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choptop82 wrote:It's not "just to make them happy." The rules of this derby clearly state "no text". Plus, not to be a Druish princess, but somebody else already posted a Curious George shirt with Bush's face.

Druish princess? I HATE word filters.

wils9745 wrote:Prefer not, but I never said this was a quick design either. You *clearly* spent a lot of time on this in order to harness the purest elements from your original concepts.

The re-interpretation aspect of your design, even with your explanation, still comes off as subjective. The strongest designs (actually) are the ones that can most clearly convey the point and purpose of the message to your audience. The sheer fact you needed a paragraph-long explanation kinda negates your point.

Using a book about drawings as an illustration is lazy and its no better than using a paint-by-numbers book to show off your skills in color-theory.

You're obviously getting votes though, so I wouldn't sweat it too much, right?

What is it with you annoyingly passive-aggressive gits commenting on all of Travis's entries lately?

eHalcyon wrote:Adder has no love for anything that vacuums hosewater.

And I don't think he's particular fond of your mom either.

fix'd?

choptop82 wrote:Druish princess? I HATE word filters.

Not sure if I can edit without resubmitting a new one. If anything, the woot guys can just remove the text before printing, no?

Re: Inspired by Round the Moon

pretty.. but..


OK.. Ill bite.. how is this "round the moon"?

Its based on the titles alone.. not the content..

not seeing the theme.

tgentry wrote:
Just because these style of drawings can be found in the book (in point of fact the actual book is on how to draw cartoon animals) doesn't mean the title hasn't been reinterpreted. I assume there's an eclipse in the book Eclipse. There's a lion, witch, and wardrobe in the book The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Just because it uses an element that can be found in the original book doesn't mean the title hasn't been twisted around.

I'm pretty sure there's nothing but teenage vampire sex in eclipse. Little else. Probably no eclipse, tho. I'd doubt there are even full sentences.

And I personally applaud this shirt. It's an easy way out as a title, but the way you took that title and built a concept around it is what makes it shine. I was going to headdesk/facepalm/faceplasm (what do the hip wooters do these days?) when I saw the title... oh god, someone crapped 101 animals on a shirt... but you made a concept from it. And we needn't discuss the rabbit... what better animal to make your point? For anyone else it would have ended up a cop-out. You took a gimme idea and took it to a whole other level. And that is why you win so damn much.

Explodinggreenllama wrote:*headdesk*
I had no idea this was a book! Gosh, for me, the movie came out when I was like....5 or something and I loved loved loved it so much, I still do 11 years later, but damn, I'm definitely going to have to read it now....

And America is stuck in my head too xP

It was written by Peter Beagle, and is a very charming read. You're in for a treat!

wils9745 wrote:Prefer not, but I never said this was a quick design either. You *clearly* spent a lot of time on this in order to harness the purest elements from your original concepts.

The re-interpretation aspect of your design, even with your explanation, still comes off as subjective. The strongest designs (actually) are the ones that can most clearly convey the point and purpose of the message to your audience. The sheer fact you needed a paragraph-long explanation kinda negates your point.

Using a book about drawings as an illustration is lazy and its no better than using a paint-by-numbers book to show off your skills in color-theory.

You're obviously getting votes though, so I wouldn't sweat it too much, right?

Gotta disagree with this. I believe that most people who looked at this got the re-interpretation aspect immediately. But since some people didn't see to "get it", Travis had to lay it all out in simple terms. Often it's the simple stuff that's hardest to explain because most people just understand it.

As for using a book about drawings - I thought that was supremely clever. While everyone else was looking for popular novels and classic literature, Travis thought outside of the box. I applaud the creativity and don't think it's lazy whatsoever.

Re: Inspired by Harold and the Purple Crayon

awww i love this

Shoppingdingo wrote:pretty.. but..


OK.. Ill bite.. how is this "round the moon"?

Its based on the titles alone.. not the content..

not seeing the theme.

The theme requires you to base it on the title alone, not the content.

Perfectly on theme.

Re: The Sound And The Fur(r)y

Mike Honcho presents The Sound And The Fur(r)y. See what Mike Honcho did there... Furry... Mike Honcho is a jokester.

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=25279]

Ooh, I hope he's not really driving and reading at the same time. Then he really *would* be a dummy!

gmv, great design!

Shoppingdingo wrote:pretty.. but..


OK.. Ill bite.. how is this "round the moon"?

Its based on the titles alone.. not the content..

not seeing the theme.

My interpretation is that he's painting, ie: "rounding out" the moon. It's taking a pretty liberal twist of basic diction and syntax, but I can see it.

I feel like I should dislike this, but I cannot bring myself to. It's quite interesting visually, and the giraffe is a great "huh" element. My main concern is the dark silhouette on dark colour, as always. We'll see in the print, I suppose.

Gaddfly wrote:'tarded and stoopid.

who would actually wear this on a shirt?

I'm sad and once again disheartened to see people vote carp like this into the fog when amazing artistry (like Draxxx's design) slips down the list.....shameful.

Wow. You guys are mean around here.

I think this shirt is cute. My nephew would look cute in it. And I think it's clever with all the hairs on the pottery in the background. I chuckled at that.

vykarius wrote:Not sure if I can edit without resubmitting a new one. If anything, the woot guys can just remove the text before printing, no?

nope. They will just reject it... plus, your entry has a political/celebrity face in it. Those are typically rejected as well, just for that fact.

eHalcyon wrote:But since some people didn't see to "get it", Travis had to lay it all out in simple terms.

