FAC - RESULTS ARE IN!!! Fan Art Competition 29: WTF

[bonzai!]

FAC 29
Theme: WTF

Welcome to the October 2009 edition of OCR's "official" Fan Art Competition (FAC)!

This month's theme is WTF!

As a change of pace, this month's competition is going to have a style of art theme as opposed to a content theme. And that style is the world renowned hand-print style.

Here are a few famous examples to get your creative juices flowing:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj69/bonzai_mofo/HandprintLion1RS12k.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj69/bonzai_mofo/pengpatchb.jpg


The use of such top-of-the-line art materials as googly-eyes, glitter, and construction paper is highly encouraged. And your entry can be from any video game your heart desires.


PM your entries to me by SUNDAY OCTOBER 25TH.

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RESULTS
and the winner is...........Chiral!!!

It was actually a tie between Chiral and Vilecat as far as points went, but we need a winner...so I looked at who got the most first place votes. That also resulted in a tie. SO I looked at who got the most second place votes, and that was Chiral!

Number 1 -- Chiral, 14
Number 2 -- Diotrans, 3
Number 3 -- Dhsu, 3
Number 5 -- Vilecat, 14
Number 6 -- bonzai, 13
Number 7 -- piendry, 7 +honorable ROFL

Chiral: 3 first place votes, 2 second place votes
Vilecat: 3 first place votes, 1 second place votes

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ENTRIES

Number 1 (http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt8/ocr_fac/FAC%2029%20WTF/number1.jpg)
Number 2 (http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt8/ocr_fac/FAC%2029%20WTF/number2.jpg)
Number 3 (http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt8/ocr_fac/FAC%2029%20WTF/number3.png)
Number 5 (http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt8/ocr_fac/FAC%2029%20WTF/number5.jpg)
Number 6 (http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt8/ocr_fac/FAC%2029%20WTF/number6.jpg)
Number 7 (http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt8/ocr_fac/FAC%2029%20WTF/number7.jpg)

awwwwwwwwesome
PM your votes (top 3 picks!) to me by THURSDAY OCTOBER 29TH.

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If your unfamiliar with the FAC, here is some interesting reading material.

FAQ

What is the Fan Art Competition?
The Fan Art Competition is a monthly event where artists create some form of art based on a certain theme.

What is the theme?
The theme is decided by the winner of the previous months competition (most of the time) and must be video game related.

Who can submit art?
Anyone.

What are my restrictions?
You are allowed to submit one entry, but other than that there are no restrictions. There are no size, quality, image size restrictions.

Who decides the winner?
The OCR community. Anyone who wants to vote, can vote.

How does voting work?
You vote for your three favorite entries, from first to third. These entries are given points based on the order in which you voted for them in. For example,

1st. Rambo
2nd. bonzai
3rd. Nyuura

In this case, Rambo would get 3 points, bonzai would get 2, and Nyuura would get 1 (although Nyuura gets three most of the time).

When and how do we see the results?
After the voting period is over, I'll announce the winner and show the tallied scores for all entries.

If I enter the contest can I vote?
Yes, and voting for yourself is allowed if you really want to.

Rules and Regulations!
1) Any art submitted must be based off of the months theme.
2) No nudity.
3) Your entry must be created within the month. It cannot have been something you've created in the past or partially finished prior to the announcement of the theme.
4) All entries must be 100% your work. Simply altering something created by someone else may be cool, but is not allowed as an entry.


DEADLINES!
PM your entries to me by SUNDAY OCTOBER 25TH.
PM your votes (top 3 picks!) to me by THURSDAY OCTOBER 29TH.

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List of Previous Competitions
FAC 28: Sega vs. Nintendo (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25242)
FAC 27: Panzer Dragoon Series (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24746)
FAC 26: Marvel vs. Capcom (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24178)
FAC 25: Blizzard Games (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23756)
FAC 24: LucasArts Adventure Games (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23324)
FAC 23: Heroes as Villains (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22745)
FAC 22: Creatures (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22249)
FAC 21: Femme Fatales (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20790)
FAC 20: A Final Fantasy Christmas (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19729)
FAC 19: Ultimate Power (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19236)
FAC 18: Sidekicks (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18697)
FAC 17: Mecha (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18157)
FAC 16: Zombies (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17627)
FAC 15: Weapons (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16982)
FAC 14: Boss Month (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16497)
FAC 14: Chrono Series (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11471)
FAC 13: Konami (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10597)
FAC 12: Super Mario Bros. (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9917)
FAC 11: Phoenix Wright (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9343)
FAC 10: Castlevania (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8709)
FAC 9: Metroid (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8014)
FAC 8: Pokemon (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6609)
FAC 7: Ico/Shadow of the Colossus (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5018)
FAC 6: Final Fantasy VI
FAC 5: Warioware
FAC 4: Mega Man
FAC 3: Zelda
FAC 2: Skies of Arcadia
FAC 1: Mana

