Reply To: ONE PART, MANY CHARACTERS contest……

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Story score: ………..F 4……C4

Bkgd score:………….F 0…..C2

Item DRAGON TAT:..F 3…..C5

Item NOSE: ………….F 2…..C4

Item BELT: …………..F 3…..C3

Bells: ………………….F 4…..C3

Whistles: …………….F 2……C4

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Items-story:…………F 8…….C7

Emotional:…………..F 6…….C7

Both entries had an evocative blurb. Oddly enough, F’s lack of mention of context for the ‘Mindsmasher’ didn’t seem to take away. I would have expected a ‘new known associate’ bit from the officer, I guess. C’s blurb was elegant, requiring less wording for the same effect, something I might expect from an anthropological expert.

C had a background, if anything it was too symmetrical, making the lack of shadows too obvious.

(For me, it’s all about the misuses.) F used the tat as a tat, the nose as a nose, the belt as straps. He repeated the uses and did a very good job on the alien vest in general, but the uses themselves were, well, predictable.

C’s use of the belt as brackets was good, the nose as a torch was clever, but the tat’s use really got me. Energy effects too often look campy when they’re too visible. THAT energy effect’s entire PURPOSE was to be visible and readable through it’s simplicity. Great choice for composition and interaction of pic and blurb.

F’s posing and two-character composition looked somehow more dynamic than C’s, but the one chin shadow made up for it.

All in all, the girl with the dragon tattoos and her alien associate came close to the ritual initiate. It was 32-36.

Cliff? Hope your surgery went well! Pick 3! And we’re all dying to know what the guy’s destiny is . . . what did the elders say?