Silver League Sprite Contest [archived]

futurecreateor wrote:Pretty sure the original rules stated that you couldn't use anyone other than gamefreak's sprites even if you had their permission.

Ok then

Dragon Arbock wrote:If anyone wants to get a jump start though, the new round is to create an evolution for a pokemon that does not have one (and no legendaries. I will allow pokemon that only have one evolution, but not two (like, Ariados is okay, but not Charizard).

Can it be an alternate evolution, like Gallade?

TriShade wrote:

Dragon Arbock wrote:If anyone wants to get a jump start though, the new round is to create an evolution for a pokemon that does not have one (and no legendaries. I will allow pokemon that only have one evolution, but not two (like, Ariados is okay, but not Charizard).

Can it be an alternate evolution, like Gallade?

Hrm.. I had thought about that- I don't know if I should tell people not to for their own good.. (What does anyone else think?)

Dragon Arbock wrote:

TriShade wrote:

Dragon Arbock wrote:If anyone wants to get a jump start though, the new round is to create an evolution for a pokemon that does not have one (and no legendaries. I will allow pokemon that only have one evolution, but not two (like, Ariados is okay, but not Charizard).

Can it be an alternate evolution, like Gallade?

Hrm.. I had thought about that- I don't know if I should tell people not to for their own good.. (What does anyone else think?)

I kinda like the idea as long as the pokemon only has one evolution. The only problem I can see if we allowed it though is everyone making new Eeveelutions, so maybe have a restriction against pokemon that already have alternate evolutions.

And I was also wondering, does it have to be a final evolution form, or can it be a middle or pre-evolved form?

@KittenCutie1
No pre-evolution, and I don't even know how you'd do a middle evolution to begin with.. (and if you mean adding a stage in between existing lines, then no).

Alright, sorry fr the lateness everyone- family all came over yesterday and I was forced to mingle (hence why I posted the next round in the thread before this judging).

CrimsonIgnis wrote:

Very nice and fairly accurate to how black-colored pokemon were shaded in gen 2. Like Umbreon, for example, they were not afraid to use large amounts of black for the shadow color. Using the dither red to shade the white looks good as well. Overall, I can't really find any glaring flaws. Good job.
A

Leopardmask wrote:

Not sure why you made this a bit smaller than it needed to be, but I guess that's alright. Overall it's not bad, but its right front paw is a bit odd, perspective wise, and all the claws could have used some highlight. Also might not have been bad to use a lighter shade of grey, so it would work better for shading the white as well.
B-

VerysBlade wrote:

Interesting.. it almost looks more like the project of scratch, but that doesn't make it bad. My only real problem is with the shading. The white on the forehead should be dithered to make a smoother transition, and I'd redo the shading on the hat-thing to make it fit the shape more.
B

Hessehl wrote:

This is a good resize job, and it's a shame too.. because while you used 4 colors, you didn't use a white. ..this is a sticky situation, because technically you didn't break any limits of the hardware that I'm aware of, but you broke the established sprite rules for gen 2- I tried to find an exception, I really did, but it doesn't look like there is one. That's not to say, that with some reshading, this couldn't be altered to fit in line with it. I tried messing with it to see if removing the grey would work, but it might be better to cut the red, since that's not important to the shading- and lots of gen two pokemon are missing colors, so this is fine.
B+ (I don't think your grade deserves to be too hurt, considering what you did is hardware-legal.. just not in line with the style).