images from FAC 3 to FAC 10 (http://www.zooomr.com/photos/OCRFanArt/)
Photobucket Albums from FAC 20 to present (http://s592.photobucket.com/albums/tt8/ocr_fac/)

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Support this competition by wearing one of these fancy sig things, or make one of your own -

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9817/fan2sd1.png
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/487/fan1zs2.png

[relyanCe]

doing that takes effort i just don't have the drive to produce =/

[The Coop]

Hmmm...

After taking the month off following the FAC 27 debacle, looks like I'll be doing the same for another month. Sorry bonzai!, but I'm going to pass.

[friendlyHunter]

Hmmmm... what if the theme included any kind of collage? I don't want to go out and buy finger paint, but I'm sure everyone has glue or tape lying around, and stuff that can be attached onto paper. Also as a contest, a collage is something where you can put effort into it and come up with something amazing, and the medium's limitations can give it extra awesomeness (especially if the artist limits it even further in some creative way). If you put a lot of effort and artistry into a hand-print, it kind of looks like you're cheating ><

What do you think? Also: WTF! :3

[friendlyHunter]

LOL, how about "draw with your non-dominant hand" month? :nicework:

[Sindra]

Eh, when you said a "WTF Month" I thought you would mean a surreal theme, like your favorite WTF moment from a game. That would have been a fun challenge.

[The Coop]

I'm honestly surprised that FAC 29 wasn't geared towards being very Halloween-centric... be it by going with a franchise or individual game that lends itself to being spooky (Demon's Crest, Ghouls 'N Ghosts, etc.), or by choosing a very broad subject, and creating a "make it spooky" clause.

[linkspast]

Im going to enter this... I just hope no one shares the same Idea I have.

[cobaltstarfire]

Would people be allowed to just trace their hand and do it digitally?

I don't plan on entering this, but it'll probably be easier for people to do it if they aren't restricted to real media for their hand printy fun.

[Rambo]

That would have been a fun challenge. Funny, I cant think of a better set of words to describe this exact theme.

This is something that absolutely everyone can do in 5-10 mins. And if people want to make a more serious effort, its more than within the realm of possibility. Sounds like a perfect theme for a thread full of people who generally wait till the last damn minute to enter (or not enter). I don't think we'd often see a difference in turn out if this competition only lasted 1 week tbh.

I think cobalt has a good idea with the tracing. Both would deliver similar results.

This is a great theme in that even if you don't want to enter, you can make a really good "for the lulz" entry in minutes. That way we won't only have ~3 entrants. Whether you want to make a serious entry or a hilarious entry, this is a wicked fun theme.

[bonzai!]

Gah, okay this isn't how I wanted this to go at all :(

Um, a couple points I want to address:

I chose this theme because we've been having a serious lack of participation in the past couple months of the competition. The reasons for this have been “not enough time,” “i tried but couldn't make the deadline,” “no motivation,” etc. I realize that the OCR FAC is also the Procrastinators of the World Unite competition sometimes. So I hoped to choose a theme that anyone could do in a few minutes, as a way to get our renowned procrastinators to make an entry, and also to maybe get some new people who don't necessarily consider themselves great artists to make entries. I'm sad of seeing 3-5 entries.

Friendlyhunter: you made the point of not wanting to go out and get fingerpaint, which I can understand (though I personally have tons of little crappy tubes of paint sitting around my place, so I'm not exactly in that position). And I was more than willing to accept hand-print outlines or cut-outs, as well as foot-prints or thumb-print works.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj69/bonzai_mofo/img_0632_21.jpg
(cut out hand-print Santa that I refrained from putting in my original examples)

I also thought of the “non-dominant hand” theme :D And was the tiniest bit hopeful of using it in a future WTF themed month. But seeing how this one is already turning out, I'm less than optimistic.

