Great News, everypony! (link to the Deviantart news) Bosses are the biggest, baddest, and strongest enemies in any video game. They control hordes of monsters, rule the land, and they usually take a lot of skill to defeat. Your goal is to create a new colossus (a boss) for the new massively multiplayer online role-playing game, RIFT. deviantART is challenging artists to answer the question: What does this colossus look like in RIFT? Choose one of the six planar themes: earth, air, fire, water, life, or death. Create concept art of a colossus using one of the themes. You can use your favorite image editing tool, a 3D program, or traditional media. Requirements: ..Your colossus Must be based on only one of the six planar themes Must be very large within the scale of the game environment Must be original to you and all elements must originate from you. You cannot copy graphic material from the game. Can be made in any medium as long as you submit it as a JPG or a PNG Can be made using licensed brushes and textures, but you may not use third-party stock in your entry How to enter: Choose one of the six planar themes. Create concept art for a massive boss using your favorite image editing program, 3D graphics software, or traditional media. Once you're done, submit it as a .JPG or .PNG file! Spoiler: Prizes 1st place: $1,500 Cash Prize (USD) Wacom Intuos4 Medium Tablet 8,000 deviantART Points dA PRO Digital Artist's Backpack deviantWEAR Hoodie of the Winner's Choice* 1 Year Premium Membership to deviantART 2nd place: $800 Cash Prize (USD) Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch Tablet 5,000 deviantART Points dA PRO Digital Artist's Backpack deviantWEAR T-Shirt of the Winner's Choice* 6-Month Premium Membership to deviantART 3rd place: $400 Cash Prize (USD) Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch Tablet 3,000 deviantART Points dA PRO Digital Artist's Backpack deviantWEAR T-Shirt of the Winner's Choice* 3-Month Premium Membership to deviantART Rules: Entry must be received by 11:59:59PM (PT) on June 19, 2011 and be submitted through the contest gallery on deviantART. Entrants must be at least 13 years old to participate. Residents of any country are eligible; Entries can originate in any medium but must be in JPG or PNG file format when submitted. Online entries only, hard copies not accepted; Entries must be themed to a single planar theme (earth, air, fire, water, life, or death); You may submit more than one entry; You must be a member of deviantART to enter. Membership is free; Trion Worlds, Inc. is not a sponsor or administrator of this offer and assumes no responsibility for this offer; and Other requirements and restrictions apply. Please read the Official Rules carefully. Judging: 25 Semi-Finalists will be selected by full-time deviantART Staff. From the Semi-Finalists, the final three winners will be selected by a member(s) from Trion's creative team! All entries will be judged on the following criteria: Originality Creative Expression of the Contest Challenge Overall Impact of the Work Technical Skill Here are the Contest Entries.
(this is not double posting. This is for Keeping the "contest post" clean.) I'll be doing one as well today. Hope It'll take a couple of days (if not weeks) for me to finish (for quality purposes). I wish y'all the best of luck as well!
The prize is really awesome... A free copy of an MMO? The only thing worth attempting this is the experience/fame and Deviantart Membership. I might submit something... Although I fear this is just a tad outta my league X)
1st place - $1,500 Cash Prize (USD), Wacom Intuos4 Medium Tablet, 8,000 deviantART Points, dA PRO Digital Artist's Backpack, deviantWEAR Hoodie of the Winner's Choice*, 1 Year Premium Membership to deviantART AND RIFT. The other two are winning similar stuff, just less powerful (2nd is winning 800$, a smaller tablet, etc.) Read the whole thing.
rofl, woops, my hand just slipped into my tablet case and put it in front of me. How'd that happen? ^^ Does it mention dimension requirements anywhere?
Not really, though it's kind of self-explanatory the bigger the better (I do mine in 7000x5000) Though, you have to make it look about 20 times bigger than an ordinary human, if that's what you're askin' for EDIT: View attachment 130 1 sneak peek. Around 700x700 in size. Around 10th of the whole monster's body.
You call THAT terrifying? I've seen bunnies with more terrifying looks on their faces than THAT! If I were to see one of those things coming at me, I'd be like, "Get outta here you poor excuse of a tripod before I sneeze on you." Now if it were a bunny, I'd be terrified. I don't want no giant boulders coming at me made of dung. NO SIR!!! :derpe:
They are fairly terrifying when you're part of a large marine or zergling force. You might as well right a last will then.
So satisfying, hearing the agonizing yells of the Marines and the ineligible cries of the dying zerglings... Oh how I do love that, so very much... Uh, pretend I didn't say that. Yes colossi very terrifying and obviously should win said competition.
Except you have to draw something original, so Colossi are out of the question no matter how cool, satisfying or scary they may be
