Wallpaper Contest Winners!
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BalSagoth,
Posted on: 2005-01-25 10:23 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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wow, very well done! By the way , there is a section in the forums where you can post your art any time. You should take a look.
I believe CuppaJo did say they were not able to post all of the entries. I'm sure there were thousands.
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And they have an email system that auto generates an email when you petition yet not one when you submit an entry into a contest....amazing, and once again thats for being the best fanboi one could ask for, you rock!!!
As for your wallpaper, I dig it man, wish it was displayed.
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wow, very well done! By the way , there is a section in the forums where you can post your art any time. You should take a look.
I believe CuppaJo did say they were not able to post all of the entries. I'm sure there were thousands.
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I will go look at posting it in that art forum, hopefully I can at least get the views I was expecting it to get.
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I dont care that I didnt win but after spending 2 days working on this wallpaper I at least wanted people to see it. I worked on it so much and I dont even get an email acknoledging that I submitted it. Kinda disappointing. Here it is, guess I have to post it myself since nobody will see it any other way. This makes me not want to compete in any other contests. All the costume people got their pictures posted so why cant we? Here it is My Wallpaper which wasnt good enough to get posted
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wow, very well done! By the way , there is a section in the forums where you can post your art any time. You should take a look.
I believe CuppaJo did say they were not able to post all of the entries. I'm sure there were thousands.
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Yes there may be a "place to post art on the FORUMS" but is his work or the 90+ others that submitted not GOOD enough for the main "gallery"? Were people's pictures all good looking on the "costume contest" that they got there pictures posted on the gallery? I think they should upload all the wallpapers for public viewing! My Submission
Please dont present logic and sense to the rabid fanboi as it will send him into a tizzy. I too agree that they should be posted, and some sort of acknowledgement should be made.
I still think even a badge, with a pen and pencil, called CoH Feild Artist or something to that effect for the people who submitted something would be a nice gesture, since it is apparent they didnt really have a good system set up to acknowledge if they got the pics in the first place.
I present to you my wallpaper
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wow, very well done! By the way , there is a section in the forums where you can post your art any time. You should take a look.
I believe CuppaJo did say they were not able to post all of the entries. I'm sure there were thousands.
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And they have an email system that auto generates an email when you petition yet not one when you submit an entry into a contest....amazing, and once again thats for being the best fanboi one could ask for, you rock!!!
As for your wallpaper, I dig it man, wish it was displayed.
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You are generally an angry person? Just curious. Anyway, asking for acknowledgement is perfectly fine, complaining like someone shot your dog and then made you eat it is something else.
I don't think you know what a Fanboi is if you think I'm one. I'm simply commenting on your lack of tact.
Also, just because someone spent 30 hours creating something from scratch, doesn't necessarily make it a better wallpaper than someone who spent an hour photoshopping.
A photographer who can capture the meaning of a moment with one snap is no less talented than an artist that paints on a canvas.
Nothing to see here...*whistles*
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I present to you my wallpaper
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Ok, this was amazingly rude and sarcastic but I still laughed 
Funny, is a faboi anything like a fanboi? 
VERY nice work there 
Hey I understand what your saying. I don't feel I need a badge or anything like that, but it would've been great to see more submissions to compare them to the winners and your own submission. You're just gonna have to take comfort in the fact that you did a good piece of work that you enjoy and leave it at that.
Yknow, while Im a little disappointed I didnt get any acknowledgement of the receipt of my submission , I still dont really have any complaints about the contest. Its just a little something extra Cryptic did. Nothing theyre obliged to do. Personally, my wallpaper wasnt chosen or displayed, which is fine. I still had a great time creating it, and I use it on my home computer and my work one.
Congratulations to all the winners, and I cant wait for the next contest Cryptic will have
Bert, can you post a 1024 x 768 version of your wallpaper? It's really quite spiffy.
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Yes my point that they should have some sort of system set up for sending out an email when someone submits something to their contest....yes, huzzah you got me, show me how that can be turned around because it such a terrible idea.
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Why do YOU know more about it then I do?
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Cause I am in communication with several posters via the mail system who agree with me, and feel slighted that they werent even acknowledged. You dont have access to my mail, so thus I know more then you in that regards, thanks
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I submitted a wallpaper as well.
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Huzzah for you, and like many other people who submitted it, do you even know if they got it or even looked at it?
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So it didn't win,
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Did it even get to them though?
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so the people on the boards didn't see it. I don't NEED their recognition. If I wanted it, I would post it in the appropriate section.
