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MrDayCee

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Posted October 3, '16 11:25am UTC

We are closing in on that scary season of the year again!

This wonderful, yet always scary, annual event is being celebrated by a lot of people from all over the world who always look forward to getting those goose bumps! As always, it is coming October 31st... and just like last year, ArmorGames is taking part in it!!

"When witches go riding, and black cats are seen...
The moon laughs and whispers, 'tis near Hallowe'en..."

Are you ready? Then join the:

It's time to start creating all those skeletons, vampires, goblins, ghosts, jack-o-lanterns, grim reapers, witches, ghouls, poltergeists, bats, scarecrows, zombies, trolls and whatnot, oh my... BUT!! Let us go over those rules one more time before you are too frightened to remember what they were!! Oooohh!

ARMATAR CONTEST GUIDELINES :

ne: All entries must be appropriate. They cannot be offensive or profane in nature. Keep it clean!
The entry must be square and at least 512x512 pixels in dimension.
Your entry must scale down well to 100x100. So if it looks good in its larger form, make sure that it will still look good when it is scaled down to the armatar size. Here are a few suggestions about this :
Sometimes keeping it simple is better. If you go into a lot of detail, it might not look as great when you scale it down. So keep in mind what the Armatar size will be and check often how it looks when it is scaled down.
Remember to save a lot while you are making it! Better to delete 20 -in between made- save files later on, than ending up with a finished piece you don't like or an end result that is showing up blurred when scaled down...
If you are able to do vector, by all means! That can help with the sharpness of the image. However, since they are small in Armatar size, this is probably not a big issue.
All entries must be fitting to the current contest's theme. If a certain entry is debatable to whatever extend, a Mod or Admin will give the decisive and final ruling for submission.
An entry must be completely original. You cannot use entire (or even elements from) pieces of artwork made by someone else, the entire armatar must be 100% created by you! A Moderator can ask you to provide conclusive proof that the entry was created by you entirely and you are obligated to provide this when asked for.

Plagiarism will not only exclude your submission by means of disqualification, it will also exclude you from participation in any future contests AND will have further consequences!

CLOSING DATE OF THIS CONTEST :

This Contest will be held up untill the holiday: 10/31/2016, so there's more than enough time for you to enter your artwork!

WINNING SUBMISSIONS :

Every participant of an official edition of the Armor Games' Armatar Contest receives a well deserved Merit for submitting one -or more- entries to every separate edition held. This means a maximum of one Merit per participant, per edition.

Alongside this Merit for your participation, we have a special non-game Quest to award for the winning submissions of the Armor Games' Armatar Contest! This special Armatar Creator Quest will be bestowed upon the creators of the winning entries that were chosen for every contest held. The winners will receive this Quest to show our appreciation for their outstanding work. Wear this Quest with pride!
Winners will be chosen after the edition is officially closed;
The winning entries are non-debatable, results are final;
The Armatar Creator Quest can only be awarded once per user. If a particular user wins another edition, they will not receive this Quest again, as Quests can not be achieved a second time;
As a special appreciation for their outstanding work, all the winners and their winning entries of every edition will be placed into the Armatar Creator Quest Winners Hall of Fame!

Right! Time to man up! Shake off your shivers, digg into your darkest memories and start creating all that scarific, spooktacular, boo-tiful, frightastic, AAAAHH!!-wesome artwork and amaze us once more! Just... don't look under the bed when your pencil rolls under there!! There's monsters everywhere...
Mhuahahahahaaaa!!

BOO!! "Trick or Treat!" Heheheh...

[img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8500/8253540719_7b89c6b013_b_d.jpg[/img]
We are closing in on that scary season of the year again! :flushed:

[size=135][b][i]"When witches go riding, and black cats are seen... :japanese_goblin: :smirk_cat:
The moon laughs and whispers, 'tis near Hallowe'en..."[/i][/b] :jack_o_lantern: :ghost:[/size]

Are you ready? Then join the:

[img]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2806/10446771174_c4d3163dd1_o_d.png[/img]

[size=150]:art:[/size] [b][i][u][size=125]ARMATAR CONTEST GUIDELINES :[/size][/u][/i][/b]

