RE: CH's Contest thread
Try advertising the contest in your signature?
Try advertising the contest in your signature?
CH's Contest Thread- At The Beach -CLOSED for judging-
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RE: CH's Contest thread
Except I really don't post too much around these boards...:X
Except I really don't post too much around these boards...:X
RE: CH's Contest thread
HMM that's a problem. I don't really want this thread to die. T_T
HMM that's a problem. I don't really want this thread to die. T_T
RE: CH's Contest thread
Pshh, not gonna let it die.
KIDDIES! Just got three days left in the contest! Will this be all our contestants for the first round? I can't give out any prizes if so! CAMMAN!
Pshh, not gonna let it die.
KIDDIES! Just got three days left in the contest! Will this be all our contestants for the first round? I can't give out any prizes if so! CAMMAN!
RE: CH's Contest thread
Alright, well, since the site was down for a couplea days, I'll make an exception to the 'no extention' rule and say until 11:59 EST PM, July 4th, to be fair. No exceptions beyond this though!
Alright, well, since the site was down for a couplea days, I'll make an exception to the 'no extention' rule and say until 11:59 EST PM, July 4th, to be fair. No exceptions beyond this though!
RE: CH's Contest thread
>_> Not to seem like I'm going against the rules or anything, Señor Noobnerd, but that's a contest entry. It's keyboard art; I can see that it was a sun setting over some water with clouds. <<'
Anyways! This contest is CLOSED for entries; now I will go about judging with sneaselflygon to choose the winners. (I have to say, I'm a tad bit dissapointed that we only received four entrants, but, alas, what can you do?)
Thank you all for entering. I hope we can come to a conclusion soon, as in June 6th.
>_> Not to seem like I'm going against the rules or anything, Señor Noobnerd, but that's a contest entry. It's keyboard art; I can see that it was a sun setting over some water with clouds. <<'
Anyways! This contest is CLOSED for entries; now I will go about judging with sneaselflygon to choose the winners. (I have to say, I'm a tad bit dissapointed that we only received four entrants, but, alas, what can you do?)
Thank you all for entering. I hope we can come to a conclusion soon, as in June 6th.
Achmeta
Spriters Category
Shading: 10/10 Ilike how you didn't use many colors and still shaded
Neatness: 5/5 Very Neat
Style: 4/4
Creativity: 6/10 Its beach theme so a drawing of the beach?...
Effort: 7/10 I don't know
Originality: 4/10 See creativity
Personal Score: 1/1 I like it
Total possible score: 37/50 GOod work. I like it
Spriters Category
Shading: 10/10 Ilike how you didn't use many colors and still shaded
Neatness: 5/5 Very Neat
Style: 4/4
Creativity: 6/10 Its beach theme so a drawing of the beach?...
Effort: 7/10 I don't know
Originality: 4/10 See creativity
Personal Score: 1/1 I like it
Total possible score: 37/50 GOod work. I like it
No, this is just one round thing. Completely different contest for the next two weeks, completely different entries. Let's see, judgingz.
Since there was only 4 people, as I said, no prizes this time. Sorry!
So, let's head over to the first category, writers! We received four entries (Luc Ex was placed in this category, as there were no other keyboard artists. Let's see now...
Achmetha- Lost Forever
Word Choice: 6/7 Great, powerful word choice used, though at times it was a tad repetitive. Still very skilled.
Followed Character Restriction: 3/3 Meets character requirements.
Grammar/Spelling: 4/4 Near or perfect grammar. Only a very few things irked me, but they were so minute/part of the style I couldn't take things off for it.
Vividness of Scene: 4/5 It was only slightly difficult to tell the weather, and the rainstorm felt sudden; it made me have to go back and read the line 'gray January sky' or something of that matter.
Creativity: 8/10 Only thing that really brought this was down was possible lack of some Pokemon tie in. Even if it was just a lonely Wingull lazily hanging overhead, it might have helped. However, something this dark is surprising for this theme, which is definitely in the creative category.
Effort: 8/10 I do felt a good bit was put into this piece, yet at the same time I feel it still lacked something.
Originality: 7/10 While a sad beach scene is definitely rare, I have seen it in a few of those olden movies. It has a feeling that it could be slightly more original. Maybe that's just me...
