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lol I never said it wasn't hard. This whole tourny has been hard for me, especially since I'm new to most of this AND to add onto that, I'm having to learn things through a tourny for crying out loud. lol

Off topic here... I found out today about the strangest, yet funniest thing I have heard ina long while. It all started about a month or two back when my dad tried ording a clock from a poker site. Through the course of the next 1 and a half months, we had the worst luck trying to get the clock because the they kept messing up the order. Finally, after all of that, they shipped it. Home free, right? Next thing we know, dad looks at the tracking information for the clock that was being shipped and I just laughed at what it said... Seriously, what's the chances of looking at the tracking informations and seeing that your item was on a TRAIN (weird enough) that just happened to DERAIL itself! Yep. A "Train Derailment" will be resonsible for delaying the delivery of the clock EVER MORE! I mean, aren't the chances of winning the lottery better than the chances of seeing your tracking information display the words "Train Derailment"? Anyways, there's my weird thing of the day... And I emphisize the bad luck portion, too. lol
 
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Muckster:
Effect:9/10 Original concept, nice timing, what's not to like?
Color Usage:6.5/10 As thunder can also be related to a cloud, you could've added in Shiny Altaria and gone with some white bordering. Not losing points for the lack of Altaria, just a suggestion. Yellow was abit busy as BR said.
Effort:8.5/10 I can see you put some time and thought into it. All anyone can really ask.
Originality:7/10 The TC itself wasn't very original, but the substance made up for it rather well.
Relation to the Challenge:9.5/10 It matches. All that needs to be said
Overall: 8.5/10
Total:49/60

INFERNAPE:
Effect: 6/10 It was alright. I liked the background, but feel it could've used a little more.
Color Useage: 8.5/10: you made it easy to look at, completery to a certain array of colors and well put toghther. Nice work!
Effort: 6.5/10 BR said it all. Concept is awsome and original, effort is lacking.
Originallity: 7.5/10: You stuck with a theme, but a new creative twist on the TC itself would've helped you here.
Relation to the Challenge: 6.5/10 I love pushing the limit's of words *like you did with theme) but the card itself is far from custom and your only real addtions was an alternat color scheme.
Overall: 6.5/10 A rather meh entry. The concept was there, the using of it wasn't great. A custom TC would've saved you here.
Total: 41.5/60

MoneyKing:
Effect: 9/10 Loved it, the seashell bagdes really caught my eye and the squirtle's transparency was beautiful.
Color Useage: 9/10 You managed to not overwell the eye and keep to a central themed color scheme. Brilliant.
Effort: 9.5/10 I couldn't have done this if you gave me a year XD. I think any more would've made it too busy.
Originallity: 8/10 Extremely original, BR has some reason's which I'll respect, but it was pretty dang good XD
Relation to the Challenge: 10/10 It fit eperfectly with the challenge, no real flaws or eye catchers that dimminish it, custom TC and sprite holders, way to go!
Overall: 9/10 it didn't just work. it worked overtime XD. I would've loved to see a TC that wasn't square, but I don't hold it against anbody with a custom TC. Best entry IMO. Keep up the good work.
Total: 54.5

Zzzdark:
Effect: 8/10 I liked it. It was sort of a distraction, but it fit well with the card.
Color Useage: 4.5/10 Sorry, but I almost drown in a see of Orange.
Effort: 7.5/10 TC's aren't one of your better skills, that's apparent, but TC's are going under anyway (Trainer Pass >>> TC) :)
Originallity: 6/10 The effect was original....but it was like every other box card :/
Relation to the Challenge: 6.5/10 Fire.....and more Fire....
Overall: 6/10 Not really my taste, the effect had nothing to really affect. Orange isn't my color though :/
Total: 38.5

Wes1234:
Effect: 9/10 a great contrast between the cooled lava and new snow look. The custom color of each mon's place holder was sweet! Almost missed that.
Color Usage: 8/10 Two contradicting colors contrast wonderfully. I don't see why the shiny Vaporeon was used over Espeon, them both being the same color scale of brightness and depth, but that's just me. You lost no points for that. My only little pet-peeve is the female symbol on the ice background. Since there was no real pattern, I feel that the red on ble and reverse would look more fiiting. Again, you lost no points, just my 2 cents XD.
Effort: 9/10 There's an overall simplicity that gives it it's complexity. Psychedelic.
Originallity: 9/10 I liked, especially the custom background.
Relation to Challenge: 8/10 The color was awsome and your a fan of eevee's, but I don't see anything that really ties them toghther. Still a great TC.
Overall: 9/10 You are a great cyber asrtist and I look forward to seeing more from you.
Total: 52/60

