C.O.W. - #096: Time Bender - Voting!

[Fozzybar]

ROUND #096 VOTING

Topic: Time Bender

Deadline for the voting: Tuesday, 04th September 2007

Posting thread (closed):
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104472


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OK - before voting/posting read this!!!

1. Please give c&c or a reason why you voted for the image!

2. Feel free to comment on any or all entries, the artists will appreciate it!

3. No voting for your own entry!!! If a participants votes for his own entry, every member has the right to call him a stupid lame moron in this thread! And i will delete his/her vote anyway...

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artist: slansai
concept:
When severeal meteors hit the shell of the 'mountort' it might happen that they get blown off its small planet. Theese humungus guys roams the universe, bending time and space with its bizzare mass. Some people call em black holes.
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9900/timebenderuc2.jpg

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artist: Cloister
concept: Ombolom
Between NOW and THEN there are mountains. Yes, vast impenetrable ranges of rock. And within those mountains lies the labyrinth of time, forever untouched by the clocks of men. Inside its winding tunnels lives a breed long forgotten, known in the old days as the Ombolom. Monkeys, or devils, no one knows, but those creatures hold in their kingdom the secret of time. At will, they bend the hours to their liking, exiting the tunnels WHEN-ever they please. Roaming worlds no longer here, as well as the present – from today to the forlorn past, it said that they search for treasure. Whether gold or knowledge, who can tell, but some has tried to reach their lair – for legends say that all is there.
http://www.cloister.se/bilder/Timebender.jpg

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artist: gatling
concept: Warp Eel
These harmless creatures mind their own, simply "eating" time in space shaving tens to hundreds of years of travel time. Starcraft, voyagers, and personal cruisers often trail the eel in hopes of finding shorter routes or new and exciting destinations. However, the frequencies emitted from them can lead to an override of unprotected systems and make navigational hardware defunct. Stay out of their way, an exit hole can be seen in an almost tangible rip which whirls into view at random.
http://spinflux.com/walkthrough/images/cow096_timebender.jpg

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artist: paradoxba
concept:
This frog like creature has the best survival tactic,slowing and playing with time.Whenever in danger the creature will use the sensors on his back to transfer it self back in recent time while leaving the predator with a strange deja vu.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m98/paradoxba/COW96_time_bender-2.jpg

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artist: WhtTigress
concept: Temporal Sloth
The Temporal Sloth is a creature with uncanny abilities. This creature has no head nor mouth. It does not appear to see things the same way we do. It appears to have the ability to bend time in order to obtain food. It positions itself in a place where a likely prey has passed, and is able to bend time to the point where its prey is contained within its stomach. It is in this way that the sloth eats. It is unknown how many of these creatures exist as they can appear anywhen. Even two creatures seen at the same time may in fact be the same creature. Little else is known about these creatures as they are not easily studied.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r70/whttigress/COW/96-Time-Bender.jpg

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artist: element412
concept:
This unknown type of whale as been around our ocean for as long as the water itself. well, almost. While it may look like is other whale cousins, it has evoluate with a distinctive ability. Using his unusually-big wings, it's able to generate water-wave frequencies that seems to bend the continuum of time. Probably developed to escape quickly from marine-carnivores attacks during the prehistoric age, it is now quite rare to see it in action. It is said that from time to time while lurking around the surface, a boat will scare one of them and it will disappear in a blink, leaving behind only a big whirlpool in the water.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/claude.beaulieu3/COW_096_jeff.jpg

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artist: DaveClarke
concept:
He poses huge amount of energy.He is made from stars and star dust, and although he shine like a star, in some myths on different planets people call him "traveling dark", because his hart is a black hole.
His food is space it self. He eats everything that he came across. By vacuuming in his food he create huge time bending.
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc179/sqezavela/Cow96_TimeBender.jpg

