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shan24 wrote:Maybe they're going to make a gravy with the drippings.

mmmm.... gravy.....

phaedracook wrote:I love the execution, but it makes me feel so sad for Poor Pumpkin-Headed Boy. *sniff*

Phaedra

I thought of making him stand out from all the other pumpkin boys!!

haxrox wrote:There's a problem with this design:



You either roast something on a spit or cook it in a pot, not both. Unless they're trying to steam-cook him. Otherwise, the design is great, and I have no troubles with suspension of disbelief regarded anthropomorphic candy. It would just drive me crazy to see this kind of mistake on a derby-winning shirt.

It's actually an advanced form of torture used by the Candy Corn people. In recent times it has been publicly outlawed, but this doesn't mean it doesn't still occur in secret meetings or ceremonies.
I knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who saw someone undergo such torture. They said it scarred them for life. Or at least until the end of the day dream.

Candy Corn Simple Syrup??

Hmmm.... sounds kinda good! ;)

Phaedra

shan24 wrote:Maybe they're going to make a gravy with the drippings.

AlexIAm wrote:... Hex values are relative to how well a monitor is calibrated... the exact same Hex value can look different on different screens, thus the whole brown/black shirt problem of the last couple derbies. Pantone colors on the other hand are an internationally accepted standard for printed color...

Agreed, however a Pantone color will still look wrong on an uncalibrated or improperly calibrated monitor, just as a Hex color will look different. Either way, unless your monitor is well calibrated, you still won't know exactly what you're getting until it's printed. I do get that using Pantone colors takes out the uncertainty at the printed end though. As you said, PMS 186 is PMS 186 no matter what your monitor settings are.

That said, I'll be adjusting my AI and PSD shirt templates to match the Pantone colors... eventually.

Wangus8 wrote:Candy Pirate by fablefire: So I usually keep it a rule to try and not mention a designer twice in a row on the WWWWs just to keep new people and designs in play (this doesn’t count against either the past week or the current week Foxboxers because they’ve earned the right … sorta). So … crap, you broke the rule. This was just awesome. I absolutely love it, and it even has text. And I usually hate text! No one (sane) will ever say that fablefire’s execution is lacking, but his/her (dammit I know this one) concept on this shirt was just fantastic.
Verdict: Gimmie.

Thanks Wangus8! I had to give up on fonts and draw the text in by hand. >.<

Wangus8 wrote:...but his/her (dammit I know this one)...

You do? :O

shinratype26 wrote:It's actually an advanced form of torture used by the Candy Corn people. In recent times it has been publicly outlawed, but this doesn't mean it doesn't still occur in secret meetings or ceremonies.
I knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who saw someone undergo such torture. They said it scarred them for life. Or at least until the end of the day dream.

KandyKorn - A secretive and remote tribe of anthropomorphic candy. Sworn enemy's of the orange and black wrapped peanut butter candies, they can be found each halloween duking it out for the 'least favorite candy' spot. Only the bravest KandyKorn warriors survive "the hardening", a process wherein these Kandys subject themselves to superheated steam, crystalizing their internal sugars and leaving them practically tasteless and hard as rocks. These forgotton candies then remain, ignored and uneaten, in the bottom of the candy bowl, until they can sneak away into the walls of your house, where they can lay traps for unsuspecting toddlers and vacuum cleaners.

AttilaTheMom wrote:KandyKorn - A secretive and remote tribe of anthropomorphic candy. Sworn enemy's of the orange and black wrapped peanut butter candies, they can be found each halloween duking it out for the 'least favorite candy' spot. Only the bravest KandyKorn warriors survive "the hardening", a process wherein these Kandys subject themselves to superheated steam, crystalizing their internal sugars and leaving them practically tasteless and hard as rocks. These forgotton candies then remain, ignored and uneaten, in the bottom of the candy bowl, until they can sneak away into the walls of your house, where they can lay traps for unsuspecting toddlers and vacuum cleaners.

See, there's the proof I was looking for!
Where do you get your insightful articles!

shinratype26 wrote:Ok, no more ampersands for me. Got it.
Next time I'll submit it as "Emberzombie : ) Witch"

You're all set. I think strange characters should be OK now. Only time will tell though, it's a work in progress ;)

I fixed your image and links, you should be good to go.

AttilaTheMom wrote:KandyKorn - A secretive and remote tribe of anthropomorphic candy. Sworn enemy's of the orange and black wrapped peanut butter candies, they can be found each halloween duking it out for the 'least favorite candy' spot. Only the bravest KandyKorn warriors survive "the hardening", a process wherein these Kandys subject themselves to superheated steam, crystalizing their internal sugars and leaving them practically tasteless and hard as rocks. These forgotton candies then remain, ignored and uneaten, in the bottom of the candy bowl, until they can sneak away into the walls of your house, where they can lay traps for unsuspecting toddlers and vacuum cleaners.

