Well, time to judge all these shiny entries!
Winner:
TheK.
Runner up:
Braden 713.
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Great job,
everyone! Here's some criticism / opinion on the invidual screenshots.
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Rolfy: As always, great job on the custom media, the buildings really feel like they had to endure hundreds of years of rain, storm, etc., and are soon to collapse, since no people are there to do anything.
While the media is impressive and well done, the shot does miss some kind of emotion, right now it just doesn't have a distinctive feel to it.
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Exu Corporations: The screenshot isn't bad, but multiple details hurt the overall look.
For example:
1. The street doesn't end in front of the buildings.
2. Why is that one car's motor
still on fire?
3. The buildings look way to clean and intact, considering it's 250 years after mankind.
4. The grass is flat, while normally it would have grown by a fair amount during those years, instead of looking like it was mowed some days ago.
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Vent: Nice idea, to use one of the world's famous and iconic buildings to show off the mankind's end.
While the Eiffel Tower is a nice 'eyecatcher' and makes the scene appealing, including other details would've made the picture even better.
Like a romantic sunset, with the sun directly behind the tower, or a foggy and raining day.
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The Zoq2: Technically, the mapping is well done, unfortuneately, it's lacking a detail that attracts the viewer's attention.
It feels a bit generic and like a, not so, important piece of a game.
Also, considering that the street turned into a dead end, due to piles of trash, the rest could / should be a bit more dirty as well.
Things like a
buggy would've done a good job to dramatize the scene and make it more special.
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Braden 713: Great job! The scene feels dirty, lifeless, yet shows that it once was the complete opposite (wheelchair, car, bike).
Especially the way you've implemented the nature into the scene is nice - makes it clear that the nature already started to reclaim all the places that were 'occupied' by Mankind and every proof for their existence will fade away.
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loler: Nice job! Looks like a FPSC tribute to Fallout 3.
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Bugsy: Once again, the mapping is technically well done, but the scene itself feels a bit bland and it doesn't really show, that the mankind ceased to exist 2 1/2 centuries ago.
The idea to show a city from a roof has potential, but probably would've done even better, when not focusing only on the roof, but also on a street, that once was busy, but now only shows a few rundown and rusty cars.
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X Games: Tasty looking custom media, but unfortuneately, the scene looks a bit 'thrown together' in my eyes, it doesn't invoke much emotions.
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TheK: Powerful shot. The colourless environment and the heavy snowfall give a sense of loneliness and coldness, that really illustrates the end of mankind and how all the life has ceased to exist, leaving quiet and abandoned places, full of forgotten memories, behind.
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Northern: Cool, that you focussed on the nature and how it will soon overshadow buildings, and other human-made things, that were left behind.
-Doomster
