5th Anniversary Fan Art WINNARS!!!

"Occasionally some questionable work slips through as you know. All we can do is shake it off and try to do better next time."

Ehem, Domino "slips through"? if the judges would make sure everyone is following the rules, that all entries are legit, nothing would sleep through. And you have made clear that this is one of your favourite entries. I still can't explain that.

I think that admiting that you did not do a good job with this event, would be way more respectable rather than giving away excuses, it makes me feel like Iam being considered a fool, and that I will put up with it.

I just encourage Divi, Sakura and all the rest to keep doing what they like to do, don't let a non-profesional team ruin your fun!

And Domino, there's not going to be a next time, you know, there isn't always a next time, people get hurt and pissed and they stop participating. So, with all my love for this game, I advice that this kind of issues get treated with more responsability.

Hopefully new members keep joining the game and community and that you indeed will do better.

muralasa89 said:

"Occasionally some questionable work slips through as you know. All we can do is shake it off and try to do better next time."

Ehem, Domino "slips through"? if the judges would make sure everyone is following the rules, that all entries are legit, nothing would sleep through. And you have made clear that this is one of your favourite entries. I still can't explain that.

I think that admiting that you did not do a good job with this event, would be way more respectable rather than giving away excuses, it makes me feel like Iam being considered a fool, and that I will put up with it.

I just encourage Divi, Sakura and all the rest to keep doing what they like to do, don't let a non-profesional team ruin your fun!

And Domino, there's not going to be a next time, you know, there isn't always a next time, people get hurt and pissed and they stop participating. So, with all my love for this game, I advice that this kind of issues get treated with more responsability.

Hopefully new members keep joining the game and community and that you indeed will do better.

We basically said the same thing xD

perhaps for future events you could also offer a position to a few non-participating community members to assist with checks when such rules are in place, as in they can say this entry or that entry should be excluded for xyz reason. I would suggest the other player forum mods but those ppl are nonexistent nowadays (new auditions there's another idea). but don't let them actually vote because there's too personal much bias.

xerosennin1989 said:

Let me just point this out that, most of the winners put up a work that isn't 100% own made.
A lot of it is composed by taking screenshots and putting it together, not saying this is bad because in the end it is about the feeling it brings across.

It just saddens me that so much negativity is being spread on a contest that is meant to be fun and to keep the community together.

I am proud of what my ingame wife has put together, it was a chance for her to show her amazing draw skills, thanks for trying to pull her down ...

A base of ingame screenshots = fanart
Random foto of polar bear =/= fanart

You missed the point only by a little.

xerosennin1989 said:

Let me just point this out that, most of the winners put up a work that isn't 100% own made.
A lot of it is composed by taking screenshots and putting it together, not saying this is bad because in the end it is about the feeling it brings across.

It just saddens me that so much negativity is being spread on a contest that is meant to be fun and to keep the community together.

I am proud of what my ingame wife has put together, it was a chance for her to show her amazing draw skills, thanks for trying to pull her down ...

Skill she has, her sketching skills are decent, no one said otherwise. It's nice that you stand up for your partner, but you're proud? She basically did it for the lols "Huehuehueheue! Trololol. Literally didn't think i would win; So funny at the same time. ", she took the prize from someone who earned it on a whim. Wasn't her decision ofc to be part of the 7 winners, but... you're proud?
Also, the title of the contest was FW 5th anniversary Fan Art, it's not just a drawing competition. The screenshots the other contestants made in a comic strip is acceptable, it's fw fan art. But what your partner did is not exactly legal. That picture she sketched is someone else' intellectual property, which means that without approval from the owner you have no right to use it. You can however sketch it or draw something based on it as an homage (fan art), like a comic page about the life of those 2 polar bears.
Either way if you look at it logically, everyone got approval from a FW employee that has the means to do so, to use FW related things to participate in a contest. Whereas your partner used a picture that she doesn't own to participate in a contest claiming it as hers, and won.


I'm not afraid to look like the bad guy here for refuting every argument thrown at me, but I will, I love FW and the community and hope that if we'll keep it up something might change.