[b]:one: All entries must be appropriate.[/b] They cannot be offensive or profane in nature. Keep it clean!
[b]:two: The entry must be square and at least 512x512 pixels in dimension.[/b]
[b]:three: Your entry must scale down well to 100x100.[/b] So if it looks good in its larger form, make sure that it will still look good when it is scaled down to the armatar size. Here are a few suggestions about this :
:small_orange_diamond: [i]Sometimes keeping it simple is better.[/i] If you go into a lot of detail, it might not look as great when you scale it down. So keep in mind what the Armatar size will be and check often how it looks when it is scaled down.
:small_orange_diamond: [i]Remember to save a lot while you are making it![/i] Better to delete 20 -in between made- save files later on, than ending up with a finished piece you don't like or an end result that is showing up blurred when scaled down...
:small_orange_diamond: [i]If you are able to do vector, by all means![/i] That can help with the sharpness of the image. However, since they are small in Armatar size, this is probably not a big issue.
[b]:four: All entries must be fitting to the current contest's theme.[/b] If a certain entry is debatable to whatever extend, a Mod or Admin will give the decisive and final ruling for submission.
[b]:five: An entry must be completely original.[/b] You cannot use entire (or even elements from) pieces of artwork made by someone else, the entire armatar must be 100% created by you! A Moderator can ask you to provide conclusive proof that the entry was created by you entirely and you are obligated to provide this when asked for.

:bangbang: [b][i]Plagiarism will not only exclude your submission by means of disqualification, it will also exclude you from participation in any future contests AND will have further consequences![/i][/b] :bangbang:

:curly_loop:

[size=150]:art:[/size] [b][i][u][size=125]CLOSING DATE OF THIS CONTEST :[/size][/u][/i][/b]

This Contest will be held up untill the holiday: [b][i][size=105]10/31/2016[/size][/i][/b], so there's more than enough time for you to enter your artwork! :skull:

:curly_loop:

[size=150]:art:[/size] [b][i][u][size=125]WINNING SUBMISSIONS :[/size][/u][/i][/b]

Every participant of an official edition of the [b]Armor Games' Armatar Contest[/b] receives a well deserved Merit for submitting one -or more- entries to every separate edition held. [i]This means a maximum of one Merit per participant, per edition.[/i]

Alongside this Merit for your participation, we have a special non-game Quest to award for the winning submissions of the Armor Games' Armatar Contest! This special [b][i]Armatar Creator Quest[/i][/b] will be bestowed upon the creators of the winning entries that were chosen for every contest held. The winners will receive this Quest to show our appreciation for their outstanding work. Wear this Quest with pride!
:trophy: Winners will be chosen after the edition is officially closed;
:no_entry_sign: The winning entries are non-debatable, results are final;
:white_check_mark: The Armatar Creator Quest can only be awarded once per user. If a particular user wins another edition, they will not receive this Quest again, as Quests can not be achieved a second time;
:gem: As a special appreciation for their outstanding work, all the winners and their winning entries of every edition will be placed into the [b][i][size=105][url=http://armorgames.com/community/thread/12403802/]Armatar Creator Quest Winners Hall of Fame[/url][/size][/i][/b]!

:curly_loop:

Right! Time to man up! Shake off your shivers, digg into your darkest memories and start creating all that [size=110][i]scarific[/i], [i]spooktacular[/i], [i]boo-tiful[/i], [i]frightastic[/i], [i]AAAAHH!!-wesome[/i][/size] artwork and amaze us once more! Just... don't look under the bed when your pencil rolls under there!! There's monsters everywhere...
[size=120]Mhuahahahahaaaa!! :fearful:[/size]

[size=130][b][i]BOO!! "Trick or Treat!"[/i][/b] Heheheh... :smiling_imp:[/size]

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Doombreed

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Posted October 20, '16 6:28pm UTC Edited October 20, '16 6:29pm UTC by Doombreed

Ok. Done. Resized:

(Nice entries by the way The fifth is in extraordinarily gruesome detail xD)

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StormWalker

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Posted October 20, '16 6:35pm UTC

Thanks for resizing them! Out of curiosity, is there a website or a software or something that people use to resize things? It seems every time I submit armatars (though I haven't done it in a while), I always have to have other people resize things for me, so I'd like to be more self-sufficient :^) Except if it's in Photoshop, because I don't have that.
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(Nice entries by the way The fifth is in extraordinarily gruesome detail xD)

hey thanks! maybe too gruesome for AG though....

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Doombreed

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Posted October 20, '16 6:39pm UTC

well, I used MSPaint to resize them actually. Just saved the normal images, opened them in paint, clicked 'Resize', Pixels tab and input 100 pixels in the fields I don't know about a medium used to resize things.

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Last4Skull

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Posted October 20, '16 9:47pm UTC

Wow nice entry @Koshionos !!! They we're both really cool !
I like the texture you use for your drawings ! Can you explain me a little ?

@StormWalker Hahaha I'm so happy that you made some entries storm ! I was expecting to see your creations in the contest ! As always ! Excellent work ! The parasite inside the women is just creepy x'D really congrats !

