The Newborn Contest Public Poll is up!

[yoitisi]

Hey everyone, our apologies for the delay with putting up the poll. Due to some technical issues and having to sift through well over 400 (!) images it took a little longer than planned. We'll make sure this will go smoother next time At long last though, the public polls are now up!

Since there's only a limited amount of space in making polls on the boards, we had to break it up in heats. There are a total of 8 heats, you can vote in each of them. Out of each heat we'll pick a few of the top entries with the most votes and put those into one final poll to determine the winner of the publics' choice. Note that every poll is multivote, so you can vote on as many entries as you want. Please do not vote for yourself as it won't count towards your end result.

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Check out all the heats here (please note, they are really image-heavy):

Newborn Public Poll - HEAT ONE

Newborn Public Poll - HEAT TWO

Newborn Public Poll - HEAT THREE

Newborn Public Poll - HEAT FOUR

Newborn Public Poll - HEAT FIVE

Newborn Public Poll - HEAT SIX

Newborn Public Poll - HEAT SEVEN

Newborn Public Poll - HEAT EIGHT

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Deadline for voting for the first round is: 9 October 2009

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We took the liberty of taking out a number of entries for various reasons. If you don't see your entry in here it can be because of the following reasons:

1. Quality: While we have not been very strict on this, considering everyone had well over a month to finish something for a high-profile contest like this we expect a certain level of quality and finish to your entry.

2. Relevance: Though the boundaries are rather fuzzy with such an open topic as 'Newborn', images that were either random portfolio pieces or old work with no connection to Newborn at all have been cut.

3. No e-mail: If you only submitted your final to the finals thread, and not by email, there may be a chance we missed you. We tried our best to make sure we caught these as well, but please remember to submit correctly next time!

If you have any real burning questions regarding this, send a PM to either Daestwen or Yoitisi.

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All the winners will be announced once the polls are over, both the judges choice and the publics choice. So, a little more patience everyone

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[Huey Yeng]

Thanks yoitisi for the polls. Can't wait to see the polls when I reach back home since office connection is pretty unstable.

[DHTenshi]

I didn't even participate but i was so waiting for seeing this! lol

Thanks yoitisi!

[artistcaleb]

Oh heavens! I clicked the vote now button on one of the pages and learned that it's a ONE TIME DEAL!! So make sure you pick everyone you want BEFORE clicking the vote button! Sorry to everyone I didn't get a chance to vote for and SO wanted to!

[oren90]

thank you for putting the poll up

[Φ]

how is one supposed to choose from all this freakin great art?…oh god, I wanted to limit my votes but I ended up voting for 10 or 12 or even more pplz anyway…big respect to all who have participated!

[Randis]

There is one pic double in heat 5. Its a blue underwater pic of a ship wrack or so.


man. very tough to choose!!!!!! i like so many

[FalyneVarger]

There are actually a few pictures that are double posted. Some of them have more votes than others. What will happen to these posts; will they be left as is, or will the one with the most votes be left alone while the other is deleted?

[Taneli]

Heat eight: cognitionsb's pic isn't showing in the poll.

[yoitisi]

Thanks for the heads up on the double posts and missing images. With such a crazy amount of images to process this was bound to happen, even though we tried our best to weed these mistakes out before putting them up. It should all be fixed now

Since editing already open polls is really fiddly, I took out one of each double image and transferred the votes that weren't doubled up to the remaining image. In case of cognition.sb's missing image, we'll keep an eye on it. It's going to miss a few votes for the end result no doubt, but since there'll be a final poll for the most popular images this shouldn't be a problem in the end.

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By the way, these polls wouldn't have happened at all without the help and work of Daestwen, so please give her a huge thanks too

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[KWhite]

Thx for the hard work! Gonna enjoy watching this ^_^

[Puck]

Thank you everybody involved for getting all of this happening!

