--Artwork for Tournaments--
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS TO HELP MANAGE THE ASSIGNMENT LIST... PLEASE SEND ME A PM IF YOU'd LIKE TO HELP; I'M A LITTLE TOO OVERWORKED RIGHT NOW TO MAINTAIN THIS THREAD ALONE! MANY THANKS! - ZRACKNEL
Hello! Let's get right to the point, Smeargle's Studians: I need your help. Even if you cannot draw, or even if you've never posted before, I need your help. Read on.
For the past few eons, I've been doing artwork for Smogon's tournaments. It hasn't been a super-consistent thing, and boy golly gee willikers has it been unorganized. Users generally just ask me for stuff and I try to get it done in time. Sometimes it works out fine, but other times it's miserable and tragic when I can't pull through.
But there's no reason why it should just be me taking these things on. Anyone who wants to help should be able to. So that's where this thread comes in: there are tons of tournaments in need of artwork, and I want to bridge the gap between those who can benefit from this kind of help and those who are capable of doing it. Artwork for tournaments. Let's make it happen.
Can you lend a hand?
Here's a few things I'm NOT looking for:
- You do not need to be a pro artist or anything close to that. That said, this artwork will be used to represent the site. Lots of people join our tournaments without an understanding of what Smogon is or what we do. Tournaments, for many users, are a gateway into our community. Let's do our best to make a good first impression.
- You might know me as that guy who does logos. You do NOT need to do logos to help (but they are certainly welcome).
- You do not need to be a typography ace to help. You do not need to use typography or lettering AT ALL. Cool images are more than enough. If a tournament absolutely needs some cool typography to go on top of an image you've made and typography is not your thing, I'll probably do it. Images are way more important.
- You also do not need to finish work to post it in this thread. PLEASE flood this thread with WIPs, sketches, scribbles, discussion, helpful critique for others, and feedback if you can. The goal is that we have cool stuff when all is said and done, and we are in this together. No need to spend a million hours refining something you're unsure of. When in doubt, share early, share often.
- Following that, you do not need to work alone. If you'd like to collaborate with another artist or artists (doing lines, colors, effects, or anything else) you are invited to do so as long as everyone involved is cool with it. Artists who would like help, please feel free to link to your documents in this thread.
- You do not even need to do your own artwork. Read this section carefully.
Smogon has a lot of committed and lovely artists who have done a lot of excellent work over the years. If you've got some photoshop skills and want to marry some of that work to some cool typography or effects, you have my blessings and encouragement.
HOWEVER, pay attention, because there are a crapload of rules for artists not using original work:
- The golden rule: permission is a must. If you don't have permission, I don't care how eye-popping the final result is-- it isn't going to get used, period.
- If you're pulling images of pokemon from anywhere, they gotta be from here. Only artists who have made an art thread in smeargle's studio are elligible for you to pull from. Additionally, any pieces in question must have been posted here on our forums (so no pulling from other sites or any of that). When you post work like this, you MUST link to the post(s) your source image(s) came from. If you don't, I promise I will punch you. If I find out you don't have permission, your post is getting deleted and you risk an infraction. I'm serious, don't do it.
- You will get credit for doing stuff like this, but your name is coming second. The original artist is going to get the lion's share of the credit for this type of thing, so don't be surprised.
- You will be held to completely different standards when it comes to the possibility of being badged. Expect it to be significantly more difficult. Just putting that out there.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rewards
There WILL be rewards for helping out. If you don't have an art badge and contribute enough of the stuff that we're looking for, I will fight to get you a badge.
If you already have a badge, consider that most tournament threads get hundreds if not thousands of views. Talk to me and we'll see if we can't promote your work further in some way.
If you contribute thoughtful, consistent, and experienced critique that can help our artists improve (both in this thread and elsewhere in the studio) you might see yourself nominated for a community contributor badge.
If you do work that we end up using, expect me to treat you like a champion. Your name will be emblazoned in gold letters in this thread forever. We will collectively be one step closer to me not crying myself to sleep at night.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So that's our introduction. Now for the assignments.
Earthworm and the tournament organizers have hooked me up with the rules and a suggested art direction for almost every tournament that is currently in the tournaments queue.
NOTES:
- Art direction is NEVER set in stone; if you have a better idea than what's listed, you are encouraged to do that instead.
