage Bulbasaur!

This week I want you to create a poster. A huge-ish poster. To the point where I'll need to click a link to view it, but no larger than 16w x 20h in. This will allow me to see the amount of detail you put into your artwork, and grade it accordingly.

Prerequisites:

- Can only have Bulbasaur as the feature image.
- Must fit a vintage theme.
- Cannot be animated.

Also! To make up for my late grading, I will attempt to get a print of the winning poster to the winner. o:

Said results will be up tomorrow morning. Just need a wee nap from working. XD

[XaiakuX]

Week 2 Results!

Did you guys draw some of these images? That's some impressive stuff. Otherwise, wou guys are using official art, right? If you answered no to either of those questions, I'll let it slide this week, but I'm going to start including a spot in the application for a link to the original art used. xD

Also, on a side not, I want you all to know that my judging is based on experiences that I've had with this particular field of art. What I've seen, done, and have seen other people do. I've spent my time around experts and and learned from them, as well as on my own. I'm hardly an expert, but I have an eye for detail. The calls that I make I feel will be the right ones. Thanks for reading.

Let's Roll:

@PTGigi

Text: 4/5
Imagery: 3/5
Colors: 7/10
Flow: 7/10
Style: 10/15
Balance: 12/15
Overall: 43/60

Your banner looks like something straight out of a comic book, and your style is something I've come to expect since I've seen your artwork in a variety of projects including my 721 Project. I also have a fond appreciation for your use of MEWTWO RETURNS quotes and imagery. My only beef is that I feel like your playing it a little safe. If that makes sense. I know you have the capacity to blow the competition out of the water. I enjoyed your banner. Now I want to see bigger and better than ever!

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@FedoraChar

Text: 1/5
Imagery: 5/5
Colors: 8/10
Flow: 7/10
Style: 8/15
Balance: 5/15
Overall: 34/60

I didn't see the name of the Pokémon in your banner, so I had to take points off for that. The text itself blended in to the point where I had to draw focus to see it. Next up, since I'm not exactly familiar with your talents and skills it was difficult to make a sound judgement on most of the fields, so don't take the low score entirely to heart, as it was my fault for not knowing anything about the image source. However, I did notice the light source. In fact for a few seconds it's all I could look at. I feel like, if it were either more transparent, or otherwise nonexistent it would have been better.

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@Neo Emolga
(I have forever wanted to do this.)


Text: 3/5
Imagery: 4/5
Colors: 8/10
Flow: 7/10
Style: 8/15
Balance: 10/15
Overall: 40/60

Your banners have always been rather big and flashy. Something I don't think suits a Pokémon like Latias. Latias tends to be gentle and docile, and doesn't really fit into the relatively extreme style of your bannners. That said, I've come to enjoy, respect, and even draw a little inspiration from your style from time to time. On the flip side, I feel like your banners, after a while, begin to show a heavy amount of repetition. This can hurt a score from a judge looking for a pop or a wow factor from a known artist. After getting by with the same style, I feel it's good to come out of the cage with something entirely new. Maybe I'll see that in the next contest.

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@Sou Cleife

Text: 4/5
Imagery: 5/5
Colors: 8/10
Flow: 10/10
Style: 9/15
Balance: 10/15
Overall: 46/60

I swear this was done just because of my love of Mew! This is actually a favorite of mine. Despite it being bring, and a looking little basic as a whole, I feel that's how Mew is. Unlike a very similar Latias in an extreme, intense, and edgy sort of banner. The banner itself has a good balance and flow to it. Nothing is really standalone, and nothing seems out of place. Kudos to you.

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@Pokemon Trainer Sarah

Text: 3/5
Imagery: 5/5
Colors: 10/10
Flow: 10/10
Style: 14/15
Balance: 13/15
Overall: 55/60

Feck Yeh Serebii. This is just glorious. I didn't even pay attention to the animation upon initial inspection. The animation, however, was a nice touch and added a wholeness to the banner which helped your score a bit. I have seen your work, and it's all kinda got that soothing starry feel with a bit of edge to tell everyone you've still got a rebel in you. But this one is different, it honestly just tells me it's a banner about Celebi. That's all it actually needs, and other than the difficult to read text and it all being a little bright, I absolutely love it.


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@lorii

Text: 4/5
Imagery: 5/5
Colors:9/10
Flow: 10/10
Style: 15/15
Balance: 12/15
Overall: 55/60

Di-... Did you draw that Jirachi? and THEN animate it?

...

Are you a wizard?

In all seriousness, my only real complaint is that it needs a border. Some kind of border. Do that.

