Congrats to the winners, especially
Angel O2 who has been known to congratulate people himself "quite" a lot
. Now he gets to be a winner for his great screenie efforts. Some amazing ones there for sure.
I'm just glad that Erasto didn't put a 5k prize on it like Foma did, otherwise I fear it would've been a case of Silva Mak x 100 in terms of amount submitted.
A little tip about that: I don't know if you've been a judge in such a competition before but when you have so many entries all piled together in one post, you begin not to see them, so the advantage of having more entries can be lost by the judges not being able to distinguish between your many entries in the end. It wasn't a problem to go through these pictures since there weren't "that" many and some decent ones were easily visible. Not to single out Silva here, because Angel O2 did a similar thing, only laying it out slightly "easier" with titles for each.
Of course, I saw pictures from both parties which were worthy of Erasto's ideal. Props to
Silva for working so long with that .gif sunrise
Hardcore. I can also mention
this one from Silva and to be a bit general, the individual character of each of
Angel O2's pictures.
Congrats also to
Wanderer for his nice, clean images which seemed thoughtfully chosen (I'm sure we all have hundreds of screenies we'd love to show off) with contrasting colours to give the impression of real variety and choice between his mere 3 screenies.
Also worth mentioning are congratulations for the runners up,
Spongey Bob and
Davin. I saw some really nice screenies from you guys which I loved.
To name a couple, the first one of
Davin's "more entries"
here was just awesome. It has a really epic feeling about it.
Spongey Bob's first entry
here has some great shapes and sprawling shadows. I almost feel like the valley is "coming to get me" with those shadows.
For others, like
NaomiScott, the settings seemed to let you down a little, as in
this one, but others like
this one looked much better. I would've loved to see a Very High + 8xAA version of these two.
KiD had some fun ones, especially the first and third. I really liked that third one, great stuff and very unique!
These were just the ones that I feel stuck out from the rest, which were generally not bad (so don't feel bad the rest of you guys who didn't get a mention
)
So all that's left to say is thanks to all you guys for a nice competition and I hope to see more of your screenies in future. Decorating EU perhaps
Hope my comments have given some positive insight into at least my thoughts during the judging of this thing. By all means take it away and consider it next time you enter a screenie competition if you like.
I wish you all the best and hope to bump into some of you out there in the wilds (and not so wilds) of Entropia.
Peace,
Dalas.