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[Aero]

I am not sure - the date for the judging sheets was last Monday but it is possible a judge asked for an extension.  It really is terribly difficult to compare such different artworks.

From the ones I saw we all came up with very different answers too.   imagine it is quite a difficult to reconcile them all.  I have to say that writing about all the art works gave me a different perspective on many of them and I was amazes all over again and the talent that is shown in the workshop.

I do mourn for some that were not finished though, I really wanted to see what they would have turned out like.

[Doctor Overlord]

Edit - Nevermind, Neo answered my question whether contest prizes were like paying in-game stuff for art commisions.

Edited by Doctor Overlord, 25 January 2013 - 11:13 PM.

[Tzu]

WINTERSDAY 2012 WINNERS

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Wintersday Artist Extraordinaire

Awarded an artist who participated actively in the thread, and was a candidate for the Glittering Tinsel Award and at least 1 other Workshop Award.

Winner: Frost Valkyrie

Frost was active, constructive and considered for several awards. In the end, the judges decided she deserved the top prize for her quality entries and helpful spirit.

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Best Progress

Awarded artists who have listened to critique and made a great effort to better his/her entry, regardless of skill level or medium.

* 1st Place
Winner: Feathermoore

Feathermoore posted progress and listened to feedback all the way from outline to finished piece. The judges' all loved his idea and he was considered for different awards, but he was the strongest candidate for this one in particular. Beautifully executed!

* 2nd Place
Winner: Kiya Koreena (Chess Board)

Kiya's frequent updates on the Chess Board project served as both a way for her to improve her craft, and for others to get into the hobby. We've greatly enjoyed following this project!

* 3rd Place
Winner: Frost Valkyrie (Svanta Claus)

Frost frequently posted progress and listened intently to critique and arrived at a very well executed piece of art.

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Grentches Award

Awarded an artist who's piece bowed in the favour of Grenth, for a spookier and cheekier Wintersday.

Winner: Whimzic

Cheeky, funny and original, this entry would greatly please Grenth and his minions. The judges thought this was a thorough piece of art saturated with detail and humour.

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Toymaker Tixx's Award

Awarded an artist who's piece would bring a spiky grin to Tixx' face, a piece with a warm, traditional Wintersday atomsphere.

Winner: Kiya Koreena (Chess Set)

Cute, playful and beautifully crafted, the judges decided this entry would be Tixx' favourite. It's clear that a great deal of effort has been put into this piece, and while it's not traditionally Wintersday in the common sense, this is a gift any child would be excited to unwrap come that special season.

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Nicholas' Award

Awarded an artist who's piece is brimming with Guild Wars nostalgia. It may be related to GW1 or GW2, or maybe even both, as long as it inspires fond memories of past events, places or people in the Guild Wars universe.

Winner: CKABEH 3PEBOB

The old gods celebrating Wintersday GW1 style was a festive blast from the past! This was a detailed and expertly painted artwork which was immediately nostalgic. The portrait of Colin from GW2's manifesto also ties it to the future of the GW universe.

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Glittering Tinsel Award

Awarded an individual who provided quality constructive criticism to the Workshop artists, and generally kept their spirits lifted and inspired throughout. This individual was not necessarily an artist himself/herself, but the most helpful poster ITT
Note: neither Tzu nor Aero are eligible

Winner: Tommy

Helpful and constructive, Tommy offered quality advice to those who requested it, even if he couldn't find time to enter himself.

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Community Award

Awarded an artist chosen by the people. Details on how to vote will be up when the Workshop draws to a close, and anyone may vote for any artist participating in the Workshop - there is no particular criteria other than do not vote for yourself. Anyone who participates in the voting automatically enters a raffle for bonus prizes!

Winner: Kiya Koreena

While it was a very close run, Kiya won the majority of the votes.

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Wintersday Screenshot Competition

Screenshots will be judged based on quality of composition, concept, subject(s), originality and how closely related the screenshot is to the Wintersday theme.

Winner:  Hailfall

Hailfall's originality and humour won the judges over this year. The screenshot had a clear narrative, solid composition and clear resolution.

