Phoenix Trial #4 - Weapon and Armor Upgrade Sequences

[Paladon]

Phoenix Trial #4
Contest Theme: Weapon and Armor Upgrade Sequences
Your aim is to create two sequences (each consisting of three or more icons), one representing the upgrade sequence for your favourite weapon and another one for somekind of matching armor.
Use your imagination, a weapon is everything what can cause damage in any form.
An armor is everything what may protect just against these.
Come up with an original idea and create your both own upgrade sequences.

Contest Rules And Conditions

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

Contest Prizes And Winnings

First Place: 45 reputation points and a special award icon Second Place: 30 reputation points Third Place: 15 reputation points

Contest Judging And Voting

• Judges:
  Paladon
  General Frank
  
• Judging Criteria:
  

  Creativity	The icons' originality and uniqueness are vitally important.	30%
  Blizzard feeling	Icons should be executed in such a manner that they can be implemented in a Warcraft map and compliment other Blizzard icons.	30%
  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).	40%

• 50 % of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
• 50 % of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.

Contestants


If you would like to enter the contest simply make a post in this thread, stating the information about your entry.

Entry Name	Contestant Name
Blood Elf Caster Resigned Moon Blade/Shield Upgrade Resigned Pandaren Upgrades - Angelus Upgrade - - - - Naga/Sea Upgrades Economic Upgrades Resigned - - Tree Upgrades Tauren Upgrades Resigned Resigned - Marine Upgrade - Troll Set Axe/Shield Upgrades Faceless Set Scarlet Crusade	LiOneSS DevineArmy Volvox DonDustin FrIkY Mr.Goblin Elenai Hawkwing hawk900 CombatTheWombat Thorneon ike_ike Huinipachutli Anachron KelThuzad SuPa- Technomancer AirHead Blaxor shamanyouranus Abe97 The_Silent anarchianbedlam A.R. bananaHUNT Just_Spectating GooS

Contest Dates And Deadline

• The contest shall begin on Monday, 12 January 2009 and conclude on Thursday, 12 February 2009
  Time (GMT)

 

[LiOneSS]

YAY FIRST! I AM IN xD

Blood elf=mine.

 

[Devine]

Yay, second!
something fishy ... perhaps my "lol" theme...

 

[Volvox]

On it! I'll go for undead or night elves.

 

[D a w n]

If I will be able to create something that is good enought for a submittion........then you can count me in:


oh and I started already on my ultimate weapon upgrade: the dragon flute ( I know I suck but it´s just the shape at the moment )

 

[LiOneSS]

Upgrade 1 of the blood elven staff (wip)

 

[Volvox]

Slow down, we have like a month to finish them all xD

 

[TheBlooddancer]

If I will be able to create something that is good enought for a submittion........then you can count me in:


oh and I started already on my ultimate weapon upgrade: the dragon flute ( I know I suck but it´s just the shape at the moment )

Is that a weapon?

@LiO

I suppose it will end up in that kewl Bloodelf weapon?
I think Kitabatake made a model that looked like it. It was grey though.

 

[LiOneSS]

Is that a weapon?

@LiO

I suppose it will end up in that kewl Bloodelf weapon?
I think Kitabatake made a model that looked like it. It was grey though.

It's just a tip of a staff, WoW inspired<3

 

[D a w n]

Is that a weapon?

@LiO

I suppose it will end up in that kewl Bloodelf weapon?
I think Kitabatake made a model that looked like it. It was grey though.

yes it is a weapon because bards are using flutes as weapons
but just to make it more interesting I gave it a dragon-like shape.

 

[LiOneSS]

Second upgrade, just blocking in the colors.

 

[Paladon]

Relax. The contest started 2 hours ago.

 

[LiOneSS]

Another wip, critique please.

 

[FrIkY]

I shall probably go for Pandaren... can I do Pandaren?

Icons should be executed in such a manner that they can be implemented in a Warcraft map and compliment other Blizzard icons.

 

[Naze]

Lio, the handle of the 2nd one is ftoo flat, it doesn't looks 3D.

Oh, no, all the borders of the 2nd one are 2Dish! D: Fix dat

 

[Paladon]

I shall probably go for Pandaren... can I do Pandaren?

Of course you can.

 

[LiOneSS]

Lio, the handle of the 2nd one is ftoo flat, it doesn't looks 3D.

