First Place - GlassShard
Second place - Lynntendo
Third Place - animetayl

Championship Round

This is it, folks; the final challenge of OmniArt 2005. I know some of you have been waiting your whole lives to get here - maybe just the one or two of you who don't have anything better to do - and I assure you, your artistic skills will be sorely tested for this last go-round. The theme for this is simple: take a scene from an RPG, and make it a scene from a musical.

Partial to opera? Turn that dramatic soliloquy from Final Fantasy (any of them, really) into Pagliacci, and bonus points if you can tie in that Seinfeld episode (no, not really). Broadway your thing? You know Wild ARMs is begging for a Cats redux. Motion pictures tickle your fancy? People die in Chrono Trigger, People die in Moulin Rouge. Coincidence? I think not!

In simpler terms, the object is to take a scene from an RPG and draw it based on a real-world musical; sorry, FF6’s opera scene doesn’t cut it. Historical or contemporary, movie or stage production, the basis for the piece has to be the real deal.

Chicago, the Producers, the Sound of Music… so long as it’s based around the idea of people breaking into song, it’s fair game. Ideally, it should be fairly close, thematically, to the scene from the game you’re drawing; that is, you probably shouldn’t really give Wild ARMs the aforementioned Cats makeover, awesome as that idea might be.

The round opens Monday, December 26 and closes on Saturday, January 15. Anyone who wants to draw something for the contest can submit their work as well, though those pieces will not be considered for voting. They will, however, be posted along with the winners on Friday, January 21. I encourage everyone to participate, as this will be the last chance to draw something for Omni-Art 2005. Good luck!

-Rebecca Bailey.