- That said, keep in mind the tournament's organizer is going to have a voice when it comes to selecting artwork in the case of multiple submissions. The other voices will consist of me and other willing studio mods and tournament directors who wish to participate. We'll be choosing among any pieces submitted, and we may very well use multiple pieces of art that are submitted!
- Deadlines on these are wild, unpredictable beasts. Tournaments go up after other tournaments end. Tournaments end when people play their matches. People play their matches when they feel like it. A lot of these tasks have no concrete due date but will include some kind of estimate for when work is needed by.
- If you want to help, please do whatever you want to do, but just keep in mind I'll be sweating bullets and freaking out when I see urgent assignments not getting done, so if you feel like it, please consider starting there.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MASTER ASSIGNMENT LIST*
(*OUTDATED; PLEASE INSTEAD SKIP TO THE END OF THIS THREAD FOR RECENT ASSIGNMENTS... THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING... -ZRACKNEL)
The most urgent assignments are listed first. The other assignments are listed in the order that I received them.
"Format" Refers to the basic format of the tournament, but please read the tournament rules for details!
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Tournament Name: UU All Generation Tournament
Host: AuraRayquaza
Project Priority: FINISHED (I will update this soon. -Zracknel)
Format: UU Multi-Generation; See below
Tournament Rules: "Each round a certain generation is picked and all battles will be done in UU of that generation. The last 4 will do their rounds as a best of 5 in all UU generations."
Art Direction: "i was thinking something like having a blastoise with sprites from all 5 gens and having a *cool* background. im no good at that kind of stuff so if you could come up with some ideas that would be great."
Tournament Name: BW2 OU Team Tournament
Host: FireMage
Project priority: This tournament no longer needs artwork (I will update this soon. -Zracknel)
Format: BW2 OU
Tournament Rules: "Players are put into teams of 5 and are at risk of being subbed out if they lose - substituting is mandatory unless they all win - They must get their new member from the opposing team."
Art Direction : "Ideally a group of 5 trainers (I'll leave it up to artists discretion if they base them on trainer classes / protagonists or if they want to make them generic) holding their hands over a Pokéball like a Football team would before a game."
Current Submissions: None yet!
Tournament name: the Monotype Tournament
Host: Espeon65
Project priority: This tournament no longer needs artwork (I will update this soon. -Zracknel)
Format: BW OU
Tournament Rules: This tournament requires entrants to have an entire team of pokemon that share a single type-- dual-types are allowed where applicable. However, there's a twist: Espeon65 will privately contact all entrants to the tournament prior to battle and inform them of the type they have to use. Entrants will have to build their own teams well-- and prepare for the unknown types of their opponents.
Art Direction (courtesy of Espeon65): "Maybe a team of 6 pokemon of the same type, or 3. Or maybe two teams of differently-typed pokemon battling. If anyone has another idea, they can use it, too."
Tournament Name: Random Pokemon Tournament V
Host: Rodan
Project Priority: Normal
Format: BW2 Special; see below
Tournament Rules: "think of it like the battle factory [where you are given random pokemon from across tiers, unevolved pokemon as well] but instead of picking 3 out of 6 [like in the factory] you pick 6 out of 7"
Art Direction: "my idea for the banner would be a version of me; either human or pterosaur drawing pokemon names from something like a hat or a bingo spinner or something "
(pictures of Rodan can be seen here.)
Tournament Name: Home Field Advantage II
Host: Dubby
Project Priority: This tournament no longer needs artwork (I will update this soon. -Zracknel)
Format: BW2 Special; see below
Tournament Rules: "My tournament allows the "home" player (each player is PM'd their schedule at the beginning of the season) to choose the tier that is to be played. The standard 3 that the away player cannot reject are BW OU, BW Ubers, and BW UU. The home player can suggest to play a different tier, but the away player must approve as well. So yeah, no specific tier is involved.
Art Direction: None Specified
Tournament Name: NU: Back to the Future
Host: Django
Project Priority: This tournament no longer needs artwork (I will update this soon. -Zracknel)
Format: NU Cross-Gen Special; see below
Tournament Rules: "this is a best of three tournament involving BW2 NU, DPP NU, and ADV NU"
Art Direction: " for potential ideas, anything involving the movie Back to the Future would be neat, and likewise a few key Pokemon from each tier (ADV NU - Flareon, Hitmonchan, Tangela. DPP NU - Charizard, Gligar. BW2 NU - Braviary, Amoonguss, Golurk. If you want any more information just let me know."
