The(I hope)Long awaited results of Paint-o-Rama's first group activity are here!
little reminders on the specs:

Judging guidelines
Respect of theme and restrictions /5
Painting look/effort /5
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance /5

Prize:
A feature in the group page, a banner made out of your wall to advertise the group, a forum sig saying you pwn and nekkid pictures of bromithia.
There will also be an award for the most votes wallpaper.

click here for full contest rules and details

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FINAL RESULTS

supermonchi wins with the highest ranking, Tama-Neko being close behind with 0.3 points difference! Monchi also gets the most popular award with 6 votes! Congrats for the great wall monchi!

scores:

Tama-Neko 11.2
MapleRose 10.18
Kuroimisa 10.85
Starrliteangel 10.9
supermonchi 11.5
PinkPrincessLacus 9.8

votes:

Tama-Neko 2
MapleRose 1
Kuroimisa 3
Starrliteangel 1
supermonchi 6
PinkPrincessLacus 1

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CANDY JUDGES

Hakkenden: Mountain's Red Leaves
By Tama-Neko
Respect of theme and restrictions 2.3
Painting look/effort 3.8
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 4.3
total: 10.4
comments: Very striking wallpaper at first view, this is clearly a magnificent choice of scan and good execution. The respect of theme isn't so striking though, and it's a shame.
AESTHETIC MENTION

View from Above
By MapleRose
Respect of theme and restrictions 2.3
Painting look/effort 3.8
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 3.5
total: 9.6
comments: The only person who went publicly asking for help and tips is Maple, even if it was never said to be illegal in the contest rules. For that she deserves a perseverance mention, as it was shown that walling is not a 15 minutes thing to be done with but a longer process of trial and error to achieve the best possible result. :]
PERSEVERANCE MENTION

Float'n Flow
By kuroimisa
Respect of theme and restrictions 3.1
Painting look/effort 3.5
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 3.6
total: 10.2
comments: I wonder why kuro always gets to get the originality mention in the end. To me the color scheme was kinda unusual, and I can't say I hated it. Great job on having everything soft, but maybe that was as much the best as the downfall point of the wall, depth is missing.
ORIGINALITY MENTION

.la morte.
By starrliteangel
Respect of theme and restrictions 4.5
Painting look/effort 3.7
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 2.1
total: 10.3
comments: This is a perfect example of what I had in mind for the contest. Lovely work on those bamboos, but sadly the wall misses depth and the lighting isn't that great.
RESPECT OF THEME & RESTRICTIONS MENTION

The Way of the Samurai
By supermonchi
Respect of theme and restrictions 4.5
Painting look/effort 3.9
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 4.1
total: 12.5
comments: Beautiful colors, great choice of scan and setting, and most of all kudos for painting this elaborate forest from scratch. The surprising thing here was the inconsistency in textures. The overall looks a bit too blurry and the scan looks kinda messy. Too smudged or something?
HIGHEST RANKING MENTION LOL!

Garden Of An Era
By PinkPrincessLacus
Respect of theme and restrictions 4.5
Painting look/effort 2.1
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 1.5
total: 8.1
comments: I can truly see your hard work paied off in this wall. Working with different stocks is not always easy and you did a good job blending them together! the big branch would be the element to most re-work on in the future, as it looks very wishy-washy because of the smudge abuse. Work more on the form and edge next time.
NOTICED EFFORT MENTION

final general comments on the judging:
Why such low marks? Because I have a hard time giving perfect points wherever. For example I felt like starrlite's wall was the one most respecting the theme's restrictions but I only gave her 4.5 She still got the mention. Because yeah, art is so subjective and perfection does not exist, it's not easy to put numbers on. Right? That's also why I decided to give everyone a special mention. After all every entry was pretty good. You can always come to me and complain, I'll take it. But there are little chances I'll change my mind on the points enough to alter the final results.

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MICKYOKO JUDGES

Hakkenden: Mountain's Red Leaves
By Tama-Neko
Respect of theme and restrictions 5
Painting look/effort 3
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 4
total: 12

View from Above
By MapleRose
Respect of theme and restrictions 5
Painting look/effort 2.75
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 3
total: 10.75

Float'n Flow
By kuroimisa
Respect of theme and restrictions 5
Painting look/effort 3
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 3.5
total: 11.5

.la morte.
By starrliteangel
Respect of theme and restrictions 5
Painting look/effort 3.5
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 3
total: 11.5

The Way of the Samurai
By supermonchi
Respect of theme and restrictions 5
Painting look/effort 3
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 2.5
total: 10.5

Garden Of An Era
By PinkPrincessLacus
Respect of theme and restrictions 4
Painting look/effort 4
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance 3.5
total: 11.5

I feel, I scored a bit high on everyone. Well, that's it.
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As the supreme winner, monchi gets rewarded by having her wall do the promotion for the group, receiving the Official Paint-o-Rama Grand Opening Contest Supreme Winner tag she can show off on her sig or userpage (if you want an image banner just ask ) AND I DID NOT FORGET the ultimate prize! I hope you don't mind sharing with everyone!

Allright so this wraps it up! All we're missing is Lacus' tutorial and we are ready for some new action! I hope you enjoyed painting, and will continue participating/inviting people to our group activities!
I'm already thinking of a second contest idea, If you have any propositions it's now or never! just express yourself on PoR's page. I will see you shortly with a new bi-weekly update announcement with some (i hope) exciting news about our close future as painters/paint lovers! Cheers.

edit--errata;
for some absurd reason, the first version of the results i mixed up MapleRose's username with Chloe-chan's. Must be the lack of sleep, sorry about that.

LOL @ grand prize

Congrats all

Hahaha I love that grand prize. It's one badass award >D

Congrats to monchi and everyone who participated! It was fun

merged: 01-08-2007 ~ 06:33pm
... when's the next contest ?

yayy congrats to everyone! All the walls were so superbly awesome, and this was probably the hardest contest Ive been in besides the battlegrounds at AP

O.O i cant believe i scored so high! I thought mine would be much lower. cant wait for the next contest!

jaja pretty cool grand prize, monchi sure deserves it lol

D:::

YOU'RE FUNNY CANDY

LOL AT PRIZE

By the way, congratulations to everyone...

^3^

next contest will be SOON

yay congrats everyone! And I agree, art is subjective and very hard to judge. However, I do have a slight complaint on the scores for mine: 2.3 + 3.8 + 3.5 = 9.6, not 8.6 must be the lack of sleep again, right?

and lol, nice grand prize does monchi get a bigger version of that? ^____^

can't wait for the next contest!

Thanks everyone!
Yeahh the AP battleground was hardcore man, totally ..
Fun though, wouldn't mind doing it again if/when I have time ..
Yup congrats and well done to everyone who participated, looking forward to the next one!

damn sorry rose, I messed up twice on your entry Dx
here is the best ice cream in the world for you:

*faints after seeing the grand prize*

That was too much for me to handle. lol

The entries were great (even though I was lazy again. gomen). Congrats to all =D

lol at grand prize!
Congrats everyone!

Wow! Congrats to everyone! I really liked all the results. ^____^

woohoo ice cream! and cookie dough too haven't had that in a while (considering it's middle of the winter )

hmm, since you gave me ice cream, I forgive you