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Since I wasn't able to close the contest on time, I figured at least I could spend part of my Saturday making sure the winners were on time!

Thanks to all those who entered, all those who told their friends to enter, and even those who just wanted to enter but never got around to it; the CoN Summer Fanart contest is now over as I announce these two winners. We're not sure when we'll run another contest, but as long as you keep an eye out here (perhaps subscribing to our RSS feed might help), you will be sure you'll be among the first to know next time.

Now, on to the winners. We only got enough entries, sadly, to offer up two prizes; one goes to the overall top scorer among our judges' responses, and the other goes to the entry that we judged to be the most creative in concept out of them all.

First, let's discuss our victor of the most creative prize, a ten-dollar gift card to AmaCoN. Our artist's work for this prize caught us off guard. It's deceptively simple at first glance, but as you start to take it all in, you start to appreciate the different levels at which it's clever. We really quite enjoyed the way that the photo cutouts present different characters than the actual subjects of the piece, and the little detail of Umaro ripping his cutout right off the deck instead of stooping over gave us a genuine laugh when we noticed it. So, congratulations to Galsic, taking home the prize for most creative submission! You can view his new art in our gallery right now, or view the thumbnail right here!

And, our only other prize to be given out today, the grand prize of this contest, a forty-dollar AmaCoN gift card, goes to an artist who has been around CoN forever. His entry was also very clever, so much so that he nearly overtook Galsic to capture both prizes. The format he used allowed him to tell a full story and while it doesn't necessarily have the bold color and sharp detail of some of our other entries, the story both fit our "Vacationing Heroes" theme, and showed a significant amount of effort in laying out each panel. Not only that, we found it darkly humorous to boot, with a payoff at the end that you might not see coming. Once you see the piece in our gallery, you'll know right away that it could have come from only one guy here at CoN: congratulations to Narratorway for taking home top honors this time around. Surely you now want to see his winning fanart entry, so don't let us stop you once our thumbnail below sinks in a bit!

Again, congratulations to our winners, and thank you very much to everyone who supported our new fanart system with an entry. We appreciate every one of you and if I could afford to give you all a prize I happily would. Please keep submitting and keep bringing your friends to not only submit to our galleries, but also to see the great work we already have in place. Hope to see you all again here soon!

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 15th November 2008 16:22

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I should like to see another contest. I was really impressed by the art that's shown up from this.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

Quote (Sephiroth @ 15th November 2008 13:23)

I should like to see another contest. I was really impressed by the art that's shown up from this.

Then start looking for artists to bring with you here to CoN.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I'm still chuckling about Narratorway's piece. That's just brilliant!

Well, looking at the number of entries, I definitely understand now why the CONtest was postponed and stuff, and am really glad I was able to submit two pics. I'm happy to say that all the pieces that were submitted, though few, were very enjoyable to see, and I think this CONtest should be counted as a success. So congrats to all who participated, and thanks for the wonderful time!

Edit: And yeah, I agree with Sephiroth, in that another CONtest sometime would be really fun.

This post has been edited by fleetingsight on 15th November 2008 21:28

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Oh tell me why
Do we build castles in the sky

Wow! This was something I didn't expect. Clearly, cause Josh had to actually notify me in chat!

I think I responded with the appropriate poise and humility...



This post has been edited by Narratorway on 16th November 2008 06:03

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Arts

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Twarts

Despite the stuff I had to leave out in the end, I felt I had a shot at the creative prize, at least. That I got it is a pleasant surprise . And yeah, I can see how Narratorway owned the competition. Good show!

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Console RPG Cliches

Both of these pictures were awesome, and totally deserved to win. Congrats.

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