Modeling Contest 19: Poll

[anarchianbedlam]

Contest Theme: Water Units

Contestants are to create a water unit. A model that is primarily found in the water. Be creative and have fun

1. No submission may violate any Hive Workshop site rules.
2. You must post at least 1 WIP preview before the deadline.
3. You may make as many models as you want, however pick only one for the final judge's evaluation.
4. To qualify for entry, you must post your model(s) in .mdx format, and an in-game screenshot of the model.
5. You must post your entry before the deadline expires and attach it to a post.
6. You must make the model for this competition, which means that you cannot use old works.
7. Your model must have these minimum animations:
   • Attack
   • Death
   • Stand
   • Walk

• First Place: 50 reputation points and your entry on an award icon.
• Second Place: 35 reputation points and an award icon
• Third Place: 20 reputation points and an award icon

• 60 % of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
  • Score shall be taken out of 50 points,
    • 15 points for mesh (verticies and faces)
    • 10 points for animations (or how well Blizzard animations have been used)
    • 10 points for skin (or how well Blizzard skins have been used)
    • 5 points for mechanics (how well does this model work ingame)
    • 5 points for effects (appropriate use of particles, particle saturation, etc.)
    • 5 points for creativity.
• 40 % of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.
• Final Score = (Judge's Score)*0.6 + (votes/(total votes))*40 = (score)/100

1. Mr. Bob
2. Dionesiist

I will list the participants here as they enter

Anarchianbedlam	Finished Entry - "Narwhals Narwhals swimming in the ocean"
Pyramidhe@d	Finished Entry - "The Floating Rock"
Dondustin	Finished Entry - "Riderless Hippocampus"
The Weird human	Finished Entry - "German Diver"
Debode	Finished Entry - "Ramming Galley"

Inviting your friends to vote for you, bribing random members with rep and otherwise cheating with the VB poll system will get you DISQUALIFIED, BANNED from future contests, -REPPED, and possibly INFRACTED. So don't do it!

This includes, but is not limited to, sending PMs out to various users, getting other people to send those PMs, advertising this contest on other sites with the intention to gain more votes (whether it is explicitly stated or not), and so on. If you are suspected of cheating, the staff will notify you and interrogate you (hopefully) over PMs.

 

[Joe-black-5]

Ok then, We have a:
1- Narwhal
2- Sea Tank
3- Sea Horse Serpent
4- Big Daddy from Bioshock
5- Boat
expected:
Narwhal cause sing alongs of lyrics with every vote (high votes from specified audience)
Sea Tank awesomeness (who does not enjoy a tank?)
Sea Horse Serpent thing (naga lovers will fall in love again)
Bigdaddy (hard competition with the ones above)
Boat (it's a boat :/ no eye candy, no nothing, people usually don't give a crap about quality and animation, it's all what looks nice and the coolest models, good luck with that)

 

[Deolrin]

Excuse me, anarchianbedlam, but I believe you did not provide a Work-in-Progress screenshot as was required. I've mentioned that during the contest's duration as well.

And why the "?" in the name of my entry? Yes, it's Ramming Galley. I don't see why would that be confusing, seeing how I announced the name in the post as well as in the model's name.

Oh, and anarchianbedlam... I suggest you wait for Pyritie to make a poll next time, seeing how he has access to notifications and he is the arena master. You forgot to make the voters visible to everyone, too.

I voted for Pyramidhe@d's "The Floating Rock". The design is creative and the shaking barrel is awesome. The animations are great, and there's lots of particles. It seems to have everything it needs to function well in-game, too.
DonDustin's Hippocampus was awesome, but the animations threw me off a little. Both models were great, but I preferred Pyramidhe@d's. I wish you would've finished that rider, Don!

 

[Pyritie]

anarch you noob you forgot to make the poll visible

 

[Tleno]

4- Big Daddy from Bioshock

Told ya!
Well anyways big daddy got my vote, I know The Weird Human from the time he joined the Hive and from his submission I can say that he immproved a lot!

