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Wyrmskyld 04-29-2014 01:36 AM

Hehee... *goes to assemble!*

Chexala 04-29-2014 01:41 AM

Oh oh, color challenge! I want to claim AIR!

Wyrmskyld 04-29-2014 01:59 AM

I claim Captain Planet! [ninja]

Or I will as soon as I find eyes. Thank you for the loan, Cora!

Mythos 04-29-2014 02:27 AM

Which leaves me with water which would have been my choice to start with :D

We'll miss ya, Wyrm... but you're already rocking the Cap'n!

Wyrmskyld 04-29-2014 02:29 AM

Mythos... you can't just do the water background with sand. I mean... just sayin' [lol]

Mythos 04-29-2014 02:35 AM

...but but but...! What if I add bubbles?

Wyrmskyld 04-29-2014 02:37 AM

... Well, honestly I guess it would have originality going for it. You could argue that it was minimalism!

Mythos 04-29-2014 02:40 AM

[lol]

Ohh out of curiosity... are colors between those we're assigned allowed? Like aqua being between green and blue?

Seiki Nova 04-29-2014 03:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Maria-Minamino (Post 1772675021)
Two questions for Seiki!

1) Is this the final challenge or is there one more after this?

2) Are we going to use avatars only - or are invisible avatars allowed? Not that I'm wanting to use one - but I think it's something we need to figure out before people start going down that road only to be told no.

1. One more round after this one. Welcome to the semi-finals y'all!

2. I don't mind if you guys go baseless, but remember that the premise of this competition is that it is an avatar contest. I would prefer that you keep your avatars since that's what we're looking for, however, I won't say no to you guys playing around with the invisible bases if that is what you want to do.

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Originally Posted by Wyrmskyld (Post 1772675062)
It's okay! Seriously, that round had me stumped badly, and it's not exactly a dishonor to lose to this group. I'm amazed I stayed in as long as I did, and even racked up one win!

I'm glad you went through and made the changes you did though! You ended up with a much better avatar for it! Also, since this was just your first time doing PM, try again next time! I'm going to come up with a much easier theme in the next week or so, I promise!


So, just to make sure I've got this correct:

Kent: Fire
Mythos: Water
Chex: Air
Maria: Earth


Mythos, I'll allow all shades of your three main colors. If you have blue, then that would include things like Atlantis/Aqua, Turquoise, Navy, Moonlight, Sky, etc. The main point is that we can see the theme of your element and that your colors don't stray too far from that.

Suona 04-29-2014 07:12 AM

CAPTAIN PLANET!
Nobody else ever knows who Captain Planet is! I could tell who it was as soon as I saw it, too!

Wyrmskyld 04-29-2014 02:00 PM

Hehe... I'm very pleased with this cosplay. I don't do cosplays that often, but... when I saw the theme for this round was elements and I was eliminated, I figured I'd just be their powers combined!

Chexala 04-29-2014 03:25 PM

Haha, Wyrm, I love your Captain Planet. I never even watched that show and I recognized it!

Wyrmskyld 04-29-2014 03:51 PM

I am iconic. o.o

Seiki Nova 04-29-2014 03:56 PM

I miss Captain Planet. It was a good show, though I never did understand what "heart" was all about. I mean, I understood the intention behind it, but still. That's not a power.

Wyrmskyld 04-29-2014 03:57 PM

I think they were partly going for another ethnic group... but I'm not sure either.

Maria-Minamino 04-29-2014 09:16 PM

I could sure use some help! I am EARTH!

Wyrmskyld 04-29-2014 09:34 PM

I like it... but you do fade into the background a lot-- with the dark skin and matching the greens so closely you're almost as invisible as if you'd used the blank base. I don't know if that's what you were aiming for, mind!

Maria-Minamino 04-29-2014 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Wyrmskyld (Post 1772677221)
I like it... but you do fade into the background a lot-- with the dark skin and matching the greens so closely you're almost as invisible as if you'd used the blank base. I don't know if that's what you were aiming for, mind!

Well I definitely wanted to be a tree in the forest since I'm earth :P

I wonder what I could do to fix that and make the avvie shine a bit more.

Mythos 04-29-2014 09:41 PM

xD I had a horrible web coding instructor in high school who wouldn't let us play music on headphones so we had to sit in silence for and hour everyday which got to be pretty miserable. He finally gave in and said that we could play whatever music we could fit onto a floppy disc but it had to be played out loud so he could make sure there wasn't any foul language... I managed to find a super compressed version of the Captain Planet theme online which just barely fit on the disc but it was in German... it didn't matter, anyways- I had music and I played it nonstop the first day I could. The next day I apologized to the other students but they took my disk and started playing it for all of that day as well. By the end of it he let us play whatever music we wanted as long as it was through headphones because he couldn't take the Captain Planet theme song in German anymore.

u_u Much hero, very success, wow.

Maria: I found that sometimes using the fog poses from YOLO can actually make the avatar pop out a little more from dark background. I'm not sure about the one you're currently using but it could be worth a try at least!

Maria-Minamino 04-29-2014 09:51 PM

Alrighty - I did a few things - I took the border away, went to a slightly larger skin tone, changed the tree limbs from black to brown, and added the fog! What do you think?

Suona 04-29-2014 09:55 PM

Oh wow, I love where you are going with it.
Are the fishnets and tattoos to give it the appearance of bark? I like it.

There is also the branch from the Deep in the Jungle EI. I have it on right now, actually.

Wait, aren't you trying to blend in with the tree? Wouldn't you want her to blend in then? I think a lighter skintone to match the lighter brown that you have on might look nice, too.

Maria-Minamino 04-29-2014 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Suona (Post 1772677284)
Oh wow, I love where you are going with it.
Are the fishnets and tattoos to give it the appearance of bark? I like it.

There is also the branch from the Deep in the Jungle EI. I have it on right now, actually.

Wait, aren't you trying to blend in with the tree? Wouldn't you want her to blend in then? I think a lighter skintone to match the lighter brown that you have on might look nice, too.

haha yes the fishnets and the tattoos are bark! (I also have the black smudges from the zombies CI on too :P...and the black stuff from the lion CI).

But I'm really supposed to BE the tree. The light tone really is quite different than the bark of the tree so I'm not sure it works D: I'll try!

Also - LMAO I made that vine XD I forgot about it XD

---------- Post added 04-29-2014 at 10:03 PM ----------

Alrighty - added the vine and then also lightened the skin tone more.

Suona 04-30-2014 07:53 AM

Yeah, I can't really see the blotches. I was going to suggest it, but then thought that trees don't necessarily have random spots. But you can't see it looking weird on the avi, so that's good.

Exactly, that's what I thought. So in being the tree, you should blend in with the parts around it, right? Because it looks like you're on a mossy branch and have twigs poking around. You could make it a bird nest? There's always that big goofy colorful bird that looks like the one from UP. lol

Neither of the Leon brown skins match? It doesn't look bad how it is. Just a shame it can't match the brown of the branches.

Maria-Minamino 04-30-2014 10:08 AM

Su - the lion skins were a fabulous idea!!!!

IN terms of a birds next - I'm only allowed to use green/black/brown - so that colorful bird can't be used D: XD

Wyrmskyld 04-30-2014 02:25 PM

It's looking really good, Maria! Doing the lion skin-- I think that's what you have-- lightened it up enough that you're not disappearing. [yes]


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