Round 2 Elimination Challenge Results – BLUE Group

X-Angel-0 (78 points) vs. highknees (WILDCARD) (54 points)
dalarty (85 points) vs. shigemitsubaki (84 points)
Milfeulle30 (56 points) vs. Felesya (82 points)
Horseradish (WILDCARD) (60 points) vs. Albel-Ryuuji
Red-Eclipse (81 points) vs. AssasinXXX (WILDCARD) (71 points)

The Blue Group had several casualties this round, and also some amazing wildcards who agreed to fill in last minute for us. Red-Eclipse and shigemitsubaki as the Immunity Challenge People’s Choice winners had additional +5 points and +3 points respectively added to their final scores, but we were destined to have an insanely close showdown between dalarty and tsu! Congrats to dalarty for tying with Deto15 for the highest-scoring wall this round, and special thanks to highknees, Horseradish, and AssasinXXX for filling in as super last minute wildcards for us!

(Because of rounding, total scores may be a point off from the sum of the technical/creative/meets theme/overall points.)

HUGE thanks to our awesome judges, who have once again kept up the high standard of scoring and critiquing for this round. Be sure to thank them properly!
All entries were judged by all 10 of our judges (Jay included). Each judge was given a minimum # of comments, but were given the option of commenting more if they wished.

Also, be sure to check out the RED group’s results!
These groups were just our way of breaking all 19 contestants into manageable posts – no other meaning is associated with these groups

Post links to your AP-submitted walls here once you’re done uploading so we can pimp them properly! Thanks <3

X-Angel-0

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Winner (vs highknees WILDCARD)

Technical Elements: 21
Creativity/Vision: 24
Meets Challenge/Theme Requirements: 27
Overall Impression: 7
Total Score: 78

Judges’ Comments:

Tatekane: Now this is really Waldo-ish great job on that! I had a great time trying to find waldodoraemon hahaha.

grayserg: First of all – where the composition?
But I can understand – this is hard to make good composition with such many quantity of characters.
Color scheme is too simple, though it still help to make a mood. That rainbow tube it’s something coool:)
In short – I like your idea with Doraemon and I don’t like the realization.
By the way, why you’ve made the shadow for tubes but ignored shadow for characters?

Heart464: Overall, I think you did a good job of creating a wall that fit this round’s theme. There’s a lot going on. It really does feel reminiscent of “Where’s Waldo?”

Nysha: Very reminiscent of the Waldo theme – even down to the red striped garments! Some of the characters in the water could pass as the hidden one, but their backs are turned so it messes with you. XP The vectoring of the characters is clean and smooth, but the lineart of the slides and cliff are notably rougher. I think it would look better if everything was smooth/clean and refined.

Gidacious: Good job capturing the theme here. You have a good start, but the lineart varies from character to character, making it obvious that they all came from different sources. The varying lineart and style makes it hard for them to read as one image instead of just feeling slapped in.

sjade1: I have to say, seeing all these doraemon brings a smile to your face. A very cute idea. Adding the water park in the background only adds to the creativit, and I love the doraemon going down the slides.

Technique-wise, I can appreciate the clean work on the doraemon, but I feel there were parts of the waterpark and background that were a little rushed. There are messier lines, messier coloring on the walls, the slides, and the grass as well.

While I really enjoyed the doraemon mob you’ve created, I feel like there could have been more (yeah, that’s all you need is to hear a judge tell you they want more!). A true Waldo work, I feel, tends to be an overcrowded mess of people – or in your case, doraemon.

The last thing is a rather fundamental problem with interpreting the theme I think. Honestly, there are quite a few characters in there that might have been Waldo. It took me a while to understand the answer you chose to be Waldo itself, and it turns out to be the hat + belly combo (unless I got that way off). There are doraemon with striped hats or bellies that don’t really look different enough from the Waldo answer you chose. It’s a little hard to find Waldo if you’re not sure what you’re supposed to look for exactly.

asa01: Even if this isn’t something I would use as a desktop because having a lot of bright colors isn’t my cup of tea — my eyes have low tolerance? lol — I have say, those very same colors are a good point about your piece. They bring an appropriate vibrancy to the wall and they suit the liveliness of all the Doraemons. And there sure are a lot of Doraemons (and friends)! Fitting for a Waldo-themed piece of artwork, although perhaps a little questionable in the wall usability/practicality department.

