event-general

[hollow gull]

I think this is "what other pokemon will get a favorite prize"

[plucky arch]

well abundance would be a person would it not?

[hollow gull]

and that pokemon is chosen by A. Abundance, B. Luck, or C. The one that is currently an underdog

Aka Shieldon lol

[plucky arch]

if were to assume its "how many entries"

[hollow gull]

We're making fundamentally different assumptions lol

[plucky arch]

ig we are

but thats part of the fun

[hollow gull]

It's truly mysterious and vague

I'm p sure one of us has kiwi sweating though

[plucky arch]

"well actually i think its not about the words but the letters, first two in fact, no matter what we vote itll be 'Ab, Lu, Un' which spells Abluun, or A Bloon, A Balloon, therefore it is a Drifloon alward"

Kiwi, getting her puzzle decyphered:

[pastel hollow]

abundance could about what pokemon is most frequently represented

[late sequoia]

true

[plucky arch]

im sure thatd easily be, like Riolu, Mantyke, or Chinchou

[tall moss]

i love yall so much

[hollow gull]

Guess that means we have no idea what it is

[plucky arch]

poison, poison types exist, and are purple, DRIFLOON IS PURLE

PORLPLE BALOON

[late sequoia]

Gotta make Kiwi smile at somepoint with all the sprites that will be gone through

[plucky arch]

https://tenor.com/view/conspiracy-theory-explaining-gif-13403485

[silver solar]

If it’s about the species most represented, chinchou is probably disqualified

[hollow gull]

Chinchou award two, chincharder

[plucky arch]

chimchar

[hollow gull]

If I were a sprite manager I would def pay people to make Corsolas so yea I respect that

I still think a Corsola contest would be badass

[silver solar]

I think a big cup would be useful

[tall moss]

https://tenor.com/view/bingo-nadia-vulvokov-russian-doll-exactly-perfect-gif-25146520

[silver solar]

Make as many things have fully evolved combos that look good as possible

[plucky arch]

quick make Anorith fusions GO GO GO

[late sequoia]

Medium cup more so to help with all the inbetween fusions that don't get a lot of love

[hollow gull]

I'm a genius

[silver solar]

Medium cup would probably lead to people wanting to make the big ones tbh

[livid stratus]

hehe use onix and its gonna be big anyway

but its also taking me hours

[hollow gull]

My first idea was onix/wailmer

[livid stratus]

LOL

[hollow gull]

Biggest little guy

[ivory olive]

alright yall, get started, we only need to make another 199

[silver solar]

Hey i have 7 just waiting to get feedback

[plucky arch]

hmm i gotta figure out what would be the least

or, second least ig, as the least would get a ton

[ivory olive]

I saw all of yours Sitten, they look good

[silver solar]

Yeah I’m just bad at confidence

[hollow gull]

I still can't figure out little guys

[plucky arch]

theres prolly a meta here, and i think i might have

[hollow gull]

Might just do mime Jr head fusions as children's toys

[crude cedar]

Strategy: Make a sprite of every eligable pokemon so you win no matter what

[plucky arch]

also smth else is, you cant make multiple of the same ones or else youll be dragging em down

[thin dove]

me invalidating the shit out of some choices by default

[ivory olive]

someone should count up all the fusions, write down which ones are most and least, and badabang we're golden

[plucky arch]

Aipom could be Jack in the Box

[crude cedar]

someone did that

[hollow gull]

Already done heh

[silver solar]

I’m just gonna make the vulpix spreadsheet

[thin dove]

that won't help you when some people can't sprite as fast

[plucky arch]

dang great minds

[hollow gull]

Just had an insane idea tho

[ivory olive]

the only question is what do self fusions count as

[hollow gull]

Not showing till it's done byebye

[silver solar]

And then I’ll probably do the vulpix reference sheet tomorrow

[plucky arch]

im sure Anorith is going to Shoot Up in sprites

and Pineco

[ivory olive]

dude Pineco is fucking lame as hell

[tall moss]

would count twice

for the least mons thing

[silver solar]

Pineco has a weird conquest sprite

[ivory olive]

alright thank you

[silver solar]

Oh kiwi

[plucky arch]

quick Anorith/Pineco and win immediately

[tall moss]

everyone gonna do anoriths tho

[ivory olive]

alright gonna go make a couple Anorith fusions now

[molten crater]

yall be sleeping on kabuto

[silver solar]

Is a fusion I planned to do for my spriter application but then scrapped valid to revisit for the contest?

