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Music Contest #10 - Results are finally published! Drop by to check some retro songs and congratulate the winners!
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The 3rd Melee Mapping Contest is ON! Join in on a ride of a 4v4 melee experience!
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The 30th edition of the Modeling Contest is finally up! The Portable Buildings need your attention, so come along and have a blast!
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Music Contest #10 - Results Terraining Contest #19 - Aftermath Melee Mapping contest #3 - 4 vs 4 Modeling Contest #30 - Portable Buildings

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[ENDED] NOW LIVE! B2W Map Contest Cup

Created by Archian
Dec 20, 2017

GET YOUR SNACKS READY!

B2W Map Contest Cup! $100 prizepool

STREAM ENDED

Foggy is the winner of the B2W Map Contest Cup 1v1!

Back2Warcraft (Twitch.TV) | HIVE

Twitch

More information: Cup - Warcraft III 1on1 B2W Mapping Contest Cup #1 | ESL Play

Tell the guys at Back2Warcraft what you think about the melee maps created for this contest here: B2W Map Contest Cup - Feedback Thread • r/WC3
[100€ Prize Pool] SIGN UP NOW - B2W Mapping Contest Cup on ESL
Created by Archian
Dec 18, 2017
So remember we hosted that [$100 Prize Pool] Melee Mapping Contest - 1v1 ? Great! Because now it's time to see the maps in action! The goal was to create a competitive 1v1 melee map that excels in terrain, dynamic and creativity, but most importantly balance. Thanks to Back2Warcraft we are now proud to announce six maps that everyone will have chance to play and compete.

SIGN UP HERE

More information on ESL

Back2Warcraft will be streaming on Dec 20th 19:00 CET

Place Reward
- 1st 75€
- 2nd 25€
Warcraft III The Frozen Mapping Contest Cup
- Date: December 20, 19:00 CET
- Format: 1on1 Single Elimination
- Platform: W3arena, channel: ESL Cup
- Early rounds: Best of one
- Quarter and Semi: Best of three
- Finals: Best of five
- Race: Before the veto each player must declare the race
- Veto: Ban till best - of, pick remaining, player on the left start first
Map pool by HIVE WORKSHOP

You can download all the maps here!
Hive is Hiring!
Created by Archian
Dec 15, 2017
As most of you know by now, StopCampingN00b recently resigned his position as Community Manager for The Hiveworkshop. His job was to manage our social media and to promote The Hiveworkshop as best he could anywhere he could. He also managed the hive's relations to other sites and forums and brokered deals and set up affiliations. In short: He was our PR Manager, Agent and Diplomat.

Even shorter: He was absolutely outstanding.

And although the staff will miss him dearly, it is also important that we maintain a such position among our ranks. Therefore we would like to extend an invitation to anyone who feels a calling to make the hive the best place they can. If you love the hive, and if you want to do your part in promoting and improving this place to the best of your efforts, then Community Manager might just be the job for you.

There are, as with any job-offer, some requirements:
- Activity: You need to be an active member and you will need to be actively a part of the community and happenings on the site. One of your many tasks will be to promote new resources and new happenings on the site on our Facebook and Twitter accounts.
- Photoshop Skills: A certain level of skills using any form of Photoshop tools is necessary, as you will be working to make posts that need to look good and presentable.
- Creativity: You will need to have a creative business mentality, be able to find new ways of making the site interesting, new ways of making it accessible, and new ways of promoting it to the world.
- Proficiency in English: You must be fluent or strongly written and conversational in the English language.
We know it is a lot to ask of anyone, especially for being an unpaid position. But it does offer a good chance of educating yourself on the matter of how to manage public relations, how to promote something and generally how to work in a team and forward your own agenda and ideas. It's also a great thing to have on your curriculum vitae/resume, as game development companies and online communities are hiring Community Managers all the time. Food for thought!

Please write your application in the Admin Contact forum if you are interested.

Thank you for your time, good luck and have a nice day!

Sign,
The Hive Staff
Lordaeron: The Aftermath [Grand Tournament]

Created by Hawkr
Dec 4, 2017

Take control of the Blood Elves, Scourge, the Legion, the Dalaran Remnants, Dwarves, Trolls, Horde, Forsaken, the Cult of the Damned, Dragonmaw's Clan or the Silver Hand and battle for supremacy in the shattered land of Lordaeron in a grand strategy for the ages!

