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Announcing the Winners of the Gear Design Contest (Tank Edition)!
Aspiring designers from across the realm have worked tirelessly to create their own ideal forms of tank armor, and today we’re pleased to present the winners that have been selected from the 43 finalists along with commentary from Lead Designer Takeo Suzuki. We would like to thank everyone who submitted their amazing designs!
Grand Prize Winner (To be implemented into the game)
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| Designer | あおいん | Message | With this contest revolving around tank equipment that would be implemented into the game, the main questions we had to ask ourselves during the judging process were whether the design was fitting as tank equipment and if the equipment would look if actually created. Based on these two questions, we evaluated each entry and narrowed down the designs, and amongst them all, this one stood out the most expressing the solidness of a tank while exuding a flashy sense of style. The lore that was written for this equipment was also very interesting, and while it might be difficult to incorporate it into the game, we’ll be doing our best to reflect everything in the equipment model! |
Runners-up
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| Designer | CCNorris | Message | The style of the plant life growing up and out of the equipment is very interesting, and the checkered pattern is a nice fashionable touch! |
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| Designer | クロブチぬまま | Message | Design-wise this was extremely cool, but if we were to actually create this, it would be quite difficult to capture the proper design since the number of polygons would be high and cause certain aspects to fall short of the original idea. |
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| Designer | OnionHolic | Message | We really liked the way this equipment expressed brawniness through the exposure of the muscles. We’d love to see this on a Roegadyn warrior! |
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| Designer | mr. KG | Message | While this is a simplistic design with what seems to be rustic materials, the coat and marge mesh extremely well, and it looks very cool. We’d like to see a leatherworker and weaver create the materials, and then have an armorer put it all together! |
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| Designer | さくらミント | Message | The purity of this design that clearly expressed the desire to obtain the toughness of an adamantoise resonated with us! However, we were somewhat hung up on the shell movement if created this design as is… |
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| Designer | レウ | Message | This was a beautiful design that would fit amazingly well for a paladin! We thought that the lore about this being an armor version of a Zodiac weapon was very interesting. |
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| Designer | Gungnira | Message | This was a fresh armor design that is cute and very science fiction-esque. The details with the design around the shoulder and head was particularly nice! |
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| Designer | Heine | Message | This was nice as this is a design that we have not seen in Eorzea thus far. Not only was the design great, but we could feel the time spent based on how even the posing was done. |
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| Designer | Zero Signal | Message | This entry featured a great dark yet elegant style all while keeping to the tank motif, which we didn’t come across to often with other entries. |
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| Designer | Beruru Beru | Message | Of all the entries, this was the one that boasted the tightest defense. We’d like to incorporate this solid design for tank equipment in the future. |
Prizes
Grand Prize: 1 winner
Implementation of the winner’s gear design into the game
A set of four (4) in-game items:
“Noble Barding” Chocobo barding
Ahriman Choker
Mandragora Choker
Bluebird Earring
“Noble Barding” Chocobo barding
Ahriman Choker
Mandragora Choker
Bluebird Earring
Runners up: 10 winners
A set of four (4) in-game items:
“Noble Barding” Chocobo barding
Ahriman Choker
Mandragora Choker
Bluebird Earring
“Noble Barding” Chocobo barding
Ahriman Choker
Mandragora Choker
Bluebird Earring
* The development team may make adjustments to the grand-prize-winning design.
* Prizes will be delivered after September 2016.
* In the event that an entry other than the grand prize winning entry is deemed to be excellent, Square Enix may choose to implement it in the future.
