Sprite Contest Number 4

[PyroOwned]

Number 3 is in the final round, so instead of sitting around watching the other thread until it ends, I'm gonna take charge of Number 4.

I'm aiming at 8 people to sign up, but if more people want to join, I'll let you.

Start signing up!

1. savotage
2. Zebbs
3. Vortex
4. I Ate Your Pet
5. Lynley
6. Veeduck
7. MechanicalKarasu
8. ganondorf

[Penis_Captivus]

I'm in.

[Zebbs]

I might be in depending on what the first task will be.
I didnt like the first one, but i wouldve wanted to do the second.

[PyroOwned]

Ok, I'm thinking of the first task at the moment.

[Zebbs]

PM it to me, so not to spoil it

[Vortex]

Same as Zebbs. I'm in, I just hope we don't have to do a whole scene from something again.

Count me in! I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed.

[PyroOwned]

I'm not gonna make you do a whole scene from a video game. Just a simple object with a certain colour in it somewhere.

[Zebbs]

Oh cool, I'm in.

[SODA]

Uh, pyroowen you can't tell them what it is before you start the competition. That gives them like a 2 day head start.

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

I'm in but for crying out loud try and make the deadlines less stupid, 24 hours is seriously pushing it especially since almost every is back at school now. Try 2 days, maybe even 3 some times.

[Vortex]

It just depends on the objective, IAYP.

Cool, PyroOwen. I think a whole scene in just 1 day was too much for some people :wail:

[PyroOwned]

Uh, pyroowen you can't tell them what it is before you start the competition. That gives them like a 2 day head start.

I'm not stupid. I'm not revealing it until I get enough people. I'm starting the competition in 2 days time from 5pm English time.

[Lynley]

As long as the deadline is longer, and there aren't any scenes involved, I would be willing to join. There's no way I would be able to keep up with a 24 hour deadline with all the classes I'm taking. Forty-eight hours sounds more reasonable.

EDIT: As an added note of my skill (or lack thereof, depending on how critical you are), see my avatar. Done at 80x80 size, took me probably a grand total of 2 or 3 hours done over two days.

[Zebbs]

As long as the deadline is longer, and there aren't any scenes involved, I would be willing to join. There's no way I would be able to keep up with a 24 hour deadline with all the classes I'm taking. Forty-eight hours sounds more reasonable.

EDIT: As an added note of my skill (or lack thereof, depending on how critical you are), see my avatar. Done at 80x80 size, took me probably a grand total of 2 or 3 hours done over two days.


I'm out.

[Lynley]

I'm out.

Please don't bow out cause of me. He might choose a task that I'm bad at. There are a lot of things I can't draw well.

[PyroOwned]

Zebbs, don't pussy out because you've seen one person's Sprite. I'm keeping you in. :P

We need at least 3 more people to start.

[Veeduck]

I'll give it a shot. I guess it doesn't hurt to try.

[PyroOwned]

Nice to have you on board Veeduck. :douchecock: Two more and we can begin. I'm going now, I'll start it in a few hours.

[Zebbs]

Ok then, I'll give it a go. Don't expect anything special.

[PyroOwned]

Ok, the first challenge is up. These challenges are gonna be longer seeing as we all have school now and shit. :argh: So, here we go:

I want you six to create a video-game character. Be creative, but don't go too far.
Then, make a basic enemy, like Mario vs Goombas, but not that easy. I want the colour yellow in it, I don't care what tone.

If anyone wants to suddenly join, feel free, but take the chance while you can.

You have 48 hours, go!

[Mr. Crow]

Meh, just for fun (I know I'm going to hell for this):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/MarikGod64/Spriteee.png

It's Juan the Mexican plumber, and the Koopa border patrol! Run Juan, run!

[Lynley]

Gah, damn you. Drunk and full of delicious Thai food and late at night, and then I find out you post the contest... Size limits, please?

[Chris310]

Meh, just for fun (I know I'm going to hell for this):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v144/MarikGod64/Spriteee.png

It's Juan the Mexican plumber, and the Koopa border patrol! Run Juan, run!

This Juan looks familiar and his mustache seems awfully Italian.

[Lynley]

Also, totally lame of you to start the contest on a Friday night and then ditch us. I was planning to do this tonight if you replied with the size limits, but if I don't have any size limits, I can't start cause then I might draw something too big. *shakes her fist*

[Kry0gen]

I'm in.

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

Well Lynley i'd guess a size of about 100 x 100 would be a good size to have as the maxiumum, seen as most game sprites are small.