And the last point you made about the limited artistry in a piece was kind of my intention with this theme. I wanted silliness, ridiculousness, and creativity, though not necessarily artistry. But hey, you could do something like this:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj69/bonzai_mofo/images.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj69/bonzai_mofo/icobody.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj69/bonzai_mofo/2000803526819457705_rs.jpg


Um um um, this is already TL;DR, but the last thing I wanted to note was The Coops comment on a Halloween theme for October. The last person to run this competition was Bleck, and for the month of December he made the theme “A Final Fantasy Christmas.” Unfortunately, this had very poor turnout, and it also caused the winner of the November's competition to have to wait to choose a theme until January. This would have kinda ruined the system (though in the end it was worked out). So even though this wouldn't have been a problem as I am both the previous winner and in charge of the comp, it's still why I'm reluctant to take over themes for a certain month (Halloween for October, Christmas for December, Boss month for June).

And this concludes the longest post I've made on OCR. I'm sorry to hear so many of you aren't inspired to be silly by this theme. Maybe next month. As always, if anyone has any suggestions for how I can run this competition better, get more participation, get more work out of you guys, please tell me. Or if you'd like to run this competition yourself, I'd probably be willing to give you the job at this point.

[friendlyHunter]

Well, I'm in if we can trace our hands.

[Fake edit]
Time to read bonzai's post!

[Edit]
Ok, I read bonzai's post. No comment at this time!

[Rambo]

Ok, I read bonzai's post. No comment at this time!

What, are you gonna wait till the last day possible to comment? :lol:

[cobaltstarfire]

I've just stopped participating because I wasn't really getting any personal satisfaction out of doing them, and I wasn't really improving any at all.

Also bleck said I sucked at some point so it really dampened my spirits to keep trying at all. I think I did one entry after that? And came out near the bottom. So I decided I'd just find a critique forum that can help me unsuck, and maybe draw something that people actually like looking at.

[metalsnakejuice]

This is going to be fun to enter this:-P

[Vilecat]

This month isn't necessarly about getting better at what you do; such skills take a lot of time to develop, mostly if you change your subjects constantly (human to non-human, different art styles of originals, etc).

Take it as a new horizon to explore. Working on more than one media can be very beneficial, and it's good gymnastic for the imagination.

I'll definitely try to enter this month, but I'll wait for the mid-semester break (Thanksgiving!) since a lot of my "3D" craft material is at home and not on campus. I'll think of my subject 'til then :3

[cobaltstarfire]

Or...I could just post on the critique forum I'm on now and get constructive criticism.

I'm kind of sour on this competition so I don't expect to be entering again anytime soon unless an idea leaps out and slaps me.

[friendlyHunter]

What, are you gonna wait till the last day possible to comment? :lol:

Pretty much.

[Gollgagh]

*participation problems*


yeah, I had the same problems when I was trying to run FLMC

I thought it was a cool competition, but it's hard to keep interest when I can hardly click my way around fl studio, much less make anything coherent

[bonzai!]

I've just stopped participating because I wasn't really getting any personal satisfaction out of doing them, and I wasn't really improving any at all.

Also bleck said I sucked at some point so it really dampened my spirits to keep trying at all. I think I did one entry after that? And came out near the bottom. So I decided I'd just find a critique forum that can help me unsuck, and maybe draw something that people actually like looking at.


I'm really sorry to hear that :( I remember your zombie yoshi from the first competition I ever participated in (and I remember voting for it too!). Bleck is a real troll sometimes, and definitely shouldn't have said something like that, especially if he was running the competition... But I can understand your desire to participate in something that could help you improve your art.

I liked the FAC because it motivated me to work towards a finished piece, which I'm not prone to do on my own. But we really don't have that much discussion about entries, helpful critique or otherwise. And then the new competition goes up and people stop posting in the old one forever. I personally would love to have more time to comment on people's artwork after the results are in, but with the majority of the month provided to working on entries, there really isn't that much time before the next competition gets started.

[Dhsu]

Maybe shorten the submission period by a couple days to give some time for feedback? I think that with everyone submitting at the last minute anyway, it wouldn't affect too many people. :P

[relyanCe]

basically whatever the deadline is, i'll have something finished the day of if i'm gonna do it at all. It's just how I work. So i'm cool with an earlier deadline

[Vilecat]

Making the deadline a few days earlier alone won't help much. There would need to be some sort of C&C "enforcement". Since OCR is more known for having artists on the audio than visual aspect of arts, you can't expect a lot to comment whenever they check a new artwork.

