The Artist choice.

[george.vas]

Some people have expressed that they can’t understand why the judges came up with the winners that they did for DW2. A lot of good points were brought up. I think the most significant one was not having artists as Judges. So I am curious to see who you as artists would have picked for the finalists. I think it will be interesting to see who the “Artist’s choice is”. I am going to take a few days to make my picks and I will update this post when I do. Feel free to do the same and let us know how it would have went down if you were judging. Please take it serious and don’t be fan boyish to your forum or vote for yourself that's lame.

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[Gavin]

This could be fun.

No offense to anyone I didn't pick, it's all personal preference for me. Mine would go something like this:

Top 10
1. Peppi
2. Spacemonkey
3. Taehoon
4. wyldwulf
5. Anole
6. Mop + Tully
7. nikudy
8. Artling
9. Red Republic
10. ez5k

Best of 3dTotal
1. Taehoon
2. Artling
3. ez5k

Best of cgChat
1. wyldwulf
2. modeling_man
3. Marcus Dublin

Best of cgSociety
1. Anole
2. nikudy
3. Red Republic

Best of Polycount
1. Peppi
2. Spacemonkey
3. Mop + Tully

I guess overall I'm surprised Polycount didn't win overall as I think they had some very strong pieces. I think all of my top 10 are the top 3 for each team, I found that the team's own bests were pretty much the cream of the crop and already in the top 10. That or I'm lazy...either way.

Gav

[zeke3d]

1. MoP
Atakritta

very nice, clean execution, simple yet could easily be the head character of some game. although doesn't look like he could really take on tons of enemies, but as far as the game art goes, very nice!

2. Peter Boehme
Peppi

Great stuff, would have ditched the stand if possible, although part of the contest rules, it makes you want to read it.


3.Troy Perry
Overkill

looks like a total badass, the stand works well with him.

4. Cupid

Sexy, lighting could have been more dramatic, character could have been lit less and the glow maps punched up.

5. Petr Nasirov
ez5k

Cool robot design.

6.Vectorius
Rebelious

Reminds me of final fight series. I like it!

7.Modeling_man
Leon

Cool, non threatening interesting style, well done.

8.Gavin
Thrull

Almost too noisy, but still looks good for an ancient

9.Marcus Dublin
Ryzen

Not really even using next gen tech, but still great result


10. Spacemonkey
Manetee

[FredH]

It's actually pretty hard to choose with 175 entries. However, judges were only allowed to choose 5 champions:) Not 10.

[shadowbreeze]

hmm i decided to go at this from a different angle instead of what i liked i asked my nephew to chose as he is a consumer and loves games just as much as i do, i just asked him what he would like to see as a character in a game he would pay for. he's still working on it i'll post it when he has finished he's age between 8 - 10 same with he's freind.

[Imperialism]

my money is on the rabbit. I bet he will choose the rabbit:thumb:

[george.vas]

Nice idea shadowbreeze will be interesting to see what he thinks...