Team CHOW III: NEBULA

[jozulus]

hello mates! you are on track!

the deadline is midnight on 31st of january!

5 days to finish

[kingkostas]

Lol 5 days only?these days are very hard. Anyway thnx very much for informing mate
Ricardo maybe we must rush them as much as we can and see if we make it.I think it got us on a bad period, but anyway its all for fun and learning more things

see ya mates g2g

[B-Man]

Stressful days guys! I really hope youll make it! I wanna se your stuff in the polls!

[Ricardo Robles]

Thanks Jozulus & B-man!!
So we have to run a bit... anyways i hope we have time to present

[kingkostas]

Thnx bman

Ok lets see.I worked more on this.I think it looks like finished, now i have to find some time to work on the 3 of swords

[Morgado]

Nice one King! Just make the walking stick more irregular and have the lamp produce some light, and that one is set to go!

Will post my finals tomorrow or sat

[Ricardo Robles]

More advance in the lovers card. Maybe we can continue showing our process, till the final day.
Kingkostas, cool work, very nice rendering and lighting. I´d work a bit more in the background, or maybe do the figure bigger. But I understand you have a stressful days studying, so keep important things first
see all ya

[KromNz]

Looking great!
lovely work Kingcostas, I would also suggest to add the light coming from the lamp.

Ricardo @ Adding Cupid is a great idea! there is no better simbol hehe. looking forward to the final rendering.

Ok, tight deadline =O! I'll hurry up with my cards!

[Ricardo Robles]

here´s one of my finals, i´ll take care of the border later. finally i removed the heart, was too recharged of "love" i will retouch some zones if i have time.

[kingkostas]

Thnx mates.If i find the time i will try to edit the additional things.
Ricardo the cupid is damn great while the whole style of the image with its unique mechanics mix toghether very nice.

I did this really fast cause i dont think i will have that much spare time to work on a certain piece till the deadline.So i can say its kind of final .The 3 of swords on a different way hehehe.The two "pistols" other than indicators of weapons have a little blade that means sword, and in addition to the character swordlike (i dont remember the word) we have 3

see ya

[Artofinca]

Love the steampunk mood!
post more!

[Morgado]

My final Four of Pentagons, Ill post the Magician tomorrow afternoon.

Regarding the final delivery. I'd ask you guys to send me the high res versions to my e-mail, so I can assemble them for the final topic.

[KromNz]

My Empress card
and what I've got so far with the Princess of cups.

[Ricardo Robles]

KromNz, this empress look superb.
waiting to see teh other final version.
my two of wands, still in progress.

I supose we have no time to study a common border... it´s a pity, it would be good imo.

[Ricardo Robles]

My finals. let me know if you have time to make a common frame okay?
see you guys

[kingkostas]

i sent my high res to morgado as he asked.But without any frame.
I thought he will have one already and simply put them there.
But if its not i could use your template to put them on this and upload the high res ones here?(or maybe i will not be able cause of the size)

[Ricardo Robles]

I sended him mines too. anways, 1) he has some template to put it, or 2) he can put them mine if all you agree.. i think it´s super simple, sure there´s another better to put but you can post your low res ones here, just to "complete" the thread

[kingkostas]

oki

[Morgado]

My final magician. Just waiting on Kromnz e-mail so I can post in the final delivery topic

[Ricardo Robles]

I sended the border to Morgado, so he can add more interest to it, and put it in the finals. He will post the topic later, so keep sure of sending him the files.
YOU DID A GREAT WORK MATES!!! HAPPY TO WORK WITH YOU GUYS!!!!

[kingkostas]

me to mates .Even if it got us on bad period .

[KromNz]

Ok this is my final for the princess of cups.

Thanks Kingcostas, Morgado and Ricardo! A pleasure working with you guys!
Very good luck to us all!

[kingkostas]

a sexy one

[KromNz]

hehe thank you!

[Morgado]

Good job folks... sloppy but good

I already posted our finals.


P.S. For some of you, please next time check the brief for the image sizes and aspect ratio... I had to do some slight hacks to get the images to fit inside the frames and sometimes risize them 200%

[KromNz]

...dude, you had no reason to cropped the pictures, instead you could have just ask , I believe thats why you had to upscale later. Upscaling does more harm than good Sir.
I hope this can be fixed, I believe I sent mine with a frame... if you had send me the common frame to my mail I'd be most willing to replace the one I was using. No need to crop my pics.

If this can't be fixed... just take off both my high res and write "OPT OUT OF PRINT" for mine and leave my low res.

[Ricardo Robles]

It was my error sending my images in wrong size, sorry everyone.
another thing is the images have been croped. If it´s a way to fix it, i would ask Morgado to put it like "OPT OUT OF PRINT" too.

[Morgado]

First of all, I would've "fixed" this would I have had the chance yesterday, however I had to attend to some personal issues after posting our work, and wasn't able to come back online until now. My apologies on that.

The images are not cropped. They are taking the full size of the card, you can see the whole image, given the slight transparency of the frame. I can admit however, that perhaps it could've been executed better. Perhaps next time, better time management could be the answer to these issues...

instead you could have just ask

You sent me the files in the middle of the night (my local time), I could only take a look at them the following morning, already off-schedule for delivery.
I was supposed to send you an e-mail, wait for you to get up from your sleep, and etc, and only then prepare things and post?
When I finally had all files to work with, I had the following options:

1) Contact everyone that didn't send things in perfectly working conditions, wait for their replies, and very possibly miss the deadline.

2) Work with what I had, already rushing things and try to post before the contest hosters polled the results.

I obviously chose nº2, and I won't regret it. Personaly, I think its better to deliver things 95% on time, rather than have things 100% missing deadlines.

Upscaling does more harm than good Sir.

I am perfectly aware of that.
I am also aware that the rules were clear regarding the sizes of the images. As such I chose to follow the most professional option I had given the circumstances, which was to present things 100% by the rules, Sir.
I had to sacrifice things, namely having some pixelation in some images in order to achieve that.
I am sure however, that once printed, the loss of quality won't be noticed. Previous similar experiences I had with printing tell me that.

I hope this can be fixed, I believe I sent mine with a frame... if you had send me the common frame to my mail I'd be most willing to replace the one I was using. No need to crop my pics.

I only received the frame file in the morning I posted the work. Again, I don't think contacting you and await several hours for a reply was an option at the time.


Since I wasn't around to do things the way you asked in time, I already edited the post in the poll topic, stating that your cards are OPT OUT OF PRINT.