Spriting Contest
 

I've decided to start a spriting competition. It's just friendly competing, but the winner will receive a trophy.
The basic premise of the competition is that people on this forum will submit a sprite picture. That is to say, a single frame featuring editted0 FF sprites. They can feature any characters, NPF or no, but the characters, if not from NPF or some other popular source, must have their personality and backstory explained to me. If it is not obvious, what is going on and why it is happening must be explained also. There will be no specific topic for the submissions.

There will be three sections.

Comedy: Straight forward jokes and hilarity.

Randomosity: Really random jokes and general jokes.

Seriousness: Serious, emotional, or dark. Not much room for humor here.

Edit: Animations: Can be any of the above three, but animated. Will be graded on all of below, but also on how well it is animated (how smooth the animation is) and how well the characters stand still.

Each one will be reviewed and graded on how well it is done, humor, and neatness (white space deleted, etc.). There will be a top 3, as well as an honorable mention, in each section. A total review will be posted with each one. Reviews for those not in the top 3 or HM can be posted upon request.

Will YOU be in your own contest?

So what we're trying to do is use an NPF custom sprite and put into a funny scene basically, like a one panel comic? And does it have to be an edit of an FF sprite? I'm not really very good at those but pretty good in other styles. And why an edit? Can't it be custom, like 100% custom?

They must all be editted from FF4,5,or 6 sprites so it is easy to judge. If you have a custom sprite that looks very similiar to that style, then you can use it pending my approval.
Nikose: I will not be in the contest.

I would so totally submit this as an entry if not for the 16-bit sprite limitations...

*Shrug* I'll just have to think of something else... hmm...

Okay I want to participate in this but does anyone know of any free animation softwares that are good?

Well there's graphics Gale Free edition, and you can just plainly use the paint program that came with windows. Heres the website for graphics gale: http://www.aptrio.com/Multimedia/Ani...gale-2390.html

It doesn't have to be animated.

Yeah but I would like for it to be animated to get the full effect of the joke you know?

Sounds neat, but if you wanted a *REAL* challenge, I've got one for you. See, I'd like to animate the actual in-game Fiends sprites into something that Brian could use. Especially for the rematch they're bound to have when they fight Chaos.

Thing is, this has proven to be beyond my ability. (Or at least it beyond my patience.) So, maybe others might want to take a whack at it? If it seems like an interesting idea, I could certainly provide the sprites required.

SWB