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Wow, you all work really big 
I call fail on this contest. Haven't seen ONE icon yet that looks like traditional WC3 attributes, such a great shame. However the existing submissions are really good.![]()
I call fail on this contest. Haven't seen ONE icon yet that looks like traditional WC3 attributes, such a great shame. However the existing submissions are really good.![]()
When I create an icon I try to be creative. I try to put a little bit of myself into it. Especially in a contest like this. If this was about making an icon that looks exactly like the original why even bother with a contest? I thought (think) this is about making something special. If you want an icon of an arm, you can find a thousand of them on Google. If you want intelligence to be represented by a brain or agility by a simple leg, you can find it elsewhere. What fun is there, as an artist, to copy or create something that looks exactly like an existing work. I'd like to see a little creativity here. Screw the original icons. It's like hosting a terrain contest but saying you can only use blizzard cliffs because thats how they made the original wc3. Like hosting a spell contest that restricts people from doing anything beyond a single cast aoe effect. Yes, the theme was attribute icons, but it is up to the artists to take that theme and make it into something more (does not imply total freedom, heck i'm all for a theme). It doesn't mean sticking to the same old boring (yes boring!) icons from wc3!That what I was trying to tell them to make from the beginning
but they found the original ones "boring"
:/ I will vote for the closest ones to the original and not the fanciest.
When I create an icon I try to be creative. I try to put a little bit of myself into it. Especially in a contest like this. If this was about making an icon that looks exactly like the original why even bother with a contest? I thought (think) this is about making something special. If you want an icon of an arm, you can find a thousand of them on Google. If you want intelligence to be represented by a brain or agility by a simple leg, you can find it elsewhere. What fun is there, as an artist, to copy or create something that looks exactly like an existing work. I'd like to see a little creativity here. Screw the original icons. It's like hosting a terrain contest but saying you can only use blizzard cliffs because thats how they made the original wc3. Like hosting a spell contest that restricts people from doing anything beyond a single cast aoe effect. Yes, the theme was attribute icons, but it is up to the artists to take that theme and make it into something more (does not imply total freedom, heck i'm all for a theme). It doesn't mean sticking to the same old boring (yes boring!) icons from wc3!
banana, I think that, what they meant was that, these Icons look, for the most part, like something that could go with an ability, rather than an attribute, they weren't looking for an arm, or a leg, but merely something that wouldn't look just plain wierd as an attribute icon.
Or at least, that is how I interpreted it.
You're missing my entire point. Why would you want to spend your time designing something boring like that. And don't give me that 'it's a challenge' crap. Fact is we have a lot less entries than previous contests and with only 4 days to go I doubt many more will join. That's not because its such a 'challenge' to create an attribute icon, it's because its dead boring. And anyone that takes a little artistic freedom gets burned.[..]
- Creativity 20%
- The icons' originality and uniqueness are vitally important.
^ originality and uniqueness => is there an arm for a strength stat? then it's not original... got it?
Apparently that's what they want though.[...]
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And when I try to suggest that icons look like these,
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Oh shit M0rbid, that's really good.
eMo2LoVe, darn this is what I had in mind, well str and agi are done, I just haven't upload them jet. :>
*thou int will be different.
M0rbid, that sure looks epic
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