It is with great excitement that I hereby announce the First Grand Lordaeron: The Aftermath Tournament, sponsored by Clan UoS. LTA has long proven itself to be universal, having united all communities under its banner. Therefore, I believe it is past time to organize a tournament in which all communities may clash for supremacy in this battleground and herald to the world which players are truly the best ones among us.

All the matches will be either live casted by the streamers playing in the teams or by youtubers Zo_Om, Harald and Azothan to name a few, so all may enjoy the games and maybe learn from them.

The organization setting will be the classical best of three, meaning that the first team to win two matches will be qualified for the following phase. The teams will be composed of six players and factions will be picked as in draft mode. Each team picks a Team Leader and when in game the agreed upon Team Leader will go first and pick a faction, then the opposing Team Leader picks two factions (to compensate for the first pick) then again first one picks one faction, the second team leader picks one and so on until all factions have been picked.

A special thanks to @Marshmalo and all of LTA editors, who made what LTA is today and allowed us to have this tournament in the first place! And a big shout out for @Draupne and @svmns who have made a special version of the map with a PAUSE function just for this tournament!

Sign Up:

The team’s name, alongside its members and team leader with his contact info is signed-up through here: Grand LTA Tournament [Team Sign-Up]! If you can't create a team but still want to participate: Grand LTA Tournament [Solo Sign-Up] The period for signing up to paricipate in the tournament is open up until the 12th of December.

Prizes:

The winning team will receive a list of 30 games (worth about 800e) from which they'll be able to pick 6, one for each of the team members! So try hard the hardest you can!

Rules:

⦁ Members are not allowed to switch, so all of those who signed up composing a team must be present to play.
⦁ The deadline is that, once agreed upon by both teams, a match should be played within the period of two weeks.
⦁ At the beginning of the match the game should be paused until all teams members have allied each other.
⦁ Needless to say, but map-hacking, cheating, glitches and bug abuse are strictly forbidden.
⦁ In case someone disconnects in the first 20 minutes of the game, a remake is to be hosted. With the exact same factions.
⦁ Victory condition is not set in stone, but we hope everyone will be a fair sport about losing or winning that is.
⦁ All replays are to be sent to @Hawkr to be reviewed. They will then be sent to be cast by one of the previously mentioned youtubers.

If you have any questions don't be afraid to ask either here or join us on our discord and ask for @Hawkr! And don't forget to check out the LTA forums and changelog for the latest news about the map:
Lordaeron: The Aftermath
Lordaeron: The Aftermath
Latest Changelog
Map download link

We hope to see you on the battlefield!
- The Warclave Staff Team

Concept Art Spotlight

Created by Archian

Dec 7, 2017

INTRODUCTION

Today we got some real eye-candy for you! Some time ago, Mr.Goblin joined the Hive moderation team by taking on the mantle of Art & Graphic Design moderator.
Mr.Goblin, known in real life as Vincent Turcot, is an accomplished Concept artist, Illustrator & Art Director. One of his artworks was featured on Blizzard's World of Warcraft community site.

Mr.Goblin has made our art section a real attraction! He started doing livestreaming events which Hive members are invited to tune into and participate in.
He also participated in Hive's Concept Art Contest #9 and I encourage you to check out the entries!

Some time ago I, Archian, had a chance to sit down and talk/chat to Mr.Goblin about his experience with concept artwork, and he was kind enough to give me an insight on the process of making the Starcraft Fan Art, For Auir!

To see more of Mr.Goblins awesome work, be sure to check out the following links after reading through this article:

THE INTERVIEW

Archian: Hello Mr.Goblin, first of all I want thank you for participating in this. We are really excited about this article, and we hope that this concept art spotlight will inspire other would-be artists to pick up their pencil and ignite their creative juices to start creating unique concept art themselves.

Mr.Goblin: My pleasure! It's a great honor! But quite frankly I'd do anything for the hive and to inspire lovable artists of the hive who are aiming to become professionals in their craft.

Archian: I'm pleased to hear that FOR THE HIVE! Anyway, your join date says May 26, 2008. Thanks for being part of our community for so long! What made you join the community in the first place?

Mr.Goblin: Really good question, I'm not really sure how I ended up on the hive and when I decided to sign up, but I'm pretty sure it turned out to be something like that = I was a passionate young hobbyist who was in love with the Warcraft universe since the first game came out. I used to reproduce Samwise's and Metzen's drawing all the time trying to draw cool orcs and humans in armours like they did.

