Post by Assassinator/Young Everest on Apr 5, 2006 16:21:57 GMT
The CommonGround Battles
Rank: 1
Username: Jongos
Entry: h1.ripway.com/jongos/ssdcohesian.bmp
Assassinator’s Marks
Colours/colors: 7
Originality: 5
Composition: 5
Typography: 4
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 6
Border: 4
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 6
Total mark: 37
Overall Overview: This is a trendwhore 3d abstract with a difference, and it’s great. Good contrast, colours and interest. Even though it doesn’t really give out any meaning it has some and the aesthetics are what make this piece. Well done.
Josh’s Marks
Colours/colors: 6
Originality: 7
Composition: 6
Typography: 5
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 8
Border: 5
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 7
Total score: 44
Overall Overview: The one thing that annoyed me about your piece was the size. It was way too small. The colors were pretty good, but maybe some more white would have helped out. The text would have been better as a solid color and I felt that you should have made the bottom half even darker. I also think you should lose the scan lines.
Average Marks(rounded up)
Colours/colors: 7
Originality: 6
Composition: 6
Typography: 5
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 7
Border: 5
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 7
Total score: 43
Rank: 2
Username: NS-5
Entry: www.sideswept-creations.com/images/ssdbattle2.gif
Assassinator’s Marks
Colours/colors: 7
Originality: 5
Composition: 7
Typography: 0
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 8
Border: 5
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 4
Total mark: 36
Overall Overview: One word, wow. This image literally took my breath away. The colours, the sharpness, the lighting. Brilliant. The terrain and textures are wonderful. The only I can fault you on is text, there isn’t any, that brought down your mark significantly. If you had included some good your mark would certainly be in the 40s. Well done.
Josh’s Marks
Colours/colors: 8
Originality: 7
Composition: 9
Typography: 0
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 7
Border: 6
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 6
Total Score: 43
Overall Overview: An awesome Terragen image. The colors here were magnificent. The textures were great. The atmosphere was very eye pleasing. I think that the terrain to the right could have been less flat on top and adding some cracks into the valley would have looked well, giving it a dry waterbed look. *Thumbs Up*
Average Marks(rounded up)
Colours/colors: 8
Originality: 6
Composition: 8
Typography: 0
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 8
Border: 6
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 5
Total Score: 41
Rank: 3
Username: Jonny
Entry: www.yates-photography.com/images/SSD/growth%20copy.jpg
Assassinator’s Marks
Colours/colors: 7
Originality: 3
Composition: 5
Typography: 4
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 5
Border: 0
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 3
Total mark: 27
Overall Overview: I quite like the simplicity and bold colours of this image. What I do suggest is adding some sort of background, some spiralling dotted lines with some stripes of colour. Also, I see that the petals of each flower are quite transparent at the edges. It would be better to have some definition in this piece, some nice solid colour to fit in with those lovely thick stems.
Josh’s Marks
Colours/colors: 7
Originality: 7
Composition: 5
Typography: 6
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 8
Border: 0
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 5
Total Score: 39
Overall Overview: I loved this piece. Very eye pleasing and a great choice of color usage. The flowers own and the overall flow of everything is great. Two things I didn't really like was the white space and the text. I felt that the text was too simple for the piece and everything would have benefited from something a little more complex. As for the white space, I'd try and add a bg vector image of some sort. Perhaps a mountain/lake scene. Great work from our senior photographer here
Average Marks(rounded up)
Colours/colors: 7
Originality: 5
Composition: 5
Typography: 5
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 7
Border: 0
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 4
Total Score: 33
Rank: 4
Username: White.Night
Entry: www.deviantart.com/deviation/30321355/
Assassinator’s Marks
Colours/colors: 3
Originality: 1
Composition: 4
Typography: 2
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 2
Border: 5
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 3
Total mark: 22
Overall Overview: I really didn’t like this image to be honest. It’s a trendwhore vector style that really hasn’t been pulled off. The fact you’ve used preset shapes isn’t appealing, it shows that you haven’t bothered to find better shapes to suit your image. The shapes you have made are a bit tacky and don’t look that realistic. I think the cracks are unnecessary. I think you need to look at works of reedys to see how it’s really done. I also suggest that you learn how to use the pen tool because at the moment it seems you’re using the brush tool.
