Wintersday Workshop 2010

Tzu

Tzu

Site Contributor

Join Date: Mar 2008

UK/norway

Order Of The Etherbloom Crown [ZEN]




The official Guild Wars Wintersday contest has been announced! For more information about the rules, eligibility and prices, please head over to the official site.

The deadline for the Wintersday Workshop is 1.1.2011! A maximum of 2 entries per person is allowed - however, you can only win once.


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Q!: HOW DO I SIGN UP for the Workshop contest!

A: Fill out this form and post it in the Workshop:

Name: (Tzu)
Idea for entry: (grentchies making yellow snowballs)
genre of art: (illustration)

Then, get a Progress Gallery. This isn't obligatory, but it makes judging your entry a LOT easier.
Also, you won't be eligible for a couple of the awards, if you don't have one/haven't shared any progress in this thread.
A Progress Gallery can be hosted anywhere (DeviantArt, Photobucket, Wordpress, etc...). Once you have your Progress Gallery, wherever it's hosted, share a link here.

You've pretty much "signed up" the moment you start sharing progress in the Workshop thread, but if you do it the above mentioned way, it will be a lot easier for the panel of judges to find and evaluate your entries in the aftermath.



A maximum of 2 entries is allowed per participant, but only 1 Award can be claimed per participant.

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The prize pool and Awards rely solely on donations from the community.
Any and all donations are welcome, from Red Iris Flowers to Ecto. Please PM me or Minami here at Guru
if you're interested in donating something. Please consider donating towards an already existing Award
before coming up with one of your own. Chances are you will find one or more which you think are worthy of your donation.



Quote:

1st Place Best Progress - Tommy's
- 1 Wedding Costume code
- 100,000 gold
- 1 Keg of Hunter's Ale
- Undedicated Smite Crawler

2nd Place Best Progress - Gemini JuSa
- 1 Wedding Costume Code
- 50,000 gold
- 250 Eggnog
- 2 Black Dyes
- 2 White Dyes
- 10 Automaton Summoning Stones

3rd Place Best Progress - Nemesis-Of-The-Gods
- 1 Wedding Costume Code
- 25,000 gold
- 250 Eggnog
- 2 Black Dyes
- 2 White Dyes

(donator(s): Please see bottom of page)

The Best Progress Award is given to the artist(s) who have listened intently to critique, mastered the art of Personal Growth,
and made long leaps to better his/her piece regardless of whether he claimed a prize in the Official Wintersday Contest or not.

Quote:
Most Original Art - Satomz
- 1 Wedding Costume code
- Factions T-Shirt (if outside US/Canada, must be willing to pay for at least half of shipping charge)
- 20 ectos
- Oppressor Weapon of choice (by Tommy)
- 100 mysterious summoning stones

(donators: Please see bottom of page)

The Most Original Art Award is given to the artist(s) who have, in a positive way, stood out from the crowd, in choice of art form, subject, style and finish.
Quote: Wintersday Artist Extraordinaire - Eastern Magik
- 1 wedding costume code
- Festive Fungal Wallow plushie (if outside US/Canada, must be willing to pay for at least half of shipping charge)
- 20 ectos
- Oppressor Weapon of choice (by Tommy)
- 100 mysterious summoning stones

(donor(s): Please see bottom of page )

The Wintersday Artist Extraordinaire Award is given to the artist who meets with 3 criterias; was mentioned in the Winners section OR the Honourable Mention section of the Official Wintersday Contest, participated actively in this thread; both giving and receiving critique and generally being chatty, AND, finally, was a candidate for at least 1 of the other Awards (Harsh, eh? Well, believe me, there will be more than 1 candidate for this Award in the end).

Quote: Muse - Minami
- 1 wedding costume code
- 20 ectos
- 100 glacial stones
- 20 Phantom Keys
- 250 Eggnog
- 175 bottles of grog
- 100 mysterious summoning stones

(donors: Please see bottom of page)

The SmileyFace Award is given to a person who didn't necessarily enter the thread as an artist, moreover as a supporter of the thread and the goal. He/she is a person who kept the thread alive with kind chatter, maybe donated something to the prizes, gave useful critique, submitted tutorials and ideas unselfishly, and generally kept us motivated all the way.