I noticed a few double ups:

Killskerry in heat 3 and 8
and
Passionplays in heat 3 and 7

[yoitisi]

Puck: Thanks you, fixed

[Dizon]

I think I saw some repeats on HEAT 8. James Wolf's and Prostate's.

[Aly Fell]

Thank you for all the hard work Yoitisi and Daestwen!

Another double up: Jrr in heat 3 and 7.

[Quike Garcia]

Hi, thanks for putting up the polls and organizing all this

A few douple posts:

Feral714 on Heats 7 and 3
iverson3/justiverson3 on Heats 7 and 2
ProstateSunrise on Heats 7 and 3
Zimfin on Heats 6 and 3
FalyneVarger on Heats 7 and 2


Thanks again!!

[Jazz]

Wow...I only got to look at Heat 1 and...MAN!!! The entries there alone... My brain might actually explode with this eye candy! @_@

Now I'm wishing I had time to play too. Oh well, next time! Awesome entries!

[Mokinzi]

Gone through it all now, and wow, what a stunningly great amount of awesomeness!

[bungyx]

Hi , i'm a little disapointed with the contest because i don't see none of my drawings here in the polls. Does anyone is in the same situation (missing his drawings up in the polls)? Anyway, good luck to all ...

[yoitisi]

Thanks for the response so far, we'll try and go over the repeats somewhere this evening. Editing polls is somewhat scary once they've been opened

bungyx: As said in the original post up there, some images were cut from the poll.

We took the liberty of taking out a number of entries for various reasons. If you don't see your entry in here it can be because of the following reasons:

1. Quality: While we have not been very strict on this, considering everyone had well over a month to finish something for a high-profile contest like this we expect a certain level of quality and finish to your entry.

2. Relevance: Though the boundaries are rather fuzzy with such an open topic as 'Newborn', images that were either random portfolio pieces or old work with no connection to Newborn at all have been cut.

3. No e-mail: If you only submitted your final to the finals thread, and not by email, there may be a chance we missed you. We tried our best to make sure we caught these as well, but please remember to submit correctly next time!

This is nothing personal, see it as a indication that your work isn't up to par yet and needs more work and study. Due to the enormous amount of entries we did not include every single image in the poll.

[st.s]

Oh man, I feel like a kid watching a new toy commercial

[picnmix]

Wow, some beautiful work in there. Is nice to see the shots again after the little wait.

Good job all,
PicNMix

[magicgoo]

Amazing works, all!

I think I'll pass on actual voting, as the art is just so tiny, and I'm unable to see each one in all its glory

[yoitisi]

I think I'll pass on actual voting, as the art is just so tiny, and I'm unable to see each one in all its glory

You mean your bandwidth doesn't allow you to download the bigger images? The full versions should be at the bottom of the polls.

[arttorney]

Oh heavens! I clicked the vote now button on one of the pages and learned that it's a ONE TIME DEAL!! So make sure you pick everyone you want BEFORE clicking the vote button! Sorry to everyone I didn't get a chance to vote for and SO wanted to!

Yeah, it's mostly just in Chicago and Afghanistan that you get to vote over and over again.

[yoitisi]

Okay I fixed all the double images that were pointed out I think. Lets hope that were all of them, it's tedious work fixing this stuff

[hasunkhan]

good luck to everyone i guess they didnt like my art =/ or maybe i just cant seem to find it...

[yoitisi]

hasunkhan I'm pretty sure your image is in there actually, I just don't know in which heat. Please check them out again, and if you really can't find it send me a PM please.

[arttorney]

I've noticed that not all the images load at the same rate and so it is possible to scroll through what appears to be all the images on a page and then navigate away, only to find new images seem to be in the page when you come back. (just because they hadn't all fully loaded yet by the time you became impatient and left.) Be sure not to navigate away until you have seen that little "done" in the lower left.

[Spirit]

I've now casted all of my votes, good luck to everyone who entered! I'll be watching this!