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Selroth

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« on: May 06, 2007, 06:22:23 AM »

I've been shocked by the quality of the images we're seeing made in such an applet!  I couldn't say anything to the artists till now, but... wow!  But sure enough, each one of them is 100% authentic...  It just amazed me.  I was honestly expecting less quality and more quantity, but I'm still quite pleased with the entries.


Here are the entries (They will also be posted on the gallery):
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« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2007, 06:32:17 AM »

And... here are the results!  The prize-winner's names will be given.  For everyone else, it's up to them if they want their name with their image or not.

1st place: JoeCapricorn who just won a free commission done by Shiari!  He also gets a prize icon to use on the forums, and can choose a custom user title (for example, mine is "'lil imaginary friend").

2nd place: Etath who just won a commission done by Karnanyd!  Similar to 1st place, Etath also gets a prize icon and custom user title!

3rd place: Hebby!  He gets a prize icon as well and a custom user title!

These prize icons will be much more apparent and meaningful in the new forum technology (http://www.thewestgate.net), and will hopefully last forever.  

Here are the total results, and how each admin ranked all entries:
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« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2007, 06:44:12 AM »

Wow, I'm really impressed. 8O  Congratulations winners!
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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2007, 08:17:01 AM »

Winners: Just send me a PM with your customized user text and I'll update it!  The icons will be out in a bit (a day or so)
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2007, 06:36:34 PM »

WOW!!! Special congratulations to first place winner! I can't even tell you used triangles to make any of it... *Pout* Oh well, i'm just glad i participated this month. I also look forward to the next contest... hopefully i will be able to place higher. As for favorites, can't pick one as i am rather partial to my own work, which would be unfair to those more talented. (I did #5 and #7, if your curious...)
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« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2007, 06:42:37 PM »

Okay, who put a human in one of the images hehe.

JoeCapricorn's entry was my favorite, well done with the triangles. Almost surprised that the sci-fi image was the winner.
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« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2007, 01:58:33 AM »

Guys I am amazed & jealous  :dragon_happy: Fantastic work! The way the triangles were used blew any of my ideas away.
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« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2007, 04:18:59 AM »

One word: WOW
I never imagined the high quality of these pictures. lol I couldn't even get the applet to work.
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« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2007, 04:20:59 AM »

I was astounded at the quality of the entries!  How did you guys make these out of triangles?  I'm glad that, as an admin, I wasn't allowed to enter.  I'm sure my entry would've been embarassing compared to these.  :)

Etath: Please contact me to discuss commission stuff.  I have to admit that it may take a little while for me to get it done, as I had surgury on my hand on Wednesday, and still need to finish the prize from the last contest.  But I'm going to work on that ASAP!
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« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2007, 04:26:32 AM »

o.o;
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« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2007, 06:45:48 AM »

I think of all of the entries... Entry number 1 is definitely the cutest one. ^____________^
It is the one with the least triangles too, but they are used to great effect.

Etath's entry is very beautiful, I love how the eyes were done, and the shading is awesome!

I'd say it's much more like a tie for first.

And Hebby's definitely uses the triangles to great effect in creating a 3D image. It has a really warm feeling to it.

Booklover, your two pictures are cuuute...

And entry number 6 is cute, kind of reminds me of a Horny Devil (Those brown lizards from Arizona that are really spiky), only a dragon.

I was thinking about a third entry that takes my method I used in my second entry and to some extent with my first one (The green dragon) to a whole 'nother level, but I ran out of time to think about it. It would've been a dragon-fae sitting amongst some high grass, with various insects, frogs, etc, by a pond, and the grass would reflect off of the pond. The grass itself would be layered, as in I would make a single image per layer and then copy and paste the numbers ahead of one another. Same with the background, which would have clouds and such. There would also be foreground grass and such. I think it would've reached over 2000 triangles (around 100 kb)...

For Apronice's picture (Apronice is the albino dragon) I started off with a tinted gray color on one half of the page and worked on the window, space, the ship, and the console. I then worked on Apronice himself, with a bright green line showing where the current background was so I didn't draw Apronice too far over the window and stuff. The second screen right behind Apronice's head was done after that and added right to the background script. Apronice was added right after that, and the final triangle was an invisible triangle on the front of the console to place the three circles.

Hey... how did you count the triangles, Selroth?

I think it would be fun to have another contest like this, using triangles and such, in the future. Or maybe another shape, like 4 sided objects, which would allow chevrons, squares, trapezoids, etc... Octagons would be easier to make then.

Or maybe circles...
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« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2007, 09:04:30 AM »

hmm, he could have wordcounted , in the text files and divided it by whatever or something, or edited the program to output it...

hmm, some brilliant entries indeed, specially like how fluid Etaths is, hardly looks like its made of triangles at all.
and congrates JoeCapricorn, very complete scenes, looks nice, id have done a background but i made the mistake of doing half my entry with transparency and i was rushing in the last 2-3 days to do 'something' so couldnt be bothered redoing it all, that and i liked the vector / stained glass effect, did make additional shading and detail difficult though. anyways, much cool.

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« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2007, 06:23:31 PM »

I just don't get this... I'm trying to comprehend how a bunch of triangles of different sizes can be colored and shaded in a certain way, and then placed into a certain arrangement to make PICTURES and my head spins! It's like how photo-collages amaze me but I can't figure those out either. lol
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« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2007, 10:31:05 PM »

Quote from: "JoeCapricorn"

Booklover, your two pictures are cuuute...


YAY! a compliment, just what i've always wanted. I love the fluidity with your picture(s) Joe, i can hardly imagine how much time that must have taken.
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« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2007, 11:31:23 PM »

Though I'm not sure about the transparent wings though, wouldn't they be more transclucent then transparent? As in you don't see much through the wing, but light shows through? I guess that would be kind of hard to do without a 3D program huh.
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