Bellomence:
Effect: 8/10 Lovely. The pink flowers where rather random though. The grass on the bar is anice little detail XD
Color Useage: 6/10 My favorite color, but too much of a good thing is bad. You could;ve sponged off Venasaur's teal for a secondary color that would've complemented and worked well.
Effort: 8/10 It was apparent. Not breath takingly obvious, but apparent
Originallity: 7.5/10 It was decently original, but lacked a real firm point of idea.
Relation to the Challenge: 9.5/10 Grass theme, Grass background, not overwellming. Not half bad mate XD
Overall: 7.5/10 Pokeball, Go...away from the otherwise pretty good TC. Needed color really. Nice work though, keep it up!
Total: 46.5

pika2:
Effect: 9.5/10 Wow....just wow.
Color Useage: 8/10 It worked, but kinda lacked, like a B graded paper.
Effort: 7.5/10 It was there, but could've been developped more.
Originality: 8/10 From my point of view pretty good. But with that kind of effect, you'd think something other then a square would be considered. Concept Rocked!
Relation to Challenge: 7/10 The sheer cold..I mean size of it made it an average banner and grotesque TC. Loved it though :p
Overall: 7.5/10 The blinding lack of caps on the only text in the whole card is really annoying. I'm a caps freak, what can I say XD But the card itself had a firm background and effort. Keep it up, go my Immortal brother :F
Total: 47.5/60

TSC:
Effect: 6/10 Not my style, the little sprites give too much extra room and the constant repeat of Manetric is uneded, and could use some real awsome element of your-own-ness.
Color Useage: 7/10 The red murder's it, the sivlery boxes matching cloud linning is awsome, but the red... yeck
Effort: 7.5/10 I can see some effort, but a little too much copy and pasting maybe?
Originality: 8/10 Abit boxy but still pretty decently, acceptable on the creative meter.
Relation to the Challenge: 7.5/10 Again, we run into the size issuse, but you made a smaller draft to fit that, but it's illegable, so meh.
Overall: 7/10 Really could've used some more TLC. Remeber, to win: All you need i love, love. Love is all you need:cool:
Total: 43/60 (-10)

S_T's Scoreboard:
1st: Moneyking: 54.5
2nd: Wes1234: 52
3rd MUCKSTER 49
4th: pika2 47.5
5th: Bellomence 46.5
6th: TSC 43 (-10)
7th: INFERNAPE 41.5
8th: Zzzdark 38.5
 
RE: Project Custom-The Elite Fan Creations Tournament BY INVITATION ONLY!

Moneyking63 said:
NOOO SOO CLOSE! I saw I had 53 (which I am actually kinda supriesed about that) and Wes got 53.5!!But Oh well, I really liked his.

Well I had an idea to do a spin off of my current fan fic but I guess some new stuff couldn't hurt! Can't wait for more scores! Thanks B Ray!

Remember the scores are just guidelines.....the top 4 are in the voting to win....remember all the judges get a vote. Im gonna start bugging them for scores....

MUCKSTER-I think you had a good one....dont think of your self so bad.

Wes-lolz.

Sargent_Tankian-Thank you.....you might be one of the regulars if its this good :]

-Black Rayquaza
 
RE: Project Custom-The Elite Fan Creations Tournament BY INVITATION ONLY!

Wow thanks alot S_T! Thanks a ton, glad you liked it!

EDIT: Thanks B ray, you are right after all!
 
RE: Project Custom-The Elite Fan Creations Tournament BY INVITATION ONLY!

Moneyking63 said:
Wow thanks alot S_T! Thanks a ton, glad you liked it!

EDIT: Thanks B ray, you are right after all!

Yep. Thats why the system is set up that way....everyone has a fair chance, and we really have to look at how the contestant worked with the challenge given.

-Black Rayquaza
 
RE: Project Custom-The Elite Fan Creations Tournament BY INVITATION ONLY!

Just noticed, Serjent_Tankian Im not on ur leader board... lol
Also I got the exact same score for both mine, just thought that was funny
 
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I think that overall, Moneyking has me beat for this challange. He put a lot of origionality and effort into it. Mine was origional, too, but not as great as Moneyking's, IMO. That may be just me, though. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that I'm darn proud of my first TC! xD

I personally liked Bellomence's TC, too. It had its own sense of origionality with the positioning of the pokemon. It may not have scored as high as a few others, but I think Bellomence should be proud of it.

