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[imdrunkontea]

Bishop Steiner, on 26 September 2016 - 08:09 AM, said:

great action, love the proportioning. Glad to see you doing some Btech stuff again!

Thank you! I've always loved non-humanoid designs, so I had to give it a shot

[Bishop Steiner]

if'n I were a bookie, my bets would be on:

First Place: jjm1


Second Place: Azmaat


Third Place: imdrunkontea


With the Runner Up going to: Project Dark Fox


a lot of cool entries, but those are the ones that grab me the most, feel most impressive, finished, etc.

Kind of nuts they all come in during the last stretch, on the same page, but can only guess some of the folks were taking time to really polish stuff up.

Regardless, congrats to whomever does win, and I enjoyed the effort made by everyone.

[Project Dark Fox]

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Kind of nuts they all come in during the last stretch, on the same page, but can only guess some of the folks were taking time to really polish stuff up.

The entry I was working on at the start was not coming out the way I wanted it to, I hated the angle and the approach I was taking, so I did it differently by going right back to actual pencil/pen on paper for the 'Mech in the span of 24 hours.

[Bishop Steiner]

Project Dark Fox, on 26 September 2016 - 12:05 PM, said:

The entry I was working on at the start was not coming out the way I wanted it to, I hated the angle and the approach I was taking, so I did it differently by going right back to actual pencil/pen on paper for the 'Mech in the span of 24 hours.

Yeah. I actually hate the angle my piece is at, and am not very happy with it, but I just could not get the thing to click at any other angle. Truth to tell, I have always found the Bushwacker very hard to draw, for some reason, the proportions, angles, etc, just are so easy to mess up.

In fact, this was the first semi successful attempt, tbh... and I still am not remotely satisfied. :/

(Others than have long eluded me are the Uziel, and the Phoenix Hawk (unless I draw it straight up robotech)... sigh)

[MadHornet]

Bishop Steiner, on 26 September 2016 - 12:17 PM, said:

Yeah. I actually hate the angle my piece is at, and am not very happy with it, but I just could not get the thing to click at any other angle. Truth to tell, I have always found the Bushwacker very hard to draw, for some reason, the proportions, angles, etc, just are so easy to mess up.

In fact, this was the first semi successful attempt, tbh... and I still am not remotely satisfied. :/

(Others than have long eluded me are the Uziel, and the Phoenix Hawk (unless I draw it straight up robotech)... sigh)

I have the same issue with the Nova, or 'mechs that have an extending torso that isn't reasonably round. They end up looking too squished or misaligned with the pelvis. I got a strike of luck drawing the Adder that one time. The bushwacker wasn't too crazy as I saw the bottom of the torso was pretty straight so I drew a triangle with more triangles to get it going.

Edited by MadHornet, 26 September 2016 - 12:27 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

MadHornet, on 26 September 2016 - 12:25 PM, said:

I have the same issue with the Nova, or 'mechs that have an extending torso that isn't reasonably round. They end up looking too squished or misaligned with the pelvis. I got a strike of luck drawing the Adder that one time. The bushwacker wasn't too crazy as I saw the bottom of the torso was pretty straight so I drew a triangle with more triangles to get it going.

Yup. Other thing I can find a real pain are feet/mech toes.

[mad kat]

Bishop Steiner, on 26 September 2016 - 12:17 PM, said:

Yeah. I actually hate the angle my piece is at, and am not very happy with it, but I just could not get the thing to click at any other angle. Truth to tell, I have always found the Bushwacker very hard to draw, for some reason, the proportions, angles, etc, just are so easy to mess up.

Kudos to anyone who has attempted to draw the bushwacker. I found it hard enough rearranging and modifying various mech parts to make a model of it in blender and even then I found it harder still to find a camera angle which would work. Which I'm still not convinced on.

So to everyone (that is everyone) who has a well proportioned drawn bushwacker give yourself a pat on the back.

