Judges are currently hard at work judging all final entries. While we wait, to conclude Dominance War IV, we are keeping this final mini challenge easy, fun and creative. So this year’s conclusive worldwide 2d mini challenge topic is:

War General Pet Portraits!

The rules are simple – Artists are to render a single pet in a picture-framed 2d Illustration. No multiple creatures in one image and don’t include any part of a master/owner in the image. Pets can be a dog, a small dragon, a multi-headed worm, a bear, a pet demon, an undead pixy, a small cute robot, basically anything that is smaller then a bear and can fit into a house. A pet giant robot is not what we are looking for. Pets can be from any time period, any race and any unnatural race (undead, demons, robots etc). Your pet must include your team’s logo somewhere on his body or on his accessories. How you incorporate your team’s logo into your entry, we leave this up to you.

You have 9 days (2 weekends plus 5 days) to finish with the following specs:
- Create a single illustration in full color.
- You can use any software package to achieve your final result.
- You MUST include a picture-frame in your final illustration.

Additional Notes:
- Artists cannot switch teams during challenges. If you were on Polycount’s team in our first mini challenge or main event, you must remain on Polycount's team during this mini challenge.
- As always, entering a mini challenge is optional. It is not required.
- Posting your work in progress in this single thread is ABSOLUTLY MANDATORY.
- You can only submit ONE 1000x1000 (up to 1000x1000. Smaller dimensions are fine) 350k final image and this image must include your team’s logo, your War General Pet’s name, and your personal name and/or contact details.
- Only 1 entry per person. Do not create or try to create multiple entries with different user names.
- Yes, entering both the 3d and 2d sections of this challenge is fine.
- Final submissions are final. If you upload your final image 4 days before the deadline, do not ask us to change it. Make sure you are happy with your image before you submit it into the system.
- Public voting starts June 3rd and ends June 7th. When public voting is over, each team’s best entries are gathered together into a single pool and a grand mini champion will be chosen and announced with all other Dominance War IV event champions in mid June.
Start date: Friday May 22nd 2009 - 1:00am Eastern Time
End Date: Monday June 1st 2009 - 11:59pm Eastern Time
2D Submission link:
2d: http://www.gameartisans.org/contests...ycount_2d.html

Good luck to all those who enter!

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Posting this for you guys I think your mods are sleeping hopefully they dont get mad. Feel free to edit this later on Jesse or Adam.

hmmm 2d ... 3d... tough one, have some hours left to decide,

oh gawd, dont know what to do!

I'm in! Just for fun. Not a lot of strength left.
Are we to show our work here and edit the post
in order to avoid messy thread?
First idea:

All posts have to be in this thread sorry.

Ok, thanks!
Little update on weasel pet:

Starting adding colours.
Still very flat.

Heh, nice work Garagarape, he is quite classy. I love Ermines, so cute.

Thanks Bal!
I've changed the colours a bit.
Have to add volumes and make it more
"Oil painting" looking. Never did that before.
I Wonder if I'm abble...

Fake glaze added.
A fake flash light could be fun.
But wonder if the curator would appreciate

Garagarape is riding solo for team green in the 2D section... We need more competitors, count me in! Starting late, sorry I had a headache all weekend . I'll post in a couple hours.

Thinking about going pirate on this one. I really love tarsiers, they're my favorite animal.

Alright here's my start

Yeah, Wicked-J is right. We need more fighters here.
There is a lot of moves on other sites.
We're gonna be surrounded! And have to surrender
A last update for the weasel. It seems that we can't
post final work yet. Anyway, I'll upload it later on
and wait for a while just in case I change my mind
about details. Let's 3d!

Update from yesterday...

Character is starting to come through...

Man, it is so quiet in here. Kind of scary.
I like your tarsier pirate very much. Will keep an eye on it.
Be careful with its leg. Seems to be twisted in your last version.
Can't wait to see more.

very good start from garagarape and wicked-j

I should be joining you guys as well. here is my quick wip for this one, will still be adding onrnaments for the creature.



cheers!

Thanks for the comments everyone...

garagarape: I fixed the leg, all is well. I just need to post an update . Don't know if I'll add anymore to the picture. I tend to make things too busy so I'll layoff and focus on painting. Nice Job so far, keep going.

Jeff MD: Nice! I like the dragon/fishy type thing you got going. Pillows are always a nice touch for a general pet. Interested to see how you add to it.

On a different note:
I looked around and it seems this 2nd Challenge isn't as popular as the first. I didn't count more than 75 2D challengers through all the forums combined... Lol, almost seem like if you submit you have a high chance of getting into the top 20 or even 10.

Hey! I'm in!
I hope I will have the time to finish this since I'm very busy these days :o



Framing isn't definitive.

Yeah. Fantastic!
Now we are four.
Go go go Polycount team!

thanks, wicked-j.

Nice for you to join in too, funshark! go team polycount!

another update for me



cheers!

Nice work so far everyone! If I can scrape up some extra time I'll throw something together, not that I'd be the strongest addition :P ... oh for 48 hour days.

Whoo boy, did I chose a bad time to get busy and dissappear from PC for a few days... Not a lot of time, but maybe if I get some inspiration I'll throw something in


Quality over quantity! So not a lot of people entering 2D....but from what I see, we got the quality side down Liking what I see here, gl to all entering!

Do it mezz, do it!

(pssshh go for a squirrel!)

Another update... This is still a bit too dark. I'm working on finishing the shirt, gold coins, hat/feathers and skull today. Legs are almost finished but not in this update. I'll get to the pillow, fur detail, candle flame, etc. tomorrow.

Aftermath, I have a question about the 2D submission link.
It doesn't seem to work yet (going to the #1 mini).
Is there something wrong about it or will it be fixed later on?
Thank you.