Well, I made it to 3rd place - Not too bad
June 23rd, 2008 < by Zion >In SWG’s 5th year anniversary painting contest, I made it to 3rd place - a finalist. Yay!
Now the bad news - I am getting thoroughly pantsed! :p
Truth be told though, I am not an artist - just someone who took some screenshots and composed them in a digital image that I thought evoked the might of the Empire. The other 2 paintings were done by true blue artists, and I don’t have the talent to be able to keep up with that - their works are amazing, with the first one, while I feel a bit weak on the imperial theme, is especially skillful from an art perspective. The second one seems a bit borrowed from the Force Unleashed Trailer that had the Jedi Apprentice pulling down a Star Destroyer - yet the artistic talent there still far surpasses my own.
My little entry is a bit rough around the edges - I might have faired better had I made them look more artsy and run the image through a filter or two, but once I saw the finalists, and saw my entry up against the 2 much larger and grander finalists, I knew I was in trouble.
I give credit to all the finalists, and to whoever the eventual winners are - it’s been a pleasure being in this contest, and fun to make it as far as I did, although I do feel like Rocco Mediate to the other 2’s Tiger Woods. (Those who follow golf recently will get the reference) :p
It was a great contest. My only hope now is that because we all signed affidavits releasing ownership of our work to SOE, that ALL of the finalists eventually get their paintings in the game. After all, even on American Idol, the only thing up for grabs is a guaranteed contract - that never stopped people like Randy Jackson and other record label producers from offering the runner up a contract as soon as the show was over.
And I’d love to have all those paintings one day hanging in my house!

