Preserved Topic: ATTN: All Asylum Members (this means you).....(*and* you too)

Well.... if any of you recall...
waaayyyy back in this thread ---> http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum3/HTML/002878.html
an italian fella from this forum ---> http://www.psd.it/forum
said that they were starting an international board competition for photoshop.

So... we had to pick 5 members to compete.
We did that.
And the results are here ---> http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum1/HTML/005743.html

Anyway.... the competition started a few weeks ago.
And tonight it has ended.
Images from every other forum are scheduled to be posted sometime tomorrow for a week long voting process.

Members of the Asylum will be able to vote on all the competing images with the exception of the Asylum team's entry. And it goes the same way for the other competing boards.

As we haven't been kept up to date by the italian forums..... here's who we know is participating...

* The Ozone Asylum
* The Gurus Network
* Somethingleet.com
* PSD.IT Forums

I haven't seen anything from Somethingleet.com..... so we're not sure if they're going to make an entry.
The Gurus Network, on the other hand has been working diligently...
and from the looks of things.... so has PSD.IT.

So what's this post for?
Hype, of course.
Get ready to vote on some images in the following week. The rules for voting, and the manner it shall be done will all be explained when the time arises..... so don't sweat that.

Furthermore....
As the captain of the Asylum team... I figured it'd be best to address all of you...... and tell you the story of Team Ozone Asylum..... and how horrible this experience has been.... heh.

First of all...
take a look at our team...

DocOzone
Izzay
Mahjqa
Synax
Michael

If you ever thought you could put together a larger crowd of procrastinators .................................................................................................................................................................................... .................................................................................................................................................................................... .................................................................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................... you were wrong.

heh.

We got a late jump on this.
And we are all much busier people than we thought we were.
This became very apparent to all of us that it was going to take more time than we really had.
Not to mention... the pressure started comin' early from the GN........ and their members have seemed quite excited all the way along...... so it was certainly in the back of *my* mind.... that they were producing an image to be reckoned with.

Coupled with the late start on the project...... we came into numerous other problems.
Real life, for one.
Izzay and Synax have been rediculously busy lately.... and time is/was something that neither had.
Mahjqa's been workin on numerous things as well..... and he was scarce.
The Doc...... heh... well.. he's the Doc... and we know he's busy.

So anyway... to make a long story longer....
The image got started on at 12:01 in the morning.... on November 12th.
Since then... it's been a mad dash.
Working... uploading.... coordinating.... and hating every bit of it.
Then... as progress started to pick up... and we started getting in a small groove of times to work on this thing.........................
Internet problems.
As we all know........ the Asylum went down....
Well..... my site is also hosted by the lovable Dreamhost...... and guess what...... my site was part of the 10% that went down as well.
Hosted psd files all stagnant at that point.
And seeing as none of us are in the same time zone.......... that caused a bit of problem, as we weren't online at the same time to see what point the image was at last.... and who had it.
Soooo..... after working through that problem, compliments of an Aussie fellow that has no idea he helped us.....
we got back on track, somewhat.

The last two nights have looked something like this on my desk each night...



and i have no doubt that a few of my teammates have had it the same way.

Sooooooooooooooo.... we've been really busy tonight with last minute coordination and decisions. I can't tell you how many turns this fuckin thing has taken. (sorry emps... i just *had* to swear.... ehehe)
And if i've been "short" with any of you on Q lately.... this thing is why.

I think I can speak for the entire team when I say...
I'm glad this is over...... I really am.

So anyway....
you guys aren't voting on the Asylum image.....
and we were picked by you guys..... to represent you guys......

so i guess we owe it to ya, to give you a look at what we've strung together.

The theme was.... "the evil inside"...
It had a maximum size of 800 x 600...... and 150k.

And here's the result....



Cheers to my teammates.
I know it's been a bitch.



FAQs n' Bits: Michael

What a very, very awesome pic... What a strange looking maynard ...

Heh, so where can we see the other forums graphics?

YAHH!!!

Lets all Hear it for Michael... Man... that bad boy put in more work then would ever be thunked... much more than what was healthy. You really did a great job of starting this and keeping it going... as well as painting like a psycho/caffeinated/madman. Cheers Mate! I hope you will lead us again some day!


