By Care

While ReVo’s mission is primarily to provide for role-play and role-players, we know that there’s more to it than just the game. In addition to writers, our community of creative minds includes coders, fact masters, and graphic designers. In this issue, we’re spotlighting the latter with Care’s continued coverage of Clash of the Artists.

In April, Grafica hosted the second annual Clash of the Artists event. For those who don’t know what the Clash of the Artists is, it’s a live battle between two artists. After rolling for themes, elements, and models, they complete a graphic challenge – usually avatars. The finished pieces are then put up for a vote on the Grafica – Clash of the Artists board, and after five days, the winner is announced.

This year, with the help of Qristal and Addiction, the Clash had a new scoring system. The system added win percentages rather than relying wholly on how many battles were completed. It was a nice change. Qristal took on the percentages, while I handled the voting and most of the board work.

For the live event, I had the help of Nicole, Mikhaela, and CD, which made sure it went as smoothly as possible. Of course, the event itself was the brainchild of a late night of talking between Demonatrix, Adept, and myself.

We had a great turn out this year, with some new artists stepping into the ring. Curiosity, Lady Edfeil, Asteria, Rutger, Addiction, Jenna, kitten, Covet, Miss Mickie, Caedam, and many others joined in the fun. We had a hundred different models that could result from a roll, as well as ten elements and themes. The outcome was so close that Aeternum was one battle away from taking it, but the addition of a new rule that required competitors to be present for two nights and complete eight battles kept him from holding the lead. That left Rutger in third place, with all the corresponding prizes.

The final battle royale was between kitten and Miss Mickie. Miss Mickie was in the lead until it came down to the last battle, which left kitten as the winner of this year’s Clash of the Artists!

A big thank you not only to the participants, but to Qristal and Addiction for their assistance with tweaking the system. And if you missed this year’s fun, you can still find everyone’s work on the Clash of the Artists board at ReVo!

By Care

While ReVo’s mission is primarily to provide for role-play and role-players, we know that there’s more to it than just the game. In addition to writers, our community of creative minds includes coders, fact masters, and graphic designers. In this issue, we’re spotlighting the latter with Care’s coverage of the first Clash of the Artists.

In April, a great new event took place in Grafica. For five Saturdays, starting April 9th and going all the way to May 13th, we held live battles within the room.

This event was the brain child of myself, Demonatrix, and dapet. It started from a night on Skype voice where I was thinking I wanted to do something fun for Grafica – originally the room of Laramie, Grafica was left in the hands of Dark and myself. Now, however, it is site-run, though still under my care.

The plan was to do something different then what has been seen before. That’s when I went to Demonatrix and dapet saying that we should do something like Red Queen of Digital Circus Designs did, but make it our own. After much time spent talking about it, setting it up, and coming up with a name, Clash of the Artists was born.

“What is the Clash of the Artists?”, you may ask. Well, in case you missed it this year, it is a live challenge avatar battle. What that means is that on every Saturday for the duration of the event, watchers and players gathered in Grafica, where our designers threw out challenges. Once a challenge was accepted, we had the participants roll the dice. One was for the model they were to use, and the next two were for the elements and overall theme that had to be used within their pieces of work.

We had a total list of ninety different models, even though we only used thirty at a time. In addition, we had twenty elements and twenty themes that could be drawn. For example, some of the battles rolled were:

Model: Charlie Hunnam
Theme: Apocalyptic
Elements: Decaying Buildings, Destroyed Vehicles

Model: Phoebe Tonkin
Elements: Knives
Theme: Apocalyptic

Model: Vin Diesel
Elements: Mountains
Theme: Supernatural

Model: Katheryn Winnick
Theme: Movie Poster
Elements: Must contain pieces of Lost or Bitten

The battles were tough. Particpants had three hours to get in as many challenges as they could within that night. Then we put the finished pieces up for a blind board vote to decide who the winner of each challenge was. Though we started with numerous designers including Addiction, charity, Covet, Demonatrix, dinni, geenky, Hippolyta, Jenna, Kaliko, kitten{Mutt}, Rutger, Xams, Caedam, CD, Edfeil, fatal, Gabby, Heather Renee, Kuro, harlot, Mizery, Qristal, Echo, and ck, eventually, it was narrowed down to four.

In the end, there was only one. Our grand winner, with a total of ten wins from all four nights, was Xams! Her prize was Grafica’s Clash of the Artists Bling, which she will have until next year, when we crown a new winner of the Clash of the Artists.

Though there were plenty of bumps and bruises along the way, we will be back next year with another Clash of the Artists, so stay tuned!