True story! I recently vacuumed up a few KandyKorn under my bed from about 2 years ago, and oh my! They were feisty.

JCBarry wrote:Did a little work on the stats site (http://shirtstats.com) today...
Titled the Derby Charts

• Added Top VPH, Hotness, FOG stats to Entry Landing Page
  
• Split Active and Inactive Entries to reduce loading times
  
• Tooltip rollover on all entries for quick and easy stat viewage.
  

Don't forget to register and create your own personal dashboard where you can monitor all the shirts you want in a 1 stop location. Also coming soon to registered users, fog email alerts, so you know exactly when your entry made it into the fog or when it left.

Keep the suggestions coming and I'll keep fiddling with the site.
Don't forget to visit (http://shirtstats.com).
Thanks!

You sir, are awesome. Love the stats and graphs. Very cool. Maybe a little different graphic from the green thing, and YAY! New bookmark.

JCBarry wrote:You're all set. I think strange characters should be OK now. Only time will tell though, it's a work in progress ;)

I fixed your image and links, you should be good to go.

Splendid! Thanks for doing it so quickly, too.
Shirtstats is becoming more and more of a good resource with every minute.

NOOOoooooooo... All Your Treats just got the rejectorator bat. :<

phaedra - I dig your witch minus the text! I definitely think we need some more shirts here with a feminine touch.

Thus my vampire!



I'd honestly be happy if any good, INTERESTING design won, lately I've been so unimpressed with the most popular designs.

AttilaTheMom wrote:KandyKorn - A secretive and remote tribe of anthropomorphic candy. Sworn enemy's of the orange and black wrapped peanut butter candies, they can be found each halloween duking it out for the 'least favorite candy' spot. Only the bravest KandyKorn warriors survive "the hardening", a process wherein these Kandys subject themselves to superheated steam, crystalizing their internal sugars and leaving them practically tasteless and hard as rocks. These forgotton candies then remain, ignored and uneaten, in the bottom of the candy bowl, until they can sneak away into the walls of your house, where they can lay traps for unsuspecting toddlers and vacuum cleaners.

So that's why their shirt is doing so much better... secret warrior ceremonies!

De ja vu??:

http://www.myteespot.com/product.php?productid=7948&cat=27&page=1

fablefire wrote:NOOOoooooooo... All Your Treats just got the rejectorator bat. :<

Wow. I didn't believe you at first.

TAYLORT5 wrote:don't be sorry its just a comment. and I know you didn't enter the shirt. I've seen your other ones. all the same that I seen. but No problem. maybe girls like this sort of thing.

Thanks for “allowing” me to design the same shirt every week!

I shall now “allow” you to continue to have poor grammar and bad manners.

no1 wrote:Well that sucks. I guess that shuts me out of the Derby.

Won't Woot try to match them as closely as possible?

shinratype26 wrote:Wow. I didn't believe you at first.

I'm actually surprised it wasn't rejected earlier. I hope some its votes migrate to 'Awkward' now - even though it's Halloween themed, I think you could pull off wearing it all year.

What happened to the pumpkin pi shirt that was in seventh? Where did it go?

cbradic wrote:What happened to the pumpkin pi shirt that was in seventh? Where did it go?

Rejected for being too similar to existing shirts available elsewhere.

haxrox wrote:There's a problem with this design:



You either roast something on a spit or cook it in a pot, not both. Unless they're trying to steam-cook him. Otherwise, the design is great, and I have no troubles with suspension of disbelief regarded anthropomorphic candy. It would just drive me crazy to see this kind of mistake on a derby-winning shirt.

That's the same problem I had with Great Expectations... I mean, a thief ends up inheriting money and giving it away? Some old hag has enough strength to toss herself on a fire? These discrepancies from what I hold to be real life have no place in works of fiction!

I think All Hallow's Sleep would fit nicely into All Your Treats' spot. Don't you think?

princessproton wrote:I'm actually surprised it wasn't rejected earlier. I hope some its votes migrate to 'Awkward' now - even though it's Halloween themed, I think you could pull off wearing it all year.

I think that's part of what makes the Derby confusing. All Your Treats has been there since day one, and the rejectors had passed it up already. Why wait until Tuesday to /kick it?

shinratype26 wrote:I think All Hallow's Sleep would fit nicely into All Your Treats' spot. Don't you think?

/agree

shinratype26 wrote:I think All Hallow's Sleep would fit nicely into All Your Treats' spot. Don't you think?

Agreed. It's one of my favorites in this derby. Unfortunately it has a long way to go to even place 4th based on Awkward's last pre-fog vote count, and there's not much time left. Le sigh.