[Luscious Dan]

Yep, the Bushie is a very tricky one to capture, lots of complex parts and asymmetry. It totally weirded me out when I first noticed it only had 3 fingers. Lots of little nuances to the design. There's some excellent work in here (completely different styles and mediums as well), I don't envy the judges having to pick a top 3.

Edited by Luscious Dan, 26 September 2016 - 01:44 PM.

[Tina Benoit]

Thank you everyone for your particiation! Lots of beautiful art, it was very difficult for us to pick only 3!

The 3 final winners have been chosen! See results below!

jjm1, on 25 September 2016 - 07:27 AM, said:

Here's mine



Bonus fluff:

Spoiler

'The Rats of Torment'. A small but well equipped mercenary bandit company that will opportunistically rip-off anyone before blowing their spoils on booze and hookers. The company has a reputation of being exceedingly lucky, all of their many enemies are kept in check by a delicate lattice of blackmail, debts, playing off rivals against each other, and friends of powerful friends that may or may not exist.

Their two Bushwackers were won in a game of blackjack from a lesser pirate lord, who insisted they don't have a prior owner that will want them back. He seemed very happy to offload them though.

imdrunkontea, on 25 September 2016 - 10:14 PM, said:

Here's mine

Azmaat, on 26 September 2016 - 09:34 AM, said:

Greetings.


To bad i don't have enought time to texture it. But share this anyway.

[Glaive-]

Haha Bishop called it
Congrats to the winners!

[Bishop Steiner]

Tina Benoit, on 26 September 2016 - 02:31 PM, said:

Thank you everyone for your particiation! Lots of beautiful art, it was very difficult for us to pick only 3!

The 3 final winners have been chosen! See results below!

armyunit, on 26 September 2016 - 02:44 PM, said:

Haha Bishop called it
Congrats to the winners!

damn! I must be psychic!

(of course, TBH, I'm still holding out for the Assassin!!!! And there better be an art contest for it, or the Crusader, or whatever classic IS we get next! (after whatever Clan Mech that gets announced in the next week or so.... Nova Cat?)

[MadHornet]

Was really hoping to see a lego creation or Karl's modeling to take a spot. You know, something different.

[Glaive-]

Bishop Steiner, on 26 September 2016 - 03:25 PM, said:

(of course, TBH, I'm still holding out for the Assassin!!!! And there better be an art contest for it, or the Crusader, or whatever classic IS we get next! (after whatever Clan Mech that gets announced in the next week or so.... Nova Cat?)

Conjurer or bust
Wasp and Stinger or riot

[Mr Death]

Bishop Steiner

(of course, TBH, I'm still holding out for the Assassin!!!!

YES. Will buy.

Edited by Mr Death, 26 September 2016 - 03:51 PM.

[Project Dark Fox]

Congrats to the winners!

[TygerLily]

Congrats!

[imdrunkontea]

Wow, nice prediction by Bishop

Thank you for the placement! Congrats to the other artists, both the finalists and all the other submissions - there were some really cool pieces and ideas here!

Hope there will be a lot more contests in the future!

Edited by imdrunkontea, 26 September 2016 - 05:55 PM.

[Luscious Dan]

Congrats to the winners, I saw jjm1's submission earlier and I figured that was for 100% going to be in the top 3 Well done everybody!

[jjm1]

Thanks, and congrats to the other winners.

Bring on the next comp, that was fun

[corpse256]

Scout Derek, on 08 September 2016 - 02:02 PM, said:

I nominate the OP of this thread then should he ever return here:

http://mwomercs.com/...hwacker-in-mwo/

I like Alex's redone art works of the battlemechs better than any other creation of the battle tech games. He is a great addition to the team props to Russ and Paul for finding this guy. Keep up the amazing art work Alex!!

As for the contest I can't wait to see who wins, love seeing art work for this game. Any chances we will be getting artwork on the main page so I download some of it for wallpapers?

Good luck artists!!

*EDIT*: Just realized I was really late on post sorry guys. I just saw it in the topics. My bad. Congrats to the winners of the contest, some really cool art!! 2nd place was my favorite.

Edited by corpse256, 28 September 2016 - 11:09 AM.