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Post by Ninety on Feb 4, 2013 18:40:22 GMT -5
I win!
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Post by Ninety on Feb 28, 2013 20:17:41 GMT -5
How many times do I have to win before we get to Lucas or whoever is next?
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Post by Beelzebibble on Feb 28, 2013 20:59:51 GMT -5
Turns out Blood was holding this hostage so as to get Lee to do the Lugiasian Awards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Tout-Perd on Nov 11, 2015 15:05:36 GMT -5
Thinking about rebooting this contest.
As is, the current list is: Alyssa-Done, technically? Lucas-I don't even know what to do with this guy. He belongs to Prime, and is written by Biscuit? But? I don't even Masquerade-Choobs still exists. Jonas-BB exists, but is on hiatus? Lacianus-Lee needs to post in the RP. And Lacy's got two great pictures now, courtesy of Pohatu and I. Valon-DL is still a thing. Ysane-Choobs is still a thing. Rance-Ninety is kinda around, IIRC? Flint-Shoni is one of the primary RPers on the site, these days. I'd gladly move him up to Lacy's slot. Rick-BB is sort of on hiatus? Hector-Loogs is Loogs? Reb-Who's Reb again, even? Huckabee-Has been Illustrated, but Biscuit may want more loving/make this into Blackbird instead.
So, what are the votes on what we're doing with this? My gut says "Axe Lucas due to Author existence failure, Jonas, Alyssa, and Lacy come off due to having valid pictures done (potentially Rance and Huckabee too, but that depends on Biscuit/Ninety's say, pull Rick and Hector until their authors show they aren't dead, and go with:
Masquerade Flint Valon Ysane (Maybe Rance below here?) (Still have no idea who Reb is? I think a DL character?) Huckabee/Blackbird
And then add three or four characters to the bottom of that, depending on who people want to see. Might shuffle the top slightly, since right now it's a bit Choobs-Boobs heavy.
Characters I'd like to see added to the list: Didn't, Lorenna, Silumas, Crookes, Iliana, maybe somebody from Pohatu's cast?
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Post by Beelzebibble on Nov 11, 2015 15:54:50 GMT -5
"Reb" is Reba Winset. She's this gross old lady, I don't think anybody wants to draw her.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Nov 24, 2015 12:25:10 GMT -5
Do you think we'd have enough artists to revive this, btw? We're currently sans Loogs and Kevin, tho' Kev's pretty chill and might swing back in just to art, if nothing else, but we've got Pohatu, Cendra, and I, all of whom have entered several of these contests leading up to this point, and though El hasn't ever done one of these contests, IIRC, he's got some serious art chops, too.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Nov 24, 2015 12:37:34 GMT -5
Loogs has shown her face around here this fall, hasn't she? She's active on Facebook, I doubt it would be too hard to reach her. I'm tentatively interested in reviving this.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Nov 24, 2015 13:25:20 GMT -5
I'm pretty sporadic with when I draw but sure, I can give it a go
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Post by Silumas on Nov 25, 2015 16:34:46 GMT -5
I can't draw for shiz, but I'd happily judge when the Moose comes around. I'd like to see a drawing of "Spooky" Spectre too.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Nov 25, 2015 16:43:30 GMT -5
Would it be worth completely resetting the whole thing and picking characters from scratch?
