The second AVS tournament

Here is my dream. I know I could have done better with this. Oh, and sorry for the long title, that's just how it ended up. Uses Jheriko's multifilter ape, don't know if mine is the most updated, but I included mine.

my preset, yeah, done

Yeah, this makes 9 entries, more of them please! 😁

There are still 2 days left so get moving 😉

Btw, Ishan the Topic is'nt too bad, because it gives you enough creative freedom to do anything you like. It's just a bit harder to come up with an idea.

I can come up with presets better when i'm given a more specific topic myself but that's just me.

It's a good topic in the way that you are very free to do whatever you want with it, though it's a bit vague in my opinion.

It's just as Raz said. If you've a clear descritpion of what is expected, you can start up work nearly immediatly - but the results would the more look alike, the more the description is close to the point.

So all you gotta do is come up with a good idea that you like.

Is it really this hard? You can dream about everything imaginable.

Examples: (Drugs, Sex, Flying, Nightmares, ...)

It's not the point to make everything look dreamy (what is dreamy anyway? sometimes its sharp, sometimes blurred) but to give the viewer the intention that this is a dream. (Comments may help here)

Hey, even a cube DM with a photo of your gf on the sides would do, coz you dream of her every night. 😁

So again: get your ass moving, be creative! There are still 2 days left.

Originally posted by Magic.X
...Hey, even a cube DM with a photo of your gf on the sides would do, coz you dream of her every night. 😁 ...

lol @ that 🙂

[honest]i promise better topic next time [/honest]

Now stop excusing plz, it was'nt THAT Bad (imho). 🙂

geez, thanx 🙂 so other enteries?..........

well, it seems like alot of people won't make it to the next round...
that is, unless we get a lot of stuff really fast.

hey, with all these people not submitting, I think my chances of going to round 2 are pretty good.

good, indeed. 🙂

everyone goes to round 2 😉, we're counting total score of a given number of rounds this time. I think we can count on some late-minute presets, some people tend to do it a lot. At least... I hope so 🙂

No, people are cut from it no matter how many people enter, the less people, the less time the tournament takes.

We are setting the length of the tournament at a fixed number of rounds(5, I believe). People can skip out on rounds, join in after the first round, or quit before the end. The winner is whoever has the highest cumulative total at the end of all of the rounds.

There's a reason assumptions has an ass in it isn't there. 😉

Sounds like a damn good system. 👍

yep, it's gonna work.

I often dream about falling.
thanks to those at FF who helped me out with nitpicky details.

Originally posted by Raz
Sounds like a damn good system. 👍

Thanx 😁

Nice work sidd... that guy really does look like he's plummeting to his doom... could have used some lower camera angles (side view for instance)... and him always falling down and never up from the perspective of the camera.. but hey.. thats just nitpicking. :P

The colours are great too... personally I'd say this is the best submission so far. 🙂

I'd like to remix this for my next pack if you have no objections.

Soooey. Time should be over now, if i'm right.

We got 10 submissions so far, time for the judges now.

wrong... everyone has 12 hours left.

Cheers J. XD

I did get rid of some of the rotation, ie, anything below the guy. But i wanted to leave it reasonably dynamic. Its hard to tell if i achieved the right effect when im the one making it.

Sure, remix to your hearts desire.

That is so cool Siddhartha! Especially the way his limbs drift back as the guy is falling, kinda like the tentacles effect (with a delay from the center, they lag behind) But that's UnConeD talking😉

Today's the deadline, which means new topic soon! Although I didn't think this topic was that bad, I still don't see what is so bad about it....

📻

i liked the topic

tick tock tick tock

less than 2 hours left

edit: do we get the new topic at midnight? I sure as hell hope so so I can crack on with it. 🙂

No, we gotta judge first(well, we did last tournament, anyways). I'll talk to ishan though, and see if we can get it out any earlier. Probably won't get it out at 12, but it's almost possible.

okay, this obviously isn't clear, since me and j got in an argument over it (fortunately jaak stepped in and started being a total ass, which fixed everything) - are people getting dropped this round or not? i say they should, i know i'm not participating in it if it isn't going to be a knockout tournament like it was supposed to be...personally i think if you missed the first round, tough cookies. but that's just me...

We decided by a general vote that this wasn't going to be a knockout tournament. People didn't seem to like the knockout tournament - if the first topic wasn't a good topic for them and they made a crap preset, then they could be dropped even if they would have been capable of beating the pants off people in the next rounds. This way, people who may not like the certain theme(you, for instance) still are in good contention, because other people probably won't like the next one. Letting people in after the first round is fine too, because they will have the disadvantage of having not gotten any points for the first round. The winner(s) of the tournament are not going to be selected on average score, but their cumulative score. People who miss out on this round will be behind by a maximum of 30points(if Doggy_Dog is judging as well). That's a severe hinderance to them, but if they do really really well in the next rounds then they could catch up. This method is also better to use in a tournament of this size. In the last tournament, despite its smaller size, we had to hold off on the next round to wait for people on vacation. In this competition it allows for people to leave without us having to wait for them - they get penalized some(although we will still try to get them into the round if it isn't a big difficulty - we did wait for you), but it could become insane if we didn't. Also, with 2 weeks for each round, they would have to be on a LONG trip to not be able to submit anything.

If you don't want to continue in the tournament, then don't. It doesn't make sense to me, but do whatever you want to do. We would like to keep you in it, but we can't change any major rules that we set up before unless everyone agrees.

I'm in the mood for AVS, but I'm waiting for the next round to start, so I have nothing to do but sit here and wait for the next topic. I could work on my pack, I suppose, but I can't work anything out with my presets right now, just having one of those days, you know? 🙁

yah... i know the feeling.

Go watch a movie instead.
😁