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General Confusion · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 7:20 am

Has anyone been able to get into the site today???? The traffic is worse than the Holland Tunnel in NYC during rush hour!!!!

Nex · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 7:23 am

just tried the board and got no connection

Joachim · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 7:37 am

3dpalette is down and probably will be down for a week or so.

Read about it on www.gfxartist.com

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General Confusion · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 8:39 am

Thanks Joachim, this sucks it had to happen when the contest entries were gonna be posted.

EyeFool · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 9:17 am

I blame it on THE MAN

sfr · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 9:26 am

Hmm, that's a shame. Can't they post the entries somewhere else in the meantime... Even just dump them in a directory as .jpg files and throw in a textfile that has credits for all the images?

Saffron / Sunflower

EyeFool · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 9:31 am

I say that we start a new thread to display our entries!

Hurri-cane · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 9:50 am

Or do i have extra time to make a entrie and post it later ?...

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General Confusion · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 9:55 am

I'm up for, "The Contest Entry Thread,"

However, cause Immi, provided the forum for the contest, it would suck to take it away from his site. If you're out there Immi, what is your opinion on this.

I say out of good faith, we should let him have a say, it's only fair.

immi · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 10:54 am

AAAAAARGH! All I can say is I'm so sorry guys. I tried to connect to the site yesterday aswell, and found it was down. I thought it was probably just temporary, but I messaged our programmer anyway, and I found out that crap news. Apparently, what happened, was Zyfly, ever the numbnutted asshole (I don't like this guy very much btw) who works at an isp, which in turn supplies the space, got in a fight with his boss, and they pulled the plug on frag (our hosts.)

As much as we'd like to just pack up and leave this idiot, there are a lot of complications (one being that so many years ago, when know one knew better, zyfly registerd 3dpalette and he owns it...even though he does dick all on it.)

Again, I'm really sorry. I tried to post a message here last night, but I couldn't connect to dhabs either. The best I could do was get the word out to GFX Artist. Anyways, You guys all deserve to see the entries, so for now, I have uploaded a zip of the html that we were almost ready to upload last night. http://www.geocities.com/anon21345/acontest.zip
Just unzip it, and click on the html to load it up. All the images are in thumbnail format (150x113). I'll try upload all the full size images for you guys onto the geocities account.

Tinusch · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 12:05 pm

Nevermind Saffron, I see that Swamp pic is from Vebjorn.

Hurri-cane · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 12:07 pm

VEB....your entrys reminds me of Boris Vallejo�s art...you like his work ?

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Nightime · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 12:16 pm

good god, gluck to the judges.

... personal favorite, joachim's

JJ

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immi · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 12:18 pm

Tinusch, I'm sorry man, but we just had so many entries we had to be choosey for this gallery. I think Kenneth Scott said some good stuff when he judged gamearts contest: "I guess I'm saying, you're about to get dealt a subjective opinion, and it's in no way a reflection on your abilities. " However, we are planning on putting all the entries up shortly.

As for Vebjorn...the man is a machine. He sent in 6 entries I believe, each of them stunning. And don't ask him how long each one took, because it might make u cry...

My favourites, in no particular order:
-All of Vebjorns
-The Caravan by Micke
-Urban Lady by Joachim
-Stalker by Timur Mutsaev (done in watercolour btw)
-Boomstick by Christer Sveen (wow...i really love this one)
-Lunch Time (this one is cool!)

micke · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 12:44 pm

Wow!
There were alot of good submitions!!!
My fav is "The stalker" by Timur.
I went through his Homepage and he has got
some really incredible work there!

-Micke

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Joachim · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 12:45 pm

Hey, thx NightTime

I think there was a LOT of great pictures...we should have more of this, even though this board was half dead through the compo

My abs. favorite is Stalker by Timur Mutsaev..this guy has a great talen. But, I was also very impressed by Frosts picture, it had awesome colors and lightning to it.

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micke · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 12:55 pm

c

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Tinusch · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 12:58 pm

Hurri-cane · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 1:08 pm

i wanted to be in that competition too, but i got the info too late...damn !
next time am i in...*sigh*

to morrow im bying my self a wacom board...�nuff with this mouse...i feel restricted with my ol�mouse.