Quote: Wintersday Spirit - Perynne
- Arghore: prize value around 80-100k.
( -One Royal Gift
- 5 Traveler Gifts
- 25 Huntsman Gifts
- 250 Wintersday Gifts
- Elite Tome of Choice
- 10 Blue Rock candy
- 100 Glacial Stones
- 100 Spiked Eggnog
- 100 Eggnog
- 25 Sparklers
- 25 Poppers
- 25 Bottle Rockets
- 75 Frosty Tonics)

- 1 wedding costume code
- 10 ectos
- Undedicated Ceratadon
- 100 mysterious summoning stones


(donator: special award by Arghore - market value 80-100k)

The Wintersday Spirit Award is given to the artist who manages to inspire the most Wintersday Spirit in the cold, dark hearts of the Judges.

Quote: The Grentch Steals Wintersday - Zidane
- 1 wedding costume code
- 30 ectos
- 250 Frosty tonics
- 100 glacial stones
- 50 mysterious summoning stones


(donator: Please see bottom of page)

The Grentch Steals Wintersday Award is given to the artist who's piece is connected to Wintersday, but bows in favour of Grenth, not Dwayna. Creepy, grentchy and "bah, humbug!" entries apply for this. Quote:
Literature - Thistle Xandra
- 1 wedding costume code
- 100,000 gold
- Keg of Aged Hunter's Ale
- Oppressor Weapon of choice (by Aeronwen)

- 50,000 gold
- 1 black dye and 1 white dye

- 25,000 gold

(donator(s): Please see bottom of page)

The Literature Award is given to the best written piece of Guild Wars Wintersday fiction. All genres are welcome. Quote: Extra Costume Code Winner (by random name selector): Sentient



The Honourable Judges

Judges are eligible for every award they're not judging themselves.

Tzu (Tzunedaine Fouil) [All Awards]

Brigitta [All Awards]

Thistle Xandra [All Awards, except Literature Category]



Artists and Their Progress!

I recommend that EVERY entrant sets up an archive of sorts.
Photobucket, DeviantArt, ImageShack, Wordpress...... a place for you to store all progress pictures
and put down notes/journals. This is for the sake of the Judges, both here in the Workshop AND for
Arenanet and the official contest. It makes it much easier for them to root out fraud and identify hard
work and restless effort if you can refer to an archive of progress. Please, all serious entrants, set up
something of the sorts a.s.a.p. You don't *have* to share it with the Workshop right away,
if you're feeling a little sensitive about your ideas. Of course, it makes you a stronger competitor,
if you can and will share ideas and progress all the way!


Quote: ♠ Perynne: Elementalist bringing snow to Elona's children Illustration [Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ Oh_Frustration: A Dervish as Santa Claus Traditional, pencil on paper [Progress Gallery]

♠ Minami: The First Time Wonder Costume / photo manipulation [Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ Tommy: A day out of the life of a Wintersday Elf Digital Painting/Illustration [Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ Verene: Grenth/Dwayna Stained Glass Window Digital Illustration/Photomanipulation [Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ Marshmallow: Something... with snow!... Digital Illustration [Progress Gallery]

♠ DraconicDak: Asura creating Santa Golem and sled Traditional/Digital Illustration
Gallery coming soon

♠ Satomz: Gwen & Thackeray Video Format (Music & Drawing)[Progress] [Entry] FINISHED

♠ Kayn: Dhuum sitting on Santa's lap Digital Illustration
Gallery coming soon

♠ Thistle Xandra: Continuation of Halloween story Literature with pictures [Progress Gallery]

♠ Najade: Polar Bear farming quest Not sure yet [Progress Gallery]

♠ Princess Blades: Not sure yet Digital [Progress Gallery]

♠ Nian: Don't know yet Illustration+short novel [Progress Gallery]

♠ Arghore: Don't know yet Don't know yet
Gallery coming soon

♠ Death By An Arrow: Lots and lots of Jingle Bears Not sure yet [Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ Novawhiz: Snowball Arena related Secret
Gallery coming soon

♠ Operative_14: Wintersday Poster (movie style) Digital Media [Progress Gallery]

♠ Frost Kisses: Secret Traditional [Progress Gallery][Entry] FINISHED

♠ Hawful: Guild Wars Snowman Sculpture
Gallery coming soon

♠ Kolpster: Wintersday Rubik's Cube Real Life
Gallery coming soon

♠ InfestedHydralisk: Vanguard Operations During Wintersday Music Video [Progress Gallery]

♠ GeminiJuSa #1: Necromancer watching her minions build a snowman Illustration, traditional+digital [Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ GeminiJuSa #2: You Win this year Dwayna! Digital illustration [Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ Chicken Of The Seas (Tuna): I Spy Wintersday Book Scrapbook, real life crafts [Progress Gallery]

