Next Texturing Contest

[Dionesiist]

So, let's see.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

So, let's see.

 

[Dionesiist]

The Seven Deadly Sins
The Four Horsemen
...Elements
Texturing the Death Knight model X'D
that's all for now ._.

 

[Deolrin]

Go go Seven Deadly Sins.

 

[A.R.]

The Seven Deadly Sins

This is a seriously awesome idea.

 

[Dionesiist]

I know, right?

 

[Deolrin]

Two skins - Something like the "Good and Evil", "Maiden and Protector", "Master and Pet" contests from WC3C. Contestants must create two textures that are related in some way(decided by the poll). Perhaps something like "Protagonist and Antagonist".

 

[Dawn Whitelighter]

how about a evil side-good side theme?

 

[anarchianbedlam]

everyone will do pudge as gluttony

how about a evil side-good side theme?

Oh like if we made some kind of model that say.... was an evil creature all ugly and with weird crazy colors and "evil" but then he turns into like... a floating white ... "angel" thing? hurmmm.... i think thats been done a few times before :/

 

[-Grendel]

everyone will do pudge as gluttony

did that some time ago, but i deleted it for some reason

so yeah, four horsemen seems a good idea

 

[anarchianbedlam]

... wait... 4... horse.... men?

OH FUCK YOU MEAN PONIES!

sweet, i already know what im going to make. Ill make the
PONY OF WAR!

 

[Dionesiist]

Great, you've killed the thread.

 

[Ganondorf]

The seven deadly sins?
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
Seriously, I'm wondering why there's no Jesus as possibility.

 

[Deolrin]

Dude.
What's wrong with those suggestions? They are tied hand-in-hand kind of, since they're both biblical. But they both are awesome and incredibly open.
Especially the 7 deadly sins; That's an awesome suggestion.
Why are you making fun out of them? :/

 

[D a w n]

I like that sin thing. Gluttony could be made of the aboration model, where food comes out of that tummy hole. But that "relatives" theme sound nice aswell.

 

[StormWarriors2]

Seven Deadly sins. ALl the way!

 

[Statharas]

Was kinda thinking more of http://www.wowwiki.com/Four_Horsemen

 

[Deleted member 157129]

I like sins. :v
Oh, and making two opposites could be cool as well.

 

[Dawn Whitelighter]

I like sins. :v
Oh, and making two opposites could be cool as well.

wew..

 

[-Grendel]

hm, now that i think about it, seven sins is a good idea. and we will see hive's skinners creativity on that theme :>

 

[Red]

Seven Deadly Sins will work - it's dorky as all hell, but it'll do.

 

[FrIkY]

Seven Deadly Sins, I'm sorry, but you can't be serious about this theme, right? I'll just point out at what happened to Golem Texturing contest; 2/3 of the contest thread was arguing about what's golem and what's not. Some people still don't know what it's supposed to be, even when the contest is over.
What exactly are we supposed to make, something taken from the bible, a zombie, ... a fat greasy bastard who just eats and sleeps? "Oh no, look, fRiKy is being so uncreative!"... And since it's just 7 sins, wouldn't that make just 7 different types of skins (if we assume that more than 7 people will actually make a skin for the contest, then it's a bad thing)? I am against this idea as it will result in even bigger drama and fail, most likely, but since I probably won't even participate in the next contest, who knows, my opinion shouldn't matter that much. Someone please enlighten me and give me a full and understandable description of what a 'Seven Deadly Sins' skin is, then I might change my mind. But if you ask me, 'skin for Death Knight model' sounds like a good idea.

 

[D a w n]

Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy & Pride are the seven deadly sins.

You would just try to interprete how you could visualize one of them. I don't see how there could be a discussion.
I'll just repeat my example now: Gluttony could be visualized by a person with leftovers on his body, cream around the mouth and if you would use the abomination model, you could even make food stick out of the stomach.

this picture shows the direction of the theme quite well http://eyrieslove1.deviantart.com/a...498306?q=boost:popular seven deadly sins&qo=0. The examples shown are quite stupid for a texturing contest, but it`s your job after all to be creative

 

[FrIkY]

You would just try to interprete how you could visualize one of them.

