In the Tomb Raider Reborn contest, we challenged you to bring the new Lara Croft to life, based on the trailer and asset pack. We saw amazing renditions of this fierce survivor, showcasing Lara's inherent resourcefulness and intuition. The competition was stiff, but our judges narrowed it down to the top 25. These will now be sent to Square Enix's Senior Art Director Brian Horton to choose the final three Winners. Congratulations to the top 25 Semi-Finalists below!
The remaining 22 Semi-Finalists will receive:
- A Tomb Raider XBOX 360 Wireless Controller
- 3-Month Premium Membership
- 2,000 deviantART Points
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Please note: If during the finalist judging, any one of the Semi-Finalists becomes ineligible or is disqualified under the Official Rules, the Semi-Finalist judges will replace the disqualified entry with a new selection to be considered by the final judges.
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And on top of that, everyone can clearly see that this was a marketing gig for the new Tomb Raider game. So knowing this, it is really up to everyone if they want to enter or not. Nobody forces them to.
had over 5000 entries, I think it matters little, their duty was to see ALL ... not see is a sign of disrespect to the participating artists ... and the end result comes out tomorrow and the silence was what the DA gave us ...
I saw on the facebook fan page they posted the game's semi finalists, I still think it could this not go unpunished. not right, not fair ...
Good luck to the chosen finalists. At least Brian Horton will take the proceedings from here.
I think what really bothers people here is that there was a clear indication of lack of commitment and imagination from the Deviant Art Judges.
To have included an entry in the beginning which was a blatant copy of original artwork clearly revealed that none of the judges were in any way familiar with the official artwork, nor cared it seems.
Why bother going through the process of drawing up a complex document detailing the rules of the contest if you're not going to implement them?
Oh no wait, someone was paid to write that document.
If we're operating along the lines of 'rules are there to be interpreted as you will', disqualifying other entries due to the presence of a logo seems incredibly harsh and somewhat hypocritical.
Also, it is not possible to view and assess 5000 entries in 5 days. It is a huge task yes, but when dedicated people are put to it, it doesn't necessarily have to be a tedious one. (Maybe give yourself more than 5 days? There's an idea...)
I was naive to believe that DeviantArt still operates as it did 6 years ago when I joined; when DeviantArt was a site for amateur artists to display their works and get genuine feedback from a community whose sole interest was to nurture and encourage emerging artists.
Now DeviantArt is another corporate machine, like many other great web communities which have been ruined in such a way.
This contest was clearly set up as a huge publicity opportunity for Crystal, Square Enix and the game. DeviantArt allows them to freely 'advertise' to all artists in a non-intrusive way. In return the get cheap promotional artwork and vastly increased sales due to publicity. It's clever marketing.
As for the rest of the contest, it relieves me that the rest of the judging will be left to a genuine artist; i.e. Brian Horton who is very likely to recognise when work has been copied from official artwork.
Anyway, to those artists who feel disappointed by the selection I wholly sympathise with you.
To the DeviantArt staff: any credibility your site may have had is now lost on me. I won't be buying the new game, I also won't be renewing my premium membership.
PS: Good luck to ~Sanchiko, my favourite of the selected finalists by far.
Make your own if you don't like them.
Digital painting, yes. Photomaniplution, no. Digital painting, yes. Digital painting, yes. Traditional art, no. Digital painting, yes. Traditional art, no and we meant no. Digital painting, yes. Digital painting, yes. Photo / cosplay, no. Hang about lets throw in a token photo. Digital painting, yes. Digital painting, yes...
This is meant as a critisim of the judging process, not the (obvious) quality of the works selected. It is not the artists fault that some sort of bias seems to be at play, concious or unconcious.
Also this: [link] looks almost identical like this: [link] that again didn't made it and was long time on first page all time fav as well....
I'm wondering what criteria the judges used, if they allow identical concepts on the finalists and picking only one from two....
Altough there are some great pieces that deserves to be here, not all deserves it though, even if they have 50k fav.
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Well done to the judges, there was a lot of good work (and a few not quite so great, so glad u didn't choose the guy who entered a photo of his own... bits!), but you really did get what the client wanted and chose twenty five perfect examples of the extraordinary artistry & diversity we have here at DA.
I'd hate to have to pick a winner from among this lot, I can see at least a dozen which deserve to win. Congrats to all of you, and good luck.
To those of you (myself included), who didn't quite make the cut, fear not. We tried, we learned a lot, we created some great pieces, and hundreds of you must have gotten very close to being chosen. If you want to learn more go back to the brief, how well did you fulfil it? Now look at these finalists. Each of them nailed it. If you want to be a professional artist you need to look at events lke this as an opportunity to learn under real world conditions, the prizes should be very much a secondary concern. The real prize on offer was the exposure for your work. All of us won a degree of that. It would be nice to get a report from the judges on why each piece was or wasn't selected, but obviously that simply isn't possible given the sheer numbers involved. If you want that benefit ask friends or acquaintances here for their honest critique, or better still do it yourself, no one is better qualified. Learning to evaluate your own work is one of the primary skills an artist must possess.
Sorry if I sound like i'm setting myself up as an expert, I'm not. I'm just someone who used to feel the disappointment of not winning things like this keenly until I realised how wasteful it was and started seeing how much I could learn. Only then did I start winning stuff! Good luck to you all (actually luck won't help, and even talent can only do so much, but it don't make sense to end a message with "Hard Work!"
Congratulations!
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Would also love comments, be brutal why did I not make the finals?
Yes the darks are dark and the lights are bright, it's called high contrast.
Second, when YOU learn color theory, you will understand that, light color and temperature will affect the color of an object. I.e. the same object will be two different colors in moonlight, and torchlight for example.
Third, shadows are blue on a sunny day because of the color temperature of daylight that is being bounced off the objects around the shaded area, this is ambient light and is modified by the color of the objects it bounces off of. I.e. on the same sunny day the shadow beneath a yellow wall will be slightly warmer, than a blue wall.(still blue because of the original daylight's color temp.)
Finally all of this neither here nor there since it is an illustration.(note the line art) it is not a photorealistic painting. This allows for liberal interpretation of both color and tone.
When I said "be brutal" I did not mean "be inaccurate and offensive"
I haven't made "beginner's mistakes" since you were still a glimmer in your father's eye.
My fault for thinking deviant art can be used as a platform for finding like-minded individuals who want to get better through mutual critique.
Please continue addressing feedback the same way that you do because that guarantees you won't grow as much as you possibly could. But since apparently you are already perfect and haven't made begginer's mistakes for 22 years, you don't need to grow right? You are already a millionaire off your art drowning in contracts and winning all contests you enter, right?
You can't be an adult, I really don't believe it. Get into real discussions if you want to grow and stop exclusively seeking praise from teenagers who don't know better. Or stay here and feel good about yourself, better for me.
if honestly you believe i was so there
and of course my cortesy to ask again your
excuser remaining part of ct (contributors)
to this "From a Green Planet to.." A single
page or paper masterpiece.
And hope you don't even try to believe it
was something it was not actually..
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autorities..
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WWF..
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