Okay let's do this again. :D
Presentation. It's, yeah, the visual component of a build, what we see and how you sell it. Icing on the cake, so to speak. But, it can also be used to comunicate hard concepts and sometimes those concepts get very hard to convey when you are trying to Skyrimize something in crossover builds. Presentation can also means bending the rules with regard to formatting to create something very cool or different. The builds I'm nominating for this category have either bent those formatting rules successfully or they've managed, through their choice of imagery, to really sell the concept of their build extremely well.
First, an honorable mention for a feature that I really liked.
The Valenwood Vampire by Peppo_o'Paccio - scroll down and take a look at the map in this build and tell me that isn't a clever, clever idea and so useful.
Second, again, I want to qualify, the builds below have so much more to offer than just presentation. Like I said, it's but the icing in otherwise delicious cakes, but I felt that they captured something in their presentation that went above and beyond what is typically done in builds and I enjoyed revisiting them again. Go, and give them likes and plenty of love.
Big trouble in little Morro by Shinjin - So what can I say, you say you're gonna bring Jack Burton into skyrim, I'm gonna damn well pay attention. Me, a supreme lover of 1980's cheese (Ash William's Evil Dead anyone?). There are huge challenges to bringing such a modern character into Tamriel and yet maintain the spirit of the original character AND the spirit of the game. Shin does this very well with his choice of images and lines from the movie. His ability to render the enemies of the movies into Skyrim npcs was very well done. And it would not have been as effectively done if Shin wasn't such a master of image selection and manipulation. It's not just presenting a build with a homegenous theme, that is relatively easy to do in a standard character build, but to do it in a crossover and make you believe it? That is a challenge, and that is why this build stands out for me.
The Bow-Knight of Auri-El by Plunders-The-Mountains - this builder may get several nods from me, as I really like what he does, but I chose this particular build for presentation because from the first image I know exactly what this build is about. It's gonna use bows, love Auri-El and feature Ordinator, Apocalypse, and Summermyst. You could cut off the rest of the build and only keep the title banner and you've got the build. That says a lot about effective communication in the presentation right there. Cutting off the rest of the build would be a disservice, however, as the rest is just lovely to look at. Clean, simple lines that I like to see with strong sectional divides. The images are also extremely homogenous. Elves with bows. One even looks like my Aelberon of Dusk, so that was a big plus. Very well done.
Heroic Spirit - Caster by Dragonborn2021 - I don't think you can go through a presentation category and NOT nominate Mr. Banner himself. Many builds here have adopted banner formatting, centered images and have benefitted from his banner creation in their own builds. It's a clean format style that communicates the build in a solid way. It's been a format used for a long time in character building. Used because it works. His Karliah build is already nominated, but while that build's presentation is indeed very pretty (dude even used purple for her eyes), there is something different about this one. A jump in technical skill that I started noticing. I've known Deebs for a very long time and this build's presentation has a new maturity that you see beginnings of in his Karliah build. There is unification of color scheme, font, sharpness, formatting, and some excellent image selection. When we do modern masters 2018, do not be surprised if I mention his He Who Carves Wood in the Image of Gods, because his image presentation in that first build image takes yet another leap in development. Here's hoping he returns to the vault soon, so we can see him continue to grow artistically.
There you have it, my three nods for presentation. Good luck to all of you who are nominated.
The Long-Chapper
Okay let's do this again. :D
Presentation. It's, yeah, the visual component of a build, what we see and how you sell it. Icing on the cake, so to speak. But, it can also be used to comunicate hard concepts and sometimes those concepts get very hard to convey when you are trying to Skyrimize something in crossover builds. Presentation can also means bending the rules with regard to formatting to create something very cool or different. The builds I'm nominating for this category have either bent those formatting rules successfully or they've managed, through their choice of imagery, to really sell the concept of their build extremely well.
First, an honorable mention for a feature that I really liked.
The Valenwood Vampire by Peppo_o'Paccio - scroll down and take a look at the map in this build and tell me that isn't a clever, clever idea and so useful.
Second, again, I want to qualify, the builds below have so much more to offer than just presentation. Like I said, it's but the icing in otherwise delicious cakes, but I felt that they captured something in their presentation that went above and beyond what is typically done in builds and I enjoyed revisiting them again. Go, and give them likes and plenty of love.
Big trouble in little Morro by Shinjin - So what can I say, you say you're gonna bring Jack Burton into skyrim, I'm gonna damn well pay attention. Me, a supreme lover of 1980's cheese (Ash William's Evil Dead anyone?). There are huge challenges to bringing such a modern character into Tamriel and yet maintain the spirit of the original character AND the spirit of the game. Shin does this very well with his choice of images and lines from the movie. His ability to render the enemies of the movies into Skyrim npcs was very well done. And it would not have been as effectively done if Shin wasn't such a master of image selection and manipulation. It's not just presenting a build with a homegenous theme, that is relatively easy to do in a standard character build, but to do it in a crossover and make you believe it? That is a challenge, and that is why this build stands out for me.
The Bow-Knight of Auri-El by Plunders-The-Mountains - this builder may get several nods from me, as I really like what he does, but I chose this particular build for presentation because from the first image I know exactly what this build is about. It's gonna use bows, love Auri-El and feature Ordinator, Apocalypse, and Summermyst. You could cut off the rest of the build and only keep the title banner and you've got the build. That says a lot about effective communication in the presentation right there. Cutting off the rest of the build would be a disservice, however, as the rest is just lovely to look at. Clean, simple lines that I like to see with strong sectional divides. The images are also extremely homogenous. Elves with bows. One even looks like my Aelberon of Dusk, so that was a big plus. Very well done.
Heroic Spirit - Caster by Dragonborn2021 - I don't think you can go through a presentation category and NOT nominate Mr. Banner himself. Many builds here have adopted banner formatting, centered images and have benefitted from his banner creation in their own builds. It's a clean format style that communicates the build in a solid way. It's been a format used for a long time in character building. Used because it works. His Karliah build is already nominated, but while that build's presentation is indeed very pretty (dude even used purple for her eyes), there is something different about this one. A jump in technical skill that I started noticing. I've known Deebs for a very long time and this build's presentation has a new maturity that you see beginnings of in his Karliah build. There is unification of color scheme, font, sharpness, formatting, and some excellent image selection. When we do modern masters 2018, do not be surprised if I mention his He Who Carves Wood in the Image of Gods, because his image presentation in that first build image takes yet another leap in development. Here's hoping he returns to the vault soon, so we can see him continue to grow artistically.
There you have it, my three nods for presentation. Good luck to all of you who are nominated.
The Long-Chapper
