Welcome to the Sprite Art Competition!
Thank you all for coming! I look forward to seeing all your sprite art skills! I'm NobleJanobii and I'll be your judge for the Sprite Art Competition. So, I know you must be curious, what are my plans? Well, I'll be hosting three events. The first two events will last one week each while the final event will last two weeks. What are the events? You'll just have to wait and see!
I plan to grade based on four criteria-
1. First Impression: (A+ to F-) When it comes to sprites while attention to detail is key more often than not unless you're using high res sprites many people will make their judgement on your sprite based on their first glance at it. Therefore, it is important to wow me right off with your design. And while not necessarily doing so may not be bad in the long run, just remember first impressions are always important.
2. How well the instructions/theme are followed: (A+ to F-) While I won't give out any details when it comes to the second and final events, the first event, which is listed below, is a recolor challenge. How well you follow the instructions when it comes to doing the recolors, either by following the color schemes or making the sprite look smooth enough that it appears you followed the color scheme, is very important. Recolors, fusions, retypes, and all forms of spriting require a great attention to detail, therefore following my set instructions and theme is the key to success.
3. Coherency, Incorporation, and Quality: (A+ to F-) Upon breaking it down, how clean and crisp and just good over all does it look? Did you execute techniques effectively, such as making sure your colors had contrast, keeping the lines clean, use proper anti-aliasing, etc? Detail is a large factor into good looking sprites so when I zoom in on Photoshop and start looking at your sprite pixel by pixel, how does your sprite hold up?
4. Creativity of design: (A+ to F-) This will of course be taken on a case by case basis, but the more creative the design of the sprite is the more points it will get. If I can tell that the creator was really going for a certain design or style that was different from the original base then they're going to get more points. Now of course, for recolors, this can only go so far, but I assure you this category will play a far more important role in the second and final events.
Got it? Good! Now before I get to the first event, here's a few rules to follow!
1. ALWAYS save as PNG for the sake of this thread. If you send your entry as a JPEG, I'll most likely give you a heads-up...since it honestly would not be cool to get a low score just because the image is gunky.
2. All artwork needs to be made by YOU. No direct art theft, and no collaborated works.
3. Your entry must NOT have been made beforehand! All entries need to be created in response specifically to the week's WAR prompt.
4. Please refrain from resizing your entries in any way. There's no need to do so, unless you also provide the original version.
5. You may use high res sprites like those provided in the high resolution project thread, however, do note that this will severally limit the amount of pokémon you will be able to use in future events. While this may not seem like a big deal, it will hinder how well you creativity can shine through in the long run.
6. You can only send in ONE entry per week. You can always change your entry at ANY time...as long as it's before the cut-off date!
7. Some great resources are: The PXR Spriting Encyclopedia, PLDH.net which has all available sprites for pokémon up through Gen 5, PokéCommunity's Gen 6 sprite resource, Smogon's Gen 6 sprite project, and Smogon's Gen 7 sprite project. All of the sprite resources listed are free to use, however you are allowed to use your own sprite or sprites made by others so long as you have the proper permissions. Proof of permission is required.
8. Feel free to ask ANY question that concerns you in this thread! You never know; someone else may be wondering the same thing.
9. Complaints of any kind in this thread are highly frowned upon. I will be doing my best to be as unbiased as possible when it comes to judging these sprites and have laid out my criteria as plainly as possible. If you have a problem with something, take it up with me personally and do not post it here. This is supposed to be a fun environment and I do not want your negativity over a possible issue on my end or yours to ruin the fun for everyone else.
10. Most of all have fun! I hope you guys enjoy the events as much as I do (I've been working to create examples for you so technically I'm participating too haha) so don't hold back and do you best on these sprites!
Now for the event! The first event will be...
The Instructions: Pick three pokémon, a first stagger, a second stagger, and a final stagger and swap color palettes! It doesn't matter who gets what color palette as long as each pokémon ends up with a new color palette and no two pokémon have the same color palette.
My Examples for you:
First Stage:
Second Stage:
Final Stage:
Granted they're not my best, but they're examples nonetheless! So get spriting!
Your form-
Username:
Team:
First stage sprite: (link to the picture or the picture itself, please state the pokémon and what it is being recolored as)
Second stage sprite: (link to the picture or the picture itself, please state the pokémon and what it is being recolored as)
Final stage sprite: (link to the picture or the picture itself, please state the pokémon and what it is being recolored as)
Additional comments:
Bookmarks