Tournament Name: 2012 Tournament Tour
Hosts: FireMage, Django, SethZiBritannia
Project priority: Normal
Format: Special, see below
Tournament Rules: This tournament is a revisit of some of the Tournaments of 2012-- each round will be a match taken out of a different tournament from the past!
Art Direction: "Here's the list of tournaments. I'm quite content for the artists to have free reign over the art direction. See what they can do with it!"
- The EO's Propostion Tournament
- The Helping Hand Tournament
- The Single Pokémon Tournament
- The Unscrupulous Tiering Director
- Tournament of Thieves
- The Adherence Tournament
- Mirror Match
(I'll make sure these link to past tournaments when I get the chance-- in the meantime, please see the Tournament Listing for details on these tournaments)
Tournament name: FUK FERRO Tournament
Host: Iconic
Project priority: Low (we have some submissions for this tournament right now, but feel free to submit others if you'd like)
Format: BW UBERS
Tournament Rules: This Tournament is pretty straightforward: regular BW Ubers, except Ferrothorn is banned!
(You may choose to omit the profanity from this tournament's title if that's not your thing)
Art Direction: None Specified
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
HALL OF FAME (AND FINISHED PROJECTS!)
We've finished some projects and done some cool stuff! Listed below are our finished assignments and all completed submissions to each project!
Ultra thanks to everyone who submitted artwork!
Tournament Artwork Scoreboard!
I want to keep track of everyone who has made a completed submission so far, and everyone who has had a victorious submission!
Victory points are awarded to artists whose work is used for a tournament!
Submission points are awarded to any artist that makes a completed, non-WIP submission for a tournament!
In the case of collabs, all artists involved share victory and submission points.
Scores are henceforth updated whenever submissions are closed for a tournament.
1. Bummer [victory points: 4] [submission score: 4]
2. elcheeso [victory points: 3] [submission score: 4]
3. Juicy Fruit [victory points: 2] [submission score:4]
4. Scepticallistic [victory points: 2] [submission score:2]
5. DragoniteKnight [victory points: 1] [submission score:2]
6. Rittercat [victory points: 1] [submission score:1]
McMeghan [victory points: 1] [submission score:1]
7. Bluehoundoom [submission score:3]
8. Furosuto [submission score:2]
9.Rocket Grunt [submission score:1]
Eagle4 [submission score:1]
Kythro [submission score:1]
You are my champions and I adore you all <3333
Bear with me as your gold emblazoned letters are on their way~~
THREAD RULES
Time will tell if these are good rules. I'll change them if they aren't working out.
- Don't reserve stuff. If you want to do something, do it. You are encouraged to post sketches and roughs, so please share as many as you want to.
- If someone did something and you think you can do better, do it. You aren't a dick for doing this. There are no hard feelings. Our ultimate goal is cool tournament images, and literally every effort helps, even if it doesn't feel that way.
- The judging committee (if you can call it that) will pick artwork judged to be best at the deadline in the case of multiple submissions. It is definitely possible for more than one piece of artwork to be chosen to represent a tournament!
- If, on the other hand, nobody does artwork we can use for a tournament, that tournament doesn't get to have artwork. Smogon's attack stats will decrease. I will cry myself to sleep another night.
- Participate as much as you want to. If you want to do artwork for every single tournament, then you're insane, but you're also my hero.
- Ask questions in this thread if you have them. Either I or someone else will answer them.
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Thank you for reading! My deepest thanks to anyone who participates in this project!
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS TO HELP MANAGE THE ASSIGNMENT LIST... PLEASE SEND ME A PM IF YOU'd LIKE TO HELP; I'M A LITTLE TOO OVERWORKED RIGHT NOW TO MAINTAIN THIS THREAD ALONE! MANY THANKS! - ZRACKNEL
Hello! Let's get right to the point, Smeargle's Studians: I need your help. Even if you cannot draw, or even if you've never posted before, I need your help. Read on.
For the past few eons, I've been doing artwork for Smogon's tournaments. It hasn't been a super-consistent thing, and boy golly gee willikers has it been unorganized. Users generally just ask me for stuff and I try to get it done in time. Sometimes it works out fine, but other times it's miserable and tragic when I can't pull through.
But there's no reason why it should just be me taking these things on. Anyone who wants to help should be able to. So that's where this thread comes in: there are tons of tournaments in need of artwork, and I want to bridge the gap between those who can benefit from this kind of help and those who are capable of doing it. Artwork for tournaments. Let's make it happen.