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@Felly

Text: 2/5
Imagery: 3/5
Colors: 8/10
Flow: 6/10
Style: 7/15
Balance: 6/15
Overall: 32/60

Okay, so. Hi, my name is XaiakuX and I'm kind of a jerk. But today, I'm going to be real with you, and kinda try to help you out. Okay, so. The text, albeit cool in font (and would enjoy seeing running down the side of my Corvette), is very plain, and apart from its bright color, is hardly noticeable. If you'd like, I can link you to some neat text editing tricks to make your next banner really pop (or just send Neo Emolga a message, he appears to be an expert). My next thing is the little squiggle next to the Entei on the left. If you're going to use pen tool, try to give it more significance than just a squiggle in the background. I approve of your capacity to jump outside the lines to give it a 3d effect. I don't approve of the lack of a border. A banner type like yours should have some sort of border more for effect than style. My final pick will be the effect you used to to sort of hide the right side Entei. This Entei has more prominent lines and colors than the 3rd movie render to the left. Therefore you'll need to put more effort it making the 3rd movie Entei more prominent. if you need any help doing any of this, I can gladly link you to tutorials, or just PM me the program you're using, and I'll be glad to tell you a few tips, myself.

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It seems we have a draw. THEREFORE I will award 3 points to the tie players Pokemon Trainer Sarah and Lorii
I will also grant 2 points to the runner up Sou Cleife.

This will mean I've given out 8 points.

Better than like.. 13.. right? xD

[Sou]

Ohhh, grats to everyone! :> @XaiakuX~ Mew was actually and is still is in my top five favorite pokemon. It was the top of the charts for me for the longest but then Sylveon came around and made it difficult lol.
Being Mew was so simple, I did decide to keep it a bit simple. Originally I had planned on having the large bubble along with 3 bubbles placed evenly on each side with an animation in some of them but then decided that would probably be too complex haha. But perhaps, maybe I should have done that rather then dialing it back xD

[Neo Emolga]

Ohhh, grats to everyone! :> @XaiakuX~ Mew was actually and is still is in my top five favorite pokemon. It was the top of the charts for me for the longest but then Sylveon came around and made it difficult lol.
Being Mew was so simple, I did decide to keep it a bit simple. Originally I had planned on having the large bubble along with 3 bubbles placed evenly on each side with an animation in some of them but then decided that would probably be too complex haha. But perhaps, maybe I should have done that rather then dialing it back xD

Sorry to say, we can't make XaiakuX's judging results official until he changes the number of points awarded for the week back to 6. Every WAR section can only award 6 points a week, and he's got to follow the same formula.

[Suicune's Fire]

Would that make it...

2 for Sarah & lorii
1.5 for Sou
0.5 for PTGigi?

[Sou]

Sorry to say, we can't make XaiakuX's judging results official until he changes the number of points awarded for the week back to 6. Every WAR section can only award 6 points a week, and he's got to follow the same formula.

Thats fine, to be honest, I figured it was possible they'd be omitted because it was over 6 points anyway. I was more curious how i could have improved it. To go for something more complex or simple really made me unsure :> This is more of a learning process for me since well...I had a bad time when I tried taking a graphics design degree and switched it because of bad critiques.

[Neo Emolga]

Would that make it...

2 for Sarah & lorii
1.5 for Sou
0.5 for PTGigi?

I'm thinking this would be the most logical and reasonable way to go with it, but I'll give it a little while for XaiakuX to confirm it. If he doesn't show up for a while, I think we'll have to go with this in the interest of time and getting Week #2's results up.

Thats fine, to be honest, I figured it was possible they'd be omitted because it was over 6 points anyway. I was more curious how i could have improved it. To go for something more complex or simple really made me unsure :> This is more of a learning process for me since well...I had a bad time when I tried taking a graphics design degree and switched it because of bad critiques.

Apparently, I need to change my style and make a cute banner for Latias next time. :x

In any case, it's different strokes for different folks, and one judge might have scored things differently or on a different basis than another one. I have to admit though, the shiny bubble effect you had on that Mew banner was pretty spiffy. :D

[FedoraChar]

Holy crap, how did I miss that we had to have the name of the Pokemon in the sig? (that would have improved the balance so much ._.) Well, I sure failed this week xD

You sounded a little curious, so this is what the original image was: (official artwork)

I prolly did go overboard (hehe, get it? cuz underwater? *shot*) with the lighting, but I felt kinda meh about my entry anyway xD

Man, I've never made an actual poster before. Hrm '~'