hen t h e e r the blender 2000 - #004 w e l c o m e we were back in form for this week s blender with a good turnout and lots of fun there were a variety of formats including ansi ascii vga and our very first shockwave animation i was impressed with the variety of ideas people came up with from a presidential marshmallow toast to a crow vendetta good work people! something very unusual happened that delayed this pack a bit - a scandal! mongoose of cia originally won first place with his vga entry he told me that he drew the bill clinton picture himself upon seeing it i thought wow this guy should be drawing for the newspapers! the quality of that picture was why he won well it was too good to be true! turns out that mongoose aka chris perry aka pixel prophet is a known ripper who has stolen a fair amount of commercial work from ice with a little detective work we found out that the clinton pic was scanned from somewhere mongoose eventually came clean after pretending that chris perry had ripped him so the first place rank has been taken from his entry there s nothing wrong with clip-art so his entry is still included in the pack but the fact that it s all clip-art makes it rank lower enough with all the intrigue let s get on with the art! thanks massd for the heads-up n e w s at this moment the word-submission thingie on the webpage still doesn t work until it does we ll be continuing to gather words on IRC just before the compo but once the webpage works you ll be able to submit words anytime you want if anyone can help out with a simple perl script (no CGI) email us! e n t r i e s the words this week are BILL CLINTON BURNING SCOTLAND --------------------------------------------------------- ansichrist (fokus) - us-b2k04 ans (ansi) - one of the more original grymmjack entries here i m not what made you guys think of the crow but hey it works! avenger (black maiden) * 1 * - ave-b2k4 ans (ansi) - the fact that you drew an accurate coastline of ireland alone is impressive but that s a damn good smallscale toon clinton blue devil (cia) - us-cia jpg (vga) - this is the second of mongoose two entries with the controversial clinton pic i must say controversy follows the prez even to the blender =) darkmoon (cia) - dm-ble 1 gif (bitmap) - this was a bitmap converted to gif to save on size this is hardcore drawing no filters here baby! drain (dental) - drn-b2k4 ans (ascii) - not bad you ve got an interesting font style goatboy (sane) - go-bcbs ans (ansi) - this is the most wacked- out interpretation that i ve ever seen in the blender dog tree whoa =) gould (eclipse) * 2 * - lm-bill ans (ansi) - goes to show that for some people ansi is just like riding a bike - you never forget and it s got cool streamers from the handlebar ikarus (cia) - ik_blen jpg (vga) - this looks like the promo poster for some kind of movie clinton looks very fierce =) lamont cranston (cia) - lc-sean lit (text) - *hint* read the first letters in the line down- wards! *hint* i didn t see it the first time duh luminator (sodapop) * 3 * - lum-bill exe (shockwave) - wow a full-scale multimedia pres- entation! the scottish connection is weak (other places DO have green hills) but it definitely deserves to place mongoose (cia) - mgs-b2k jpg (vga) - good composition and a pretty cool font in the future actual drawing even if it s less- polished will get you higher standings nightstalker (poffelipoff) - ns-mm jpg (vga) - *gasp* it s not a rip! this is the first actual screen capture submission we ve had i don t know how you managed to chat with this even just long enough to capture it pike (poffelipoff) - pk!blnd4 rip (ripscrip) - the only thing missing from this intimate campfire is the dozens of secret service agents hiding in the forest =) the winners are 1st (3 points) avenger (black maiden) 2nd (2 points) gould (eclipse) 3rd (1 point) luminator (sodapop) the standings are 7 - poffelipoff 5 - sodapop 4 - black maiden 3 - cia 2 - acid 2 - eclipse 1 - itp m i s s i n g has your entry been mysteriously been left out of a blender pack email it to me asap it will be included in the next pack and i will try to figure out what exactly happened please do not bitch at me please do not make threats and please do not insult my parents i m p o r t a n t i want to make clear the point of the blender is to take the three given words and create something about them using pre-created work is not the point of the blender any pre-created work will be disregarded when i judge the entries if i find out that you re trying to submit old work as something new you ll be disqualified and your group will lose any points that entry got you the idea you submit may NOT be anything which might be of benefit to you if picked example you run a board named extraterrestial mongolian earwax factory the idea you submit can t be extraterrestial mongolia earwax or factory please do not name your files blender * blender2 * us-blend * or any variations of those filenames all entries must be submitted with the file ENTRY FRM filled out with your information it just makes it easier to keep track of people to get the file type !form during the competition or get it in the RULES section of our webpage any time once you re ready to submit fill out the form and zip that and your entry into a file called yournick ZIP you may submit any number of files but they must not exceed 150k zipped with the entry form the files you submit may be anything ascii ansi gif s3m lit rip etc joints are allowed with up to 3 people on a team why to make things generally more fair and to make judging easier for us your masterpiece can be a board ad or a logo it can be anything it can even be a config sys file you can submit entries any time during the compo if one of the judges is on irc you can dcc it to us you can also use our ftp site any time c o n t a c t u s blender2000 staff ------------------ cthulu -------- (irc founding) hennifer ------ (irc www founding) ironghost ----- (irc) vader --------- (ftp irc) warpus -------- (irc founding email list) contact us at -------------- url blender2000 8m com ftp hangar18 campus luth se blender upload (anon login port 21) entries packs email blender2000@graffiti net irc #blender on EFnet the 5th blender2000 will be held --------------------------------- sunday may 16th starting at 12 00pm EST (noon) ending at 12 00am EST (midnight) for more info check the webpage please join us