Backgrounde Blitze: The Mad Scientist's Lab (Winner!)

[charliechuck]

i started one but never had enough time to finished it, can i upload it anyway ? It's a bitmap do I have to convert it to another format first ?

(edit)Thanks Done it (I think).



it's a bit pants I know, but I'm sure you've seen worse

[skw]

Yes, save it as a .PNG file.

[Tomas]

Oh, I had almost forgotten that I started doing a background for this BB. It's still not finished - I would like to add some more detail to it - but I won't have time to work more on it, so here it is:



EDIT: I guess it's too late for it to be included in the compo, but I made some changes to my bg. For the record, I'll just post this scaled down version of it:

[Traveler]

Please wait a few hours for me to get home and be able to upload my entry. It's done but I didn't have time to upload it in the morning. I don't have it on my office computer. :/

Thank you very much for waiting, everyone. Here is my entry: the mad scientist's lab in a secret basement. Unfortunately, the mad scientist is now only a white chalk outline on the floor and no one knows what that machine does in the back... except maybe one person.

Look out for evidence.



640x480, true color. It took me quite a bit of work, I'm glad it's done. Thanks to Slava for the Russian translation!

[loominous]

A bright and saturated palette experiment. Very uneven, and if I had the time, I'd tinker with the coloring and refine some areas, though I like the roughness of many parts.



It's supposed to be some sort of airship, a zeppelin like thing, housing an adventuring professor.

Btw, most lab equipment is on the foreground table.

[buloght]

Yay! The days I have been counting for a new loominous bg. Great entries all round.

[Krysis]

Ok, so let the voting begin!

Best Idea: ?
Best Functionality: ?
Best Design: ?
Best Technique: ?

[ildu]

Best Idea - Loominous. All the ideas for this comp seemed pretty uniformly traditional, but Loominous' zeppelin brought a little something new to the table.

Best Functionality - Traveler. A simple-perspective traditional background. I'd really like to see a game come out of this.

Best Design - Loominous. What can I say? It's got great composition and depth. It's playful and whimsical, and very very interesting. Definately my favorite.

Best Technique - Tomas. This is a very pleasing background, both for it's composition and the technique. It reminds me a lot of the old kids' interactive storybooks, kinda like The Island of Dr. Brain.

[biothlebop]

Yarooze:
+ good idea
- lazy execution

Arcangel (1st picture):
+ Lots of stuff
- neutral colors and slightly awkward perpective (table with cloth)
(2nd picture):   
+ Interesting start
- aaarhh! gradients! & neutral colors

DanClarke:
+ Nice sepiaish sketch
- confusing (especially the spherical window curving outward, due to lighting), unfinished

charliechuck:
+ good idea (bicycling man power)
- bad execution (empty and perspective)

Tomas:
+ Smooth cartoonly lines throughout (except coats)
- they don't always play well together
- the floor draws too much attention to itself

Traveler:
+ Atmosphere
+ equipment
-table and boxes in the left foreground are vey complex with the added shadows
-rigid/stiff composition (although 3d usually is)

loominous:
- Aahh! My eyes! (too bright and saturated at first, instant thought having looked at the previous picture)

After eyes got used to it:

+ Lovely details, lots of interesting stuff
+ great composition, doorways visible, no foregroud elements are darker (refreshing for a change)
- the table with the open journal looks small/odd in relation to the chair and floor around it
- blurry and still bright/saturated

votes:

Idea: Traveler (soviet lab/crime scene) vs. loominous (exploring scientist/jules verne-ish)
-> Traveler (for sticking closer to the topic)

Functionality: every entry has: a door/exit, thus technical skill narrowed it down to the last three entries.
-> Tomas (for crisp outlines and relatively simple walkbehinds)

Design: Tomas vs loominous (mainly looking at compostition here)
-> loominous (pleasing placement of objects and how they work together)

Technique: Traveler (3d modelled room) vs loominous (overexposed MI3-like background)
-> loominous (although it is over-saturated and slightly sketchy, it is ultimately very nice)

[skw]

BEST FUNCTIONALITY: Tuomas,

Shit, I made the same mistake.

Sorry.

edit: Grr! I wanted to quote this, not modify!

[gameboy]

Best idea: Traveler
Best Functionality: Traveler
Best Design: Traveler
Best Technique: Loominous

[vict0r]

Best idea: Loominous
Best functionality: Traveler
Best design: Loominous
Best technique: Loominous

[Tomas]

I just have to vote loominous in all four categories. Make a game already dude!

So. For the record:

Best idea: loominous
Best functionality: loominous
Best design: loominous
Best technique: loominous

[R4L]

BEST IDEA: loominous
BEST FUNCTIONALITY: loominous
BEST DESIGN: loominous
BEST TECHNIQUE: loominous

Nice one loominous!

[buloght]

best idea: traveler
best functionality: traveler
best design: tomas
best technique: loominous

[yarooze]

agrr, I'm not able to say who's the best...Ã,  :o

Of course I had the best Idea. I know that! Really! It was simple genious to do not make the lab at all, since it was destroyed! I was the first also!
ok, ok...

best idea: Traveler
best functionality: Traveler
best design: loominous
best technique: loominous

[.Sklate.]

First time here  and I must say I'm mighty impressed!

Best idea: traveler
Best functionality: traveler
Best design: traveler
Best technique: loominous

[Krysis]

OK so here are the results:

Best Idea: loominous/traveler;

Best functionality: traveler;

Best design: loominous;

Best technique: loominous;

Total votes: loominous (23); Traveler (14); Tuomas Tomas (4);

Winner is : loominous.

EDIT: Sorry, about that. Minor mistake.

[Tuomas]

Yay, I was 3rd even though I didn't enter! \o/

[Traveler]

Thanks to all who voted for my work.