Second!

Any particular reason for no signatures?

Second!

Any particular reason for no signatures?

Are 3d models ok? Can I model what I want the Minmatar MCC to look like? Or the ammar deployment room?

also I hope I don't get 1st place I have one of those allready :P

no hard copies no good... digital art i know nothing on ... what like PAINT >? or Photoshop ?

Yes pretty much, but you can scan your illustration and voil+á, you fit the bill.

Are pictures that show New ships allowed?
-Thanks,
Secord-Kid

Ships? You mean vehicles for dust? They say it has to be for this universe. But tbh just enter, you have nothing to lose.

EvE ships are in this "Universe"

Are pictures that show New ships allowed?
-Thanks,
Secord-Kid

It's as if everyone is troll posting in that thread. Where. Is. The. Art... GAW DAMNIT... What about that ONE thread where the art was GOOD?!

No time for color, already lost some D514 shooting to make this, so it must do the the thing. I'm here to claim the monitor by brutal force and firepower 2 x +10 LWDamMod (L tablet is too big for me)

http://images.epilogue.net/users/cieslinski/Rave_Boomstick.jpg

And a little "making of" this illustration:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cgwpX3E-VZ8/UWNz5QA-OII/AAAAAAAAC9o/ka-QwlRQELY/s1200/Rave%2520Boomstick%2520makingof.jpg


"M.I. (clones) does the dying. (Corp) Fleet just does the flying" J. Rico

Don' praise the day before midnight. Some of our serious rivals can attack at the dusk of this competition

Does anybody know if a Facebook link with the image is allowed on the contest forum? :) Saving mine for near the end of the contest, really working my butt off for that damn Tablet ! The one I'm using for this contest is just about done in :(
Anyways If I can get an answer on this question that would be appreciated. Thanks!

http://hughebdy.deviantart.com/art/Dust-514-364728479?q=gallery%3AHughEbdy%2F35071219&qo=0

:)

Another good one... I can see this guy taking top 3 easily.

I see that guy winning for sure.

i took the competition seriously

I wish I had had more time I want to make a 3d model of what I would think the minmatar dropship to look like and fly it around in 3d.

I guess I could have time just to paint one....

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=687482#post687482
Man this is hilarious In a good sense
A logi with a duct tape, and an ass-ault with that horizontal ...fold instead of face...
And how do you stick out your tongue through the helmet
Anda heavy? You know a heavy is ...well ...heavy...

Aw nobody likes mine :( Oh well, good luck all!

I'll give you a like

Very excited about the contest! Now I just have five days of pacing around nervously until the results are released...

Haha Thanks! How do people even get so many likes? Is it a popularity in the game thing? Love you all for all your awesome art by the way!! Thanks for the competition!

Unlike SP, likes didn't get reset going from Closed Beta to Open Beta.

That, and writing a lot of posts that people liked.

Very excited about the contest! Now I just have five days of pacing around nervously until the results are released...

Haha Thanks! How do people even get so many likes? Is it a popularity in the game thing? Love you all for all your awesome art by the way!! Thanks for the competition!

I like your name too

Well thank you ^_^ Ditto!

I'll be looking for you on the battlefield for fun

I will try to get online some more :) Too much art for games sometimes. Did you enter?

I'm the opposite I had to take days off of playing dust to do my painting lol I'll have to make it up with some extra games this week

I'm a gamer not a artist

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.

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

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

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

The contest is officially over, and both Community and the Art Team had extremely difficult time picking the top 3. The initial meeting was planned to last much shorter but it ended up taking half of our day. Now, without any further ado, the top 3 are:

1st - Fan Art By Ling Jirachi
2nd - Fan Art By Dark Rust
3rd - Fan Art By Tarty Fleth

However, we would also like to mention the following entrants of the competition that we feel came really close to the top:

Fan Art By xJ4ySo
Fan Art By Jadek Menaheim
Fan Art By Panoscape

Congratulations to everyone! The community team will be contacting you shortly via your PSN email to arrange everything regarding prizes.

Thank you for all your hard and amazing work! We are looking forward to more DUST themed competitions very soon!

DUST 514 Community & Art team

Oh... my... god... that is some AMAZING stuff! I have to say though, I LOVE that second place entry. I have no officially saved it and will add it to my personal collection of awesome DUST pictures.

Did you say something about my phone wallpaper? :)

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?

