TUGS \\ Second Round \\ Rankings

[Shawn]

I think the main problem is the actual themes for every round of this tugs were unbelievably complicated. I think even art school assignments are simple and easier to accomplish than the stuff you gave for this TUGS. You want to make the themes have a clean balance of simpleness and depth, to give people the ability to understand what to do, finish it on time and show their skill. Another thing is that you shouldn't be judging it based on completion, if someone shows great skill but doesn't finish as opposed to a mediocre entry that IS finished and the mediocre entry ranks higher than the skilled one, it's just throwing the whole tier thing off balance.

tl;dr, the themes(especially the prelims) need to be something that doesn't take 50+ hours to do and can display a persons skill without going into all sorts of deep and intricate techniques and methods.

edit: ALSO HOLY CRAP THIS THING DRAGGED ON. one week for a round is plenty of time if you don't do the stupidly complex themes.

ROUND 1: ONE WEEK LONG, SPRITE A MYTHOLOGICAL SEA CREATURE IN UNDER 150X150 USING 3 COLOURS FROM THE NES PALETTE. YOU'RE DONE

you dont need a theme like

ROUND 1: 2 AND A HALF WEEKS LONG, SPRITE THE AWAKENING OF A MYTHOLOGICAL SEA CREATURE AS AN EXPLORER DISCOVERS IT IN IT'S UNDERWATER CASTLE OR DOMAIN, IT MuST BE 150X150 EXACTLY AND USE THESE 3 OBSCURE COLOURS I PULLED OUT OF MY ASS AND NO MORE.