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Its not about that kind of recognition, once again you miss the point, people worked on this, some worked really hard, some worked really long, and they submitted and were left in the dark only to see the results come out and still have no clue if their work was even recieved or looked at.
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No promise was made to you to display your wallpaper.
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Nope, never said they did.
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no promise was made to display every single entry.
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Nope, never said they did.
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You don't know what you're talking about, that is obvious.
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Wow really? Twice now you have attempted to put words into my mouth, it seems to me you dont even know what I was attempting to garner. A system where you submit something, and they say, hey we got it, thanks for entering our contest....
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And you still don't know what a fanboi is. I'm willing to say that you are the opposite, which is just as bad.
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So I am the anti fanboi? You know the guy who doesnt kiss the butt of the company and take whatever is fed me as gospel truth and questions things....yeah I can accept that, better then being a blind sheep.
Is it wrong to ask they put in a system that acknowledges though that put time and energy into something with something as simple as an email, or as elaborate as a badge....I dont think so, but then again, I am on the side of the people who submitted entries and were left in the dark....which side are you on?
Nice entry!
I wish there was a way to showcase all of them - they obviously show quite a bit of talent and quite a bit of hard work that went into them.
On a side note, Bert - very nice job. Your version shows the excitement of the game, while featuring so many of the characters you confront.
Bert I really like your entry as well, do you have a bigger version of it though?
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I think you chose poorly, and thats more then sour grapes talking...
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Well, if you REALLY want some feedback on your wallpaper, get ready. Please note, I am attempting an honest critique (opinion) and I'm not trying to flame you at all.
I believe that all 6 of the winners and runners-up submitted a crisp, clean and professional-looking entry. While I'm not fond of the way CrimsonHelix's 2nd place entry looks and I don't see anywhere that states that you could use images from the comic book, it's still a well-done collage-type wallpaper. Yours, on the other hand, looks amateurish. I'm not trying to discount your artistic ability or the effort that you put in, but it just doesn't look as good.
Specifically, your line work is very plain, your computer coloring job is little more than a paint-bucket fill, your characters all have the EXACT same expression on their faces, except for the blue elf in the top left, and your layout is cluttered and distracting.
Your line work lacks depth. Every line is the same size on the same character. Also, from the way your linework looks, I'd bet that each character was a different size when drawn and then resized and pasted into the picture without much change. The lines on Statesman are MUCH thicker in the picture than the lines on the blond character behind him to the right.
Your coloring skills need gradations. The harsh break from one color shade to the next really distracts from the overall appearance. When you have weak linework, you really need strong, vibrant color work to make up for the lack of depth you lose with narrow black outlines and no shadows. Also, the color of metal looks like cloth which looks like skin which looks like metal, except for Statesman's helmet with the reflected light which looks a bit better than the rest. There's no difference in textures of the colors from one substance to the next.
With 11 different characters in a picture, how come you couldn't make more than two expressions when one of those is shared by ten characters? People do not always scowl trying to look cool.
Your layout is too chaotic. There's no sense of space with all the charactes just jumbled in on top of each other. Add to that the lack of a good background texture and it makes it too hard to focus on any one detail.
Anyway, that's my 2 inf. Keep up the art, you've got GREAT potential, you just need experience and practice. Fiind a tutorial or course on linework and coloring and your work will look much better just with improvements in those two areas. Practice, practice, practice!! Even Alex Ross's early work wasn't that great either.
Rock on, I can accept all the criticism, all I am asking for though was an email saying hey we got it, thanks, I wanted to know they got it, that they even looked at it.
More over I made a suggestion that to acknowledge the people who submitted and who were left in the dark, that a badge wouldnt be a bad idea, I think it would ease alot of the pissed off contestants who feel slighted.
Thank you for taking the time to critique my work, however any positive notes ( other then I got potential ), or just all negative?
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Wow really? Twice now you have attempted to put words into my mouth, it seems to me you dont even know what I was attempting to garner. A system where you submit something, and they say, hey we got it, thanks for entering our contest....
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ok so some people agree with you so you're the expert now. Ok then. Makes perfect sense now.
By the way, I do know it got to them. See there's this thing called a "read receipt". It confirms that your email was looked at. You should look into it.
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By the way, I do know it got to them. See there's this thing called a "read receipt". It confirms that your email was looked at. You should look into it.
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So I either use outlook to send it, or I use a third party to make sure someone has read something when in fact the people I am sending the email to have an already established email response system set up.....so that I can track it....wow, amazing, talk about reaching around yer back to scratch yer elbow....
