Woot contest 60 was one of the fun classics - "Use the current Woot-Off products to create a giant humanoid fighting robot like Voltron." The mechawootbots have all been keeping in touch since February 2006 and have decided to get together for a Thanksgiving Family Reunion! Your mission (until Nov 17) - picture one or more of the contest 60 mechawootbots celebrating Thanksgiving!. They might be having Thanksgiving dinner together, past, present or future (was it really Pilgrims and mechawootbots?!); or maybe mingling in a Star Wars club around Thanksgiving. They might just be beins served as Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe they're in the back yard in a horseshoe throwing contest, or maybe fighting the Black Friday crowds! Use your imagination and your madd skillz, it is what you do best! (at least in Dodgeball).

To simplify things, below are links (clickem to embiggen) to many of those with minimal backgrounds, listed in order of winners, honorable mentions, and others (even mine; it was my 10th contest), with a few later contest entries that fit the bill, and an example chop.





Work your magic until Thursday Nov 17 midnight (we shouldn't have a Woot-Off to cloud our focus!), vote Friday, and winner will be announced Saturday with a fitting trophy and the honor of hosting the next round.

About now a new Dodgeball winner would have been announced, and new contest would have been posted, so time to bump this up? Are we back on schedule? Is this the Worst_Dodgeball_Theme_Evar?

pute wrote:About now a new Dodgeball winner would have been announced, and new contest would have been posted, so time to bump this up? Are we back on schedule? Is this the Worst_Dodgeball_Theme_Evar?

I just finished an entry. Can we go next week?

This is not the worst by far. It is challenging, though.

Happy Thanksgiving!!



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websorcerer wrote:Can we go next week?

I guess I didn't make that perfectly clear, now, did I?! With the little late winner post, and my littler late acknowledgement, I meant for this contest to be posted early for next week, rather than late for this week. I just adjusted the post up there to say chop away until Thursday Nov 17.

websorcerer wrote:What? You expected me to read all the way to the bottom?!!? UNREASONABLE!! 8^)

Good point; now it mentions the contest is just beginning at the top also!

pute wrote:I guess I didn't make that perfectly clear, now, did I?! With the little late winner post, and my littler late acknowledgement, I meant for this contest to be posted early for next week, rather than late for this week. I adjusted the post up there saying chop away until Thursday Nov 17.

What? You expected me to read all the way to the bottom?!!?

UNREASONABLE!! 8^)

Getting the Thanksgiving Turkey



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These chops are not my strongest suit, (cutaways from a white background always create a crummy edge for me) so I may just sit this one out and vote. Nobody's taken my idea yet, though, so I might give it a hack'n'slash anyway.

Moueska wrote:(cutaways from a white background always create a crummy edge for me)

What is your chopping tool? Photoshop, a machete, paint.net, Gimp, a Yoshi knife, Paint Shop Pro? I have fairly good tips for Paint Shop don't trust myself with a Yohsi knife!

My preferred tool IRL is an exacto-knife, but my tool for computer-based editing is paint.net. I love it when it behaves.

Moueska wrote:These chops are not my strongest suit, (cutaways from a white background always create a crummy edge for me) so I may just sit this one out and vote.

In GIMP, I use the Select tool on the white background, increase it by one pixel, then invert. The result has no white border.