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TASK 3 - S> Bulk Catty Designers 3for1c
Week Three
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Well done, final 13. For your third task, we are tackling a task I did over 6 years ago in Season 2, but I want to see how it will be interpreted in 2020 so I'm doing it again.
Your task is to select a furni on Habbo.com, and design an outfit that commemorates the colours, proportions, style, and shape. I am looking for creativity above anything; I do not want a simple gray couch, and an intricate gray outfit with nothing to do with the couch. Don't be lazy.
Here is a list of prohibited furnis:
- Anything bigger than 2x2
-Anything too tall for the photo frame
- Mannequins
- Clothing items
-Anything you do not own/cannot drop
That's it, it's all fair game. The winner of this task will receive an interesting advantage entering the 4th week. Your deadline for this task is Monday the 25th. Good luck!
Task
*Please note: I tend to design these example photos in less than five minutes. They are NOT a reflection of the quality of outfits I expect from you. Please try to beat my example photos every week, otherwise you will have a difficult time at panel.
Panel
Hello final 13, and welcome to your 3rd panel. This week was pretty divisive in terms of quality: A lot of great outfits and a fair amount of poor outfits. Nevertheless I tried my hardest to make my critiques fair, and to provide help to those who received bad scores to ensure they will not follow the same paths again.
I don't really have anything else to say, so let's get to the outfits!
Zach
SNAWL: Out of all the furnis picked, you certainly picked one of the most difficult to convey into an outfit, and quite frankly I don’t think it was worth it. The outfit’s colours are totally fine and consistent with the furni, but I am struggling to understand the decision behind the striped pants - it’s a huge eye sore. The entire body of the furni is long, slender, and smooth, and I can think of a million & one better ways to convey that than what you submitted. I see no cohesion between your outfit & furni other than the colour palette. You tackled a challenging furni and I applaud your bravery, but ultimately the execution is severely lacking. You blew me away earlier in Lidlterm, but unfortunately, I can only judge you on your outfits here in Snawlterm.
jared
SNAWL: I wasn’t expecting (or wanting) anyone to take a commercial approach to this task, but I admit this outfit is quite charming. The relevance to the furni is obvious, but you could also send this down the runway of any shortterm PR and it wouldn’t look too costume-y. While this outfit is fierce and contains no flaws, it still pales in comparison to anyone who did a half-decent job at a more literal approach to their furni. It is hard for me to rate you high in a week where everyone else pushes the envelope so far. Neat outfit, but not necessarily what I was asking for.
SNAWL: I totally get where you were going, and I respect your decision to design from association to the furni instead of the furni aesthetic itself. That being said, I see fundamental flaws that stop this from being a great outfit, and those flaws are only highlighted more when you compare this to the more venturesome outfits submitted. The apron creates a really weird, symmetrical shape below your waist which ultimately makes this outfit look more like a giant wedding cake than anything else. While I love those shoes, they’re H-I-D-E-O-U-S from behind and look like the velociraptor feet from Jurassic Park. On a positive note, the gold chain & earrings combo is pretty. But all things said, I’m not too happy with this. I explicitly stated which types of similarities I wanted to see in the task’s dossier, and you hardly delivered on them at all. I showed this week’s outfits to four separate people whose opinions I trust, and all four of them independently singled you out as the weakest.
peter
taylor
SNAWL: While this outfit doesn’t knock me back with innovative textures, it’s still cute as hell. It’s a prime example of how to reap the benefits of a sideways pose because you’re achieving little splotches of colour that wouldn’t be impactful from any other angle. The yellow socks & brown shoes are so cheesy and I giggle every time I look at them, but it’s a guilty pleasure and I love them! This outfit lacks boundary-pushing innovation to shoot you to the top of the pack, but it’s serviceable enough to push you through to the next round. Given your near elimination last week, I really want to see you get creative with textures and layouts, because this cast is extremely competitive, and you won’t survive on just being “cute” for too long otherwise.
Zechariah
SNAWL: This is the best outfit I’ve ever seen you make, EVER. Given your rich RPDR history, I knew you’d be submitting a heavy, campy jumble of fabrics like this, but what I didn’t expect was the utter annihilation that is this outfit, and how much you soared above & beyond everyone else. The candles have a prominent “drooping wax” effect which you harnessed immaculately, and when any other designer would tone it down, you instead run off into the sunset with my wig in hand, both middle fingers in the air, and I couldn’t possibly be happier with the end result. The thick, lush, dense negative space that comprises the majority of your upper back is in tandem with the wax cylinders of the candles, and every shade of colour of every pixel comprising the furni is represented somewhere on this outfit. I’m a little iffy on the belt, but that can be easily overlooked when everything else is so perfect. And lastly, that is my all-time favourite usage of the diva heels, ever. To think I eliminated you first in Season 5 just goes to show that everyone deserves a second chance, and an encouraging environment to nurture their talents. You are a behemoth of fashion; one of this community’s strongest forces, and to say you “won this task” is a disgusting understatement.
