Hey guys,
Are the Halloween rewards still with Verene?
Haven't been able to reach her to pick mine yet so was just wondering.
Also going over some of the work in this thread. All this talent :| Some awesome pieces here.
Valdis's first entry looks great.
Marshmellows looks super cute
Draken - I need some of those magic coloring pencils/pens you use! (That fur on the Charr looks real.)
Doctor Overlord - Your idea. I liek very much. Can't wait to see it finished.
Tee Wrex - My favorite by far! All I'm going to say...
Good work from everyone. Makes me actually want to join again but lack of time prevents me from giving this the time I'll need. So I'll just sit back and feast my eyes on everyone else's work instead.
Hey guys,
Are the Halloween rewards still with Verene?
Haven't been able to reach her to pick mine yet so was just wondering.
Heya! Verene has them AFAIK, she's been super busy with RL stuff, but it's been a few weeks since I last talked with her, so someone else who's talked to her more recently can probably give you a better idea on when would be a good time to reach her
Steelborn, that is friggin awesome. looking so forward to it!
As a musician, this makes me feel happy inside.
Well, i hope i will not raise to big expectations...
Unfortunately i am not a musician - maybe a enthusiastic layman.
I will try to do a simple "jingle bells" in a midi-composeting tool and do my best at animating the charakters and scripting that flash-file (which is my first time doing so in such a amplitude).
After all, i will use about 5 different Computerprogs and a pinch off creativity :-)
Unfortunately i noticed that kind of competition weeks after beginning of my work - hoping for the announcement of the official contest - thanks google i get wind of this here. But much "work in progress" is not documented ...
@Sasultra
Im using Carrara 4 Pro for modelling
Poser 7 for animating
Photoshop for Postwork/ texturing / ancillary graphics
Swish for the Flash-File
and a midi-editor (forget that name yet) for the music...
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I'm flying home tomorrow so hopefully I'll be able to work on mine some more
Thank you!
And your Dwayna pic looks great so far. It reminds me why I shouldn't look at too closely other entries lest I get discouraged by all the creativity in this thread lol
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@ Doctor Overlord - I seriously LOL'd.... very cleaver.
@ marshmellow - at first it looked like a mess to me. I couldn't tell what it was but then you colored in the girl (gwen?) and it cleared up. Nicely done too!
@ Draken - really coming along nicely. I like the addition of the jingle bear on top licking the girl. Are you using ink or color pencils?
@ Morag - very impressive. Its amazing how it came together.
@ Ferocious - I thought yours was very funny too!
@ TeeWrex - Very cute! I want one! I seriously don't understand how Anet only has only one charr plushy you can buy...
@ SasUltra - so, this is my first constructive criticism - hopefully you will see it in a positive way. The photos are not clear at all. Maybe you can borrow from someone a really good digital camera and take better photos, or change the camera to take bigger photos (meaning bigger files) so the quality is better?
@ starflek - good job with Gwen - but who ever is giving the gift looks un-proportioned. Maybe cut them out?
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Reason: added more feedback
☆Hey, Thistle! I want to participate in the workshop!☆ Name: misamoriko Idea for entry: TBA Art form type: Literature (possibly accompanied with a sketch or two in the future.) Progress Gallery Link: http://misamorikogwgww.tumblr.com/
Right, let's try this again. I've had a chat with Thistle and clarified/sorted a few things. Clarification - my parody was inspired by the Guild Wars 2 Guru Wintersday Carol Contest but my work is not entered into the competition there, it was done purely as an example. Sorted - directly posted the lyrics here and made a quick YouTube vid out of my MP3.
Open to suggestions for changes to the words / metering, a few spots are a little iffy. I tried to stick as close to the original as I reasonably could but...artistic licence yaknow? (:
☆Hey, Thistle! I want to participate in the workshop!☆ Name: unraveled Idea for entry: Wintersday Carol Contest over at GW2G Art form type: erm... parody of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. So... literature? Progress Gallery Link: Words are here (naughty words are censored):
'Twas the Night Before Beta by unraveled
'Twas the night before beta, when all through the forum
Not a user was sleeping, not one bit of snoring.
The characters were planned out on paper with care,
In hopes that St ArenaNet soon would be there.
The mods were main-lining coffee and meds,
While visions of flame-wars danced in their heads.
