Photoshop Challenge

Post by **Neil** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:32 am

Oculus assimilate me?!?!? Never! I'm 100% Canuck, baby!

Ok, about the contest. There were some changes in staff at Novint right after the contest was announced. So, it took time, but fresh arrangements had to be made. I got an email yesterday from them confirming new arrangements (there is one more step to go through at my end) so the prize can be shipped. This has taken longer than expected, so I apologize.

However, in addition to the Novint Falcon, I also arranged some additional consolation prizes. I just wanted to be 100% sure that the Falcon shipped before announcing the extras (otherwise I'd have to do some reshuffling).

I expect to be able to announce the results by Friday this week. I know this has taken a lot longer than expected, I know you all worked hard for your winnings, and I thank you for your patience. Going back through the history of MTBS with all our contests, we've always delivered - so be confident! ;=)

Regards,
Neil

Post by **Cathodoluminescence** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:46 am

Neil wrote:However, in addition to the Novint Falcon, I also arranged some additional consolation prizes.

That sounds good

Post by **sth** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:46 pm

In response to http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.p ... 285#p99448

KBK wrote:time for the '300' (film) based photoshopping... over to the '5000'.

Post by **geekmaster** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:59 pm

Neil wrote:However, in addition to the Novint Falcon, I also arranged some additional consolation prizes.

For those who do not already have consoles?

Post by **Neil** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:49 pm

Ok boy and girls.

I received an email confirmation for some killer prizes!

I think everyone will be pleased. Patience!!!

Regards,
Neil

Post by **Dycus** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 7:00 pm

Man, if I'd known there would be additional prizes, I would have actually entered something. Ah well, can't wait to see who wins!

Post by **BOLL** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 7:16 pm

Of course the grand prize has been changed to a Goldulus Gift. It's an electrifying version of the normal devkit, with some minor ergonomic problems due to a slight weight increase, but it should be worth that weight in... well, you get the point.

Post by **Diorama** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 7:57 pm

Post by **kalabalik** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:43 pm

Wait what?! Was there a bloody contest in here?!
Fecklings, so much for growing up with photoshop and apparently not being able to use my eyes to scan every thread

Post by **TheHolyChicken** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:45 am

Neil wrote:Ok boy and girls.

I received an email confirmation for some killer prizes!

I think everyone will be pleased. Patience!!!

Regards,
Neil

I'm really starting to wish I entered more pics now!

Post by **Cathodoluminescence** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:06 am

TheHolyChicken wrote:
Neil wrote:Ok boy and girls.

I received an email confirmation for some killer prizes!

I think everyone will be pleased. Patience!!!

Regards,
Neil
I'm really starting to wish I entered more pics now!

me2 - by hook or by crook, this thread/contest was/is a lot of fun

Post by **2EyeGuy** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:04 am

Yeah, me too.
I wanted to make a cool stereoscopic one, since these are all depressingly flat.
I even thought about making a simple Doom 3 mod where I skinned the characters to look like Carmack and Palmer, or like someone wearing a Rift. But I never got around to it.

Still, hopefully my picture of an invisible pink unicorn wearing a Rift will win.

Or my Dawkins book. I assume there's still a prize for 30th place? right?

Post by **mindless** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:41 am

kalabalik wrote:Wait what?! Was there a bloody contest in here?!
Fecklings, so much for growing up with photoshop and apparently not being able to use my eyes to scan every thread

This only really became a contest about half way in, because this wasn't something that was originally planed to be a competition. so I guess it would be easy to miss it.

In hind sight it might have helped if I had gone back and edited my first post to give mention to it, but alas it's too late now, sorry about that. (I will go and update the post anyway just to inform any newcomers)

Post by **Likay** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:17 am

BOLL wrote:Of course the grand prize has been changed to a Goldulus Gift. It's an electrifying version of the normal devkit, with some minor ergonomic problems due to a slight weight increase, but it should be worth that weight in... well, you get the point.

Former belonging of Midas perhaps?

Post by **2EyeGuy** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:26 am

BOLL wrote:It's an electrifying version of the normal devkit, with some minor ergonomic problems due to a slight weight increase, but it should be worth that weight in... well, you get the point.