(spitting at my mouse "damn...damn...YOU !")

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sfr · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 1:43 pm

Wow, great job all participants! I guess my one favorite would have to be "Stalker" (great movie btw, decent book - the Strugatskys have written much better..)

And Joachim's is awesome as well, I'm in love with the textures on the left-side wall... Joachim, is there any way you could post an original res closeup of it?

Frost, yours is very cool too and has some stunning details - I already noticed the closeup of his face on your webfolio page a few days ago and wondered what that image was

Hmm, what can I say, I'm just glad I didn't participate because I suck so much...

Saffron / Sunflower

klaivu · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 2:01 pm

ah jeez I'm so ashamed of myself
<shrink>

at least my img doesn't have my name on it..

gotta say, amazing images. dropped my jaw to the floor.. gonna be a while before i dare to show anything of mine here again..

Hurri-cane · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 2:12 pm

I think everyones entryes was good, some better then others. There are some talented people here...NICE JOB YA�LL !!

When is the next competition...or is there one more ??

"I Want to be in the show"

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Sergenth · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 2:24 pm

Well, I'm now certain that I got schooled by you guys, youse who composed the image beforehand! (message to self - compose entire image in sketch beforehand)

Awesome pics! I like:

-burntime (by ???) looks like a young Gordon Freeman with white hair.
-joachim's (rare fully clothed female!)
-micke's (detail-tastic!)
-frosts (the police one preferred :P
-veb's dreadlock (oily-tastic!)
-stalker (mad mix of watercolor bg and medium-lined details
-waste4 by (forgot) for it's starcrafty-ness
-bone100400(turn up the brightness!!!!)

I'm so looking forward to seeing the other ones too. Mine didn't get in that there geocities directory cuz it's kinda... well, unfinished... oh well. But hey! My thumbnail rocks!! prepare for the small letdown when you click it next week and see the unfinished gun and knife on her belt. woot!

Nightime · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 3:07 pm

another piece I'd like to mention is Canibal by Rick -- I think it stands out from the rest, incredible suggestive power.

kudos!

JJ

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kos.mandis · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 3:42 pm

Damnation!!! Loads of great(er) stuff indeed! Just a couple of my highlights...

Mikael: Great contrast in a great image
Joachim: Sweeeet! Did you draw a gun for the left hand and changed your mind, or is she pointing somewhere?

Vebjorn: Top stuff! Damn you, you really wanted that geforce

I especially liked Dreadlock...
Kos.Mandis: yes, with a D immi

Carlos, Boomstick, Burn Time, stalker, Nun all really awesome... Boy I'm glad I'm not the judge

So when are the results out?

-HoodZ- · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 3:53 pm

good god these are great entries.....wish i had the time to enter

Cos · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 5:04 pm

All of them are so damn good! relieved I didn't enter now haha. I must say that Stalker pic has got to my favourite too, Tumir's stuff is amazing, if you haven't checked out his wpage you gotta see it. fook me.

Also I really liked Vebjorns entry's, Joachim's, Boomstick's, Frost's, fkk they are all excellent. *makes note, hire hitmans to kill all these ppls*...

eclipse · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 6:27 pm

Damn! What an awesome turnout of images. We gotta do this again sometime real soon.

Morganic · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 6:39 pm

Anyone noticed the 'Dhab/Mullins' text in
Eyefool's picture?.. That's odd ;P

Anyway, I really love Joachim's piece.
Just look at the background, the people in
the street, the lighting, the girl (not
overdone larry croft'ish!).
Yum, three dumbs up.

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Kyri · Posted: Thu May 04, 2000 6:42 pm

Bloody hell!......I am amazed at the quality of so many of the comp entries.
It's really blown me away. My absolute favourite is the Timur's 'Stalker', it is absolutely awesome....There are so many brilliant ones, other favourites are Vebjorns ones, Frost's, Joachims, Rick's, Boomsticks, Bones, and a lot more, excellent stuff.

Kyri

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