So all your treats gets the ax, eh? Are Trick-or-Jesus and Trick-or-Batman still garnering votes in all their over-six-colour-glory?

cheesesandwich wrote:Thanks for “allowing” me to design the same shirt every week!

I shall now “allow” you to continue to have poor grammar and bad manners.

You must be made with miracle whip, because that's some ZING you got there.

AdderXYU wrote:You must be made with miracle whip, because that's some ZING you got there.

AHAH! Finally. No one believes me when I say Miracle Whip has zing.

fablefire wrote:I think that's part of what makes the Derby confusing. All Your Treats has been there since day one, and the rejectors had passed it up already. Why wait until Tuesday to /kick it?

For some reason I always picture a typical movie boardroom setting with woot employees and obscure cartoon characters discussing high-vote entries for hours from a seller's standpoint. I just can't get around that thought.
Maybe "All Your Treats" (though that's not its entry title) was one of those were a few people stormed out of the room while debating. It must have taken a while to console the rogue boardmembers and get them back in the discussion so they could vote reject or not reject.
It's probably the exact opposite of that, though, sadly.

Also, I would say "Oh, Poor Derek!" but that lucky guy's still got one in the top 8, so I'll hold my pity until all his designs are rejected. Or until Sun Decay shows up in a Ziploc bag.

Pensketch wrote:Using layers is something that takes getting used to, but once you are used to it you won't know how you got by without them. Hopefully someone with more experience in Gimp will be able to answer your question as to what you would have to do to get your colors on separate layer if you didn't work that way from the start. I'm thinking the best way might be something like "magic lasso (or color select)/copy/paste on new layer", but I don't really know.

That's what I was thinking too.....probably creating duplicate layers each time you decide to add a new color.

Thank you !

Girl with fangs are kewl. ;) I did one a little similar for the Night derby, but got nailed for being off-topic. This would have been the week to re-enter, but I decided it wasn't up to the challenge anymore.

The witch just made it to New Hotness and I am sure that I must have some sort of mental illness, because I am almost giggly about it. Oh well. At least I'm happy and that must be worth something.

I am really appreciative to everyone who made constructive comments earlier and helped me with their feedback. It's nice that you can get that here. I've been on other forums where asking for opinions is like saying "Hey, stomp all over my heart! OK, thanks!!"

Phaedra

fairnymph wrote:phaedra - I dig your witch minus the text! I definitely think we need some more shirts here with a feminine touch.

Thus my vampire!



I'd honestly be happy if any good, INTERESTING design won, lately I've been so unimpressed with the most popular designs.

wow-i cant see myself wearing a shirt with a freaky face on it.

shinratype26 wrote:For some reason I always picture a typical movie boardroom setting with woot employees and obscure cartoon characters discussing high-vote entries for hours from a seller's standpoint. I just can't get around that thought.
Maybe "All Your Treats" (though that's not its entry title) was one of those were a few people stormed out of the room while debating. It must have taken a while to console the rogue boardmembers and get them back in the discussion so they could vote reject or not reject.
It's probably the exact opposite of that, though, sadly.

Ja, I'd like to think that's what it is.

shinratype26 wrote:Also, I would say "Oh, Poor Derek!" but that lucky guy's still got one in the top 8, so I'll hold my pity until all his designs are rejected. Or until Sun Decay shows up in a Ziploc bag.

Lulz! Harsh.

No way!! Why now? I wanted one of those! My husband and youngest son go around mocking All Your Base all the time. It's like a family joke around here.

I'm really sorry to hear this.

Phaedra

fablefire wrote:NOOOoooooooo... All Your Treats just got the rejectorator bat. :<

fablefire wrote:I think that's part of what makes the Derby confusing. All Your Treats has been there since day one, and the rejectors had passed it up already. Why wait until Tuesday to /kick it?

Probably debating just how similar to the existing shirt it was... if it wasn't in the fog it might still be there. They've always said they want to print original shirts that you can't get anywhere else.

AlexIAm wrote:Probably debating just how similar to the existing shirt it was... if it wasn't in the fog it might still be there. They've always said they want to print original shirts that you can't get anywhere else.

What was the existing shirt? Did I miss it somewhere along the thread?

phaedracook wrote:No way!! Why now? I wanted one of those! My husband and youngest son go around mocking All Your Base all the time. It's like a family joke around here.

I'm really sorry to hear this.

Phaedra

In case anyone is wondering, this is the existing shirt that "all your treats" is/was similar to:



I asked them about it before I even submitted my design. They said it should be ok, but apparently they were on the fence until now and decided that to be consistent with past rejections (the "there is a ninja on this shirt" specifically), they needed to give me the reject-o-gong.

That said, I am now actively soliciting pity votes for my other entry:

fablefire wrote:You do? :O

I guess not, huh? Heh, sorry.