For all who didnt make it in the hairstyle contest lets post ours!

[Aphel]

This JP player's entry didn't make it in too :<
She's happy that it got featured in the Nico Livestream though, so there's that.



'Large braids, Rapunzel-style'.

Source

[Azper]

Lady Bayonetta from Goblin Server~

This was my entry xD

OMG, it's beautiful. ; ; *grabby hands* Gimme gimme! Do want! D:

[Tragoedia]

Lets talk about it Kleene

Background rule is kinda of a charade. What is the purpose of the contest ? Hairstyles or backgrounds?

Unvalidating a good entry because of a background is reckless. If that happened.. it shouldnt.

Rips offs are still there. If you see Quistis hair in the female section, Roxas hair on the male section( guy in the photograph aka N' 5), FF 1 hairstyle on the male section ( aka N' 20 ), etc

The thing is a small difference makes people say its not a rip off. But a more detached approach will tell you they do seem a rip off.( too similar not to be)

They were smart enough to make you believe thats not a rip off cause the hair is short one inch or two.(eg quistis hair)

But deep down inside you now its not original, its not .

[lilirulu]

Or the Devs just didn't like it. (The original contest page stated the development and operations teams would choose the finalists. They probably had there own internal vote.

[Gyson]

That's my guess, I don't know if that was the reason or not. It's a background. So when would you count something as a background? When not?
Also, in backgrounds you could also accidentally have something in there that the contest organizers didn't notice. And they already had enough to do just figuring out who stole images and who ripped off stuff.

Rip offs were taken out, as you can see that they removed no 12 in the female section.
If you can prove that the other things are rip offs (aka not only used as a reference but being too similar or even being traced), SE will probably remove those too. But you have to prove it.

Edit: Well, maybe it's not the background then.

But the "too long" is a rule for this competition. Doesn't matter if there are long hairs ingame already.

And if you look at the template, the hair would be outside of the picture.

Personally, I would have loved to see very long hair But rules are rules.

It's not the background in the male hairstyle. In-game shots are allowed, and there are "finalists" with plenty of in-game clutter in the background (some with much worse noise than the one you're referring to).

It's also not the hair length on the female hairstyle, as there are several finalists with styles as long or longer.

We're simply voting on a selection that was preferred by some mystery selector(s). Clearly they have an aesthetic preference that doesn't include many of the styles in this thread, and in the end that's all that really counted. This was never really about what the community wanted the most. Let's not try to rationalize the ridiculousness of it all away.

[Tragoedia]

It's not the background in the male hairstyle. In-game shots are allowed, and there are "finalists" with plenty of in-game clutter in the background (some with much worse noise than the one you're referring to).

It's also not the hair length on the female hairstyle, as there are several finalists with styles as long or longer.

We're simply voting on a selection that was preferred by some mystery selector(s). Clearly they have an aesthetic preference that doesn't include many of the styles in this thread, and in the end that's all that really counted. This was never really about what the community wanted the most. Let's not try to rationalize the ridiculousness of it all away.

THIS ! JUST THIS ! Gyson u understand mehhh!!!!

[KleeneOnigiri]

Lets talk about it Kleene

Sure

I already did an edit, so it's not the background D: It was also just my guess, I'm not working for SE :V

Still, because of legal reasons, submitting a hairstyle without a background would be better for the artist. Because then SE doesn't have to check the background for illegal things (like a person in it or symbols and so on)

That's why they have the background rule in it. It's not to sort out people because they don't like them or anything.

"Quistis" and co. aren't rip offs. They might not be really original, but they are not rip offs.

@Gyson:
No, there aren't any longer ones on the contest. They are shorter than that one we are talking about.
Tho there are some finalist that are at the limit at the hair-length.


A lot of you guys sound so sour. You can't expect to have your favorite hairstyle to win because everyone likes something else. And the developers reserve the right to choose what they seem fit into the game and what would also be possible to implement without a lot of problems.

So for future contests, if you want your submission in you should follow the rules and rule out any possibility that could be against your submission. That includes background and using the template.

[NorthernLadMSP]

The Quistus hairstyle that people keep going on about as a rip-off isn't even one. It's very similar but it's not the same. Quistis's hair is pinned in the back with a hairclip while the actual style has a ponytail. That and unless they submitted art from someone else of Quistis then it's not against the rules. The contest said original but unless you can prove the person was intentionally ripping-off quistis and it wasn't an accident (because that can happen y'know there is only so much that can be done with hair) then you nor anyone has any grounds to stand on in calling it a rip-off.

Edit: People are so quick to jump and claim a design is being ripped-off over a lot of vague similarities. Though, of course, only on the finalists entries. No one went through the losers and did the same.

No, it's virtually identical.

[Tragoedia]

Sure

"Quistis" and co. aren't rip offs. They might not be really original, but they are not rip offs.

Whats a thing that emulates an original ? A copy if is its 100% equal to original.

A rip off if its not 100 percent. The art of deception has many ways.

We can be here, discussing semantics all day.

in the end, you see what you want to see.

I respect that.

[Raseleanne]

Some of these are leaps and bounds better than the chosen finalists! Maybe SE will notice some and put them in their thought bank for future implementation. I don't think anyone would be disappointed if their style were chosen outside the contest.

Meanwhile, I'll just be over here being bitter that I probably won't get to have any of these amazing styles. >.<

Yeah, my thoughts exactly! None of the finalists do anything for me, but a lot of the ones that didn't make it in I really, really like. Especially WenWen's female hairstyle. That would have fit my Roe perfectly, lol.

Alas, we clearly don't have the same sense of style as the people who picked the finalists, I guess.