Addendum: The judging this year took a lot of time as the judges' chosen candidates for each award were often dissimilar but all well reasoned. There were a lot of different candidates chosen in general; a majority of which didn't make it to the final winners list, but in the end this list is what we agreed on. While this is our final decision we think it's important to stress the fact that a lot of different people were considered for the different awards this year and all were more than deserving of a prize. We hope this is a comfort to those not chosen, and thank you for all your beautiful art and hard work! It was a very close call for many of you.


The winners will receive a PM regarding prize logistics. Some have been nominated for more than one Award, but because no one person may claim more than 1 prize, these individuals may choose which Award they want and the remaining prizes will be redistributed.

Edited by Tzu, 28 January 2013 - 11:52 AM.

[Hailfall]

*Bounce* YAY

[Whimzic]

-Squeels- Congratulations everyone!

[Tommy's]

Congrats everyone Pitty Morag is nowhere to be found

Hope my feedback could help people out.
No idea what I won btw, whats a Winged Magic print and a Oink card?

[Doctor Overlord]

Congratulations to everyone!   Really great entries from all the participants

[KiyaKoreena]

Cool, thank you!

[Aero]

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone that contributed, we had some wonderful pieces to judge between.  I know that it was very close and the judges all had different ideas about the best in each category.

Tommy, on 28 January 2013 - 02:56 PM, said:

Congrats everyone Pitty Morag is nowhere to be found

Hope my feedback could help people out.
No idea what I won btw, whats a Winged Magic print and a Oink card?

Yes, simply because of the way the categories work some wonderful pictures were not recognised.  It is always good to remember that the workshop is aimed at the process and the community helping each other, it is not quite the same as competitions that only reward  the best finished piece - although some of the winners are would do well in either category (apparently I can't use smilies because quoting Tommy takes up teh whole quota!)


Individually Signed prints
11” x 8 ½ “
5 x Winged Magic by Kekai Kotaki

2 papercraft cards to make an Oink Bank

[Frost Valkyrie]

o.o!!
Wow I honestly don't know what to think. So very thrilled! THANK YOU! <3
Congrats to everyone

[Morag D]

congrats everyone!

[Minami Kaori]

Congrats everyone.

Good luck in future contests as well.


EDIT: Removed an unnecessary hyphen

EDIT2: I had no idea that one person can win in multiple categories. If I'd known that someone can practically "win" the entire workshop by themselves, I'd have busted my ass through the hovering flu-cloud I had throughout the entire winter and made something fantastic.
Ohwell. Live and learn.

Edited by Minami Kaori, 29 January 2013 - 04:12 PM.

[Viatrix]

Congratulations to the winners!

[Tzu]

Minami Kaori, on 29 January 2013 - 03:37 PM, said:

EDIT2: I had no idea that one person can win in multiple categories. If I'd known that someone can practically "win" the entire workshop by themselves, I'd have busted my ass through the hovering flu-cloud I had throughout the entire winter and made something fantastic.
Ohwell. Live and learn.

You may only win a prize if you were nominated as a candidate for it by the judges. In some cases some prizes only had a few nominated candidates, and one of them had to claim the award - even if only in name. It was the judges' consensus to do this instead of awarding runner-ups random awards they didn't really qualify for simply because they didn't claim a prize elsewhere. As previously mentioned, the remaining prizes will be redistributed in a fair manner. Considering the dilemma the judges' were facing I am in full agreement with them that this was the most just way to do things.

Congratulations everyone.

[Thork_FoE]

FIX!!!! Because you folks don't like PvPers!!!

lol... grats to all the winners, looking forward to the next contest!

/salute

~Thork [FoE]

[Konig Des Todes]

A congrats to the winners; I ran into issues during the past two months and couldn't do any writing so QQ on missing this. But aw well - given who won the category I wanted, it wouldn't have mattered anyways. >.<

[Aero]

I want to thank all the winners for their patience.  I still have some things to arrange before I can send out the prizes.  It should not be long now and you will be notified when they are sent.