It's a bit complicated to encourage C&C in a contest-related thread. Usually there's another thread specifically for that. Unless it's like I've seen on some very advanced art forums where submitting isn't anonymous but there are some judges basing their decision on how well the theme is represented, originality, how polished the work looks and so on, while everyone posting in this thread give constructive critics and/or rate the works. Of course it's the kind of forum/thread where you have at least a dozen artists participating monthly and a lot more posting to follow the comp.

I hope everyone understands what I mean.

[bonzai!]

yeah, I get what you're saying Vilecat. And I guess it's a little much to hope for that kind of constructive discussion about pieces. But even just a little conversation about what people have spent so much time working on would be nice.

About the deadline: for the past couple months I made the deadline the last Sunday of the month. This is because I had some complaints about "it always having been the last sunday" and people having weird feelings about the deadline being a random day of the week.

So do other people have an opinion? I know relyanCe said he's cool with an earlier deadline, but do you guys care if it's a specific day of the week, or if I base it off of how close to the end of the month it is.

[Chiral]

*sneaks in quietly* I remembered my password!
Okay, now I feel really bad for not showing up at all... >_>a
I agree that it would be nice to have more discussion and stuff about pieces, so it's not just like. "Oh, you won or lost, neeeeext!"

I'll try and do something this month since it should be quick XD Personal and work projects are beating me up. ;;

*hides again*

[friendlyHunter]

I kind of liked it back when we knew who did the submissions before the voting was over, so we could give comments and stuff right when the art was revealed.

But having a few days after the winner is announced to discuss things before the next thread starts would be good too.

[Matt E. Waldman]

Oh, I am sooo participating in this.

[bonzai!]

bumping the threadddd

[diotrans]

I haven't yet participated in any of the FACs, but I had been planning to do one eventually. I actually think the handprint thing sounds really fun, and will def require some creativity. So I will try to come up with something this month!

Since I'm a newcomer here I don't know how relevant my input is, but here goes:
I do the one hour compo (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?p=602769#602769) competition every week, and I think it's been pretty successful in that we see a fair amount of turnout, and people seem to get something accomplished in the hour, plus we give each other feedback in the listening party. I wonder if some of these things could be applied to the FAC? Like you could have a IRC viewing party. And the thing about doing something in an hour is that it gives you a specific time that you need to get it done, and forces you not to procrastinate. (Music is different from art so that amount of time may need to be adjusted, but the basic principle can still be applied.)

Not sure if that is at all helpful but yeah, just my 2 cents.

[bonzai!]

I haven't yet participated in any of the FACs, but I had been planning to do one eventually. I actually think the handprint thing sounds really fun, and will def require some creativity. So I will try to come up with something this month!

Since I'm a newcomer here I don't know how relevant my input is, but here goes:
I do the one hour compo (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?p=602769#602769) competition every week, and I think it's been pretty successful in that we see a fair amount of turnout, and people seem to get something accomplished in the hour, plus we give each other feedback in the listening party. I wonder if some of these things could be applied to the FAC? Like you could have a IRC viewing party. And the thing about doing something in an hour is that it gives you a specific time that you need to get it done, and forces you not to procrastinate. (Music is different from art so that amount of time may need to be adjusted, but the basic principle can still be applied.)

Not sure if that is at all helpful but yeah, just my 2 cents.

I like the idea of a one hour competition, that's intense :D I don't know if anyone here's heard of the 24 Hour Comic Day, but I've always been interested in what you could produce with crazy restrictions like that. I wouldn't know the best way of implementing this idea though...


Have it as the theme for a month, and do it every week?
Do it in addition to the regular competition, as a way to break up the month?
Switch over entirely from a month long period to a shorter time period?

As far as the IRC viewing session, I haven't touched mIRC since I installed it, so I wouldn't really know what to do with that.

Um, thoughts?

[Vilecat]

As far as the IRC viewing session, I haven't touched mIRC since I installed it, so I wouldn't really know what to do with that.

Um, thoughts?Create a #ocrfac channel?

And yes I heard recently about the 24h comic day, found the concept interesting. While 1h might discourage a lot of people (not counting all the scanner problems and such) I think 1 day would make things very interesting. Or at least start with the 1 week thing.

