The Official Custom Spriting Contest

[cheat-master30]

Welcome to the official topic for the contest, and this is my first attempt at trying a new style of contest for spriting! Now, the way it works is like follows:

1. I post a picture of a level in a video game. Any game, not necessarily a Nintendo one.

2. You then post a picture of that level made in your own COMPLETELY CUSTOM graphics/sprites.

3. I pick the best one, give the best 10 points and it moves on to the next image.

Rules:

1. No ripped sprites from existing video games.
2. No sprite edits or recolours
3. No sprites stolen from anyone else.

First image is in next post.

[cheat-master30]

First image to make in own graphics:

http://dsultimate.net/photoplog/images/1/1_Level1contest.PNG

A sample ghost house scene from Super Mario World. I want you now to make it in completely custom graphics made by hand. Again, no sprites from games can be used.

[cheat-master30]

Hello? Needing participants...

[mariobros]

ok im in!!!!!!!!

[Emoluvjd2]

I'll try but does the sprites have to be the same size?

[cheat-master30]

No, they just have to generally match the room layout of the levels shown.

[mariobros]

look http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/picture.php?albumid=970&pictureid=10169

[cheat-master30]

Sorry, has to match the scene shown, and be done in sprites, not fan art type graphics.

[mariobros]

i cant create sprites i just use them and give credit

[cheat-master30]

Then quite frankly, tough luck, this is not the contest for you.

[mariobros]

see you later:(

[lightspeed97]

Epic!!! I'm in:D! I'll work on one after school:D!

[mariowings77]

I'll try this out. Heh, should be fun!! =P

[cheat-master30]

Thanks everyone who's taking part. I'll be very keen to see what you come up with soon.

[ninjablooper]

Before:
http://dsultimate.net/photoplog/images/1/1_Level1contest.PNG

After:

[lightspeed97]

I'm almost done, but I'm having difficulties with making a Bowser sprite from scratch. That's all I have to do and I'm done.

[ninjablooper]

Bowser wasn't in the scene...

[cheat-master30]

I was wondering that same thing. You need a Fishin' Boo and two normal Boos. Not Bowser.

[vingw]

I suck at drawing my own sprites,I am a sprite MIXER!

[lightspeed97]

Here it is:D!http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/6692/custombowserscatle.png (http://img60.imageshack.us/my.php?image=custombowserscatle.png)
I just wish that Bowser looked a little better...

[lightspeed97]

Here it is:D!http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/6692/custombowserscatle.png (http://img60.imageshack.us/my.php?image=custombowserscatle.png)
I just wish that Bowser looked a little better...

[cheat-master30]

Then quite honestly, tough, not the contest for you.

[lightspeed97]

Okay.........

[NintenDan]

Wait, how's this game work? You show us the picture, I get that, but what do the spriters do? Recreate the scene or extend on it?

[cheat-master30]

They recreate the scene NintenDan. It'd be great if you entered the contest though.

[NintenDan]

Okay, I'm on a start, but I haven't finished it yet. Just got to do the buildings and stuff.

[NintenDan]

Okay, here's this rounds picture:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/38a40af7cf.png

And here's my custom sprite take at it: (I hope this is what I was supposed to do!)
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/7e7f4f988b.png

I really just edited the boos and the building. I got too lazy to do a background, too. But it was all done by me! I just copied the style from my eyes.

[cheat-master30]

Nice picture NintenDan. And lightspeed, read the rules, you have to redraw the ghost house area, not a new area. Same graphics style as your picture are fine.

[lightspeed97]

Nice picture NintenDan. And lightspeed, read the rules, you have to redraw the ghost house area, not a new area. Same graphics style as your picture are fine.

Ohhhhhh... Can I still try?

[cheat-master30]

You can still try, yes.

[lightspeed97]

Thank you:D.

[mariobros]

ahh now i get it this is mine http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/picture.php?albumid=970&pictureid=10246

[cheat-master30]

Nice first try mariobros.

[mariobros]

hmm "goes to make another"

[lightspeed97]

Yours:http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/9405/38a40af7cf.png (http://img190.imageshack.us/my.php?image=38a40af7cf.png)
Mine:http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/8982/customhauntedhousescene.png (http://img190.imageshack.us/my.php?image=customhauntedhousescene.png)

[mariobros]

oh my frickin godhttp://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/picture.php?albumid=970&pictureid=10247

[cheat-master30]

That's actually pretty neat, especially the background and animated flames. Nice work mariobros.