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artist: Tom Garden
concept:
This leviathan of a creature is a time bender by default. It is the only creature in our existence that time does not effect. It could in-fact be the very first creature to grace our universe. As time does not effect the creature, it has to bend time around its massive body. And by doing so, that stirs time itself as we know it. This creature species is responsible for keeping the constant of time that we live in. But of course - bending time is not as simple as that. From the repercussions of bending time, it creates smaller sprites which are small offshoots of bent time. You know when it feels like time slows down during crisis, or speeds up when having fun? Well you have these little things to thank! They are drawn to activity, and if they interfere then we feel the effects of their time distortion. The mother time bender is able to seek out people in need of slowed "bent" time as seen in the picture. It is also believed that if these creatures were to die out - time would slow to a standstill keeping everything in one moment forever, without ever realising it!
http://tomgarden.co.uk/Webpics/cow96.jpg

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artist: melvynerville
concept: Kronodo
The Kronodo feeds on zygnut pods so rich in iron that it eventually causes a calcified iron deposit that blocks the creature's mouth and nostrils. In an attempt to clear the blockage the Kronodo zaps it with a charge from special electricity producing organs. This charge (7 billion mega jules) causes the iron to magnetize creating a superconductor able to make a magnetic field of 10◊¨∏∏ thus creating a weaker gravitational field. This field bends time by slowing it to a standstill in a one M diameter around the creature. In this state the Kronodo does not need to eat drink or even breath and is frozen for eternity.
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s7/melvynerville/Concept%20Art/cow96melvynerville2.jpg

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artist: mediaslave
concept: Time dragon
Named so because its only defence is to age those that attack it. It breathes waves of temporal distortion, aging anything it hits. Similar to fire, but won't ruin your furniture! The creature controls the strength of the blast, and one second of exposure can mean aging a month, a century, or a millenium. hard to chop up a dragon if your bones have dissolved to dust.
http://www.dropmachine.com/plugins/p17_image_gallery/images/45.jpg

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artist: matias
concept:
This little guy who consists mainly on a diet of insects, uses his fused appendages, somewhat like a skipping rope, to create a stasis-like bubble. This mechanism has evolved as a way for the Time Bender to hibernate through the unfoirgiving winters of its habitat. Research reveals that it is not actually traveling through time merely creating the stasis-bubble in which time stops but outside it continues. This means that throughout winter the buble doesn't actually move (there has yet to be a predator that has been able to take advantage of this as the stasis-bubble while it can be seen is not actually there more like a ghost image). The time passes for the Time Bender as if it were a blink of the eye, and interestingly, further studies show that it does not actually age within this period. Because it can manipulate time but not actually technically travel through it this little creature was dubbed a Time Bender.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/matias.jakku/Linking%20Files/Matias_COW_96.jpg

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artist: ry4n
concept:
This fish is the cause of disappearances within the Bermuda Triangle. it swallows whole ships sending each person backwards or forwards many life times. Some people travel to try and find this fish to start a better life... if they can survive its massive teeth.
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y278/doctora/timebender.jpg

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artist: scorge
concept: Chronotaxus
When the planet of Treah was formed, a being of almost supernatural but somewhat understandable powers was brought into being in the universe.
Chronotaxus has the innate ability to bend time, but the difference between the males and females of the species and their abilities can be summed up in a few simple words. Wherever she goes, she takes the future with her. Literally. In the future, this young planet will become a veritable paradise. A cornucopia of life, where no harm or wrongdoing can invade. As for the Male, he is constantly living in the past. Literally, again. What we are seeing here is but a glimpse of a particular moment when the celestial body is young and violent, the males being subjected to what makes a planet. At one point in the life of Treah, the descendants of these two will find a balance, where the world is perfect for the both of them. But if we were to peek trillions of years into the future, we would see that the roles wil be reversed. Because as the planet begins to die from the burning out of the sun, the females of this doomed species would be caught in what would inevitably be their undoing, while the males will be happily (until the planet explodes of course) living in the past.
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k153/scorge40/time-bend.jpg

