Icon Contest #10 - Custom Models/Skins

[Pharaoh_]

I love them, I love the colors. Quite frankly though, the hand still has some proportional issues, the chin in the second has a slightly wrong shading and the icon of the hero herself should get the blue glow removed, as it turns it non-warcraft.

Just a few comments, I still like them, nonetheless.

 

[Xian]

lovely colors apheraz,I especially liked the 3rd one

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Oh, that blue glow is something all standard Hero Icons have, not sure about neutral heroes, so I though it would make her look more powerful compared to other icons. Oh well, life's a bitch

And I keep forgeting that palm-thumb extension, damn.

 

[JollyD]

So i still got a week left, nice. I just hope I'll pull my shit together and start working for this

Pull, start ^)

Oh, that blue glow is something all standard Hero Icons have, not sure about neutral heroes, so I though it would make her look more powerful compared to other icons. Oh well, life's a bitch

And I keep forgeting that palm-thumb extension, damn.

Great work ^^

 

[-Berz-]

Haven't pulled shit togeteher. :/ Good luck guys

 

[Marcos DAB]

My final entry. Unfortunately with little time to work.




Remembering the HWS has low quality preview icons.

 

[Hemske]

@ Berz, sorry to hear that. Was looking forward to stomping your icons in my judging <3

@ Marcos_DAB, I absolutely LOVE that heart icon. God it is awesome.

 

[The Panda]

I will gather all the entries together in one post when there are more of them.

-Cheers.

 

[Sin'dorei300]

My final entry. Unfortunately with little time to work.




Remembering the HWS has low quality preview icons.

Awesome entry!

 

[kola]

My final entry. Unfortunately with little time to work.




Remembering the HWS has low quality preview icons.

False. The blp files have a low quality. If you post them in Png it will look good.

Everyone that is telling ''in game it looks better'' are totally lying because if you check your blp version in Button Manager it looks the same as on the hive.

Anyways, That reduced quality is very hard to tell when you are not the creator of the icon.

 

[Hemske]

One question about the judging for this. Are we supposed to know what kind of abilities the icons are to represent, or is that no criteria?

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Important!
Update for scoretable.

Blizzard Feeling: 15 points.
Theme: 30 points.
Creativity: 25 points.
Technical Note: 30 points.
Total: 100 points.

Elainiel, there's no criteria, you're judging how well the icons fit a chosen resource in the theme section.

 

[Hemske]

Fair enough.

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Other two judges (Army-of-Pandas & NFwar), please inform me that you've red new scoretable.

 

[Marcos DAB]

False. The blp files have a low quality. If you post them in Png it will look good.

Everyone that is telling ''in game it looks better'' are totally lying because if you check your blp version in Button Manager it looks the same as on the hive.

Anyways, That reduced quality is very hard to tell when you are not the creator of the icon.

These icons are in BLP because are the linked images...
If you did not realize just click on them...

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Rushing to hospital, sry, BLP files tomorow whean i get back, sry.

Preview

 

[-Grendel]

"Chreana SixSev"
67Chrome

I C WAT U DID THAR

 

[JollyD]

I have too much work (( so I do not know if i could finish my icons in time...

 

[The Panda]

Important!
Update for scoretable.

Blizzard Feeling: 15 points.
Theme: 30 points.
Creativity: 25 points.
Technical Note: 30 points.
Total: 100 points.

Elainiel, there's no criteria, you're judging how well the icons fit a chosen resource in the theme section.

Ok, i get it now. thanks man.

 

[Fjury]

So here is all the icons for the contest:

The colour scheme shifted since I didn't have enough time comming up with something (cause of vacation).
I'll try to see if I can make some updates from the great feedback I got, before it's too late.

 

[The Panda]

Alrighty, im gonna gather all the contestants entry's in this post. NFWar and Elainiel you can check this post while you are judging. And, i will update this post when more entry's are given.


Apheraz Lucent - http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2189607-post199.html


Fjury - http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2190411-post219.html


Marcos DAB - http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2189808-post205.html


PeeKay - http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2176105-post48.html


Kola - http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2176948-post57.html


Morbent - http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2186791-post189.html


JollyD - http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2184273-post166.html


Sin'dorei300 - http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2191458-post229.html

 

[kola]

A-o-P, You forgot my entry and the entry of Peekay. Page 4

 

[morbent]

My final entry is the last update I made.

I'll be offline for some days (July-10August)

 

[The Panda]

Judges go after this post. I got it pretty much all set


http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2190486-post220.html

 

[kola]

These icons are in BLP because are the linked images...
If you did not realize just click on them...

Yes i know. But it's not the hive's fault.

 

[JollyD]

Actually hive has some problems with published blp icons, some quality is lost, but not critical.

 

[I3lackDeath]

False. The blp files have a low quality. If you post them in Png it will look good.

Everyone that is telling ''in game it looks better'' are totally lying because if you check your blp version in Button Manager it looks the same as on the hive.

Anyways, That reduced quality is very hard to tell when you are not the creator of the icon.

Actually hive has some problems with published blp icons, some quality is lost, but not critical.

I don't get you, people. I am pretty sure 100% of Hive's previews are either JPG or GIF format. Naturally, JPG has lower quality boundaries, and GIF is for avatars, afaik.
BLP quality can be adjusted when you're converting the original file. Atleast if you're using more than one software to get the final result.

