Special Effect Contest #5 - Poll

[Vinz]

Contestants must dive into the depths of the infernal realms, and return with two effects, tokens to their inner darkness. By demons be driven!

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• Trying to manipulate the poll in any form is not allowed.
  If you're aware of ip-sharing with any voter, for any reason, you should contact the staff.
• Harassment towards others to influence the result will lead to punishment.
• A neutral recommendation to take part at the poll isn't problematic, though.
• Voting for yourself is not allowed, and will lead to a malus by 5%.
• Participating in the poll does not explicitly safe one from being disqualified.
• Judges are not allowed to vote.

You are very welcome to make a short statement what you like the most, so contestants get a bit of public feedback!

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• 1st place: 40 reputation points.
• 2nd place: 25 reputation points.
• 3rd place: 10 reputation points.
• Entry: 5 reputation points.
• Judge: 5 reputation points.

The three winners will receive an award icon representing the winning entry.
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Contestant	Effect 1	Effect 2
Antinous	Demonic Adornment	Hell Cursed
JetFangInferno	Desecrate	Annihilate
Mythic	Fountain of Souls	Kingdom Come
xYours Trulyx	Gatekeeper's Pact	Infernal Bulwark

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• blink
• Edy
• Kerael
• PROXY

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Aesthetics	Are the effects impressive, and made in good measure? How is the attention to detail?	/25
Animations	How natural, smooth, and appropriate are the animations?	/15
Creativity	How inventive and original are the ideas? How much skill do the effects demonstrate?	/20
Integration	How well do the models work in-game? Do they have fitting sounds? Are they excessive to the point of hindering visibility?	/15
Theme	How well do the effects fit the theme?	/15
		/90

Results calculation

• Judgement: 70%
• Poll: 30%

FinalScore = (30*Reached_Votes/POSSIBLE_VOTES) + (70*Average_Judge_Score/POSSIBLE_SCORE)

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The poll shall begin on 15th February 2020 and conclude on 29th February 2020 GMT.

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Contest | Results

 

[Vinz]

@Heinvers @Naze

Good luck guys!

 

[Yours Truly]

Excellent! Best of luck, people

 

[WolfFarkas]

"You are very welcome to make a short statement what you like the most, so contestants get a bit of public feedback!"

all entries are GREAT!!!

subjetive feedback, dont take it serious.


Jetfang Inferno: spells

Desacrate and Anihilate: I really like the detail of those spells, the star lines, and the other symbol, very awsome.

Mythic spells:

Fountain of souls: very interesting, the beauty of the center fire ray, and the minor fire auras going here and there, like tranquility keeper of the grove spell.
Kingdoms come: 1 word awsome.

Atinous:
Demonic adorment: I really really like the idea and creativity of this spell. very very unique. not a huge big one, but as a small size spell is awsome.
Hell Cursed: interesting black-red spell combo effects. I like the black-red organization design of the spell.

xYours Trulyx spells:
Gatekeepers pact: I like the fire stomp spell with the Draenei face.
Infernal Bulwark: I like the fire shield spell, like ligthining shield.

Voting xYours Trulyx

 

[deepstrasz]

Tough one :\ Mythic's looks the most polished/smooth but Antinous' seems the most original.

Generally all are lovely but, one vote is one vote you cynics.

 

[Masky]

all entries are epic! didn't know which one vote but Desacrate and Annihilate just made my day.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Fantastic work all around! I, too, find it hard to only vote once.

 

[deepstrasz]

I, too, find it hard to only vote once.

Oh, you were thinking of voting one person, than changing your vote on some other or the same one, on and on, eh?

 

[Pyrogasm]

Nah I was gonna make new accounts and votespam.

 

[deepstrasz]

Nah I was gonna make new accounts and votespam,

That don' work. We got good hive enforcement.

 

[Yours Truly]

That don' work. We got good hive enforcement.

Hah, really now? I remembered making 2 more accounts back in 2016. Never got caught and I believe Ralle disabled them.

 

[deepstrasz]

Hah, really now? I remembered making 2 more accounts back in 2016. Never got caught and I believe Ralle disabled them.

See? Such well designed is our security that users even publicly confess their wrongdoings.

 

[Yours Truly]

See? Such well designed is our security that users even publicly confess their wrongdoings.

I served 4 years in Ralle's private sex dungeon. That's punishment enough for me.

 

[deepstrasz]

I served 4 years in Ralle's private sex dungeon. That's punishment enough for me.

Must've been hard testing all those lovely fantasies you had.

 

[FeelsGoodMan]

A lot of great entries for sure, but Mythic gets my vote this time. They are, to me, the most visually pleasing and polished effects. The other ones were great too, keep it up!

 

[Yours Truly]

Well, at this point, the contest's pretty much decided already.

 

[Pyrogasm]

I think y’all are sleeping on Antinous’ creations. When have you ever seen an effect/attachment like Demonic Adornment?! Like, wow, that’s unique and they both work wonderfully in Classic and Reforged. Mythic’s are visually appealig but they are definitively in the Reforged style and would stick out dramatically in Classic.

 

[Antinous]

That's sweet, but (not being voted for is) deserved. I had to rush my second entry. And that's the first models that I ever done for War3, if one of my entries is ever used by someone, that's already more than I can hope for
I'm new on the Hive, I'll have other contests to prove myself.

Edit : clarification

 

[Strydhaizer]

Obviously Mythic's going to win, so I my vote goes to the person who deserves to be a second place, and I voted JetFangInferno. I personally liked Antinous entry too, it's super unique (big plus to that criteria) although the problem is that it's lacking saturation like the rest of the entries. I wish I can vote for two people. Yours_Truly's entry is fine, though both look quite generic (IMO) for me but doesn't mean it's bad. +Reps to all contestants, good luck to all of you!

 

[deepstrasz]

Well, at this point, the contest's pretty much decided already.

Maybe 1st place.

 

[Yours Truly]

Maybe 1st place.

Uhhh

This doesn't seem like it's getting enough publicity. Go and spread the news a bit so I can wallow even more about Mythic's fat stack of votes.

 

[deepstrasz]

Go and spread the news a bit so I can wallow even more about Mythic's fat stack of votes.

I would if I could spam messages without a wait countdown or add at least 50 people in one conversation.

 

[Heinvers]

Approved. Good luck people.

 

[Heinvers]

Results?

 

[Vinz]

Partial verdict from one judge. Will ask for a follow-up soon.