Pixel Art Contest! (Entries now closed!)

[Culai 51]

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Hi guys! I'm going to be hosting a pixel art contest here!

 

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1: You cannot use someone else's work for this.

 

2: You can do isometric or non-isometric.

 

3: You can do 8,16, or 32 bit. If you wish to do something different PM me.

 

4: You don't just have to do characters, you can do objects, or even a scene.

 

5: You can do animations if you want.

 

6: You can only submit ONCE.

 

If you think I should add or clarify something, PM me. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

 

 

 

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1: culai03

 

2: Mak-Star

 

3: Amysaurus

 

4: Keirebu 

 

 

 

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culai03

 

FLG'sRetnuh

 

jefriy

 

Mak-Star

 

Dainiri

 

Thebigzumawinz

 

Eien Nanashi

 

Rikifive

 

 

 

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1st place is a tie between Eien Nanashi and Rikifive!

 

2nd place is a tie between jefriy and Thebigzumawinz!

 

3rd place is won by Mak-Star!

 

 

 

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All of the prizes will be put in your User Awards.

 

1st place: A Crown  goes to Eien Nanashi and Rikifive

 

2nd place: A Medal  goes to jefriy and Thebigzumawinz

 

3rd place: A Ribbon  goes to Mak-Star

 

 

 

If you wish to help make this possible, you can just put the Pixel Art Contest Image in your signature.

 

Okay well, thanks for reading!

Edited August 2, 2015 by culai03

[_____ 214]

Question: can it be a GIF?

And follow up Question: can someone enter the contest and be a judge?

Edited July 13, 2015 by FLG'sRetnuh

[Culai 51]

Yes, I forgot to mention that, it can be an animation or a gif. And I think if you were a judge and entered the competition it would give you an unfair advantage, so no sorry. However if you can see a workaround I'd be happy to let you be both.

[+ Takeo212 1,079]

Only a week? That's pretty short for new to pixel artists - or atleast, I probably would struggle.

(I cant compete anyway - I'm on holiday next week)

 

I may try though - I would love to use this as practice and see what people can do within that week

 

Also, how does the prize work? Is it a pixel award you can put in your signiture? Your avatar? or is it just a graphic Tsarmina draws us? or do we actually have an awards thing? o.o

Just wondering.

[Rikifive 3,411]

Only a week? That's pretty short for new to pixel artists - or atleast, I probably would struggle.

(I cant compete anyway - I'm on holiday next week)

 

I may try though - I would love to use this as practice and see what people can do within that week

 

Also, how does the prize work? Is it a pixel award you can put in your signiture? Your avatar? or is it just a graphic Tsarmina draws us? or do we actually have an awards thing? o.o

Just wondering.

I think it's the prize that is displayed below your profile in posts (below RM Skill). Or at least I think it's that, because I saw some people have "User Awards" or something like that. =P

[Culai 51]

Okay, yes the prizes are displayed in the User Awards section. And ya, that why I said I might extend it, but I dunno. If a lot of people still want to enter or aren't finish on the 22nd, I may extend it.

 

EDIT: I've decided not to be a judge and enter the contest, but if we don't have enough judges, I'll go back to being one. Maybe I'll just be both, I don't know.

Edited July 13, 2015 by culai03

[Amysaurus 734]

I can be a judge, if you need it. I'd suggest either extending the timeframe or giving a theme, though. That's not a lot of time to come up with something and make it from scratch c:

[Culai 51]

Alright sure, you can be a judge, and ya I'll change the time now. And I don't know about a theme, it's really just do what ever you can think of.

Edited July 15, 2015 by culai03

[+ Crescent 474]

I might be interested in participating, fortunately, I am pretty quick at pixeling; so I can whip up a piece of pixel very soon! ^^ Just to clarify; where we should submit our entries?

Edited July 15, 2015 by Mak-Star

[Culai 51]

Okay cool! Go ahead!

Just to clarify; where we should submit our entries?

 

Just post them here, or PM me.

 

EDIT: I'm gonna post a Contestant's section. PM me if your sure about joining.

Edited July 15, 2015 by culai03

[Rikifive 3,411]

"4: You don't just have to do characters, you can do objects, or even a scene."

So... there's no theme, we can do whatever we want, but there any preferred sizes or something? Can it be a icon 24x24 or a scene e.g. 640x480?

I'm really not sure if I should participate this contest, I'm not a pixel artist at all and it could take me some time or I'm not even sure if I would manage to make something, but it sounds interesting. =P

[Culai 51]

Ya, no theme, just do whatever you can think of. It can be anything, and icon, a sprite, an animation or gif, ect. And no preferred sizes, just make it small enough so we can see the pixels, ya know pixel art.

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My entry:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_kwKH3DDvXNcHNFZHZiRTN2WkU/view?usp=sharing

[Culai 51]

Okay! We got our first entry! Very nice job FLG'sRetnuh!

 

Guys! We need one more judge!!!

Edited July 15, 2015 by culai03

[Rikifive 3,411]

So... this lasts until 29th?

Perhaps I'll do something, but I'm not sure if it will be good enough for posting. =P

~ And it's quite unfair, because for example an icon has no chances with animated scene or something like that. ~

Edited July 15, 2015 by Rikifive

[jefriy 10]

Here's my entry :

 

 

 

[Culai 51]

Nice job jefriy!

 

And Rikifive, that doesn't matter, quality over quantity my friend.

[+ Crescent 474]

I am throwing in my entry here too!

(font is not pre-made, everything here is originally pixeled...)

Eh, I forgot to mention; I can be a judge for this contest if you'd like.

Edited July 28, 2015 by Mak-Star

[Dainiri.Art 155]

I wonder isn't it best not to show the entries before the actual deadline? That will make a contest much more exciting and a total better and fair for others.
Because a better artist can always be better if he can always see the others entry and don't submit until he everything and confident he could win just a suggestion tho. I'm still joining.

[Culai 51]

Nice job Mak-star! And sure you can be a judge!

 

@Dainiri you can do that if you want, if people want to do that they can.

[Dainiri.Art 155]

Nice job Mak-star! And sure you can be a judge!

 

@Dainiri you can do that if you want, if people want to do that they can.

Yes I know its just a suggestion haha! Since theres a rule of only 1 entry.

[+ Crescent 474]

Nice job Mak-star! And sure you can be a judge!

Thanks! Just shoot me a PM when it's the judging period.

[kaz 1,338]

I upload the user badges then award them when I have the results. 

[Tarq 746]

 

Nice job Mak-star! And sure you can be a judge!

Thanks! Just shoot me a PM when it's the judging period.

 

Not to be a troll, but really? A participant judging? In fact, Culai's a judge/participant too?

Now, this is not a slight on your characters, but no-one can be objective when they are personally invested in something.

 

I also agree with a couple of the other concerns shared here; its much more fair if there's a set criteria with which to judge off of ie. theme and form; you may say quanlity beats quantity but keeping a large scene coherent pixel by pixel is mark of quality in itself, no? This 'anything goes' style of 'judging' comes across as simply a 'gut feeling' which, again, simply isn't objective.

Its also much more fair if the entries remain confidential 'til the end, otherwise some entrants have an informational advantage.

 

That's how we always did things at R3 anyways, and we rarely received complaints (only from the salty ).

GL to the participants, what I've seen is better than I could do.

[+ Crescent 474]

Well, judges can't judge their own entries; I don't see anything that seems odd in participants who are judges too.