Can you lend a hand?
Here's a few things I'm NOT looking for:
- You do not need to be a pro artist or anything close to that. That said, this artwork will be used to represent the site. Lots of people join our tournaments without an understanding of what Smogon is or what we do. Tournaments, for many users, are a gateway into our community. Let's do our best to make a good first impression.
- You might know me as that guy who does logos. You do NOT need to do logos to help (but they are certainly welcome).
- You do not need to be a typography ace to help. You do not need to use typography or lettering AT ALL. Cool images are more than enough. If a tournament absolutely needs some cool typography to go on top of an image you've made and typography is not your thing, I'll probably do it. Images are way more important.
- You also do not need to finish work to post it in this thread. PLEASE flood this thread with WIPs, sketches, scribbles, discussion, helpful critique for others, and feedback if you can. The goal is that we have cool stuff when all is said and done, and we are in this together. No need to spend a million hours refining something you're unsure of. When in doubt, share early, share often.
- Following that, you do not need to work alone. If you'd like to collaborate with another artist or artists (doing lines, colors, effects, or anything else) you are invited to do so as long as everyone involved is cool with it. Artists who would like help, please feel free to link to your documents in this thread.
- You do not even need to do your own artwork. Read this section carefully.
Smogon has a lot of committed and lovely artists who have done a lot of excellent work over the years. If you've got some photoshop skills and want to marry some of that work to some cool typography or effects, you have my blessings and encouragement.
HOWEVER, pay attention, because there are a crapload of rules for artists not using original work:
- The golden rule: permission is a must. If you don't have permission, I don't care how eye-popping the final result is-- it isn't going to get used, period.
- If you're pulling images of pokemon from anywhere, they gotta be from here. Only artists who have made an art thread in smeargle's studio are elligible for you to pull from. Additionally, any pieces in question must have been posted here on our forums (so no pulling from other sites or any of that). When you post work like this, you MUST link to the post(s) your source image(s) came from. If you don't, I promise I will punch you. If I find out you don't have permission, your post is getting deleted and you risk an infraction. I'm serious, don't do it.
- You will get credit for doing stuff like this, but your name is coming second. The original artist is going to get the lion's share of the credit for this type of thing, so don't be surprised.
- You will be held to completely different standards when it comes to the possibility of being badged. Expect it to be significantly more difficult. Just putting that out there.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rewards
There WILL be rewards for helping out. If you don't have an art badge and contribute enough of the stuff that we're looking for, I will fight to get you a badge.
If you already have a badge, consider that most tournament threads get hundreds if not thousands of views. Talk to me and we'll see if we can't promote your work further in some way.
If you contribute thoughtful, consistent, and experienced critique that can help our artists improve (both in this thread and elsewhere in the studio) you might see yourself nominated for a community contributor badge.
If you do work that we end up using, expect me to treat you like a champion. Your name will be emblazoned in gold letters in this thread forever. We will collectively be one step closer to me not crying myself to sleep at night.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So that's our introduction. Now for the assignments.
Earthworm and the tournament organizers have hooked me up with the rules and a suggested art direction for almost every tournament that is currently in the tournaments queue.
NOTES:
- Art direction is NEVER set in stone; if you have a better idea than what's listed, you are encouraged to do that instead.
- That said, keep in mind the tournament's organizer is going to have a voice when it comes to selecting artwork in the case of multiple submissions. The other voices will consist of me and other willing studio mods and tournament directors who wish to participate. We'll be choosing among any pieces submitted, and we may very well use multiple pieces of art that are submitted!
- Deadlines on these are wild, unpredictable beasts. Tournaments go up after other tournaments end. Tournaments end when people play their matches. People play their matches when they feel like it. A lot of these tasks have no concrete due date but will include some kind of estimate for when work is needed by.
- If you want to help, please do whatever you want to do, but just keep in mind I'll be sweating bullets and freaking out when I see urgent assignments not getting done, so if you feel like it, please consider starting there.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MASTER ASSIGNMENT LIST*
(*OUTDATED; PLEASE INSTEAD SKIP TO THE END OF THIS THREAD FOR RECENT ASSIGNMENTS... THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING... -ZRACKNEL)
The most urgent assignments are listed first. The other assignments are listed in the order that I received them.
