Curse

Noanoa · Mar 29, 2007, 07:55 PM // 19:55

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Originally Posted by Nian

And I'll counter-attack with this!

*swoons*

RAWR >:3

What's the OP's/moderators' opinion about posting more-or-less-vaguely-related shots in this thread? Don't know about everyone else, but I'm checking checking this thread several times a day and I love seeing new model pics and spoof shots and everything. It's still such a long wait until the deadline, too.. Someone suggested group practicing and/or practice assignments, I think it'd be a great way to pass time.

Nkah Sennyt · Mar 29, 2007, 07:57 PM // 19:57

Am I the only one that's noticed that female players make the most attractive male characters? >.>

[Also, vote: Nian's dervish. Dayamn.]

Geishe · Mar 29, 2007, 08:05 PM // 20:05

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Originally Posted by Noanoa

If there ever will be a male model contest, I'm so going to participate with this:

I'm getting all excited here, can't wait till the deadline~! It's going to be really interesting to see what kind of shots/characters were chosen.

I saw your ranger shots and those were amazing. And I see this gorgeous male rit shot. You have some skillz yo.

I'm your #1 Fan!!!

From the graveyard of past-TNTM'ers... Mortissia would like to cheer you on:

Foxeye · Mar 29, 2007, 08:11 PM // 20:11

I so hope that Nian and/or Noanoa are among those chosen, because I can tell already that their artist abilities are transferring to some seriously badass shots. That male ritualist shot is just...damn. And Nian's "failures" make me chomp at the bit to see what she considers a success.

LadyNilene · Mar 29, 2007, 09:01 PM // 21:01

I want to make sure that everyone who is planning to apply understand that just because you send in an application for a paragon, does NOT mean you have a guarenteed spot in the competition! I said we didnt have any paragons apply, because we dont, it does not mean that if you enter a paragon you get a free pass in! Please do not misunderstand that!

And honestly, i can already tell you that of the 10 professions, only 7 of them had people that applied that we are interested in, so again, not every profession will be shown. And even then, of those group of people, only 12 will be selected, and for the record, profession has nothing to do with our choices. I mention the professions for statistic reasons, nothing more.

And I will agree with Nkah, that female players make the sexiest male characters lol, i have a couple of male characters myself, and i modeled them to my particular taste in men lol if im going to be staring at a male pixelated video game character, it better be eye candy! So definitely...my male characters are up to my standards lol

And I there is another screenshot thread somewhere that is somewhat like TNTM that males can enter, so guys can go over to that thread and stop spamming mines! :P im jk! but there is another screenshot thread somewhere that im sure males can enter...so take a look!

Nian · Mar 29, 2007, 10:29 PM // 22:29

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Originally Posted by LadyNilene

And I will agree with Nkah, that female players make the sexiest male characters lol, i have a couple of male characters myself, and i modeled them to my particular taste in men lol if im going to be staring at a male pixelated video game character, it better be eye candy! So definitely...my male characters are up to my standards lol

Exactly my point! I mean if you're going to choose to stare at a male characters ass ingame for a long time, might aswell choose a pretty one. Iah is certainly my dream bebe, well one of them and I'm very fond of playing him. Fell in love with his boyish haircut, it's like a Vin Diesel type of hunk with some boyish features, ahem. :P

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And I there is another screenshot thread somewhere that is somewhat like TNTM that males can enter, so guys can go over to that thread and stop spamming mines! :P im jk! but there is another screenshot thread somewhere that im sure males can enter...so take a look!

XD I think this harbours an evil omen! Must see what I can do about this...mhehehe.

By the way, Lady Nilene I'm a bit curious if there have been any female Dervish applicants so far? I understand if you're not supposed to give too much info yet but I was just a bit curious of the new classes' popularity. Edit:Wait. Nevermind that. I should use my brains more often. Guess it's too late(night) for that now huh...XD

Edit2: Below yeah... that is so the truth about our guys haha. The Pinky and the Brain. Brawns and muscle vs. sensual and exotic lol. Anyway girls, if we don't make the cut our guys will be supporting you all mhahaha like leeches(on the lense)! >

Noanoa · Mar 29, 2007, 10:45 PM // 22:45

Dedicated to Mortissia (we went out to get a quick photoshoot just for you

)

Ok, we won't derail this anymore (I see a personal hottie thread in the horizon..), but I just realised that even if our girls don't make it into the 12, we can still hang around with our extremely photogenic guys and intrude upon other participants' photoshoots xD. If anyone ever needs professional male models for their shoots, just call.

