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The third Charas Contest is over!

RESULTS AT A GLANCE
Facegen Charas Battlechar
1st - moiledzep
2nd - Gold Dean
3rd - Apex
1st - GhostClown212
2nd - Sharu
3rd - Pedro Lion
1st - SaiKar
2nd - moiledzep
3rd - Gold Dean

First thing as usual: many thanks to all the partecipants and to the judges, great jobs from both!
As for our tradition, every resource have comments from every judge.
I really think this can help anyone in understanding, learning, taking example.
Comments will help you to understand eventual mistakes, just to become better every day.
Having more judges cause also different ratings: there is a good balance between "look" and "tercnique".
So don't be angry if someone rate you 8 and someone else 5: it is simply from different points of view.
And, i have to say, this is nice: a Charas resource need both "good looking" and "good realization".
This is why i am so happy about this cross-judging.

Many thanks also to Setzer and J@C, from VGMaker Italia, our affiliate and a great italian community.

If you want to comment the results, please do it here.

A last note about the proposed "connection prize":
As you can see in final words below, we appreciated much Apex's and Moiledzep's works (same subject for all of the generators).
Techically Moiledzep's works are superior, but Apex's idea rocks!
So i will not "assign" this prize: I can quitely claim they won it together!
At the end... greetings to both of you!!!!

Well, time for words is over: here you have the results!

Alex

  FACEGEN RESOURCES
facegen resources - charas resources - battlechar resources - final words from the judges

RESOURCE COMMENT
Place Resource Avg SMB Setzer J@C Alex
1 moiledzep

6.75 7
Rating for the creation of something for the Elvis set! XD
6
Improvable
7
Simple,but good.
7
Yay! Elvis! Simple but correct.
2 Gold Dean

6.63 7
This is ok!
6
nice
6.5
I like these eyes,the make a strange effect. They are also quite good shaded.
7
Correct and good effect
3 moiledzep

6.38 6.5
Normal
6
Improvable
6.5
Simple,but good.
6.5
Nice one. Someone should do recolors of the neck to make this fully usable
4 moiledzep

6.13 6.5
Normal
6
Improvable
6.5
Simple,but good.
5.5
Oh well... this is just your other armor without some line...
4 Apex

6.13 6
Horrible nose, the rating is for the idea!
6
Nice
6.5
Good resource,if you want a tough guy!
6
I like the idea, you're lucky it's ok with front set as well ;)
4 Apex

6.13 6
Horrible nose, the rating is for the idea!
6
Nice
6.5
Similar to the first.
6
Same as cigaret, just some color editing.
5 Gold Dean

5.88 5
And the ears? If they're not planned the "almost white" would have had to be used?
6
nice
6
This...this is green!
6.5
Ok, just a recolor but the alien idea is not bad! (to SMB: Ears are not needed, it's a base ^^)
6 Gold Dean

5.5 5
It seems too high, anyhow with the green background it's unuseful with other faces than his own one!
6
nice
6
And this is a green mouth...
5
A bit too simple, and unusable with other face colors for the green edges
7 Apex

5.38 6
Ok, are they staring eyes?? Mah…
5.5
There's a small light blue square on the background
5
A quite strange one! But if you want a crazy face,it can be right! It would be better with a better shading and colors.
5
I'm sorry, but this is for not a not allowed setcion.

  CHARAS RESOURCES
facegen resources - charas resources - battlechar resources - final words from the judges

RESOURCE COMMENT
Place Resource Avg SMB Setzer J@C Alex
1 GhostClown212

8.13 6
Too cunfused, not so special and it seems the front neckband lacks some pixel… moreover 24bit
9
very good!I like it...
9
Oh yeah,this is one of the better resources I ever seen!The shading was made well,and also the drawing and the animation!With the right chipset you would make a great graphic!
8.5
Maybe a bit too complex, but correct and very well realized! If not 24 bit it would have been rated more!
2 GhostClown212

7.38 7
Not bad, maybe a bit excessive but nice
8.5
Good also this!
6.5
A very good shading and drawing!Unlucy tha animation isn't good,the hero is too static,the suit isn't dinamic.
7.5
Correct and well drawn. I like this very much!
3 Sharu

7.25 8
i like VERY much!
6.5
Nice
8.5
Good shading and drawing.It's not animated,but t's a great resource!
6
I'm embarassed... it's a great resource, but medium chara was not allowed for this contest. As a resource it deserve 8 without problems for me, but i have to give 6 to respect the rules.
4 Pedro Lion

7.13 8
Very nice!
5.5
simple
7.5
Good shading,good and simple animation,goood drawing.
7.5
Nice one! Maybe animation too simple, but excellent shading
5 Pedro Lion

7 8
Very nice!
6
the armor is out of phase respect the cloack
6.5
Great drawing,but the animation has many imperfections.
7.5
Really not bad! In animation, the cape sounds strange sometimes.
6 moiledzep