samantha
SNAWL: The layout for this outfit embodies the words “cliché” & “outdated”, and I should hate it, but I don’t because you’ve incorporated these tacky primary colours phenomenally. I’m not a fan of the white on your shoulders and I think it would’ve worked better if you went for a nude effect, but every other colour placement is superb. That is the best use of the rainbow sticker I’ve seen in quite a long time. However, colours are only a fraction of the battle. As aforementioned, this outfit comes together as very familiar and derivative of previous outfits in PRs. If I were you, I would’ve experimented with loose, stringy fabrics like bikinis and/or necklaces to convey the DNA helix better. You’ve had your ups in this game, but you’ve yet to blow me away with an original silhouette, or an interesting fabric rework. As these weeks go by, the margin for error is increased, and less mistakes are being forgiven or overlooked. You need to start expanding your arsenal before it’s too late. Good luck, Sam.
kaytie
SNAWL: At first glance I didn’t think too much of this. But after staring at if for a few days, I’ve grown to really appreciate the intricacy and shape composition behind this outfit. Every single obtuse angle, line, and graphic displayed on the lamp is brilliantly replicated somewhere on your outfit. The yellow on your sides from using the open shirt is extremely innovative, and I predict designers will copy that technique and use it in shortterms. I’m glad that you relegated the gray just to your shoes while using your bodice to highlight the more interesting parts of the furni; that is simply smart craftsmanship. I have nothing negative to say about this outfit, and I hope you continue designing outfits of this caliber. Great work, Kaytie!
jenna
SNAWL: Your bravery is on full display here. Probably the single most difficult furni of the week, you did a pretty good job at replicating some of the sporadic dabs of colour. However for the white & blue, I feel like they were just added to wherever you could fit them. I understand with Habbo’s intense clothing restrictions, you could only do so much. But in that case I would recommend picking a different furni entirely, because even the colours where you did get to represent in your chest pattern, I gotta admit, I’ve seen those patterns before. I usually love that hat, but on here it just felt thrown on to increase the ratio of black to colour. This is your weakest outfit of the competition so far, for me.
Filip
SNAWL: What I find astonishing about this outfit is just how far you’re willing to go to find new, interesting, or different textures to display colour. Everything as far down as where your Habbo’s hand is placed was a calculated decision necessary to convey your vision for this outfit. I’ve always silently found the Porch furni to be oddly satisfying to look at, and I am overjoyed that you picked it. The scum, mold, grime – all of it is reflected on your outfit somewhere, and done so with precision and gusto. My biggest issue with this outfit was the decision to pose sideways: while I agree that it was necessary to achieve the textures you wanted, I still find it a tad underwhelming to be staring at a lot of smooth, blank, unutilized canvas space. Besides that, this was an amazing work of art. As it stands you have the strongest track record, and every week I eagerly wait to see what you submit because you’ve yet to bore me once this season. Great work, Filip!
avery
SNAWL: This might just be me, but I feel like you designed this outfit upside down, and I love that! The composition of fabrics work to recreate the bowl of the pottery – mainly the skirt. I love the jumble of colours concentrated near your waist, and that is one of my most favourite uses of the chest straps in a very long time. On a more critical note, I wish you conveyed the greenery in the pot more vividly, and no, I’m not counting that ridiculous star on your head. I think it is a result of your absence in the PR community: in 2020 it’s a huge no-no to use one-bit accessories that look like plastic on your head unless you’re combining them with other accessories to create your own headpiece. But from the neck and down, you did a pretty swell job. I hope you maintain this careful trajectory to the top you are experiencing. Thanks, Avery.
amina
SNAWL: You took a very mundane furni and made it a star, I love it. I wish you used a little darker red for the bottom half, but I love the boxy, sturdiness conveyed. The silver on the top is really intricate, and while I admit not every single accessory was an amazing choice, it all comes together as a very original, inspiring design. If I were you I would have experimented with more shades of red to convey the shadows on the furni, otherwise I think you did a pretty spectacular job. You’ve consistently delivered great outfits every week, much like Season 5, and I trust that you will continue this hot streak of innovation till the end. Good job, Amina.
Auby
SNAWL: Like last week, I find your outfit easily the most unoriginal and forgettable. But this time around it’s worse because you’re standing next to your visual reference, and that only highlights the flaws more. You’re using rough pedestrian fabrics to allude a furni that is clearly furry, soft, and fluffy. The only soft part of your outfit is the towel dress, which you coloured brown to reference the baseboard – the only part of the furni that isn’t soft… sigh. Your colours are cool but they’re not being combined in an interesting, original, or harmonious way. It’s just a 1 – 2 – 3 pattern I’ve seen a trillion times. I warned you last week to not give me generic outfits coloured according to the task, but you gave me exactly that. I’m sorry Auby but literally everyone else took some sort of risk this week, and I can’t stomach sending any of them home when you’re still here giving me exactly what I explicitly stated I did not want.
Lee
SNAWL: I really enjoy this outfit on its own, but I feel it crumbles when next to your chosen furni. Your furni has no solid black so I fail to understand why your outfit has so much. Even more egregious, your furni is slim, scraggily, pointy, and a whole other plethora of adjectives I see NOWHERE in your outfit. If you merely wanted an excuse to design a grayscale dress, surely there are better furnis you could have picked than this. The outfit itself is really good and I am intrigued by the disjointed black decal, but you didn’t give me what I wanted, again for the second week in a row. You obviously have what it takes to design beautiful outfits, but you need to pull your head down from space and join everybody else when I’m explaining what the task wants. I will not be letting this slide a third time. Thank you.