SubscribeNote: In the end, only so many people could win awards but we wanted to take time out to honor the other top contenders. These are the honorable mentions for Project: Rooftop’s Fantastic Four: Fashion Forward Redesign Contest. Congratulations to all! – Chris A.
Brad Serum & Georgel McAwesome
David Karrow
Marlène Blanchette
Valmor Pedretti Jr.
k3m15a
/ September 21, 2012Erik Johnson’s ‘F4′ logo/insignia/icon is brilliantly inspired. love that emblem!
ThingFan
/ September 21, 2012Although seeing all the costume redesigns for the FF has been great, I think my favorite part of this contest has been seeing all of the reinterpretations of The Thing.
Todd Loessy
/ September 21, 2012Paul Cunha… wow, how was that not a runner up? Awesome design. It’s actually my favorite out of all of the entries (including mine!).
Also nice work by Evan Bryce and Brad Serum & Georgel McAwesome
Dedpool
/ September 21, 2012Mitchel, McAwesome, Bouschor, and Wu are my faves!!
Marshal
/ September 21, 2012That Russell Dauterman piece is amazing. It’s not really a ‘costume’ or ‘uniform’ but it’s my favorite piece submitted to this challenge by far.
Atro
/ September 21, 2012god, so many awesome designs….
Bruce B.
/ September 21, 2012Costumes aside… I really enjoy all the many interpretations of Ben Grimm’s rocky bulk.
Jeremy
/ September 21, 2012Alex Mitchell
I especially dig Sue’s look here. Really read explorer to me. I’d kind of like to see them all in the same jacket/boots.
Brad Serum & Georgel McAwesome
Not very team-y, but good drawings and Thing looks badass. The tilted “F4″ logo is always gonna look inappropriate though.
Braden Lamb
Dig the logo work.
Brodie H. Brockie
Nice, strikes me as a fun 1950′s version of the team.
Bryan Vieira
I really like how the logo is incorporated into the costume.
Daniel Heard
I love this. I think losing the hexagons on the shirt would be an improvement though. Leave em for the forearms and belt maybe.
David Karrow
More futuristic take, I think I like the belt work on Johnny best.
Erik Johnson
One of my favorites among all the entries! Dig the Johnny Quest vibe I get from it.
Evan Bryce
Cool science experiment gone wrong looks. Would really like to see two sets of designs here for a more team based look. One based on Reed/Johnny’s look. Another with Things look continued to all four.
Frank Stone
Badass drawing. Feels like mirror-universe version of the team, what with the purple giving them a villainous feeling.
Gavin Guidry
Not the most out there take, but a solid take on the four.
Jarett Fajardo
Especially like Sue here.
Jarrod Prince
Like the idea of the chestplates. Dig the art-style.
Jeremy Vinar
Very cool. Love the personality in this. And Thing’s knees are awesome.
Jiang Yifan
This’d make a killer Fantastic Four 2099.
Josh Thompson
A tiny bit too busy for me, otherwise this would be great. Love the Thing’s face.
Julien Hirt
Reminds me a lot of the winning entry. I like that Reed gave himself the #1 shirt.
Lee Gaston
Cool look. Another one that reminds me of a more villainous take on the team.
Marlène Blanchette
Love this drawing and the story it tells. Also cool looks for them all.
Michael Scott
Dig the idea behind the inverted back.
Mick Bouschor
Really like this. Maybe a little busy. Perhaps drop the extended “4″ line armband. This version of The Thing is too awesome for those boots as well.
Mr. Walters
If the Venture Brother’s didn’t already have a F4 stand-in this would be it. Great art-style, especially for this team.
Nicolas Zamudio
Awesome drawing. Maybe Thing’s throwing it off, but doesn’t scream team at me.
Paul Cunha
Very cool casual wear look. Would love to see these guys’ adventures.
Ray Wu
Another of my favorites. Nice mix of the new and old looks.
Rohan Carter
Nice utilitarian look.
Russell Dauterman
Great drawing. Lots of personality.
Tony Aros
Like the idea behind the chest piece.
Valmor Pedretti Jr.
Mr. Fantastic’s “1″ looks a lot like a 4, so it took me a second to get what was going on with the “2″ on Sue. Cool idea though.