[Chiral]

I like the one hour competition too, sounds fun! Just a matter of deciding which hour, I guess...I've heard of people doing like, live-drawing sessions online, that would be fun to do as a group!

[diotrans]

I like the idea of a one hour competition, that's intense :D I don't know if anyone here's heard of the 24 Hour Comic Day, but I've always been interested in what you could produce with crazy restrictions like that. I wouldn't know the best way of implementing this idea though...


Have it as the theme for a month, and do it every week?
Do it in addition to the regular competition, as a way to break up the month?
Switch over entirely from a month long period to a shorter time period?

As far as the IRC viewing session, I haven't touched mIRC since I installed it, so I wouldn't really know what to do with that.

Um, thoughts?

Yay 24-hour comic! (I'm a fan of Scott McCloud <3) I actually recently did the 24-hour sketchbook with a friend, which was a spinoff idea where you fill a sketchbook of at least 100 pages in 24 hours. I guess I've always been a fan of the intense super-creative-output-in-short-deadline challenges, like NaNoWriMo (write a 50,000-word novel in a month), etc.

I do think those kind of challenges are different in nature than the ones where you have a lot of time and can really polish off a piece. So you may want to try out running one separately to see how it turns out. In other words among your 3 choices I personally like the middle one. ^_^

As for the IRC, like vilecat previously said, you could start a new IRC channel. OCR's IRC channel (http://ocremix.org/info/Chat) is on the server irc.enterthegame.com, so people might already be signed in there, just have to make a new channel for the FAC.

[bonzai!]

thanks for the feedback guys, I'll try and figure something out for us to do in the near future :)

ALSO REMINDER, THE DEADLINE IS THIS WEEKEND!!! That's right, this upcoming Sunday, October 25th. Don't forget!

[Vilecat]

I totally didn't work on my projects for school during the mid-semester break, so I got no time this week. It'll have to wait for Friday, but at least I already know what I'll do and how. /gigglefits
And I'm definitely doing it, no procrastination this time!

[Txai]

Vilecat, your sig is missing : [

here:

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/8485/catdance4lv.gif

[bonzai!]

Updated the first post with a list of all previous fan art competition themes, and links to most of the threads for those comps. :)

[Vilecat]

Vilecat, your sig is missing : [

here:

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/8485/catdance4lv.gifNever thought anyone would actually miss my sig. People always tell me it's creepy looking.

[relyanCe]

i for one was quite put off by it NOT being there. it sorta defines you


in a weird way

[friendlyHunter]

To be honest, I'd rather see just a cat photo, or just a dancing anime girl gif. Or even a dancing anime cat or a girl photo gif. Heck, I'd even prefer a dancing cat photo gif with the face of an anime girl. You've got a lot of options there Vilecat... holy crap I just now noticed the extent to which your sig matches your name :nicework:

[friendlyHunter]

Deadline is tomorrow!! Honestly I haven't thought of a subject yet - let's see if I can pull something out of my ass.

[Vilecat]

I'm almost done! <3
'til now I'm very happy of how it turned out.

Edit: SUBMITTEDEDED!

[FuriousFure]

sumbit'd. hopefully, not really used to using PM's here. so i tried my best, lets hope it worked out.

[bonzai!]

about an hour left until the deadline! thanks to those of you who've already submitted :)

oh, and yes your entry made it, furious fure :)

EDIT:
that's it!

Edited the first post with the entries. LURVE.
PM your votes (top 3 picks!) to me by THURSDAY OCTOBER 29TH.

[Vilecat]

Whoever did #7, this made my day, hahahahaha!

And holy shit 2 Lavos! GJ everyone, cool entries <3

[Dhsu]

WTF nobody did Master Hand? C'MON GUYS.

[relyanCe]

I'm actually going to be VOTING this month


some of these were completely balls-out awesome

[Rambo]

WTF nobody did Master Hand? C'MON GUYS.

I WAS GOING TO DO THE MASTER HAND. And I'm STILL going to. I got whisked away to carve pumpkins when I intended on making an entry. :-x

[JH Sounds]

let's see if I can pull something out of my ass.

Man, I most definitely do not wanna see that finished product...

[Cottus&Gyes]

Oh deadline was the... not later than today. I might do my idea for next FAC in hopes it applies to the theme. Nothing has been done, just a thought I had so technically it should count :D

[Chiral]

amg, so awesomeeee XD Everyone had a different approach and they were all really creative.

relyanCe, you should carve the Master Hand on your pumpkin!