Personal Score: 1/1 I enjoyed this piece.
Total possible score: /50
Dead_Center- Love in Death
Word Choice: 2/7 It felt mediocre at best. A lot of bland and repetitive words were used here. Said is dead. Asked is probably just as bad.
Followed Character Restriction: 3/3 Met character restriction.
Grammar/Spelling: 2/4 I noticed quite a few sentence fragments like ' As her other older brother stopped behind him.' Bad. Mainly was in place, but there were several little oddities here and there.
Vividness of Scene: 1/5 Again, lack of word choice really hit this one hard. I can't tell what any of the characters or the scene looks like. I get faceless characters hanging over a coffin or something of the like. Also, there is no 'at the beach' theme to the scene at all, hence why it dropped even more.
Creativity: 3/10 I can't feel on how this ties to 'at the beach', the theme for this contest.
Effort: 5/10 While there is grammar and a story told here, more effort could have been put into play to show and not tell the story.
Originality: 4/10 Feels a little cliche and generic; however, the weird, original names seem to help here a little. Not everyone has Korean/Chinese names for their characters (they often go either Japanese or English).
Personal Score: 0/1 No offense, but I didn't care for the story too much. I prefer showing to telling.
Total possible score: /50
Pokelen- Shade of Glory
Word Choice: 3/7 Feels moderately mediocre, and repetitveness is only a slight issue here. 'the news was crazy'...for example, you could have said instead, 'the news stations were having a fiesta with their top headline'. Crazy is dull.
Followed Character Restriction: 3/3 Followed character restriction.
Grammar/Spelling: 2/4 Spelling was not the issue. Fragments were. 'A majestic blade, carved and crafted professionally.' What about it? What was it doing? There were also a few capitalization issues. 'A Blade ' should have the 'b' of 'blade' lower case, given it's not the name of the blade.
Vividness of Scene: 1/5 Feels extremely rushed through. I do get a basic image of what's going on, but I don't feel dragged into the details about the temperature of the water, or Rob's eye/hair color (which I value highly in stories). Also lacks an 'at the beach' scene.
Creativity: 4/10 I can't feel on how this ties to 'at the beach', the theme for this contest.
Effort: 6/10 Again, felt a bit rushed. The fight scene was foggy and how his car was hit was done so quickly it made me have to re-read things. However, the originality factor saved you here.
Originality: 8/10 This, I feel, has real potential to be as original as one can get with this sort of genre.
Personal Score: 1/1 Even though this didn't go under the 'at the beach' category, it does have a nice sort of tone to it. I feel you could push this short story into something far more epic than what is just written here.
Total possible score: /50
Aspiration- Keyboard 'At The Beach'
Use of Characters: 6/8 Five different characters used to depict a simple scene, and the image was kept in tact.
Followed Character Restriction: 3/3 Met character restrictions.
Vividness of Image: 6/8 It took me a few minutes to realize that the cloud was going in front of the sun, and it confused me a little. However, I can tell it's a beach scene.
Creativity: 8/10
Effort: 7/10 I get the idea that something this small may not have taken long, but it is methodical.
Originality: 6/10 Yay for generic sunsets! The cloud in front of the sun was a nice touch that really balanced this out though.
Personal Score: 1/1 I'm not that big on keyboard art, but I do appreciate this piece just for that.
Total possible score: /50
And then, the sole contestant of the spriting area, Achmetha again!
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(SORRY I'M GETTING AN UNEXPECTED BOOT OFF THE COMPUTER. I'll edit with final scores tomorrow. SORRY!)
Since there was only 4 people, as I said, no prizes this time. Sorry!
So, let's head over to the first category, writers! We received four entries (Luc Ex was placed in this category, as there were no other keyboard artists. Let's see now...
Achmetha- Lost Forever
Word Choice: 6/7 Great, powerful word choice used, though at times it was a tad repetitive. Still very skilled.
Followed Character Restriction: 3/3 Meets character requirements.
Grammar/Spelling: 4/4 Near or perfect grammar. Only a very few things irked me, but they were so minute/part of the style I couldn't take things off for it.