Zzzdarks was another one I liked mainly because of the effect. I saw it as a heat wave kind of thing, which matched his theme.

Infernape's idea was pretty cool even though it wasn't an element. I would've never though of that kind of theme and background.

I liked MUCKSTER's TC's animation pretty well, too.

I really loved Pika2's idea despite not being a TC. Since I love the ice element, I may try it myself someday when I'm bored or am urging to do something graphic design related. Nice stuff. xD



Just thought I'd say something nice about everyone's works. I really did like them all.

Anyways, back to Poke-radar chaining/resetting for me. Trying to obtain more shiny Eevees to add onto my 70+ shiny Eevees that I currently have in my boxes. Yes, I'm obsessed in case you couldn't tell. Especially obsessed with getting competitive ones. xDDD
 
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MUCKSTER:
Effect: 9/10 Lightning is very cool, but it seems way to fast to be natural.
Color Usage: 7/10 Well... yellow=lightning, but nothing very special.
Effort: 7/10 I can tell you put some though into the effect, but other than that it just doesn't look like it took much.
Originality: 6/10 Becuase the rest is just generic.
Relation to the Challenge:8/10 The element is strognly shown.
Overall: 9/10 Works very nicley overall... just slow it down a bit.
Total: 46/60

INFERNAPE:
Effect: 5/10 Theres a decent BG, but nothing else of note...
Color Usage: 7/10 Stuck with the porygon theme well, but the brightness doesn't go well with the BG.
Effort: 4/10 It's hardly more than a regular TC.
Originality: 3/10 All you did to the regular blank was add a BG and 2 very minor changes.
Relation to the Challenge: 7/10 You've got an element.
Overall: 5/10 There's just nothing that really leaps out at me as custom here... but it's a decent TC.
Total: 31/60

MK63:
Effect: 10/10 Flawless job with the water effect and teardrop boxes. And, although I can't let it influence scoring, you have my squirtle cutout in there! :D
Color Usage: 9/10 Everything fits well, but the white on one side kinda throws me off.
Effort: 9/10 Just about everything's created by you, that counts for something.
Originality: 10/10 Everything's custom, so why not?
Relation to the Challenge: 9/10 Water theme is obvious.
Overall: 9/10 I like everything, but I don't think I would've used the platforms.
Total: 56/60

Zzzdark:
Effect: 9/10 Heat waves are just awesome, fit very well with the fire theme. The BG's not the greatest though.
Color Usage: 7/10 Nothing special, but the colors do work together.
Effort: 6/10 Just a regular TC with a pretty standard effect applied...
Originality: 4/10 The blank isn't really custom at all, exept the heat.
Relation to the Challenge: 8/10 The elemts nice and obvious.
Overall: 8/10 The heat wave works out very nicely, but it's just not custom enough.
Total: 42/60

Wes1234:
Effect: 10/10 I would give 11/10 because that BG is ****ing sweet, I want it! lol
Color Usage: 9/10 Great except the trianer, he's meh.
Effort: 10/10 I fully understand how long that BG would've taken.
Originality: 9/10 But only because you kept the regular bars.
Relation to the Challenge: 9/10 Yeah, there's no specific element, but eevelutions are multi-element anyway.
Overall: 10/10 Comes across as an awesome TC.
Total: 57/60

Bellomence:
Effect: 9/10 It's cool, but a bit busy.
Color Usage: 8/10 Lots of green, maybe too much?
Effort: 8/10 Yeah, quite a bit compared to some.
Originality: 9/10 Everything' pretty custom...
Relation to the Challenge: 7/10 You didn't do a whole lot with the element.
Overall: 8/10 A bit busy, but nice.
Total: 49/60

pika2:
Effect: 10/10 I'm a sucker for those reflection effects.
Color Usage: 9/10 Maybe just a little dark?
Effort: 8/10 Pretty good.
Originality: 10/10 Never seen a TC remotley like it.
Relation to the Challenge: 8/10 Element is clearly shown, not as TC-esque as I would like.
Overall: 9/10 Come across as something very pleasing and new to look at, but I don't know how well the sprites are working.
Total: 54/60

My Rankings:
1. Wes1234 (57)
2. Monkeyking63 (56)
3. pika2 (54)
4. Bellomence (49)
5. MUCKSTER (46)
6. Zzzdark (42)
7. The-Sinnoh-Champ (45 -10 for being late)
8. INFERNAPE (31)

EDIT:
TSC:
Effect: 7/10 Got some cloads for pokemon boxes, a nice BG, but nothing amazing.
Color usage: 6/10 Everything work until you threw in that read, it just looks bad.
Effort: 8/10 Like how you made your own charachter.
Originality: 8/10 Everything's made by you, that's good.
Relation to the challenge: 9/10 Element is shown nicely.
Overall: 7/10 The red just kinda ruins it for me, and I'd have added some more sophistication to the metal boxes.
Total above.
 