Yeah I was sad about the entries I hoped to see that never got finished (or started)

I know FoE's vid got votes

It was so well crafted and although I don't think I understood all the lyrics of the song it was amusingly written and entertainingly 'sung' ^^

[Tommy's]

Thank you and Tzu for putting effort in keeping this annual contest alive Aero! I really appreciate you both for dedicating your time to this. Sadly indeed, the participation was a little bit less this year. I assume people were much like myself quite busy. Besides that, I think the prizes were a little less motivating, as previous editions were linked to Guild Wars 1 art contests. But that should not pressure the fun. We must really keep up with these contests, they are great fun, people help each others and it gets us to be a closed community. And I only assume things will blossom again upcoming years as people will be painting Guild Wars instead of only playing it This contest was very close to the release, people still pushing for goals in game, addicted souls as we are.
I expect next Halloween to be a grant success again!

To all you who participated, thanks for putting time in the community, be sure to do so again next edition.
Funny to consider that one of the Halloween contests was what got me into art!

[Frost Valkyrie]

Just popping in to see if there has been any word on when we can expect things to be sent out?

[Aero]

Frost - sorry they are not sent yet - we decided to allocate the left over prizes and we are just awaiting the final word on that.  Hopefully it will be announced very soon.

[Frost Valkyrie]

alright, ty for the response Aero.

[Tzu]

Those who won more than one award were only allowed to pick the prize pool of one award, and so the prizes they didn't claim had to be redistributed in a fair way. As shipping is privately funded the budget for real life prize logistics also had to be taken into consideration. We solved the issue in the following way:


*** Frost Valkyrie (Wintersday Artist Extraordinaire): GW Mouse Pad; in recognition of her winning more than one prize and being a strong candidate in general.
*** Whimzic (Grentches Award): Winged Magic Print, Oink Bank Cards.
*** CKABEH (Nicholas' Award): Winged Magic Print, Oink Bank Cards.



Additional Awards


Raffle Winner!

A raffle was held as planned among the members who participated in the voting process for the Community Award. The winner of the raffle and the prize awarded is:

Minami Kaori - Guild Wars Limited Edition Print with Certificate of Authenticity!


Community Award Runner Up!

This prize is awarded the runner up for the Community Award, seperated from first place by only one vote! The prize and winner is:

Doctor Overlord - Guild Wars Limited Edition Print with Certificate of Authenticity!


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Gold prizes are being dispatched in-game as soon as possible!

[Aero]

I will be making up and sending out the Prizes packages asap but please bear with me as I may not have any time for that for a week. winners will be notified by pm when the parcels are posted.

[Frost Valkyrie]

Good to hear everything is resolved! Thanks again guys for hosting, was fun. I look forward to this years Halloween/Wintersday workshops

[Minami Kaori]

O yey!

What is a "Guild Wars Limited Edition Print with Certificate of Authenticity!" ?

[Aero]

7 x Series 1 Limited Edition Art Print
13" x 19"
with Anet’s quirkily worded Certificate of Authenticity‘You are beyond cool to have the intelligence to seek out this sanctioned, signed and numbered limited edition art…..’
“Floating Mosque”
Signed by Daniel Dociu
or
“Procession of Balthazar”
Signed by Jaime Jones



Due to unexpected real life issues I will still need some more time before I am in a position to sort out the prizes, I will get to it as soon as I can.

Edited by Aero, 27 February 2013 - 10:04 PM.
amended wording

[Tommy's]

Nooooo, there was a Jaime Jones print too? I want that one! Anyone want to trade for Winged Magic of Kekai Kotaki?

[Aero]

Ok Sorry for the delay, Most prizes are sent, there are 3 still to go.

You wil get a pm when yours is mailed.  Please post here when you receive them.

[Doctor Overlord]

Tzu, on 19 February 2013 - 11:17 PM, said:

Community Award Runner Up!

Oh cool!   I stopped checking this thread after the winners were announced    I appreciate getting the runner-up prize, it's kind of nice to hear I missed 1st place by one vote lol  (Especially against such an awesome entry like Kiya's!)

"Missed it by -that- much"  (Sorry for the classic and esoteric TV reference)

Edited by Doctor Overlord, 07 March 2013 - 11:30 PM.

[Frost Valkyrie]

Got my package today Aero! Thanks a bunch <3