[PyroOwned]

I don't care about size limits. MK, that was good, and sure you can join in Kry0gen.

MK, are you joining or just posting that? I would be good seeing as then we'd have eight.

[Mr. Crow]

Sure, why not.

[Lynley]

Meh. Flamebuddy and Waterbuddy. Flamebuddy is the hero, who has the ability to become a larger flame to evaporate Waterbuddy.

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/3965/flamebuddyfinishedlb5.png http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9378/waterbuddyfinishedmi5.png

...That shading took forever, by the way. It's all smooth and stuff, and that takes a while to do in Paint. I also had a hard time thinking of an idea for this that wasn't already used a bunch.

[Veeduck]

Mine is taking forever. I didn't expect the design to be as complicated to shade as it turned out to be. :/

[ganondorf]

can i still join???

[PyroOwned]

Yep, deadline's until tomorrow late afternoon.

[Veeduck]

Okay, done finally. I've found that working on a smaller scale is easier than a larger. I used a photo reference for the character's shading, to make sure it didn't turn out totally wonky. And I'm pretty happy with the results.

Character: Lookout at Fortress Greenvyle.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/battywolf/gamechar.gif

Enemy: (From a different game) Moth Tyson.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/battywolf/enemy.gif

I hope they didn't have to be from the same game.

[Vortex]

Good (Guy in armour plating) - Bad (EVIL MUSHROOM-THING!)

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w216/v0rtexx/spritecontest4vx1.pnghttp://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w216/v0rtexx/spritecontest4vx2.png

I put them against those colours so they stood out abit better. Both turned out pretty bad, but took far too long so I gave up on them. Might touch-up abit before the deadline.

[PyroOwned]

7 hours left people, the ones I've seen so far are really good.

[ganondorf]

i just started mine:wail:
EDIT
and done:clint:
I rushed them a bit becouse of the time limit
but i think they look decent enough.
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/4857/fighter2od7.png

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

Good Character-
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/3408/spritepx5.png (http://imageshack.us)

Sort of a mix of Mega Man and Metroid Prime.

Bad Guy-
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/9739/enemieqh5.png (http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/9739/enemieqh5.png)
Little flaming eyeballs, these are just meant to be basic enemies that float around everywhere.

[Lynley]

I clearly did not put as much effort into mine as everyone else. You all did very well.

[PyroOwned]

Ok, winners of round one are: Veeduck, IAYP, ganondorf and Vortex. Sorry MK and Lynley, they were still really good.

Round 2:
Draw a sprite!
Yes, I mean literally, the fairy kind: http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q136/pyro-gyro/images.jpg
Max area of 200x200px.
Here's the twist: it's got to have a background. Like a swamp or something. So don't make it too big. :P

[Vortex]

Good pick. Looking forward to this one. Time limit is 48 hours again? Or less this time? :smile:

[PyroOwned]

No, definately 48 hours.

[Lynley]

Well done, everyone.

[Veeduck]

Sweet, hopefully I can get that done after class today. Internet being dead for a day is really uncool. :/

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

Could you possible give us some more pictures of sprites pyro it's really hard to find any good ones to use as references.

[ganondorf]

Here I found the big version of the pic
hope it helps anyone
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/jpg/SongSprite.jpg

[ShadowDweller]

Here's some sprites. (http://images.google.co.uk/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Sprite+Pixie+Pixies+Fairies&spell=1)Been watching this one, really good so far :douchecock:.

[PyroOwned]

Cheers Shadow, there you go people. :P

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

Yey finally finished, It's not amazing but I think it looks alright.
I Present to you, the Sprite Sprite Sprite.
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/578/spritejc1.png (http://imageshack.us)

[Veeduck]

How much time do I have? D: I just got home from class.

[Penis_Captivus]

How did I miss this!?

[Veeduck]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/battywolf/sprite.gif

This one was a bit of a rush job I must admit.

Aaaaand it messed up when I saved it as a gif. Too many colours this time I guess. :/

[Kry0gen]

Bland :/
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/fagwagf41ry/Sprite_final.png

[Cheesymaroon]

If you'd gone to a little more trouble on the blue gradient in the background it would be awesome.

[Vortex]

EDIT

There's a bit of sprite breastage happenin' in mine, so i'll link it rather than img it, just incase its too NSFW for anyone.

My Sprite (http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w216/v0rtexx/pixiesprite.png)

P.S The tree's suck. :frown:

[PyroOwned]

Holy shit, you guys are all awesome at this. It was tough, but the two winners of the semi-finals are Vortex and Veeduck.