...meaning it can be anything as long as you see it that way? Yeah, I'm already sick of this theme so I'll just shut up and let everyone else talk, as I already mentioned, I probably won't even participate.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

I think the seven deadly sins offer enough room for creative solutions, yet limits the entries enough for them to be compared. The sins are fairly characteristic, and a successful skin would be one where you don't have to guess what sin it represents. There's plentiful of reference out there as well, making it easy to find inspiration.

Beyond technicalities, though, I agree that it's a pretty stupid theme. It's loose and more of an art contest theme than a texturing contest theme. I can't really see how any of the entries could come in handy in regular maps, for instance. The sins themselves are fairly stupid as well, but hey, let's not discuss religion.

FrIkY, there's still time to suggest themes, though, so fire at will. The next contest won't open for about a month at the earliest.

 

[StormWarriors2]

Should have an apocalypse theme. But not stupid apocalypses like furry wars, pretty pink pony horsemen, etc.

 

[Dionesiist]

How about we redesign melee heroes?

 

[Deleted member 157129]

How about we redesign melee heroes?

I fear we'll see a whole bunch of Blademaster and Demon Hunter skins, but I'm game.

 

[-Grendel]

How about we redesign melee heroes?

i'll redesign dreadlords if they approve this theme

 

[A.R.]

Another idea that could be cool - Personally Branded Units

Create a logo or insignia for yourself (like my avatar, for instance) then integrate it with a custom texture for a unit or even building. Sort of like decals on units in Starcraft II.

 

[Dionesiist]

Most don't really have something that defines them. They could thus cheat their way out and just slap whatever on a texture.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

I couldn't really have a personal insignia, as I grow tired of things and need to change. Heck, if it was possible, I'd change my name every six months. :v

 

[Dionesiist]

Soooo... what'll it be?

 

[Deleted member 157129]

The four deadly knights of water, earth, wind, fire and sins - riding on seven dead horsemen!

 

[Dentothor]

mythology.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

The four deadly knights of water, earth, wind, fire and sins - riding on seven dead horsemen!

4 knights of water(1) earth(2) wind(3) fire(4) and sins?(5)
riding 7 horsemen?

⁴/₇ or ⁵/₇ ?

how can 4 or 5 knights ride 7 horses? let alone 7horse-men?

OH GOD.... OH GOD MY BRAIN!

 

[Dionesiist]

So, anyway, any plans of getting this started? :|

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Can't start it before the other ends, and we haven't really settled on a theme either. :3

 

[Jaret]

4 knights of water(1) earth(2) wind(3) fire(4) and sins?(5)
riding 7 horsemen?

⁴/₇ or ⁵/₇ ?

how can 4 or 5 knights ride 7 horses? let alone 7horse-men?

OH GOD.... OH GOD MY BRAIN!

Well, I guess some of the knights could ride on 2 horsemen, as in like this:

Knight rides horseman, horseman rides horseman. Well, it would definitely be a mess, but well at least it explains it a little. Come to think about it, knights riding Centaurs riding Centaurs wouldn't be a good idea for a contest. Hmm...

I liked the opposites theme suggestion - Making 2 skins would DEFINITELY be new:

Two skins - Something like the "Good and Evil", "Maiden and Protector", "Master and Pet" contests from WC3C. Contestants must create two textures that are related in some way(decided by the poll). Perhaps something like "Protagonist and Antagonist".

 

[Dentothor]

I liked the opposites theme suggestion - Making 2 skins would DEFINITELY be new:

heh. thats what you think. check the last few contests bud. you might find something exactly like that

 

[67chrome]

As a point of referance the past contest themes were as fallows:

1. Footman
2. Racial Conversion (ie human->orc)
3. Demon
4. Whitehorn's Chaos Warrior model
5. Halloween
6. Northrend/Icecrown
7. Holy/Angelic
9. Fiery Demonic/Fire
10. Arcane
11. Opposites
12. Archimonde
13. Naga
14. Dio's Model
15. Futuristic
16. Nature
17. Buildings
18. UI
19. Golem

We've had 2 demon themed contests though, so changing one of the themes a little could still work for something new. I didn't start being active here until the end of contest #12 either, and a lot of time has passed since the first contest.