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artist: JoeSolo
concept:
The time benders Float between time and space bending it together and then letting it drift back properly. They float through the time stream, eternal watchers perhaps, created by some god? No one is sure, their species was thought to be legend, but the Egyptians, people in the medieval period, and even people today have recorded accounts of these creatures letting loose a beam which they slip through. Oddly enough these recordings were always on the same day at the same time, even though the eras were many many years apart.....
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d138/vances22/Time_Bender_Final_Cow.jpg

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artist: Simonstalenhag
concept: Cryfish
This spectre feeds on sudden death. A car accident, a gas explosion, a collapsing ceiling, whatever sudden and unexpected. To acquire the dark energy that is released in an event like this, the cryfish needs to slow down the motion of time, almost to a complete halt. Only in this frozen moment, it can extract the dark energy needed to survive and create offspring.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b127/simonstalenhag/cow96_simonstalenhag.jpg

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artist: abo
concept:
These creatures are intelligent by nature. All possessing a kernel of telekinetic ability to slow and speed their metabolism. Some are chosen at childhood to give up the pleasures of their world and lead a life of ascetic devotion. In Accordance with their ancient tradition, they starting with a grain of sand balanced on their heads, they slowly grow in power, eventually learning, with the shared power or others, to bend and shift time and space itself.
http://www.markbehm.com/images/ca/timeBender_cow96_abo.jpg

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artist: Zutaiola
concept:
The idea is of a creature belonging to the oldest species of the universe, in fact, it could have being originated before the creation of our universe.
The origins and nature of such a creature would be difficult to understand for our tridimensional brains.We are talking of a being at least 13.700 millions years old, with a comprehention over time, space, and other dimentions that we can not even imagine.
His power is the hability to travel instantly, anywhere, in time and space, as something like pure energy and/or spirit.It can interact with
others beings, if he chooses to.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1259/1240475605_424a2cfffa_o.jpg

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artist: Thalion
concept: Tharis Temporis
This 30 centimetres creature is unique appearance in the world of animals. It can control the speed of its molecules, what gives him an effect of time bending. Because of that creature moves extremely fast when all around seems to be motionless. Tharis Temporis hunts insects, but from time to time eat sweets. Animal is not natural part of the Earth's ecosystem. Probably creatures came from another universe during the top secret experiment with the magnetic field. Because of its "time" abilities animal is usually invisible for us. People often think that ghosts open doors or drawers, but this is only Tharis Temporis searching for sweets.
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z139/thalion_art/tharis_temporis_finished.jpg

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artist: gunnarsson
concept:
Damn it was cold. I hadn't had any feeling in my fingers for hours. The rocks were wet and slippery. I slipped and fell, climped a bit, slipped and fell. This continued for it seemed ever until I finally reached the top of the cliff. I saw the Psychotr for a mear hundredth of a second and I was gone. I fell through space and time, I was everything and I was nothing, I lived forever withtin a second. Everyone I had ever met, all those times I fell as a child and scraped my knees, that time I hit that llittle kid at my street and ran away from home for 6 hours, I lived through my life again, every second of it there on the cold wet rock. One look into the eyes of the Psychotr and time and space was history.
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u256/pettergunnarsson/gunnarssoncow96.jpg