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highknees (WILDCARD)

(vs X-Angel-0)

Technical Elements: 18
Creativity/Vision: 17
Meets Challenge/Theme Requirements: 14
Overall Impression: 5
Total Score: 54

Judges’ Comments:

Tatekane: Using the silhouette of the character made it almost impossible to find…and like I said in my other comments it’s a no-no, “Where’s waldo?” is not about hiding it and making it not findable with lowered opacity or making it miniscule it’s about cleverly placing something in plain sight and fooling the viewer…aside from that the wall is a solid grungy wall.

Nysha: Hmm I’m not really seeing the hidden character at all. However I really like that texture used on the main pokemon. Nice and gritty, and almost marble-like. The dark top part of the wall could use some more detail/rocks since it appears rather empty. If you added some glowing embers floating around too, it would give the wall something extra – some more depth and a more finished look.

Gidacious: Much like the “Kiki’s Delivery Service” wall, a big factor in why the mascot was so hard to find was because the area was too dark. Even after opening the wall in PS and adjusting it, I’m still not entirely sold that Meowth is there. XD It’s simply too hard to tell.

asa01: I understand you had late notice but adding a blended-in Meowth silhouette seems to rather be in the vein of an afterthought. It doesn’t speak much of theme adherence.

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dalarty

Winner (vs shigemitsubaki)

Congratulations, dalarty, for tying for the highest-scoring wall in EC2

Technical Elements: 24
Creativity/Vision: 27
Meets Challenge/Theme Requirements: 27
Overall Impression: 8
Total Score: 85

Judges’ Comments:

Tatekane: Full of mascots! Nice job on hiding yours and I like the dream-like feel of the painting.

grayserg: Wow. I was confused, even with your help I’ve spent a lot of time for search Nyanko-Sensei in that color stains. Perfect idea, good composition and stylish realisation. I like how you work with lines. The beads in hair looks just ideal for composition. The colors so… cosy. Though, I don’t like gray color of a dress – it’s look a bit dirty. I feel my wish to see more details (and lines) here. It seems that I speak about advantages of wallpaper too much:) really, I like to see good work and successful result.

Heart464: I don’t find the colors appealing, but I can understand why you chose them since they help to hide Nyanko-Sensei. I think you did a good job of incorporating him into the wall. The drawing itself is wonderful and playful.

My favorite part of the wallpaper – the moogle plushie :3

Nysha: The coloring style is particularly impressive – looks like watercolors! Adding all the various anime mascots, yet aiming to find a particular one, just seems a little awkward because it’s like all the others aren’t needed. Kudos for the original art though!

Gidacious: The texture you have going in this works well. The mascots fit in together nicely; you did a good job keeping it all consistent. My only real point is the white lineart. I like the look of it, but it could be cleaner in places (such as her belt).

sjade1: This is amazing work. My favorite so far, actually.

First, my hat off to you for original art. Not just original art that came out of your head, but art that WORKS. It’s very carefully done, proportionally, color-wise, and compositionally. You got all those technical marks down.

Those white lines are beautifully drawn, fine and not thick and clittered. Your color choice is semi-muted, and works in perfect harmony with the brushy, white-washed style you have going here. The composition is also a fantasy-like tilted world – nothing better to emphasize toyland in my opinion. Truly a wonderful wall.The only nitpicky suggestion I have is to desaturate those beady black eyes (they stand out like black soybeans to your beautiful white-line style XD). And perhaps to keep consistency, to change one of the torange haros (the one bouncing to the mid-right) to a white-outlined style instead of dark orange.
In terms of the theme, I absolutely adore how you hid nyanko-sensei in there. It fits his personality, as well as the toyland atmosphere you’ve created. A Fantastic job.

anolibb: I love that big teddy bear in the background The overall outcome of this wallpaper is very unique in its look, I like how soft and warm it really is. Very good job on achieving this balance. The girl’s eyes are a bit weird compared to the placement of her mouth and the angle of her face, but apart from that it’s a sweet wallpaper.

asa01: This could have been really great if it’d been stronger on the technical/execution side of things. Not sure the prevailing-ly white outlines do the wall any favors…colored outlines might have been a better choice? And I would have liked to see shadows. The girl has a little bit of a shadow, as does Kero. That’s about it. (If those dark patches behind the strings of little yellow critters are shadows, then please pay a little more mind to the orientation of the plane of the floor and to the fact that some of them aren’t resting on the floor.) I’m quite fond of the fact that you gathered together so many mascots across so many series though.