                                     

That's a *really* good image. Well done all. I'd love to see it at its various stages and see who contributed what.

*cracks into psycho laughter... bah...HAHAHAHAHA...*

"Various stages" - you have no idea, Slime...

Yeah. If it wasn't for Michael, we'd have no entry at all. This man did an INSANE amount of work and dragged our asses through it. Big thanks to him!
It was a...different...experience Not pleasurable, but not without its benefits.

Done, woo!

Well i'm impressed but then again that's not too difficult *L*.

ettie

very good!! you guys did an excellent job!!

so you five painted this togehter?

*looks real REAL funny at ettie*

Yalp.

Michael started it.
we argued.
Synax painted.
we got depressed...
Izzay painted... and deleted...
we got confused...
Synax didnt like what we were doing...
we got angered...
Mahjqa Tossed pixels around here and there... and joined in the fray.
we laughed...
DocOzone stepped in at the last hour or so and helped finish.
We now are going to sleep.

It was a *pass the psd* kind of thing... at the end we had about 3 different psd being worked on at the same time.

[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 11-16-2002).]

No no no. Not "short" - That was just your 'artistic temperment' coming thru. Superior work there 'Team' and a keeper for sure.

eyezaer..

I am impressed quite easily....easy to please ..easy to be in awe...not a bad thing really. :-)

ok then.
i think i should say you guys produced an awesome work with lots of details! weadah would be proud!

oh... um.... hehehehe.... I thought you meant... never mind... i need sleep. Cheers!

oh and Slime... I have almost 30 psd's... yah.

Praise be to Michael. He dragged our sorry asses through.
Also, the rest of the team... Next time we'll start a day earlier.

'Night, all.

eyezaer..



Actually i just wish i could do that so .....!!


Ettie.. *smiles*

Great Job everyone!!! That is an awesome pic. It looks like a lot of hard work went into it and I am sure that it will do well in the contest.

Later,
C:\


~Binary is best~

Oh, in case anyone was interested here's the full 1280x960 resolution version.

~ Wonders in form GN's team..... "sshhh I'am not might to be here but........." ~

I have to say nice work there team ozone , very nice!!!.............

~ ............... DL grabs me by the neck.....arrgghh........ ~

COPEY

SUH-WEET!

I honestly thought you guys were screwed with the late start. Nice gestation, procrastination, conflagration, dedication, piccie.

we work *only* under last minute pressure. heh.

[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 11-16-2002).]

Awesome work you guys. Well done.

Amaazzzing. The procrastinators club comes through. And in style.

You are smokin`......

Ripped from the voting thread (oops):

that's hard as heck, PSD.it has it hands down for concept but GN shows some craft. I simply can't decide right now. Holy moly, gonna have to gnit pick at the rules I guess.

Nice job

Jason

Great and amazing work!

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"I don't know half of you as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve" - Bilbo Baggins (S.R 1401)

on a side note........ the voting over as PSD.IT is taking place here-----> http://www.psd.it/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1270

and you all know your way to the GN.

FAQs n' Bits: Michael

I'm kind of disappointed in the comments over at PSD.it. Especially the "two disappointing sketches" comment. I guess in order for any of them to see the theme of the picture, we'd have to write "EVIL INSIDE" on the picture with a damn arrow pointing to the focus...

Doh well.

you're disappointed in their comments? i thought they were rather forgiving...

and yeah, what's up with the guru's picture having the wrong image appear in the mirror?

psd.it did a pretty decent job on their piece, definitely my favorite. too bad more forums didn't compete.

&c.

this is awesome!
congrats to you guyz
you've done a nice job!!

-THE SPACE-

OK, now this is all done I do have one thing to get off my chest:

Working with 5 other people is great, but working with 5 people on the one file/image is too many IMHO. It if was a series of images, or a multimedia project of sorts that involved other kinds of work outside of photoshop then it would have been better.

I just think that with 5 people and only 800x600 pixels it's hard to let each member shine.

As PSD.it said, they let every member contribute to the concept, then they picked 5 to make the image. Although to be honest, after the concept had been worked out, that image could have been done by one person in just a couple of hours.

Hell, even with the Guru's or Asylum image one person could have done the PS work for iw within the given ammount of time with days to spare.

