>>Monstrous Workshop results, WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Started by Andail, Tue 28/05/2013 07:38:12

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Andail

Okay, here are the final versions of the digital paintings participating in this monster workshop. I've removed the artists' names and added my own titles. Everyone's entitled to vote. Voting will close on June 3th.

1. Hunted in the dark:


2. Summoning Cthulhu:


3. Final Orgie:


4. Snakearms in the tunnel:


5. The cave dweller:


6. The guardian of the bridge:


7. Sea monster:


8. Hovering monster:


9. Telling a monster's fortune?:


10. Summoned spiky monster:


11. Hollow shell monster:


12. Hole-headed tree monster:


You may chat freely in this thread, but please don't write further c&c. If an entry is missing, let me know ASAP.

awakening

I can't see 'Summoned Spiky Monster'.

Amazing work everyone!
Well impressed :)

Ryan Timothy B


Snarky

#3
Andail, I get that you want to mix it up a little, but might I suggest that you rename the threads consistently with correct spelling, for the sake of people who want to look them up with search later on?

Also, isn't the hole-headed tree monster thing missing? That one looked fairly finished, I thought.

Andail

#4
Hm, it seems Ben's picture can't be hotlinked, or I'm really dumb. I can't do very much until I get back from work, but if someone can either host his picture or tell me how to link it properly I can update the list.

Snarky, alright, adding hole-headed tree monster to the poll, although I'm rather uncertain the artist wants it here, considering she hasn't been posting for over a week.
I don't mind going back and adding all of the pictures, but I figured people might be upset if they don't consider them finished. So I went for those added/updated during this last week, just to draw the line somewhere. But if people want their pictures added, just say it.

PS:
Changed so that the results are only shown after the voting is closed, to make it more exciting!

Ryan Timothy B


Andail, assuming this works for Ben's image, just copy/paste this.

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Stupot


cat

Awesome entries everyone! This whole workshop was a fantastic experience for me. The atmosphere was so productive and inspiring, with everyone giving constructive criticism and commenting on other pictures. I'd never have thought I could make a picture like that, but it wouldn't have been possible without the help and inspiration of all the other people here.
I loved to see the pictures grow from ideas to sketches to finished illustrations and I think everyone grew in skills.

Thanks a lot to Andail for organizing and everyone for participating!

All participants who finished this workshop I consider winners, no matter who will be top in the voting.

selmiak

what do you mean with I have one vote only? :P

Totally great entries, really hard to decide, every piece is great on its own.

waheela

#9
Thanks for posting mine up Andail, I was out of town over the weekend and Monday and forgot about this!

Also, GREAT JOB EVERYBODY! These all look amazing! (laugh)

selmiak

Ben's Summoned spiky monster is still not showing up. Is this some worksafe censoring of art?

Khris

This should do it:

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Pic:

(click for big version)

Cerno

It's been a blast really.

Congratulations to everyone on truly awesome entries.

Seeing all these different approaches alone was inspiring, but having the chance to actually participate in this was unbelievably helpful.
As I said before, when I look at my final image, I can't believe that I made this. Couldn't have done it without all of you.

So, thanks for all the friendly comments, and especially to Andail for having the idea and for organizing everything.
I especially liked the "everyone comments on everyone" rule. I think that really made the workshop soar.

Finally, I hope we'll get to see the finished pieces of the ones who dropped out.
In commemoration to The Fly, The New Mother, The Ogre Scholar, The Terror Of The Lake, The Meatilator and The Angel-Winged Feline Girl (did I forget anyone?), I hope we'll see more of you in the near future :)
123  Currently working on: Sibun - Shadow of the Septemplicon

Mordalles

It was a blast taking part in the workshop, and I really enjoyed following everyone's progress. I salute every participant  (nod)!

Some really scary looking monsters. Selmiak, your last update really surprised me, and you ended with an awesome looking piece of art.
Ben, the lighting is great and the kind of atmospheric stuff i always love. I also love those fortune cards, great work there on the fortune monster piece. Progz, love the clouds and the monster and the lightning. You really pulled such an ambitious project of! andail, i loved how you did that city skyline in the background, behind such a great action shot.
Everyone just did exceptional work.

"It's a fairy! She's naked! Curse these low-res graphics!" - Duty and Beyond

Stupot

@Khris - I'm still not seeing Ben's picture. Same as Ryan's, Clicking it brings up a 404 error.
I think those urls seem to constantly change.  For example when I go onto the source code I can find the same kind of urls but the random letters and numbers are all different to those shown in yours and Ryan's links.