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shigemitsubaki (Immunity Challenge People’s Choice Winner)

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(vs dalarty)

Technical Elements: 26
Creativity/Vision: 25
Meets Challenge/Theme Requirements: 23
Overall Impression: 8
Total Score: 81 + 3 points (IC People’s Choice Winner) = 84 points

Judges’ Comments:

Tatekane: Mokona camouflaging in the mountain was hard to find xD well regarding the wall overall…Grats on the original art based on an MMORPG game and doing this wall from scratch…but I can’t help but want you to make the painting less smudgy looking…I know you like the messy-paint style…but I want to see more roughness in your strokes like a more solid paintbrush, defining edges more and such…but that’s like a personal preference I think. Still, awesome work

nat: This wallpaper really gives you a lot to take in, from the little carrot people to the self-serve chicken, it’s all a little weird, but definitely interesting. The setting and scenery are really well done, and the clothing is quite nicely designed for original characters. As far as meeting the theme, even after knowing what I’m looking for in the answer cheat sheet, Mokona is hard to make out in those mountains. If Waldo was color blended into the background, it would have made for a much less popular book. There’s so much activity in this wallpaper, that I can’t help but feel it would have been a better decision to hide the mascot in the lovely crowd of objects and characters in the foreground of this wallpaper.

Heart464: I wonder what MMORPG these characters are from? It’s such a nice detailed drawing of a couple of friends. I think the carrot creatures are so cute. I like how you’ve hidden Mokona without disrupting the main image. My only real complaint is that I wish the lighting was a bit brighter.

Nysha: Great job painting of most of the bg and characters from scratch. Though most of the painting feels unrefined and messy in places – particularly on the mountains. The lighting also seems cold and flat – perhaps it’s early morning and the sun has yet to rise? Some bright orange/yellow edged highlights would make the characters and objects pop some more. Hiding the mascot within the brush strokes is interesting, and he’s certainly well camouflaged, though the wall can stand on its own without him there.

Gidacious: You did well hiding Mokona, I looked everywhere but the faces of the mountains. Some areas here could use polishing up, but that aside, no complaints.

anolibb: Nice way of hiding the mascot, good steps towards thinking outside of the box.Great brushing done one the background, especially on mountains. I wish the characters looked a bit less “cold” in their colours, but I can see a lot of effort put into this, keep up the hard work.

Kalico: This is another wall where I feel the idea of “Where’s Waldo” was sort of thrown out the window. It feels like you made the wall, and just stuck the picture of Mokona overlayed in the background as opposed to really thinking about the theme and building a wall around it.

Great technical ability, and nice wall by itself, but it lacks creativity and attention in regards to the theme.

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Milfeulle30

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(vs Felesya)

Technical Elements: 17
Creativity/Vision: 19
Meets Challenge/Theme Requirements: 15
Overall Impression: 5
Total Score: 56

Judges’ Comments:

Tatekane: I have to be honest I can’t even recognize Luna in the wall…he was so little ><! It almost looked like it was a bat wing signature…As for the whole wall a bit more polishing up is needed, like how the buildings have thick black outlines while the characters don’t have any or have thin lineart makes ‘em a bit detached to one another…Some of the shading are flat you could look at reference pics of night scenes in a narrow street like these to capture the look:

http://www.marquandphotography.com/kyotonight.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_go0QYOkH4xU/R6C85JqYdKI/AAAAAAAAB34/X7cApUhJq40/s400/Tokyo+Night+Street+Scene+-+1.jpg
http://www.photoforum.ru/f/photo/000/104/104383_19.jpg

But I congratulate you for doing a BG environment entirely from scratch…i’m too lazy to do that now xD A bit more work and you’ll make awesome sceneric walls

nat: I like the way the characters are all gathered together for this wallpaper, yet doing their own thing. Crowd scenes with people are really seldom done on wallpapers, probably because of the time it takes to finish each character, so I admire the patience to even take on this idea. On the technical aspect, there are some issues with the quality of the line art on Ren and the guy on the motorcycle. From what it looks like, the characters were traced separately, and then resized to fit the scene, and it’s in the resizing that much of the quality seems to have been lost. For the theme, there really are quite a few characters in it, along with a random set of eyes that I couldn’t help but notice. I initially thought the Luna face was a fly in the corner, since it was so dark. I can’t help but feel that this wallpaper missed out on the great opportunity to hide the Spider from the Jigoku Shoujo series.