So, while it was fun I can't really see the point to a 5 person team if it's just one image. But maybe that's just me.

EDIT:

Hey Michale, ya got the exact same puter Box as me! Although mine doesn't contain any trace of it's inital gateway innards. I knew there was something oddly fimilar about all of those coffee cups sitting next to a puter case like that. Hah.

[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 11-16-2002).]

Also to add to Dracs "off the chest post" which I do think is right about 5 people is a little to much for just one image. I think its crap with just one image import.

Most people are photo manipulators not full digital painters. Even though I think full digital painting is fun, it's not for every one. There are more photo manips people about than talented painters, so why no more than one photo import?...hhhmmmm...

Maybe I'm just pissed at the fact there was only one photo to play with, as I normally play with about five to 10 photos at a time on one art piece.... though really one photo is good in some ways, as it makes you think more what to do with one photo and how important a right photo is for it all to work. Its just not for me with one photo.......oh well I?m just having rant ........

Over all it was nice to work with 5 people and create something what we all had in are head to create?

~ wonders off back to cell??. With photo withdrawal symptoms ?? .~

COPEY

weeeelll...

If one has a solid plan to start with... then One coud do the job... providing he had all the painting skills needed.... and providing that one had a lot of time...

Michael... Its the pointy ears man.... i guess pointy ears = devil.

wow.. hehehe.

[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 11-16-2002).]

You know we don't have stop here.

We can have our own civil battles. It's simple, like pong we just find 5 people that are willing to work together (well in this case 10, 5 on each team) and pick a theme. The make a graphic, the asylum votes on it. Simple. I wouldn't mind something like that at all. Maybe if it is as hectic as people have described above, we can lower it to maybe a 4v4, 3v3, possibly a 2v2. That could be great... What do you all think?

I'm impressed as well...especially given the fact this was a remote effort between all of you.

I would imagine the most diffult challenge here was merging 5 very fluent styles.

As for the late start, I have found that more creativity flows from *the night before* than any other time during a deadline. Call it procrastination if you will. I call it conceptualizing. Good job fellas [with a hint of jealousy on the side].

"I call it conceptualizing"

That's just a nice name for 'stress induced productivity' right?

yeah, what is up with that wrong mirror image?

I guess next time we need mikey to work it al lout for us, he couldn't possibly make any mistakes on anything.

sorry, it's just that i figured if i was working on a somewhat important project with four other people it might dawn upon someone to find a mirror and see if one of the main points of emphasis in the piece made any fucking sense whatsoever.

just a minor detail of course.

That would involve one of us having a mirror ....AND enough sense to think of checking ..at the same time.


Fat chance.

I just thought it enhanced the inner evilness of it all

Most of those comments seem pretty positive (it is also only the voting thread).

I'm embarassed to say that I thought to check and for some reason thought it was fine.

I'm going with Nimraw's interpretation

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Yep. if I was working on an important project and had the time to verify what seemed correct at the time (and which nobody else noticed was not), I might have done so.

Considering this was a "spare time" project that involved a lot of hard work, it escaped.

So sorry to offend your fine sensibilities mikey.

if we are going to drop down to technicalities and ignore the piece as a whole, since when the f..k did a kid that age ever have a moustache (i mean the pd.it image), that was what was called artistic license, without that fake mosutache, no one would have put 2 + 2 together and got hitler from it.

so just because of an inverted mirror image peopel are knocking what i think is the best image, but not one person has brought up the fact that kids that age rarely have a moustache, and hitler certainly didnt...

GN TEAM YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!

My 0.2c (not that it's worth much)

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That's just a nice name for 'stress induced productivity' right?

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Yes Drac, I guess that would be a better way of putting it...

Well, to be honest with you, while I like the Asylum piece as a work of art, I think I like the GN piece in terms of theme. And I didn't think that the comments over on PSD.it were that harsh, actually.

Heck, mikey milker was probably harsher than the whole lot of them put together.

Something for the obits?:

"mikey milker: Harsher than a bunch of Italians rolled together"

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

when he can take it as well as dish it out then we can write about it.

You know, the asylum image looks strangly like tax ~cough~ Michael fighting with Mr. Sock, or whatever it's name is.