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Re: When I grow up I'll destroy the world

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Thanks guys!

Re: CHOMP!

Great character!

Re: The four Horsemen

Teletubbies FTW! Nice colors too.

Re: The Very Last Drop

great balance of cute and sinister, nice work.

Re: Monsterskettie and Planetballs

i want it now

Re: Monsterskettie and Planetballs

It's Italian night in outer space! One of my favorites characters of yours. +1

Re: Looks Like Jellyfish

That's just terrible. What an awful thing to put on a shirt...


I'll take 3

jksherman wrote:i would vote for this one, but it has the earth bleeding... lightsabers cauterize the wounds...

How do you know it's blood and not scorched flesh?

this needs to be a movie

Re: Looks Like Jellyfish

LOL, the dead eye looks a bit like a treasure map X marks the spot to me.

Re: Pluto's revenge

I love this soooo much! Maybe its my preference towards ninjas or something. I especially love how mars isn't important enough to slice open with a sword so pluto just chucked a ninja star at it X3

Re: Monsterskettie and Planetballs

Aw yeah! I'm glad you got this done and posted. It looks great! I loves me some spaghetti and meatballs and what a way for the planet to go. GMV!

Re: Plutoid Payback

Hope everyone likes the shirt. Constructive feedback is always appreciated! :3

Here's a link to a larger version of the whole pic: LINK

Re: Hufungus

It's an otterific idea, but I just can't get over the fact that the mushroom has Domo's mouth...

Re: The Very Last Drop

It's good to see your stuff on here. I hope this stays in the fog. =D

Re: oh the huge manatees!!

gotta agree with the others...think it would have been great just the sketch on either cream or heather gray

Re: Only Two Things can Survive the Apocalypse...

I like it.

Re: Evaporation

I went out of town on the road trip from hell so I couldn't write back in time, but I love what you've done with the design! I especially love the glass atmosphere around the earth and how thirsty the sun looks

AdderXYU wrote:How about we just don't:

http://www.threadless.com/submission/214942/It_s_the_end_of_the_world_as_we_know_it

Adder has no credibility on these types of issues as he supported this as highly original and well executed 'art' when virtually the same concept was pointed out on a link in the forum.

http://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry.aspx?id=37774

In the current case, the linked t-shirt looks nothing like the contribution in question, and doesn't appear to have ever been printed anyway, which would be a requirement for the similar shirts exist rule to be enforced (assuming the similarity was high enough).

Perhaps Adder finds recurring concepts unoriginal if and only if they have been mocked up on a t-shirt?

I think the real story is that Adder plays favorites in the exact same manner as he accuses woot of doing; he has a few good buddies that he doesn't hold to the same standards as the people he criticizes.

Re: Plutoid Payback

This looks otterific. I'd definitely buy one. Love the simplicity of it and the clean lines. And stuff. I know nothing about art, it just looks pretty.

AdderXYU wrote:Well, one being intelligent and the other being Glenn Beck, yes, they certainly are.

For the majority who can't tell the caricatures at first blush, however, it will look like nothing more than two men in love leading to the apocalypse. Hence "implied".

That said, any wooter should know that celeb likeness is a big ol fail, and any woot voter should know that such things are not worth supporting.

I don't think that is what implied means. Implications require intention. My walking up to the concession stand at the movie theater and greeting the cashier in swahili may get me a jumbo popcorn, but it doesn't imply that I wanted one.

Re: unholy marriage

Whichever way you look at this, I do Not see how this is the end of the world.

beaterbar wrote:Adder has no credibility on these types of issues as he supported this as highly original and well executed 'art' when virtually the same concept was pointed out on a link in the forum.

http://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry.aspx?id=37774

In the current case, the linked t-shirt looks nothing like the contribution in question, and doesn't appear to have ever been printed anyway, which would be a requirement for the similar shirts exist rule to be enforced (assuming the similarity was high enough).