♠ Free Hairnet: EotN heroes in Wintersday garb digital illustration [
Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ Nemesis-of-the-Gods: Grenth and Dwayna decorate Melandru in Wintersday ornaments Drawing with Pencil on Paper [
Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ Silveas: Norn, Asura, Humans, Oh my! Literature Gallery coming soon

♠ Shew: piano arrangement Music [
Video] FINISHED

♠ Arya Bladedancer: epic battle between Dwayna and Grenth Digital Illustration [
Progress Gallery]

♠ Midget Minionmaster: A Grenth Mystery Novel A Mystery book [
Progress Gallery]

♠ Flying Ninja Monk: Dwayna Claus digital art[
Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ Lil Thing: Cartoonized Dwayna and Grenth with Grentch and Snowmen servants Illustration Gallery coming soon

♠ Magik: Dwayna with polar bear digital painting [
Progress Gallery] FINISHED

♠ obastable: A very chilling Wintersday Fabric and/or fibre art Gallery coming soon

♠ Zidane888: Charr in the snow Illustration [
Progress Gallery 1][Progress Gallery 2] [Progress Gallery 3] FINISHED

♠ MoragD: Why fight? Digital Painting Gallery coming soon

♠ stouda01: Gwen's secret garden not sure yet [
Progress Gallery]

♠ Angel Killuminati: Three Wise Men Illustration/Mixed media [
Progress Gallery]

♠ Koreena: GW gifts we would like to have crafts [
Entry] FINISHED

♠ Sentient: Legendary Norn of the North Photoshop Illustration [
Progress] [Entry] FINISHED

♠ chrish16: PowerWM winter/guild wars saxophone piece [
Entry] FINISHED


Tzu's Little Helpers!


I always need a helping hand, and I'll gladly accept any and all offers I get!
Currently though, these positions need to be filled, a.s.a.p!


☆ Gingerbread Guardians - moderates the thread, ensuring that people never lose their motivation or inspiration,
and that the rest of Tzu's helpers (not to mention, if not especially, Tzu herself) do their job.

☺ Minami Kaori (Super Wintersday Workshop Chief Moderator Hero) ( ~Tzu was here)

☺ Perynne (Big time moderator helper) ~Minami was here

☺ Verene

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☆ Thawers of Frozen Ectoplasm - a.k.a donors, of items, services, gold and the likes!

☺ Perynne - 100,000 gold, 1 Keg of Aged Hunter's Ale

☺ Verene - 50,000 gold, 1 Keg of Aged Hunter's Ale, 250 Frosty Tonics, 175 Bottles of Grog, 10 Automaton Summoning Stones

☺ Darcy - 100,000 gold

☺ Aeronwen - 5 Black Dyes, 5 White Dyes, 449 Mysterious Summoning Stones, 200 Glacial Stones, 20 Phantom Keys, Oppressor Weapon of Winner's Choice

☺ Thistle Xandra - 100,000 gold, 3 stacks of eggnog

☺ Guild Wars Guru - 10 Wedding Costume Pack Codes

☺ Kiya Koreena - Factions t-shirt (XL) and one of a kind Festive Fungal Wallow. Note: If winner is outside of the USA/Canada they must be willing to pay half of the shipping charge. Also 100 ecto, an undedicated Ceratadon, and an undedicated Smite Crawler.

☺ Tommy's - 2 Oppressor Weapons of choice

☺ Arghore - One Royal Gift
- 5 Traveler Gifts
- 25 Huntsman Gifts
- 250 Wintersday Gifts
- Elite Tome of Choise
- 10 Blue Rock candy
- 100 Glacial Stones
- 100 Spiked Eggnog
- 100 Eggnog
- 25 Sparklers
- 25 Poppers
- 25 Bottle Rockets
- 75 Frosty Tonics

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☆ Pious Snowmen - co-organizers of every event, positions include Judges and Party Organizers for now.

☺ Arghore

☺ Tommy










Because of the holidays the Workshop Party will probably be held either 1-2 weeks before Christmas, or 1-2 weeks after.
It will be 1 day only, but last all day so that everyone has a chance to show up. The party is open to every participant of the Workshop, regardless of how and how much they've contributed.

Most of the Awards will be handed out during the Workshop Party.

DETAILS TBA

Want to help organize the party? PM me!


!!! PARTY DETAILS !!!

