MiniComp#14 Mini Judges -- Voting Booth Open!

[blankslatejoe]

Public Voting for the 14th Minicomp, Mini Judges is up and ready. Voting is open from now until Thursday, mid-night-ish!

Once again, this contest has a 'soft deadline', which means entries will continue to be submitted between now and Thursday, with the advantage of those artists taking more time to polish their work, but at the disadvantage of possibly receiving less votes.

Regardless, voting itself is still as easy as it's always been. Just log in with 'remember me' checked, follow the link, and place your votes today!

Here's the link!

http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/mini/14/view_entries.php

Good work, everyone, this was a VERY popular comp, and a great one to make my final 3d mini. ThatDon will be filling in for the 3d minicomps from here on out.

[eboy]

Ha, some great entries. Made voting very difficult, but I managed to get three in the end. Still there's others that deserve mentioning. :D

[miezis]

tons of great entries! great work everyone, had a hard time picking top3!

[toma_li]

yeah ditto, how did that don get that ds res look? anyone know?

i saw some psp spec charecters a while back probably with the same thing done.

[eboy]

yeah ditto, how did that don get that ds res look? anyone know?

Looks to me like he just scaled the image down and put a grey stroke around the edges. I notice Don does this often with his presentations.

Ofcourse I could be wrong. :think:

[nazeil]

yeah that was tough. There were great entries coming from all sides. :)

Good luck and congratulations to everyone that fnished!

[Styx]

very, very hard to vote....

[kongni]

Agreed. This was the toughest mini to vote on.

I think someone should donate their model to the SDK master list!

[Raptor5399]

Looks to me like he just scaled the image down and put a grey stroke around the edges. I notice Don does this often with his presentations.

Ofcourse I could be wrong. :think:

He also split his 512 map into two 256 maps which gives you half the actual pixel resolution, so it would look more pixelated.

512x512 = 262,144 pixels
256*256*2 = 131,072 pixels

Voting was hard, one I wanted to vote for sure on wasn't there and another one I had high hopes for wasn't there either.

Cheers,
CEH

[butt_sahib]

WOAH, def. the hardest one to vote on :)

[funkdelic]

WOAH, def. the hardest one to vote on

really tough decision!

[bin]

voted! :thumb:
perhaps another empty star for me :D

[FredH]

Guys, you aren't making my votes any easier:s Sooo many good ones to choose from:brick:

I'll probably wait another day and see if any more come in before I choose my favorites...

[2000yearsoldman]

Lots good entries on this round, wish every one win.

[Aftermath]

voted, was a fun mini comp to do i can only hope the next one is as fun.

So hard to vote but i did it and got the shirt to prove it.

[Raptor5399]

voted, was a fun mini comp to do i can only hope the next one is as fun.

So hard to vote but i did it and got the shirt to prove it.

Shirt?

Oh, and about the next min challenge, when is it starting? (oh thats right, I refuse to be patient) :cool:

CEH

[Jono-GHOSTWORKS]

Holy shasta, Rasta!

The entries look incredible!

I had a hard time voting between A) Resemblance to an original Judge, B) Thread participation (sorry, you didn't get my vote if you didn't post... even if yours looked amazing!) C) and Originality

[Raptor5399]

Holy shasta, Rasta!

The entries look incredible!

I had a hard time voting between A) Resemblance to an original Judge, B) Thread participation (sorry, you didn't get my vote if you didn't post... even if yours looked amazing!) C) and Originality

Yea... I think its best to vote based on the competition brief since thats the challenge and whole point of the contest.

CEH

[Yung]

Woohoo congrats to all who finished! Cast my vote as well, good luck everyone. So do I still get my cookie?

[YdoUwant2know]

Just cast my vote. Not easy. A lot of top notch stuff.

I just feel like a fool because I posted the wrong image last night.... oh well thats what I get for finishing at three in the morning. :(

[HntrLuc]

Pretty epic mini comp! Awesome work all around.

[Elcura]

It was a lot of fun to do, and the standard is pretty high. Well, a theme like this you're bound to get a lot of good work! FF designs are pretty inspiring (usually lol)

[yoyomon]

Great job guys. It was a tough decision.

[afterbang]

Arg, I mad dashed to submit what I had and uploaded an older texture file. Is there any way that I can re-submit? I don't care about votes, I just want my work to be displayed properly lol =P Either way, I'm just happy I got something in! =D

Awsome work guys, all around amazing stuff! Now I can finally go to sleep :yawn:

[kirilot]

congrats everyone, realy tought one this was, wheres the next one?

[Saker]

.. i can't decide where to put my vote ! .. Amazing work guys &^^

[Raptor5399]

Afterbang, I kinda did the same thing but its just the texture thumbnail on mine... I still want to update it though.

Kirilot, I know right? where is it... I think we may need to prod ThatDon :think:

CEH

[grindill]

I Voted. There's some really good entries in this one. Fantastic work and congrats to all the finishers.

[kevjorge]

some really good stuff like everyones said its hard to pick out three! feel bit embarrassed cos mine looks a bit shoddy in comparison but was fun and any constructive criticism on my entry is more than welcome! how often do these challenges take place?

[Raptor5399]

some really good stuff like everyones said its hard to pick out three! feel bit embarrassed cos mine looks a bit shoddy in comparison but was fun and any constructive criticism on my entry is more than welcome! how often do these challenges take place?

1) I would say to add an AO bake to your texture for some more lighting goodness.

2) People put too much ripple in their capes and make them look like thin curtains. Check out some videos of the judges in game on youtube, very little deformation (thick cloth), very few highlights.

3) I want to go add this bit of polish to mine as well but I may just move on... If you have those designs and armor edges setup on their own layers I would add a bevel layer effect to them. Since things are at different angles you will need to turn "use global light" off and do them individually based on angle.

Cheers,
CEH

[Raptor5399]

well I got a minute this morning to work on my entry some more and realized that I had several of my detail textures turned off :<

Is there a way for me to change my portfolio entry before the midnight deadline?

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9523/workingstillzc2.jpg

Cheers,
CEH

[blankslatejoe]

we can raptor, but you'll lose all your votes. PM me if you want to

[C Wong]

Voted. Nice entries

[kevjorge]

cheers for the tips raptor will bear em in mind for future wrk!

[Raptor5399]

NP, Kev

Looks like I'm done.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5238/cehayeszargabaathfinwr6.jpg

CEH

[Raptor5399]

Well i liked the faceted look but my friend is complaining about it... thoughts on the smoothing angle? should I make it smooth?

Heres the smooth and shiny, tell me which you like better?
http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6177/cehayeszargabaathsmoothmy5.jpg

[kessler]

how do you know what place you got in the competition?