Anymore ways you can try to blame the people that submitted their works for COH not acknowledging them?
First I do want to say congrats to all the winners! Some of them are a bit iffy but hey if thats what the judges liked then its not too much that can be done at this point.
However this contest did seem a bit sketchy to me. For example they could have set up an auto responder for that e-mail address easily
thus letting all contestants know their entry was at least received. I also think it was strange how they posted some of the entries while the contest was still going on. I say this because by doing so it gave people submitting after that the luxury of knowing what their competitors submitted
Perhaps the people voting took that into consideration when they picked the winners, because it sure does look that way. I do understand why they didnt post all of the entries though...Can we say time consuming!
I posted my entry in another thread but ill post it here for those who may not have seen it. I think mine should have ranked up there somewhere, but hey what can I say Im pretty biased
lol. I can tell you this if COH ever has another art/screenshot based competition I will think twice about entering.
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Ok - here we go.
We got way too many entries to post them all - as I said before. If you want to show your wallpaper off, post it here.
If your entry had not been received you would have gotten an email bounce-back saying it did not go through.
We had a few people ask for a confirmation and all of those who sent in a request for verification were responded to. As in all contests, the responsibility is on the part of the participant to ensure their entry arrived.
The second entry complied with all the rules.
A badge? No. ALL contest rules, stipulations, and prizes have to be announced when the contest is announced due to the laws governing contests. So we cannot decided to hand out a badge now.
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True art is subjective and the judges may feel that these are the best.
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Indeed we do.
Finally, go ahead and state your thought, but then leave it at that. The flinging of the jello is not needed.
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By the way, I do know it got to them. See there's this thing called a "read receipt". It confirms that your email was looked at. You should look into it.
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So I either use outlook to send it, or I use a third party to make sure someone has read something when in fact the people I am sending the email to have an already established email response system set up.....so that I can track it....wow, amazing, talk about reaching around yer back to scratch yer elbow....
Anymore ways you can try to blame the people that submitted their works for COH not acknowledging them?
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you think putting a read receipt on an email is reaching around your back? I think there is a bigger problem here.
In another thread you expressed how nerve racking it was when you were submitting, you were so worried it seems. But you wouldn't put a read receipt on. Doesn't make sense to me.
I think even hotmail has read receipt options. Not just Outlook. And like outlook is such a rare software to have.
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Seems to me the second place winner broke a few of the rules. Anyone disagree?
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I think they will argue they own the comic book and rights to it, but isnt that the original artwork of the artist of the comic book......
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As for the first place winner, I didnt notice the change, what was it?
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However, I am glad the rabid fanbois have come charging out, what would a good thread be without them?
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Why were the rest of us not allowed a second submission?
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Hecht man, some of us dont even know if they got our submission in the first place. I guess acknowledging someone's hard work with an email is too much to ask for, let alone, it would be nice to have a special badge designed for all those that participated, so you get some sort of recognition for even submitting something you either spent minutes or hours on.
However I do like the first place winner, though it wouldnt be my first choice, the second place winner is too much of a stretch for me, however the third place winner is nicely done, original artwork as far as I can tell, or a lifted sketch from the designers, either way, pretty cool, Runner Up.....YES, WHAT IS CITY OF HEROS.....???? You cannot really tell what the hecht this entry is supposed to be....seems more a thrown together piece of various ideas then anything else.....the kheld runner up, simple sweet, but seriously,other then the planet can you see anything else, the dark images and clarity leave alot to be desired, and finally the statue runner up, print screen x 5, add some lighting effects via photoshop and badda bing badda boom, ya got a wallpaper!!!
I have seen better posted and so have other posters. I am not the only who believes this either.
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but it doesn't have the CoH logo, the website URL, or really anything to do with City of Heroes.
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Wow really, you mean the big city of heros logo in the right hand corner wasnt obvious to you, nor was the fact that Statesman is standing in the middle of the image....wow.....did you even look at it? More over it wasnt in the rules that any of that had to be part of it, they didnt ask for it, nor hint at wanting it. If they did, it would of been part of mine.
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Anyway, carry on your crying... if you do it long enough, maybe there won't be anymore contests. Then will you be happy?
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I am asking for some basic things in a contest, like fair and equal treatment and acknowledgement of submission, not too much to ask, but once again, I do love fanbois so much, so willing to defend what you barely understand....I look forward to another post by you, seriously I do....