@Folks: I'll be posting the themes for April in the three contests the very day all the polls from february get closed (actually, it is just the Altered Card Contest one.)
Also, I think I'm going to extend the deadline (1 week) for the contests if there isn't at least three entries on each of them.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: For April, I'm going to take the liberty of adding some stimulants, beside the trophy (wich still being a very cool prize!) Hopefully, they will help to bring the contests to the point they were before (or beyond.)
Altered Card Contest: I'm going to donate an alter made by myself for the winner. It will be, in almost the cases, my entry for the contest.
Photoshop Contest: Loading.... (Thinking about this one, and also accept ideas! Anyway, I think I'm going to give another altered card here.)
Artwork Contest: I would really love if somebody may offer a custom playmat (with custom art), at least for April, to test the attendance. Please, post here or PM me. I (and everyone) willl be very grateful! (May be someone who makes playmats or works with airbrush and/or printer? If there aren't volunteers, I'll probably giving a third altered card here too.)
EDIT: Also, please, post your siggestions for April's Artwork & Photoshop contests, respectively. I'll be posting a poll with them and more to make this more interactive! (between tomorrow and after tomorrow.)
@Everyone: I've sent a PM to Le_Gambit yesterday, wich was quickly answered. He told me very kindly that he will work on the missing trophies (from nov 2010 and forwards.)
Im sorry to hear that, I hope you can sort it all out.
Btw, an idea for a future contest could be either altering a card to make it look like a magazine/comic book cover or make a photoshop alteration of a card to make it look like a magazine/comic book cover.
Im sorry to hear that, I hope you can sort it all out.
Btw, an idea for a future contest could be either altering a card to make it look like a magazine/comic book cover or make a photoshop alteration of a card to make it look like a magazine/comic book cover.
Thanks, dude.
I'm happy to announce that between today and Monday I'll be posting the "June & July" round for each of the three contests. Yes, we are going to have a special edition in wich both months will be merged in one single round. I promess it will be really defiant and amusing!
Also, there'll be something about manga/comics in the Artwork round.
@Everyone: I want to apologyse for my abscence in the last days, and want to let you know the new rounds (and the last round's polls) will be up as soon as I get back at my home. Now I'm visiting my birth city and I'll be back in a couple of days.
August rounds will be more free-for-all style, in order to revert the lack of attendance in the last rounds. Expect a more general task this time.
I'll post the remaining rounds and polls tonight for sure. Sorry again for my lack of eficiency during the last moths, specially because the point of a double round for June/July was to restore the normal dates and I wasted it.
I'll post the remaining rounds and polls tonight for sure. Sorry again for my lack of eficiency during the last moths, specially because the point of a double round for June/July was to restore the normal dates and I wasted it.
César.-
Yeah, you ruined our lifes César!!!
Relax, Dude. Everyone was on vacation anyway, it's not a big deal
The reason I'm writting this lines are, first of all, I want to apologyse once more for the fact I'm not doing what I promised to all of you I would. I'm also here because I want to be clear about what's going on around here that's impeding me to be helpful with the conests: I've totally crashed even the smallest chance of saving the damaged relationship I had with someone I'm sure is the love of my life; I've also quited my job because all the sadness the aforementioned provoked made me extremely vulnerable to the jerk-ness of both, the person who was in charge of me and our manager, who is particulary jerkie (thanks for draining all the joyment my labor could offer me in the past, you *******...)
Hey! Wait! The story does not ends there (and now you've reached so far... :p) Since now I'm unemployed, I had no choice but leave the appartment I'm living in and move backwards to my homeland, where I'm sure I'm gonna die single...
And all of that leads us to the third reason I'm here; Since I'm temporarely insane and unproductive, I need a volunteer (or two) who wants to give me a hand for the next two months. I'll be back once I recover the balance in my enviroment, wich I think it must be solved sooner than later.
So... It is not that I want to catch people's attention;empathy,or their bank accounts' information. I just want someone who can take care of this for a while, then invite him/they to keep helpng during each month's new themes with new ideas, or physical support if needed.
I'm falling asleep, so I think that's it. Please, contact me if you have any question or suggerence you want to talk about.
Take care!!