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Post by Tout-Perd on Nov 25, 2015 17:11:59 GMT -5
I'd like to start with Flint, but I'm glad to go with whatever you and Pohatu are feeling. My basic list from scratch would be: Flint Ysane Valon Didn't Blackbird Lorenna Iliana
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Nov 25, 2015 17:27:18 GMT -5
Personal opinions on that line up:
Flint - Fine with this Ysane - Barely know who she is. I'm all for promotion and shit, but even so... Valon - Surprising pick, but not objecting Didn't - Interesting choice, can't see an argument outside of not knowing Didn't well Blackbird - Move up. Blackbird is hella interesting as a concept Lorenna - Drawing blanks. Iliana - There's two L's if it's my character. Good choice if it is though
Characters I'm interested in seeing people draw:
Nopcsa Carlos Silumas Miko Alpha Death Lacy Nick
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Nov 25, 2015 17:29:41 GMT -5
Also, as a thought, with so few of us who do this stuff, is it worth everyone arting the same character? Maybe make a selection of, like, 3 or 4? Then each person can pick their favourite (with the option of doing more than one, maybe?) and we have a wide selection of art to choose from? Just a thought
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Post by Tout-Perd on Nov 25, 2015 18:29:52 GMT -5
Ysane - Barely know who she is. I'm all for promotion and shit, but even so... Ysane is a pretty major character, actually. She's essentially the Goddess of Discordance, iirc, and has a few RPs under her belt. She's a choobs Char. She's in Cendra's cast, with a few pages in Moss. She can control butterflies. After some thought, we may want to pick another one of your characters. Maybe your clique instead? Illiana is cool, but I just recalled Pohatu and you both already have great drawings of her. Gotta decline this one. Nopcsa already has 3 great pictures, one by each of us. Not going to contest this in the least; I'd meant to include him and Narcissa in the initial list, but slipped my mind. I'm game for this. Miko has a few pics floating around, but they're all hella dated. Nat has a similar issue; her latest portrait was on page 2 of Photugraphy. Interesting thought! Maybe just a straight up Brogues contest? Another cool one. Lotsa potential gizmos and such. Not feeling Death, and Lacy's been portrayed by all of us but El already. I dunno about groups of characters at once; part of the point is getting a variety of illustrations, so each author has a better shot at getting one to their tastes. Of course, I'm accounting for this by deliberately weighting our list towards characters with dual/multiple appearances (Flint/Zagaroth, Valon's many garbs, Silumas has business and casual , Narcissa was established as having all kinds of different outfits in our planning thread, etc.) Maybe we can slot in two or three spots for underdrawn groups? E.G. "Draw one of El's Clique", "Draw one of the timewenders", so forth.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Nov 25, 2015 19:54:03 GMT -5
So that's, in some order,
Flint Ysane Valon Didn't Blackbird Lorenna Carlos Silumas Miko Nick
That's cool, I had once been planning to draw Ysane and Blackbird, think I remember shooting Choobs and Biscuit some image-ref PMs.
Can't say I'm that interested in Alpha, but I remember for a long time if I won one of these I was going to name "Terrian in a Halloween costume" as the theme and you would be free to include as many duplicates as necessary.
Instead of Alpha, why not... Alma?
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Post by Tout-Perd on Nov 25, 2015 21:10:01 GMT -5
I'd divide the school kids into four cliques: -team Collateral Damage (Flint, Alma, Garth, Ben) -El's Clique (Evie, Carlos, Mel, Jay) -Loners (Deandre, ty, talia) -Elementary and Junior High
So each group would run at once, and each artist can draw whichever ones they like out of it. Whoever gets the best individual score wins the round, with tiebreakers going to whoever did the most characters. We'd slot them in where their representative is now; Collateral at the top, Clique for Carlos, and the other two at the bottom.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 3, 2015 0:39:25 GMT -5
So, for the month of December, the contest is "Team Collateral Damage" from DisOrientation (Garth, Flint, Almudena, and Ben). People with characters (El, Shoni, me) in this have until the 10th to get descriptions up.
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Post by Shoni on Dec 3, 2015 10:45:15 GMT -5
Flint has white hair that is medium length. His eyes are a vibrant ice blue. His muscles are extremely toned but not bulky. By the time of DisOrientation Flint has a rune on the left side of his chest that seems to be burned there. For his normal clothes he often wears what ever is fashionable at the time but he doesn't have an official casual outfit so that is up to you. His mission clothes change depending on the environment. In warm environments his upper body is wrapped in black linen bandages all the way up to his nose and he wears black pants that seem tight but are stretchy. In colder environments he adds a parka with a fur lined hood. Most of his weapons are made from ice and can be anything so its up to the artists imagination. Zagaroth looks almost exactly like Flint. The biggest difference is that his eyes are grey. Another notable difference is that the rune on the chest switches sides. The other big difference is that Zagaroth as a god complex so their expressions are different. Both charecters are connected to the black and white rag doll Flint often has with him. The rag doll has a black body with a white circle for a face. One of its eyes is a black O the other is a black X and it has a Jack Skellington type smile. If I missed anything let me know and I will try to add it. This is the image that I think best shows what Flint would look like.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 3, 2015 11:11:04 GMT -5
Garth is probably one of my best described Powers, due to him being a very visual character. He's 18 or 19, depending on the plot, but is shy and scrawny enough that he looks younger (if he wasn't so tall, like 5'10", 5'11"ish, he could pass for being 15 or 16). His hair is blonde, very fluffy and tends to look naturally windblown. His eyes are a very pale shade of blue. As for outfits, he tends to wear button-up shirts and slacks, sometimes with a sweater-vest or fleece pullover. He also wears the Fascere Order uniform on occasion (white dress shirt with beaded embroidery, white slacks, and dress shoes), but is much less fond of accessorizing it with cloak/cravat than Nopcsa is. He never uses weapons, but as you all know by now, invokes multicolored flames. At the highest level of his powers (only shown one so far, in Bows), he can form a living, seemingly sentient serpent out of his fire. As for scars and distinguishing marks, there's none that'd really show up, unless you're drawing shirtless Garth, in which case, he has a scar roughly shaped like the staff of asclepius across his stomach. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Asclepius_staff.svgThe closest image I could find to Garth was this one, though Garth doesn't wear glasses and wouldn't be wearing a suit-coat, either. Finally, a sprite I did of him two years back that I've been sitting on, waiting for the proper moment:
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 3, 2015 11:15:56 GMT -5
Scoring question for "Group Contests": Would we rather average out the score between the number of characters done, or just do a total score rating? Problem with total score rating is it'd either penalize or give an unfair advantage to people depicting their own characters, and it also heavily encourages artists to draw everybody, which kinda negates the point of doing groups (giving people a variety of characters to choose from).
