Runic Games Fan Art Contest!

[JediFreeman]

Goal: Create a short strip of 3-5 panels that tell a story!

Art: You don’t have to be a great artist – just good at capturing screenshots. Panels should be screenshots of Torchlight that have been run through the ink filter on Photoshop. Here are some examples of what we mean:

http://boringbox.com/images/OOGASMASH.png
http://boringbox.com/images/OOGAFLY.png
http://boringbox.com/images/OOGADEAD.png

No less than 3 screenshots, and no more than 5 please.

Words: This is up to you – tell a story! It can be dramatic, funny, dark, etc.

The Loot: One lucky winner will receive this Torchlight-inspired Penny Arcade comic "The Price of Loyalty", signed by the Runic Games dev team!

Submissions: Submit a reply to this thread with your entry. Please use the spoiler tag to help keep things nice and tidy. No emails, please!

Contest begins: NOW

Contest ends: December 18th

Judges: Runic Games

[Wonder]

woohoo, good luck everyone, and thanks to Totalbiscuit and the SomethingAwful forums for the examples of the screenshots! Let the game begin.

[Webbstre]

Are people required to run their screenshots through Photoshop, or is that just an option? Because technically Photoshop is an expensive program that most regular people don't legally have

[Omnifas]

Are people required to run their screenshots through Photoshop, or is that just an option? Because technically Photoshop is an expensive program that most regular people don't legally have

Gimp has the same feature called Cartoonism or something. And one more thing how do we hide the HUD?

[ISAWHIM]

This is not only limited to screen-shots... right?

[smeh]

And one more thing how do we hide the HUD?

press enter and the game pauses, the hud disappears, and the camera zooms in and circles your character slowly

[getoz]

Spoiler: show

I made one, but I don't know how to upload my artwork. So, I post it on my blog.

I'll just try to link it.

Is there a right way to present my work, plz let me know.

By the way, I'm from South Korea.




My Blog : http://blog.naver.com/getoz/150074591950

[Omnifas]

And one more thing how do we hide the HUD?

press enter and the game pauses, the hud disappears, and the camera zooms in and circles your character slowly

I mean not in the pause cam...

[Lukasaurus]

Lol That's a good one getoz

Here is mine. It probably doesn't make a lot of sense. I went for a short story kind of thing.

Spoiler: show

(That's not the whole comic. It gets cut off, but you can view it below. Six panels. Don't know if I broke the rules
EDIT: Looks like I did break the rules with more than 5. Serves me right for not reading. Might redo it tomorrow.

[Gash]

Here's my contribution:

Spoiler: show

Amateur I know - go easy on me!

[freelance]

This is my first ever attempt at making a comic, hopefully it's actually comical

Spoiler: show

[Gash]

This is my first ever attempt at making a comic, hopefully it's actually comical

Spoiler: show

Haha thats great mate, wd - but I didn't pick the spoiler?

[freelance]

Haha thats great mate, wd - but I didn't pick the spoiler?

See the first post, I used spoiler tags to "keep things nice and tidy". No actual spoiler. And I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Gash]

Haha thats great mate, wd - but I didn't pick the spoiler?

See the first post, I used spoiler tags to "keep things nice and tidy". No actual spoiler. And I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Oh how embarassing - no only was my submision of inferior quality but it also didn't meet the request of Runic to use the spoiler tag because I didn't read their post properly!

nvm my thumbnail option isn't too messy, I hope

[Lukasaurus]

Well, here is my fixed submission, 3 panels.

I think it works better this way.

Enjoy

Spoiler: show

[Gash]

Well, here is my fixed submission, 3 panels.

I think it works better this way.

Enjoy

Yeah thats cool - wd!

[Drakenlord]

Here mine...

I still dont know if we can draw... but hell... I had free time...

For those who doesn't know how to make Ink Filter...

EDIT: Does my comic look good? I have been wondering ... anyone that could make an comment send me please an Personal message. PM

Thank you !

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2007/04/15/give-your-photos-a-color-ink-sketch-effect/

Spoiler: show

[Lukasaurus]

People, download free comic fonts from blambot.com

EDIT: One of the problems with using spoiler tags is that unless you have a small image, or a super wide display, the last panel will usually get cut off.

[Wonder]

Are people required to run their screenshots through Photoshop, or is that just an option? Because technically Photoshop is an expensive program that most regular people don't legally have

That's true, not everyone has Photoshop (myself included..)

What we want is 1)screenshots and then 2) through a filter of some kind to give it a more graphic novel/comic book feel - so not "just" a screenshot. Does that make sense? If you have any photo editing software, you can probably come up with something that looks a little different than in-game.
Hope that helps, everyone!

[Lukasaurus]

To do a comic filter in GIMP, (which I forgot to do on both of mine)

1) Duplicate the layer so you have two the same
2) Run a photocopy filter over the top layer
3) Blend this layer (hard mix looks good if I remember)
4) Fiddle around with the opacity of the top layer until it looks right..

done