6.88 7
I like more this one with short pants, don't know why but i like it more.
8
good
6.5
It's similar than the first and the second,a quite good job.
6
Nice, but there's an error with hands in the front view
6 Supernicky

6.88 7
Very nice, but it could be spiltted in two parts
6
simple and improvable
7.5
Wow,a terrorist!There is an imperfection (maybe,it isn't important) on the neck.
7
Simple, but very nice!
7 Gold Dean

6.75 8
Nice! I like it very much!
6
Simple
5.5
this resource don't fix well,but id doesn't matter. It's quite common resource.
7.5
Lovely! Simple but excellent effect.
7 moiledzep

6.75 6.5
Nice but it doesn't look like an armor
8
good
6.5
The shadings could be done better,but the colors are right.
6
Nice, but there's an error with hands in the front view
7 moiledzep

6.75 7
Not bad i'd say
7
nice
6
Also here the shadings aren't excellent!
7
Correct and very nice!
8 sk8rman

6.63 6
What is this useful for? Body, dress or item?
6.5
Strange but nice
7
Good idea!Adjust it for the animation and the drawing details and it may be goood!
7
As a dress it's a great idea! Very original, correct.
9 kAiRoU

6.38 7
Nice
6.5
not bad
6
With a few better shading and animation it would be a good resource!
6
Nice but... wrong section, medium chara was not allowed in this contest.
9 Gold Dean

6.38 7
Nice, not bad.
6
Simple
6
Good drawing,but shading and animation are not.The hair don't have a natural movement.
6.5
Correct, but very simple. Playing more with animation would have been a great thing.
9 Tomi

6.38 6.5
Over the body it's not bad, but there are some not covered pixels on th back view.
6
simple
6
The animation has many imperfections and the shading isn't great.
7
Some tech errors but good looking, i like it!
10 Moo42us

6.25 7
Nice, but what's it? A Star Trek uniform?
5
simple
6.5
A strange cloth,the drawing is good but the animation has a little imperfection.
6.5
Simple but correct
10 FFL2and3Rocks

6.25 6.5
All ok, nothing special but nice
6
Nice but nothing of special
6
Neither the colors and the shading are excellent,it's a very simply resource.It's also not very very useful,i need more to be impressed.Anyway it's pretty,it fix and moves well.
6.5
Simple but correct
11 Pedro Lion

6.13 7
A bit enormous, what are they?
6
simple
6
A better animation would make a better result.
5.5
Good shadings, but animation is not that good. You just moved the first trinagle a bit without changing colors.
11 OneCalledGhost

6.13 6
24 bit and too big IMHO
6
simple
6.5
It isn't animated,it's not good.The idea was good,but you should color it a few better and animate it.
6
24 bit and poor in animation
12 FFL2and3Rocks

6 6.5
Nothing special but it's ok
5.5
Improvable
6
You should shade it!The colors are good and also the drawing,but a good animation is very important!
6
Correct, but i don't understand the extra pixel on the right view
13 Gold Dean

5.88 6.5
The resurce is ok, but is that needed?
6
Simple
5
It was only modified for the muscles,the are not animated well.They also could be shaded better.
6
It's ok, but at the end it's just a recolor of the base body with some muscle lines.
14 Apex

5.75 6.5
I like it very much, but the front view position is too low, to be corrected!
5
Not very good...
5.5
So,this resource could be an original or useful idea,but i found it is not good looking if you use mani items o suits: when the hero is walking down it doesn't seem to be a cigarette and when the hero isn't moving the smoke stops,too.Anyway,a quite good resource!
6
I will credit the idea, but mid section was not allowed... Anyhow, 24bit and there's a wrong frame (a smoke pixel out of grid)
14 Tomi

5.75 4
Wrong background, it could be spiltted in two and sometimes edges are marked, sometimes not
5.5
the background!
7
Take more care of the shadings,good drawing.
6.5
Techically correct and good looking. But the background error, it's a shame...
15 Shady Ultima

5.63 4
Strongly wrong position, moreover i feel it unuseful because ther are not dressere to cover supplementar arms
6.5
I think is useless,but nice
6.5
Original!It has a not-very-good animation and fixing,it's useful.
5.5
72x127 and wrong background. Anyhow the idea is good!
15 Shady Ultima

5.63 4
Strongly wrong position, moreover i feel it unuseful because ther are not dressere to cover supplementar arms
6
I think is useless,but nice
6.5
Original!It has a not-very-good animation and fixing,it's useful.
6
72x127 and wrong background. But as an item it can be more useful!
15 Apex

5.63 6.5
I like it very much, but the front view position is too low, to be corrected!
4.5
Not very good...
5.5
This has the same good and bad things than the cigaret one; the animation should be drawed better.
6
I will credit the idea, but mid section was not allowed... Anyhow, 24bit and there's a wrong frame (a smoke pixel out of grid)
16 Apex

5.25 6.5
What's this? I don't understand, but i like the animation
4
Boh
4.5
The background didn't fix...anyway,it isn't clear.I know you had to draw it for medium characters, but it is not enough clear!
6
24 bit, wrong section and it seems more like sunglasses than eyes... anyhow good animation effect!

