/loomis/ - Art Gains

Anons! Just about a week left until this contest closes.

sicpvn.sdf.org

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>>1700

Interesting feedback. What would be an acceptable prize amount for a character design contest? Also, if there are zero entries so far your chance to win is currently 100%. Don't delay, the contest is up in less than a week.

>>1721

Contest closed with no entries. Its too bad really, I was hoping for something to get entered. What is an acceptable prize should I run this contest again?

>>1994

That's cool anon, we are all gonna' make it. A sketch didn't imply anything other than a sketch, but that is probably my fault for not making it explicitly clear. I still love you faggots and maybe I can use the powers of /loomis/ to unfuck myself.

>>2038

I'm back with a new contest.

http://sicpvn.sdf.org/contest.html

SICP VN CONTEST 2, OPEN ARTWORK

Summary: In this contest you can submit any artwork you like, related or not to the theme of computer science. Artwork that relates to computer science is preferred but the judging will be based on the subjective tastes of AnonDeveloper, the SICPVN Projekt Administrator, so feel free to enter anything that you like. Please consider entering, and don't let the rules get you down, they are simply a legal requirement and are there for your benefit. The prize for this contest is $300 US and there will only be one winner. I look forward to awarding a prize for this contest!

That said, the SICP VN Projekt will be looking to use the Katawa Shoujo characters in this Visual Novel, using all-original artwork, and the age of these characters should be advanced to college-age, typically someone between 18 and 24 years old. Using these characters will be preferred but is not a requirement, and the subjectively better artwork will win this contest regardless of subject matter.

>>2485

Welcome back bud.

Have you considered maybe just saving up and making a game you could sell on steam later? I feel like a contest is a good way to promote an existing completed project but might be a rough way to start one up.

I think you have an interesting idea; why not build your game engine, have your story and gameplay ready and then just pay an artist to make assets for it when you're just about done? It probably wouldn't be all that expensive. For backgrounds you could just run pictures from google through a photoshop filter so you wouldn't even need to pay an artist for that (it wouldn't look great but as long as the girls themselves are "kawaii" as they say I don't think it'd be that important.

Think about it, man. For probably well under 4 thousand dollars you could likely make something akin to Sakura Spirit assuming you're doing all of the coding (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYP9SoWcbro) and you'd basically be guaranteed to make your money back and way, way more if it doesn't end up being absolute garbage, you'd just have to find an artist you're confident could deliver.

If you go this contest route however you'll be paying a potential hit and run mystery artist $300 for something you could pay an artist of your choosing $100 or so for and you have no guarantees what the top tier entry might be.

Anyway, whatever you decide to do, I love you.

Also you could check >>>/agdg/ out

>>2486

Scope this guy out, for example. He's huge on /co/, I'd personally buy a game with his original art in it easy.

>>2486

Glad to be back! This game will be free as in freedom, but thanks for your ideas, maybe we can look at reaching a wider audience thru a free game on Steam (if we can keep it clean enough for a wide audience). I will have to give it some thought after we have finished the project, in about two or three years most likely.

I was thinking of going up to MIT this summer to take photos for use in the VN. I also would like to get the FSF into the VN, but this is all just ideas at this point - the VN needs to be built around the actual coursework first and foremost. This will take about a year or longer from now to complete at a satisfactory level, and then the plot and the rest gets thrown in on top of it.

Thanks for the link, looks like good research material.

Yes, the contest isn't meant to be a recruitment drive for the artist of our dreams, its just for fun. If somebody should like to join the group then that is an added bonus.

If I could have any artist it would be http://valkyria.wikia.com/wiki/Raita_Honjou … I don't know how expensive his work is, but I'd consider saving up for a few years to pay him. I like FaustSketcher too. I don't have the kind of cash to pay professionals, and I don't know if it is necessary to involve them until we get the basic gameplay down with placeholder sprites.

I like >>>/agdg/ a lot, I check out >>>/lv/ too.

>>2487

Going for the anime style, but I have a lot of love for all those characters! I made this WEBM just now from the intensely deep song that appeared in Symbiotic Titan. Its a shame that it was not a serious song by the creators, it was purposefully made to be dark and stuff, but I loved every bit of it.

>>2488

8han is dying, its true. I'm on Endchan, advertise on Lainchan very briefly, and I'll probably stop by all the chans in the known universe to announce the finished product. I'll be going to nnptchan at some point. Everyone is looking for somewhere to escape to. Sorry, I don't have the answer for that, except to take a break and watch the original Robotech series, stuff like that.

>>2493

>original Robotech series

My nigga. I used to stay up until 3:00am on saturday mornings to watch that. Pretty much an all time favorite show.