The Newerth Art Contest *WINNERS ANNOUNCED*

[Zero_MnotW]

UPDATE: Winners have been announced!

*Art Contest Winners have all officially been contacted via forum pm for prize distribution. Art Contest winners should check their forum inbox and contact Zero_MnotW via PM for further assistance.

The 2nd Annual HoN-iversary is almost upon us and we want your help in commemorating it with an art contest to rule all art contests. Its a 4 week long user-generated content contest powered by the HoN community and we're calling it the Newerth HoN-iversary Art Contest. We want to see our beloved community create some of the best HoN art we've ever seen across five distinct categories -- Video, Art, Short Fiction, Music, and Cosplay.


Five Category Breakdown:
Keep in mind that we're trying to focus on these five categories of HoN-based art and there will be some carry-over between each category. Use these guidelines to help spark your imaginations and get your creative juices flowing.

Video: Including, but not limited to gameplay, machinima, live action short films, music videos, etc. (Users must own the rights to all included content). Please keep this under 10 minutes in length.
Video Submissions Here

Art: Including concept art, graphic design, sculpture, desktop wallpapers, etc.
Your submissions should be in some way related to the 2nd HoN-iversary Celebration!
Attach in .jpg / .png
Art Submissions Here

Short Fiction: A short story and/or comic using Heroes of Newerth characters and/or gameplay as the focus. Keep short stories under 2,000 words and comics under 10 pages in length.
Short Fiction Submissions Here

Music: Including , but not limited to any form of soundtrack or user-created HoN-themed audio. All submissions should be under 5 minutes in length.
Music Submissions Here

Cosplay: Any costume or live action representation of specific HoN characters. Individual submissions are encouraged -- only one prize will be given to a winning account. Pictures or Videos are preferred. Cosplay Videos should be under 5 minutes in length.
Cosplay Submissions Here

How To Enter:
To enter, simply post a thread showing us your work in one of the corresponding threads above. Each thread counts as a single entry into the contest and will be hidden from the public similarly to XanderK's Ask S2Games section.
You can still view and edit you submissions as many times as you want until the submission deadline, so feel free to fine tune your submissions.


Deadline
The contest ends on April 27, 2012 at 11:59 pm EDT. Any submission made outside the deadline will not be accepted or judged as a part of the contest.

Once the winners have been announced, our video production team will create a Newerth Art Contest Wrap-up video featuring our favorite highlights from the contest.


Prizes:
One Grand Prize winner and four runners-up will be selected from each category

Grand Prize Winners Receive:

• A Limited Edition 2nd HoN-iversary Collector's box containing unlock codes for all 6 Gold Collection Alt Avatars,
• 10,000 Gold Goblin Coins
• A HoN swag bag containing t-shirts, posters, a water bottle, and stickers
• A feature in our 2nd HoN-iversary Newerth Art Contest Video posted on the official S2 Games Youtube Channel

Runner-Up Prize Winners Receive:

• A Limited Edition 2nd HoN-iversary Collector's box containing unlock codes for all 6 Gold Collection Alt Avatars
• A feature in our 2nd HoN-iversary Promotional Video posted on the official S2 Games YouTube Channel

Here's some teaser photos of the Collector's boxes! Check out more teasers on the HoN Facebook, HoN Twitter and xanderK's Twitter!

Contest Rules:

• Each user may only submit one entry of their own work to the contest per category for a maximum of five entries into the contest.
• Winners of this contest will be contacted via the email attached to their HoN account and announced publically on May 11, 2012.
• You only qualify to win by posting a thread of your work in the corresponding threads above.
• Given the media-centric nature of the contest, submissions may contain elements of each of the five categories, but all submissions must be related to Heroes of Newerth.

• Users who make multiple submissions to the same category of the contest will be disqualified.
• Users who submit the same work to multiple categories will be disqualified.
• Users who submit any work other than their own will be disqualified.
• Users who submit their work from an account other than their own will be disqualified.
• Any known breach of copyright made without the copyright holder's permission outside of Heroes of Newerth will automatically result in disqualification.

• Submissions must be made in full accordance with the forum rules and links to malicious content will result in a permanent ban of the connected HoN account and could result in an IP-ban.
• Users who choose to participate in the contest do so willingly and understand that once their work has been submitted, he or she has agreed to give S2 Games the right to display that work publically, on e.g. our newsletters, website, or promotional video.

[[CIF]Lene]

Fun!
Not that I think I have a chance though, but it could be cool to try it. Drawing tablet, Energy drinks and no sleep, here I come!

[Freedy]

awesome

[[M30W]Opt_Prime]

Unbiased my ass. Im sure anyone who does traditional drawing wont have a chance vs digital drawing.

[[LC]LooLoo]

If the traditional drawing is well done then why not? If you take a lopsided webcam screenshot of a sketch that probably won't do as good as a fully colored and scanned piece of art, traditional or digital.

