TWIF - Custom Chat Icon Contest #1 - Concept Art

[The World Is Flat]

The World Is Flat
Custom Icon Contest # 1
- Concept Art -

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THEME

Contestants are required to create concept art related to the up-and-coming project Wc4: Sc2: LoTD. This can include units, buildings, heroes, and whatever you can come up with. you can find some information HERE and HERE.

Rules & Information:

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  [*]The Concept art must be 100% freehand.
  [*]The Concept art must be 100% your artwork.
  [*]If you use a reference image, you MUST post it with your submission.
  [*]No WoW-Related Artwork will be Evaluated.
  [*]Your art must be of a reasonably viewable size.
  [*]Your submitted artwork may or may not be used by the LoTD project team.
  [*]Your Artwork must be submitted as a .png file format.
  [*]Your Artwork must not violate any of the Hive's Rules.
  [*]Your artwork must not contain any Nudity. (or atleast your hive submission must have it censcored.)
  [*]Blood, gore, intense violence, and extreme visions of the grotesque are allowed as long as they follow site rules and are appropriate for the concept.
  [*]At least 75% of the creature(s) must be shown, this is a concept.
  [*]Backgrounds are allowed so long as they do not detract from the concept.
  [*]Photomanipulation, paintovers, tracing, and so on are not allowed in this contest.

Your Concept will be judged upon:

1. Originality - How original is your concept?
2. Colour - How was your use of colors? too bight? not enough contast?
3. Shading - Does your art have detailed shading?
4. Details - Is your art detailed? is your art just a smudge?
5. Theme - How well did you follow the theme?

Judges:

- Twif
- Grey Nightmare
- Army-of-Pandas

Entrants:

- WherewolfTherewolf
- Anarchianbedlam
- pyramidhe@d
- shiiK
- dead-man-walking


Reward:

1st place: Custom user chat Icon.


Starts - June 2, 2010
Ends - July 6th

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I'm definitely joining this

 

[The World Is Flat]

Alrighty then.

 

[M0rbid]

I have to consider if I join , or if you accept me as a judge, I might could also be a judge instead. Depends on your will and my time

 

[supertoinkz]

Hmmmm....I may consider joining with my noob skillz >_>
JUST FOR THAT FLESH GOLEM ICON!

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Id love to join this, one question though, does it have to be digital art?

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

there seems to be no model contests in the near future. might as well enter.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Welll.... there'll be another model contest as soon as illidan(evil)x gets his rear in gear on that judging.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

I guess I'll join up for the competition, a custom icon doesn't really tempt me a lot.

Just to clarify, are we designing units that are not already planned, but that suits the storyline/age/theme of the mod?

 

[dead-man-walking]

Count meh in.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Ok, wow, great.


You guys do not have to use digital art.

just ask if you want to judge.

You do not have to do units that are already designed. were primarily looking for NEW ideas.

 

[M0rbid]

Ok, I have the feeling that I would prefer making my own concept, because something came into my mind

 

[The World Is Flat]

Great!

we all look forwared to seeing it

 

[supertoinkz]

WiP time >_>

~Also that face is just a place holder~

 

[anarchianbedlam]

ummm.... isn't the point of concept art to make new concepts? .... Why the hell would you want to draw a pre-existing unit? That isn't concept art, that's fanart

 

[The World Is Flat]

Yeah, i kindof must agree skightly, might get marks off on orginality there.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

ummm.... isn't the point of concept art to make new concepts? .... Why the hell would you want to draw a pre-existing unit? That isn't concept art, that's fanart

I was more thinking of a description of a unit, that it is already in the techtree for instance, not that the concept art is already done. Either way, it's been clarified, and I'll be drawing something new, hopefully original and suitable for the storyline.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Can I judge please TWIF?

 

[The World Is Flat]

Yeah, (talked on msn) sure.

 

[Walle]

I'm im for the contest!

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Awesome, can't wait to see what treasure is buried in the community's hivemind

 

[M0rbid]

Okay, here comes my first WiP, but the explanation going along with this concept will only be submitted with the final submission, to keep you a bit excited

 

[Panda]

Happy to judge in this :]

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I think I'll go with an airship

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

yeah...

felhound sniper
a very cheap mass produced sniper unit for the burning legion.