So, now for the final challenge!

If you watch Dr. Who this will help. I want you to design a Tardis (http://www.otherlandtoys.co.uk/images/tardis800.jpg), the outside and the inside (http://www.drwho-online.co.uk/pp-co-console-1.jpg).
Make it bigger than 75x75px.

Things that will impress:

-Neon lighting
-Technical Shit.

Have fun, you have 72 hours. If you post before I don't mind.

[Vortex]

Hoorayyyy! Too bad, Kry0gen and IAYP. I thought your sprites were fantabulous, anyway! :smile:

I don't watch Doctor Who, so I can only hope Veeduck doesn't too, so i'm not at a big disadvantage! I guess google will have to be my friend, for this one. (What the hell is that picture you gave for the inside? I don't understand.)

Good luck have fun, Veeduck! :hf:

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

The tardis is a normal looking object (in doctor who its a phone box, i suppose you have to make it something normal like a car or something for the competition) which is bigger inside than outside, it's also a time travelling spaceship, so you should have a normal object you'd expect to see anywhere (so you can land anywhere and it won't look overly suspicous) and the inside should be like a spaceship interior.

[Veeduck]

Aha, I have seen maybe two episodes of Dr. Who, so we're in pretty much the same boat. :P

Good luck to you, too, Vortex!

[Vortex]

Ahh, I see. Just the picture PyroOwen posted for the interior kinda threw me. It just looks like a small toy model of.. something strange? I'll manage, i'm sure. Thanks for the info though, IAYP. :smile:

Also, I got no time to start it just yet, so you can have a bit of a head start again, you hoe! I'll probably leave this till last minute again, like I did with the sprite, hah. I was scared I was going to miss the deadline! Thankfully, I didn't! :dance:

[PyroOwned]

IAYP said it all. Just draw an ordinary object, then draw the inside as a massive machine transport shippy thing.

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

No problem, and if you're still in wikipedia it. There are loads of DR. Who fans so the article will probably tell you everything you'd ever need to know about it, and a load more stuff you'd never need to.

[Veeduck]

I was pretty scared I was going to miss the deadline too, hence the rushing. I have no concept of time and had no idea how many hours I had missed with my internet being down and classes.

Hmm, I think I have an okay idea for this.

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

Easiest way to figure out how long left is to look at pyros post and see when it said it was posted, if it says 1 day ago, you better get hurrying

[Vortex]

Yeah, I know that much, but the posts should be timestamped or something. That could have meant we had 24 hours left or like, 24 minutes. USELESS! :frown:

[Veeduck]

Haha, yeah, I read that it was a day ago, but I wasn't sure how many hours exactly that left me.

I finished part one of the newest one. I don't know how I'm going to approch the second part though. :/

[PyroOwned]

Another day left, I wanna see some good quality sprites you two. :P

[PyroOwned]

Ok, the sprites are well over due now. Where is everyone?

[Vortex]

Argh! In all honesty, I got a new job the beginning of this week, and i've been forced to do a lot of overtime already. I've been on the computer a total of about 10minutes in the last few days. So, unfortunately, i'll have to forfeit, assuming Veeduck actually had time for anything either. I hate it when people sign up for a competition then don't follow through, but I didn't foresee this happening :frown:

Sorry, Pyro. :frown:

[Veeduck]

Ugh, I had a pretty important "family issue" to deal with, and have been home for like, four days without the internet.

I'm still at home, but I managed to set up a computer for my mom and so was going to apologize, so. Yeah, sorry about this. Heh.

[Hats of!]

I think you should stop calling these threads for Sprite Contest, this is Paint Art.

[PyroOwned]

Ok, we'll call a draw between the two of you, it was hard deciding between the two of you via your last sprites. I think we should stop Sprite Contests until the next holiday (Christmas), because no-one has time anymore. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. If you want, post a freestyle sprite and I'll judge those two. Don't worry if you're satisfied with a draw though.

[Veeduck]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/battywolf/outside.png

Well, this is part one from the last round. I just couldn't finish part two. It's supposed to be an open war memorial, because I've found that no matter what city I've travelled to, there's always been a memorial of some sort.

[PyroOwned]

Ok, seeing as you were the frist to post even after the contest finished due a draw, I guess you half-win by default. :P

[Veeduck]

I just wanted to show that I was working on it, but circumstances arose. :P

[Hats of!]

In christmas if there are new spritecontest, make sure it's sprites. I think these contribution took it to far.