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Operative 14 · Oct 22, 2009, 12:38 AM // 00:38

@ ravensong - I think that's a great looking piece. I love the concept behind it, it has a great atmosphere.

@Tzu, that looks perfect.

Charlie Dayman · Oct 22, 2009, 12:43 AM // 00:43

Awesome, Tzu. Any idea where you'll be taking the final screenshot?

Shewmake · Oct 22, 2009, 02:05 AM // 02:05

That looks awesome, Tzu!

Qing Guang · Oct 22, 2009, 05:31 AM // 05:31

Whooo, that looks super fantastic Tzu! Can't wait to see the final picture!

Also, ravensong, don't ever try to tell us your drawings suck... we're on to you.

Well, there is hope for me yet! In a single hour, I managed to lay down fully-shaded color for all the skin and hair and most of the fabrics on Gui's dress. Plus, I remembered that we cancelled my piano lesson tomorrow and I will be home alone most of the day, so if I can get my homework done quickly I can rush through dinner and work for several hours. Heck, I may be able to get started on Zamochit's contest picture or even *gasp* actually play Guild Wars.

*Your party has gained a Morale Boost.*

Narcissia · Oct 22, 2009, 08:36 AM // 08:36

Looking at these entries makes me think that this year wasn't the best year to enter lol. I don't think many people do baking or making things other than costumes, so maybe I'll get lucky because of that.
oh well, I decided to make RL trick or treat bag stuff. I've actually been wanting to for awhile, but it's a huge pain in the ass to find beakers/flasks and junk. I blame the meth labs of course. Fortunately, my friend's mom works at a microbiology lab so she grabbed me some.

anyway here's my stuff:

Pumpkin Cookies:
without vines

finished

Squash Serum and Witch's Brew:

Ghost-in-the-Box:
Box I made, it's kinda crappy lol

Vial of Absinthe:

Trick or Treat Bags:
Totally made them from folded envelopes...

Candy Apples:
After I made them, I realised they weren't as red as IG... so I spray painted them

Candy Corn:

And all together finished product: (without photoshopped glows on the ghost-in-the-box and squash serum eyes. I don't have or know how to use photoshop, so getting a friend to do that tomorrow.)

Hailfall · Oct 22, 2009, 08:49 AM // 08:49

Oh that is such a cool idea!! I like that

Narcissia · Oct 22, 2009, 08:54 AM // 08:54

yay ty!

it makes me way too happy, it's really like having real gw stuff around. i just want to leave it there hehe

i ate a candy corn... i hadn't had one in about 10 yrs. i still think theyre disgusting...
like rotten marshmellow mixed with candle wax

i also can't bake worth crap and burnt the cookies. yay for icing...

hoodiestarfish · Oct 22, 2009, 09:02 AM // 09:02

hehe narcissia that is SO cool. uber.

Fril Estelin · Oct 22, 2009, 10:09 AM // 10:09

Art comes in all flavors. There are indeed great artworks here, but your pieces are also cool ravensong and Narcissia.

And for the people on this thread that gets nothing from the 20 Anet prizes, there's always an unded mini Destroyer

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Good luck everyone! (definitely not in the competition for me this year again :/ )

Narcissia · Oct 22, 2009, 11:30 AM // 11:30

Thanks hoodie and fril

I used a friend's camera because I actually don't have a cam... and I figured out how to use the flash lol... so here's a better pic

Fril Estelin · Oct 22, 2009, 11:57 AM // 11:57

Narcissia, suggestion: maybe print pictures of Mad King Thorn and stick him somewhere, maybe even Mad King henchmen. Just a thought for you.

Narcissia · Oct 22, 2009, 12:00 PM // 12:00

it would look a bit odd though wouldn't it?
a candy apple would be bigger than mad king and his guard.
maybe if it was zoomed out and had him standing beside, but id like the stuff i made to be bigger and easily visible. i think a huge mad king standing beside would kind of take away from it. if you know what i mean.
ty for the idea though

Tzu · Oct 22, 2009, 12:53 PM // 12:53

That's really cool Narcissia!

It looks incredibly real too O.o
Got me hungry... D8

I wish I could take pictures of the costume outdoors, but it's friggin' freezing out there, and I don't want to catch something before I go on holiday.. :/
I do have some seriously epic enviroment around me though, so maybe some warm (lol 16 degrees celcius max) summer day I'll climb one of the nearby mountains with a costume. XD
So yeah... black backdrop in the living room for me :/ Hope it looks alright.
Pictures will be up in about 6-7 hours, hopefully.

KiyaKoreena · Oct 22, 2009, 01:00 PM // 13:00

Mmmm snackies.

Tzu, take your pics inside with black backdrop, bundle up and take some epic environment pics and shop them together. :-) Just watch for lighting angles.

Qing Guang · Oct 22, 2009, 01:50 PM // 13:50

Wow, Narcissia, those look perfect. And super yummy. Just remember not to eat the apples... uberred apples are never healthy (remembers Snow White...).

And if you don't want your candy corns, may I eat them?

Anyway I think it's great as it is, though a photoshop to make the glowyness would be cool as well. I suppose the bags are too thick to just put a tealight or votive inside, na?

Arghore · Oct 22, 2009, 02:15 PM // 14:15

@Narcissia, realy cool ! and it did get me that pavlov-reaction, hungry for a snack now :P ... only thing i sorta missed in the picture were some spooky elements (woolen spiderweb, toy bat) and maybe some pumpkins for a full display, but even without those it looks great

Well I finalised my picture and the 'More is Less' worked as putting in some bats and pumpkins filled in the blackish spots and pulled the thing together (atleast in my views) ... packaged and mailed the whole thing, im ready for halloween now

*final entry, as a link because its a large picture >1.3mb*
http://www.dnai.nl/GW/Arghore_AC_Halloween2009.jpg

For all those still going at it, keep your heads up !!
And for those allready finished, all the stuff i seen pretty much rox (this includes some of the WIP pictures for those still going) ... and although Halloween isnt realy a native festivity seeing all this and working on my own piece realy got me into a halloween spirit ...

for the thread starters, i think a similar thread for the wintersday Art Contest could have a similar effect, so im all for it, perhaps even start it around 5nov, so we arty people can start early so we dont end up running on our bare feet come deadline ...

ravensong · Oct 22, 2009, 04:52 PM // 16:52

That is great Narcissia!

Absinthe <3!

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As far as my picture goes. I think Im gonna start from the scratch again...
Im not amused... xD

Yasmine · Oct 22, 2009, 06:00 PM // 18:00

@narcissa: agh, narcissa, I want to come trick and treat at your house :P
@tzu: can't wait to see you in that costume XD

For halloween i decided to do a texmod of my alliance leader guild's gh, but it's not turninh out too well (and i still have no idea of how and if i would able to turn it in for this contest): I found just yesterday that the blue light from the orizon and the sea cannot be changed in any way. Plus the texmod isn't loading the textures which are too far (though perfectly in player's sight ><). I'm not happy about the npcs mummy look either but I have no time nor the will to put more effort in their costumes... perhalphs I'll trasform them all in candy corn

Oh, well, here are some screens:

Minami · Oct 22, 2009, 07:24 PM // 19:24

All right, I entered my picture.

Now the finger crossing begins. ^_^

DONE image:

Charlie Dayman · Oct 22, 2009, 07:38 PM // 19:38

Kick ass, Minami. The smoke effect really added a whole lot more to it from what I last saw. Also like how you blurred the t-o-t bags and candy corn to give a real sense of motion. Overall, really looks like CG work that they'd be using (or should be using) for ingame cut scenes.

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