 

[kola]

I don't get you, people. I am pretty sure 100% of Hive's previews are either JPG or GIF format. Naturally, JPG has lower quality boundaries, and GIF is for avatars, afaik.
BLP quality can be adjusted when you're converting the original file. Atleast if you're using more than one software to get the final result.

Well, before posting an icon, you convert it to BLP right? So on the hive we see the BLP file. And BLP files have a lowered quality. that's all.

And yes jolly, the only thing I noticed about the hive is the color red not showing up correctly in blp files.

 

[I3lackDeath]

Well, before posting an icon, you convert it to BLP right? So on the hive we see the BLP file. And BLP files have a lowered quality. that's all.

And yes jolly, the only thing I noticed about the hive is the color red not showing up correctly in blp files.

Did you miss what I said about that?
Let's say you're using BLPLab to convert the original file to BLP. You can choose the compression rate, by %. I always used 85%.
Thus, saying BLP has "lower quality" is false. It depends on the actual settings or software you are using (or on the original image itself).

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Here's my final entry:

Portrait:

Abilities:

Drink Ale
The Dwarf Monk drinks a cup of fresh dwarven ale, restoring an amount of health + mana and giving increased attack speed for an amount of time

Enchanted Axe
The dwarf monk enchants his axe with holy power, increasing his attack damage.

Heavy Strike
The dwarf monk heavily strikes with his mace a target enemy, dealing massive damage and making the unit bleed for a period of time.

Ultimate:

Holy Call
The dwarf monk calls an angel that heals neabry friendly units(including caster)for an amount of time.

Ingame Preview

 

[The Panda]

Here's my final entry:

Picture

Updated to the list.

 

[Sin'dorei300]

@A-o-P
I updated my post!

 

[kola]

Did you miss what I said about that?
Let's say you're using BLPLab to convert the original file to BLP. You can choose the compression rate, by %. I always used 85%.
Thus, saying BLP has "lower quality" is false. It depends on the actual settings or software you are using (or on the original image itself).

I use button manager which convert it automaticly

 

[I3lackDeath]

I use button manager which convert it automaticly

I thought as much. BTNManager uses specified quality compression that can not be changed, something around 50%, as far as I could see it.

That's why I always saved the images from BTNManager as PNG and converted those with BLPLab.

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Button Manager won't reduce quality, it shrunkens the icons which makes them loose smaller details, low opacity shadows/light, and color morphs. If you don't believe me, paint 1 pixel of blue next to red, repeat several times, and see what color it displays in BM. My icons never lost anything, and I use BM for a long time.

Where's the poll? T_T

 

[I3lackDeath]

Button Manager won't reduce quality, it shrunkens the icons which makes them loose smaller details, low opacity shadows/light, and color morphs. If you don't believe me, paint 1 pixel of blue next to red, repeat several times, and see what color it displays in BM. My icons never lost anything, and I use BM for a long time.

Where's the poll? T_T

It shrinks them? How so? I only know of the option to resize the original image, shouldn't it be 64x64 big. What you describe never happened to me.

Ask Pharaoh_ to close this thread, and since you are pretty much the icon mod now, you can create the poll yourself.
Mind the Frozen Arena event though, I don't know how that influences polls.

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

I felt that dose of sarcasm, but nevermind, I can't, I'm in hospital until 4th of August.

The poll shouldn't be affected by LE, as none of our three judges is participating in it.

 

[I3lackDeath]

I felt that dose of sarcasm, but nevermind, I can't, I'm in hospital until 4th of August.

The poll shouldn't be affected by LE, as none of our three judges is participating in it.

What are you talking about? Even though resource mods can mod all sections, they specify in their respective sections. thus, you are the icon mod now.
and you should know me, atleast to this degree, that there was no sarcasm in my post. I have absolutely no bad or harsh feelings regarding you as a person and user/mod. -.-

 

[8512590215848]

Waiting for contest poll and results.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Will be up very soon

By the way, Army-of-Pandas, is this list fully accurate?

 

[The Panda]

Will be up very soon

By the way, Army-of-Pandas, is this list fully accurate?

It should be Pharaoh_ i went through each and very comment to check. And i will be post my judging soon today.

 

[Pharaoh_]

It should be Pharaoh_ i went through each and very comment to check. And i will be post my judging soon today.

Ok, cool, thanks a lot!

By the way.. "post my judging"? No, you will send it to me

 

[The Panda]

Ok, cool, thanks a lot!

By the way.. "post my judging"? No, you will send it to me

Thats what i meant silly

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

via PM

I'll be hosting an Idea Poll after results are up

 

[Pharaoh_]

morbent's entry has been redirected through Pastebin, which expired. Seeing that it is an obvious disadvantage for him, I will VM him to update his entry post. Until then, I will not post the poll. :/

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

He has uploaded all entry icons in icon section, if that helps. He mentioned a period of innactivity :/

 

[Pharaoh_]

He has uploaded all entry icons in icon section, if that helps. He mentioned a period of innactivity :/

Are they the ones here?

morbent

 

[Jolly_jumper]

^I think thats the latest version(s) of his icons, but he wasn't finnished though, atleast he wasn't finnished with the Hatred icon, but he's gone now and wont be back until 10th of august so i guess that will be his entry yeah, but maybe you should use the old version of his LightningStrike which wasn't so pixelated, idk...difficult when you can't talk to him about it, maybe choose the one you would give best rating?

 

[The Panda]

Are they the ones here?

morbent

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2186791-post189.html

 

[Pharaoh_]

I don't get any image there, Army-of-Pandas, because they entry expired. I don't get why you link it again

Ok, I'll link those instead.