Broeckchen Observer
Posts : 179 Current Win Points : 176 Join date : 2011-01-18 Age : 34 Location : Germany
| Subject: Slender Man OCT - The Seventh Realm Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:40 pm | |
| I apologise if I'm putting this into the wrong area, and I apologise even more for just coming back for a second to put this here and heading out again afterwards (I havenÄt been active in forever I probably won't be again either x.x), but I wanted to bring The Seventh Realm to your attention. If you don't know what an OCT is: - Spoiler:
An Original Character Tournament (short: OCT) is a competetive between artists (and sometimes also musicians, writers and animators). To enter the competition, every participant creates an original character who enters the Storyline of the OCT - often an actual tournament (hence the name). A set number of characters are chosen from the applications and auditions (small samples of creative work about the concerned OCs) and set up usually in pairs to fight against each other. These battles are depicted by the creators of the characters in creative pieces of work turned in to the judges as "entries". The judges then choose what they think is the more creative, coherent, entertaining and interesting entry of the two and its creator moves on to the next round. The winning entry becomes a canon part of the OCTs storyline. Last one standing wins the tournament.
Not all OCTs are about fighting, but I'm just describing the typical way they're done.
This particular OCT is open to all media (art, comics, animation, writing) and held on Deviantart. It has been existing for quite a while already, and is based on awesome ideas, but for some reason it gains no recognition whatsoever so far. I was hoping that introducing it here would give it a possibility to pick up some momentum, since the deadline for auditions has passed for the third time in a row this sunday without the necessary amount of auditions being turned in. The organisation team (which is super nice and eager, btw) has now come up with an emergency plan to prevent further postponing, but even that emergency plan seems to be failing right now. I was hoping that some people here might be interested in participating - there are plenty of auditions and ref sheets to draw inspiration from by now - and the demand for being able to turn in auditions again might rise high enough for the OCT to finally take off. Even if they don't extend the deadline, they were planning to start off with a non-competitive round now (the emergency plan), and during that round would be plenty of time to create an audition and hand it in so the Admins and Mods may change their mind. I'd definitely advocate this, because like with every OCT, the more, the merrier - I'd definitely love for this tournament to work out. Hope to see you in the tournament, you guys. | |
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sethlapod555 Survivor
Posts : 1844 Current Win Points : 708 Join date : 2011-09-09 Age : 27 Location : Florida
| Subject: Re: Slender Man OCT - The Seventh Realm Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:32 am | |
| This is definitely an interesting activity. I'll have to check it out! | |
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