Alien Architecture (22) - Final Images & Vote [Poll Reset]

[Jest@]

UPDATE - Added RawMeat3000's pics, and added him to the poll. Unfortunately the poll has now been reset, so please vote again,
Apologies to RawMeat for the mishap

In deference to tradition, Map Battle 22 has finished in a prompt and orderly fashion! Our theme was an interesting, but undeniably tough, one - Alien Architecture. With limited time and limited source material, here's what our participants managed to cook up. Take a look and take your pick!

If I missed anyone, lemme know - there were several (very, very promising) WIPS that didn't seem to make it all the way.

As always, there's also the photobucket albumand slideshow, if that's your cup of tea

RawMeat3000





904





BiologicalBum





Kodox





Melvin



Notary





Punky





vcool





Zipfinator

[Blink]

Melvin for me, the simplicity of the scene and the threatening look of that 'craft' won me over.

Major congrats to the other authors, top entries all around!

[oneups]

great work all around, had to give it to zip this time

[BaRRaKID]

I voted for 904. The cartoonish look makes it looks excelent
Nice job everyone!

[Biological-Bum]

There's some pretty good looking stuff here. Great job to everyone!

[dragonfliet]

Man, way to make it hard for me. I'm gonna comment on all of these.

904: Looks great. Great brushwork, great lighting, unique idea; but it looks too much like a world of pumpkins.
BiologicalBum: Solid brushwork, great textures and wonderful lighting
Kodox: Looks cool (very PD looking), but is a bit blocky and lighting isn't quite there
Melvin: Awesome but WTF?
Notary: Your brushwork is hands down my favorite, the design is awesome and yeah. Only think is that your lighting really, really takes away from the rest of the picture. Too much HDR, Too much yellow, not enough contrast. If you had made this at night with a soft blue/purple night sky illuminated with the yellow of the eye laser, well, you would have won my vote.
Punky: I have no idea what's going on but I kind of like the odd colors. I wish they gelled with the rest of the surroundings though.
Vcool: Your lighting is absolutely perfect. Perfect sky, perfect effects, perfect lighting. I just don't care for the design of the pontoon thing.
Zipfinator: solid work, but mildly generic, HDR is overblown outside.

I ended up choosing BiologicalBum because it just feels so authentic. Super close was 904 (if only cliffs were ever so slightly craggier and ever so slightly less pumpkin-orange it would have been first), Notary and vcool. Everyone did a great job, however.

~Jason

[SwampyTurtle]

i like punkys for the feel to the map......makes a good Xen look to it

way to go all

[Zipfinator]

I voted for Vcool. Nice waterworld :P Only thing I don't like is the second shot. The pillars don't have nearly as much detail as I think they should have, but your water and particle effects won me over!

Good job to everyone else too, there were a lot of great entries this time.

[punky]

Voted for Notary, I like his brushwork, it has a lot of detail.

[Woe Kitten]

I went with Notary for this one because he's taken the time to give it a real nice finish and the brushwork is good.

A little note to VCool though:

Your my find for this battle personally, when your skills fully catch up to your imagination and eye for a scene, you're going to be awesome man.

[RawMeat3000]

Wha-? I could have sworn I posted finals of my map. They're on page 7 of the other thread I think. If only I had had more time to finish it...

Edit: Voted for Notary. But kudos to everyone who participated, there were a lot of really unique ideas in this battle.

[Jest@]

Oh shit, I totally missed them, sorry man! I can add them now and allow people to change their vote options if you like?

[1447]

Holy mother of God, this is some fine piece of mapping! None of them as cool as the idea I had in my head, though... Omg, why can I only vote for 1 person? Okay, first place goes to...

Melvin. That scene is just.. special. Did you by any chance get inspiration from the mod 'Mistake of Pythagoras'? It had just the same special atmosphere and weird brushes.

For me, second place goes to Vcool. You had something really nice going on there, it was just a little less detailed than I imagined. But still, I'd vote for you if it weren't for Melvin's flying.. thing;)

Third place goes to Punky, really nice scene there :D Excelllent lightning too!

[Kodox]

I had to give my vote to Notary. Never seen anything like that before. All of them were really good though.
Vcool's was probably runner up in my opinion.

[Mephasto]

Definately Vcool, love it :>