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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Kiwi's Bday: results

Well, this is the day. Let's see what i got shall we?

The entries:
  • 1 - Colors by Ghost-Silver:
    This was a pretty big surprise, knowing so many artists the first submission i got was from someone i didn't know.

    I know I've been stressing "don't go pure green scheme if possible", but this actually looks cool, reminds me a LOT of the female Orc grunts in WoW, the ones in those lil remote villages. i think in this case the clothing colors helped me like this scheme more.

  • 2 - Colors by Zach:I can't tell if he was serious about it, I'm not saying it's bad, but he made it rather quickly.

    The fact her skin is only 1 color is pretty bland, the blue used it pretty dark and unexpected, and i kinda find it interesting for it, but i think this would had worked better if she had a lighter secondary color.

  • 3 - Colors by Jimmy:
    Jimmy has been involved into redesigning like 15 characters lately (shhh! itsa secret...) and he's been losing his sanity. The other day he told me "and i could swear the cat spoke to me", and i think he was serious.

    As for the colors, Jimmy just doesn't halfass it, he went straight for the evil look. It kinda feel like what Akuma would look like if he was an anthro female lizard. I gotta admit the dark eyes with a glowing iris is something i never even thought about, kinda cool but feels too evil i thinks.

  • 4 - Colors by Undies:I had to pester him to try it, i really had... And u know what? i regret nothing. Because his take on Kiwi was much lighter than everyone else, and quite colorful in fact too.

    This was very light compared to all the other ones, the colors are a lot easier on the eyes. It has a mellow feel to it, maybe too mellow for Kiwi, but I totally could use this for other people of her species.

  • 5 - Colors by Bittenhard:Only person to use the chibi version for the submission. Bitten wanted to go with an albino look, which sounded cool. Albino animals always look very beautiful and distinguish themselves a lot.

    That sounds pretty cool for Kiwi. Bitten was also the only person to use stripes on Kiwi, which is a cool idea as well. But overall it looks very very grey-ish, it lacks a lot of saturation and just doesnt look appealing the way it came out. It needed a tweak somehow.
The verdict?

Well, to b honest, i hoped for more entries and more colorful and diverse submissions. Although i'm not 100% happy with any of the entries, I have to say that even though Ghost silver did the most generic one, it's the one I'm linking the most right now.

Most of the other ones are just too monotone and seriously lack color saturation.

of this lil contest, Ghost-Silver wins, sorry everyone else. But I'm not quite satisfied with the look yet. i might make a color scheme based on all the aspects i liked.

Such as the dual colored skin that Ghost-Silver did and the colors for the clothing a lot too, am seriously considering the stripes Bitten did, I might use blue in her color scheme like Zach did, but mixed with another color like i mentioned before, might go with might lighter and colorful colors like Undies did, and am really gonna try the glowy eyes that jimmy did.

Thanks for all of your guys that took a shot at this, i got a ton of ideas for Kiwi now that i had never considered before.

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