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artist: Supervlieg
concept: Three Eyed Booshick
Latin name: Nefas Rana
The Three Eyed Booshick is an enigma to modern biologists. On many occasions these men of science have tried to unravel the Booshick heritage as well as its biologic make-up. Up till now many brave men have tried and failed to retrieve a specimen of the Booshick.
Only one rare research rapport has been found in New Mexico, USA. These very unique studies of the Booshick have revealed its ability to bend the fabric of time itself. These rapports also state that the Booshick has an incredible bad physique. To compensate for this however, the Booshick will bend time in order to succesfully hunt prey. This unique ability is also the reason why the Booshick has no natural enemies and is so succesfull at eluding its stalkers. The time bending mechanism utilised by the Booshick is believed to be a sort of gravity accelerating bubble on its back. When the Booshick is actively bending time, this 'time bubble' will grow and particles will accelerate around a glowing core, slowing time on a very local scale. Since most of the theories of the 'time bubble' consist mostly of silly variations on general relativity theories, any hope of new insights into spacetime has been abondoned in those reports.
Conspiratists believe the Booshick are a sign that we are indeed ruled by aliens and that the Booshick are their escaped pets.
http://www.bolman.nl/cgtalk/supervlieg_cow096.jpg

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artist: rubberman
concept: Time Larva
This creature has big body. And legs are very shot.
therefore Walking is slow.
But..It makes use of time bend. So..It can move very quick.
http://scribbler.linuxtest.net/cow/larva.jpg

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artist: Nisse-Bula
concept:
On it's homeplanet the Time bender would only live for about 50 years, but by traveling through space their life span can be extended by up to three times.
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9789/copyoftimebendergd3.jpg

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[Fozzybar]

not accepted entries:

All WIPs/sketches/not finished yet/placeholder/yaddayaddayadda images...AND (if not mentioned further) all entries which didn't pass the quality check

Morham
Sorry, but you should have concentrated on the creature, not the typo or background...the creature has just too little details and looks not very well executed :(

Prophet
No concept, no poll :)

Lander, darkartist3
You attached an image, but it was stated clearly that this is not allowed...you may send me the link for your image on a webspace, so i can add it afterwards ;)

walnut
looked quite unfinished...but the creature was cropped to half of the body...which was more convincing for the rejection ;)

Mj0lnir
It's a shame that the concept actually didn't fit the subject. Your creature doesn't bend time it only creates an earthquake, and people may "think" time is bend since they were not able to move because of the earthquake. But the creature itself dosn't bend time at all. Sorry. :(

Sawa, Hopsy
Can't see a proper creature there :[



close to rejection:

element412
hmmmm....a whale is a whale is a whale...next time try to make an own design ;)

Zutaiola
Actually you didn't write anything about time bending...but well, i assume that the creature can do so, since it is really involved in that stuff :D

gunnarsson
It breaks my heart to add you each time to this section...the problem is that your creatures have actually no real shape or design, but i liked the idea and description behind that, so you slipped through ;)



special note:

Nisse-Bula
I have no clue if your creature can bend time only by travelling through time, but after reading all the time bending stuff my mind is raped and bended itself, so i don't care actually :D

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melvynerville
your image is just showing as a link...i gues the "%" in the URL is causing trouble, can you fix taht and send me the new link please?




Voted for Thalion:
You're one of the silent heroes in COW in my eyes. I followed your progress and always loved your entries....your creatures are beautiful and they might work in reality without doubt...i love your thoughts and you were always one of my favs, showing with your entries what i alwas wanted for COW. Perfectly suited to my thoughts regarding presentation, design and concept.

And now it's the time to get your reward, hopefully not only from me but from the majority...

Awesome work mate!

[Fozzybar]

new round is online:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=105091

[paradoxba]

Voted for matias,great concept,like the idea with the sphere.

[sinyorpicante]

this is amazing, absolutely incredible. its was so difficult to diside but even if i can only vote for one i am awstruck by them all.

Zutaiola
i loved the almost mewtoo like concept you have used.(pokemon pride, lol)

abo
awsome awsome awsome awsome awsome awsome

JoeSolo
this looks like nothing i have ever seen, so cool

mediaslave
its amazing the amount of detail you have put into this, the white scale outlines on the blue, very awsome!!

well done evreyone, and keep drawing...:yayca:

[Michael Jaecks]

I voted for SV. Though the science behind the gravity accelerating bubble is a little dubious, so are lightsabers, so what the hell. It's certainly one of the weirdest entries, I like the painterly direction your work has been taking of late, and there is something interesting in the concept that with its akward anatomy, minus the time bending aspect, it would never eat. For me, that's incorporating the theme into the design, and that's solid.

