MTG Salvation

This week's theme was Pitch Cards. Because there are only nine entries, [b]each person only has two votes[/b]. The contestants:

[b]Spanglegluppet[/b]


[b]Watza[/b]


[b]Forgotten_hope[/b]


[b]Blurrycloud[/b]

*Note: This banner uses png transparency, which appears as blue on some browsers. Pretend it's not.*

[b]Charlie Donaldson[/b]


[b]Flappy[/b]


[b]Craven[/b]


[b]psionicblast[/b]


[b]Topher[/b]


[b]Remember, each person only has two votes. If you vote for more than two, all your votes will be disregarded.

I voted blurry and charlie.

Great job this week, guys!

Mine go to Forgotten_Hope and Blurrycloud. Very nice on both accounts!

Unfortunately, Ghandi's votes must be discounted, as he voted for three people :(.

My votes go to blurrycloud for elegance of execution and Craven for the wonderful pun and nice imagery.

Forgotten_Hope and Topher get my votes this week.

My votes go to psonicblast and spanglegluppet

I voted for Craven and Spanglegluppet. Pretty good punchline you've stolen there Craven, and overall the coolest banner. I just wonder, what is the guy with the sunglasses doing in there? I debated wether to vote for Spanglegluppet or Blurrycloud's. In the end Blurry's banner looks very pretty, but it looks like more work went into Spangle's. Flappy also gets an honorary mention. Meh, two votes just wasn't enough this week I feel.

okay, mine are disregarded then. I didn't realise. I usually just vote and comment. But, If I had two pick two, take one vote off flappy.

In the end Blurry's banner looks very pretty, but it looks like more work went into Spangle's.

And how did you arrive to this conclusion?

Mine go to Charlie and Flappy, because I fear their sigs will eat me if I don't. That, and I reckon they look the best. The amount of work that (I think) must have gone into the dude looks amazing...and the final result for both is brilliant. Well pulled off.

JoInTsMoKa

SpanglePuppet and Forgotten_hope
Both are voted for their intensity types.

Spanglegluppet

-Radiance
-Clarity
Forgotten_hope
-Focus
-Purpose

Quote from blurrycloud »

And how did you arrive to this conclusion?

Because all your banners are the same?

Quote from Onderzeeboot »

Flappy also gets an honorary mention. Meh, two votes just wasn't enough this week I feel.

Quote from Charlie Donaldson »

But, If I had two pick two, take one vote off flappy.

Why do we all have two votes all of a sudden? I'm missing out on votes just because people think mine is third best.

Anyway, my vote goes to Craven, for extreme coolness. I don't find the other entries interesting. Especially not the two winning ones of Forgotten_Hope (nice pun, but not a nice banner) and especially blurrycloud (Shining Shoal render... that's all).

There have been contests where I'd love to make five votes because of many great entries. This time I can't find a banner worth any second vote.
If for that reason my vote doesn't count, you can add another vote to Craven. I hope he wins, for being cool instead of an average shopkeeper.
Vin Diesel ftw.

I think spangles is the nicest this week. I liked yours, flappy. But its too much like all the other ones. Forgotten hopes has nice grunge in the background... it is just excecuted very poorly.

Blurrys, as I have stated, looks the same as all of his banners. :/

Mine I feel proud of, becuase selecting around those edges to change the color was NOT simple. also, the text was hard to do, but fun

Because all your banners are the same?

So if I were to consistantly put in 200 hours of work into every sig i make, it will be less than someone who puts 1 hour into a sig he makes?

Blurrys, as I have stated, looks the same as all of his banners. :/

Same as in all the 6 image smashed up sigs i've been seeing a few months ago?

Mine I feel proud of, becuase selecting around those edges to change the color was NOT simple.

Why do you need to select around the edges? Just put the a red layer on top.

Quote from Charlie Donaldson »

Forgotten hopes has nice grunge in the background... it is just excecuted very poorly.

Hehe ^_^;. I was never good with Stock.
Topher and Craven.

Forgotten hopes has nice grunge in the background... it is just excecuted very poorly.

I would say the whole background image is probably an abstract wallpaper image created by someone else.

But thats still a guess.

Quote from blurrycloud »

Same as in all the 6 image smashed up sigs i've been seeing a few months ago?


Why do you need to select around the edges? Just put the a red layer on top.

What are you talking about?

Same as in all one art, all the same effect on basically every single one.

its called having flow and focus

Quote from blurrycloud »

And how did you arrive to this conclusion?

It looks like your banner consists of "just" a few layers. The fish on top of the border + text on top of the rest of the image on top of the transparent background. In other words, even though I really like the result, it looks like something I could do. Spangle's banner on the other hand is much more complex and consists of more puzzle pieces. To me he did great work picking out the exact pieces of art that fit together in color, and so, even though the end result is busier than yours, and though we could argue about the font of choice and the way the mana symbols are obscuring part of the art, I voted for him.

Don't hate me, next time I might vote for you (as I did last week, the week before that, and the week before the week before the week before the week before that).

@Craven: I see, that's a movie I haven't seen

Edit: "Watzafied" my post - I really don't mean to pick an argument, just explaining what I'm thinking. Of course my line of thought might be completely off. Then again, I never said it wasn't

Well, the idea behind the two-votes thing was to have the number of votes each person gets correspond to how many entries there are. It makes sense to have one vote if there are three or four entries, and three if there are twelve; shouldn't there be something in-between? Well, anyway, that's what DB and I thought. I guess it's not really working out, though :p.

Creation time: 6 minutes. I rest my case.

heh... try making my sig then... it will definately take more than 6 minutes
u will notice many missing features

Like what? Countless crisp filters, renders, brushes etc, taking hours, contributing nothing. What are the missing features?

nevermind
i'm not interested in any more arguments