BACKGROUND BLITZ 20051130-20051213

[Haddas]

Photoshop, tablet, 4 hours

Hey, It's the best dinersaurus i've ever seen in my life!

[Mordalles]

haha, thats brilliant, stevemccrea!

[Neutron]

I decided to go isometric on your asses in the spirit of 'fallout'

hopefully the enlargement works this time Oo

[rharpe]

That's a beautiful piece! The colors, shadows, and compesition are great... even if it's iso.

[seaduck]

Oh, there are so many lovely entries this time!

It's a real pity I have so much school work that I won't be able to finish my entry, no chance. Sigh. And such an inspirating theme (the apocalypseÃ,  ) and I have already progressed a lot with the background.

Guess I'll just have to post it on the critics lounge when it's finished (which could be anything from Christmas to JanuaryÃ,  :'()

[Bartimaeus]

Okay well this is my first Photoshop attempt in the history of my life and although it's really scruffy I'd have to kill myself if I didn't enter considering the amount of time I just put into it.
Don't forget to look at the weirdest mushroom cloud ever drawn. 



~Billy

Ps. I need a tablet.

[Andail]

Time is up. Please refer to the instructions before voting.

[Venus]

* Best Idea - SteveMcCrea

* Best Design - Neil Dnuma

* Best Functionality - Floskfinger

* Best Technique - Rel

[Nikolas]

Best idea - SteveMcCrea

Best Design, Functionality, Technique - Rel

Best abscense of this comp - Loominous (for once he wasn't here, thus he didn't win!) I would like to see what he could come up with this marvelous idea.

[Kweepa]

Best idea - Darth. Very post-apocalyptic.
Best design - Neil Dnuma. Great style!
Best functionality - Floskfinger. Perhaps it's just that seeing is believing - putting those robots in there really helped!
Best technique - Rel. The buildings in the background are fantastic. I'd love to see what else you've done - do you have a gallery on-line somewhere?

Great competition idea, Andail. You elicited a lot of good entries! I don't know what ildu was thinking really...

[AlbinoPanther]

Our votes:

Best idea - SteveMcCrea ( original indeed )
Best design - Neil Dnuma ( hahaha Godzila footsteps rules )
Best tehnique - Zooty ( we love the sky )
Best functionality - Darth mandarb ( imagine Foster and his Joey here )

Andail congrats on theme for comp.

[ildu]

Great competition idea, Andail. You elicited a lot of good entries! I don't know what ildu was thinking really...

I know . This turned out to be a much more successful than I expected. But I did say it wasn't for me and it would probably appeal more to other people. Anyways, one of the best blitz's I've seen. I'll vote later. I'm busy right now.

[Darth Mandarb]

My Votes:

Best Idea - Neil Dnuma
Love the idea behind the image ... the footsteps approach and you can clearly tell what has happened.  It's not the way my brain thinks of appolcolypse, but still, a great image!

Best Design - Rel
Gotta agree with Steve on this one ... the skyline in the background is incredible!  Very Half Life 2 feeling.

Best Functionality - Floskfinger
Seems like the one with the clearest "areas" on it.  You can tell where to walk off (or where you'd come in) from.  Seems very functional as a background.

Best Technique - Neutron
This gets my vote cause I'm a sucker for iso!  And this is great work!

Hey LJUBI ... did you guys decide you only wanted to vote in two categories?  Why didn't you vote all?

Voting:
Give one vote in each of the following categories:

[AlbinoPanther]

Now we voted like we should do it first time (see our first post).

[Neil Dnuma]

Best Idea - Venus.  I really fell in love with it Steve McCrea made me laugh, and having a meal at "The Four Horsemen" is an intriguing idea.
Best Design - Rel wins here. Very immersing through excellent use of lighting, and of course the mist.  Great walls, wires and whatnot.
Best Functionality - Darth Mandarb. Being a very strong contender in all four categories, he deserves at least one, and there's no doubt this BG would suit a game perfectly.
Best Technique - Rel again! Excellent brushing. Hard to believe this is 320x200.


This was a great Blitz, largely thanks to Andail's theme. All contributions are really good! I must mention his out-of-competition BG too, as it would have been a tough competitor.

[TheYak]

Best Idea - Flosk - I was thinking of entering but became disheartened when every idea I had for it was done better by somebody else already.  Flosk's was a new spin I hadn't had in mind.

Best Design - Rel - Great detail and quality, but more importantly, great planning and implementation.

Best Functionality - Neutron.  Drooled over the Fallout-esque BG for awhile.  Could be used quite easily, for regular sprites or isometric ones.

Best Technique - Darth - Solid background using some admirable technique to make texturing look like tiny details but still keeping the color count low.  Having a low count with a sky and environment that gorgeous shows the best technique IMO.

[ildu]

* Best Idea - This goes to Mordalles. It was a really difficult pick for me, since all of the entries seemed different and interesting in their own ways. But I thought Mordalles had the most descriptive premise. Although that explosion there couldn't be static, I would love to visit this diner. It has that great feeling and style of astrojunk, and I would love to see this in some wacky space adventure. Special notations to flosk and darth.

* Best Design - A definate win to Rel. This was also a difficult one for me, because suprisingly many images were so impressive visually. Rel's image expresses the theme really well, and style is impeccable. It truly looks like a post-apocalyptic world and the realistic style adds to the effect. Special mentions to Neil Dnuma's wacky stylings, andail's beautiful plane and Neutron's iso.

* Best Functionality - The winner here is definately Floskfinger. In addition to being fun and pretty, the image really would work the best as a background. The sprites are already there so I guess they help. The composition would also work really well. There is one clear exit, the bar is emphasized and there's room to wander about close to the carwreck and the seats. I sure would love to order a Xenoth-5B from that robot, or in pre-apocalyptic tongue, a margharita.

* Best Technique - I'm gonna say Neil Dnuma. I was going to vote for Rel, but I just loved the colors and pixel details on Neil's background so much that I went with his. It reminds me of the classics.

To Andail: Could it be possible to list the amount of votes for each contestant when you declare the winner? Or if that's too harsh, how about listing the votecounts for the three best contestants? I'd just like to see by how much the winner wins and whatnot.

[Mordalles]

Best idea - SteveMcCrea

Best Design - Rel

Best Functionality - Darth

Best Technique - Rel

[Ginny]

Ooh so many beautiful backgrounds.
Venus - I really love your work (I tend to lurk in the bg blitz/sprite jam threads), this one didn't seem as good as your other stuff though.

* Best Idea - SteveMcCrea. One word- Dinersaurus;) Followed by Neil Dnuma's crushed diner.

* Best Design - Rel. It left me in awe for quite a while, really fitting the atmosphere of a post-apocalypse time. Andail's was great too, but he isn't entering anyway.

* Best Functionality - Floskfinger. The AI droids/robots sold me:).

* Best Technique - Neil Dnuma. Darth Mandarb and Floskfinger had great ones too.

You people are so damn good!

[Krysis]

Best idea - Venus
Heh, skulls&coachroashes. Cool.
Best Design - Darth
Me likes!
Best Functionality - Floskfinger
Robotz!
Best Technique - Rel
I love it!