[_n`3`v`3`r_]

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[[WDC]YUwait]

OMG i can't wait! I finally decided to enter the next art contest, and i sure as hell will! Can't wait to test my artistic skills as an actual designer irl! Looking forward to see alot of Insane artistic pictures and videos!

[[NLPZ]AceRaven]

I should edit my drawings if I want to win >.<

[[TCIL]dkiearth0]

Unbiased my ass. Im sure anyone who does traditional drawing wont have a chance vs digital drawing.

traditional drawing actually > digital drawing...digital is easy mode comparing to traditional. digital needs by far less effort to do anything and everyone can learn it which is not the same with traditional. so personally i would appreciate more a well done traditional one

[Lhune]

traditional drawing actually > digital drawing...digital is easy mode comparing to traditional. digital needs by far less effort to do anything and everyone can learn it which is not the same with traditional. so personally i would appreciate more a well done traditional one

I'm sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong. Digital drawing software, and a tablet for that matter, are tools, just like pencils, ink or paint on a piece of paper or a canvas. They are not magically going to help anyone draw better, they are most certainly not easier to use (anyone can hold a pencil and start drawing, whereas a tablet takes time getting used to first, as well as how the software responds to it). In the end, it takes just as long to learn to draw well using digital media as it does in traditional. Digital has many advantages, mainly in efficiency and for graphic work, but to actually draw with it's not in any way easier. The only reason why traditional work has more value is because it is more unique per definition, not because it takes more effort (not sure what you mean by effort anyway).

[[TCIL]dkiearth0]

I'm sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong. Digital drawing software, and a tablet for that matter, are tools, just like pencils, ink or paint on a piece of paper or a canvas. They are not magically going to help anyone draw better, they are most certainly not easier to use (anyone can hold a pencil and start drawing, whereas a tablet takes time getting used to first, as well as how the software responds to it). In the end, it takes just as long to learn to draw well using digital media as it does in traditional. Digital has many advantages, mainly in efficiency and for graphic work, but to actually draw with it's not in any way easier. The only reason why traditional work has more value is because it is more unique per definition, not because it takes more effort (not sure what you mean by effort anyway).

its your opinion and lets not start arguing again...i didnt said that are not tools but are by far easier to learn and to use.obviously you have never used traditional media like acrylics,oils etc...otherwise you would have know that traditional media they don't have layers, undo, brushes, textures, filters, effects adjustments and the list go on...which obviously digital is by far more easier and by effort i mean that in digital media if you make a mistake you simple erase correct it, or what ever. and also in traditional media you don't have brushes that magically create trees, building rocks or what ever you want.or delete them with one click. and how long it takes to get used to a tablet its not a valid argument.so lets not continue that argument. keep your opinion and i keep mine

[Lhune]

its your opinion and lets not start arguing again...i didnt said that are not tools but are by far easier to learn and to use.obviously you have never used traditional media like acrylics,oils etc...otherwise you would have know that traditional media they don't have layers, undo, brushes, textures, filters, effects adjustments and the list go on...which obviously digital is by far more easier and by effort i mean that in digital media if you make a mistake you simple erase correct it, or what ever. and also in traditional media you don't have brushes that magically create trees, building rocks or what ever you want.or delete them with one click. and how long it takes to get used to a tablet its not a valid argument.so lets not continue that argument. keep your opinion and i keep mine

The problem is that you present your opinion as fact, and that you make very, very false assumptions. I'm not afraid of discussions and do not see them as fights. I have worked with traditional media for many years before I went digital, also done plenty of acrylic work as a matter of fact, the last one only recently. In fact it is my belief that one can't really learn how to draw digitally well before they can draw traditionally; the tablet is only a hindrance in that case.

Just because you can create rock and tree brushes doesn't mean you get epic paintings with just a few clicks (not to mention that there are tons of special affects you can apply in traditional media as well). It takes tons of knowledge of composition, of color and light theory, of structural drawing, of perspective and if you're drawing characters into it of gesture and anatomy, before you can draw something truly good and that counts for digital as well as traditional media. You can go to any professional concept art or illustration site you want and they will tell you the exact same thing; digital is just another tool. It does not magically make you a good artist, and that is where many, MANY beginning artists go in the wrong very early.

[[RCT]BattleHungeR]

awesome!

[[SBT]HulkeN]

Fun! Will try my best even tho im a newb.

GL to everyone

[[FT5]Anizer]

Time to make the new hon soundtrack!

[IPeonPeons]

Sounds good! I'm in!

[MrSnowball]

"Each user may only submit one entry of their own work to the contest per category..."

Nooooooooo! I guess I'll have to learn how to do video rendering and how to sing..

[Kingaby]

IT IS ON

[Sye]

IT IS ON

Things are getting serious if darkuther, lhune and strider try to beat you

[Jeroz]

Things are getting serious if darkuther, lhune and strider try to beat you

Oooooooooooo

Just imagine those 4 delivering their best. CAN'T WAIT