  BATTLECHAR RESOURCES
facegen resources - charas resources - battlechar resources - final words from the judges

RESOURCE COMMENT
Place Resource Avg SMB Setzer J@C Alex
1 SaiKar


9 10
Excellent usage of "almost white" excepting some error in the B frame, but this resource is so good that it would seem impossible it's original!!!
8
good!
8
Good drawing,it seems to be ripped ^_^ The animation is standard,it has a good drawing.
10
OMG! Excellent, correct, good looking and perfect "almost white"!!!
2 moiledzep


7.13 6.5
Some shoulder position are not correct
8.5
Good!I like it
6.5
Shading aren't excellent also in this resource.
7
Not bad, but the first row animation it terribly wrong...
3 Gold Dean


7 7.5
Good and i think it's useful
6.5
improvable,but not bad
6
Also this time the drawing is quite good,but the colors and the shadings should be done better!
8
Correct, nice and good looking! I like it very much!
3 Gold Dean


7 8
Perfect! Optimus the usage of diffenent color gradients, excellent!
7
not bad also these
6
Here shadings were done better than the body
7
Nice one!
4 moiledzep


6.88 7
Nice
6.5
not bad
6.5
Also this,simple but it can be useful.
7.5
Simple but correct and nice. Useful too!
5 Gold Dean


6.38 7
Nice, the forgotten gray between legs in some frames is a shame…
7
not bad...
5
This resource has not a good shading...the animation is a standard one,but the colors are not good looking.
6.5
Correct and pretty, but nothing special
6 Apex


5.75 6.5
It would be pretty but some views are missed while they're needed (IMHO)
5
I don't like this work is difficult to understand
5.5
These don't have a great animation... they fix but it isn't enough!
6
Good idea, but poor in animation
7 Apex


5.63 6.5
It would be pretty but some views are missed while they're needed (IMHO)
4.5
This work is more confused then the first
5.5
These don't have a great animation,too
6
Good idea, but poor in animation
7 ES2005


5.63 6
I'd say banal, but correct
5.5
Improvable
5
I tried this a couple of times,but i think it has some strange things in fixing.By the way,a better shading would make the difference...also the drawing is quite simple.
6
A bit too simple, and some pixel errors visible in animation
8 Warxe_PhoenixBlade


5.38 4
It would have been banal, moreover the black cleaning process is needless, many pixels left uncovered and somee inverted frames
5.5
Much simple!
5
Sorry,but the animation and the drawing are not good,they're too simple.
7
At the end, it's not that bad. The only real problem are inverted frames in the right walking view.
9 Pedro Lion


5.25 4
Very good drawing but buggy: non-existent "Almost white" coverage and wrong background color.
7
good but I've already seen it,or I'm wrong?
7.5
This is a good resource, it has a good drawing and a good shading.
5
Ouch... BG, almost white... good looking and drawed, but very buggy
10 Apex

4.25 4
I don't understand why only one view… @@
4
...
5
Still like the others,but this is little bit more clear.
4
Why only one view???

  FINAL WORDS FROM JUDGES
facegen resources - charas resources - battlechar resources - final words from the judges

JUDGE FINAL WORDS
Alex Higher quality every time!
As an admin, i'm fully satisfied, everyone did his best.
I saw very good ideas, without the worryness of being or not able to do something.
Apex and Moiledzep are great on this side: maybe the cigarets are not well realized, but the idea was amazing!!!
Also SaiKar REALLY impressed me: his bchar resource is something incredible!

My ratings are sort of "averages": i rated mainly technical realization and first impression looking.
As usual, i hope my comments may help you in growing every day more!
SMB This time i had to be more severe, first of all because the level is really high, and because after all this time it's not acceptable the ignorance about "almost white" which in Charas is fundamental, or to be wrong in placing for some pixels (evenif few), or to present 24bit resources!
So many works received lower ratings for these reasons when maybe without these errors they would have been rated more! Moreover, while judging, i tried also to rate the real usefulness that some resources have for Charas. Gary's idea unfortunatly was not listened by many, but in some cases it produced really interesting things, so i leave to Alex the option to manage an extra rate to be given to GoldDean and Moiledzep works. They deserve it, for their shown engagement. I also propose an higher rate to Apex's works for his idea which i really loved, evenif not optimally realized. The best resources at all in my opinion are Saikar's "Awal Armor", Sharu's "Narimi Hair" and Pedro Lion's "Black Armor". Also good is the GoldDean's "Gothic".
J@C This is the first time I judge for contest,so I was not sure of the resource's comments.
I think I did my best,I gave 9 when it was a very good resource,I gave 5 when there were imperfections.
I have not a lot to say,these comments simply are related to my experience, if you aren't shure of your resource's judgement,ask and i will reply ^_^.