[WAR 1] .:Pixel Art:.

[Suicune's Fire]

Week Four and Week Five Results and Information!


WEEK FOUR:
For this week, your challenge shall be...

-- Lineart Challenge!
This week, I want everyone to step up a little. This will take more time than previous weeks, probably, and here's why. You have to take a pokémon's outline, from any pre-existing official, in-game sprite, and erase everything inside it. You keep ONLY the outline of the sprite, and then create an entirely new sprite within those outlines. You have to be careful here, because you need to choose a pokémon with versatile outlines, otherwise you might get stuck with something that's too difficult to make into something else. In case you're wondering (Velocity), you cannot make an existing pokémon out of another pokémon's outlines. This is to prevent pokémon with common shapes from being used in other sprites' outlines, such as taking a plusle outline and making a minun within it. Not that that would work anyway, because you need to erase everything within the outlines. Only the very outer lines have to be intact and unaltered. I will be checking every outline to make sure that they are exactly the same as the sprite they were taken from. If they have been altered, then the entries will be either disqualified, or, if it's only one or two pixels, you will lose grading marks.

You may rotate the outlines in increments of 90 only. This is to avoid pixel distortion. This can be done in order to give you more anatomical options if you so desire.


Tips:
- Make anything within the lines, whether it's pokémon related or not. It can be a weird clock if you like. Make sure you colour and shade appropriately.
- I'm looking for not only creative entries, but also well done entries. Take a look on Google for some sprite tutorials on how to shade if you're unsure, or even observe an object in real life to get a bit of an idea.

As an example, Shadow Tracker Max and I completed a sprite which originally had a bulbasaur outline:
Step #1 ; Step #2


Form:

Username:
WAR Team:
Pokémon outline you used:
Description of your new sprite:
Sprite Submission: (Post the actual image)

THE DEADLINE for WEEK FOUR is SUNDAY, the 3rd of August at 11:59pm, 2014, or until I post judging scores.


WEEK FOUR WINNERS!

Winners:

Spoiler:

Coming in second place is...

Pokémon Trainer Sarah!



+2 to Team Trainer for that sweet skull!


Coming in first place is...

*confetti*Speed-X!*confetti*



Congratulations, Speed-X! +3 points for you and Team Dirty Rotten Scoundrels!
I feel like I should give you extra points for winning all these weeks so far. xD But I can’t. Ahem.

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WEEK FIVE: THE FINAL WEEK
For the very last week of WAR I, your challenge is...

-- A Scratch Sprite! With a twist
That’s right. This week, your entry has to be entirely from scratch. This means, no bases, no pre-made outlines, nothing. Just you and your empty canvas, until you form something from scratch. But that's not it. Here’s the catch.


Your sprite's palette has to be based off one single colour, which has a maximum of four shades. And what do I mean by that? I mean that, in your palette, you have to have ONLY four different variations of one colour. Just like the Game Boy Pokémon games, where you'd have a sprite that had black, white, and two other colours to it.

This does NOT mean "Oh cool, I'll use red, green, blue and yellow!" and then you have multiple shades of each colour. No, you have to choose one colour, and use four shades based around that for your entire sprite! Challenging, right? You can dance around this a little and use yellow, but then have your darker colour as an orangy-yellow, as that would still count as yellow, but only if the shades are close enough that they're not obviously two different actual colours.

Restrictions:
- Your sprite may not breach the 96x96 DS sprite dimensions. I will be checking this come judging, so don't think you can get away with an extra pixel. ;3
- If your sprite is not within the 96x96 restriction, you will lose ALL "Relevance" points in grading.
- If your sprite contains more than 4 overall colours to the palette, you will lose ALL "Relevance" points in grading.
- You may edit your sprite up until the deadline, even if it's been submitted.
- You may choose anything to sprite, as long as it fits within general PXR rules (a.k.a. have some decency).
- You must have fun. YOU MUST.



Form:

Username:
WAR Team:
Description of your scratch sprite:
Sprite Submission: (Post the actual image)

THE DEADLINE for WEEK TWO is SUNDAY, the 10th of August at 11:59pm, 2014, or until I post judging scores. Feel free to submit something if it's past the date but I haven't posted results yet!


WEEK FIVE WINNERS

Winners:

Spoiler:

Coming tied in first place are...

*confetti*Speed-X & Pokemon Trainer Sarah!*confetti*




Congratulations, you two! I believe you get to share your first and second points, which means 2.5 points for you and your teams. :]