When I learned through custom games a side of Warcraft 3 I'd never heard about = modding.
Young Mr.Goblin (I must have been 13 years old or something... Oh boy it's already been 11 years) probably thought to himself = wait, this is really neat! I could do that?! I want to give it a try! and ended up on The Hive Workshop looking for custom models and icons - probably... then history happened...I felt in love with the community and I still think it was one of the smartest move I did in my life.

Archian: So the modding community brought you into concept artwork creation?

Mr.Goblin: Indeed it has! Making textures and icons for other people's project was a great open window towards concept art! By being part of the hive community I learned so much more about video-game making and most importantly = that I could do that as a living.

By my icons and textures I soon caught the attention of a few hivers who were working on their own modding projects, on which, not all of them were made in the Warcraft 3 World Editor... The possibilities were limitless!. I remember, my first ''job'' as a concept artist (note, I must have been 17 back then and I was unpaid) was for a unreal modding project called Dilogus = winds of war. A project that never came to be... But it was a great experience for me because I drew most of the beast concepts of the project, houses concept arts and other various things like that. Some of which can still be found on Deviantart: Dilogus Beast concepts, Jawroz & Plainstrider.

Archian: It's great to be able to make a living doing the things you love. On ArtStation, it says "Concept artist, Illustrator, Art Director". Lovely titles Do you work in the game industry?

Mr.Goblin: Yes I do! after drawing became a passion and doing concept art a dream job, I went in fine art in ''cegep'' (in quebec it's the equivalent of your last year of college and your first year of a bachelor degree) in fine art... Then I went to university in 3D animation and digital designs at Centre Nad… and from there a teacher threw me a job application saying = here's your chance, go for it! Since 2014 I have been a concept artist, an illustrator and an art-director for Illogika, an independent studio that works in multimedia. (iLLOGIKA | Montreal-based independent game studio)

Archian: Which tools do you use when creating your artwork?

Mr.Goblin: Depends, most of the time I do sketches in my sketchbook first, I try to breakdown the composition, the overall shape and designs of subjects, I try different paths I could take for my concept-art and soon to become illustrations.

Then I jump into Photoshop. The tablet I use is a Wacom Intuos Pro small = but quite frankly the tool doesn't make the artist. So if you're an aspiring artist, any tablet is a great start!

In Photoshop, I normally do a mash-up of all my ideas and expand on them.

Archian: In your experience, what would you say was the hardest to learn when creating an illustration using Photoshop and a tablet?

Mr.Goblin: Coloring was a really hard step to take (and I'm still learning everyday). My background being more traditional = Black and white drawings made with a pencil.... yeah coloring at first was really hard. I knew how to draw shadows, volumes and highlights ''well'', but adding colour and learning bouncing lights, etc. Is still, to this day, challenging. Even today, I'm trying to bend my head around understanding light and colour properly.

Archian: What art do you most identify with?

Mr.Goblin: Hiveworkshop was one of the main reasons why I got into concept art... The lord of the rings makings of was the other.

Through the years, as an artist I've been far more drawn towards dark gloomy and gritty fantasy pieces... Nowadays (and it's been the case for a few years now) my main inspiration as an artist are = Jeff Simpsons , Arnaud Pheu, Tianhua Xu, Aaron Simpson and Sebastian Larroude. And I have to be honest, beside 3A games, movie concept art is where it's at. The challenges are different and requires specifically skilled and talented artists that are masters in anatomy and understanding lightning.

Archian: Really? I feel honored to be part of a community that has inspired you as much as it has.

Mr.Goblin: The Hive was the spark of my oil tank....HA!

Archian: What work do you most enjoying doing?

What I enjoy most about work is the daunting clean slate and the whole building up process of breaking down and researching the new drawings/projects to be... as a concept artist and an art director, the most FUN part is to build worlds with the game designer.
to find the inspiration, to do the research, to eliminate the possibilities to refine the good tracks to take etc.

Archian: Is the artistic life lonely? What do you do to counteract it?

Mr.Goblin: Truth be told, it is a really lonely path. Doesn't mean it's a bad path to take, but drawing is a really self-centered activity... And just like anything, if you want to be good at it, you have to spend thousands and thousands of hours on your craft, which you'll mostly spend alone... Now that being said, there's a few ways to ease the loneliness of being a socially inept geek.

First would be to join great artistic related forums such as the Hive. Artistic Facebook pages, or Google Hangout live streaming groups.

Also, to remind yourself to take a break from drawing from time to time, go out with your friends! Visit museums, art galleries, get lost in Comic-con! Allow yourself some quality time with your family, etc. Because at the end of the day, you're your main source of happiness.

Archian: Good point

Mr.Goblin: It's something that even today I...
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