Well done to everyone :)

I know this may sound a little 'bad looser-ish' (I'm usually quite a gracious person) but was there any reason this: http://hughebdy.deviantart.com/art/Dust-514-364728479?ga_submit_new=10%253A1366353922&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1 wasn't placed, at least in the commended section. I did spend a long time on it that I didn't really have, and have the feeling it was skipped over, unless of course, there were some distinct criteria you were using? In which case that's ok. :)

Well done to everyone :)

I know this may sound a little 'bad looser-ish' (I'm usually quite a gracious person) but was there any reason this: http://hughebdy.deviantart.com/art/Dust-514-364728479?ga_submit_new=10%253A1366353922&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1 wasn't placed, at least in the commended section. I did spend a long time on it that I didn't really have, and have the feeling it was skipped over, unless of course, there were some distinct criteria you were using? In which case that's ok. :)

Feels like they didn't wanted skilled people or Pro's being mentionned.
I don't argue my place as there was clearly better stuff than mine, as your's for example, but it doesn't seems "fair" either to me.

http://arixs.deviantart.com/art/Dust514-Contest-366530729?ga_submit_new=10%253A1366358420

I'm not even in first six. I'm really dissapoineted. Maybe some of you will say a a good word about it

You just submitted that to DeviantArt 10min ago?

On devian yes but my contest entry was in slower site on imageshack http://imageshack.us/f/28/b7dust514contest.jpg/

It looks okay, but feels lazy as well. It kinda lacks colors in general? :) I know it is supposed to be snow but come on where is more dynamic background and some objects around? :P

here http://images.epilogue.net/users/cieslinski/Rave_Boomstick.jpg

Well done to everyone :)

I know this may sound a little 'bad looser-ish' (I'm usually quite a gracious person) but was there any reason this: http://hughebdy.deviantart.com/art/Dust-514-364728479?ga_submit_new=10%253A1366353922&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1 wasn't placed, at least in the commended section. I did spend a long time on it that I didn't really have, and have the feeling it was skipped over, unless of course, there were some distinct criteria you were using? In which case that's ok. :)

Haha I knew you'll do that. But look at character details on that one! It looks so freakin' amazing every line of it. :) And lighting, oh the lighting!

Congratulations to those that won

I am really surprised Dunderkitty's cosplay didn't get a mention, she was hoping to come third so that she'd get to play EVE at more than 40 FPS. I watched her work her ass off on that thing over a few days and I think it cost her about -ú30 overall, plus the getting hold of a photographer for free and everything. Some serious effort and originality in my opinion.

I didn't expect to win myself, but the competition was a nice kick to get me to dust off my old Bamboo and start drawing again, it's been over a year already.

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

http://arixs.deviantart.com/art/Dust514-Contest-366530729?ga_submit_new=10%253A1366358420

I'm not even in first six. I'm really dissapoineted. Maybe some of you will say a a good word about 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

What about AR? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cgwpX3E-VZ8/UWNz5QA-OII/AAAAAAAAC9o/ka-QwlRQELY/s1200/Rave%2520Boomstick%2520makingof.jpg this is making of by the way. He clearly drew all of it.

Then I'm wrong, don't crucify me over it - seriously, it's in poor taste as I only said it -looks- like a photo edit. If he did the work than congratulations but there were some entries in the competition that were very obvious photo edits and there were some very original pieces that obvious took a great deal of time and effort into creating that didn't even make runner up.

The cosplay entry, for example. They didn't say it wasn't allowed, they simply said it had to be digital art - and art is a very elusive term.

Go check out the Concept Art for the Caldari Assault suit. The detail and pose are remarkably similar.

I am not crucifying you or anyone, just pointing it out :) But yeah cosplay is not really digital art. Digital art is thing you do on PC, usually done with graphics tablet or mouse or heavy software edits (3d modeling programs for example). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_art and http://browse.deviantart.com/digitalart/ (photo manipulation is included there too)

Congratulations!

sadly mine wasnt mentioned a all. Was hoping for a few laughs atleast. Did some work in a very different style from realistic.

http://jitters44.indi-d.com/temp/dust514ashland.png

That was a big waist of time!! Guess I'm just s.h.i.t.t.ty at art

That was my first try at creating something, and it will be my last try...

Also, I would love to see that art style turned into a DUST 514 web comic, if you happen to be any good at funny scripts.

Congratulations to you all! I hope you put your prizes to good use!

On a side note I would love to know what was said about my own entry so I can do better next time. I've been trying to be an artist in the games industry for quite some time and if I can't come close to the top in a competition of only thirty or so entries then I know I don't yet have what is needed to come first in a job interview!

I would be happier with critique from the Dust team than I would if I'd earned first place :)

Link to make it easier: http://fav.me/d61a2sa

Dude, I'm right there with you.

Competition winners will be announced on 19th of April on this very thread and on DUST 514 website featuring the winners.

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.