I've taken the liberty of putting it on my AGSer space for the time being.

Click image for large size
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CaptainD

Some really amazing entries here.  Wouldn't want to meet any of them in the flesh...
 

m0ds

Very cool and it will take me some time & thought to cast a vote cos they're all brilliant entries. Nice one folks!

miguel

Being part of this workshop with so many talented AGSers was really cool. Thanks for organizing this Andail.
It's not easy to pick a winner and One vote makes it harder, but it makes sense.

I would love to see a portrait workshop with different artists painting a AGser face and see the different approaches and results.
I would also like to get those chicken wings Andail promised to all contestants.
Working on a RON game!!!!!

waheela

#18
Hey Andail, weren't there two other categories we were going to be voting on as well?

-Most helpful to other users
-Most improved piece

I have people in mind for each category. :)

dactylopus

Made my vote.

Great work, everyone!  I'm amazed at how well everyone can do.  I'm also surprised by my own entry, which I pushed much farther than I'd thought possible.

I hope those who had to drop out will finish their pieces and show them, because this workshop really created some monstrously good results.

Andail

#20
Quote from: waheela on Wed 29/05/2013 02:51:48
Hey Andail, weren't there two other categories we were going to be voting on as well?

-Most helpful to other users
-Most improved piece

I have people in mind for each category. :)

Oh, I totally forgot.
So, let's just do the voting "manually" in here. Please nominate one person in each of the category quoted above. And I might be a bit dogmatic here, but I kind of think that having performed the "give at least one piece of c&c to everyone"-routine is a prerequisite to earning a most-helpful-nomination.

My vote for best process is Ben, because I think his collage of references set the standard early on. His final piece also stayed close to the sketches and ideas shown there.

My vote for most helpfulness would be Kasander. This one was rather tough, but I think I've noticed Kasander spending the most time advicing others.

PS:
By the way, are people ok with closing the voting earlier? I don't know why I picked one week as a deadline, but it does seem unnecessarily long. I think most people that intend to vote have done so. So if nobody objects, I'm closing voting tomorrow (Friday) around noon.

miguel

I'm okay with the new voting closure deadline.
Most help- misj', it was very tough to decide on this one;
Most improved- Cerno
Working on a RON game!!!!!

Andail

Btw, I feel a bit uncertain about this, but what's your opinion when it comes to viewing the results? My only concern is that some people that may end up with 0 votes might feel a bit uncomfortable. An alternative is that I just declare 1st, 2nd and 3rd position. I ordinarily teach teenagers, so maybe I'm unnecessarily cautious here, but you never know.

Misj'

I think each of the finished pieces deserves a lot of credit. Everyone has already shown that they can handle and value criticism. However...do we really need a winner or voting in general? - I would rather see this turn in some sort of quarterly event that is (often) based on something that's happening in the C&C (like ProgZ's ogre in this case).

Creamy

#24
I agree with Misj'
The creative process/constructive feedback was interesting, but we don't have to play "american idol" on every topic.
 

dactylopus

I'd love to see the top 3, actually.

As for the additional categories, I'd like to vote waheela for most helpful and cat for best process.

I might have voted for others, but I assumed this should only include those who participated in and finished the workshop.

waheela

Wait, I'm a little confused...

Are we voting for "best process" or "most improved piece throughout the workshop"?

dactylopus

Either way, I'll stick with my votes.

miguel

Top 3 sounds fine for me.
And competition is good for all of us who participate. Goals are good, to want to win is good as well.
One of us will get the most votes and that's only normal. If I don't get any vote I'll take it as a man! With chocolate and depressing 80's alternative music.
Working on a RON game!!!!!

cat

Most helpful: I got great advice from many people and I tried to incorporate it as well as possible. But the most helpful was Ben's psd. So I vote for ThreeOhFour.

Best process: This was a very close one between waheela and Cerno. I'll go with Cerno here.

Cerno

Between dactylopus and selmiak, I think I'll have to go for selmiak in terms of progress.

When it comes to helpfulness, I am not sure, because everybody gave their best to help out.

Misj' posted these great overviews in the first week and was very helpful to everyone.
304 would be a personal candidate because I learned so much from his sketches and remarks, especially pen choice and lighting
I also remember loominous and waheela giving me lengthy and helpful advice. Loominous also gave some invaluable hints on color and lighting and introduced (me at least) to the thumbnail technique.