Vividness of Scene: 4/5 It was only slightly difficult to tell the weather, and the rainstorm felt sudden; it made me have to go back and read the line 'gray January sky' or something of that matter.
Creativity: 8/10 Only thing that really brought this was down was possible lack of some Pokemon tie in. Even if it was just a lonely Wingull lazily hanging overhead, it might have helped. However, something this dark is surprising for this theme, which is definitely in the creative category.
Effort: 8/10 I do felt a good bit was put into this piece, yet at the same time I feel it still lacked something.
Originality: 7/10 While a sad beach scene is definitely rare, I have seen it in a few of those olden movies. It has a feeling that it could be slightly more original. Maybe that's just me...
Personal Score: 1/1 I enjoyed this piece.
Total possible score: /50
Dead_Center- Love in Death
Word Choice: 2/7 It felt mediocre at best. A lot of bland and repetitive words were used here. Said is dead. Asked is probably just as bad.
Followed Character Restriction: 3/3 Met character restriction.
Grammar/Spelling: 2/4 I noticed quite a few sentence fragments like ' As her other older brother stopped behind him.' Bad. Mainly was in place, but there were several little oddities here and there.
Vividness of Scene: 1/5 Again, lack of word choice really hit this one hard. I can't tell what any of the characters or the scene looks like. I get faceless characters hanging over a coffin or something of the like. Also, there is no 'at the beach' theme to the scene at all, hence why it dropped even more.
Creativity: 3/10 I can't feel on how this ties to 'at the beach', the theme for this contest.
Effort: 5/10 While there is grammar and a story told here, more effort could have been put into play to show and not tell the story.
Originality: 4/10 Feels a little cliche and generic; however, the weird, original names seem to help here a little. Not everyone has Korean/Chinese names for their characters (they often go either Japanese or English).
Personal Score: 0/1 No offense, but I didn't care for the story too much. I prefer showing to telling.
Total possible score: /50
Pokelen- Shade of Glory
Word Choice: 3/7 Feels moderately mediocre, and repetitveness is only a slight issue here. 'the news was crazy'...for example, you could have said instead, 'the news stations were having a fiesta with their top headline'. Crazy is dull.
Followed Character Restriction: 3/3 Followed character restriction.
Grammar/Spelling: 2/4 Spelling was not the issue. Fragments were. 'A majestic blade, carved and crafted professionally.' What about it? What was it doing? There were also a few capitalization issues. 'A Blade ' should have the 'b' of 'blade' lower case, given it's not the name of the blade.
Vividness of Scene: 1/5 Feels extremely rushed through. I do get a basic image of what's going on, but I don't feel dragged into the details about the temperature of the water, or Rob's eye/hair color (which I value highly in stories). Also lacks an 'at the beach' scene.
Creativity: 4/10 I can't feel on how this ties to 'at the beach', the theme for this contest.
Effort: 6/10 Again, felt a bit rushed. The fight scene was foggy and how his car was hit was done so quickly it made me have to re-read things. However, the originality factor saved you here.
Originality: 8/10 This, I feel, has real potential to be as original as one can get with this sort of genre.
Personal Score: 1/1 Even though this didn't go under the 'at the beach' category, it does have a nice sort of tone to it. I feel you could push this short story into something far more epic than what is just written here.
Total possible score: /50
Aspiration- Keyboard 'At The Beach'
Use of Characters: 6/8 Five different characters used to depict a simple scene, and the image was kept in tact.
Followed Character Restriction: 3/3 Met character restrictions.
Vividness of Image: 6/8 It took me a few minutes to realize that the cloud was going in front of the sun, and it confused me a little. However, I can tell it's a beach scene.
Creativity: 8/10
Effort: 7/10 I get the idea that something this small may not have taken long, but it is methodical.
Originality: 6/10 Yay for generic sunsets! The cloud in front of the sun was a nice touch that really balanced this out though.
Personal Score: 1/1 I'm not that big on keyboard art, but I do appreciate this piece just for that.
Total possible score: /50
And then, the sole contestant of the spriting area, Achmetha again!
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(SORRY I'M GETTING AN UNEXPECTED BOOT OFF THE COMPUTER. I'll edit with final scores tomorrow. SORRY!)