Electrifying, huh? So, you're saying I was right about my theory that Palmer was combining his hobby of high-voltage weapons with the Oculus Rift? For added immersion when you get shot in the game? Gold is the best electrical conductor, so that makes sense...

Post by **Neil** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:02 am

The winners and prizes will be announced TODAY, I promise!

Regards,
Neil

Post by **geekmaster** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:07 am

2EyeGuy wrote:
BOLL wrote:It's an electrifying version of the normal devkit, with some minor ergonomic problems due to a slight weight increase, but it should be worth that weight in... well, you get the point.
Electrifying, huh? So, you're saying I was right about my theory that Palmer was combining his hobby of high-voltage weapons with the Oculus Rift? For added immersion when you get shot in the game? Gold is the best electrical conductor, so that makes sense...

"Arc of the Covenant" HMD?

Perhaps it has a miniaturized version of this in it:

[youtube-hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3hUB4qr4Ig[/youtube-hd]

Be sure to remove any metallic dental fillings before trying it on...

Post by **TheHolyChicken** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:40 am

Neil wrote:The winners and prizes will be announced TODAY, I promise!

Regards,
Neil

F5 F5 F5 F5...

Post by **Neil** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:39 pm

Done! Hope you all like the way things turned out.

Regards,
Neil

Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:56 pm

Yeah, I'm a winner

Thanks a lot. And congrats to mindless!

Post by **laast** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:42 pm

Post by **ColdCutz** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:17 pm

The Picard will take no prisoners.

Post by **Likay** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:48 pm

Congratulations all winners and especially mindless to the Falcon!

Post by **MSat** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:53 pm

Congrats, guys! There were a ton of awesome ones, so I'm glad Neil was able to get a bunch of prizes.

Zalo's, THC's and Cathodoluminescence's shopps cracked me up every time I looked at them.

Post by **ColdCutz** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:03 pm

Rats, looks like I missed the Gravy Train.. :'(

Did they PM the winners, or was there a section with all of them listed?

Post by **spire8989** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:07 pm

ColdCutz wrote:Rats, looks like I missed the Gravy Train.. :'(

Did they PM the winners, or was there a section with all of them listed?

http://www.mtbs3d.com/index.php?option= ... &Itemid=73

Post by **mindless** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:29 pm

Thanks for giving me the win, I'm super happy right now

I'm glad to see so many other guys/gals are also getting rewarded for all their hard work. everyone that submitted a pic did a fantastic job, But I have to say my favorite is "I can't handle the truth", that one just makes me smile every time I see it. Don't think I will ever be able to watch that scene from the movie again and take it seriously.

Finally my thanks to Neil and the folk at MTBS for running the competition.

Now back to the drawing board, my work here is not complete

Post by **BOLL** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 5:46 pm

Congratulations Mindless! I was almost sure some 'shop including people would win

it seemed like those worked best with the crowd haha. Even while guessing that my imagination didn't want to work that way, oh well

Also a bit funny that I got a spot with the image I probably spent the least time on, but it felt right, so I guess it makes sense. Thanks again Mindless for the thread, and then Neil for making it a contest

Also Mindless, not bad having your first post+thread generate 18 (so far) pages, having it turn into an epic contest and then finally winning it yourself xD It's kind of hilarious actually!

Post by **zalo** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:20 pm

Same here BOLL! I was sure people would see the parallels between the Happy Mask Salesman and Palmer Luckey (wait for it).

Now THAT'S a truth I can't handle

Post by **mindless** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:41 pm

@Boll I know what you mean, Its surprised me how quick the idea caught on, I was just making something for fun that I thought others would enjoy, but I didn't think it would grow into this epic thread. Now I feel like I know a little bit what Palmer must have felt when he kick started the rift and it just took off.

Post by **oculusfan** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:50 pm

Only a few got prizes but everybody in this thread is a winner as far as I'm concerned. There is some true talent here. I am very impressed.

Post by **2EyeGuy** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:36 pm

Some of my favourites didn't get a mention, so there are lots of different ways this contest could have gone depending on the taste of the judges. All the entries were good.

Post by **cybereality** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:37 am

Can't believe the Back to the Future pic didn't make it, but mindless still won so all is fair.

Post by **Fredz** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:33 am

Yep that was my favorite also, I thought he would win, weird that he wasn't even nominated.