[mariobros]

i know its cool!!

[cheat-master30]

I didn't really expect the animation for one thing...

[mariobros]

that's why its there,so it looks unique

[Emoluvjd2]

Okay I get it now

[NintenDan]

Funny how it took my submission to get the competition started. Still, this looks like loads of fun cheat; great idea!

[turpinator]

Well Mariobros submission WOULD be cool, but the size is kinda pushing it to be considered a sprite... [/nitpick]

[cheat-master30]

You could easily cut half the top and sides of his submission to make it fit though, and your nitpick is pretty silly since you answered me once with a HUGE picture you said was technically a sprite...

[mariobros]

no il do it

[cheat-master30]

Thanks for listening I guess. Anyone want to judge this contest, or should I enter first?

[turpinator]

What I showed you wasn't a sprite, it was a scene. The Prince and the Colossus ball separately would be considered sprites, and it was an extreme example about colour limits to begin with.

And when I say big, I don't mean the scene itself, I mean the sprites themselves.

[mariobros]

you all know right none of these things on this thread are sprites,sprites are small pictures of a character.http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/picture.php?albumid=970&pictureid=10263

[lightspeed97]

Not to go off topic, but, why was mariobros banned?

[ninjablooper]

you all know right none of these things on this thread are sprites,sprites are small pictures of a character.http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/picture.php?albumid=970&pictureid=10263

Not true.

[turpinator]

Not to go off topic, but, why was mariobros banned?
O_o I dunno?

[lightspeed97]

Not to go off topic, but, why was mariobros banned?
O_o I dunno?

Maybe he just put banned there for the heck of it...

[cheat-master30]

He was banned for spamming. But that's nothing to do with this contest, so I'm not sure whether to wait for some more entries, or just judge round 1/question 1 now and move on to the next question.

[lightspeed97]

Sorry for going off topic. I think we should go to the next round:D.

[cheat-master30]

I guess I'll decide the winner soon, although I've pretty much already got a good idea who it is.

[lightspeed97]

I guess I'll decide the winner soon, although I've pretty much already got a good idea who it is.

I can't wait to find out:D!

[cheat-master30]

First round winner is NintenDan, with lightspeed97 as second. Banned users get disqualified of course. Next scene coming up soon.

[cheat-master30]

Scene 2, gets more tougher; Forty Below Fridge from Wario Land 4. Go!

http://dsultimate.net/photoplog/images/1/1_Scene2.PNG

[lightspeed97]

I might have to sit this one out.

[cheat-master30]

You could try you know, see how well you do. You probably won't do too badly whatever you decide to submit.

[lightspeed97]

Okay, I'll try:D.

[lightspeed97]

Yours:http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/2117/warioscene.png (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/warioscene.png/)
Mine:http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1540/customwarioscene.png (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/customwarioscene.png/)

[vingw]

WOW!Thats good.My sprites suck.

[cheat-master30]

That's actually really good lightspeed97, I knew you'd be able to make a decent sprite here.

[lightspeed97]

Thanks, Cheat:D!

[NintenDan]

Hey, I guess, with this competition, we should be able to change the scene around a bit. Such as character stance's right. Like we could make Wario look more happy or something...

But I can't do this right now, I've got studying to do!

[cheat-master30]

As long as it's generally the same layout as the image shown, all is allowed.

[cheat-master30]

Since this contest seems to be dying, bump.

[smi4450]

BUMP because I wanna try :D

[cheat-master30]

Great, this contest is still going on? Good luck Smi.

[lightspeed97]

Are we still on the Wario sprite one?

[cheat-master30]

Yeah, until multiple people submit entries.

[lightspeed97]

That may take a while... Wait! I'll advertise it in my sig:D!

[lightspeed97]

How do I change this:http://www.dsultimate.net/Board/upload/showthread.php?t=18530
Into something that says the name of this thread?

[smi4450]

Here's mine:

http://dsultimate.net/photoplog/images/221/1_Scene.PNG

Wario was so hard to sprite! Didn't realise how difficult it would be.

[smi4450]

How do I change this:http://www.dsultimate.net/Board/upload/showthread.php?t=18530
Into something that says the name of this thread?