Perhaps Adder finds recurring concepts unoriginal if and only if they have been mocked up on a t-shirt?

I think the real story is that Adder plays favorites in the exact same manner as he accuses woot of doing; he has a few good buddies that he doesn't hold to the same standards as the people he criticizes.

Which is more plausible

A tshirt designer is randomly hopping around Unencyclopedia or Encyclopedia Dramatica or wherever it was that thing was and finds that ceiling cthulu image by chance, and it just so happens to fit the current derby theme

OR

A tshirt designer is randomly browsing tshirt designs at threadless and happens to find that REM design by chance and it happens to fit the current derby theme

I'm not saying that anyone did anything that wasn't on the level here at all. I'm just saying it's a faulty comparison.

Regardless: Show me the post in which Adder decries this shirt as unoriginal? He merely responded to me when I suggested someone else run with this idea (which they were already working on, as that poster and I exchanged a couple ideas about how one might create this shirt before entries were accepted) linking to another version of the concept (which, ok, wasn't that well done at all) that all three had in common. I don't see how two submitted shirts is at all the same as random image on the internet - nor, again, do I see Adder complaining about the originality.

Also, it was hit on pretty hard that there's a slight difference between an average quality photoshop and hand drawing an idea. Not all art is entirely original - part of it lies in the interpretation (not that I believe the linked design lacked originality)

(I hate that thread, btw, and I am angry that I bothered to read half of it. It got mindbendingly stupid)

Basically, I don't think you really make a good case here.

Darquis wrote:Which is more plausible

A tshirt designer is randomly hopping around Unencyclopedia or Encyclopedia Dramatica or wherever it was that thing was and finds that ceiling cthulu image by chance, and it just so happens to fit the current derby theme

OR

A tshirt designer is randomly browsing tshirt designs at threadless and happens to find that REM design by chance and it happens to fit the current derby theme

I'm not saying that anyone did anything that wasn't on the level here at all. I'm just saying it's a faulty comparison.

Regardless: Show me the post in which Adder decries this shirt as unoriginal? He merely responded to me when I suggested someone else run with this idea (which they were already working on, as that poster and I exchanged a couple ideas about how one might create this shirt before entries were accepted) linking to another version of the concept (which, ok, wasn't that well done at all) that all three had in common. I don't see how two submitted shirts is at all the same as random image on the internet - nor, again, do I see Adder complaining about the originality.

Also, it was hit on pretty hard that there's a slight difference between an average quality photoshop and hand drawing an idea. Not all art is entirely original - part of it lies in the interpretation (not that I believe the linked design lacked originality)

(I hate that thread, btw, and I am angry that I bothered to read half of it. It got mindbendingly stupid)

Basically, I don't think you really make a good case here.

This is the post where Adder says that tee is unoriginal. It's unoriginal. It's an easy idea (given the name of the derby, and given that people, as I recall, mentioned the song in the pre-derby thread), and it is executed near identically to the previous Polynothing design. It doesn't matter whether Patrick thought of it himself or not. It was done previously and better in the same method, and this should be rejected for that reason.

It's much easier to build a false case of hypocrisy than to build a true case of why this woot version should ever print anywhere with another very similar design in existence.

But the troll is right. I am biased. I think Drakxxx and Tgentry should get a whole bunch of prints for being excellent illustrators and frequently strong conceptualists. How dare I pick favorites based on design quality?

Re: The Very Last Drop

I am so disappointed this dropped out of the fog. I love this design, and it's the only shirt I'd want to buy from this derby.

AdderXYU wrote:It doesn't matter whether Patrick thought of it himself or not. It was done previously and better in the same method, and this should be rejected for that reason.

Now you're delving into the matter of opinion. The previous Polynothing shirt was a cute idea, but nothing I'd wear. This shirt, while a similar idea of course, is much more interesting to me. If this shirt wins (and I hope it does as it is one of my top four), I'd buy two.