Wintersday Workshop Party:

Date: Saturday 22 jan 2011
Time: 12:01pm GMT - 00:01am GMT (sunday)
Location: Ice Tooth Cave (Prophecies, North/West Shiver Peaks) - International District 1

Officials:
Tzu
Minami
Perynne
Arghore
Tommy

Dj's During the party:
Ptm
Gallo
Serine
Judge

SEE YOU THERE, EVERYONE! ^_^




Thread Under Development, Watch This Space!
note: I won't be online before sometime next week, so don't expect any immediate updates.

Oh_Frustration

Oh_Frustration

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2009

Finland, [Outi] HQ

Outin Omat [Outi]

Rt/

Name: Oh_Frustration
Idea for entry: A dervish as Santa Claus, etc.
Genre of art: Traditional. Coloured pencils on paper.
Progress Gallery: At the moment nonexistent, link coming up later.

Whee, was I the first?

...

/Edit: Perynne! Darn!

Minami

Minami

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jul 2008

Dallas, TX. USA

Not in any guild at the moment

N/

Name: Minami
Idea for entry: Don't know yet
Genre of art: Don't know yet
Progress Gallery: Sometime soon

O_o Seems like the only thing I do know is my name xD

EDIT: Oh yeah, like I talked to you Tzu about helping out here, I sent a PM to a mod about it. So ye, Gingerbread Guardian. ^_^

Verene

Verene

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2009

[SOTA]

D/

Ooooooh oooh ooh.

I actually have two ideas but I don't think one will be possible for me to do right now (too time-consuming).

Name: Verene
Idea for entry: Grenth/Dwayna propaganda posters
Genre of art: Digital illustration/photomanipulation
Progress gallery: not yet!

The other idea I had was a sort of plushie diorama of the finale, but I highly doubt I'll have the time for that, sadly.

And consider me a Gingerbread Guardian, as I am going to keep up with the thread this time, damnit!

(I'm also trying to poke my boyfriend into joining us, since he joined GWG )

DraconicDak

DraconicDak

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Nov 2010

San Antonio, TX

[SOTA]

D/E

Name: DraconicDak
Idea for entry: Asura creating Santa golem and sled
Genre of art: Traditional/digital illustration
Progress gallery: Not just yet.

Verene's aforementioned boyfriend. First time trying something like this!

Verene

Verene

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2009

[SOTA]

D/

Quote:
Originally Posted by DraconicDak View Post
Name: DraconicDak
Idea for entry: Asura creating Santa golem and sled
Genre of art: Traditional/digital illustration
Progress gallery: Not just yet.

Verene's aforementioned boyfriend. First time trying something like this! Yay yay yay yay yay! <3

Tommy's

Tommy's

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2006

[Bone]

Mo/

Ohai well welcome! We have high expectations of you Dak, a.k.a. aforementioned boyfriend of Verene

Perynne

Perynne

Site Contributor

Join Date: Oct 2006

Finland

Runners of the Rose [RR]

R/

Welcome Dak! It's always nice to see new artists joining Nolani. Keeps us old farts on our toes too.

` Marshmallow

` Marshmallow

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2009

Canadaa!

Last Friday Night [TGIF]

E/

Welcome Dak * O*!!

Yayaya -rolls around-

Minami

Minami

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jul 2008

Dallas, TX. USA

Not in any guild at the moment

N/

*waves* heyas ^_^

satomz

satomz

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2007

Green and Pink

R/Mo

*hops over from IncGamers* Hi Guru artists, I'd like to join in as well.

Name: satomz
Idea for entry: Gwen & Thackeray
Genre of art: Video format (thinking of music and drawing)
Progress: Gallery

Minami

Minami

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jul 2008

Dallas, TX. USA

Not in any guild at the moment

N/

Well, let's start! *rolls up sleeves*

First off, does anyone know how to correct motion blur in photos?

I still don't have any ideas for my entry, just trying to brainstorm... >_>

` Marshmallow

` Marshmallow

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2009

Canadaa!

Last Friday Night [TGIF]

E/

-gets the rubber gloves- >:CCC

Sorry Minami, I have no idea ,_,"

Kayn

Kayn

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

Winnipeg

[SNOW]

P/W

Name: Kayn
Idea for entry: Dhuum sitting on Santa's Lap
genre of art: Digital Ilustration
Progress: TBA

GeminiJuSa

GeminiJuSa

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2009

BhLd

E/Mo

Yaaay! Another wintersday workshop!

Unlucky Slayer

Unlucky Slayer

RAGE INCARNATE

Join Date: Apr 2006

Sitting at The Guild Hall 2, being happy.

Nerd Clan [NK]

R/

Thread stickied as usual. I'll keep an eye open when I can. Wish I had some artistic talent, though. The workshops always look like fun.

