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Re: Fate of the Planet

The execution is amazing! it is complete and utter eye candy! My eyes love it! I do fear how it would print like someone else mentioned but you gmv on such bloody fantastic piece!!! You rock!

Love the style on this one Meg. A lil childish but I'd effing buy it

Awesome artwork and concept

Re: Mirai

It's a beautiful design, bass. The situation in Japan is on everyone's minds, it would be strange if it didn't come out in the work of passionate artists like yourself. This has GMV.

I was a little concerned that the theme of this derby would turn out to be ill-timed, what with the scenes of destruction in the news and robotics being so synonymous with the country. I thought there might be some uncomfortable designs, however this kind of poetic and positive artwork is very much appropriate and anyone with a heart can tell it comes from a genuine place.

Re: Turtlebot Earth RESUB

I know this is a re-sub... =BUT= I really wish there were more colors on the shirt. I'd vote for it IF the turtle wasn't the same color as outer space. Blue or green makes no difference to me, just so long as someone can SEE the turtle without staring at my chest/tummy for 2 min.

Can we tell you're a concept artist?? This is beyond great

Insane artwork lucky. Great concept

ciaranannrach wrote:There's a difference between invoking the disaster to make money, and creating a work of art that is inspired by and pays homage to those affected by the disaster. The fact that money is involved in the latter case becomes coincidental. That difference is small, but very important, and one can only be distinguished from the other by the sincerity (or lack thereof) of the artist.

Aren't you being a tad unfair in automatically assuming that Bassanimation is insincere, and that her motives are purely fueled by greed? If her motives are impure, wouldn't you think that she'd have made the Japan aspect of the design larger and more prominent? I didn't see Japan on the globe at all until I read other peoples comments. Not very smart if you're going for the pity-votes.

I have very little doubt that you are completely correct. Here's the problem though. This is a very similar situation to one that came up before (though not in the shirt title) in which a shirt subbed by Snowqueen was tagged in the title that it was designed by a 4 (I think) year old.

Sure it was put there to highlight how precocious the design was, but the fact of the matter remained that it caused people to vote for the "child" design rather than the design. It didn't print and it wasn't in the fog but it got several hundred more votes than it would have if the age of the designer was never mentioned.

The exact same thing is liable to happen here. I am quite sure that bass' intentions were good. The fact still remains that it creates a situation in which people vote for this design because it's the design "for Japan" not because they like the design. When that comes along with the fact that bass stands to get $1000 plus prizes plus $2 per shirt sold after, there is necessarily a conflict of interest.

The bottom line is that if you don't intend on donating money to aid those suffering from the quake, tsunami, nuclear distress, etc then it shouldn't even be mentioned. Otherwise no matter what intentions were, the situation is, "I made this for all the people suffering. You should feel bad and vote so I can make money and win fabulous prizes." There isn't any other interpretation.

You also might want to comment on the first submission that you've resubbed it, with a link to here- so that you make sure you get all of the people who voted for the 1st/ looking at it to vote for this one instead.

Re: Saving the world one grandma at a time (V2)

Crazy good, and the good kind of crazy. +1

hahahahahaha, cool

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got to love a well crafted design!! Good one Perryn

Cool!its missing the heavy metal band name on top. If it prints as big as the comp I'd like to have one please

Re: Crush... Kill... Restore...

You really delivered on the style and character here, chump'. Great work.

Re: The Binary League: Defending the Earth Since 1907

Truth in numbers. Binary code on the shield. Quirk, old-school bots. Victorian reference. Scratchy sketch style.

Oh... Yes. Definitely yes.

Re: Alien Vs Robot RESUB 2

Robbie Lee = Robots

I really enjoy the concept of this design. I hope it prints.

Re: W.W.Z. Mechanized Military Infantry

Great job Midge! Hope it wins

Re: Crush... Kill... Restore...

Controversy be damned. The single fact that your robot's action is to scoop earth around a plant, rather than uproot is, is telling enough. It fulfills the theme, and is distinct in style and essence from Patrick's design.
There's room enough....

Re: Alien Vs Robot RESUB 2

I love the fire blast at the top. Was that in the first one? I don't remember. But, anyway, this is an awesome design. +1 Hope it prints.

Re: Saving the world one grandma at a time (V2)

Colors are a lot better. The first one was a bit bright and busy.

Re: The Help: Saving the world one chore at a time!

Isn't this what we're designing robots for anyway? Cool design.

Awesome creatures Spirit. great contrast with the dandyish robot. Cool.

megadog wrote:Did you actually look at the artists who contributed to this design - i can see at least 5 who are familiar to me from this site and that includes Boots
Good luck to all who made a contribution because you all did it from your hearts and not for a want of 'profit' - I admire you all

There are several designers I recognize from woot. That is why I chose it as an example. They should all be applauded.

You should have had at least one of the robots sporting tattoos.

ThunderThighs wrote:
While this may not be an original idea, I don't think it's close enough to any other design to warrant rejection. Go Google "robot plant shirt" or "Robot flower shirt" and you'll find plenty of other similar designs. To follow the logic being presented here, then Patrickspen's shirt should never have printed either.

A perverted tu quoque argument doesn't really make your point any stronger. Your logic is, "Well, we let the other one slide so we have to let this one slide too. It's only fair." The other design probably should have been rejected, and IIRC, people argued just that. The fact that you're pointing out that there are "plenty of other similar designs" should be an argument for rejection -- not against it.

Aside: I will restrain myself from repeatedly pointing out poor logical reasoning when it is repeated. (Snark aside, I understand.)

Re: Earth is for the Birds

This shirt deserves more attention.

rogerrogerroger wrote:saturn is a jerk.

Yay!!!! You're finally in the fog again Biers!!!! I might actually be able to get Chey a shirt you designed like she wanted for her b-day! Good Luck.
Jenny

Re: Saving the world, one small step at a time

Pleasantly surprised by this! =]

Re: Robot Helper

Why can't robots help the woodland creatures?

Re: Earth is for the Birds

I have always respected and enjoyed your art, but it could never cling to my personal taste. This one however, has got me... big time. I love it! Great mood, wonderful colors and brilliant concept! big +1 for me.

Re: Robo Hero

This came out really really well! Great job with that metal work... very believable. Also, I love this silly concept

JRWorkshop wrote:Awesome creatures Spirit. great contrast with the dandyish robot. Cool.

Hey thanks JRW!

Along with my 'bot we have Shub Niggurath, Cthulhu, Mantorok (for Eternal Darkness fans) and my interpretation of a Chthonian (Brian Lumley). I like drawing monsters. ^__^

mrwednesday wrote:Effectiveness of guns/crossses/etc. aside, though this is at the crux of the problem......even for blind ramy voting this is really really really pathetic.

This isn't even good for a terrible ramy shirt. Given that even decent ramy designs sit at the bottom end of what even mediocre designers produce the fact that this is in the fog should be embarrassing even for the fanboys. I'm pretty sure it will embarrass FUNimation if they have to give this design a prize for being in the top three and they're an anime producer for warp's sake......

Oh good Lord. Embarrassing FUNimation? REALLY? That's a tad dramatic.

Also, I like the design. Good job, Ramy.

Re: remember the fallen

Love the boldness of this, and the insignia styling of it. Cool!

I hope this makes it back up and prints. My favorite one here by far! My son loves robots and I would love to get this for him

Re: Big Ivan

Wonderful! Great story here, and really well illustrated.

Re: Fate of the Planet

it's amazing. i usually don't care for your designs, but this is wondrous.