Warren Newsom
Nice drawing. Dig the subtle invisibiliy on Sue.
That took forever. Kudos to the judges, it’s tough to find something to say about all of these. If anyone wants to see my unfinished/unsubmitted ideas for this content (that I really regret not entering) visit my tumblr (click my name). Also did a quick sketch of Reed and Sue from Alejandro’s winning design.
Bring on the next contest.
Jay
/ September 21, 2012While featuring a lot of nice designs with cool concepts – this contest (much like the Superman redesign) shows that it is pretty difficult to improve on a simple, classic design.
Aaron
/ September 21, 2012Wow!! These are all amazing!! Alex Mitchel, yours is my favorite, by far! It’s definitely “fashion forward,” yet it’s not impractical or overly busy. I could definitely see this in an FF comic. Frank Stone, and Ray Wu, your entries are two of my favs also! If anyone wants to check out mine, feel free to check out my deviatart ((click on my name)) :)
Shaun
/ September 21, 2012Some really great designs here.
The competition was so stiff, no wonder I didn’t make the cut :)
Standouts here for me :
Jeremy Vinar – there’s a charm to these designs I can’t really explain. I especially love the Bill Nye vibe that Reed has going on.
Mr. Walters – everything about this works for me. It’s different. And it’s a book I would read.
Paul Cunha – great art style and the minimal elements in the design really sell it for me.
Ray Wu – A look I can can see working in current continuity.
Congratulations to all.
Keep up the great work.
Toyebot
/ September 21, 2012Wonderful interpretations everyone! Another great contest!
josh
/ September 21, 2012Serum & McAwesome- that’s a very cool design, but that logo looks like an unfinished swastika.
Aaron
/ September 21, 2012Now that I have a little more time to stop and look at these: Mr. Walters, your designs are fantastic (no pun intended)! They’re very fun costumes tat would translate well to lots of different mediums (film, comics, animation). And while I like all of these designs, this is the only one that really made me want to read a comic starring *this* version of the FF.
And since it didn’t seem to go through last time, anybody who is interested, feel free to check out my entry for this contest here: http://drwcomics.deviantart.com/gallery/38988782
I’m really impressed by these designs overall, I can definitely see why I didn’t make the cut above any of these guys; bravo to all!
TBolt
/ September 21, 2012Love Paul Cunha’s a lot, its kind of a throw back to the first couple issues of the book where they didn’t have costumes. Alex Mitchell’s has a great retro feel to it.
Julien
/ September 22, 2012Although my favorite entry won the contest, I think that some of the runner-ups are much more exciting than the honorable mentions. All in all, the quality and the imagination displayed here is amazing and humbling.
jk
/ September 22, 2012so many of these r fantastic!!! some of these deserved to be runner ups. much better redesigns than wut was posted previously.
Esteban
/ September 22, 2012They all was amazing it must have been hard to pick a winner! Simply fantastic!
John Conklin
/ September 23, 2012Great work by all- so much creativity.
Disappointed I didn’t get an honorable mention even – oh, well. Here was my take:
http://johnconklin.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d5fsadw
Congrats to the winners!
Rohan Carter
/ September 28, 2012I was definitely not expecting to see my piece after scrolling through so many awesome entries, but I’m very surprised and humbled that it was included. Amazing work by everyone!
Edwin
/ October 4, 2012Brownie points go to Mr. Walters for re-imagining Ben Grimm as a real Thing since most stick to the orange rock man look. Same with Karrow and having Johnny be different from his usual interpretations
Daniel Heard has one of the more imaginative designs with the high tech hexagonal design. However, my Dave has to be Alex Mitchell and his serial adventurer inspired outfits. I love outfits like that. The practicality and the silhouette just hit a certain button for me
Tom Harley
/ October 8, 2012Really like a lot of these, tis a shame some of these didn’t make it to runners up, especially. like “ThingFan” says above, some of these Thing redesigns are so much fun to look at- Mr Walters’ is brilliant even if it isn’t recognisable.
My personal favourites are: Paul Cunha-mainly his style, it is beautiful to behold- Marlène Blanchette and Russell Dauterman’s which is just too damn cool for its own good.
I quite like Daniel Heard’s too but the logo reminds me too much of Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros’ symbol.