Practice Round Rankings
First off, thank you to everyone who participated in the practice round. It was tremendously successful and it blew me away how much participation was had. Also, I want to thank
Ness for allowing everyone to create such great tracks from his own. The Practice Round was extremely competitive and speaks volumes to the potential success to be had in the contest. Wherever you rank here good or bad, it does not count. The Practice Round is a learning tool, for improvement, so that you won't be thrown to the dogs on Round 1. Take this as its meant to be used and let it inspire you to create something better in the Rounds ahead.
Individual favorites by myself and guest judge Ness are marked as such. Here are the results:
1st. Olympus by
alexander 10/10
**Ness’s Pick**
This is absolutely extraordinary. I love than rather taking an easy out you took the opportunity to apply a completely new theme to the track consistently, similiar to CityShep's application of a new theme, I feel this one supersedes his on the creative and track aspect bounds of remixing. The track aspect of the remix appeared to take over the detail, which track-to-detail I feel is the pinnacle of effective trackmaking. That being said enough of the original was left to be within the creative bounds of a remix. Some of the specific characteristics I like is the reimagining of the flag, adding helicopter effectively (Note to everyone: don't just add helicopter, make it effective within the creative confines of playability and remixing) and the exemplary cloud detail which perfected the Olympus theme. Without a doubt, this wins the practice round unless someone else rolls out something unbelievable. Great work, and I can't wait to see more.
Ness wrote:
The keys to a great remix are to add extra, to alter, and to erase. To do these all efficiently is to have a theme and mission in mind. With Alex's entry, you can see clearly that each of his moves are deliberate and very beneficial to the track. He altered the track for a more technical ride, erased the building background and a bit of the foam pit (only keeping what helped his vision), and added extra technical ride to add to the feeling and theme of his track. The interesting building detail added character to the environment, the clouds gave atmosphere, the rocks and shading implemented truly gorgeous detail. And the heli was a nice touch too! Truly utilizing everything he had at his disposal. Other competitors would be smart to learn from this entry.
Additional note: This track received first place on the back of exemplary use of theme and detail and track to match.
2nd. Sukter by
THEend 9.7/10
*pssst’s pick*
This is sick dude. This really peaks remixing in track and detail aspects. I love how you redirected the track creatively while still incorporating the original track seamlessly and the detail fits extremely well. I love how in this remix you let your idea not only influence the change in detail but the change in track as well and how it came out so fluid and perfect. Some things that really speak to me is in the background I see what could be interpreted as ramps from the original, among others, and the detail of the tree house, I was really hoping someone would also use that idea and do it better than I did. Also moving the flag and adding powerlines were very nice touches. Amazing job, can't wait to see more.
Additional note: This track was close in competition to Cityshep, but essentially won 2nd based on full usage and expansion of theme from the original.
3rd. Norilsk by
CityShep 9.6/10
I really loved this, you seem to have already got the concept. It's one thing to add ground detail, skatepark detail and whatnot, it's a whole another beast to implement an original theme into a remix which you did fabulously. It does feel like a snowy tundra landscape with some crazy looking buliding in the background, which I find to be second to none so far, in consideration of the detail aspect of remixing. Also in that sense you allowed your idea for the detail to influence how you altered the track, that's pretty much the pinnacle of successful detailing to trackmaking. The individual characteristics that I love and raise the overall feel is the snow and ice dripping off everything, their is so much consistency in applying detail to the theme its crazy. You clearly understand the idea of remixing and I cant wait to see more.
Congrats to our Top 3
alexander THEend and
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