Wintersday Workshop

Tzu

Tzu

Site Contributor

Join Date: Mar 2008

UK/norway

Order Of The Etherbloom Crown [ZEN]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jasmine Mc Coy View Post
Welcome back tzu Show us the photos, will ya? well, there wasn't much environment to take pictures of, considering it was a desert and an ocean, pretty much, and I'm not uploading pictures of my pale butt in a bikini (before I'm 50 and become nostalgic), but here's one of me practicing kite-surfing (completely SFW, I'm covered up in "heavy" gear). Is kinda difficult taking pictures of I imagine, things go pretty quickly and most of the stuff happens 500 metres off shore.

Yasmine

Yasmine

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2007

The Lost Souls Of Jugdement [KJCD]

Hehe, must have been fun - I'd have probably been too scared to even try it though :D

Verene

Verene

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2009

[SOTA]

D/

Tzuuuuuu you're back! <3

I get sunburned even with heavy-duty sunblock and staying out of the sun, it sucks.

Minami

Minami

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jul 2008

Dallas, TX. USA

Not in any guild at the moment

N/

Welcome back Tzu ^_^

Same with the sunburn thing as Verene... >_<

Shewmake

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Alabama

Mo/D

Gahhh, Tzu, your inbox is full, so I guess I'll post it here:

I've decided to withdraw from the workshop because I'm paranoid about the possibility of someone stealing my work. I think the workshop is an awesome idea, it's just that I'm concerned about plagiarism. I thought about adding beeping noises to the music occasionally, but there's probably a way to remove the beeps. (I don't really think someone would go to any measures to do that, but then again, I'm paranoid, so...) I'll still take part in the thread (because it's awesome!), but just as a bystander, and I'll definitely post my video when it's finished.

Tzu

Tzu

Site Contributor

Join Date: Mar 2008

UK/norway

Order Of The Etherbloom Crown [ZEN]

oh, sorry about that, it fills up so quickly >.<'

I understand your concern, and it's entirely up to you. Of course, I always thought it was rathermore secure to post progress and ideas here, both to claim them as your own and to have others be witness to who the work belongs to in case it gets stolen. I can't keep you from doing what you want though, of course, and I'll be happy to see your finished work all the same! ^^

Shewmake

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Alabama

Mo/D

Hmm...that's a good point. I think I'm being unrealistic too, so here's my progress: http://picosong.com/wYk/

Anyone think I should leave out the last little bit (from the GW2 trailer)? I was thinking about taking that out & adding the GW:EN theme, but I don't want it to be too long, so idk.

Tzu

Tzu

Site Contributor

Join Date: Mar 2008

UK/norway

Order Of The Etherbloom Crown [ZEN]

hmm, I don't know, it's really original of you to add the GW2 bit so I think you should keep it. I must admit I didn't reckognize it at first though, but that's probably just me.
I think it needs a little more "wintersday feeling" (xmas feeling). Part of what was so great about your last entry was how it so beautifully unfolded a winter wonderland in all our minds, but this one is a bit lacking in that department so far, in my opinion. Listen to some xmas carols (the real classics) and see if you can somehow mix a few of those in somewhere, I think it would make for a unique and exiting twist.

Shewmake

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Alabama

Mo/D

I really wish I could do Tasca's Theme again now that I learned how to bow the piano, but since I did that one last year, I probably wouldn't be allowed to repeat it (even though it'd be spread across a few instruments). I'll look around for some carols, and see what I can do. Thanks for the feedback.

EDIT: When you said you didn't recognize it, were you talking about the GW2 trailer music, or the second song as a whole?

Tzu

Tzu

Site Contributor

Join Date: Mar 2008

UK/norway

Order Of The Etherbloom Crown [ZEN]

oh, just the last bit! ^.^ And yeah, your entry last year was really something!
*is listening to it right now* >.>

Shewmake

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Alabama

Mo/D

Thanks! I'm actually thinking about removing the second song anyways (the piano strings just don't have the same effect that actual string instruments have in that song); I may do a Wintersday variant of some Factions music instead (I'm in a Factions mood). Thanks for sending me the links, btw; I may use a little bit of Silent Night (I don't know where to put it atm, but I love that song, so I'll probably use some of it). I think would make a really effective ending (that's the last song we sing at my church during the Christmas service), so I'll see how I can make it feel like Guild Wars music as well.

EDIT: Alright, I've figured out what I'm arranging. The arrangement will be called "Kainengtah" (the last month of the Canthan calendar), and it'll consist of bits of the following "Droknar's Forge," "Ascension Song," "Guild Wars Factions Theme," the Guild Wars 2 trailer, and probably "Silent Night" @ the end.

Operative 14

Operative 14

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Arizona, USA

[OOP] Order of the Phoenix I

A belated welcome back to you Tzu.

@Shew, I really like that rendition. It has a nice Christmassy (would that be Wintersdayey?) feeling to it simply because of the piano. But that might just be me since my mom plays the piano most around Christmas.

Here's a largish update on mine. I finally gave me Ele a head! I still need to decorate the tree and get on with the task of drawing my other characters... in which is quite daunting. >_< I'm also going to add some grass and snow drifts sticking up out of the ground so it doesn't look like a sheet of marble.

