Discussion: Announcing the Loading Screen Contest Winners!

Altoholic_Monkey · 10-23-2010 01:38 AM

I'm pretty pleased to have scored a runner up slot. Thanks to everyone who did the selection. Congrats to all the winners.

Lord_Kalistoh · 10-23-2010 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Fennec

Congrats to all!

As Founders' Falls was the winning entry, I'd like to see what everyone submitted for this zone.

This was my entry…

[cool screen]

This took me 3 days and over 200 screen shots (that white line in the monorail only appears like that when the sun hits it just right for a few seconds every hour or so and there was a pesky mob I had to keep killing near the speedboat). And yes, I had just finished watching the Doctor Who "Don't Blink" episode when I started this.

Now, let's see yours!

Just an advise: Next time use /demorecord to make a video of the part want to shoot without moving the camera. Then edit the file to change the exact in-game time of day and remove characters, then take the screen-shot. I did that with several of my entries.

P.D.: Man, the design of the hero screens it's exasperating. Pretty hard to fit some stuff in them because they are all rectangles (like the FF's obelisk plaza). Villain's are irregular and in different shapes and easier to find a row to fit the stuff you want.

OV_ohms · 10-23-2010 02:55 AM

Congratulations to all the winners and runners up, those are fantastic! Can't wait to see them in game

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pinckz · 10-23-2010 11:09 AM

I'm glad my loading screen for peregrine Isles made it into the runner ups. I am just wondering what they are going to do with all of the other submissions I had.

I did one for every Hero Zone except for Rikti (and the 3rd outline for the Hero zones thing wasn't working for me).

I didn't do any villains though because I wanted to invest my energy into places I was at least vaguely familiar with.

Also, where were you Kalistoh when I was taking my pictures in test?

I could've used that info.

EDIT:

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Originally Posted by OV_ohms

Congratulations to all the winners and runners up, those are fantastic! Can't wait to see them in game

ditto

EDIT 2:

If anyone is interested in seeing all of my entries, they are all in this photo bucket gallery. I was waiting until the contest was over and the winners announced before I showed them to people, just in case.

http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t...t%20%20images/

Monkey_King · 10-23-2010 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

I actually PM'd David this very idea during the contest. After the fact, I realized that part of the challenge is to capture the entire zone's essence in a single image. Still, looking at so many great entries...

A lot of zones (particularly in the Rogue Isles) have multiple landmarks that are iconic for that area. Take the Hollows, for example. One of the winning submissions doesn't even include the actual "hollowing" area, but those spooky floating rocks over by the Circle of Thorns area are pretty thematic, too. I'd really like to see multiple screens for each zone, giving a quick overview of all the area's major landmarks, rather than just the three you can cram into one screen.

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Tigra_Swipe · 10-23-2010 03:21 PM

Good idea on the album, pinckz Nice entries, too. I liked your Faultline especially.

Here were mine.

http://picasaweb.google.com/tsrapp1700/COHEntries#

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Nethergoat · 10-23-2010 03:22 PM

good work everyone, and GRATZ to the winners!

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Energizing_Ion · 10-23-2010 08:08 PM

Congrats to all the winners!

Personally I liked the runners-up more than the winners (for the most part) but...*shrugs*

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Fennec · 10-23-2010 10:31 PM

And here's my album of entries:
http://s1130.photobucket.com/albums/m536/CMaak/CoH/

What's terrible to me is that I can see clearly where I went wrong in this contest. When I opened the first template, all that blue was too much for me. So my screenshots incorporate a lot of color. Looking at the winners and runners-up, that was so the opposite of what the judges were looking for. 2/3s of the placers, including all three winners, are almost monochromatic, ranging from blue to olive drab to gray. Oh well, live and learn. I'll get it right next time.

KingCrazy · 10-26-2010 10:31 AM

Gratz to everyone up there.

Just wanted to say I appreciate that my entry was picked as a runner up (I'm A. Jonic xD). I was praying and praying that I'd at least get runner up. And then one night while watching RvB, I got the email.

As a note of creativity, I would like to say that my screenshots went from green and grassy, to a bit more destroyed, and then finally to post-apocolyptic.

I disliked how The Hollows' old loading screen showed NONE of the destroyed areas of the zone, I wanted to touch up a little bit more on that.

Also, I hated how the first (Upper left) picture came out. I wanted to brighten it up in Photoshop, however I didn't know if that was allowed.

I appreciate the congrats, everyone. And congrats to all the other winners up there.

Edit:
Oh yeah, I was loling pretty hard when I saw none of the top 3 were from the USA XD I dunno why but it was pretty funny to me.