Grand SIG - Survivor ROUND 01

26 Mar 2008

How To Vote:

Please vote by replying in the thread with at least 1 sentence or more for each duel (YOUR PICK) explaining who and why you voted for. Too many anonymous users vote without reason and takes the advantage of polls, therefore we do not have a poll. In other words, one vote is more valuable than 999 anonymous useless votes.

Participants, you may not vote for your own duel. But you are allowed to vote for other duels.

After each round's results have being voted, the team with the most points will be safe and everyone on the team passes onto the next round.

The team that did not accumulate enough points to win will have one of their members ejected from the tournament by me judging by performance. Some people throughout the tournament will get 'byes' which means having a break on certain rounds.

AnpanMan VS xWitch (Cars and Abstract Realism)

moffit VS Jansen (Flowers and Vector)

AkaiNeko VS brutalboss (Playstation 3)

brutalboss is disqualified because he/she failed to submit an entry. AkaiNeko automatically earns a point for his/her team.

darkGreen VS Kenjii (Wings and Beauty)

Glarbage VS Ruuka (Smoke and Grunge)

Kudaranai VS Senpai (Silver'n'Blue and Futuristic)

ChestersX VS xKakashi (Holy / Religious / Manipulation of this image HERE)

Fuzz VS KitaHoshi (Aircrafts and Photo Manipulation)

darkGreen · 26 Mar 2008

wooooaaaahhh!!!
nice entries!
i must say good job water team!

*keeps finger cross*

and wooot! grats AkaiNeko! *penguin dance*

enguin:

question sunchip..

umm so we can vote for our teammates?
not including our own individual battle...

xKakashi · 26 Mar 2008

crap everyones make mine look like crap, i better step up my game is i get through x-X

Kenjii · 26 Mar 2008

brutalboss fails our team.

xKakashi · 26 Mar 2008

Originally Posted by Kenjii

brutalboss fails our team.

The fact that this first rounds entries are 3 times better then the first tournies is already showing me a sign of loserness

Kenjii · 26 Mar 2008

^ Hey, don't worry. You had a hard theme (although I would've put the logo on the cover of a bible/book and then make a sig out of that). Also, some of us improved a little bit from the previous tournament. :cafe:

k0n · 26 Mar 2008

AnpanMan
Really nice on the waves. Shows a lot of direction without a lost of focus from the car. The colors were uniformed. Bland and monotonous areas were themed with it's rushed motion. The glow on the font offered a nice depth on the signature.

moffit
Nice use of flowers. The colors were blended nice. Only bad part I see is the center point of the background. I didn't know what I suppose to look at exactly.

AkaiNeko
;o

Kenjii
The background image gather a lot of depth which almost implemented a 3-D effect. Added colors around the gray focus point added "activeness" around it. The wings were manipulated as a butterfly wing, I think, which pretty much grasp somethings that may (or may not) appear beautiful.

Ruuka
Although I could still see the white edges, I like the style bordering it could have. The colors are nicely uniformed and the added doodads gave that grungy distorted feel to it.

Kudaranai
Really clean, the depth and add-on brushes gather lots of attention near the text and the overall aspect of the picture.

ChestersX
Really solid. The colors made it somewhat sanctified; having a few colors to try to symbolize something holy. The color waving into the flame on the wick blended a feel of having peace like a wick (unless disturbed by the wind, lol).

KitaHoshi
The overall direction of this signature is pointing to the top right of the piece which matched the direction of the text having an "upward" feel to it. The spray image kind of related to "air" as in a diffusion effect.

xKota · 26 Mar 2008

AnpanMan
Obviously both signatures fulfill the requirement of cars.
I think that AnpanMan shows a more abstract realism of the gas and the road while I don't really see the abstract realism in xWitch's [ could be the design and background, but I don't know ]

moffit
The flower theme is really obvious and pretty in Moffit's signature, while Jansen's flower behind Mario lost me [ took me a long time to finally realize the flower ]. Vectors...I don't even know what vector is for art .__.

AkaiNeko
Do we have a choice? [ not to sound mean ]

darkGreen
The them of beauty is nicely shown by the lady in the signature. The feathers /wings around the picture show a nice blend with the softness of the lady.
[ The only problem is the feathers could have been a little darker to make it more clear ]

Ruuka
Glarbage vs Ruuka...always the hardest choice, but I'm going to have to say Ruuka. The smoke is nicely put into the signature with the character [ looks like she's smoking, but yea... ]
Now the grunge is something I didn't understand until _____ told me. Both Glarbage and Ruuka show grunge. The only problem is Ruuka could show the grunge a little more clearly.

