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Digimark vs. TOH

Judged by Me, exclusively

Size: max 450x150 and 50kb

Theme: Xbox 360. Either the Symbol, or a collage of games, your choice, mix and match. It can say anything.

Due Date: 72 Hours, Saturday at 5:30 EST

Good Luck and Have Fun!

Dimensions? Size?

I believe the sizes for all the first round duels are 450x150 and 50kb.

Originally posted by Lana
I believe the sizes for all the first round duels are 450x150 and 50kb.

Ah ok, sorry for the question ... bag

It was his fault for non-specification.


Good Luck!

Edited first post for both threads.

Sorry, thought it was common knowledge...

Gah...not at home. Don't have GIMP here at school. I'll just have to brainstorm and make it later....dang, Friday probably. Being busy sucks.

Good luck TOH. You'll need it. Muahahahaha...

It can center around just one game, right? The theme says something to the effect of "Xbox themed or a collage of games" but I was just planning mine for one 360 game.

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Gah...not at home. Don't have GIMP here at school. I'll just have to brainstorm and make it later....dang, Friday probably. Being busy sucks.

Good luck TOH. You'll need it. Muahahahaha...


Thanks, I think I'll need because I have no idea of what I'm going to do..

Go Digi Go Digi go Ninja ninja Digi ninja ninja Digi

Yes, it can be around one game. As long as its a 360 game. ONLY three Sixty games.

Erm...thanks Cyber.

...and cool. Most of the games don't really match my sensibilities (like Ken with the Love theme earlier...lol) nor do I know much about them. So this'll work out better.

Entry
(God help me..)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/TOH/final5.gif

....whoa, your current sig.....hehe.

Originally posted by Lana


....whoa, your current sig.....hehe.
Hey don't laugh at my sigs cry

It's awesome

wow! DM vs TOH

I like to think of TOH as God so.... good luck Digi

and OMG it's about Lara!!!

notworthy

Originally posted by Paola
and OMG it's about Lara!!!

notworthy

I thought you were rooting for me ...



Anyway, nice sig TOH...I'll get mine up soon, since I just finished it recently.

Hmm.... I was wondering the entire time I studied it, "That isn't a 360 game, is it?"

Then I went and read OXM... and yes, I guess there is a new TR 360 game...

Congrats, not something I would've chosen, but congrats nonetheless..

DIGI!

The game I chose is Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It's coming out in a month or so for the 360. I wasn't sure if Xbox needed to be mentioned or not, so the logo is inconspicuously chillin' in the top left corner, though I changed the color scheme of it. It's somewhere around 48/49 KB.

Nice duel TOH, regardless of how it turns out....

That's awesome. The Text is really nice.

Did you render those yourself?

Originally posted by DigiMark007
The game I chose is Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It's coming out in a month or so for the 360. I wasn't sure if Xbox needed to be mentioned or not, so the logo is inconspicuously chillin' in the top left corner, though I changed the color scheme of it. It's somewhere around 48/49 KB.

Nice duel TOH, regardless of how it turns out....
Whoa..What a amazing evolution... shock

Originally posted by DarkWizard
That's awesome. The Text is really nice.

Did you render those yourself?

Thanks. And yes, thanks for the helps with the font stuff....as you can see, it helped quite a bit.

{Edit} Yeah I rendered them myself...I wasn't sure but Lana confirmed it for me below this. The teeth on the dinosaur thing were murder to get right though.

Yeah, that would be rendering it yourself.

^^ Gotcha. Then yes.

AAAA!!!

ITS OBLIVION! MY FAVORITE 360 GAME! *Foreshadowing*

TOH:
+ I like the way its set up.
+ THeme was daring.
+ Colors were okay

- Colors were totally off for the game, and the system
- The outline of the transparent spots has a white 'halo' effect, that doesn't look good on the darker backgrounds (IE: My background)
- Not a common theme behind a 360 game, but...

Digi:
+ My fav. game.. ever.
+ The Colors look good
+ For the Self Rendering :-P
+ The inclusion of the secluded 360, that's colored well
+ Text is awesome

- Lack of differentiate of colors
- Kinda left me feeling like there shoulda been some fire somewhere...

Winner:

DIGI

Sorry, TOH, yours was good... but not exactly... well....

i dont think the reason " My fav. game.. ever." counts
I'd probably would have Judged that a bit different too

Wow. I'm stunned.

Nice duel TOH...

...concerning what Baka said above me, I hope that I won for the right reasons....and I also hope that other stuff is just added bonuses and nothing more. I'd like to think that's the case.