Oh, no, all the borders of the 2nd one are 2Dish! D: Fix dat

I shall ;D

 

[Devine]

Li, your icons always look to shiny ...
fix daht plox.

 

[Kyi-Nuo]

I'm stating that I'm entering this contest aswell.
I will bring you a weapon and an armor with 2 upgrades, a total of 6 icons.
Also, as I was reading all posts i got confused, do I have to have something that belongs to Humans, Night Elfs, Blood Elf's, Orcs, Pandaren etc ?
Or can I just make a weapon and an armor and their upgrades as I want?
That is atleast what I believed when I read the contest rules, can anyone understand that I got the impression that it needs to belong to something in warcraft?
If so I can just do my kind of weapon and armor in my mind and just call it a weapon of the Magnataurs or Murlocs or something.

 

[LiOneSS]

Li, your icons always look to shiny ...
fix daht plox.

It's a weapon, it should be shiny,

 

[Devine]

Compare to blizzard icons plox.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

i'm soooooooooooooo in this contest.. now that i learned to make icons

 

[Elenai]

My icons. (in png format)

Armour

Rapier

 

[Devine]

somewut wooden armor thingy (prolly tier 2 human armor)

 

[Mr.Goblin]

i'm going for Gladiator style

 

[Hawkwing]

I don't know what I'll be doing, but I'll surely join.

 

[Kwah]

I don't know what I'll be doing, but I'll surely join.

 

[Hawkwing]

I don't know what I'll be doing, but I'll surely join.

Have I heard that before somewhere?

 

[Kwah]

Dejavu.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Hmmm, since there is no texturing competition right now and my art pad wont work anyways so I cant do anything super complex. I guess I will try and make something for this.

 

[Thorneon]

id like to try

 

[~Void~]

Elenai, I love them, but they don't look like warcraft.

 

[Hawkwing]

A set of WIPs.

Get rid of the background. :/

 

[Elenai]

...I think I finished the contest :/

Get rid of the background. :/

I like the background.

 

[ike_ike]

I don't know what I'll be doing, but I'll surely join.

Agreed.






Oh. And Elenai, although the background was a unique touch, it's kinda a noticeable difference from Blizzard icons. Which was apparently part of the criterion.

 

[Kwah]

That was . . . fast.

 

[ike_ike]

Lawl... Elenai, you finished before you were recognised as a contestant.

 

[Huinipachutli]

Something tells me that this is something i should attend to.

I havent yet decided what i will be drawing, but ill find out soon enough.

 

[ike_ike]

Lustre Claw - Nerubian Tier 1 attack.

It's...shiny, eh?

Methinks I'll do a race that actually has armour and weapons, as opposed to overdeveloped carapaces and elongated toenails.

 

[Anachron]

These are my weapon upgrades so far. Please post me your opinion.

Attack

BTN Icons

DISBTN Icons

 

[Kyi-Nuo]

man people are going faaast! I mean 1 month peeps, work slow hehe
Anachron, you weapons looks cool I guess but in my opinion I would like to see more details then just flashy lightnings <3 (A)

Elenai
I don't think they look warcraft either, but they were really cool tho

EDIT
Here is a picture of my wip.

what is to be done to my current wip tier 1 weapon is.
shadow, color and detail. So it's just the shape hehe.

oh it's suppose to look like a staff, i have a picture in my head ;P would be really cool to see this loong crazy staff on a model, tho in this icon you can see only a pieace of the whole staff and of course it's somewhere on the top of the staff where the main details are.

WIP

 

[Paladon]

The icons must be physically attached to a post when complete. (.blp files only!)

Remember the rules.

 

[Anachron]

Remember the rules.

They are not completed. Only a preview.

 

[Paladon]

They are not completed. Only a preview.

It was a general message, not related to your preview, sorry.
But i guess Elenai should read this

 

[Anachron]

It was a general message, not related to your preview, sorry.
But i guess Elenai should read this

Can you tell me anything for my icon? Does it look good?

 

[Paladon]

Improve your elaborativity. Avoid monotony.

 

[FrIkY]

Elenai, your icons look great, but I'm affraid they won't get enough points at "Blizzard feeling", you really missed it... :/

 

[ike_ike]

Guess the race

 

[LiOneSS]

wow, sexy icon ike, I love it :3

 

[FrIkY]

@ike_ike: uum... trolls?