Toa Hagah (Art Contest #3: Honor Guard)

[TheJerminator]

For starters, @Lewinga, your entry is now good to go to the polls.

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@SubParFauxPas

All 4 of Bomonga’s limbs are intentionally obscured, which should be considered a significant omission if this entry having shields for some characters just be potentially held out-of-frame wasn’t allowed and they all had to be seen, as the image here leaves nothing for the build to be inferred past the elbows and knees.

The rules of the contest specifically allow for parts of the body to be unseen:

@Eljay

We encourage entrants to illustrate full-body renders of the group, however it will not be mandated.

This is why Bomonga’s limbs are allowed to be hidden.

Gaaki’s chest follows the same reasoning, in addition to the fact that it isn’t really “hidden”, just facing away from the camera; some side of the figure has to be facing away, and, for Gaaki, this entry chose it to be the chest.

The reason the Toa Tools were asked to be shown in other entries is because they can actually be removed from the figure and missing entirely from the scene; unlike the Toa’s limbs, they cannot be implied to be there if they cannot be seen.

@SubParFauxPas

Kualus is also using the wrong model of the Mask of Sensory Aptitude - a change that this entry , and this one made that were requested to be corrected also.

The difference between these change requests is due to the differences between Bomonga and Kualus’s custom mask models.

Bomonga’s Faxon was specifically designed to be a different version of a currently-existing mask, while Kualus’s mask is a model of a standard Mask of Sensory Aptitude. The first entry you referenced was asked to change Kualus’s mask because it included textures that were not present on either the winning mask model or the canon artwork it was based on. Both entries were asked to change Bomonga’s mask because they used the original (different) version of the mask. This entry has neither problem.

@SubParFauxPas

Additionally, the scarf on this entry’s Kualus was requested to be changed from a dark shade of tan, to one that more closely matched the original build’s, and the scarf here is a mustardy colour.

The reason that that entry was asked to change is because the scarf was seen as more gray, than tan. This entry simply has a different shade of tan.

@SubParFauxPas

just part of the peanut gallery, noticing rules being inconsistently enforced and different entrants being held to different standard - only speaking up now as the entry list has finally been

I can assure you, we have made a special effort to ensure consistency in our decisions, often referencing multiple previous change requests that were made before posting any feedback. I hope that the above explanations can give you some insight into how we deemed it necessary to request (or not request) certain changes.