Nysha: First of all, good job taking all those various scans and screenshots and combining them into a single scene. The composition works as an image, but as a desktop, there is not that much space accommodating for icons on either side, which is important to remember. The lineart for the bg and characters is strikingly different: the former is thick while the latter is extremely thin, resulting in much jaggedness. Moreover, the lineart overall appears stroked, leaving blunt ends. While this could be gotten away with on the architecture, using stroked lineart on people and organic things is usually the wrong approach because it tends to look lazy and low quality. Therefore, it is best to use shapes – it may take longer, but the result is a lot more impressive.

Now on to the lighting. The lighted area on the street gives the impression of a strong light coming from the alley on the left, however there is no ambient light source originating from that alleyway. The poles at the entrance of that alleyway have conflicting shadows – their shadows on the ground indicate light coming from the alleyway, but their dark edge is facing that alleyway. The overall night atmosphere is dull black, but it is important to know that lighting at night is not black – dark areas can be deep blues or violets and the golden street lights should give some strong ambient light sources and hard highlighted edges on the characters and objects. The bright girl in the window on the right, the bright white eyes near the top of the wall, and the large white city windows clash with this lighting and give the wall a more comical feel. Lastly, the moon is rather dull and there are no defining clouds or mist to justify that dullness. The lighting from the moon and sky can be much improved.

And finally, the hidden mascot. Why on earth would you place it there at that miniscule size? It will be hidden by the taskbar and to me that suggests it was not intended to be part of the wall in the first place and placed on it as an afterthought. It is also hard to see because you can only see the white – making it appear like a flying seagull or something. Therefore, a more creative and integrated location would have fit the theme a lot better.

Gidacious: The colouring here would benefit from some “tightening up.” Your objects don’t have much form shaded the way they are. Also, more attention needs to be given to your light sources. For example, Emma is particularly well lit for being such a dim area. You inclusion of Luna feels very last minute, and poorly thought out.

Kalico: I’m seeing a trend in these walls where the artist just makes a wall and randomly sticks the character in a corner or overlays them in the background. yet another disappointment for me in regardes to the actual theme of hte competition.

Your technical ability is alright, but the lack of detail leaves much to be desired. If the scan or screenshot you are using doesn’t have much detail, try putting some in yourself, otherwise the wall can feel empty and incomplete.

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Felesya

Winner (vs Milfeulle30)

Technical Elements: 27
Creativity/Vision: 25
Meets Challenge/Theme Requirements: 22
Overall Impression: 8
Total Score: 82

Judges’ Comments:

Tatekane: Love it! Great job on the composition and painting My only gripe would be…Jiji was almost too little and against a dark bg he’s almost not findable…

Heart464: You certainly created a very nice scene to go with the Kiki scan. It is obvious that you put a lot of effort into the background!

Nysha: Very nicely drawn city block and night scene. The splotchy painting and gritty texture give it a nice authentic feel. The horizon line could be straighter though. Looking at it as a desktop, having Kiki and the moon placed far on either side leaves somewhat of a predicament placing icons, thus I would have composed the scene differently to allow room for them. It’s interesting you have us searching for multiple cats in the scene, however I’m not really seeing the one that actually counts – it’s very dark and blends in too much.

Gidacious: This is a solid image. It has a rather cohesive feel to it, which is nice. However, some areas could use some polishing. That aside, the only reason I had trouble finding JiJi was the darkness of the area he’s in. As someone who has caught weird things on images before only to find it was because my screen was too bright, I can’t help but imagine how dark it must be for others.

sjade1: After a bit of searching, I did find all your cats . Very creative to add a number of characters to find, instead of just one unique one.

I appreciate that you created the houses out of an actual sketch from scratch. Technically this is a very nice paint job, although there are a few areas here and there that could use a little more attention (such as the furthest house with the pink roof, and cleaning up the ocean horizon line). There are parts of this that remind me of Harry Potter book cover art as well.

Typography could be incorporated a little better for the title text at the top left – for instance, you could have turned that title into a sign on one of the houses, etc.

