Design the 2011 MapleCalendar Event Winners

That, the lack of Arans... Just shows the guy who designed this knows nothing about the game, how did Loose's and other good entries got rejected, when THAT won the first prize? pineappleing seriously.
That image makes no sense, it's cut off, nonsense, there's NO ART in that, and it won the first place?
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Arans not being released, Cygnus coming BEFORE pirates, something called Hairstyle Madness was mentioned, but the first hero class release was completely forgot.
God, i knew Nexon's judging skills were bad by other contests, but this one is a new record.

I know. I see all the Pirates, "Cynus", Evan and Resistance. Where's the Aran love in all this? Plus the first prize looks too "hene-ho"ey. I don't like "hene-ho"ey.

It's just a lot of in-game pictures + bannedstory images in white boxes, with subtitles. No art involved.
Also, the fact the images are in DIFFERENT quality. It changes from PNG to JPEG quality that the difference between those is just too obvious. Seriously, that doesn't deserve to be in the Top 4, much less being in first place.
You can notice that if you look at those images, some have cut-off IGN's and bad quality due to JPEG format, while the others have no background, and no IGN's with a better quality.

I know. I see all the Pirates, "Cynus", Evan and Resistance. Where's the Aran love in all this? Plus the first prize looks too "hene-ho"ey. I don't like "hene-ho"ey.

Oh hi Toa. xD

Yeah, that's probably another thing I hated about the first place one, though it could just be the fact that I can't stand that "Sweetness" face. :|

I'll actually enter in their next contest, if possible, and see what horrid entries get chosen over mine or other better artists again.

2nd place does have something to do with maple when we have the 4th of july events. Those who only see a snail in the corner dont get it. What is the main event in july? Answer:4th of july! What do a majority of people do on 4th of july? Answer:Watch fireworks! The snail is watching the fireworks. Nexon asked people to create a calende theme base on the month

How do any of you expect maplers that dont know upcoming content for that month to sumbit a calender idea related to maple?

The calender entries were suppose to have a theme that was related to events in that month, and in July we have 4th of july which included fireworks.

Think people think

Yes, fireworks can be related to New Year, or even 4th of July, but what people are criticizing mostly is the fact THAT got chosen, the image isn't very clear, the effect on the fireworks are poor, overall it doesn't look good. And the fact third and fourth are MUCH better than it and the first.
We're thinking, it's not that hard to see that fireworks can refer to a holiday, but the fact is that it just looks a lot bad. Enough not to get even close to the second place.

Yes, fireworks can be related to New Year, or even 4th of July, but what people are criticizing mostly is the fact THAT got chosen, the image isn't very clear, the effect on the fireworks are poor, overall it doesn't look good. And the fact third and fourth are MUCH better than it and the first.
We're thinking, it's not that hard to see that fireworks can refer to a holiday, but the fact is that it just looks a lot bad. Enough not to get even close to the second place.

Here is the thing do we know what other entries were submitted? Some may have miss the whole guidelines nexon were looking for. Yes it may have been better but if it dint fit the criteria that was set it might have have been disqualified.

Can loose post his?

Third and forth are drawn better but doesn't the third one fall in to the typical maple submitting drawings?

Here is the thing do we know what other entries were submitted? Some may have miss the whole guidelines nexon were looking for. Yes it may have been better but if it dint fit the criteria that was set it might have have been disqualified.

Loose submitted something. That should say something about this.

Oh hi Toa. xD

Yeah, that's probably another thing I hated about the first place one, though it could just be the fact that I can't stand that "Sweetness" face. :|

I'll actually enter in their next contest, if possible, and see what horrid entries get chosen over mine or other better artists again.

Hihi Karen Fancy seeing you

I'd vote for you if you submitted. Heck, maybe I should enter this contest, though it may be a moot point for me.

Plus, I'm dying to see what Loose posted.

Here is the thing do we know what other entries were submitted? Some may have miss the whole guidelines nexon were looking for. Yes it may have been better but if it dint fit the criteria that was set it might have have been disqualified.

More likely answer: Nexon's judges didn't understand the link between the month and event that was portrayed in most of the pictures.

Unfortunately, I can't find the stupid image. I think I might have deleted it. It also happened with the create a Mechanic robot thing. : |

I'll keep searching.

These all suck.

Those are the winning pics?!?

I'm sure there were more better submissions such as Flip's picture.

http://img194.imageshack.us/i/calendar24.jpg/

*edit: Guess they were looking for a complete date/month submission...

Wait....I spent hours on this rough draft to turn in on the 8th in case that was
the deadline then rushed home to finish it tonight for it to be too late??
*Contest rules/page announcement had the 8th/18th as different dates.

And those won?!?

I'm sure there were more better submissions such as Flip's picture.

http://img194.imageshack.us/i/calendar24.jpg/

*edit: Guess they were looking for a complete date/month submission...

Also what month does this represent?

Also really nice painting

Absolutely terrible picks, Nexon. I'm curious though, if these are the winners, then what was their competition?... sad.

Also what month does this represent?

Also really nice painting

Thank you, it was for the June/Lions theme.
*basic van leon/lion in the background composition.

Submitted the pic on feb. 8th, waited until tonight to finish the lion by the 18th but logged on to find
that nexon already chose the winners.

They should work on getting the announcements right. =/

Unfortunately, I can't find the stupid image. I think I might have deleted it. It also happened with the create a Mechanic robot thing. : |

I'll keep searching.

Was the submission through email? if so there should be a copy in your sent folder.

Nah, it was through the Nexon contest submission page.

I would say that the first prize quality aside won due to the fact that May is the anniversary month.
Also

January: Celebrating the New Year
February: Winter Wonderland
March: Easter Egg Hunt
April: April Fools
May: 6 Years Together
June: Lions
July: Fireworks
August: At the Beach
September: Back to School
October: Spooky Forest
November: Turkey Day
December: Holiday Celebration

If you ask me they fit well their theme, and although there might be better than this ones its actually (IMHO) better than what they always choose.

I doubt there weren't any other submissions that fit these requirements and looked a lot better.
Even some being unfitting, they'd look WAY better than those.

I doubt there weren't any other submissions that fit these requirements and looked a lot better.
Even some being unfitting, they'd look WAY better than those.

Maybe but just now I was thinking of it, they get what lets say 1000 entries with how they say that their always busy and that their short on personnel maybe they pick 250 and then choose the winners from those, of course their more and its likely that ~70% of the entries are way worse than what they pick as winners.