[tall moss]

this is my fave award cuz its gonna be mind games the entire time

[hollow gull]

I'm ahead of the times

Hey kiwi can I DM you I have question

[plucky arch]

kiwi singlehandedly turns the contest from a funny sprite contest to Psychological Warfare, 5D Chess with one message

[tall moss]

if you redo it from scratch yis

[silver solar]

Oh the og file was a mess anyway

[tall moss]

shore

[plucky arch]

even if it gives me money i refuse to do a Pineco or Anorith fusion

[silver solar]

I, definitely dont wanna touch pineco, or onix or geodude or tangela

[hollow gull]

You guys are so lame actually

[silver solar]

I don’t wanna learn to do good rock atm

[hollow gull]

The real untouched mons: Psyduck, budew, goldeen

[plucky arch]

stop mentioning pokemon

[hollow gull]

Think outside the box

[tall moss]

https://tenor.com/view/colbert-popcorn-popcorn-stephen-colbert-eat-popcorn-popcorn2020-gif-16075618

[hollow gull]

Porygon

[late sequoia]

Has already doubled the Budew population

[plucky arch]

you gotta think about: mons that already have a ton of combos

its reverse

[hollow gull]

No just stop thinking

[plucky arch]

no ones going to be doing a Bulbasaur

[silver solar]

Honestly goldeen is gorgeous and perfect for me to try, if it’s valid for the 3 pokemon i plan to focus on

[hollow gull]

Pick at random you'll prob get a high-point combo

[plucky arch]

no Pikachus

[hollow gull]

Oh yea starters are definitely a good trick too

[silver solar]

There’s definitely no pikachus

[hollow gull]

Oh yea Goldeen is great

Just never thought about

[tall moss]

cant wait to see the guy who makes a spreadsheet and inputs in all the file names to count how many of each mon there is

[hollow gull]

I think I would hate that guy

[tall moss]

(moslty so i can steal the sheet math later)

[hollow gull]

Sounds lame

Guess

[late sequoia]

I totally wouldn't know someone who likes data enough to do that

[silver solar]

I cant wait to actually start fusing the pokemon i wanna do a tom of

[hollow gull]

Don't use your lame math to CHEAT

[silver solar]

So far i did choice award bait, a cool noodle, amd thats it

[hollow gull]

Math is just SORCERY with NO EXPLAINED SOURCE

Mmmmm choice award bait

I think I'm in kiwis brain I know they'll pick me

[silver solar]

At least for the chinchou one i can use the pokemon i wanna focus on

[plucky arch]

ive got a few in mind

[silver solar]

I want to at least have a valid entry for each choice award

[plucky arch]

too bad you have to publicly announce which ones you do

[distant sedge]

uh hi i saw the comp update and have decided to take part even though i have only just joined the server XD time for cursed fusions i guess and good luck to everyone else!

[plucky arch]

i hope some guy walks in and singlehandedly ruins the market of an entire pokemon

like someone enters 50 Doduos

[late sequoia]

or 100 exeggcutes

[plucky arch]

all the people banking on it are distraught

[silver solar]

I wonder if the littlest cup will get all the babies done

[plucky arch]

probably

[whole bronze]

I'm just having fun making mons! I never thought about making art seriously until I joined 😄

[late sequoia]

I think we are getting close from the few I saw

[silver solar]

Lets just hope other people like making tyrogue and such

[hollow gull]

😲😲😲😲

[ivory olive]

slowly looks away in shame with 12 eevee submissions

[hollow gull]

Big idea

[plucky arch]

i made a tyrogue lets go

specifically cause i doubted anyone else was gonna, therefore no alts (pre choisent)

[tall moss]

sponsoring this contest was the best idea ive ever had yall are super entertaining to watch

[late sequoia]

I think Budew is shamefully under used as both head and body

[plucky arch]

kiwi thinks of us as rats

[livid stratus]

lol

[distant sedge]

quick question, where's the main sheet? XD

[tall moss]

#sprite-charts

[livid stratus]

im doing an onix fusion, and its taking FOREVER

[plucky arch]

as soon as we all get adjusted kiwi drops Chedder into the cage to watch us scramble

[tall moss]

yes >8y

[ivory olive]

I want provolone :(

[distant sedge]

thank you!!!

[plucky arch]

jokes on kiwi: all of these entries are going to be added to gallery, and have to be sorted thru the pack

[livid stratus]

if you posted a work in progress(like less than half done) to spritework that didnt get a lot of attention, when you finish it can you post it again?

[ivory olive]

autogen Anorith/Gligar looks like it's attempting to dab

[hollow gull]

Carbon you better not be doing the opposite of my fusion

(jk the more the merrier)

[ivory olive]

oh no I wasn't gonna, just looking for Anoriths to do, saw this, and thought it was funny

[hollow gull]

I could do the opposite of my fusion

[ivory olive]

make it dab, I dare you

[hollow gull]

I will make it a scary bug

Or I won't make it

You're not my real dad

[plucky arch]

hey who wants to singlehandedly fuck over the voltorb economy with me

[hollow gull]

[ivory olive]

is it not already fucked?

