I'm like half and half XD

Judging is over! Community & Art team were voting for their favorites and it was really close.
Winners will be announced tomorrow.

Would definitely like to know what the criteria for being considered

Edit: Anyone have a link to the second place winner, being as the link is broken?

While the art quality is really high, I think you may have taken a little bit to much liberty with the designs (which I think is fine, but I noticed all the winners took almost no liberty). It seems like most of the winners took the actual game art and worked with it in different ways but still stayed really close to the original game art designs. The dropsuit, dropships, and gun you drew look quite a bit different than anything I've seen in game, I suppose that is probably why they overlooked your artwork.

That and CCP is probably dreading dealing with the broken laser rifle, I'm sure this reminded them of it

My only complaint (and this is speaking as someone who works in a Tattoo Studio) is that the second place winner looks like a photo edit from the Dust 514 concept art.

I had a pretty good feeling it was going to make it up there but in the same sense I was confident that my work, being entirely original and done from a blank canvas, would have at least made runner up. This is why I was wondering what the criteria for choosing the winner(s) was.

If I had known that we could photo-edit some stuff I would have cheated my way through this entire competition O_o just saying.

In before "you sound bitter"

Edit: Big shame that the cosplay didn't even make it in the runner ups. She sort of deserved it for actually going out of her way to create PHYSICAL pieces.

True, but this was nto cosplay competition was it? She should come to Fanfest and win craploads of promotions for herself by taking photos with people :)

But wait, photo edit? Could you link original photo from which the second place edited his way into it? I don't see any similar photo from concept art/screenshots from ccp that got published... And I am pretty sure I saw all the possible concept arts ever :D

The guy even posted "making of" process o.O

Dude, I'm right there with you.

Honestly, it's not that no one values cartoons or cosplay anymore. For me, I see that the visual aesthetic of Eve and Dust have been heavily defined as a hot, mechanical and high definition environment. To break from the mold means going against sensibilities and expectations for what embodies this environmental experience of the game's universe. Yet, there can be a place for comics and cosplay. Both of these mediums are cool and incredibly participatory in nature. To illustrate, the beauty of an iconic comic character comes out most when its designed features and personality are left mostly undefined, to which the viewer can fill in and complete. The viewer becomes part of making this character's story.

I could say a lot on this topic. For the sake of not being long winded, I highly recommend reading Scott McCloud on Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. It's a fantastic read designed as a graphic novel.