Both are using rather generic ideas like the square icons that have been done many times over, so I don't think we can say this shirt copied the Polynothing based on similarity of design.

(I just pulled a couple people over to ask which shirt design they preferred. Unquestionably this one. Hardly a valid sampling of the public at large, but certainly enough to disprove your assertion that the previous shirt was done better. You presented the statement as fact, when it was merely opinion. Nothing is wrong with your opinion of course, but nothing is wrong with mine either.)

Re: Looks Like Jellyfish

This is probably too late to win a printing, but I just want to try to push it up top.

The brilliance of the design made me smile at the same time as the sadness of the represented reality set in.

For those that don't quite get it, please read about the World Turtle. In basic summary, several mythologies (like Hindu) have the world supported on the back of a giant turtle.

Combining that image with the six-pack ring around the turtles neck, pictures of which were pretty much national sensations starting in the 70s, was brilliant. Maybe it's been done before, but I've not seen it.

Re: Armaggeddon Out Of Here

Should you wake up one morning, part the curtains and be met by this scene, chances are very high that you will also be having a bad hair day.

Re: Armaggeddon Out Of Here

Wow, we're frickin' doomed! Excellent illo, and super witty. I'm not sure why Gozira is surfing, but I don't care - it cracked me up when I saw it.

Re: Third Rock From the Sun

I'm disgusted to come back a day later and see this not rocketing to the fog. Needs more love, peeps!
/edit to add I was gonna add a bad 'air guitar' pun, then remembered there is no air in space. Doh!

Twowoot wrote:This is probably too late to win a printing, but I just want to try to push it up top.

The brilliance of the design made me smile at the same time as the sadness of the represented reality set in.

For those that don't quite get it, please read about the World Turtle. In basic summary, several mythologies (like Hindu) have the world supported on the back of a giant turtle.

Combining that image with the six-pack ring around the turtles neck, pictures of which were pretty much national sensations starting in the 70s, was brilliant. Maybe it's been done before, but I've not seen it.

I got it. But it makes me too sad to want to wear it. Sorry, I can't vote to wear something that would depress me.

polluxoil wrote:I like these designs, I just wish they were a little smaller. Like all four across the top of the shirt, instead of the square formation. If it was like that I would be in for this completely.

I don't mind the size, but don't care for placement - would definitely buy if vertical along left side of shirt.

paigeg wrote:I got it. But it makes me too sad to want to wear it. Sorry, I can't vote to wear something that would depress me.

Then think of wearing it as a public service announcement -- get people to think a thought about what we're doing.

Wearing it would be community service.

jadziadax wrote:I am so disappointed this dropped out of the fog. I love this design, and it's the only shirt I'd want to buy from this derby.

+1

Really evil teletubbies? the 4 seahorsemen? Over this? No doubt all the art is good, but I wish we could get something a little more original (i.e. this shirt) printed at Woot. I haven't bought a shirt from here in a loooong time. I would definitely buy this.

Re: Looks Like Jellyfish

If this was an accurate representation of Great A'Tuin I would vote for it.

paigeg wrote:I got it. But it makes me too sad to want to wear it. Sorry, I can't vote to wear something that would depress me.

I'm kind of with you on this one. It's a nicely done design, but awwwwwwwww.....

Deep

paigeg wrote:I'm not sure why Gozira is surfing, but I don't care - it cracked me up when I saw it.

Who else could surf a tsunami?

I also LOLed at this shirt - great detail!

Re: It Came For Cotton Candy

I'm really disappointed that (barring a last minute surge) I won't get to buy this. I'll never figure out Woot voters.

In any case, I've nominated you for a Best Loser award! I know it's not a Derby win, but it's all the power I have. heh!

shocktherapy91 wrote:I would like it better if it wasn't just a square image on a shirt, maybe fade it or something?

Agreed. Roll the surf at the bottom, work on your fading, etc.

But kudos for the idea -- instantly recognized what you were doing and laughed.