Category: Cycle Round

For the final round of this cycle, I tasked the models with an open ended storytelling theme Legends. This theme was a true test of artistic and creative mettle. Many of our models opted for local legends, others for classical legends, but the winner for this week’s cycle went for a modern legend in the form of the late David Bowie.

Congratulations to Isillud Losstarot for winning this week’s challenge with a scene from Labyrinth!

With that, Classic Cycle 13 is coming to a close. I will be tallying up the votes from the last six weeks and will announce the winner later today!

We are on the final week of Classic Cycle 13, with all eight models having survived until the end of the contest. For that alone, every one deserves a round of applause!

This week’s theme was open ended with “Legends” – the models could choose to interpret this however they wished, with a legend from Eorzea or from the real world. All images had to have some kind of picture frame, with the intent of making it look like a story book illustration. I think everyone knocked it out of the park, but this is still a contest, so you’ll need to vote!

Please view each image below and then use the Google poll to vote, with 1 being the strongest, and ranked on down.

Due to the delay in posting this weekend, voting will remain open until 11:59 PM ET on Wednesday, April 27th.

Although the Google Poll is set to require a sign in to prevent duplicate voting, no email addresses are collected, only the timestamp of your vote.

If you are having trouble voting on the Google Poll embedded above, you can also open it directly in a new tab by clicking on this link: https://forms.gle/waGnkE9vXXsfLfp1A

Last week was the tragedy to match Week 3’s comedy – and our models did an amazing job making us Feel the Feels. Black and white is a difficult medium to work with, too! Scoring was very tight, but the model who managed to bring the feels the best last week was Chibi Blu. Congratulations!

We have ONE MORE WEEK in Classic Cycle 13. (Like last week, posting will be delayed 24 hours until Saturday night because real life is eating my face on weekends right now.)

For this week’s challenge, I asked our models to use some throwback photography skills and bring a shot in pure black and white photography.

It comes for all of us. Show us your character being sad….. whether it’s about money or mundane things, or the deeper things in life.

Please view each of the images below in a larger size by clicking on the middle of the picture. Then use your browser’s back button to return to this post. Vote for the images using the Google poll at the bottom of this page. Remember that ENTM uses golf scores, so have #1 as which shot you think is the strongest.

Voting will be closed a bit later than usual due to today’s delay in posting. Please vote by 4PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, April 20th. If you are having trouble voting in the Google poll above, please click on this link to open the poll in a new tab: https://forms.gle/ykZ963hzUM4t827q6

We had our big battle challenge for week 4, and while all of our models showed how well they can fight off a bad guy, one model in particular wow’d the judges for his fighting prowess. Congratulations to Isillud Losstarot for winning the challenge this week!

We have two more weeks in Classic Cycle 13. Thank you to all the models and judges for surviving Patchmas this week! (6.1 dungeons/zones are not permitted to be used, though, so no worries about spoilers.)