 

[Walle]

Here is WIP of my idea, it's a draenei worker! I just started sketching!

 

[Anachron]

I am a good judge in originality and concept. If you like I could help you judging.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

yeah...
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felhound sniper
a very cheap mass produced sniper unit for the burning legion.

This made me lol.

It is warcraft 4 though, not warcraft in the future - remember that.

All looking VERY good, this will indeed be hard to judge.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Started early sketch just to get my concept down using pencil - this picture was taken via cell phone camera so as you can see the quality (and lighting) are pretty bad. I think I'm going to draw out my picture, then scan it, then trace it in gimp and color it via comp, hopefully that method should work.

(also it seems like the image was "bent" when the picture was taken, my lines are straighter then that in a few places)

My idea is an Orcish (or Goblin, whatever works) Airship - literally Air Ship.
It's supposed to be a war cruiser repurposed for aerial combat and would function like an aerial aircraft carrier, carrying smaller ships in it which would fly out via opening slots in the hull.

eh, not very good drawing but it's a start


(I'm assuming tracing your own image is fine)

 

[The World Is Flat]

WOW... liking it all.

 

[ike_ike]

3 eyed skeleton sniper. Another necromancer upgrade? :O

EDIT: Oh yeah. Pyra's kinda got the sniper angle already.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Yeah, and wc4 is NOT futurisitic. it takes place 2 years after war3.

 

[M0rbid]

Another WiP....

 

[D a w n]

count me in

edit. could not think about a good concept/my concept looked like a pile of poo.

 

[The World Is Flat]

LOL. wel you guys have a whole month.

 

[Etzer]

Could you allow me to be a judge?
This is merely a subscribing if you don't, because I have to see what the icons will look like.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

3 eyed skeleton sniper. Another necromancer upgrade? :O

EDIT: Oh yeah. Pyra's kinda got the sniper angle already.

Ugh, that looks exactly like the DoA Necron heavy warriors, just with some details changed

 

[The World Is Flat]

Immortals.

and et, we are full.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

You should probably update the post to say so, then.

Wow these are looking fantastic

 

[Etzer]

Damn >.<

 

[Jaret]

Really cool all these concepts

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

i guess this is the final submission.
this is NOT futuristic as some people said before. it has a flitnlock, just like a rifleman. yeah. have fun

 

[The World Is Flat]

Hehe, funny, but really awesome, i love it. things like this are perfect, i'm already getting ideas. +rep

 

[anarchianbedlam]

FLINTLOCK WOOD!
YOU'RE A SHINANEGANIZER!

lol, i love your concept pyra. Gunface. Does the fellhound pull the trigger with it's teeth? and how does it reload? with it's hooves? ;D lol. Still looks awesome though

 

[Mr.Goblin]

I'm in... that will actually push me to make a complete digital art for once..

now tell me. I've read your thread http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/starcraft-ii-408/wc4-sc2-165515/

basicly when you are talking about Concept, you are looking for new look of possible units/heros/buildings after the ending of warcraft3 ? sooo... basicly every race looks the same, we just need to find new ''looks'' ?

 

[The World Is Flat]

Mostly, yeah. of course theres more information at www.wc4sc2.tk (the threads a bit outdated atm.

there are some new races the outland (naga, belfs, and (mainly 'eredar' draenai))
and the demons... not to sure about them yet. recently scrapped their techtree. but some concepts will remain. (e.g. the 'nodes' and somesuch for buildings.) and the 'Dhom'Kavosh' (think warhammer 'bloodletters' with wings and fire coming out of their bodies)

Thats rly about all you need to know atm... i guess...

 

[ike_ike]

has a tech tree somewhere?

 

[The World Is Flat]

Demons > units.

(outdated, needs revision)

 

[Mr.Goblin]

I just had an epic concept.. will start working on it right away..

here's a small clue = death-knight riding a frost wyrm.. oups I think I've just revealed the hole concept

 

[The World Is Flat]

(sounds epic)