[Dhsu]

Before I vote, I feel like I should ask how #5 fits in with the theme. If it doesn't, well...that's too bad, because it's really nice.

Seriously though guys, YOU ALL DESERVE A MEDAL for participating in this FAC. :D

[friendlyHunter]

Hey, where's entry number 4?

Before I vote, I feel like I should ask how #5 fits in with the theme.
In Super Mario World, the backgrounds in cave levels are made up of those fingery things.

Man, I most definitely do not wanna see that finished product...
I was originally going to do Link on a hand/horse, or a mounted WC2 or WC3 Death Knight, but I didn't feel like it. Seriously, all the real entries blow my idea out of the water!


(darn, I should've done Ganondorf on a horse! :puppyeyes:)

[bonzai!]

Just a reminder that the deadline to vote is TODAY. Anyone can vote!!! I'll hopefully have the results up shortly after midnight my time (PST).

[bonzai!]

Edited the first post with the results!!!

[Vilecat]

Osnap! Grats Chira <3

And now people in #ocremix know why I kept going BLARGG! a whole weekend.

BTW what was #1 from? I just know I went "eeee glitter!" when I saw it o_O

[Chiral]

Yay! Thanks y'all. I totally didn't expect to win (I voted for you, Vilecat! <3)

My entry is Flammie from Secret of Mana. :3






(...Btw, those Blargg guys always scared the crap out of me. ;;)

[Vilecat]

I loved Blarggs and I thought they were suiting October very well. Actually I thought they were made out of bones back when I first played the game.

I didn't think I'd get that many votes frankly (I voted for you Chiral xD)

[Chiral]

xD I thought they were made out of OH GOD WHAT IS JUMPING AT ME FACE IN LAVA

Vilecat, since we were really close, do you wanna come up with an idea for the next FAC together? I don't think anybody would mind...I have a couple ideas, but nothing for sure. :O

[Vilecat]

o____O wuh?

[friendlyHunter]

o____O wuh?
You guys are tied for points :p

Blarggs are awesome, and their name only makes them more awesome! I seem to remember you can spinjump on them without getting hurt.

[bonzai!]

Whoopsy daisies, was looking at my tallies of the votes again and realized that I gave entries 1, 5, and 6, ten more points than they actually received. Doesn't change the final rankings, but I thought you all should know that I don't know what my own tally marks add up to.

So, fixed the first post with the correct pointage.

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In more exciting and less embarrassing news, Chiral came up with an awesome idea to help support participation in the competition. Out of the participants that made entries, there would be a random winner who would receive a gift art prize. The gift art prize would be made by volunteers (and here's where I ask if any of you guys would be willing to volunteer to make gift art), and could be a small drawing or sketch that the random winner requests.

Chiral and I would be willing to volunteer; would anyone else be up for that? Does anyone else think this is a good idea? :)

[friendlyHunter]

Sounds interesting..... I like it!

Chiral and I would be willing to volunteer; would anyone else be up for that?
I'd be willing to volunteer, but it depends completely on what the request is. It might work best if we hear the request, and then whoever wants to do it the most gets to do it (but of course that can't stop other people from making their own too!)

[olie!]

oh man

hand goku is the best thing I have ever seen

[Vilecat]

If I end up as the random giftart winner, I'd probably ask for a doodle since I don't really care xD

But Chiral you won this FAC, you should be the one deciding what's next month's theme :O

[friendlyHunter]

But Chiral you won't this FAC
lol at automatic spelling correction.

or.... Freudian slip?

[Chiral]

If I end up as the random giftart winner, I'd probably ask for a doodle since I don't really care xD

But Chiral you won't this FAC, you should be the one deciding what's next month's theme :O

xD kk...I'll throw darts at the ideas I have or something, lol.

I should so go to bed. *falls over*

[Ramaniscence]

lol at automatic spelling correction.

or.... Freudian slip?

Or...

English as a 2nd language :o

[Vilecat]

All of the above. I think I was rather tired/not fully there when I wrote this and I was also answering people in IRC.

Multitasking when tired gives out interesting results with me.... lol

[Sindra]

Ok, I concede my previous statement. The resulting submissions for this contest exceeded my expectations. Good job to everyone.

[bonzai!]

FAC 30!!!! (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?p=609762#609762)