Crystal Brush 2012

[Hellspawn]

Never seen such a poor lvl on a painting competition

When I see minis like this:

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or like this :

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I just want to throw up, especially on an event like this

[althai]

Alice is Automaton's mini. It's realy great.

I had a feeling it was, given that it was scratch, and the sculpt was very reminiscent of his steampunk Dorothy. Plus it just seemed like his style, the base especially.

I gave that one, and that one only, a 10 too. Originality and painting are top! I don't have a clue who made it though.
I gave a few 9's (Yarry + mino, octopusguy,...) and other than that there was a lot of mediocre stuff.

Yep, same. I think I gave 9s to Yarry+Mino, octopusguy, Sebastian's alice, and the ork bust, maybe ten 8s, and everything else was unremarkable.

I too am puzzled by the crap entries. I'm not quite sure why someone would enter a competition if that's the best they can do, but maybe some people just do it to be ironic. And when you're at a convention with several thousand crap painters, and maybe twenty good ones, you can end up with a lot more crap painters than good ones entering, even if only a small fraction of them enter.

BTW hellspawn, that martial arts guy was one of two minis that I gave a 1. Most entries—maybe 60%—got a 4.

Imo they really should take a first cut before putting up pictures, so the internet voters don't have to look at all of the crap.

It looks like Gea was by JMPN. I think a Spaniard's going to take home the 10k this year.

[mahon]

wow, these two presented here by Hellspawna are much more impressive than the winners. seriosuly, it's impressive to see such... uncommon... works on a painting contest. not very positive impression though

Sebastian's and Jose's works were my favorites.
Octopus guy was done by our team mate Flameon.

[Pandadosmares]

Flameon had a bad luck he did a wonderful job

the overal winner was a co-work of Jose Palomares (painting) and Hugo Gómez(sculpting)

[mahon]

well, they allowed team works so it's all fine.

[Nameless]

well, they allowed all quality levels, so two presented entries are fine too.
why so angry, Hellspawn? contests are for all, not only for the best.

[mahon]

well, they allowed all quality levels, so two presented entries are fine too.

allowed. sure.
if these were serious entries - that's cool, people try to present their works.
if these were entered just for amusement, well, they have to prepare for some negative reactions

and here is a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... tSi8P6fAc4

6:06-6:20 - our boy Flameon

[Hellspawn]

well, they allowed all quality levels, so two presented entries are fine too.
why so angry, Hellspawn? contests are for all, not only for the best.

Well, I know it's open to all level, but those were just example of the poor quality of most of the entries this year, I would expect from a contest on Cmon like the Crystal Brush where there is 10k dollars to win that the global level would be much higher than that. Honestly, it would be seriously better if they would do like GW on their GD, ie some preselections, cause when you vote and end up giving more 1 than everything it's annoying.
I know contest are for all, but there, I would have liked to have a higher level (considering the prize)

[Nameless]

I would have liked to have a higher level (considering the prize)

me too!

[mahon]

maybe they just wanted to increase the number of entries?