"Format" Refers to the basic format of the tournament, but please read the tournament rules for details!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tournament Name: UU All Generation Tournament
Host: AuraRayquaza
Project Priority: FINISHED (I will update this soon. -Zracknel)
Format: UU Multi-Generation; See below
Tournament Rules: "Each round a certain generation is picked and all battles will be done in UU of that generation. The last 4 will do their rounds as a best of 5 in all UU generations."
Art Direction: "i was thinking something like having a blastoise with sprites from all 5 gens and having a *cool* background. im no good at that kind of stuff so if you could come up with some ideas that would be great."
ThatsMyLatios said:
elcheeso said:
bluehoundoom said:
Tournament Name: BW2 OU Team Tournament
Host: FireMage
Project priority: This tournament no longer needs artwork (I will update this soon. -Zracknel)
Format: BW2 OU
Tournament Rules: "Players are put into teams of 5 and are at risk of being subbed out if they lose - substituting is mandatory unless they all win - They must get their new member from the opposing team."
Art Direction : "Ideally a group of 5 trainers (I'll leave it up to artists discretion if they base them on trainer classes / protagonists or if they want to make them generic) holding their hands over a Pokéball like a Football team would before a game."
Current Submissions: None yet!
Tournament name: the Monotype Tournament
Host: Espeon65
Project priority: This tournament no longer needs artwork (I will update this soon. -Zracknel)
Format: BW OU
Tournament Rules: This tournament requires entrants to have an entire team of pokemon that share a single type-- dual-types are allowed where applicable. However, there's a twist: Espeon65 will privately contact all entrants to the tournament prior to battle and inform them of the type they have to use. Entrants will have to build their own teams well-- and prepare for the unknown types of their opponents.
Art Direction (courtesy of Espeon65): "Maybe a team of 6 pokemon of the same type, or 3. Or maybe two teams of differently-typed pokemon battling. If anyone has another idea, they can use it, too."
Pkrs said:
CBMeadow said:
raikou00 said:
hichez said:
Tournament Name: Random Pokemon Tournament V
Host: Rodan
Project Priority: Normal
Format: BW2 Special; see below
Tournament Rules: "think of it like the battle factory [where you are given random pokemon from across tiers, unevolved pokemon as well] but instead of picking 3 out of 6 [like in the factory] you pick 6 out of 7"
Art Direction: "my idea for the banner would be a version of me; either human or pterosaur drawing pokemon names from something like a hat or a bingo spinner or something "
(pictures of Rodan can be seen here.)
Furosuto said:
Bummer said:
bluehoundoom said:
Tournament Name: Home Field Advantage II
Host: Dubby
Project Priority: This tournament no longer needs artwork (I will update this soon. -Zracknel)
Format: BW2 Special; see below
Tournament Rules: "My tournament allows the "home" player (each player is PM'd their schedule at the beginning of the season) to choose the tier that is to be played. The standard 3 that the away player cannot reject are BW OU, BW Ubers, and BW UU. The home player can suggest to play a different tier, but the away player must approve as well. So yeah, no specific tier is involved.
Art Direction: None Specified
raikou00 said:
Tournament Name: NU: Back to the Future
Host: Django
Project Priority: This tournament no longer needs artwork (I will update this soon. -Zracknel)
Format: NU Cross-Gen Special; see below
Tournament Rules: "this is a best of three tournament involving BW2 NU, DPP NU, and ADV NU"
Art Direction: " for potential ideas, anything involving the movie Back to the Future would be neat, and likewise a few key Pokemon from each tier (ADV NU - Flareon, Hitmonchan, Tangela. DPP NU - Charizard, Gligar. BW2 NU - Braviary, Amoonguss, Golurk. If you want any more information just let me know."
Juicy Fruit said:
Tournament Name: 2012 Tournament Tour
Hosts: FireMage, Django, SethZiBritannia
Project priority: Normal
Format: Special, see below
Tournament Rules: This tournament is a revisit of some of the Tournaments of 2012-- each round will be a match taken out of a different tournament from the past!
Art Direction: "Here's the list of tournaments. I'm quite content for the artists to have free reign over the art direction. See what they can do with it!"
- The EO's Propostion Tournament
- The Helping Hand Tournament
- The Single Pokémon Tournament
- The Unscrupulous Tiering Director
- Tournament of Thieves
- The Adherence Tournament
- Mirror Match
(I'll make sure these link to past tournaments when I get the chance-- in the meantime, please see the Tournament Listing for details on these tournaments)
ium said:
Tournament name: FUK FERRO Tournament
Host: Iconic
Project priority: Low (we have some submissions for this tournament right now, but feel free to submit others if you'd like)
Format: BW UBERS
Tournament Rules: This Tournament is pretty straightforward: regular BW Ubers, except Ferrothorn is banned!