Here's something I've noticed about several of the pics posted here; no cropping-> a really small character in the middle of the shot. A centered chara is like the most uninteresting thing ever, so something resembling the golden ratio looks much better always. Proper cropping ftw \o/.

Ooph that'll be all for tonight, "post moar!".

Laenavesse · Mar 30, 2007, 06:51 AM // 06:51

dude, i know what you mean about the hot male characters that girls make. and i agree with all the reasons xD Why would I want to make my dude ugly if I'll be playing him :P I so want to make a male rit, I just luuuurve their armor and how they look with the head gear omg *is in love with her boyfriend's rit >_>*

also...I'm not sure if I can make it cos of summer x_x;; I might be gone for a week...but I don't know! When is the cycle actually running? *has still held out on sending in her app*

Edit:

BTW, I looked at that golden ratio article to see what wiki had to say about it...it made my brain explode. I suggest not looking at it around 2 in the morning.

Nian · Mar 30, 2007, 07:42 AM // 07:42

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Originally Posted by Laenavesse

BTW, I looked at that golden ratio article to see what wiki had to say about it...it made my brain explode. I suggest not looking at it around 2 in the morning.

Lol! I thought that one was confusing too. Basically it means that to make a picture easily more appealing is to not center the main focus(the model) but instead make sure that the model and the background don't have equal amounts of space in the picture but not overdo it. The model should be slightly to the side of the picture but not too much! The golden ratio is something of an ideal ratio of how a picture should be divided if a line was drawn accross it. It's the same as humans tend to like unequal numbers more than equal. Like arranging 3 flowers in a flowerpot instead of 4.

Does that make sense lol?

L'Example Compositionnaire:

Centered and boring, the ratio here is 50-50 if you draw a line straight trough my model:

Too much to the side, unbalanced and disturbing :

Golden ratio(this should be found most appealing of the 3):

This is how the human subconcious work. We don't really think about this stuff but it helps. Hope that made some sense to someone. XD
Putting the main focus of a picture to the side will also increase the 'activity' in a picture. It will be more dynamic when done right.

lynxi · Mar 30, 2007, 11:34 AM // 11:34

I have a very hard time here to decide the character i should apply with.
the elementalist
the ranger
the assasin.
Besides Me and my roomie have 3 almost same looking chars.
We both play female, just because they are much pretier
still my main is a Canthan Necro.

You guys think we could apply as twins :? would it be possible?

If not i like to apply for contest my ele 15khydro/white but then how about
ascalon blck armor set from Keinang on a female warrior playing /airguitar..
Can i post my baby here later on today ?

=HT=E5Destroyer · Mar 30, 2007, 11:45 AM // 11:45

I am glad to see I got so many supporters. And I am glad other guys have joined in. This is a fight for menism everywhere. Here is a SS of my sexy man. If I win I win for men everywhere. And I share in the glory with all of you.

My favorite activities includes walks on the beaches of LIONS ARCH. I am looking for a woman who can add to my fire.

RTSFirebat · Mar 30, 2007, 02:24 PM // 14:24

Please remember this is a woman only model comp for now. And no one wants to see you naked pale skinned ele ^_^

Anyways been reading over the thread, seems people are keeping on topic and avoiding spamming.

We so far had to only delete very minor amount of spam.

For anyone that wonders, we (The mods) don't disallow discussions on the SS forums. But we had massive spam issues in the past, partially related to the pervious thread used by the TNTM.

Hope everyone understands that

If you want to dicuss it with me further, PM me, don't reply here.

Mitchel · Mar 30, 2007, 03:29 PM // 15:29

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Originally Posted by =HT=E5Destroyer

I wish to enter this contest. I find it sexist and unfair a guy can not enter in here. I am entering this for men everywhere. we battle your beasts. we train our pets and farm for gold and get no respect.