Josh’s Marks
Colours/colors: 6
Originality: 4
Composition: 5
Typography: 4
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 7
Border: 5
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 5
Total Score: 36
Overall Overview: Overall, this image was pretty easy on the eyes. Half Vector, Half not. The style is somewhat overused, but I hardly ever tire of it. I feel that the terrain should have been all silohuette, no lighting on it. The trees were a little jumbled I felt. They should have been the same color as the terrain and have looked more tree like. The text would have been better if you had used a white sans serif font in the bottom right hand corner.
Average Marks(rounded up)
Colours/colors: 5
Originality: 3
Composition: 5
Typography: 3
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 5
Border: 5
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 4
Total Score: 30
Rank: 5
Username: _ρь.$€®PÊц™
Entry: www.deviantart.com/deviation/30264345/
Assassinator’s Marks
Colours/colors: 5
Originality: 2
Composition: 3
Typography: 3
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 3
Border: 1
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 7
Total mark: 24
Overall Overview: This piece was pretty random, hence no focus. I feel an image needs at least one focal point to keep the whole thing together, to have a purpose. I felt that this piece had some good textures and lots to look at but doesn’t hold your interest. It needs some much darker areas, some contrast. To create a focal point you could include some vector shapes or a 3d render. It’s much too busy at the moment.
Josh’s Marks
Colours/colors: 4
Originality: 4
Composition: 3
Typography: 4
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 4
Border: 4
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 6
Total Score: 29
Overall Overview: I really didn't like this image. I felt that there was too much going on and everything was jumbled together. There was no focal point and the green was hard on the eyes. The text would have looked better without the fade and the box would have looked better as black.
Average Marks(rounded up)
Colours/colors: 5
Originality: 3
Composition: 3
Typography: 4
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 4
Border: 3
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 7
Total Score: 29
Rank: 6
Username: Gadgetguy
Entry: www.deviantart.com/deviation/30689032/
Assassinator’s Marks
Colours/colors: 7
Originality: 4
Composition: 5
Typography: 0
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 4
Border: 0
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 3
Total mark: 23
Overall Overview: Even though this image had quite a bit of open space I don’t feel that it portrayed the vastness of outer space well enough, it even seemed cramped. Believe it or not, this would be probably better portray if you had one big planet with very detailed texturing and then some nice open space with spaced out stars. You stars are clumped together, let them go. You also need a range of stars. At the moment you have two layers of stars. Some background blue ones and some sharp white ones, vary them, randomise the spacing between them. Your planets are also quite blurry, make those textures sharper.
Josh’s Marks
Colours/colors: 6
Originality: 5
Composition: 5
Typography: 0
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 5
Border: 0
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 5
Total Score: 26
Overall Overview: I felt that this piece needed a lot of work. The stars were much to dense, especially in the bottom left corner. You should try and mess with the opacity and size of the stars. Bigger stars shouldn't have too many little stars around them. The cosmic dust was a little dense and looked somewhat flat. Also, the colors of the dust didn't seem to affect the stars at all. The planets seemed blurry and the atmosphere on the right planet what erased.
Average Marks(rounded up)
Colours/colors: 7
Originality: 5
Composition: 5
Typography: 0
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 5
Border: 0
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 4
Total Score: 26
Rank: 7
Username: Beam.psd
Entry: img296.imageshack.us/img296/3113/untitled2copy5dh.jpg
Assassinator’s Marks
Colours/colors: 1
Originality: 5
Composition: 3
Typography: 0
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 3
Border: 5
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 6
Total mark: 23
Overall Overview: This piece lacked interest and colour, vastly. It had some good textures but the piece didn’t really reach out to me. It has no meaning. I can’t see what it’s trying to say. I love images that give out a message, this however doesn’t. It needs some more contrast aswell, at the moment it’s just a dark image with an eye and 2 silhouette figures.
Josh’s Marks
Colours/colors: 2
Originality: 3
Composition: 2
Typography: 0
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 2
Border: 3
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 4
Total Score: 16
Overall Overview: This piece was way too dark. I could barely see anything in it and my monitor is set to view images very well. There was very little composition in it and I felt that this piece really didn't take much.
Average Marks(rounded up)
Colours/colors: 2
Originality: 4
Composition: 3
Typography: 0
Overall Aesthetics(is the image visually pleasing?): 3
Border: 5
Use of resources(brushes/images/filters): 5
Total Score: 22
Well done guys.
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