[plucky arch]

i mean im p sure im the only one doing it

and ive done 2

[hollow gull]

Oh fuck I'm gonna get littlest cup I think

I won't but maybe I will

Just had a badass baby idea

[distant sedge]

think imma cause chaos and create wynauts

[tall moss]

i love youre all saying im gonna make [name]S

fucking yourselves over for the least used mons award here

[distant sedge]

why not?

[midnight pumice]

Kiwi pls answer my question in #sprite-charts

[hollow gull]

Seel

[ivory olive]

huh

[deft kite]

if i win im spending my winning on a fortnite skin

[tawdry oak]

Please Disqualify this man

[deft kite]

https://tenor.com/view/goku-fortnite-get-griddy-dragon-ball-dragon-ball-z-gif-26491049

[tawdry oak]

He needs to learn how to money

[silver solar]

If i win I’m probably buying video games

[plucky arch]

entry 12 complete

honestly pretty proud of it

[tawdry oak]

[livid stratus]

anyone familiar with how kiwi runs contests able to tell me if my submission wont get disqualified?

[tawdry oak]

Rules in #special-contest

[livid stratus]

I know the rules

[ivory olive]

if I win imma just ask that Kiwi donates it to the Trevor Project, I don't need money

[livid stratus]

im pretty sure mine is good but I want a second persons opinion

[tawdry oak]

If the sprite complies with the rules then it won’t be disqualified

[livid stratus]

thanks captain obvious

[plucky arch]

well whats your sprite?

[silver solar]

I’m a grown adult. It’s fine if i use extra money to buy things to make my adhd happy

[livid stratus]

I dm'd it to you, since im pretty sure we arent supposed to post out contest sprites here?

@plucky arch

[plucky arch]

Rule 7 has been obliterated has it not?

[livid stratus]

oh right nvm

[plucky arch]

at least for this contest

[livid stratus]

missed that

[silver solar]

Yeah it’s fine to discuss as long as it’s not bashing on sprites or trying to get votes for yourself

[ivory olive]

the politics rule?

[livid stratus]

ok, then ill ask here. Do any of you think this is toeing the line of the no kaiju meta?

[plucky arch]

the contest rule

[ivory olive]

ohhh

[tawdry oak]

Fair

[plucky arch]

i mean thats just Onix's normal size so its good

[ivory olive]

well Onix is already that size, so I think it's fine

[livid stratus]

ok

didnt know if it also extended to too much detai;

detail

[plucky arch]

id be more worried about the colors? idk how many there are but it seems like a lot of Greens

[livid stratus]

33 total colors

[silver solar]

Eh, as long as they’re all visually distinct and serve a purpose its fine

[plucky arch]

the moss feels like a clash against the very undetailed Tail Leaf and Rocks

[silver solar]

Mihht wanna add shading to the tail leaf tbh

[livid stratus]

k, tail leaf, maybe a bit more texture on the rocks

[silver solar]

Also be careful of staricasing

Wow i spelled that bad

[tawdry oak]

Star Casing

[plucky arch]

i believe the rule is more, 5 colors per, Thing

Outline, Highlight, Midtone, AA, Shading

but thats more a suggestion

[livid stratus]

i have a lot of greens, like 3-4 for the leaves, and like 10 for the moss, mostly because I took some of the moss from something else

i can probably cut 2-4 of them

[plucky arch]

see how that looks

[livid stratus]

ok

[silver solar]

Yeah when i was making dynamax spheal i had to cut a lot of blues

The water had so much

[livid stratus]

should I have flowers on the head?

[silver solar]

The flowers are pretty simple, wouldn’t hurt to see how they look there

[plucky arch]

anywho Contest amirite

lets get to 500 and drain kiwi's wallet even more

[tawdry oak]

[silver solar]

Oh yeah I should probably dump my babies in spritework questions one last time before they either get feedback or galleried

[plucky arch]

i can never get feedback

[silver solar]

Mood

[plucky arch]

one of these times im just going to purposely put in a mistake

[silver solar]

But hey, rezza didn’t see anything immediately wrong

I really do want a ping for feedback role

Would be so helpful

[plucky arch]

ill get no feedback when im done but when i post "WIP (THIS IS NOT DONE) ill get 5 people saying wheres the tail ?!?