 

[PROXY]

God damnit, wasn't able to finish. This time I would have had actually a chance :/ (no offense ^^)

Anyway, I'll vote for Pyra, I'll just like big fat boats

All models are great, I really like all of them

 

[Ganondorf]

"Narwhals Narwhals swimming in the Ocean Causing a Commotion
Cuz they are so awesome
Narwhals Narwhals swimming in the ocean
Pretty big and pretty White
They beat a polarbear in a fight
Like an underwater Unicorn
They got a kickass facial horn!
Their the jedi's of the sea!
They stop Cthuly eating ye!
Narwhals they are Narwhals Narwhals!
Just dont let them touch your balls!
Narwhals They are narwhals!
Inventors of the Shishkebab!"

Best song ever.
The model's decent, but not too "Narwhal-ish". But still gets my vote.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

And my vote goes to... German Diver!

 

[anarchianbedlam]

anarch you noob you forgot to make the poll visible

Why would the voters be public? wouldnt that create bias since you can view the voters before you have voted?

lrn2objectify

Excuse me, anarchianbedlam, but I believe you did not provide a Work-in-Progress screenshot as was required. I've mentioned that during the contest's duration as well.

And why the "?" in the name of my entry? Yes, it's Ramming Galley. I don't see why would that be confusing, seeing how I announced the name in the post as well as in the model's name.

Oh, and anarchianbedlam... I suggest you wait for Pyritie to make a poll next time, seeing how he has access to notifications and he is the arena master. You forgot to make the voters visible to everyone, too.

I voted for Pyramidhe@d's "The Floating Rock". The design is creative and the shaking barrel is awesome. The animations are great, and there's lots of particles. It seems to have everything it needs to function well in-game, too.
DonDustin's Hippocampus was awesome, but the animations threw me off a little. Both models were great, but I preferred Pyramidhe@d's. I wish you would've finished that rider, Don!

the ingame screenshot was the wip, it was an earlier version of it when i was testing it ingame. I could always post the ms3d file if you ponies want it.

Yea, i was gonna pm pyritie this morning, but he got it done so no harm no foul there.

and i totally agree, don, the model is great but it just seems a little pointless to have it all saddled up without a rider

 

[idodik]

I voted depending on usefulness.
The useful models were the German guy (original but meh), Deolrin's rowboat (detailed but not very original), and Pyra's awesome roflzor tank. Definitely gets my vote.

 

[Deolrin]

Why would the voters be public? wouldnt that create bias since you can view the voters before you have voted?

lrn2objectify

Because all past contests had public voters.
The name of the thread(and the name of my entry) is still fucked up.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Couldn't be arsed downloading the models to check the animations, so tell me I'm biased if you want. DonDustin got my vote anyway, a creative use of the Naga textures and the model looks neat. It was a hard pick, and I initially wanted to vote for Pyra, but the textures don't fit so well at times. The lion head is used too much for my taste and the half lion head (why?) on the side is kind of odd. Not a big fan of the diver or narwhal, no offence, but they look slapped together in a rush. The boat looks too fragile to my liking and I don't really understand why there's a tent on it in the first place.

 

[N.Knight]

The Narwal is a win but I vote for Debode's Sea Galley because of its generic nature, it can be used in a number of maps.

The hippocampus is also nice but anims could have been better.

 

[D a w n]

and i totally agree, don, the model is great but it just seems a little pointless to have it all saddled up without a rider

the riderless knight model is also sattled.
+ it could work as armor aswell

oh and I voted for PyramidHe@d

 

[Kala]

My vote goes to...
DonDustin's "Riderless Hippocampus"

Very unique idea and well made. File size is small, and i like the team color positions.

^{Nice job, bro!}

 

[Skycraft]

voted for pyhead.
cool stuff, other entries were good but his was better.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

well i made the last poll invisible thinking that it would make it fair on everyone. the only real reason why we need to show the names is to make sure people dont vote their own stuff.

alternatively, we could have a poll system where all the names are visible to the the creator of the OP while hiding it to the public. just saying.

