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Alienware Dream Winners Announced

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Alienware Dream Winners Announced

I want that PC....

http://contests.wincustomize.com/alienware
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Shortly after Thanksgiving this year, we announced the Create Your Alienware Dream contest.  Talented animation artists from all over the US had a chance to show their stuff and compete for three really great prizes; a $3,000 Area-51 7500 Desktop PC, $1,000, and $500 cash.  Outside of the GUI Champs, this is the single biggest contest (in terms of prize value) we've run.

Last week, the judges voted, and after contacting each of our winners, it's time to let everyone else in on who walked away with which prize.

1st Place - Alienware Area-51 7500 Desktop PC

UFO by patrick24

UFO was, by far, the number one pick by all the judges, leaving the other entries in the dust.  Probably one of the most impressive things about this dream was its technical execution.  It looked good, had a great loop and used almost no CPU to run.

 

2nd Place - $1,000 Cash

Alien Where? by TheMasterBaron

Coming in second was this interesting entry by WinCustomize's only Master Dream artist.  Watch as an alien ship slowly searches the terrain of an unknown world.  Good loop, high resolution.  A great entry from our Master Skinner.

 

3rd Place - $500 Cash
Alien Core by t2wave

This entry was t2wave's first attempt at making a Dream, which is pretty impressive.  Using little touches like taking the "alien language" from a previous Alienware contest, this Dream's attention to detail especially caught the attention of our judges.

Thank you to all of our participants, and to our judges (Island Dog, Fuzzy Logic, Snowman, WOM, Erk, Karma Girl, Snidely Whiplash, and the folks at Alienware), and most of all Alienware for the amazing prizes!

If you weren't able to compete in this Dream contest, remember that we have the 2008 GUI Champs coming this year, and I'll give you a hint... Dreams will be one of the competition categories!

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
UFO was, by far, the number one pick by all the judges, leaving the other entries in the dust.
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I knew that! :D Congrats Patrick....knew you had it won as soon as I saw it! ;)
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
One more thing that I have to clarify. I know that the instant most of you read my first post on this fourm, I got immediately shoved into the "Wow, he's just jealous that he didn't win" stereotype. I don't know exactly how to explain it, but I had very low hopes of winning. In terms of usage, I find my entry unusuable. There's too much motion, the background is an unusual color, the heads could have been a better texture, and in all honesty, I am not to pleased with it. The source of my complaints were that I wasn't able to see the judges' methods of deciding their winners, and not that I was envious of the winning entries (well, of course I wish I had gotton the money or the computer, but now that the contest is over and the winners have been selected, it's done and I really wasn't too optimistic about my odds in the first place). So please, don't mistake my motives for jealousy.
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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top

don't know exactly how to explain it, but I had very low hopes of winning. In terms of usage, I find my entry unusuable. There's too much motion, the background is an unusual color, the heads could have been a better texture, and in all honesty, I am not to pleased with it. The source of my complaints were that I wasn't able to see the judges' methods of deciding their winners,
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Well...my guess would be they chose one[s] that were usable, didn't have too much motion, had a suitable background colour, had well-textured heads, and in all honesty were pleasing....;)

There were quite a number of judges [not sure myself of the exact no... eg. from Alienware]...think double figures...;)