wow. I'm not even part of the picture.
I thought of the sprites I would like to animate....C.c I guess that's what I get for being so self centred.
it IS a shock to se none of my work recognized at all, but ultimately I'm just glad this is not everything I have to hang on anymore, like it was on the last contest, hopefully my life is going forward now like it seems to be, because the more time I spend here the more I feel I'm just not cut to live off of pixelart.
Crabs, Helm...I really apreaciate both your comments =D , because they are so godamn honest and supportive, each in their own way =).
heh...the lil mockshot is something I cooked up because I had procastinated playing Boktai2 for a while, so when the contest came up I started it up again, and when I got to the point where that quote appears it was just too perfect to not put popeye in there.
Honestly, I knew a "clean surface" freestyle entry much like most would have a better chance, but I just found that way too standard, overdone.
The closest I could come to that in my mind was something with wild varying with outlines which WAS in the Popeye sketches and I LOVED ultimately that became the raymanized version.
these two guys specially inspired me, first one's dynamism and the second one's face.
I still like my Raymanized entry because of the dynamic pose, but I did not exactly achieve what I wanted.
while it has elements of wild varying with outlines, I lost focus because I made that secondary in the name of the pose and the size.
I'm specially shocked that not even the boktai guy got one good vote, I thought I had a good synthesis of all the variations of the style there.
Boktai guy and 3dish guy I thought had the best sprite version of popeye's face in the whole contest, but who knows how that comes trough for everyone else.
Helm, about the saturation...what can I say? it's popeye, it's saturday cartoon, I couldnt think anything else than bright colors all over the place, I could've done something eerie with the hues or something I guess, but that just doesnt seem popeye to me. Also, I made TWO freestyles, which one are you specifically refering to?
if you feel like making an edit at all I would be honored.
Damn, I also wouldnt have expected that freestyle to be the highest rated at all, I thought schu had us all beat if anything.
I wonder what's going on in those heads of the judges :p
finally, Faceless I have to give it up to you, while I didnt see it coming, you didnt abuse of the space like most of us did, I could perfectly see popeye executing all his actions within the 48x48 box and in conjunction both your sprites are really solid....so you totally deserve the job, you ARE the most solid one out of all of us, you did beautifully in both regards.
Have fun, do great work, working with people like Matt is honestly the best prize I could ever think of.
