Silver League Sprite Contest [archived]

futurecreateor wrote:There are NES sprites that don't include black, what about those?

True, but those are early NES sprites. Near the end of its life, all sprites had black.

Does white count as different colour?

Unless it's meant to be in the background, yes.

"X marks the spot!"


My contest entry, 32x(<24).
Colors: Black, Gray, Silver, White, Red.

Hey, I remembered I can enter rounds now.
Have a tiny Flygon;

(I couldn't think of anything else)

So, who will judge this round? I can if no one is up for it.

I won't because I need to actually sleep tonight, and I'm pretty busy next week in general.Plus, I judged the last round.

Uhm guys, someone update the scoreboard and past rounds archive please.

futurecreateor wrote:Uhm guys, someone update the scoreboard and past rounds archive please.

S'alright. Sorry.
(Also, when is Kitten getting her trial by fire I mean shot at judging?)

Probably next round just cause she is really busy this week.

Here is my entry!



And yes, I can do the judging for next week. This week has been hectic ._.U

Well haven't posted anything in the competition seeing as its supposedly A free round with 2 extended rules I made karasu within the guidelines of the rules.
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Someone needs to judge my sprite, beacause I'm starting on the judging right now.

RandomUncertainty wrote:

This sprite is quite interesting, it doesn’t really look like something that would fit into an NES game, and I also find your choice to use only 4 colours quite peculiar. What buggs me is that this is just the A and B unown’s sprites form Pokémon Crystal fused together. Overall no noitceable flaws because of the simplistic design, but no pints for originality either.

B-

Jathavan wrote:

Well this is a very nice sprite, it fits very nicely in the NES style of sprite. The first thing I notice that is wrong however is that it is 33x29, which means it is one pixel over the limit, this is something that can very easily be fixed however. The only other thing I can see wrong is the right foot as the bend could have been done better. Other than that it might have been better to make the belt blue at the expense of the brown, though it is a design preffrence and doesn’t take away from the design.

B

Dragon Arbock wrote:)

Well it certainly is cute and it does seem like something that would come form an NES game. The only thing I can see that needs fixing is the tail tip, being less twisted upwards. Other than that this sprite is greatly done.

A-

KittenCutie1 wrote:

This is a very nice little transformation of your avatar, but I can’t help but think you could have made some changes, most notably you could have added a skin tone instead of white and made the sword gray, or instead just outline the sword gray. Thes sprite follows a stylized look, so there is nothing else I can see that would make it better than it already is. Good work

B+

Dragon Arbock wrote:

futurecreateor wrote:

Now, I know you were limited with colors, but what I notice right away is just how  drastically the black sticks out against the rest of the sprite. This is mostly because the rest of the sprite uses colors that are too light. A way to help alleviate this might have been to make the base hair color darker, and then use the lighter skin color as a highlight for it. Also, you sorta restricted yourself further than you needed to, by doing a 16x16 as opposed to 32x32, making the details hard to discern, like the arms, since there's limited room to define them. Overall, I feel this sprite would have turned out better if of a larger scale.
C

Disqualified for this round:

13gamer2000 wrote:

Firstly you, for some innexplicable reason, decided to make the sprite 22x19 which is just bizzare to me. This is however not the reason you were disqualified. Appearantly you didn’t post an entry within the guidelines of the contest seeing as, you made the sprite with 5 colours other than black – them being blue, beige, gray, dark gray, brown and ofcourse black. Sorry but you’re disqualified for this round.

Professor Morel wrote:

This would have been a good sprite, were it not for the fact that, as it seems it was saved as a JPG. So now there are far more than 5 colours and the sprite is blurred, so unfortunatly I’ll have to disqualify you for that. Check the file extension before uploading next time please.

1st. DragonArbock
2nd. KittenCutie1
3rd Jathavan

Next round:
Make a sprite of a pokemon in the style of the Pokémon Ranger series of games.
-The pokémon you choose may not have already appeared in the games (some gen 4 and all of gen 5 and 6 pokemon are viable)
-The pokemon must be facing twoards the viewer (e.g. ) and not facing away form them (e.g. )

Due date: August 2nd 2015

Thy have updated the first post.
Also, neat idea.

Damn you cropping and eye sight I thought I changed the colour of the grey on the bandanna XD
but instead of making it just pokemon what about people in the game?

Well no, pokémon only, sorry.

futurecreateor wrote:Well no, pokémon only, sorry.

A round for the trainers at a later date maybe. They do have interesting overworlds too, but it would mess with the round to much to have both right now.

I know I cannot participate in this round because I can't scratch for $%&! xD

A round in which I finally can participate

Jathavan wrote:

Well this is a very nice sprite, it fits very nicely in the NES style of sprite. The first thing I notice that is wrong however is that it is 33x29, which means it is one pixel over the limit, this is something that can very easily be fixed however. The only other thing I can see wrong is the right foot as the bend could have been done better. Other than that it might have been better to make the belt blue at the expense of the brown, though it is a design preffrence and doesn’t take away from the design.

I get what you're saying but blue shoes would look weird and i didn't have any spare colours and brown shading for the hair I felt would work

As I said, it's a design choice and it doesn't take away from the grade.

Just checking what are the pixel limitations

Jathavan wrote:Just checking what are the pixel limitations

They look like they might be 56x56.. though some might be 64x64. Definitely not larger though.
(Large bossmon like Steelix and Rayquaza are rendered as many parts).