Replace the brackets with sqaure bracket things:
(URL=http://www.dsultimate.net/Board/upload/showthread.php?t=18530)Sprite Contest Here! Anyone Enter!(/url)

[cheat-master30]

That looks impressive smi. I'm already tempted to say you won this round.

[smi4450]

Thank you Cheat :) it took me a long time to complete.

[cheat-master30]

Heck, I might just end this round now and say Smi wins this time, and that the next round will start soon, and might be Legend of Zelda themed.

[lightspeed97]

Those sprites are amazing:D! And thanks!

[cheat-master30]

Okay, Smi won, lightspeed second. Next round, a Legend of Zelda field with miscellaneous characters/enemies:

http://dsultimate.net/photoplog/images/1/1_LegendOfZeldaScene.PNG

Yes, sprites from the Spriter's Resource. But the rules of the game are you have to make your own completely custom sprite version of this scene, hence you must not take anything from that site or any other sprite sight found online, or any other game. Begin.

[smi4450]

Awesome! Thanks :D
and wow, this one is going to be tricky. I'll give it my best shot :]

[cheat-master30]

Wait, why is this one tricky? Because it's based on a top down style?

[lightspeed97]

That's why I find it really tricky.

[smi4450]

Yeah :P lol
But I'm sure it's perfectly doable.

[cheat-master30]

It's definitely possible. Although I'll be extremely saddened if anyone draws the scene in literal Zelda 1 eight bit graphics.

[Zyrose]

http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/picture.php?albumid=816&pictureid=10757 Heres mine xD, Mines A fail, Im not good at making my own sprites, I mainly recolor and fuse xD

[cheat-master30]

It's more like drawings that sprites, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Now to wait for some other people to reply.

[Zyrose]

Sorry if its like drawings Im not the best when it come to making my own sprites, also to me link and the knight are sprites lol, But hey I tried

[cheat-master30]

Well, is lightspeed, NintenDan or Smi gonna try this round?

[lightspeed97]

I'm working on it... I finished once but the thing got deleted somehow...

[cheat-master30]

That's unlucky. How did it get deleted?

[lightspeed97]

I might not have saved it... But I remember saving it... I don't know what happened...

[cheat-master30]

Well, that's really useful isn't it?

[lightspeed97]

Well I wish I knew what happened...

[cheat-master30]

So, you go around to remaking those sprites yet, or did you drop out of this competition?

[Zyrose]

this competition has failed i think

[cheat-master30]

You don't say. Sigh, I'm already losing hope in the internet as a whole.

[lightspeed97]

I was camping, so I wasn't here. Sorry. And I have to drop out because this one's to hard.

[Zyrose]

So... does this mean I win this one?

[lightspeed97]

I think it does.

[TheMaskedWonder12]

Actually it doesn't im making one!!

[cheat-master30]

If TheMaskedWonder is making a sprite to enter to this contest, then the contest round isn't over just yet.

[TheMaskedWonder12]

Is it ok if I dont have the enemies? If it did, it would seriously drain my chances of winning. Although I do think i did well on the trees :D

EDIT: Im dropping out. this is hard...congragulations Zyrose!

I'll participate in the next one though. The LoZ series mustve been a pain to sprite!!!

Also, is that A Link to the Past? Ive played that before. The soldier enemies look like its from them.

[cheat-master30]

Yeah, it's A Link to the Past. Next up... not sure actually, probably Super Mario Bros 3.

[cheat-master30]

Next scene, Super Mario Bros 3:

http://dsultimate.net/photoplog/images/1/1_SMB3Scene.PNG

Thanks to NintenDan for the scene builder thing I used to quickly make this.

[TheMaskedWonder12]

I'll get started and I think that it should be whoever wins chooses the sprite or something.

[cheat-master30]

Maybe I'll do that for the next round (letting the winner choose the next sprites to make).

[floof5467]

i might give this a whack but dont count on it if everyones finished and you think you found a winner dont wait for me i no im not going to win but im still gonna try

EDIT: forget what i said im definatley in im starting right now!

[floof5467]

http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/picture.php?albumid=889&pictureid=10934


sorry it took me so long i had some internet problems right after i finished i know it sucks [i dont even have a back round] oh i made the sun smiling on purpose cause i think hed have a great time watching mario get through all this

[Zyrose]

cool I win a round, thanks masked wonder

[cheat-master30]

That looks pretty good floof, I had a hard time originally distinguishing your entry from the original...

[floof5467]

thanks i couldnt do the backround though too hard