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Drac's ACDC: 2-AA Division


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Division: AC2-ACAA

Designs: 9

Competitors: 5

 

V-VD Division: http://armoredcoreun...-v-vd-division/

4-FA Division: http://armoredcoreun...-4-fa-division/

3-LR Division: http://armoredcoreun...-3-lr-division/

1-MOA Division: http://armoredcoreun...1-moa-division/

 

Voting Rules and Info

-Must vote for your top 3 designs, listing which comes 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, please vote using design number for my convenience when I do scoring

-Competitors are NOT allowed to vote for their own designs

-The voting threads are on both ACU and ACL, vote on only 1 site for a division (if you wish to vote on both sites, make sure you don't vote twice in the same division)

-It's your choice whether or not to state why you voted for a design

-Scoring will be as follows: 1st choice gets 3 points, 2nd choice gets 2 points, and 3rd choice gets 1 point

-Names of designers won't be revealed until the end of the contest

-Voting ends December 25th

 

Design 1

Name: Swift BM

Game: Another Age

http://i.imgur.com/dw8GRBc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/JCgwHwf.jpg

 

Design 2

Name: Orbit

Game: Another Age

http://i.imgur.com/gzmx29W.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/LCwpzqh.jpg

Description: lol trash

 

Design 3

Name: Bloodstained

Game: Another Age

http://i.imgur.com/iQ0IAHh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XXtQIXR.jpg

 

Design 4

Name: Cardboard

Game: Another Age

http://i.imgur.com/Sgmbc7g.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KuCHq9C.jpg

 

Design 5

Name: PK

Game: Another Age

http://i.imgur.com/k7O1Irw.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8moJGPt.jpg

 

Design 6

Name: Pure Life

Game: Another Age

http://i.imgur.com/H5NXWZa.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NzMsG3m.jpg

 

Design 7

Name: Guardian Mk. I

Game: Another Age

http://i.imgur.com/yNPXq84.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pYGigFS.jpg

 

Design 8

Name: #ThickSkin

Game: Another Age

http://i.imgur.com/pIvQ3xw.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0Z8MFVn.jpg

 

Design 9

Name: Pig-Sticker

Game: Another Age

http://i.imgur.com/uCPXM3v.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SZs2bdo.jpg

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1st Place: #3

 

This is one of the most menacing and sleek looking quadrupeds I've ever seen throughout the series. The sentimental part of me says it reminds me strongly of Catastrophe and Cerberus from the AC2 arena-- both very ominous looking quads in their own right. To me this bot takes aspects of those two memorable arena ACs and then some. The weapon choice is very excellent and fits the intimidating look to perfection, and while red/black color schemes are the most cliche and boring paint schemes one could ever create in the ac world, this bot finds the right amount of balance with darker reds and bright red trim to make it an extremely pleasing schematic to look at. Overall it's a very well-putogether as a whole and is the most convincing bot of the group.

 

2nd Place: #9

 

This bot has a very satisfying, cool and collective look to it. The paint job is among my favorites of the lot, while the overall balance jives extremely well, finding just the right amount of analogous colors to create a very stable aesthetic. The paint scheme also doe a very good job of matching the weapons which is also a big plus in my book. The actual parts look great together, and I never thought I'd get to see that head look halfway good. The legs give it a a much needed sleek look to complement the big sniper rifle, while the arms mesh well with the core. The hands also have this comical aspect of looking too big for the rest of the frame, but that's not really a negative in this case.

 

3rd Place: #4

 

This bot might've fallen out of placing in the top 3, except its name goes extremely well with its theme and aesthetic. With the current idea running behind it, this bot easily secures its top 3 position to me. This bot looks as though it could easily pass as AC2 arena ranker Tomboy's bigger brother-- who I coincidentally always felt like she had an ac that looked like it was made of cardboard or some other kind of shoddy looking material. The paint job goes really well with the concept and consists of a bunch of colors you think you'd find comprising the little dainty cardboard and metal shacks you'd find in a shanty town. The whimsical idea behind this dingo of a bot makes me love it.

 

Honorary mentions: #5 and #7 (in no particular order)

 

The idea behind #5 is great. Take an infamous and comical arena ranker bot, and put it in the contest, after it's already had a history of being in other contests prior to this. Werehound's PK sports a very memorable aesthetic and paint job for me, with the mostly muted arms compared to the rest of the frame. It would have been a solid placer in the top 3, but there are a good amount of stronger and more original bots out there. #7 is a very strong looking tank overall, with the arm laser rifle giving most of its overall aesthetic merit in my book. The laser rifle and shoulder missile relations give this tank a very rugged and rudimentary look that I find intriguing, but the paint job is too generic and not rugged enough looking for this tank to potentially place higher.

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swift bm

goddamnit ZLR-ARROW is unfair. despite the fact that the frame works brilliantly with itself and the whole ac has a great unison to it, im pretty sure everyone and their mother has come up with the same frame design after seeing ARROW legs. still, its too strong to simply write it off as trite. at least the paint is original (and nicely constructed), although i do feel like the ac grey couldve been made to match the weapon grey

 

orbit

good job matching up the sawa/moonlight colors to the frame. i think there should be some red somewhere on the ac though to go with the sawa/moonlight accents, but the yellow matches well with the muted green. good use of frame parts as well, but overall its a bit boring

 

bloodstained

red and black is for 12 year olds. still looks cool though. the sniper rifle is out of place in terms of aesthetic and color though, and the rockets are better left to more blocky acs imo. im probably asking for too much matching on the weapon parts than i should be but hey its an aesthetics acdc. looks like someone just took their normal quad and spruced it up a bit. if i didnt care about matching so damn much id say it looks pretty damn cool except for those atrocious boosters that look like those ugly flower budlings or something.

