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!