There are way too many nice looking entries this round. Solid each in their own rights, but still tons of variation and individual personality in the stylistic choices. Very cool.

[walnut]

I liked the concept for mathias's creature the best, with the hibernation thing and all, and it was such a cute thing and all, so my vote goes out to him this round. Wasn't easy though, there was a lot of eyecandy in this round.

But i do have to point out that there is a whole creature in my entry. It's the pink glowy bit inside the vortex. Just wanted to get that straight.I'm okay though with not being witheld on account of it being unfinished, it could use more polish. (i don't mean the nationality of course.)

[d37hb01]

voted for simonstalenhag

reason: the concept is awesome and the art is just as fitting...for me was a toss-up between simon and mediaslave...though mediaslaves has some uber design the whole dragon thing is just too classic for me...simon's time-bending koi of death get my vote...

[meth]

Voted for Thalion(too bad i could'n give one more vote for Matias),
Nice story, render.

Tom Garden and Mediaslave, powerfull, but Tom your's to abstract and mediaslave your's of topic IMO.

Gunnarsson was excellent too, very simple and nice atmosphere.

M

[ikuru]

voted sv, with thalion next to it (we should have 3 votes each). sv, just had a more fun composition with really fun colors etc.

[Supervlieg]

Voted Tom G. I liked the mysterious design and atmosphere in the piece.

[Georgeous]

I voted for Mediaslaves time dragon since I like the idea.
Thalion would have gotten my second vote if I had one :)

[Tom Garden]

I voted for matias! lovely rendering and i can visualise the creature doing its little bubble movement and then floating peacfully about! :)

BRILLIANT round everyone - some great pictures and some even better ideas - props to whtigress because i personally thought this was the most imaginative idea for a creature to be bending time - just a shame the render didnt quite live up to the idea. But ideas are what count the most!

[Simonstalenhag]

I voted for gunnarsson. First of all, there is tons of talent in the Gunnarsson boy. Second, there's so much mood in the piece and it reminds me of Tove Jansson. And third, I disagree with Fozzy, I think Gunnarssons creature is of brilliant design. It's just very simple and it wouldn't show up in any major game or big budget hollywood film. And so wouldn't Mårran. The best creature there ever was.

Extra plus for the graphic design and swedish writing;).


Btw, Tom Garden: I live in Stockholm. Basejumped the turning torso yet?

[Lander]

Bummer, I can't read instructions.
I voted for Simonstalenhag since I liked it the most. I dig the contrast.

[Zutaiola]

Fozzy: yeah you´re right, I forgot a couple lines in translation. You know, I need practising my english. Next time I´ll be more careful.:rolleyes:
SinyorP Thx for your comment. The truth is that I´m not a pokemon fan:$ but I have just realised that it may look like one of them, lol.


Voted for abo, great creature idea/description & desing, love color and composition. Amazing.:bow:

[Sangmort]

My vote went to Supervlieg. :)

[Tom Garden]

nope havent basejumped the turning torso just yet! :)

[atomatik]

hmmm, mine got missed :(

[Johanna Saarenpää]

Voting for Simonstalenhag this round.

Bonuspoäng till gunnarsson för intressant svensk beskrivning. ;)

[Morham]

I'm not sure if my vote went through cos I got "Could not connect to server" when I hit the vote button, but I voted for gunnarsson cos I like the concept and the picture is awesome, with the story it has a ton of character. It was a tough choice though :)

On a side note, I got kinda stuck with my creature after the original post, but I totally saw what people were saying...I'm gonna go away and practice and I might make a return at some point :D

[Fozzybar]

Will be a close race between many favs i guess...