(You may choose to omit the profanity from this tournament's title if that's not your thing)
Art Direction: None Specified
Juicy Fruit said:
RitterCat said:
bluehoundoom said:
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HALL OF FAME (AND FINISHED PROJECTS!)
We've finished some projects and done some cool stuff! Listed below are our finished assignments and all completed submissions to each project!
Ultra thanks to everyone who submitted artwork!
Tournament Name: OU Cavalry: BW Edition
Host: Sayonara
Project Priority: FINISHED! (Sign-Ups Posted Sept 14th, 2012)
Format: BW UU
Tournament rules: The OU Cavalry BW Edition is a BW UU tournament in which a specific OU pokemon is allowed to be used, the pokemon being different in each round.
Art Direction: "I guess you could put an OU pokemon unleashing terror on a bunch of UU mons. Thanks!"
Winning Submission(s): elcheeso
Other Submissions:
Kythro
Juicy Fruit
Bluehoundoom
Rittercat
Tournament Name: #Pokemon Tournament
Hosts: mostwanted
Project Priority: FINISHED (Artwork Went up Sept 8th, 2012)
Format: BW OU
Tournament Rules: Prior to this tournament, visitors to smogon's #pokemon IRC channel created a pool of 24 teams to be used for the competition. Each round, competitors in this tournament are given a choice between two teams randomly selected from the pool to use. The options available to them are public, as are the options of their opponents. Competitors are highly encouraged to use the #pokemon channel to discuss and prepare for battle, so IRC plays a crucial role in this tournament.
Art Direction: None Specified
Winning Submission(s): Bummer
Tournament Name: Pass the Trash II
Hosts: Steven Snype, Mithril
Project Priority: FINISHED (Artwork went up September 14th, 2012)
Format: BW OU
Tournament Rules: Pass the trash is a variation of a poker game in which two players swap one card/Pokemon without knowing what the other player has.
Art Direction: "Something like the yugioh card 'exchange' or a pokemon trade is what I have in mind for concept art"
Winning Submission(s): DragoniteKnight
Other Submissions:
Rocket Grunt
Eagle4
Tournament Name: The Tournament of Goodfellas
Host: Umby
Project Priority: FINISHED (Artwork went up September 18th, 2012)
Format: Multi-Gen
Tournament Rules: This is a RBY/GSC/ADV 3-man team tournament. Three players, each playing a different generation, face off against other teams of three players.
Art Direction: "I named it after the movie, Goodfellas, so some sort of gangster theme would be choice." Extra Art Direction shared by Bummer in this post.
Winning Submission(s):
Bummer
Bummer & elcheeso
Juicy Fruit
Tournament Name: Black/White 2 Walkthrough Tournament
Hosts: RBG
Project Priority: FINISHED (Artwork went up Oct 6th, 2012)
Format: Special (see below)
Tournament Rules: This is a walkthrough tournament: each round will restrict competitors to only using items and pokemon that are available at a certain point in the game. Each round the restrictions will change as the competitors progress, mimicking a play-through the main game of black/white 2.
Art Direction: None Specified
Winning Submission(s): Scepticallistic
Other Submissions:
Juicy Fruit
Tournament Name: NO-Weather Ubers
Host: Harsha
Project priority: FINISHED (Artwork went up Oct 9th, 2012)
Format: BW Ubers
Tournament Rules: Standard BW Ubers, minus weather inducers (Kyogre, Groundon, Tyranitar, etc...)
Art Direction: "I'd appreciate if the art could be something along the lines of a sad Groudon, Kyogre, Tyranitar, and the like."
Winning Submission(s): Juicy Fruit
Tournament name: Offstat Tournament
Host: Level 51
Project priority: FINISHED (Artwork went up Oct 20th, 2012)
Format: BW OU
Tournament Rules:
(a) Each of your Pokemon's two attack stats must have a difference of at least 50 between them (e.g. Scizor is allowed, Zapdos isn't), and more importantly,
(b) Your Pokemon's attacking moves must utilise their lower attack stat.
