{"id":2040,"date":"2009-05-16T18:17:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T23:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2010-07-14T15:39:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:39:26","slug":"art-contest-is-rly-jp-onry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Art Contest is rly.. JP ONRY."},"content":{"rendered":"

Caught in Surprise<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"1st<\/a><\/p>\n

Cake in Progress! by P-Taru<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I’m pretty fucking amazed in this year’s top prize. Although some might have a different opinion and preference. But lets say at least, #1 was really #1, and there was no 3ds Grass and Ram as 2nd.<\/p>\n

#1 was kinda what SE likes to see… how I see it is, can this artwork be used on a Sound-Track cover or… Game Cover? Cake in Progress definitely would be one, if you guys remember the FFXI Piano Collection.. well yea that :D closely resembles this one :D!
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\nAlthough most of the art was good, but some was pretty crap. I just think SE is also skewed to Japanese players. There was um… maybe 8-10 NA winners only, and the rest was JP. The only thing I’d complain is… yea if all 30 drawings were good cool, but some were complete crap, especially the last one and those stupid cards.<\/p>\n

Also, how does FINAL FANTASY IX (9) even be consider a valid entry<\/a>. It’s celebration FF9, not FFXI.. such a fail. But then SE loves JP right? XD!<\/p>\n

I estimated the nationality of the artist by looking at their names on the JP PlayOnline<\/a>. NA players name were mostly in-tact, with a few in Katakana. The rest is purely JP as you can probably see due to their Hiragana names, cross-reference with the NA PlayOnline<\/a> to confirm.<\/p>\n

But whatever it is, we’ll see when the rest comes out, to see if SE really already picked all the good stuff, or horrible stuff simply because they are JP. I really just wanna shoot JP’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also liked the fact that SE don’t just pick cluster fuk art. Some doesn’t even have a focal point, but just randomly placing stuff around. So at least this year is… a little more on the style, content, foundation and overall balance of the drawing.<\/p>\n

The result (at least the good ones), you can tell they were prepared panda. They didn’t rush it for sure :D!<\/p>\n

\"2nd<\/p>\n

Girl Power! by azjazo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Anyway, here’s a few favorite of mines :D (no particular order)<\/p>\n