Style Battle

[Lucian]

Okay, first I want to explain a few things before i get into what this is.
I'm posting this here because it's not exactly a contest or duel, also I don't know how many want to do this.

Now for my idea,
I was thinking how I could start a contest-esque topic, since no one else was making one, then I remembered on comic fury the Gentleman's Brawl topics, and thought it would be an interesting thing to incorporate with sprites.

Of course the Gentleman's Brawl was all drawn out so it was easy to incorporate anyone, but since this is more intended to improve spriting abilities, it will all be in one style.

The format of this will be one person goes first, makes an attack against their opponent, and then the opponent retaliates. With these "attacks" the spriter has to make comic panels using the opponent's sprite and their own, for whatever base they choose to provide. It's fine to use no background, backgrounds from games, or make your own background for the panels in your attack.

With each move, the judge will grade the attack based on a few categories and then after a certain amount of turns, the one who has the most points will be the winner. As for the categories, I still don't have all of them figured out, I'm thinking originality(Using poses that haven't been shown and new types of attacks), appropriateness(the sprite is in style, and has correct proportions in that style), and i wanted two more categories but can't think of any for the moment.

The first one will mostly be a test and to see what issues will need to be fixed and what needs to be modified, so I would be the first judge.

Now is anyone interested in joining this experiment?

Feel free to point out anything you dislike or like about this, and to ask questions about it.

[DensetsuEX]

I think this is a great idea, way to use your head Lucian!
I don't know though if I'll be participating right off the bat, I have a lot of work to do, both personal and comic-wise so yeah.

But I encourage other people to participate in this.

[Steve the Mew hunter]

sounds like it will be fun... i might have to try it out later.

[Orange Crazy]

YEAH MOTHER FUCKING CONTEST-esque THREAD!!!

I'm down boss! Going to look up this 'Gentleman's Brawl' in CF now.

[Steve the Mew hunter]

click on these words to see the field that i am brawling in for the tournament.

[Lucian]

Okay, I've decided a few things for this round.

The sprite style this time will be Megaman 7 style, mostly because there are tutorials for making your own.

I'll need a base sprite from each combatant, so the other participants can edit sprites when they make panels. You may feel free to post your sprites other than the base to make it easier for the others participating to make their panels, or you can just let them make their own edits to have a character look like your base.

The character you pick should be your own character, whether it is a character you just made up for the battle, or a character you've already created doesn't really matter.

I'll make this a short battle so that we can work out some things that may need to be fixed for next time or see if it works exactly how we want it to. It'll consist of 5 turns.

I'll wait a week to see who wants to participate this time, and to also give some time to make some sprites in that style for a character.

Either later today or tomorrow I'll be posting an example of how the format will go.

[Orange Crazy]

I'll wait for your example before I sprite anything.

[Lucian]

Okay, I made a very simple attack and response, using battletoads sprites, why battle toad instead of MM7, because i couldn't think of any ideas for Megaman at this point, and this is just for a basic understanding of how the battles will be done.

So the two fighting are Battle Toad and Shadow Boss
in the first panel where Shadow Boss attacks,

And then the Battle Toad responding

(credit to Yawackhary for ripping the sprites and background, Rare for making the game)
Just apply the same idea for Megaman sprites and you are good to go.
It's not restricted to 3 panels, but it should be enough to get the idea of your attack across. Again, you don't need text, but if it helps, put it in.
If you really want me to do one in MM7 style just let me know, I'll edit this post to show it instead of this Battletoads one.

[Steve the Mew hunter]

oh god, battle toads... i've heard of that game.

you got extream mudkipz edition?

[Orange Crazy]

I'm game for this.

[Lucian]

Okay, so from what I've gathered, it'll be
Orange Crazy vs Steve(Maybe?)
So, as soon as each of you in some sort of way shows me a base of the "character" you'll be using, we can start.
You can post those bases here, pm the bases, email me the bases, it doesn't really matter, as I'll edit the first post to include them.

@steve, I have no idea what "extream mudkipz edition" is.

[Steve the Mew hunter]

oh, i didn't agree to competing in this, maybe after the brawling tournement on CF.

[Lucian]

Okay then, that means we still have to wait for someone else to join.

[spinnerlink]

i would join,but i think this isdead now, and also it would be hard to adjsut to megaman, based off of the type i do.