César.-
P.S: Oh! I'd almost forgot to say thanks to everybody-knows-who-once-you-read-the-following for ruining the only thing that could give me a distraction against some of my problems AND a monetary solution to fight the rest of them, all in one. Oh, yes, I meant trading/buying/selling cards (and specially for doing it in a completely inappropriate way, and for half a year! And no, I'm not scared of you. Deal with it.) I hope this person doesn't get up on the wrong side of the bed in December...
I'll be taking care back of 'hem soon. (now I'm taking resting time due to a strong sickness I'm passing through, I'll have extra time for taking the contests back better than ever.)
I'm glad to say all the contests are coming back this month, and I'm posting them today, one by one, the four of them. Four I said? Oh, esxcuse my slip, nice people. I said four because we will start to have a new contest this month!
About what is it? Guess what...
Keep checking the contest forums along the day, and you'll see.
Entries posted during the last week of each contest (this month, from 03/24 to 03/31 of March for all of them) will not count for auto wins. This means that, after 24/03, entrants posting a piece will compete for a trophy just if there's a poll (two or more entries.)
BB.
That's no longer true since we have implemented the silent submision system.
Any chance the Digital Alter contest could be changed to Digital Render?
If not, maybe create a Digital Render contest?
I'm not part of the digital altering community, so I would like to know why this change would be proper. I know you're altering a render of a card but, since you have other kind of "renders" in the digital world, I think it could be confusing.
@Everyone:
April contests' deadlines were extended one more week.
Well, I'm back a little more here (had a few time to spend here during th last weeks.) We (Adunakhor, Mobo and me) Will be polishing details about the contest in this last days before everything start rolling back.
@zeerbe:
Late answer but not less valuable: Discussing the more proper way to name the most new contest in the artwork forums is being part of the things we're chatting every once in a while (we shared a looong chat with Adunakhor a couple of weeks ago regarding of the main issues/necessities at the contests.) I think this one is quite easy: Since the contest is oriented to people wo does what needs to be done in it (producing digital card renders), it will be better to have a name that conjugates its topic's essence the better as possible in order to make it the most recognizable as possible.
Quick information update from me: Bull is relocating at the moment, which is why I will set-up the new contests for this month.
We have taken into account the things we discussed in the other thread and hope the new contest will be exciting for you.
One of the biggest changes is probably that contenders won't openly submit their entries anymore. instead they will be sent by pm to the contest organizers and displayed only once the polls are up. We hope this will drive excitement a bit more and raise the positive spirit of the contests.
About sponsoring: The discussion about this is ongoing. At the moment it is safe to say this will not be a permanent thing, but probably something we will have every now and then. We will see. However, we think that the general motivation for participating should not stem from a material incentive, but from the artistic challenge and the fun involved instead.
Also, please contribute contest ideas if you have any. The contests are for you to be enjoyed and have fun with them. If you have a good idea, dont hesitate and tell us.
Also, I think I'm going to extend the deadline (1 week) for the contests if there isn't at least three entries on each of them.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: For April, I'm going to take the liberty of adding some stimulants, beside the trophy (wich still being a very cool prize!) Hopefully, they will help to bring the contests to the point they were before (or beyond.)
Altered Card Contest: I'm going to donate an alter made by myself for the winner. It will be, in almost the cases, my entry for the contest.
Photoshop Contest: Loading.... (Thinking about this one, and also accept ideas! Anyway, I think I'm going to give another altered card here.)
Artwork Contest: I would really love if somebody may offer a custom playmat (with custom art), at least for April, to test the attendance. Please, post here or PM me. I (and everyone) willl be very grateful! (May be someone who makes playmats or works with airbrush and/or printer? If there aren't volunteers, I'll probably giving a third altered card here too.)
EDIT: Also, please, post your siggestions for April's Artwork & Photoshop contests, respectively. I'll be posting a poll with them and more to make this more interactive! (between tomorrow and after tomorrow.)
- Paint a movie scene on a card that makes sense concerning the card`s name
- alter a card to have a mythology theme
My gallery of altered cards
With the EDH pre-cons coming out in June, how about making an alter of a legendary creature (aka a "commander")?
http://cup-a-swamp.com
:::My serious side:::
http://baddeacondesign.com/blog
May threads will be up Tonight.
EDIT: I mean, today at night.
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That's it.
BB.-
BB.-
Due to personal issues, the June contests will be posted late. I'll try to put them up the sooner as possible, once I've resolved a little my life.