Still, wev'e already done a 2-skins contest on #11, and Dio was the only person to finish it, so that would probably turn into a disaster again. We could always play around with the contest length I guess, considering it takes ~2 months from the end of one contest to the start of another.

Anyways, the 7 deadly sins is a cool idea, gives a decent amount of range to fit different ideas and styles. Not sure how successful a skin representing one could be though, as their all an action of doing something rather than a static figure.

4 horsemen would lead to...a lot of death-knight re-skins. There aren't a lot of horse rider models for that. We could do something like #1,4,12, or 14 were we just do a re-skin of the death knight, but I'm not sure limiting skins to 1 model will offer a successful theme.

The personal brand is a pretty cool idea, though that's pretty geared to a specific part of the skin. That would make for a cool SC2 icon-ish contest theme though, were the contestants make their own insignias.

Re-designing melee heroes is broad, sure someone will go for a demon hunter but I think people will tend to disperse their choice a decent amount if it's started. For contest # 17 everyone was complaining it would be filled with ancients but it wasn't. There's 24 melee heroes in game if you count the mercenary ones, that's a decent model selection. The only ones you're leaving out are Garinthos, Arthas, Jaina,
Archimond, Thrall, Grom, The Furions, and Akuma.

Maybe we could do the racial conversion idea with the melee heroes. ie If you pick the demon hunter you have to make him look like a member of the alliance, horde, or scourge. For a blademaster it would be alliance, sentinels,or scourge. For racial conversion contests I'd like to use the faction terms rather than primary race ones, as each melee "race" in warcraft is more of a combination of several, and in arguments about the theme people always seem to forget that. (so you could make the hero a high elf/blood elf/dwarf/gnome, tauren/troll, good centaur/elemental giant/chimera, or skeleton/ghost/nerubian etc. instead of just a human, orc, night elf, or zombie too).

I say we also call it contest #8, for shits and giggles. Because #8 was skipped entirely XD

 

[Dentothor]

heres an idea. humor. skin something amazingly hilarious. skins arent always srs bsns you know.

 

[Dionesiist]

Lies and slander!

 

[Deleted member 157129]

So, uh.. bump?

After a lot of considerations, I'm thinking that redesigning melee heroes would be fun. At first I actually thought of "melee heroes" as close-combat heroes, ie not ranged, but then I realized "melee" is the term for ladder games in WC3, and that about doubles the opportunities. I say we go for it. Easier to get a lot of entries with such a broad theme.

 

[Deolrin]

"Re-designing" as in doing whatever you want with the hero's skin, or "re-designing" as in recreating the skin with the hero's original concept in mind? (e.g, you won't be able to reskin a mountain king into a robot unicorn, but you could reskin him into a LotR dwarven thane or something)

 

[anarchianbedlam]

"Re-designing" as in doing whatever you want with the hero's skin, or "re-designing" as in recreating the skin with the hero's original concept in mind? (e.g, you won't be able to reskin a mountain king into a robot unicorn, but you could reskin him into a LotR dwarven thane or something)

Better yet, lets take that horrible idea one step further and have a "recreate wc3 skins" competition, each user has to completely recreate a wc3 skin from scratch so it looks as close to CnP as possible. Because the less original an idea is, the more FUN it is.

 

[Dionesiist]

Aren't you the constructive type?
Anyway, re-design as in what Ampharos' been doing with various undead units, for example.

 

[Deolrin]

Well to me it seems like he's using Blizzard's original concept and remaking it.
This is what I asked.
I mean, I asked if you could recreate the Death Knight into an elven knight or if you had to keep him an undead human.

 

[Dionesiist]

Redesign involves keeping the basic idea, but representing it in a different manner. Like what Ampharos did, making the Death Knight a skeleton.

 

[Dentothor]

that doesnt sound too bad.