In the end I'll have to give my vote to Kasander though due to his constant encouragement and those awesome mock-ups, which I fear I wasn't able to fully realize, but which were very helpful nonetheless.
123  Currently working on: Sibun - Shadow of the Septemplicon

Kasander

#31
Helpfulness...  Oh dear. If only Misj' hadn't dropped out so soon, I'd probably vote for him. He put a quite a lot of effort in drawing those sketches, examples, diagrams etc. But I liked waheela's advices and helpful references as well, and she stayed till the end :) I honestly can't decide on this. Half point each?;)

Most improved piece - that would be Cerno for me. With Selmiak a close second :) But I have to say, again, everyone deserves a pat in the back/award for sticking with his monster through the whole workshop.

EDIT:

As far as the 'AGS' next idol contest' goes I'm with Miguel on that one. Especially on chewing the chocolate while listening to depressing 80's music bit (laugh)
Nah, I don't care about the results really. It was fun and I was glad to help and learn from others.

PS:

Miguel also had a good idea about having another workshop, like character portrait-oriented one. I'd certainly like to take part in that. Or an sprite animation workshop, that would be cool too.

ThreeOhFour

My vote for most improved goes to Selmiak!

Most helpful is a real hard one - in particular Misj', loominous, Ilyich, Andail and Kasander gave many interesting explanations about various ideas. Quite hard to say who helped me the most personally, but I'd say Misj's direction with the creature's expression was the one that changed my pic for the best, so my vote goes to him.

As with miguel and Kasander, I'd very much enjoy a portrait workshop. Please consider this for a future activity.

waheela

Most helpful:  Really hard for me to decide, since I got a lot of good feedback from people like Cerno, cat and Kasander. This is tough, but I'm going to go with Misj' for this one, even though he dropped out halfway through.

Most improved pieceCerno and Selmiak! Half a point each! (Kasander did it, so I can too. :))

Best process:  I'm going with ThreeOhFour on this.

dactylopus

I would have voted for Misj' and loominous, but decided to stick with people who made it through the workshop.

It's been a lot of fun working with you guys, and I really learned a lot about art and my own capabilities.

Andail

Alright, let's wrap this off. I know it's a bit early, but I have some time over and the results probably won't change at this point. I'm considering not publishing the results as it's not really necessary to see who got 0 votes and stuff like that, but if people demand to see the figures I can absolutely show them.

So, without further ado, here are the winners:

1st place:
Hollow shell monster by Mordalles. Congratulations, Mordalles, you're the winner of this Illustration Workshop, hurray :)

2nd place:
Snakearms in the tunnel by Kasander.

3rd place:
Summoned spiky monster by Ben and Hole-headed tree monster by SookieSock in a tie.

Well done everyone!

ThreeOhFour

Aw nice, I voted for Mordy, awesome piece! Congrats! :D

Ghost

Congratulations to everyone; some amazing artwork in here. Even though I passed out early I still watched and learned a lot  (nod) I'm looking forward to another round.

Andail


selmiak

yay congrats to every participant and mordalles especially :)
I voted for you too ;)

Problem

Congratulations to everyone! I voted for Mordalles too, but this was a tough choice. Even though I just watched, it was very inspiring to follow everyone's progress. The results are absolutely awesome.

Mordalles

hurray, thanks guys! :shocked:

my money and vote was on kasander.

"It's a fairy! She's naked! Curse these low-res graphics!" - Duty and Beyond

dactylopus

Awesome!

Congratulations to the winners.  You guys deserved the recognition.  But so did so many others.  Great job all around.

Ilyich

Congrats to all the participants and especially to the winners! A bit surprised not to see Andail's piece in the top 3, but I guess that's just because it strayed a bit from the monster theme(which is ironic :)) and the awesomeness of the competition, since the illustration itself is really atmospheric and great.

My vote went to Kasander because it's both very energetic and coherent, but Mordalles' monster definitely deserved a win.
All in all, it was a lot of fun, special thanks to Andail for starting this up with a good theme and at a good time! Cheers! 

miguel

My vote went to Mordalles as well. You have a very talented hand, my friend!
Congratulations to everyone, it was great to be part of it.
Working on a RON game!!!!!

waheela

Congrats to the winners! Good job, everybody! :)

Kasander

@Andail

Kudos for organizing and supervising the workshop. I'll be looking forward to the next one (if I have time!;)) :)

@all participants

Well done! I'm glad we could learn something from each other.

SookieSock

Hey guys! Sorry I never got chance to finish and it's an honour to place alongside Ben.

My favourite was mordalles' too but everyone did so well and improved so much.

I'd love to do this again.

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