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Koshionos

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Posted October 20, '16 11:31pm UTC

@Last4Skull I use multiple layers and a very interesting smudge tool, after that, I just take it into Photoshop and manipulate the levels and contrast until I get the right effect. If you want to use the same App, it is ArtStudio app for iOS.

@StormWalker, awesome as always!

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Koshionos

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Posted October 21, '16 1:08am UTC

Eye see more artwork in my future:

100x100

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StormWalker

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Posted October 21, '16 5:46am UTC

I went through my archive of things I've drawn in the past few months & realized I had a decent amount of suitably spooky headshots that would probably translate nicely to being armatars. Some of them are kinda old, so they're not as good as the more recent things :^)

...that's a lot.

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StormWalker

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Posted October 21, '16 5:48am UTC

Once again it looks like I've messed part of it up again. I wish I knew why AG won't let me edit posts. Here's the correct small image for the first one.

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SirLegendary

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Posted October 21, '16 12:11pm UTC

@StormWalker

Just, wow.

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Last4Skull

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Posted October 21, '16 5:29pm UTC Edited October 21, '16 5:33pm UTC by Last4Skull

@Koshionos Hahaha Nice one ! And thanks for explanation

@StormWalker x'D You're more quick than SirLegendary ! Really awesome arts, if I can just suggest maybe just add a little background on 1,3,4 but besides that really awesome as always x'D I'm really glad you've taked some time for adding some armatar x'D as I said your style fit really good with Halloween

I've maked one but he doesn't render well on 100x100 so I will probably don't post it for the contest Hahaha. If I have time I will probably make another one

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huwbert2013

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Posted October 21, '16 7:34pm UTC

Some satisfyingly eerie pics @StormWalker as per usual.

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Koshionos

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Posted October 21, '16 11:30pm UTC

I'm looking at this one @StormWalker :

did the Full Metal Alchemist go too far with Human transmutation?

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StormWalker

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Posted October 22, '16 7:13am UTC

@StormWalker Hahaha I'm so happy that you made some entries storm ! I was expecting to see your creations in the contest ! As always ! Excellent work ! The parasite inside the women is just creepy x'D really congrats !

@StormWalker, awesome as always!

@StormWalker
Just, wow.

@StormWalker x'D You're more quick than SirLegendary ! Really awesome arts, if I can just suggest maybe just add a little background on 1,3,4 but besides that really awesome as always x'D I'm really glad you've taked some time for adding some armatar x'D as I said your style fit really good with Halloween

Some satisfyingly eerie pics @StormWalker as per usual.

Thank you all very much for your kind words
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if I can just suggest maybe just add a little background on 1,3,4

I was thinking about making an exciting background, but I figured since it would be an armatar it would make it too busy in the small size. thanks though!
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I'm looking at this one @StormWalker : did the Full Metal Alchemist go too far with Human transmutation?

tbh my inspiration to draw that stemmed from my desire to draw something with a lot of teeth, and also a cyborg. so it could be.

[quote]@StormWalker Hahaha I'm so happy that you made some entries storm ! I was expecting to see your creations in the contest ! As always ! Excellent work ! The parasite inside the women is just creepy x'D really congrats ![/quote]
[quote]@StormWalker, awesome as always![/quote]
[quote]@StormWalker
Just, wow.[/quote] 
[quote]@StormWalker x'D You're more quick than SirLegendary ! Really awesome arts, if I can just suggest maybe just add a little background on 1,3,4 but besides that really awesome as always x'D I'm really glad you've taked some time for adding some armatar x'D as I said your style fit really good with Halloween[/quote] 
[quote]Some satisfyingly eerie pics [url=http://armorgames.com/user/StormWalker]@StormWalker[/url] as per usual.[/quote]
Thank you all very much for your kind words :D
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[quote]if I can just suggest maybe just add a little background on 1,3,4[/quote]
I was thinking about making an exciting background, but I figured since it would be an armatar it would make it too busy in the small size. thanks though! 
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[quote]I'm looking at this one [url=http://armorgames.com/user/StormWalker]@StormWalker[/url] : did the Full Metal Alchemist go too far with Human transmutation?[/quote]
tbh my inspiration to draw that stemmed from my desire to draw something with a lot of teeth, and also a cyborg. so it could be.

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StormWalker

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Posted October 22, '16 7:19am UTC

I posted that and then realized I forgot to post the possible armatar I wanted to add. After this, I'm done, promise.

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Doombreed

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Posted October 22, '16 8:42am UTC

@MrDayCee so many armatars added Perhaps you should make them available, seeing as they've already piled up and Halloween is drawing close? Just a suggestion.

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