[darkartist3]

sorry for the mistake fozzybar =D

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b103/DarkArtist3/attachment.jpg

[ManaBurn]

I voted T.G. I still love the monolithic creature existing outside of time. Really liked the use of scale and color.

[MarkBehm]

Voted matias. I liked the whole tiny bug evolving time travel. And I can totally see the jump rope appendage action animated.

My cc - I would be careful of the perspective of the eyes in the big pic. The far eye is bigger than the near.

[scorge]

Matias, you got it man. I must have gone over the field three or four times, but your's is the one that always surprised me every time. And the story's not bad either. Great job.
Honorable Mention:
SV: Sick as always.
Simonstalenhag: Beautiful image. Makes me think differently about my daughter's goldfish.
Abo: This image makes me think of when I was a kid and admiring all the majesty and creations of Jim Henson. A little fuzzy, but all the same, very decent piece of work.
Thalion: You remind me of myself, but better. Keep up the good work!
Side Note and Crit:
NisseBula: Great to see you back! Your outlines seem to be getting thicker, but your imagination more fluid. I miss that smooth skin.
Final:
Thanks for the votes guys! You know who you are. As long as I can get one, I'll keep playing the game. Good round to everyone!
On to the balls keeper or whatever the hell it is!:teeth: :yayca: Should've just called it"The Wife!"

[Paweu]

So many pictures and only one to vote for...
But of all the great ones Abo's work just mesmerised me! The creatures are magical. Love the lighting and composition. And this blurry feel goes well with the mist in the background.
Great stuff!

[matias]

Sweet round guys, I voted for Thalion as well, I really like the head, agree with Fozzy, it just works!

Honorable mention, I really enjoyed Gunnerson's creature as well, really cool to see such a simple creature offset with a complex, convincing half-view, i liked it but again, Thalion's looked more like a real animal.
Cheers guys good work!
Matias

[longshao]

Voted for T. Garden.
Other favorites are Cloister, Simonstalenhag, gunnarsson, and supervlieg.

[Aly Fell]

I voted for Gunnarsson. I don't normally spend much time round these here parts, but I love the image and agree totally with Simonstalenhag: it reminds me of Tove Jansson as well which is just about the best thing possible in my book!

[Fozzybar]

sorry for the mistake fozzybar =D

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b103/DarkArtist3/attachment.jpg

sorry man, i think it's too late, wouldn't make sense to add it...so many members already voted....well next time ;)

[darkartist3]

sorry man, i think it's too late, wouldn't make sense to add it...so many members already voted....well next time ;)

lol you're right it wouldn't make sense. next time, definitely =P

[Djib]

I vote for you, Simonstalenhag !
I'm very found of your dark time-bender fishes, their slow motion effect, and their sinister need to capture the energy made by such terrible accident... Creepy !!

[Elbereth]

I vote for Thalion, it's the best concept imo.

I also like works of scorge and Cloister.

[Thalion]

Fozzy- Wow. That's really BIG compliment for me. I am glad that you like my creatures :) It is also huge responsibility for me and I hope that I will never disappoint you. Thanks Fozz! :D

Thanks everyone for voting for me :D

Oh... and my vote goes to matias- sweet creature, I like it a lot! :)

[BranDoom]

It was between mediaslave and matias, in the end I thought matias was the more original. So the time bug gets my vote.

[mediaslave]

Hey all

Very good round indeed! Lots of good entires for sure. I voted Simonstalenhag myself, because I really liked his idea and execution. Well done.

I am not sure if this is against the rules, but can anyone lay down some advice and critiques to help in later rounds? I am very new to this concept stuff, so any help is appreciated.

Thanks much, and congrats everyone.

[DavoX]

Tom garden!

[MephistoLV]

There were a lot of really interesting takes on the topic. The artwork was not as well done as many of the other entries, but I had to vote for the piece by WhtTigress because the concept just made me think in a very profound way on the nature of life, predation, and assumptions about reality.