There seems to be many people who don't "get things" around here. It's like they are purposely being obtuse and excessively negative. It's weird.

Anyways, I enjoy this design. It's a very cute rabbit. (:=

Re: Inspired by Everyone Poops

I just kept waiting and waiting. I was sure someone was going to... but alas, I had to take it into my own hands. "Everyone Poops", a children's classic. My kids love this book, I had to do something. Potty humor is an integral part of parenthood, not to mention it's just funny seeing a snake on the toilet.

mjc613 wrote:The eggs look more like droppings to me. Maybe it is because of their placement near the pig's rear.

well the pig was supposed to be laying the green eggs... whatevs. I'll try harder next time.

AdderXYU putting words in eHalcyon's mouth wrote: Adder has no love for anything that vacuums hosewater.

And I don't think he's particular fond of your mom either.

AdderXYU wrote:fix'd?

No. No, I don't think so. . .

eHalcyon wrote:But since some people didn't see to "get it", Travis had to lay it all out in simple terms. Often it's the simple stuff that's hardest to explain because most people just understand it.

As for using a book about drawings - I thought that was supremely clever. While everyone else was looking for popular novels and classic literature, Travis thought outside of the box. I applaud the creativity and don't think it's lazy whatsoever.

Is there really anything to "get"? I appreciate "Travis" filling me in but none of his reasoning was really "outside the box".

Re: Inspired by the Call of the Wild

This reminds me of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Anyway, like like the idea, but I feel like I grew out of this style 10 years ago. I'm on the bandwagon and think that the hot chick morphing or swirling is getting pretty trite... even for a tee-shirt site. It just reminds me of something my 40 yr old D&D playing creepy neighbor dude would wear.

teeatta wrote:Yeah, you make it sound so easy, I'm tryin', sorry I'm not a geek.
Ikeep pulling in the t-shirt file, then my design ends up like the head of a pin picture. You maybe got some helpful critical advice?

Judging from all the artifacts in your image it just looks like you made it too small. You should be using vector images for this kind of thing before rasterizing so you can scale it without losing resolution.

It seems a big aspect of competitions is in understanding the rules to submit a proper entry. Maybe you just need some more time before submitting another entry to practice.

JadenKale wrote:nope. They will just reject it... plus, your entry has a political/celebrity face in it. Those are typically rejected as well, just for that fact.

Well whatev. Just thought I'd give this whole thing a go. Maybe next week I'll really look into the guidelines. Too busy at the moment to modify and resubmit. Do they reject political/celebrity faces because its considered "defaming"? Either way, the man was a Druish princess.

Re: Inspired by Everyone Poops

This is funny

Re: Inspired by The Giver

I love the illustration and the placement on the shirt. Not the kinda shirt I would personally wear, but I can appreciate a fine piece of work. Well done.

Re: Inspired by Round the Moon

I really really disliked this shirt at first. Or maybe I just wanted to hate it because there is a tree and a moon and a silhouette and a giraffe, however, the more I look at it the more I really really like it. Good job on messing with my brain.

Re: Inspired by the Call of the Wild

I can't wait to buy this!!!! It's weird that it's always in the fog but never on new hotness. Hope it wins!

Re: Inspired by How to Draw 101 Animals

I really hope this shirt makes it into the fog. I'm a bit of a newb to shirt.woot.com and this is the first shirt I REALLY want.

I was the first too comment, but I'll say it again, very nice work here.

Re: Insp: The Water Horse

Interesting technique, but I can barely make out the horse in there. Cool looking none the less.

Re: inspired by Steppenwolf

Wow. This needs to be getting more attention. This is awesome.

Re: Inspired by The Polar Express

Epic-ly cute.

dude, you don't know how much this makes me want to go to my parent's house and dig out my old Crash Test Dummies set... love this design!

Man I forgot about those! My neighbors had some, and I was sooo jealous.

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=25297]Inspired by

Ah, thank you for the explanation. Now at least I understand the wardrobe/mask confusion.
I am sorry if the fact that I LIKE the illustration did not come across in my previous comment. It is very well done and the characters are very expressive. I just didn't "GET" it.

vykarius wrote:Not sure if I can edit without resubmitting a new one. If anything, the woot guys can just remove the text before printing, no?

If you're not willing to take the time to fix it and resubmit, why would they be willing to take the time to fix your mistake for you?

leecetheartist wrote:

Thank you very much for your kind words. Well, I'll put it up in my Zazzle shop when the time limit expires. I'm glad I did it.

I'll look for it!!!

Re: Inspired by the 3 Musketeers

Wouldn't this be the 9 musketeers because each candy bar is 3 musketeers?

choptop82 wrote:If you're not willing to take the time to fix it and resubmit, why would they be willing to take the time to fix your mistake for you?

What I meant was, if by some magical chance, the submission made it to the top 3, all they would have to do it eliminate the text, since in the print-ready submission the colors are separated into layers. It would take a mouse click or two. And besides, people are already saying it will get rejected because it has Dubya in it. Kind of a lost cause at this point. BUt thanks anyways.

Can you guess what all the games are?

Re: inspired by War and Peace

Thanks for the comments so far. I appreciate getting some constructive feedback so I can improve my future entries.