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Postby Sunstar » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:50 pm

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Hey the canadian flag works... I don't mind rewriting history in favour of canada :grin: ;;)
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Postby 1337W422102 » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:56 pm

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My idea is Canadian-theme, too. Now if only I can find a way to make realistic-looking fire without actually starting a fire...
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Postby Omega-1 » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:51 pm

Because the theme is recreate a historical scene and not recreate a historical photo, I've reversed the angle of the scene to create a better photo (so that we are looking at the front of the toys rather than their backs).

Also, why use fake fire when you can use real fire. :P
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Postby Barricade » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:38 am

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83457W422102 wrote:My idea is Canadian-theme, too. Now if only I can find a way to make realistic-looking fire without actually starting a fire...
i used a crumpled up magazine add for my fire.... and it came out ok
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Postby Samsonator » Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:31 am

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mine's up... more recent on the historical scale, but still a memorable shot
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Postby Calenatarion » Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:35 am

Great so see everyone being so positive about this theme. We thought it was pretty hard to come up with a nice one. We hope we can continue with a large number of participants, just like the 2nd or 3rd contest.

So if you have any friends who might think this is interesting, just tell them to come to SEIBERTRON.com! Also, tell other members about this contest, maybe you know some people who have entered before.
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Postby General Magnus » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:00 am

crap, my tianamen ideas was alread done :(
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Postby Dr. Caelus » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:56 am

Cujo wrote:does my entry count?????? :oops: it's a historical event...... :oops: ... but i'll understand if it doesnt count..... atleast i gave it a try :D oh and the meteor is a transformer.... it's a huddled up cybertron optimus prime with a crumpled magazine page sticking out of his a** :P


But... you put a mammoth in the picture! :P

To bad you didn't have one of the movie preview figs. :lol:
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Postby 1337W422102 » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:18 pm

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Omega-1 wrote:Also, why use fake fire when you can use real fire. :P

I dunno, possible damage to the toys, set, background, my house, etc? :lol:

Your fire looks really good, Cujo, I'll have to do some experimenting.

I'll be sure to tell TheTouch about the Contest later this week.
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Postby Calenatarion » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:02 pm

Cujo, check your PMs please.
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Postby Overcracker » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:16 pm

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Rules People, read the Rules.

All entries, should be 640*480px.

General Magnus if you would be so kind as to reduce your entry image, we would appreciate it.
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Postby General Magnus » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:19 pm

Overcracker wrote:Rules People, read the Rules.

All entries, should be 640*480px.

General Magnus if you would be so kind as to reduce your entry image, we would appreciate it.


sorry :P
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Postby Overcracker » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:23 pm

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Wow that was fast General Magnus. Thank You.
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Postby Barricade » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:01 pm

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Caelus wrote:
Cujo wrote:does my entry count?????? :oops: it's a historical event...... :oops: ... but i'll understand if it doesnt count..... atleast i gave it a try :D oh and the meteor is a transformer.... it's a huddled up cybertron optimus prime with a crumpled magazine page sticking out of his a** :P


But... you put a mammoth in the picture! :P

To bad you didn't have one of the movie preview figs. :lol:
i put nemesis prime in it cause i'm lacking in the dino transformers

i know when i was trying to figure out how to make the comet i said that to myself :P
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Postby Calenatarion » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:03 am

Come on people, where are the entries? :grin:
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Postby Sunstar » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:04 am

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mine depends if I can play with astrotrain or nt... Ever since the idea of histoy acame around I had an idea. But I need astrotrain.
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Postby 1337W422102 » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:01 pm

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Calenatarion wrote:Come on people, where are the entries? :grin:

I'm working on it, I'm working on it...
Calenatarion wrote:Well, whatever you're doing, do it faster!

/endRaidersReference

I'll start work on mine as soon as I can, but I have some school stuff to get out of the way first. What's the deadline, again?

One more thing: Could we have the Photocontest story Stickied in the News? More people would enter if they knew about it, I'm sure.
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Postby Duke of Luns » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:03 pm

Come on people, where are the entries?


Mine'll hopefully be in later this week. I have the idea, but I'm only able to do it on Wednesdays. I'll get one in one way or the other before deadline, count on it.
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Postby Overcracker » Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:32 pm

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83457W422102 wrote:One more thing: Could we have the Photocontest story Stickied in the News? More people would enter if they knew about it, I'm sure.


That's odd, I though it got newsified back when we posted it? Well Can somebody from the News Crew please!!! Newsify it. Thank you.

Ohh and Newsify the Actual Contest thread, not this conmmentary one.
Thank you again.

However, It has been stickied to the top of the toy forum since it was posted. [url=http://www.seibertron.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1146&sid=15c6eff8c6d74c15cd47923eb19267f6"]Photocontest thread. Entries and Rules can be found here. [/link]

*EDIT* The Deadline is Monday March 5.
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Postby 1337W422102 » Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:10 pm

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Overcracker wrote:
83457W422102 wrote:One more thing: Could we have the Photocontest story Stickied in the News? More people would enter if they knew about it, I'm sure.


That's odd, I though it got newsified back when we posted it? Well Can somebody from the News Crew please!!! Newsify it. Thank you.

Ohh and Newsify the Actual Contest thread, not this conmmentary one.
Thank you again.

However, It has been stickied to the top of the toy forum since it was posted. [url=http://www.seibertron.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1146&sid=15c6eff8c6d74c15cd47923eb19267f6"]Photocontest thread. Entries and Rules can be found here. [/link]

*EDIT* The Deadline is Monday March 5.

Thanks, mate! But I meant to have it stickied on the News reel. News changes every day and very quickly, so it would be best if the Contest was stuck to the news, or at least Feature Highlighted on the front page. It'll spread the word better that way. If I hadn't logged on the day the Photocontest story was in the news, I probably wouldn't have known about it.
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Postby Duke of Luns » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:18 pm

My entry's up! Questions, comments, anything?

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The general idea I thought was interesting, and I thought I pulled it off well enough. I used the first capital inaguration cause it looked like the easiest pic to replicate, while adding my own little touch.

The reason why Sparkplug is on Bumblebee's shoulder's is cause I thought it would be funny to have a Mini-con not being able to see well enough from the ground.
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Postby 1337W422102 » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:29 pm

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I don't really understand the use of Sparkplug. Is there a kid in the drawing? I didn't really give it a good lookdown. I really like how Hot Shot is holding the rifle.

Holy crap, that Harry Defeats Truman one was awesome!
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Postby smallworm » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:30 pm

I used photoshop to reduce the image size. Is that ok?
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Postby Dr. Caelus » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:05 pm

Smallworm's 9/11 photo is very well thought out and executed, without a doubt, if the contest was reproducing a famous photo, I think he would have the contest so far in hand, just because of the attention to detail.

Nevertheless, my personal favorite so far is the Dewey-defeats-Truman one. One of the funniest historical events made funnier with Transformers. To be 100% though it needed to be rendered in black and white.
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Postby Sunstar » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:09 am

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I got mine up :D I love black and white.
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