BTW, I'll have Alma's stuff up later; I'm planning on spriting her first, so she has a dedicated reference to work from. I prefer to give everybody at least a basic glimpse of my vision for my characters to work with.
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Dec 8, 2015 5:10:18 GMT -5
So Ben's your typical jock, appearance-wise. He's got an athletic build, trendy fashion style, all that stuff. What I picture is like a younger Justin Deeley (warning: googling him does result in a lot of pictures of him in just underwear) mixed with Gijs Blom, particularly Gijs' hair style but sandy brown hair. For clothing, he either wears loose clothing for athletic purposes or form-fitting for fashion reasons. He wears a lot of dodger blue with gold lining or trimmings, though he doesn't exclusively only own things in those colours. In Beast mode, we're looking at FFX Ifrit sort of physique, top heavy but he's still bipedal. Less so on the horns and with more Beauty and the Beast style tusks. He does have magic pants, but they don't completely stay intact when he transforms. Apart from that, I'm happy for people to use their own interpretation of "beast" unless anyone wants more image prompts.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 10, 2015 12:53:36 GMT -5
Almudena: didn't have a chance to sprite her proper yet, but I'll do it before the end of the month. She's middling height (5'4"-5'6") with a bit more solid of a build that the average willowy RP woman. Think a build like a female boxer/discus thrower. She's solid, with some muscle, but not chubby. I'd peg her around 130 lb, give or take. About this level of robustness, give or take. As for appearances, she's got short, dark, deliberately mussed hair, varying between ear-length and jaw-length. For features, think a younger Marlen Esparza, and you'd be in the right neighborhood. (Spoilered for Margins) The first image is pretty spot on for a look she could sport, though she generally keeps her hair shorter than that by a little. But yeah, the faces and expressions are spot on. For clothes, her standard outfit is a Catholic school uniform (short sleeve white blouse, plaid skirt, knee socks). The fit she wears isn't too revealing; her skirt probably falls to just barely above her knees.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Dec 11, 2015 19:34:22 GMT -5
Could we extend this for a while? I'm trying hard to transition my old hand-drawn style onto the tablet and it's tough to work out a satisfying new look. I'd like to draw some or all of the students but sense that this month is gonna burn by real fast.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 11, 2015 19:37:55 GMT -5
Yeah I think I'd be okay with that; maybe like January 14th, or so? I think we should give extra time for anything with more than two characters. Also lets me pace myself at one sprite a week, so it doesn't eat my RPing time.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 18, 2015 12:34:07 GMT -5
Have an Aludena. He shirt should be button up, which is hard to convey in a sprite, and her skirt should be plaid, which is also nigh impossible to sprite, but here she is.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 18, 2015 12:37:46 GMT -5
I tried my best to get her build right; there's not much in the way of "stocky, curvaceous women" in Pokémon sprites, so it too a lot of tweaking just to get this close to how I see her build. Sprites in Pokémon are frustrating because the only two options are "slender" and "fat", so people in between the two, like Lacy (who's notably described as being a little chubby) and Almudena (who isn't chubby, but is very solidly built) are kinda SOL.
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