Category: Cycle Round

Last week I borrowed a theme from our Runway Cycle and asked our models to give us a fashion shoot in the style of “formal.” The only requirement beyond that was that the shot had to be in a portrait (vertical) orientation. Our models had a wonderful range of interpretations of the theme, some of them taking us to the Met Gala, others to the pages of Vogue or to a senior prom. But the winner this week took the “portrait” part the most seriously, and gave us a military general hanging above the mantle of a castle: Congratulations Tattl!

This is a clear example of how the setting can make a shot. Out on the open field this would have been some nice but normal armor. By giving us a pile of treasure as a background and a stiff pose, this shot has transformed into clear definition of a “formal portrait” and centuries from now this will be hanging in a museum exhibition about digital art.

Great job to all the models this week! Classic Cycle will return soon for Round 3. Also don’t forget that the deadline for the April Challenge is coming up on Friday April 17th, for the theme of April Flowers No Showers.

Welcome back for another week of ENTM Classic Cycle 12! This week, we borrowed an idea from our Runway Cycle, and asked our models to submit us a Formal Portrait. The round requirements were “Get as dressy as you can for this shot. Vertical orientation required.” Other than that, our models were free to interpret the instructions however they wanted, and we have a wonderful variety of concepts ranging from parties to paintings.

Please review the gallery of beautiful images, below, and then vote in the Google poll for the strongest shots this week!

For our first week, we stuck with a classic ENTM round all right – By the River! Our models were asked to go find a stream or a river and take a scenic shot to show off the location (and also themselves, of course.) Our judges had a tough time narrowing down the strongest shot and it was very close, but the winner this round was Reina Nymeria!

This shot had everything that we ask for in ENTM – a beautiful background scene with strong composition, good lighting and clothing contrast, and a story that we can tell about what we are seeing here. Congratulations Reina! To all our models, keep up the good work, and to our audience, thank you for voting! Community votes make all the difference and ENTM wouldn’t be the same without your input.

Welcome to the first round of Classic Cycle 12! Our models were asked to go out and find a stream or a river, and take a screen shot with it! We had no other restrictions in place for this round, other than it had to be scenic (so no monsters or fighting things.)

Thankfully there are plenty of waterways in Eorzea, so here we go!

When you have looked at all of the images, please vote in order from strongest to weakest in the Google poll embedded below, or alternately by >>>clicking on this link here.<<< 1 is the strongest, 2 is next strongest, etc. Voting will be open until 11:59 PM EDT on April 7th. Voting is anonymous (no email addresses are recorded) but we do limit to one vote per Google account to prevent ballot stuffing 🙂

Hi everyone, Judge Katarh here! Normally I would have turned in my critiques, sat back and watched the votes roll in and be done…. but Host Kai got an unexpected gift to PAX East so she’s leavin’ on a jet plane right about now. Have fun and hand out those ENTM business cards!

Last week, Kai asked the models to go out and do the classic ENTM round of cosplay. Our models gave us a treat, including some never-before-seen in ENTM characters. But the judges and community agreed that one costume stood out just a little bit more, and that costume belonged to Forthyn S’yel for his amazing depiction of Geralt from The Witcher.

As Kai likes to say:

There is ONE MORE WEEK left in our first cycle of 2020. Due to PAX East, we will be delaying the votes for this for a few extra days, so stay tuned next week for our final round theme!

Also, if you considered being a model yourself (or have been one in the past) I’ll be posting an announcement for auditions for our next cycle SOON!