I did have some trouble seeing the actual mascot itself on my screens – I have two macs, and both have a very wide contrast range. However, when I opened your file I actually had to fiddle with the levels and curves in photoshop before I found Jiji XD.

anolibb: The wall is very nicely painted, good scenic piece of work. It could be a nice page of a “Find Jiji” book! The houses seem to be a bit wobbly but they fit the painted look still. I find even the massive moon fits the composition well.

asa01: It’s a nice painted scenic piece and I’m glad you took the time to draw in decoy cats. Points for an original background, but would have liked to see straight lines being straight, vertical ones being vertical, and parallel ones being parallel though. In addition, some surfaces that face away from the moon are rather unexplained-ly well lit — more understandable for Kiki, not as much for the buildings. For Kiki, some parts of her are very bright for nighttime and are so without justification (unlike some blue and orange highlights that are markedly for surfaces reflecting the moonlight or the lamplight). For the buildings, just a tad darker for consistency and realism would have been nice, since I know some details are important and need a degree of lightness to preserve. (By the way, consistency refers to how dark the backsides of the chimneys and how stark their shadows are in comparison to the corresponding walls and shadows of the buildings. And as well, “Petite Cattery” and the building to its left (our left) provide quite the contrast in shadedness.)

On an irrelevant note: Ah, Kiki’s Delivery Service. Brings back memories.

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Horseradish (WILDCARD)

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Winner by default.

Technical Elements: 17
Creativity/Vision: 18
Meets Challenge/Theme Requirements: 21
Overall Impression: 5
Total Score: 60

Judges’ Comments:

Nysha: The mass of random objects in the background is actually quite interesting to me. I’m wondering why you decided to place the hidden character in there multiple times…

The box pattern is nice and has a comic book feel. Though I wish the vectoring on the characters, particularly their eyes, could have been done with more spontaneity because the lines are looking rather generic and blocky/simple.

Gidacious: It’s greatly disappointing to see cloning’s (http://cloning.deviantart.com) work in your background. Without sourcing your images, it’s hard to say whether or not you happened upon the image by chance (much like Mysticmom’s case last round). There’s not much I can comment on for the rest of the wall when so much seems to hinge on Cloning’s piece. The idea’s there, and I think it has a lot of potential as an idea, it’s just hard to say right now.

sjade1: I like the composition you have going here. The messyness in the background, heavily contrasted with the plain comic-like style of the foreground is fantastic. I also like that you chose to emphasize this clash of contrasting styles with L and Light fighting each other.

I do feel you could have added just a tad more detail to the foreground to keep it from being borderline plain. There are elements in the foreground that, clashing techniques aside, color-wise don’t match very well with the rest of the wall. For isntance, the brown on Light doesn’t match with the retro, neon-type colors you used on some of the elements in the background.

Critiques aside, I was disappointed to find that the background wasn’t actually your own work – http://cloning.deviantart.com/gallery/#/drgo6w. Therefore, I cannot in good conscience score this wall as it fails to follow the rules of this challenge. Thank you for stepping up as a Wildcard though – 2-3 days to wall is tough business!

asa01: Not too sure about color choices here and not fond of the title text. But wow that background! That’s a lot of work given the time you had. O:

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Red-Eclipse (Immunity Challenge People’s Choice Winner)

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Winner (vs AssasinXXX WILDCARD)

Technical Elements: 22
Creativity/Vision: 23
Meets Challenge/Theme Requirements: 25
Overall Impression: 7
Total Score: 76 + 5 points (IC People’s Choice Winner) = 81 points

Judges’ Comments:

Tatekane: I like the overall composition and I love the cubes at the back. The block in the front bothers me though the perspective is kinda off…maybe it’s because of the text and the pattern on the red side. As for the mascot finding, it wasn’t that ‘hard’ but it does have the “where’s Waldo?” feel.

nat: This is quite an adorable wallpaper! I like all the little extras aside from the characters, like the Tonberries, the randomly placed rope ladder to nowhere, and the delicious strawberry on a cloud. The digital look helped this wallpaper fit into the theme even more in my opinion, as it readily looks like a game to play, especially with the map legend in the corner which let me know what to search for! On the technical aspect, some of the background elements (like the pink “turd” and the heart) look pixelated not in an 8-bit way, but more in the upscaled way. It distracted a bit from the overall clean and precise look of the wallpaper. The overall design is fun, though it reminded me more of a website layout than a desktop wallpaper at first!