 

[Pyritie]

Why would the voters be public? wouldnt that create bias since you can view the voters before you have voted?

lrn2objectify

it's so people can't vote for themselves

learn2rigpolls

 

[Pharaoh_]

I'd go for The Weird Human, because of the model's usefulness, but the most creative seemed to be the submission of DonDustin's. My vote goes there.

 

[Skycraft]

well i made the last poll invisible thinking that it would make it fair on everyone. the only real reason why we need to show the names is to make sure people dont vote their own stuff.

alternatively, we could have a poll system where all the names are visible to the the creator of the OP while hiding it to the public. just saying.

but because you are linking it to their posts, wouldn't that idea seem redundant?

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

but because you are linking it to their posts, wouldn't that idea seem redundant?

what?

 

[Skycraft]

what?

you said that you could just hide who did what model but you always link back to the users posts in the poll or somewhere on the first post, i was thinking that idea would be redundant unless of course you were using something like pastebin and gave them separate links.

 

[D a w n]

he meant, that you can hide who voted for what model.

 

[Skycraft]

oh right.
my bad.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

it's so people can't vote for themselves

learn2rigpolls

fuck..... thats a good point.

ITS YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT PYRITIE, why didnt you make the poll

 

[waveseeker]

I voted for DonDustin's model. Pretty perfect for my map

 

[Cweener]

fuck..... thats a good point.

ITS YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT PYRITIE, why didnt you make the poll

Yeah pyrite! Now I voted for myself!!!!
Muhahahahahaha!
;,,;

 

[The Weird Human]

Told ya!
Well anyways big daddy got my vote, I know The Weird Human from the time he joined the Hive and from his submission I can say that he immproved a lot!

Aww...Thank you pal. Maybe if i have time maybe i could make a model of Big Daddy himself.

Well i dont expect that ill be first place ill just go for second or third..:b

 

[Tleno]

Wow DonDustin got queite a lot of votes while I was inactive! Now he has at least ten votes more than any other model submited!

 

[Joe-black-5]

No love for the Narwhals? I am disappointed

 

[Tleno]

Seems most of us have forgotten the Narwhals already...

 

[Ganondorf]

...It's a shame. They did a lot of awesome things for us... [racism]and they're white[/racism]

 

[Kuhneghetz]

I voted for Narwhals.
"Cuz they are so awesome."
=)

 

[GhostThruster]

The German Diver. Reminds me of BioShock.

 

[DPL]

I vote for The_Weird_Human's - "German Diver".

LoL those narwhals look creepy

 

[Mr. Bob]

Oh whoops. Forgot I'm a judge. I'll get that done tonight.

 

[Deolrin]

Wait. Only one judge? There should be more than one judge. :X

 

[Mr. Bob]

It would be nice if we could get 3, honestly.

 

[Cweener]

i cn judje! if u gaiz wnt. i meen, ets up 2 u rlyy. i wood liek two judje tho.




But seriously. More judges!

 

[Marc Mamales]

i'll vote Debode

 

[nokiaman]

German Diver FTW

 

[Tamerleine]

for me, I think the best model here is from The Weird Human!........

awesome model dude!
2 thumbs up

 

[Mr. Bob]

Judging is all done and sent to pyritie btw.

 

[Deolrin]

Need two more though.
Or at least one.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

looks like we snagged ourselves Dionesiist as judge numero dos!
WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

EVERYBODY PARTAAAYYYY!!

 

[Mr. Bob]

YAAAAY

Finally someone else agreed to do it. I was getting worried there for a sec.

 

[D a w n]

great news.

 

[Tleno]

Great judge for a great contest! excelent!

 

[Dionesiist]

Don't get overenthusiastic, my judging may as well be the worst yet.

 

[Mr. Bob]

THE SECOND COMING OF JUDGE IS AT HAND.

caps