Pheonix Competition #3

Phoenix Trial #3

Theme

The theme of Phoenix Trial #3 is Elements.

Fire, Water, Air, Earth! Go! You have been given the choice on wielding the elements, interpret them as you want. Such as Water being ice and Air being Lighting, its up to you to decide as long as it relates and its part of the 4 elements.

Each arena gladiator must decide how best to make their set of icons look powerful. They will need to call upon all of their icon editing skills (or learn new ones) to produce a powerful, commanding set of icons that will appeal to judges, voters, and consumers.

4 icons must be created to successfully complete this rigorous trial.

Rules:

1. All icons must adhere to the established icon rules.
2. Active and disabled versions of all icons are required.
3. No plain screenshots (or shallowly modified) icons are permitted.
4. The icons must be made specifically for the contest. No previous works are allowed.
5. Blizzard icon naming conventions must be followed: BTNAttack*.blp etc.
   • Example: DISBTNHoldPositionBlackDoom.blp
6. Works in progress (WIPs) of the icons are encouraged as they keep the contest active.
7. The icons must be physically attached to a post when complete. (.blp files only!)
8. An in-game screenshot must be included with all submissions.
9. Individual users may undergo the trial: teams may not.
10. Judges may not participate in the contest.
11. No irrelevant, non-constructive or off-topic posts will be tolerated in this thread.
12. Each icon must also have a provided 256x256 image of the icons base image and be checked for authenticity.

Prizes And Winnings

• The winner of Phoenix Trial # 3 will be awarded an official medal icon and 30 reputation points.
• The contest's runner up will receive 20 reputation points.
• The third place contestant will receive 10 reputation points.

Judging:

Judges: Werewulf, HappyTauren

• 50% of the score will determined by a public poll. The rest of the score will be determined by one or more specialized judges.
• Critical judging elements for both voters and specialized judges are:
  • Creativity. The icons' originality and uniqueness are vitally important.
  • Blizzard feeling. Icons should be executed in such a manner that they can be implemented in a Warcraft map and compliment other Blizzard icons.
  • Technical Note. The quality of the icons is the most important thing. They must be detailed yet clear (throwing a lot of elements in a 64x64 image will usually look crowded).

Time Allowed And Deadline

• Due to the exhaustive nature of this demanding trial, about 2 weeks will be alloted for its completion.
• Phoenix Trial #3 will officially begin on 20 June and will conclude on
  12 July, 2007 (0:00 AM, GMT).
• The deadline is very unlikely to be extended.
• DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 12th OF JULY

This contest is ready to go!
Let's get started!

Might actually join this one. If I re-install my PS.

I might give this a try, i need something to do.

Icon contest! Yey! Finally something that involves graphics that I WON'T fail hideously on! :)

Originally Posted by Werewulf

• Phoenix Trial #2 will officially begin on 20 June and will conclude on
  5 July, 2007 (0:00 AM, GMT).

Admit it, you copied this off PT#2 :D

Anyway, I might enter the compo, just for the last year's sakes :D

I'm in an here is my WIP:

Dragon's Breath (Firebuttons)



Pure Water (Waterbuttons)



Wind of Daggers (Airbuttons)



earthbuttons coming soon

Thy

Your DISBTN is invalid, you must black out the frames in DISBTN =\

Whoops, I need to look in the arena more often D:

I'll join, probably.

I might join... Here's fire so far.

EDIT: WIP's of earth. Better with eye's and hands or without?

Water

Heres a WIP of my ice icon, 5 minutes in.

Originally Posted by FF7 project-G

EDIT-thyreal the pure water looks like a pic of a geyser ive seen before

The pic was created in paint, took about 4 hours. I took a pic of an old schoolbook and tried to copy it as best as possible by freehand.

Originally Posted by HeretoDLstuff

EDIT: WIP's of earth. Better with eye's and hands or without?

Without, definitely.

FF7, that flare thing you made looks awesome. keep it up!

And good luck to the rest of ya!

frostwhisper sayed he might join... Well im not wasting time trying to compete with him. Im communist NOT retarded!