So i am now officially entering this.lol

I'd like to comment on the great pose and superior cropping. Just to show you how I take my screens. (C'mon if nobody hosts a TNTM for males, I myself will have to do) [img=http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7746/engelio6.th.jpg]
[img=http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/199/schippb9.th.jpg]
[img=http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/5782/zwemmenma7.th.jpg]
[img=http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/9348/zwemmendac2.th.jpg]

Laenavesse · Mar 30, 2007, 05:53 PM // 17:53

@Nian: Oh I know about the golden ratio (i keep typing ration..) since my dad is a photoholic and kept telling me these things XD I just thought that the wiki article was a but..brain bursting >_> your explanation is much better xD

s'a good tip for cropping though. I have issues in whether or not the whole body should be shown or just the upper half like most post pictures

xxSilhouette · Mar 30, 2007, 09:45 PM // 21:45

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Originally Posted by LadyNilene

Natasha makes for a hot guy, and go team jaslene! that's all im going to say... lol

100% agree

Natasha was a great guy...

And I love Jaslene!

Sad to see no paragons. I love my paragon! The only thing I don't like about paragons and dervish's is that they can only get the NF armors & FoW, where as tyrian and canthan characters have so many more options.

I'm getting super excited to watch this cycle! Malefic will definitely be here cheering you ladies (or fellas behind the ladies) on!

creelie · Mar 31, 2007, 12:21 AM // 00:21

Mitchel, do it! Create TNTMM - Tyria's Next Top Male Model!

Season 1: Derelicte!

There could even be snide one-upping campaigns between the two threads, culminating in a walkoff.

Ember010 · Mar 31, 2007, 10:17 AM // 10:17

My internets been down a few days! Iv missed so much! =[
Paragons are reaally pretty though, yet i still have love for the dervishes. <3
@Nilene: Can you tell us which professions? ;]
Im so excited about this. Its actually unbeleivable cause its just for a game. =/
~Crazy

=HT=E5Destroyer · Mar 31, 2007, 11:33 AM // 11:33

Yeah if we create a TNTMM i want to be a official judge for it. After all it was through my long hours of determination and my fight for the cause..lmao...

Roguish Seraph · Apr 01, 2007, 05:04 AM // 05:04

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Originally Posted by LadyNilene

Yeah! I can't wait to finalize the people that will move to the next round!!! We are in the process of contacting people in game for their mini interview, but of course, its still not too late to apply! you got plenty of time... April 15 is the last day you can send in an application! Of course I would prefer you dont wait till the last moment, but hey, it worked for our first winner, so whatever lol

And to bring attention to an important topic...with Guild Wars coming to an end, well...not end...but whatever...we are certain that we will be able to do a third cycle, and possibly a fourth...but at that point, im sure Guild Wars wont be the same. I would love to move TNTM to Guild Wars 2, and we probably will, but I'm sure there is going to be alot of changes that we will have to note!

And I dont know why people are confusing this with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...lol so please, stop the spam/jokes.

Natasha makes for a hot guy, and go team jaslene! that's all im going to say... lol

So if we turned in our app awhile ago, and we havent been contacting in-game...does that mean we arent a possible candidate? :x\

edit: Also love the new edit to the thread names XD April Fools everyone

LadyNilene · Apr 01, 2007, 06:16 AM // 06:16

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Originally Posted by Roguish Seraph

So if we turned in our app awhile ago, and we havent been contacting in-game...does that mean we arent a possible candidate? :x\

edit: Also love the new edit to the thread names XD April Fools everyone

That is slightly correct... If you sent your application before March 27th-March 30th ~ish, then your application has been processed and if you did not get an in game interview with, then you will not be proceeding to the next round for sure.

For those who did not make it, do not feel bad, it was an extremely hard choice...but we really wanted to up the ante, and just bring fourth a new group of amazing contestants that will deliver and produce an amazing cycle. Cycle 1 really set the bar, they really brought the competition to a level where I couldn't even imagine, and I need Cycle 2 to be better! And the judges all believe that the 17 contestants we interviewed really had the goods, and five of them have already secured their position in cycle 2!!! Of course they are not allowed to post anything yet, so no one will know who until the start date begins! All I will say about the first five chosen is that they are two monks, one mesmer, one dervish, and one warrior! They blew me away in the interview and really deserved the spot hands down, very impressed! As for the other 12 we interviewed! Do not fret, you guys are still up for a spot in Cycle 2, but we are still flip flopping between you guys, and the newer applications we are getting!

So again, for those who did not make it, please do not feel bad, we really had to nitpick about every little detail and just aim for perfection! After the 15th, I will have open house i guess, so everyone can request how their application faired, and what we took off for, and so fourth!

As a reminder to our five confirmed contestants, please have your test shots in by the date mentioned! I need to prepare the new fade out picture and your shots ASAP.