Yasmine

Yasmine

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2007

The Lost Souls Of Jugdement [KJCD]

@Operative: Nice, it looks cosy
Could I ask how you did the snow part?
EDIT: @Shewmake: where can we find the last years entry? EDIT2: nm, found it

Tommy's

Tommy's

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2006

[Bone]

Mo/

Looks nice operative! Just.. is that ele eating snow? :P

Verene

Verene

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2009

[SOTA]

D/

I'm guessing it's a mug of hot chocolate or something...

Though yeah, looks more like he's going "om nom nom snowball" :P

Shewmake

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Alabama

Mo/D

That looks great, Operative! I really like how you can see a little bit of the sky through the trees.

Operative 14

Operative 14

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Arizona, USA

[OOP] Order of the Phoenix I

I'll do a little work on that cocoa mug then. :P

Which snow part Jasmine?

Yasmine

Yasmine

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2007

The Lost Souls Of Jugdement [KJCD]

The part on the ground and the falling one.

Operative 14

Operative 14

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Arizona, USA

[OOP] Order of the Phoenix I

The falling snow is just a 10% monochromatic Gaussian noise, brightness turned down, contrast up, then expand the size of the layer until it looked right. Sort of similar to the first part of the procedure here. The snow on the ground was just a Filter > Render > Clouds with a light and dark grey, then I just distorted it so that the foreground was much wider than the background. That's in Photoshop Elements, don't know what it would be in other programs or versions.

Yasmine

Yasmine

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2007

The Lost Souls Of Jugdement [KJCD]

tyvm, operative i'll give it a try (toying with a picture myself, but still in an early stage)

Shy Guy

Shy Guy

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2009

...

W/

Idk what this is but



http://filesmelt.com/downloader/11-1...---_Messy2.png

Some project I'm working on that just doesn't compare to any of the others.

Critique would be appreciated though ^-^

Edit: I know the font is crappy. it needs to be changed

Yasmine

Yasmine

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2007

The Lost Souls Of Jugdement [KJCD]

It looks weird to me, but in a pleasant way.
I wouldn't cut their legs so harshly though

Operative 14

Operative 14

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Arizona, USA

[OOP] Order of the Phoenix I

It looks like a store front window

Shy Guy

Shy Guy

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2009

...

W/

@Jasmine: K, I'll try and fix that if i can :3
@Operative: Is that good or bad? :P

I just might scratch this and start over, seeing I'm not really satisfied with this at all.

Operative 14

Operative 14

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Arizona, USA

[OOP] Order of the Phoenix I

@Shy - I don't know. One of the iconic Christmas images I have in my head and that I've always wanted to make was a store front window with kind of a Norman Rockwell feeling to it. Sort of like that scene from the very beginning of "A Christmas Story." I think your work looks like a Guild Wars take on that. I personally kind of like it, but it really depends on what you're going for.

Shy Guy

Shy Guy

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2009

...

W/

@Operative - K, thanks for the input ^^

But to be honest, I just want to get an honorable mention like everyone else, so I'd like your personal opinion: Do you think this is honorable mention quality? Cuz if not, Imma just start over with a new one :3

Edit: Also any critiques?

GeminiJuSa

GeminiJuSa

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2009

BhLd

E/Mo

@Operative 14: I have one tip for your pic. I live close to a forest like that and there are two things that happens when the trees are that dense; there's less snow falling under them, and those pines have roots, if you made some detailing there it would probably do kinda much in realism.

GeminiJuSa

GeminiJuSa

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2009

BhLd

E/Mo

@Operative 14: how good that I ninja:ed in them for you then I bet you will make them awesome!

bebe

bebe

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

http://tinyurl.com/4g5ueb8

Put the peanut in the peanut hole!

A little late to the party.. but great stuff so far guys! Definitely gonna keep my eye on this thread! Hehe..

KiyaKoreena

KiyaKoreena

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Kirins of Holy Light

N/

Just got my tree put up. Yay!


Gold Zaishen coin, Lunar Token, and Victory Token ornaments.

Shewmake

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Alabama

Mo/D

The contest page is up! http://www.guildwars.com/events/cont...intersday2009/

Top Winners (3 awarded):

One The Art of Guild Wars 2 Book, signed by members of the Guild Wars 2 development team

One randomly selected, signed Guild Wars Penny Arcade Expo 2008 art print

One in-game digital item: an Everlasting Reindeer Tonic

Winners (7):

One randomly selected and signed Guild Wars Penny Arcade Expo 2008 art print

One in-game digital item: an Everlasting Reindeer Tonic

Honorable Mentions (10 awarded)

One in-game digital item: an Everlasting Reindeer Tonic

bebe

bebe

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

http://tinyurl.com/4g5ueb8

Put the peanut in the peanut hole!

Haha.. cute reindeer.

Eragon Zarroc

Eragon Zarroc

Atra estern?? ono thelduin

Join Date: Jan 2008

Madness Incarnate

[Duo]

W/P

LMAO! it's Rudolph!

Verene

Verene

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2009

[SOTA]

D/

Yay!

Now if I could only make up my mind on an entry...XD

Chicken of the Seas

Chicken of the Seas

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

California, USA

Vulpes Velox [Fox]

Me/

Omg...this tonic is way better then the mini pet or w/e from the Halloween contest this year. It's kinda inspiring me to make something now although my chances of actually winning would be pretty slim compared to other artists. =P

BlueXIV

BlueXIV

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

CA

N/

I... kinda lost my motivation.

Morag D

Morag D

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2007

UK/Austria

[bone]

P/

I just wants the artbook
but Reindeer is nice. Altho I don't really play anymore... :/