Sorry for the inconveniences,
BB.-
Btw, an idea for a future contest could be either altering a card to make it look like a magazine/comic book cover or make a photoshop alteration of a card to make it look like a magazine/comic book cover.
http://alteredartmagic.blogspot.com/search/label/Nicolarre
or in my Humble Alter Gallery at DeviantArt: http://nicolarre.deviantart.com/gallery/
I'm happy to announce that between today and Monday I'll be posting the "June & July" round for each of the three contests. Yes, we are going to have a special edition in wich both months will be merged in one single round. I promess it will be really defiant and amusing!
Also, there'll be something about manga/comics in the Artwork round.
BB.-
August rounds will be more free-for-all style, in order to revert the lack of attendance in the last rounds. Expect a more general task this time.
César.-
Yeah, you ruined our lifes César!!!
Relax, Dude. Everyone was on vacation anyway, it's not a big deal
My gallery of altered cards
The reason I'm writting this lines are, first of all, I want to apologyse once more for the fact I'm not doing what I promised to all of you I would. I'm also here because I want to be clear about what's going on around here that's impeding me to be helpful with the conests: I've totally crashed even the smallest chance of saving the damaged relationship I had with someone I'm sure is the love of my life; I've also quited my job because all the sadness the aforementioned provoked made me extremely vulnerable to the jerk-ness of both, the person who was in charge of me and our manager, who is particulary jerkie (thanks for draining all the joyment my labor could offer me in the past, you *******...)
Hey! Wait! The story does not ends there (and now you've reached so far... :p) Since now I'm unemployed, I had no choice but leave the appartment I'm living in and move backwards to my homeland, where I'm sure I'm gonna die single...
And all of that leads us to the third reason I'm here; Since I'm temporarely insane and unproductive, I need a volunteer (or two) who wants to give me a hand for the next two months. I'll be back once I recover the balance in my enviroment, wich I think it must be solved sooner than later.
So... It is not that I want to catch people's attention;empathy,or their bank accounts' information. I just want someone who can take care of this for a while, then invite him/they to keep helpng during each month's new themes with new ideas, or physical support if needed.
I'm falling asleep, so I think that's it. Please, contact me if you have any question or suggerence you want to talk about.
Take care!!
César.-
P.S: Oh! I'd almost forgot to say thanks to everybody-knows-who-once-you-read-the-following for ruining the only thing that could give me a distraction against some of my problems AND a monetary solution to fight the rest of them, all in one. Oh, yes, I meant trading/buying/selling cards (and specially for doing it in a completely inappropriate way, and for half a year! And no, I'm not scared of you. Deal with it.) I hope this person doesn't get up on the wrong side of the bed in December...
BB.-
About what is it? Guess what...
Keep checking the contest forums along the day, and you'll see.
BB.-
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Entries posted during the last week of each contest (this month, from 03/24 to 03/31 of March for all of them) will not count for auto wins. This means that, after 24/03, entrants posting a piece will compete for a trophy just if there's a poll (two or more entries.)
BB.
That's no longer true since we have implemented the silent submision system.
- BBull
If not, maybe create a Digital Render contest?
@Everyone:
April contests' deadlines were extended one more week.
@zeerbe:
Late answer but not less valuable: Discussing the more proper way to name the most new contest in the artwork forums is being part of the things we're chatting every once in a while (we shared a looong chat with Adunakhor a couple of weeks ago regarding of the main issues/necessities at the contests.) I think this one is quite easy: Since the contest is oriented to people wo does what needs to be done in it (producing digital card renders), it will be better to have a name that conjugates its topic's essence the better as possible in order to make it the most recognizable as possible.
We have taken into account the things we discussed in the other thread and hope the new contest will be exciting for you.
One of the biggest changes is probably that contenders won't openly submit their entries anymore. instead they will be sent by pm to the contest organizers and displayed only once the polls are up. We hope this will drive excitement a bit more and raise the positive spirit of the contests.
About sponsoring: The discussion about this is ongoing. At the moment it is safe to say this will not be a permanent thing, but probably something we will have every now and then. We will see. However, we think that the general motivation for participating should not stem from a material incentive, but from the artistic challenge and the fun involved instead.
Also, please contribute contest ideas if you have any. The contests are for you to be enjoyed and have fun with them. If you have a good idea, dont hesitate and tell us.
My gallery of altered cards
Hope you like it, and don`t forget to participate in July's contest.
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July Winner Announcement to be made once winners are frontpaged by the admins.
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