RE: Project Custom-The Elite Fan Creations Tournament BY INVITATION ONLY!

Wow, youre scores are high.....I guess its just cuz TC's arent your speciality....usually you grade the other challenges alot harder. PM me with the winner of the challenge.

-Black Rayquaza
 
RE: Project Custom-The Elite Fan Creations Tournament BY INVITATION ONLY!

My scores are always a bit on the high side. Generaly, if something's just average, it's a 7/10 and I go from there. Like school, 7/10 (a C in most classes) is supposedley average.

But yes, TCs aren't my specialty.
 
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Wow... A 57/60? I think that all that time I put into my TC really payed off. Thanks, AS. xD

I think Moneyking and I are going to have very similiar scores and are in close contention for 1st place. Talk about anyone's battle. I'm getting very anxious about the end result. lol

PS - AS, I have two untouched versions of the background. One is uncropped, meaning that it appears as it did when I applied Perspective distortion to it. The other version is a cropped version with the background at the same size as my trainer card. I am more than willing to send you both if you wish. They're both in PSD format, so you'll need Photoshop to use them, but I can save them as PNGs if you wish, as well. Both versions, BTW, don't have the inverted effect that gave it the red appearence on the right side.
 
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Yes, it was very close between you and MK63. pika2 is up there too, but it just wasn't TC enough.

I think if you were every an art nOOb, you definetly aren't now. I wouldn't call that many good entries a fluke. You've obviously got talent.

About the BG: Would it be possible to just describe how you did it? I'd like to try it myself with some small differeces, most notably color. If not though, the uncropped PSD would do just fine. I really appreciate it.
 
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Gah 1 point away from wes, but thats ok, his was awesome! Yes wes it seems like we may have a bit of a fierce competition going :p Thanks for the scores, can't wait for the winner (I'm thinking Wes on this one) and the other scores!
 
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Funny, Moneyking, because I'm thinking that you will win this round. lol We're betting on each other... how interesting. lol

AS: I'll send you a PM concerning how to make it. I'm not sure if I remember everything I did to make it, but I did save a seperate file with each change I made, so it should be fairly easy to remember. If I end up not being able to "reconstruct" it, I'll just send you the PSD file.
 
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MUCKSTER: I appologize. I actually wrote the whole thing on quick reply for some absurd reason, was having a daft time scrolling and then was called out for dinner. I will update tomorrow with scores and such. Sorry for the rushed reviews. Good luck to our two high seats, Wes and Moneyking. Along with all the other amazing artists still in the compettion.

B_R: PM sent, and avaible any time you need me. Especially if it's for fanfic review.
 
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Can i put in my TC later?! Please say i can! I've been too busy with school that i haven't even had time to come here! If not, could i use my vacation week?!
 
RE: Project Custom-The Elite Fan Creations Tournament BY INVITATION ONLY!

Well you have until 9 PM EST tonight for the -10 off Final Average, so hurry up and turn it in. You cannot use your vacation week because I've seen you on for the past week alot and thats against the rules to use the week if you were on. It could save your spot if you turn in something good.

-Black Rayquaza
 
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it ain't gonna help me, but here it is:

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Sugimori Manectric
Fused Manectric sprite with Ace Trainer from D/P.
Found the cloud images from google.
The background is something i randomly found on my computer hard drive >.>
Used PSD Alien Skin for the Brushed Metal Boxes
Pokésho Sprites in the clouds
Based theme around Electricity, Storms and Thunder.

hope you all like it!
 

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RE: Project Custom-The Elite Fan Creations Tournament BY INVITATION ONLY!

The-Sinnoh-Champ said:
it ain't gonna help me, but here it is:
hope you all like it!

It will help....this might keep you in the competition.

Im gonna edit my scores now....judges please do the same.

Thanks,
-Black Rayquaza
 
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