 

cardboard

its cute but the paintjob looks like a kid who vomited a load of froot loops

 

PK

i think i died to this guy like 10 times before i blew him up with missiles

 

pure life

lighttank looks amazing in AA and im glad its not an arrow bot. looks great and its nice and simple without back units. totally used stock pink color in garage, but stock colors in aa look pretty good

 

guardian mk i

wat a badass tank. its weird cuz it seems like its just a normal missioning tank but i like it a lot compared to the other aa entries because its cool but its not trying that hard but its aslo trying to be not tryhard. like, yeah, and stuff

 

thickskin

at first i really liked the way it looked but after looking at it more and more it just looks like a fat guy with junkyard scrap glued to him. the colors were cool at first too but im not really feeling the pinkish tan color thats supposed to work with the bright green, the burgundy, and the dark green (and i dont think that the bright green really fits in here either). iunno it just looks uglier the more i look at it. the frame parts all work well with each other but idk man like fuck blanka

 

pig-sticker

the colors work great on this cuz its got the blue to offset the copper-ish red and the legs are such a huge contrast to the upper frame that its somehow appealing. also, the legs have a very loose relationship to the core (the pink metal areas) so i think that helps bring it together. night does well to match the head part and the head part does well to match the core and arms. the shield also matches the back core domes but those arent visible.

 

i voted

1 - 7

2 - 4

3 - 1

but thats definitely gonna be changed soon

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1st - Design 8

2nd - Design 5

3rd - Design 4

 

Swift BM

Great use of spiky, angular parts, from frame to weaponry. The paint has good balance and does a nice job of showing off different details in the parts.

 

Orbit

Looks like something I would make in 2002. I like it, and nothing really seems out of place, but there's nothing that makes it really stand out.

 

Bloodstained

Red and black, but done well enough that I won't complain. I really like the pop of the brighter red. The frame looks good, and being the lone quad entry, it sticks out a bit more. I'm not really feeling the weapon set up.

 

Cardboard

The small, detailed parts look great in that very bright citrusy paint scheme. Bright colours looked amazing in AC2. This just looks like a bundle of energy.

 

PK

Fantastic recreation of a very recognizable bot. I really like ACs with a theme, but usually the exception to that is ACs built to look like series ACs. I'd say this is the exception to the exception, but the inspiration is usually crap like Evangel, and in this case it...wasn't. Looks great.

 

Pure Life

I dig the stripped down look and how it's basically just a pair for floating cannon arms.

 

Guardian Mk. I

Everything about this thing just looks mean. Big tank with a nasty looking weapon load-out, along with a really dark paint scheme. The red kind of gets me thinking of creepy ass evil glowing bug eyes in the night. Might have been a cool match with quad legs, but the tank look is great. The blue treads are throwing me off.

 

#ThickSkin

Armed to the teeth and looking sturdy as all hell. The paint fits really well, too, and makes use of colours and combinations I haven't seen on a lot of bots. This thing just looks flat out badass.

 

Pig-Sticker

The top half, and the paint in general, looks absoultely fantastic. I really don't like those legs on this bot, BUT I LOVE THAT HEAD AND CORE COMBINATION.

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this is 1 of the stronger categories, but not as strong as MOA

 

1: Swift BM

This hover uses a good set of hover legs, but I don't seem to like them as much as some others. The paint gives it a nice and "rustic" finish for lack of a better word. The weapon selection is good, but could be improved. 7/10

 

2: Orbit

This design is solid but dull. The weapons go well with the frame and the paint looks nice, but nothing sticks out except for its dullness. 5/10

 

3: Bloodstained

This is a quad that pulls off a common color scheme well. The frame and weapons work together well, but some minor frame changes and perhaps some changes in the weaponry would probably make this design even better. 8/10

 

4: Cardboard

The frame goes well together and the colors are original and look nice. The colors aren't the best and the weapon selection could be spruced up a bit. Still a solid design, but not outstanding. 7/10

 

5: PK

This design has a good frame and good paintjob. The parts go well together for the most part and the paint compliments them well. The design is solid but not outstanding. 8/10

 

6: Pure Life

This bat has a good frame and a cool concept with it, but the paint is a bit dull. The paint works, but just doesn't help this design stand out. I would make the color more defined. 7/10

 

7: Guardian Mk. I

This is a solid tank design, but could use some touching up work. The weapon selection is nice and compliments the bat well, but the blue treads don't help this design. It still pulls off a mean look though. 8/10

 

8: #ThickSkin

This is a great design. It pulls off a mean look with a great color selection. The green lights make this bat that much better. The name just makes this design that much better. 9/10

 

9: Pig-Sticker

This design doesn't shine like some of the others, but it is still solid. The paint and weapons go well, with a good frame except for the legs. The legs just don't go with this bat if you ask me and that is my main complaint with this design. 7/10

 

1st: 8, #ThickSkin

2nd: 5, PK

3rd: 1, Swift BM

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1st place: 9. Looks like an MT, or a wanzer. It looks like a thing is the point. Nice paint.

2nd place: 7. Fuck yeah tank.

3rd place: 6. lol

Honorable mention: 2. I like how you are better at painting things to look like KARASAWA than FROM is.

Last place: 3. Get the fuck out of here with this shit. This looks like something out of the arena.

Champion emeritus: 5.

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