Thistle Xandra

Thistle Xandra

Site Contributor

Join Date: Aug 2010

YAY! I've been so looking forward to this this thread and seeing all the WiPs again

Name: Thistle Xandra
Idea for entry: continuation of halloween story (I never did hear back from Regina about literature being accepted into the contest, so I'm also going to draw pictures in the story and then submit one of those probably)
genre of art: literature with pictures

This is what I had posted a while back on my blog after the Halloween contest was over:
"As for Bix, well, if everything goes well and my muse is still interested, she’ll be the focus of my Wintersday story. Everyone knows that Bix is very, very studious, but they don’t know much about where she comes from. On Wintersday, Bix gets a visit from her very gorgeous and popular older sister, who happens to be very, very passive-aggressive when it comes to Bix. You know, the kind of person who smiles warmly with daggers in their eyes as they compliment you with, “You look so fascinating in that dress! Not everyone would be so brave going out in public is such an old outfit.” Luckily for Bix, she has the twins and Ki on her side in the annual Wintersday snowball fight when it’s Team Grenth led by Bix versus Team Dwayna led by her sister. This story will be much shorter and not as in-depth as “The Making of Heroes.”"

There's nothing on it right now and probably won't be until mid-December once the quarter starts winding down, but this will be the link for the final story: http://thistlexandra.wordpress.com/g...-contest-2010/

with any WiPs under the category "GW Guru Wintersday Contest."


YAY! I'm so excited for this

Charlie Dayman

Charlie Dayman

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2009

Trifecta Luminati [TRI]

W/

Definitely gonna' have to pass on this year's workshop as well - way too many school projects. I'll be checking in on this thread as much as possible though.

Princess Blades

Princess Blades

Kind Of A Big Deal

Join Date: Sep 2006

New Hampshire

Morituri Nolumus Mori [Mori]

E/A

Name: Princess Blades
Idea for entry: Not too sure yet, something cute and cuddly
genre of art: digital


I will update with more details once I settle on an idea.

Progress gallery to follow

himynamesian

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2010

I'd like to make a donation as I dont play so often and hopefully someone would find some use with these req8 swords. Drop me a PM and we could meet up

` Marshmallow

` Marshmallow

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2009

Canadaa!

Last Friday Night [TGIF]

E/

Yay some new faces (to me D:!!) : D!!

and Nuu Charlie .. ,_,"" Zoom through them~!!

and awe, this thread doesn't have the little lightbulb picture beside the title -sad-

InfestedHydralisk

InfestedHydralisk

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

The Netherlands

None

R/

I would like to make a video, is that possible too?

Verene

Verene

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2009

[SOTA]

D/

Awww, sadness, Charliepai. At least hang out and be dorky with the rest of us

Invertation

Invertation

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Shiverpeaks Search And Rescue [Lost]

W/

Will not fail to donate this time.
Maybe
Perhaps
I hope?

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

The Archivists' Sanctum [Lore]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Unlucky Slayer View Post
Thread stickied as usual. I'll keep an eye open when I can. Wish I had some artistic talent, though. The workshops always look like fun. Get some talent. I intend to re-improve my art skills by next Halloween. This spring/summer sound like perfect times. Maybe I'll take an art class next Fall.


Currently unsure if I'll participate for this workshop with literature. Rather busy this month, that's for sure (Damn October and November, damn them good). No clue for a story idea either...

BTW, why is Literature always separate? Not complaining, but rather curious. Couldn't the works be equally placing for the other categories, with one less category the other prizes would be higher? Unless that's just a way to ensure writers get something since there's so many artists...

Would donate, but I'm already saving up for MantleCon, and we got a huge prize goal this year. ^^

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

The Archivists' Sanctum [Lore]

N/

I lack having the time. I got so many side projects, and school stuff, that I'm suffering by not prying myself from TK stuff and the occasional quick glance through the Gurus and GuildMag forums and the two wikis. At the very earliest, I'll be having the time to do quick sketches at the end of this semester (early-mid December).

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

I can donate 100k again. Always glad to encourage artists.

@Konig - learn to doodle

Nian

Nian

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

Finland

R/

Sweet! I've always liked Wintersday theme~

I shall sign up just in case I have time to do something. I really hope I found some time for this...

Name: Nian
Idea for entry: No clue...
Genre of art: Digital Illustration & short novel possibly
Progress gallery: will update later, want to do a blog.

InfestedHydralisk

InfestedHydralisk

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

The Netherlands

None

R/

Anyone able to answer my question? :P