Post by **BOLL** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:30 am

Are you talking about this one posted by Mindless?

That was actually the point in time where I realized just getting Rift-people into the picture was a winning concept, because people loved it.

It didn't win or get nominated probably because it was a joint venture, as it was based on a photoshopz I posted earlier.

As a self analysis, putting people into the pictures seems like an easy concept, why didn't I do it?

To me most things have to make sense to make sense, erhm. Relating to the original characters In my head Palmer should have been Doc as he built the machine, but as Carmack is older than Palmer that doesn't make it completely logical. Oh the curse of overzealous logical thinking.

So yeah, I would probably have come up with neither, but because I tried to make sense of the swapped faces when I first saw Mindless' version I was surprised people liked it so much. And yes, I am super-over-analytic for better or worse, hahaha. Also not trying to downplay Mindless' win or anything, just analyzing things and speaking my mind... or about my mind, uh. I'll shut up now.

Post by **mindless** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:45 am

he did win

But I wouldn't have been happy if that was the pic that I had won with, because that felt more like a collaboration with Boll, it wouldn't have been right to take all the credit for that.

Post by **oculusfan** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:51 am

BOLL wrote:Are you talking about this one posted by Mindless?

That was actually the point in time where I realized just getting Rift-people into the picture was a winning concept, because people loved it.

It didn't win or get nominated probably because it was a joint venture, as it was based on a photoshopz I posted earlier.

As a self analysis, putting people into the pictures seems like an easy concept, why didn't I do it? To me most things have to make sense to make sense, erhm. Relating to the original characters In my head Palmer should have been Doc as he built the machine, but as Carmack is older than Palmer that doesn't make it completely logical. Oh the curse of overzealous logical thinking.

So yeah, I would probably have come up with neither, but because I tried to make sense of the swapped faces when I first saw Mindless' version I was surprised people liked it so much. And yes, I am super-over-analytic for better or worse, hahaha. Also not trying to downplay Mindless' win or anything, just analyzing things and speaking my mind... or about my mind, uh. I'll shut up now.

I think most will see the faces in bttf and make the connection based on age and not even think about who built what. You underestimated the humor element that face swapping brings (amplified even more due to the nature of the Palmer/carmack relationship). But you truly had some creative images, especially the marketing concepts. If I was Palmer I would be inquiring about how much money you would need to let go of that rift advert wit the living room in it.

Post by **BOLL** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:43 am

oculusfan wrote:I think most will see the faces in bttf and make the connection based on age and not even think about who built what. You underestimated the humor element that face swapping brings (amplified even more due to the nature of the Palmer/carmack relationship). But you truly had some creative images, especially the marketing concepts. If I was Palmer I would be inquiring about how much money you would need to let go of that rift advert wit the living room in it.

Thanks

And yes, I've been outside of online communities for way too long to remember how awesome inside humor is, regarding Palmer/Carmack, even though I am all too familiar with the history by now. I also realized I probably passed mindless' version off as nothing spectacular as the faces look very much pasted on xD Sorry mindless, I'm an evil bastard perfectionist when it comes to 'shopping, which I realize is quite limiting

hahaha. <3

Post by **TheHolyChicken** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:06 am

BOLL wrote:
oculusfan wrote:I think most will see the faces in bttf and make the connection based on age and not even think about who built what. You underestimated the humor element that face swapping brings (amplified even more due to the nature of the Palmer/carmack relationship). But you truly had some creative images, especially the marketing concepts. If I was Palmer I would be inquiring about how much money you would need to let go of that rift advert wit the living room in it.
Thanks And yes, I've been outside of online communities for way too long to remember how awesome inside humor is, regarding Palmer/Carmack, even though I am all too familiar with the history by now. I also realized I probably passed mindless' version off as nothing spectacular as the faces look very much pasted on xD Sorry mindless, I'm an evil bastard perfectionist when it comes to 'shopping, which I realize is quite limiting hahaha. <3

But you like my photoshops, right? You don't think they look pasted on, do you?

After I finished the Predator one, I couldn't actually tell what was the original picture, and which was the one I edited!

Post by **TheHolyChicken** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:09 am

Oh, and I almost forgot - I'll just leave this here.....