September Photo manip/art Competition!!!

[funkymonkey]

Warm up your stylus-es-es! I'll be starting a monthly competition soon, with a wide variety of prizes ranging from stickers to hard to get shit that I get from Japan.

I will post up the initial image on the forums (relatively highres). After that you have 3 weeks from the start of the month to come up with a truely mindboggling piece of artwork.

You are not limited to the number of entires you can have. A special section in the gallery will be allocated for each month's entries. Upload your works in there and at the end of the 3rd week, a poll will be put up with all the artworks in that section of the gallery. A week of voting is then allowed and the winners are then announced.

You are not limited to photochopping, sp please, don't restrict yourself to just dumping the car and putting big rims and changing the paintjob. Be creative, be abstract, be anything. Mess with the background, add some vector art. Hell I'd love to see someone do a sketch of the material. Remember, at the end of the 3 weeks, your artwork has to stand out to grab the votes.

Here's the image you guys have to work with for this month's competition (Click for Higher Resolution image 1200 by 845 magazine scan, is a bit botched, but you photoshop whores should be able to fix that right? ):

You can only use someone else's submission if you have their express permission.

Oh and new rule this time... I'm allowed to enter

And here's the prize for this month:

2 Official SAU Lanyards (if they're finished on time, if not 2 SAU Stickers)

Entries close at 11:59 on the last Saturday of the month. ie. the 25th. I then go through and pick the best dozen entries and then voting is then carried out for one week and the winner is then decided by popular vote.

Submissions should be no bigger than 600 by 422 pixels.

Please note: ALL SUBMISSIONS HAVE TO BE UPLOADED TO THIS GALLERY

Have fun, and be creative. Don't be put off by other submissions... check out last months comp to see who won for proof

[geno8r]

Hi

Well im going on in with a disadvantage entering the comp first but anyway, I've uploaded my entry to the gallery.

Here is a thumbnail preview

First off i must say i loved the image, really liked the backdrop, lighting & colour. Seeing our crazy funkymonkey friend made it a bit hard for us to get a nice quality picture I did a lot of tweeking and styling up the image, which is a challenge so didnt mind it

I chose not to put on fake rims or lower the car any more as for i felt the shot was very professional so i went with a styled design approach on top of a tweeked image.

For the designer who appreciates a bit of extra detail or wants a new Wallpaper please check out these links.

1280 * 1024 JPEG 80

http://www.evodence.com/files/skyline_09_c...tr_1280_80q.jpg

1280 * 1024 PNG 24

http://www.evodence.com/files/skyline_09_c...34_gtr_1280.png

Any feedback would be great!

Cheers, enjoy

[sammus]

that's great ...but doesn't godzilla have 3 digits?

[funkymonkey]

he got you there on a technicality dude... goddy has 3 toes... claws... whatever...

but nice chop, nice n early too wasn't expecting a submission for a few days, photoshop whores being lazy n all.

Also the image for those that want to know is out of the R34 M-Spec GTR catalogue. That particular picture is of the car in the sound booth being tested for acoustics (yes they tested what the engine, exhaust n all the mechanicals sounded like to get it sounding right)... sweeeeet! The image is pretty small, but it really was an awesome photograph to start with. I expect a lot of people to use the gaussian blurs n motion blur, even a radial blur effect. Some might want to try their hand at despeckling the whole image, but you'll have to balance the low res with high res overlays I think. It shouldn't be too bad, the source is exactly twice the size of the end image, so when you resize it, there should be less halftoning.

Anyways, theres some ideas for you guys to deal with the bad quality of the source image. Its part of the challenge so see what you can do. Its one of the things I'll be looking at when picking the cream of the crop.

[funkymonkey]

BTW you're not limited to one entry, you can enter as many times and as many variants as you want. But at the end I'll only pick your best variant, unless they are drastically different.

[ae86drift]

oooh baby! im in for this one

[Sl!m]

added mine..its late..its my first one.. so be kind LoL..

made the quality worse so it looks kind of like a drawing isntead of looking better..

anyway its in the gallery

[geno8r]

Added another entry.... Check the Gallery...

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/photopost...ery.php/cat/566

Cheers,

[funkymonkey]

digital sketch? i'd have given you a lanyard if you did that by hand just on principle

[sammus]

hmmm i might have to have a go at hand drawing it then btw... what's a lanyard???

[Sl!m]

is it one of those things that goes around your neck??

put like whistle on?

[05YKO_r33]

this one could be interesting...

[HKS-R33]

Added mine to the gallery...still a lot of work needed

here it is, the latest carbon fibre r34

[0HR-30T]

I added my effort in the gallery to.Trying something a bit different this time.....

[funkymonkey]

man the number of submissions is really dismal this time ... 5 days to go!

[PranK]

[sammus]

my skill is not consistent with my ideas

[geno8r]

man the number of submissions is really dismal this time ... 5 days to go!

Here's another then....*in gallery*

[justinfox]

Nice Prank - ooh lah lah Easton Chang eat ya heart out!

[PranK]

Thanks J - wheres yours?