But in any case, I'll just consider myself charmed for the moment and work on getting better for the next round...since I still have a lot I can work on.

-DM

with what i said i dont mean to critacise cause many of the other reasons are valid enough.

^^ Gotcha...and I understand what you were saying.

Originally posted by Honda_Tadakatsu
- Kinda left me feeling like there shoulda been some fire somewhere...


...yeah, I thought of that too when I was making it. I gotta learn to do convincing fire. I'll go tutorial shopping for it tomorrow.

Baka Means, Your sig was awesome, Digi.

But Honda Judged it for the wrong reasons.

Originally posted by DarkWizard
Baka Means, Your sig was awesome, Digi.

But Honda Judged it for the wrong reasons.
no thats his judging.
his opinion is his own
i don't exactly agree with them but the judges words are final.
It's just my views and concept of design are different from his and i see it all from a different light.

Well, that's one thing about this all being judged by a single person - people might not always agree with their judging. Not really much can be done about that, though.

Yeah, that's why I'm trying to have a variety of judges...I was worried that if I judged too many myself for the tourney there might be a backlash that it was too slanted toward my tastes in sigs. As it is, I'm trying to judge as little as possible myself (lana's next and I have a PM in to TheLaw about later in round 2).

If it becomes too much of a problem, future tourneys can probably do something like 2 judges, then a "popular vote" (random people posting in the thread) is the tie-breaker if the judges are split. But for now, hopefully the random controversy stays to a minimum, though there's bound to be differences of opinion about close matches (like with many of the regular duels).

Maybe we should have "poll matches", where the voters vote, and it closes in 48 hours or so. *hmmm*

But..... Biased votes might occur.

Originally posted by DarkWizard
Maybe we should have "poll matches", where the voters vote, and it closes in 48 hours or so. *hmmm*

But..... Biased votes might occur.

That can turn into a problem where people start campaigning for votes....like me going into the comic forum and telling people to vote for me....I would never do that, but that's just an example. We ran into similar problems in past comic tourneys.

See my idea above your post, it's a decent compromise between the two methods.

There are some points I want to comment about this duel:

1) I want to congrat Digi as I stated before, he is doing a great job takin in account that he is using GIMP and believe me, I'm not saying it for sportsmanship. That is the most important thing here..., right?

2) When I read "My fav. Game ever" as a pro I had to laugh... And I'm not going into the another comments about my entry because is a waste of time, and I don't want to hijack this thread with my complains. However, Alana is right when she said is part of the game.

And thanks for the posts!

I will ask a rematch in future Digi, but for now, good luck with the tournament

Originally posted by TOH
There are some points I want to comment about this duel:

1) I want to congrat Digi as I stated before, he is doing a great job takin in account that he is using GIMP and believe me, I'm not saying it for sportsmanship. That is the most important thing here..., right?

2) When I read "My fav. Game ever" as a pro I had to laugh... And I'm not going into the another comments about my entry because is a waste of time, and I don't want to hijack this thread with my complains. However, Alana is right when she said is part of the game.

And thanks for the posts!

I will ask a rematch in future Digi, but for now, good luck with the tournament

...well spoken. And thanks, though I'm sorry for the turmoil this match has caused. And I'll be happy for the rematch anytime.

Well, what did you say about upsets, Digi?

And I'd rather stay away from polls for voting because then it could just turn into a popularity contest, as Digi said, not to mention that the duels are meant to be fast and that would just stretch them out longer.

Originally posted by Lana
Well, what did you say about upsets, Digi?

And I'd rather stay away from polls for voting because then it could just turn into a popularity contest, as Digi said, not to mention that the duels are meant to be fast and that would just stretch them out longer.

Like Your Tournament Match with Barker?

You Tried hard too hun.


But hey! you get to kcik my ass.

Yeah, and I'm playing with borrowed time too. The next round will be fun, since I'm not even supposed to be here....loss of inhibitions about winning will either = great sigs or flacid attempts at humor while squandering my first round win... lol.

I guess I'll make an announcement in the tourney thread though...

Guys... Let it be known, that I didn't pick it just because it was my favorite. Other things went into it, like the criteria. I generally don't think of Laura Croft as an XBOX 360 character, now would you?

If someone randomly asked you on the street:
"Hey, what system comes to mind when I say TOMB RAIDER"
Immediatly, most people would either go:
"Sony"
"Playstation"
"PS2"

I mean, I judged it based on the criteria. Don't take into account a lot of the things I said. Seriously, I'm as unbiased as the next man, but still... I was just stating a fact. No need to flip shit.

hmm... i need to be careful with my choice of words