(e.g. Focus Blast/Fire Blast/Hyper Beam/HP Ice Machamp is allowed,
Focus Blast/Fire Blast/Giga Impact/HP Ice Machamp is not)
Art Direction: None specified
Winning Submission(s): RitterCat
Other Submissions:
bluehoundoom
Tournament Name: DPP OU: Forgotten Year
Host: Steven Snype
Project Priority: FINISHED (Artwork went up Oct 26th, 2012)
Format: DPP OU (Gen IV)
Tournament rules: Standard DPP OU, but with salamence and latias allowed
Art Direction: "any art featuring latias and/or salamence would be great"
Winning Submission(s): McMeghan (with the help of sandshrewz and Orugos!)
Other Submissions:
Furosuto
bluehoundoom
Tournament Name: 3-mon Tournament
Host: Chieliee
Project Priority: FINISHED (Artwork went up Oct 21st, 2012)
Format: BW OU
Tournament Rules: "It'll be much like the Battle Tower, where instead of 6v6, the games are played 3v3. Pretty simple"
Art Direction: "I've been thinking about having one big mon hold two smaller ones. of course, these must all be somewhat competetive and it'd be great if they fit in the same playstyle. Another possibility is to depict a battle scene, with three mons on each side, much like a triple battle. Even though it's technically not correct, i think it'll be nice or something idk"
Winning Submission(s): Bummer
Other Submissions:
Furosuto
Tournament Name: ADVanced Users Only
Host: McMeghan
Project Priority: FINISHED (Artwork went up Oct 28th, 2012)
Format: ADV (Gen III) Multi-Tier
Tournament Rules: "My tournament will be an ADV Bo3 tour. The players will play in UU, OU and Uber."
Art Direction: "My request is pretty simple, using a artwork each round picturing one Pokemon of each ADV Tier, using the red, blue and green color (Ruby/Saphir/Emerald).
Winning Submission(s): elcheeso
Other Submissions:
DragoniteKnight
Tournament Name: Stat Specialization Tournament II
Host: yaya0
Project Priority: FINISHED (Artwork went up Oct 30th, 2012)
Format: BW OU
Tournament Rules: "The tournament is 'standard' OU, but the gimmick is that each round, a specific base stat is chosen and the only Pokemon allowed during that round are those whose highest base stat is the one chosen."
Art Direction: None Specified
Winning Submission(s): Scepticallistic
Tournament Artwork Scoreboard!
I want to keep track of everyone who has made a completed submission so far, and everyone who has had a victorious submission!
Victory points are awarded to artists whose work is used for a tournament!
Submission points are awarded to any artist that makes a completed, non-WIP submission for a tournament!
In the case of collabs, all artists involved share victory and submission points.
Scores are henceforth updated whenever submissions are closed for a tournament.
1. Bummer [victory points: 4] [submission score: 4]
2. elcheeso [victory points: 3] [submission score: 4]
3. Juicy Fruit [victory points: 2] [submission score:4]
4. Scepticallistic [victory points: 2] [submission score:2]
5. DragoniteKnight [victory points: 1] [submission score:2]
6. Rittercat [victory points: 1] [submission score:1]
McMeghan [victory points: 1] [submission score:1]
7. Bluehoundoom [submission score:3]
8. Furosuto [submission score:2]
9.Rocket Grunt [submission score:1]
Eagle4 [submission score:1]
Kythro [submission score:1]
You are my champions and I adore you all <3333
Bear with me as your gold emblazoned letters are on their way~~
THREAD RULES
Time will tell if these are good rules. I'll change them if they aren't working out.
- Don't reserve stuff. If you want to do something, do it. You are encouraged to post sketches and roughs, so please share as many as you want to.
- If someone did something and you think you can do better, do it. You aren't a dick for doing this. There are no hard feelings. Our ultimate goal is cool tournament images, and literally every effort helps, even if it doesn't feel that way.
- The judging committee (if you can call it that) will pick artwork judged to be best at the deadline in the case of multiple submissions. It is definitely possible for more than one piece of artwork to be chosen to represent a tournament!
- If, on the other hand, nobody does artwork we can use for a tournament, that tournament doesn't get to have artwork. Smogon's attack stats will decrease. I will cry myself to sleep another night.
- Participate as much as you want to. If you want to do artwork for every single tournament, then you're insane, but you're also my hero.
- Ask questions in this thread if you have them. Either I or someone else will answer them.
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Thank you for reading! My deepest thanks to anyone who participates in this project!