Brawler139 wrote:

Okay, I know that's not Flygon's gen 5 sprite (it's the gen 4), but I'll disregard that since it still needed to be resized. The biggest issues I find have to do with the anatomy of the near leg, and the hands. When I did a gen 2 Flygon sprite, I didn't shrink the hands- the reason some sprites get away with having the 'wonky' proportions, is that some things just didn't work if made any smaller. Also, the shading should be fixed up- as it is it doesn't make much sense. Good attempt though.
C

KittenCutie1 wrote:

This is a very nice job as well. The resize work is good, and you adequately substituted in for colors to work around the color limit. The shading is good, and I can find very little bad to say about this. Maybe just should have added an extra pixel on the near head-fluff to make it look more like two separate fluffy spikes, but that's just a nitpick.
A

Yria/Mara LB wrote:

Gah, Yria stop linking to your DA I just about missed yours! (sorry, but an images stands out a lot more against all the posts than a link does). Anyway, you did a good job with the resizing. What I'm wondering about though is that you probably should have tried to incorporate the yellow- it looks like you planned to at one point. The issue I have with the 2 greens is that is makes it look monochrome, which is more of a gen 1 thing. Overall, not too bad though.
B+

futurecreateor wrote:

(Okay I really need to get the miscellaneous discussion out of the thread- it makes it hard for me to find things, sorry). Anyway, the resizing job here is good, I don't really have any complaints with that. What I don't like though, is how you decided to do the yellow apparatus that hangs off its body- It would have been better done with a dark outlining, and just being colored in with the yellow. As it is now, the checkerboarding just works against it and gives it a cluttered look. Otherwise, I like what you did with the rest of the sprite.
B

Kiriyawave wrote:

You did not pick a sprite that you would have needed to resize like I had specified, so for that I have no choice but to disqualify it. Regardless, the sprite is very flat, and uses more than 2 colors.

1st; CrimsonIgnis, KittenCutie1
2nd; Hessehl, Yria/Mara LB
3rd; VerysBlade, futurecreateor

Next Round- Create an evolution for a pokemon that does not have one
End Date- 4/11

• No evolutions for legendaries, and no pre evolutions.
  
• No evolutions for pokemon that already have evolved twice (like Charizard).
  
• This is not a round to create a mega evolution either.
  

Where is my sprite? Arceus?

futurecreateor wrote:Where is my sprite? Arceus?

Sorry, I missed yours- it's the only sprite on that page -_-;
I'll fix it.

Dragon Arbock wrote:

futurecreateor wrote:Where is my sprite? Arceus?

Sorry, I missed yours- it's the only sprite on that page -_-;
I'll fix it.

No prob

I was wondering can we do like fusion evolutions, because I have an idea of an evolution of solrock and lunatone that is a solar eclipse.

Dragon Arbock wrote:

Yria/Mara LB wrote:

Gah, Yria stop linking to your DA I just about missed yours! (sorry, but an images stands out a lot more against all the posts than a link does). Anyway, you did a good job with the resizing. What I'm wondering about though is that you probably should have tried to incorporate the yellow- it looks like you planned to at one point. The issue I have with the 2 greens is that is makes it look monochrome, which is more of a gen 1 thing. Overall, not too bad though.
B+

I will do the picture it another way the next time, just need to find out how...
And yes I planned to do the yellow but I didnt know what to do with the light green then.
Probally had used yellow yo shade that.

To post an image, right-click on your image on deviantart and select 'copy image location', then paste the copied information between the image tags like so;

Code:

[img]http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/317/7/f/kyle_larson_s_target_42_car_sprite_by_gothica_the_eevee-d86ckn0.png[/img]

Which gives you this;

Thank you il'l do that next time

KittenCutie1 wrote:

This is a very nice job as well. The resize work is good, and you adequately substituted in for colors to work around the color limit. The shading is good, and I can find very little bad to say about this. Maybe just should have added an extra pixel on the near head-fluff to make it look more like two separate fluffy spikes, but that's just a nitpick. wrote:

A

Kiriyawave wrote:

You did not pick a sprite that you would have needed to resize like I had specified, so for that I have no choice but to disqualify it. Regardless, the sprite is very flat, and uses more than 2 colors. wrote:

I hate to sound like an ungrateful person but I take issue with your critique on my entry.