Kudaranai
Kudaranai's signature shows both Silver n' Blue and Futuristic in a nice combination. The buildings seem to be something that could be in the future and the year is a nice asset.

ChestersX
The holy/religious is really shown well by a bible. [ I think it's a bible...if not. Oops ] The manipulation of the symbol into the signature is nicely done.
I think to add on to the holy/religious theme, ChestersX could have made the symbol white and changed the surrounding images to be brighter instead of darker to symbolize holiness.

KitaHoshi
Haha. I love how the spray is spraying out an airplane. The quote "Go fly anywhere" goes nicely with the background of the world and how the arrows are point up [ To me it seems symbolic of like reaching into the sky and going anywhere.

[ PS: I followed k0n's idea of color coding the people's name of which side they belong to. It just seems to help with which side they are on ]

Ruuka · 26 Mar 2008

Wow, everyone's sigs are amazing.
But but why Brutalboss?? Q___Q I was already worried that he had no posts in MT at all ;;

Good luck to all though! :3 Moar voters please~

xWitch · 26 Mar 2008

Like i said before, my entry sucks. D:

XORaccoon · 26 Mar 2008

AnpanMan

The them was well used in the picture. At first look I can pick out the fact that it's abstract. The color usage not only adds onto the abstract theme but makes it appealing to the eye. The car is awesome by the way. *0* xWitch's didn't seem as abstract to me and it caught my eye after I saw Anpan's.

Moffit

To me the picture had a lot more usage of the flower theme. The colors blended well together. All the pictures blended well all in all. Jansen's work was beautiful as well but it didn't have as much to do with flowers as much.

Kenjii

Both pictures contrasted the them quite well but Kenjii's was clearer to me compared to green's. The bird in the middle is an excellent symbol of wings and beauty. Darkgreen's picture had lots of feathers in it that distorted my eye making me think the theme was gas. Q__Q

Ruuka 8D

Her frame displays grunge but at the same time contributes to being a wonderful border. The character she used is well chosen to be her center piece. The smoke kinda threw me off as well. ._." Glarbage's picture had a good use of grunge which was clearly depicted but how it was used wasn't appealing too me.

Kudaranai

Kuda used an excellent image and added to it to make it look futuristic. I can clearly see the theme depicted and an excellent usage of the color silver. The choice of adding font made it more appealing and filled up that empty space.

xKakashi

Unlike Chester's, xKakashi used a more appealing image to explain how the stock was linked with religion. While doing so making it even more appealing to the eye. The font was well chosen and colored to exactly match everything else.

KitaHoshi

I loved how the cloud coming out of the aerosol can looked like an airplane. The colors and everything about the picture screamed the theme. It was an awesome art work and made me crave blue candy. O_o Fuzz's picture on the over hand didn't look very serious. To me it looked as if it was a picture that was taken off Google and pasted last minute...

Can't wait for next round *_*

KitaHoshi · 26 Mar 2008

Awesome entires everyone, well done!

Fuzz · 26 Mar 2008

Originally Posted by sunchip

Epic. Too bad I spent like 4 days thinking of what to do, then of course did it in like 3 minutes.

Jansen · 26 Mar 2008

the only cool part of my sig is the simple mario I made, doing his final smash from brawl :P
I liked it but i hard a hard time doing anything with it >_>

Kudaranai · 26 Mar 2008

KitaHoshi, I don't think participants can vote. It's a team thing o-o.

Also, nice job everyone. Go Water! =D

KitaHoshi · 26 Mar 2008

Originally Posted by Kudaranai

KitaHoshi, I don't think participants can vote. It's a team thing o-o.

Also, nice job everyone. Go Water! =D

I was under the impression that you can:

Participants, you may not vote for your own duel and since this is a team effort, it would be un-wise to vote for the other team

Jansen · 26 Mar 2008

Originally Posted by Kudaranai

KitaHoshi, I don't think participants can vote. It's a team thing o-o.

Also, nice job everyone. Go Water! =D

Participants, you may not vote for your own duel and since this is a team effort, it would be un-wise to vote for the other team

(emphasis mine)

Doesn't technically say that :P

Kudaranai · 26 Mar 2008

It says may not. Though sunchip's wording's a little..awkward, I guess.