Heart464: As a fan of FF7, I just have to say that this wallpaper was so fun and creative. I love that you included all the main characters. The random pink poopie was nice touch. XD

Nysha: Impressive that you drew most of the pixel stuff! I particularly like the cheerful colors and that nice shade of blue for the background. The extra details and patterns in it are much welcome. Overall the design and idea is very nice, and is shifted just enough to the right to give room for some desktop icons (although it feels a bit bottom heavy?). The placement/size of the moogle is just right – allowing for some time and exploration to take in all of the other details the wall has to offer. The only part that is a bit distracting to me is the “moogle search” text along the green wall at the bottom – it just seems extraneous and obvious, especially when there’s a list of what to find on the right. So perhaps some other final fantasy 7 phrases there instead?

Gidacious: Your idea was cute, however, as a pixel artist, I feel things could be cleaner. I know part of the problem is that pixel art can’t just be resized down like other images without losing some clarity. That aside, your legend on the right is distracting, simple because the text requires you to look at it. Also, if memory serves, those sprites were personal art, not FFVII stock. Take care next time you look.

sjade1: Very creative vision here – definitely appreciate the fiction/fantasy game world you’ve created. However, I do feel the pixelated characters are difficult to make out – especially Moogle, the Waldo character, since even at 100% actual size I have a hard time distinguishing his nose from the berries on the trees .

On a slightly more technical side, I do kind of wish you made those sprites yourself. I also wish you had more of them to stay with the whole Waldo theme (like maybe a mob of sprites on those landings, threatening to spill over and some even falling off…hehe).

But otherwise, this is a very fun idea with lots of potential.

anolibb: Even though I have to admit that I am not too fond of pixel art and it’s look, this wall has managed to mostly keep the feeling of it with a softer look. However, there are big differences in the look of clear vectors and elements that look like a scaled up texture. (I personally find this behind the waterfall unpleasant). I also think the typography on the green side of the box could be improved. I like the general concept and idea of the wallpaper, but having the thin layers floating behind the big box that is half cut off drags the composition down and out of the picture.

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AssasinXXX

(vs Red-Eclipse)

Technical Elements: 21
Creativity/Vision: 22
Meets Challenge/Theme Requirements: 22
Overall Impression: 6
Total Score: 71

Judges’ Comments:

Tatekane: Tiny mascot but still findable maybe because of the repetition of the image pikachu is in…that I went…wait that part is different! 2 kinds of game in one wall? lol where’s pikachu? and “what’s different in this image?”

Heart464: Cute and playful theme using Team Rocket and Pikachu.

I like how you used different kinds of elements, but not all of them work well together. An example are the patterns that you used, the images look lower in quality than the rest of the wall. I feel like it disrupts the “clean” look of the overall design. You had a good idea going on here, but it just feels like it needs more work.

Nysha: It took me like 2 sec to find pika. But I like the colorful rainbow design. The text “can you find Pikachu?” is a bit obvious considering this theme, so maybe something more creative or Team Rocket related? Hey maybe even throw in other various pokemon in the yellow stripe area so it takes longer to distinguish Pikachu. Overall good layout of the elements you used. The blue vertical line/gradient on the left is a little distracting and abrupt though.

Gidacious: There is a lot going on here, and as a result, nothing really feels “together.” The mesh in the background doesn’t quite work with the raindrops, which in turn don’t quite work with the hearts. Paring down on some of your ideas would serve you well here, or finding a better way to bring them all together. Also, Pixel Joint is a site for personal work, just like Deviant Art, not somewhere that provides stock for your use. Look around the site your using next time and double check.

sjade1: I like how you tried applying a classic idea like pokemon’s Team Rocket. However, it looks like the execution wasn’t as powerful as it could have been. For instance, the numbering I initially thought was a countdown (just like Team Rocket used to do, or at least take turns saying lines until they exploded ‘like a rocket’), is actually nothing more than typography.

The text itself, besides the “Can you find pikachu?” phrase, doesn’t match with the rest of the wall either. Rather, it feels more like a simple display of technique.

Technique-wise however, the typography is nicely done compositionally and color-wise. Reminds me a lot of art used for Flash animations, and a kind of hip-hop style.

Kalico: I like the use of clusters and negative space in the design. Also, your inclusion of pikachu, while challenging, was appropriate. I also enjoyed the humor in the fact that the wall played off of Team Rocket always trying to find/capture pikachu. Cute wall, with a cleaver way of translating the theme.