At 5/2/08 05:32 PM, beastkid7 wrote: OHH YEAH! tank girl worked hard hope you like it.

Aw man.. that's pretty awesome...
Shame the deadline was the 30th :\

At 4/25/08 08:39 PM, Vousielle wrote: I wonder which entry will win the 'bot category?

I don't believe there IS a 'bot category'...
There's only 3 prize packages total going to the top pic choosen by each of the 3 judges...
Which means all entries are competing against one another...

Or am I mistaken?

Is there anything in particular we need to do on our end as far as contact information?
I was gone all week and didn't find out until today. I was so happy.. thanks Pox!

But point being if an email went out with instructions chances are it got ate by my spam filter before I got a chance to see it :( (and my newgrounds info is a bit... dated...)

Anyways.. thanks for letting me know!

At 3/15/08 11:34 PM, matiou1 wrote: Yeah I guess you're right but those productions you named required big budgets can they do that for Heavy metal I ask you?

Depends on who picks up the production. If it's a big name studio like... Warner, MGM, etc... then probably yeah... I mean think about it... think of the success of say, 300, Sin City, Marvel movies... etc... they were all based off of graphic novels and did emmensely well.

If someone could pen a good script and pitch it the right way... you could have an INCREDIBLE friggin' movie... think of HEAVY METAL with Sin City's production value... *drooool*

It's all in who spear-heads this kind of undertaking.

At 3/15/08 10:36 PM, darx wrote:

At 3/15/08 05:01 AM, poxpower wrote:

They should get the dudes from the Animatrix.
That's EXACTLY the kind of thing that would fit perfectly with Heavy Metal.
And with a sweet-ass soundtrack with some Rammstein, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Scorpions and whoever else they can find.

oh hell yeah, the dudes from the animatrix were awsome

Again I say... Japan. Those were all top notch repected anime artists from a variety of notable series': Aeon Flux, Cowboy Bebop/Samurai Champloo, etc. Get some studio from out east to make it and it would be epic, though I'm sure there'd be haters crying "zOMG anime GTFO weeaboo"...

At 3/15/08 10:11 PM, matiou1 wrote: When it comes to living thing we have a whole other dimension to consider wich is rendering lifelike movements and gestures and I do believe we must give more time to CG evolution before we can reach that living thing feels,

Lord of the Rings?
Final Fantasy Spirits Within?
King Kong? someone? anyone? no?

5 days late? =\

At 3/15/08 01:36 PM, Occluded wrote: New discussion topic: Submitting a design 4 days late is like...(your analogy here)

Is like showing up to the wedding chapel at 5pm when the wedding was at 1. And you were the ring bearer and left your cell at home.

At 3/15/08 03:37 AM, someONEgood wrote:

At 3/15/08 02:03 AM, darx wrote:

At 3/15/08 01:01 AM, poxpower wrote: Mostly CG?
Fuck.

Seriously, where are all of the <strike>old</strike> 2D animators <strike>from the last ones, I'm sensing an epic fail from this movie... it can possibly be good..</strike>

Japan.

Well that failed miserably. XD

At 3/15/08 02:03 AM, darx wrote:

At 3/15/08 01:01 AM, poxpower wrote: Mostly CG?
Fuck.

Seriously, where are all of the <strike>old</strike> 2D animators <strike>from the last ones, I'm sensing an epic fail from this movie... it can possibly be good..</strike>

Japan.

At 3/14/08 03:54 PM, KupaMan wrote: This is related to Heavy Metal, though not explicitly to the contest, but I'll share it anyway: http://movies.ign.com/articles/859/85967 5p1.html

That's awesome! I loved the first Heavy Metal movie, (hence my tribute to the Loc-Nar in my entry ;D) and would love to see a new adaptation. I do hope that they do have some traditional 2D animation though mixed in with the CGI akin to HEAVEY METAL 2000 to keep with the spirit of the magazine...

HM2000 was great eye candy but the story rather sucked IMO.

At 3/13/08 06:00 AM, Undeadjesus wrote:

At 3/13/08 01:50 AM, supery9 wrote: Words solve nothing...I call the Jackhammer!

No, even better! Fucking, Hamtaro Hamsters!!!! YEAHHHH!!! Nothing is cooler than that!!!

HAMSTERS WITH CHAINSAAWS... VRRRMMMDADADADADADA! TO THE EXTREEEEME!

At 3/11/08 12:03 AM, Hypno-Circle wrote: LOL "Director's Cut" at the last second... looks sweet even with random blood slatter!

Very nice someONEgood

Thanks... I posted it cause it was my personal fave... but everyone I showed prefered the red-haired version :\ So it was actually posted first.. it's two entries above the bloody one...

At 3/11/08 12:05 AM, darthnebula wrote: I think getting photo realism is easy enough, it just takes a bloody long ass time to do, and you need to work on a large scale, I was being an idiot and drawing mine at 700x560 from the start when I should have been drawing larger and just resised afterwards once finished.

Yeah I know the feeling... I started with the default size as well.. and as a result I couldn't get near the quality on the girl in the back as I did on the front :\
I still like how mine turned out thought.. even if no one else does XD

Dark creatures rise at the stroke of midnight...
And it's 11:59...

*THUMP* .... click

They're due tonight by midnight EST... :)

Here's Option 2 if the stupid thing actually lets me post again >:(

Option 2:

HALP!

I need some last minute critiques guys.. as well as which of two versions turned out better...
Any comments are much appreciated!

At 3/6/08 12:06 PM, TransforWhores wrote:

At 3/5/08 11:11 AM, someONEgood wrote: NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS!

The girl in the back, look like Cloud in Final Fantasy with his big sword :s

Well then it should go good with Saberfalcons Tifa look alike XD

Any suggestions on what to change? Hair, smaller sword? etc, etc?

NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS!

So after countless hours day after day I've decided to take a break and rest my eyes. As much as I wanted it to be a surprise, my "art eye" is starting to decieve me. So I'm taking a day off, tossing it to the wolves to get some crits, and then I'll come back to it (it helps as you notice stuff you didn't before). As you can tell, I'm use to only drawing nekkid pin-up style airbrushed chicks... with little to no accesories.

Don't worry about how crappy the weapons look right now, that's just to get the basic shape, I'll start adding details when I return.

Overall, how's the composition, lighting, etc?

I've had a lot of fun so far, as I've had to teach myself different tecniques. I.E the methods for metal and rigid objects are much different than say the flesh and hair.

Also I haven't decided if the black winged person should be a boy or girl. Iniitally it was a girl lusting after the more buxom chick, but now I think I might make it a younger boy, the two of them in a sort of "Forbidden Love" scenario.

Please forgive the crappy resolution. Instead of goin' high res and shrinking I just stuck with the designated size as shrinking sometimes causes irregularities in my pinups.

Oh, FF: 23 layers (currently), 25+ hours (a lot of that was experimenting), PS CS2, Intous 2, Spicy Chicken Sandwich + Frosties

Enough rambling, onto the art! :

At 3/3/08 07:24 PM, ApothicFlash wrote: Deadline's getting closer.....
Any comments?

I really really like this Newgrounds inspired design...
I hope you flesh it out considerably more though... It has great potential with some more details...
Keep at it!

Greetings all.
I plan on entering this competition but have some questions. Perhaps they're already posted in a rules section already? Anyways, my main concern is what will entries be judged upon?

I'm only asking because I'd like to use a more dynamic pose, but Heavy Metal Cover Art has always been predominantly straight-forward "pin-up" art. So is the goal to be as similar to the traditional styles and color schemes? Or character design?

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions and apologies if they've been answered elsewhere. :)