We are proud to announce the third Charas Resource Contest!
If you're interested in the previous ones, follow these links: Contest 1 - Contest 2.
Now, as usual: what's new in this 3rd edition?
The main news are:
3 sections: Charas, Facegen and Battlegen!
Only "resources-hungry" sections are allowed.
The extra "connection prize".
It is a free and open competition, similar to other contests abbut RPGMaker2K
The only difference is that here the target is not a game, a screen or a charaset: the target are base resources.
I strongly encourage partecipation on this contest to anyone, experts and newbies: creating resources is also a good way to learn something new about graphics (in general, not only for Charas) having fun too!
And a competition like this is mainly for learn&fun: i really hope this will put in contact who'd like to learn with who can teach, and generally everyone of us have something to say (or ask) in both directions.
There are no restrictions on subjects, ideas and so on.
Also, there's no need to keep "secret" you resources: if you want you can share that resource for inclusion in Charas too, you can also choose to partecipate with something already uploaded.
We only need to know it is yours.
Refer to the documentation and to the Forum to know every secret you need to create whatever you like!
Charas is really powerful if used with some tricks (for example, read in the documentation about the "almost white" tip!)
Well, i think that's all. Now....
Total freedom is fun and good, but this is a contest! So... rules time! ;)
Available categories: Charaset generator resources, Faceset generator resources and Battlechar generator resources.
The dead-line is 1st May 2004.
The charaset resources must be:
applyable to one of these base section's bodies: soldiers, tall, little, monsters, tall-monsters. resources for the medium section WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
format: PNG image at 8 bit (256 colors) with white background (rgb=255,255,255)
size: 128 x 72 pixel
no more than 3 for participant
usable as one of the existing sections (body, face, dress, hair or item)
well placed (no problems with overlapping)
totally original by you (not made by 3rd persons, neither in part)
The faceset resources must be:
applyable to one of these base section's faces: front, roco, elvis. resources for the right and left sections WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
format: PNG image at 8 bit (256 colors) with white background (rgb=255,255,255)
size: 48 x 48 pixel
no more than 3 for participant
usable as one of the existing sections (base, eyes, expression, hair or item)
well placed (no problems with overlapping)
totally original by you (not made by 3rd persons, neither in part)
The battlechar resources must be:
format: PNG image at 8 bit (256 colors) with white background (rgb=255,255,255)
size: one or two 144x384 pixel images (depending if your resources is an A+B resource or not)
no more than 3 for participant
usable as one of the existing sections (base, eyes, expression, hair or item)
well placed (no problems with overlapping)
totally original by you (not made by 3rd persons, neither in part)
How to partecipate
Just click here and post your resource in the third contest thread.
a single user may post max 9 resources (3 chara, 3 face and 3 battlechar)
Prizes
1th, 2nd and 3rd place: a credit table in the home page of Charas
everyone: a credit in a dedicated page, reachable from a link placed in the winners's table, with resource, result and comments
The connection prize
This is an extra prize, idea given by Gary.
If you manage to make a resource for all three generators which connects with each other (three resources with the same hairstyle), you can get this prize.
To explain: if you participate with some "John Smith" chara, face and battlechar resources, you can win this prize for "John Smith" as a global character.
To know more or to find help and "working examples", look at the results-comments of the previous contests: Contest 1 - Contest 2.