Post: GFX Tournament Voting
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07-28-2010, 03:36 PM
#1
+tA.Daisho
Crumpets and tea?
Anyhow after recieving the top 2 choices from all the judges (except rjive but he is MIA).
It has been narrowed down to these 2 finalists.:y:
Thank you to everyone who entered.
- No voting for yourself
- No cheating to get votes
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07-29-2010, 03:41 AM
#47
VerTDznS
the original Vertigo
guarantee if i wouldnt have made the canvas so large most people wouldnt say it would be plain. mine was about 100 layers no joke. i had to do each letter separate plus make the boldness of each letter. 14 letters x 6 nudges on each letter to get boldness is 98 layers. plus the background, gloss, splatter. gradients. 100+ layers but of course i merged most of em in the process. so plain but took a lot of work. while on the other hand. favo followed a tut.:wtf:
07-29-2010, 04:30 AM
#49
Analdogfag
Banned
Why are people voting for #2? , Its from a TuT even a baby could do. Vertigos is made from scratch so no doubt who deserves the votes.
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07-29-2010, 05:42 AM
#51
DesmondS95
Rawr.
07-29-2010, 12:36 PM
#52
+tA.Daisho
Crumpets and tea?
Originally posted by Venom
IMO you win dude. That doesn't deserve a win lolz.
I think You'll find it does, with the fact that 105 people have voted for it.
Anyway I think Favo has won this so the next mod that comes along could they close it.
---------- Post added at 07:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:29 AM ----------
Originally posted by Vertigo
guarantee if i wouldnt have made the canvas so large most people wouldnt say it would be plain. mine was about 100 layers no joke. i had to do each letter separate plus make the boldness of each letter. 14 letters x 6 nudges on each letter to get boldness is 98 layers. plus the background, gloss, splatter. gradients. 100+ layers but of course i merged most of em in the process. so plain but took a lot of work. while on the other hand. favo followed a tut.:wtf:
Maybe so Dizzi,
But I specifically said that tuts were allowed, you did your without help which is admirable but at the end of the day however much work each person did it all comes down to what users prefer and in this case it was Favo's.
Don't worry though when I have enough vbux again I will set up another.
07-29-2010, 09:55 PM
#54
RS*_Depression
I’m too L33T
Okay, can I interject something here? Because I have a lot to say.
1. For all of the people saying that one of the entries is "too plain" compared to the other, I want you to back that up. What makes the second entry less "plain" than the first? The texture? The striped background? While you're right, that makes the second entry less "plain", try to imagine the first entry with the same texture, or a striped background. It wouldn't fit. It wouldn't work.
When you vote for an entry, don't compare them by elements that can't be translated from one to another. The only correct variation of "too plain", in this case, would be "the texture fits better" in one or the other. And even then, that's entirely subjective.
2. Who cares if Favo followed a tut? The fact is, Vertigo, you used techniques from a tut just like Favo did. I mean, unless you instinctively knew, from the moment you first opened Photoshop, how to make that lighting effect, or the texture, or the spraypainting, then you can't deny that a tutorial benefited you as well. Favo may have followed one a little more strictly, but there's nothing wrong with that. As artists, we all learn from others, whether by instruction (tutorials) or inspiration (browsing art and taking ideas).
3. One of the things that irks me the most is when someone says "I used x layers, which means that my art is better than the other person's, just because I used so many layers!"
Listen up. When you save that PNG and upload it to Photobucket, or TinyPic, or Imageshack, how many layers does it have then? One. One layer. What does the general audience see? One layer. There could have been a thousand layers put into a piece of art, but if the end product looks like junk, then you just wasted your efforts on a thousand layers that, combined, looks like junk.
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Okay, let me actually talk about the two pieces of art, as that is what this thread is about.
Both have good texture, good color, and good placement. There's nothing I can harp on in that respect.
However, I voted for Vertigo because of one key difference: the supporting effects. Where Favo, in my opinion, overused the vector brushes in his (especially over the T and O) and didn't really clean up the edges (I see some run-over around the R, and some cutoff circles around the T and O), Vertigo's spray paint effects are simple, well placed, and were cleanly incorporated.
Overall, for me, Vertigo took that extra step in making sure everything was polished (and that text certainly looks it). So my vote went to, in my opinion, the more finished piece of art.
1. For all of the people saying that one of the entries is "too plain" compared to the other, I want you to back that up. What makes the second entry less "plain" than the first? The texture? The striped background? While you're right, that makes the second entry less "plain", try to imagine the first entry with the same texture, or a striped background. It wouldn't fit. It wouldn't work.
When you vote for an entry, don't compare them by elements that can't be translated from one to another. The only correct variation of "too plain", in this case, would be "the texture fits better" in one or the other. And even then, that's entirely subjective.
2. Who cares if Favo followed a tut? The fact is, Vertigo, you used techniques from a tut just like Favo did. I mean, unless you instinctively knew, from the moment you first opened Photoshop, how to make that lighting effect, or the texture, or the spraypainting, then you can't deny that a tutorial benefited you as well. Favo may have followed one a little more strictly, but there's nothing wrong with that. As artists, we all learn from others, whether by instruction (tutorials) or inspiration (browsing art and taking ideas).
3. One of the things that irks me the most is when someone says "I used x layers, which means that my art is better than the other person's, just because I used so many layers!"
Listen up. When you save that PNG and upload it to Photobucket, or TinyPic, or Imageshack, how many layers does it have then? One. One layer. What does the general audience see? One layer. There could have been a thousand layers put into a piece of art, but if the end product looks like junk, then you just wasted your efforts on a thousand layers that, combined, looks like junk.
_____________________________________________
Okay, let me actually talk about the two pieces of art, as that is what this thread is about.
Both have good texture, good color, and good placement. There's nothing I can harp on in that respect.
However, I voted for Vertigo because of one key difference: the supporting effects. Where Favo, in my opinion, overused the vector brushes in his (especially over the T and O) and didn't really clean up the edges (I see some run-over around the R, and some cutoff circles around the T and O), Vertigo's spray paint effects are simple, well placed, and were cleanly incorporated.
Overall, for me, Vertigo took that extra step in making sure everything was polished (and that text certainly looks it). So my vote went to, in my opinion, the more finished piece of art.
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