1) "the sprite is very flat" It's a 2nd generation sprite ._. , most of those sprites were pretty flat back in G/S/C

2)"uses more than 2 colors" Here's my issue with this critique. Based on your wording, you take issue with this because it uses more than 2 colors, yet as shown above, KittenCutie1 also used more than 2 colors in the sprite and yet you gave this person an A. I'm not saying that this user doesn't deserve the A, I'm just saying that it's kinda conflicting when you have an issue with using more than 2 colors and yet you don't bring it up with the sprites that use more than 2 colors but still give a B or above.

Kiriyawave wrote:2)"uses more than 2 colors" Here's my issue with this critique. Based on your wording, you take issue with this because it uses more than 2 colors, yet as shown above, KittenCutie1 also used more than 2 colors in the sprite and yet you gave this person an A. I'm not saying that this user doesn't deserve the A, I'm just saying that it's kinda conflicting when you have an issue with using more than 2 colors and yet you don't bring it up with the sprites that use more than 2 colors but still give a B or above.

Theirs uses 2 colors (yellow and blue), and black and white (a total palette of 4). Yours uses 3 colors (blue, dark yellow, and green), and black and white (A total of 5- not an option for the hardware, and not in line with the style of gen two sprites).

And no, you could have done a better job shading- it's called dither, and it's used to create the illusion of having more colors.

Also, I DQ'd you for ignoring that I said to pick a sprite you had to resize- that was half of the challenge.

Ignore the Heliolisk Sprites. It's just an example of it.

Pokedex entry 1: Excollarbreeze is the mother/father of cubone and often lives in intense hunting due to this they are often hunted to extinction and as such it it has over time grown a heart of ice which melt to almost none but their kin, as such in fear of death it breaks of a part of it skull and attaches it to the egg giving cubone the memories of its parents, to one day grow a heart of ice similar to their own.

Pokedex entry 2: Living in the brutal wilds Excollarbreeze has adapted its bone clubs into dual swords developing ice powers and powerful armours being a close species every child born is giving a bone club must be used for life and carry on the parents legacy with their hearts slowly turning into ice and therefore is hard to befriend.

Pokedex Anime entry: Excollarbreeze, The Tribal Wolf Pokemon, Being almost hunted to extinction this Pokemon is distrustful to pokemon and only shares love to their kin.

Type: Ground/Ice

Yay this is my entry! It's called Beagasso.

futurecreateor wrote:Yay this is my entry! It's called Beagasso.

I think an a good ability for this pokemon is that it can use thinner so even after using sketch you can reset it so you can use it again and that the green brush is filled with thinner.
(just a suggestion)

Heres my submission

BetaX64 wrote:
Ignore the Heliolisk Sprites. It's just an example of it.

Dang youre too good Beta!

VerysBlade wrote:

BetaX64 wrote:
Ignore the Heliolisk Sprites. It's just an example of it.

Dang youre too good Beta!

Thanks!

Maractus's evolution and yes I know its the worst thing ever .



AARG I cant get the image right uhhm... maybe like this?


And it worked

Link to the deviant arts if u want it for any reason.
http://yria101.deviantart.com/art/Maractus-Evolution-idk-525992595

And it worked

Link to the deviant arts if u want it for any reason.
http://yria101.deviantart.com/art/Maractus-Evolution-idk-525992595[/quote]

I think it would be really cool if it was actually a pre-evolution as the flowers aren't in bloom but it would be much smaller

Jathavan wrote:

Yria/Mara LB wrote:
And it worked

Link to the deviant arts if u want it for any reason.
http://yria101.deviantart.com/art/Maractus-Evolution-idk-525992595

I think it would be really cool if it was actually a pre-evolution as the flowers aren't in bloom but it would be much smaller

Actually, I kinda see them as cactus fruit, if you've ever seen them;
https://www.google.com/search?q=cactus+fruit&biw=954&bih=682&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eAsoVczYDMSeNoGmg-AJ&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ
Not saying that was their intent, but cool nonetheless.