And mesmers with bukkits, or was it a cake,
Had just settled down for a well deserved break.
When on the News forum there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the mod chat to see what was the matter.
Away to my Firefox I alt-tabbed in a flash,
Clicked the Guru tab and refreshed the cache.
The thread on the top of the News forum page
Had the lustre of undying and poorly-spelled rage.
"Teh Beta is Delaiyed" - I don't even... what if,
Click 'Show Spoiler' - ******* trollface.gif
With a reply from Martin, the haters stopped hatin',
"The beta is on time, no more iteration."
More rapid than a spammer the users replied,
"About ******* time!", though the fanbois just cried
"Now charr, norn, asura! now, sylvari and human!
On, servers! On, logging! On reports and parsing!
To the top of the mountain! To the top of the wall!
Just walking along... **** I fell through the floor.
The weekend went quickly, with no time to rest
PvP was the focus, which profession was best?
Up the top of the hate list elementalists flew,
With the thieves and the guardians, 'cause they're OP too.
And then, in a twinkling, it ended with a tweet
"Beta successful, same time again next week".
As I closed down the client, and was going to sleep,
Thunderbird called out with a new e-mail beep.
"The male armour's all fur, from his toes to his chest,
But the female 'equivalent' barely covers her breasts!"
"DE's are alright, but I want my own version."
"There's no /sneeze emote and it breaks my immersion!"
The flames-how they crackled! The insults were crass!
"But I like sexy armour, my toon's got a cute ass"
I got to work modding and reading reports
Delete, warn, infract, [insert witty retort]
The forums went nuts as the mods ground their teeth,
Smoke from their ears circled heads like a wreath.
Trolls left their bridges and camped all the threads,
Twenty seven mod desks met twenty seven mod heads.
It was chaos and mayhem, a right old fustercluck,
Til the server fell over, thank you Lady Luck!
A nod to the heavens and a palm to the face,
The mods took a breather, near dead from the pace.
The respite was short lived, the server revived
When would the feedback from St ANet arrive?
The users grew restless, the mods hit the drink
Hey! Eric's logged in, is this it do you think?
He sprang into action, to the fans a quick post,
"Here's the answer to that question you all ask the most!"
OMG! Can it be? The release date is nigh!
"Happy Christmas from Colin, and he swung it three times!"
☆Hey, Thistle! I want to participate in the workshop!☆ Name:Norrukki (Ingame "Vanessa The Mesmer", also known as Blake Ryan if I link my progress through my Facebook design page.) Idea for entry: Recreating my mesmer in her Elite Enchanter's (Dyed Red) (Her Obsidian would be a little out of my time/money limit since I just found out about the contest today.), my best friend is a model who looks and proportioned exactly the same as her. Then I'll make a CC weapon set for her to use in the photoshoot. Art form type: Fashion Design/Garment Creation/Photoshoot Progress Gallery Link: TBA
Questions/Preliminary input needed:
1. Which CC set should a mesmer have? I honestly had thought just the CC Sword. The CC Shield would be fun as well(Big ol' wrapper), but I don't particularly like the GB focus/shield. I also consider the Spear due to the spear chucker mesmer builds since Paragon's release.
2. Snow is not easy to predict in Texas. Especially with 2 weeks left before deadline, its unlikely we'll get some until January. Is photoshop okay to add a few details that life doesn't give? (Magic glows as well for Mesmer spells if I go the battle route)
3. What scenery do you suggest? (See also, part 2.)
4. What other details could set the scene apart from just a basic cosplay?
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Reason: Figured out what I would do.
And yes, I still have the Halloween stuff. Retail manager close to Christmas = oh god I have no time for anything :P
I still want to try and enter here...dunno what to do, though. I was considering a continuation of my stained glass piece I did last year, but Morag's doing a stained glass one now :P
Super big thanks to Verene (aka Lady V) for her 200 ecto donation <3
Also, for those wanting to give donations, I can pop in and log on pretty much anytime today, tomorrow, or Monday from 8:00am PST to 10:00PM PST if you give me a couple hours notice. From Dec 20th - Jan 4th, I won't be able to schedule times, because I'll have family and guests over, but if you happen to see me online (probably won't be much at all), feel free to ping me So I can finalize the final prizes, any donations that aren't in my possession by Jan 2nd will be used as giveaways during the party