It took so much time for the voting to be done.
Announcement of the winners are available in this video.
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youtu.be/OIVJcha4XHA**The video was made by our awesome mod, Nadya ♥. We shall give her a hand of applause ♥, its awesome!**
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1st place:
2nd place:
3rd place:
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The winners has been decided!! It was extremely hard for us to pick the top three winners and our honorable mentions.
Each of them was good, thus thank you for giving so much effort to make this contest a success.
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//Some sneak peek through the voting, some comments by our judges//
The voting system I made had to be brutal, or else you all will be winners. Thus by ripping your moderators' hearts apart and showering them with evil, we came into such verdict.
-Jheza: "this is brutal scoring -__________-"... " GAH. BUT A LOT OF THEM ARE SOOOO GOOD! we're like the senior citizens of GG and they're the new generations D:<"
-Xiaobear: " i just killed my brain cells... IT WAS HARD NOT TO GIVE 9 FOR MANY OF THEM
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-Tifa: "(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ I'm at 35[th entry] @@ y so many entries.. "... " i got demotivated judging halfway through... orz.. "
-Kuuki: "there's so many goood oneeees but I haz to tune the pointers down, this is saaaaad Q_Q."
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We had 12 voters! Please thank these wonderful people ♥
Cossette, Emma, Debbie, PJ, Ray, Airisu, Maria, Jheza, Tifa, Nadya, Maan
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> Again, thank you for joining,
If you wish to see the scores, how it was distributed or what your score was, I'll be happy to show them to you, just message me:
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> Each winner will be messaged a day after the announcement, regarding the prizes distributions.
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[Lastly, some comments from our mods to our fellow winners]
::1st place - C18
From Xiaobear - Choice of color combination is good. The character is prominent with suitable effects. No problem with the fonts or placement and i think the cropped thumbnail has a good proportion too.
From Tifa - nice cropping praise for there... cropping position was good just at the right point; pretty good bt still now "wow" enough.
From Maan - I'm not a big fan of pink, but the combination of pink and black is totally fabulous in this edit. The combination of the colors within the text in the cover was great. Its simple but epic. If their is one flaw I found, is the heart, which is minimal, and also the small graphics gallery in the icon, its not needed.
::2nd place - C57
From Xiaobear - Simple and bold. purple isn't an easy color to manipulate so good job bringing out the aura of the character. could have a little more effects that doesn't overshadow the main character to fill the void but that's just a personal preference.
Thumbnail was feeling too crowded when the cover is slightly empty. overall balance was tipped a little.
From Tifa - Overall nice!, Cover not bad i would think some light light design at the back will make it better.
From Maan - I find this to be absolutely perfect. The choice of image is fantastic. The color is well preserved with a light twix of other bright colors. My only problem is the use of "GG". The text looks off, and when using a vintage-like style, its better not to add any 3D, shadow effect around it.
::3rd place - C24
From Xiaobear - Very eye-catching with a good sense of style. Very crowded and messy in the center of the cover but that just brought out the flavor so it was crowded just so nicely, anymore would have tipped off the balance. Good job. ^^
The thumbnail could have been better if it was just one character or splitted into half.
From Tifa - Other than the ava that isnt very nice.. Cover is really pretty. In cover, placed in gg bt i cant really see it..
And i did rather hv it single n larger than put both in and i cant hardly see it.
From Maan - This is a fantastic mixture of collage and vintage style. I don't like the use of the avatar of simply cropping a small version of the cover, but at least if done so, it should have been focused on a close up part of the character. The blending of the black & white char and colored char in the middle threw me off a little. Same with an out of place text. But those were quite minors because overall, I believe its well done. I can see that this almost came from scratch, and I see a lot of effort has been built around this.
::4th place - C27
From Xiaobear - very neko-ish type of edit.the color combination is very focus so there wasn't any clashes.
However, it was slightly glaring and the focus was all over.
both the character and "Graphics Gallery" is fighting for attention so the flow was disrupted.
From Tifa - Good job; Nice work [in the cover], I can see a lot of major effort and skill in this. Epic design, nice fonts and effects too.
From Maan - I lovee neko's style ♥, thus portraying it in the cover is gorgeous. Glitters, placing of the text, the shape, all of it; fantastic. Character is good, as well as color combination. Stripes, love 'em. However, some problems I found are stocks used seem to have been simply threw out there without any type of organization. Same with the icon whose text doesn't even fit, what happened to the awesome glitters? Overall, its great though!
::5th place - C48
From Xiaobear - i thought you handled blue quite well especially with red being the dominate color for the character. however it lacks the essence to stand out from the 50 odd entries. but it is really a well done piece of work ^^
From Tifa - Overall looks pretty nice; In the cover, move everything to the left a bit so that its almost to the middle.. it did look nicer.. the font choice and design a little too messy and not readable.
From Maan - A messy, comical cover that is well executed. The splatter of red and blue combination makes the picture look so natural and perfect. The font, which I am not a big fan of, becomes a great focal point in both the cover and the avatar. Its a font I won't even dare to use, but the risk you took to use it is worth an applause. The matrix design also adds to a great moving magazine style effect. A great job truly!
::6th place - C34
From Xiaobear - very heavy type of edit with mecha. Great effects and well-balanced cover. however, the font for the www.facebook.com/graphicsgallery didn't fit in to the picture. Icon's graphics gallery wasn't well handled. there's room for improvement ^^
From Tifa - Overall wise; the icon is so so just plain crop..
put in gg but i can barely see it.
From Maan - I wasn't a big fan of the picture used, but even through that, you made entry come alive. The wind effect fits so well with the cover, along with the machine-like C4Ds, which makes it more steampunk looking. The "Graphics", Love it! Not sure about the "gallery" part though, could have been better. Also, the icon could have been used with a close up of its the face or just her chest or her weapon, probably some creativity, but great edit overall!
::7th place - C39
From Xiaobear - left side of cover was nice! XD really gave me the galaxy-feel.
Icon was too empty yet messy at the same time. Choice of font color wasn't suitable in the icon.
From Tifa - Sits quite nicely together. Just the parts on ava and cover seems to spoil my rating on it but other than that quite good.. and its suppose to be self colored right? than i would give praise to the coloring work.
From Maan - I totally loooveee the cover, the C4Ds used are epic!, as Xiaobear said, I love the galaxy feel to it. The quotes made to look like a futuristic holographic messaging fits so well. Overall its great! The icon although could have been better. It could have been a close up within the two characters or some other creativity. lastly, the text, "GG" just shouldn't be there.
::8th place - C13
From Xiaobear - i like the bg of the cover which gave it a playful feel. i feel that the icon's proportion wasn't suitable which made it looked empty.
but the control of the effect is good ^^
From Tifa - looks good; Nice avatar, could have done more to the cover.
From Maan - Awesome collage style. The use of frames and colors fits so well together. The picture looks soooo cute!!! I'm not sure if the text is meant to misspell "Graphics Gallery." If yes, then it may be a clever idea, but if its not, then its an easy mistake to make you should be quite careful of. The pearls I wasn't a big fan of, but looking at it closely, it fits well in that empty space. The icon could also have been better, but I think it looks good as it is. Great job!
All of you who joined, Congratulations!