[livid stratus]

cut the colors to 27

lol

[left shadow]

oh i think i see urs

i shall give

[tall moss]

yis this is 100% fine, limbs and other stuff poking out farther than the base sprite is alright, as long as the main body is drawn at the same scale (and yours just Is the base onix so its all good)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/543958354377179176/1006932376498229328/249.400.png

for example this is legal

(size wise i mean lmao, lugia isnt)

[silver solar]

Got my Vulpix spreadsheet done! Although I’m curious if the no qa seel means that fusion is disqualified

[valid nacelle]

That's Onix's usual size from what I've seen. I think you'll be fine. ^-^

[molten crater]

I predict that there will also be a stretch goal for the most used mon, just to elaborate the mind games further

[crisp whale]

So what I'm seeing is that if I make every single fusion of two unevolved pokemon in the next month then I get 15 bucks

[silver solar]

Its not worth it. Just make what you wanna

[crisp whale]

I mean it would be like 30,000 sprites

It's not just not worth it, it's impossible

I've made like 7 or 8 fusions

I can't do every single one

[silver solar]

Hmm, ok yeah making 1k a day sounds too hard for anything but a bot

[crisp whale]

Yeah

I mean, I'm a university student. I got other shit going on

Also I need to eat and sleep

[odd garnet]

Is this ok? I fused Duskull with a Wailmer so I made the body a bit bigger since... Whale

[valid nacelle]

I mean... Is it at least Wailmer size?

[tall moss]

if its duskull body it should be duskull sized

[odd garnet]

Dang

[odd garnet]

Also yes

[tall moss]

great sprite but illegal

[odd garnet]

ADJPAJSPAPOSJ JUST LIKE MY PONYTA

[silver solar]

That face

[odd garnet]

Ok I'll down size it

[tall moss]

repeated sprite crimes smh

[silver solar]

Keep the big one as an alt

[tall moss]

100% yes

[odd garnet]

I was too ambitious TvT

[odd garnet]

No
Big one will be the main
My submission for the contest will be the alt XD

[deft kite]

i love u for that kiwi

body sprite should be the size of the fused pokemon ❤️

with that being said im not eating my words here am i?

[turbid jackal]

my entries are coming along excellently

it's fine it helps his headache :)

[slow gyro]

Tbh this contest is really funny

I barely sprited little guys before

And they took me like, 20 minutes at most

[slow gyro]

I think you can exaggerate the body size for fat Pokemon like the Snorlax and Wailord lines

Not making the really big, but like, fat

[timid shore]

how. all my entries take like 2 hours on average

[slow gyro]

Ai am espid

The only problem is that I find it hard to get feedback

[silver solar]

Apparently you can ping blaquaza

But also, it’s scary to ping a mod

[slow gyro]

Idk if I have the strength to ping Blaquaza

[silver solar]

Same

[slow gyro]

I mean, they’re a really nice person

But sometimes I’m waaaay too stubborn and I’m like “well now I’m not doing it”

https://tenor.com/view/cpkc-gif-20657920

[silver solar]

I just cant help but be nervous because they a mod

[timid shore]

blaquaza is nice as long as you dont talk about spritework in spritegen. or be transphobic/homophobic etc.

[slow gyro]

Idr with which sprite blaq told me something I last three days just trying to make my sprite work just cause I didn’t wanted to lose to what blaq said

[timid shore]

i feel like he's been through a lot these days tho

[slow gyro]

Tbh I think I like everyone (in a friend way of course)

Even knuckles, I know he’s trying it’s best even though it sometimes be a bit rude

But that’s just how things are

This is a really good community imo

And im glad to be part of it

[timid shore]

ngl when i first arrived here i thought he was a mod too coz of his colour lmao

knuckles, i mean

[slow gyro]

Tbh Idk how he’s not, he’s literally a mod without being a mod

[plucky arch]

Blaq is great to work with, i did roughly 6 Togekiss heads, and blaq was super helpful (if i could have that sort of feedback on everything itd be so nice ngl)

im trying to remember which ones i made

[slow gyro]

Yep, blaq has helped me with a lot of sprites

[silver solar]

I think knuckles might just tend to be too abrasive in terms of feedback

[plucky arch]

i think, Haunter, Gastly, Corsola, Togepi, Gabite, and Qwilfish, while also ""sketching"" out Honedge and Doublade

aka i did a doodle in pretty much ms paint

and Rush actually sprited them

[slow gyro]

I just got an idea for a sprite that could go for both chinchou body and derpy

Tomorrow I’ll post to the gallery the 7 sprites i made for the contest last two days

Even more if I’m able to make more before tomorrow morning

[silver solar]

Oh same hat

I got 7 sprites to gallery

[slow gyro]

I wanted to post them today, but got way too busy traveling and barely got time to sprite

[plucky arch]

7? Rookie Numbers

[pastel hollow]

legit ive been working on some higher evos tonight and they take like. four times as long 😭

[plucky arch]

im at 12, 1 in WIP and one that i made before realizing it had a sprite (Sunkern/Diglett)

[timid shore]

what nooo that idea is so good!

[plucky arch]

ive wanted to do it since before the contest, and this one came up and so i did it, but then realized there already is a custom

but i did it anyway cause id already finished one

[timid shore]

it'll definitely win in mainspritevoting

[plucky arch]

oddly Azurill/Riolu and Misdreavus/Shellder have also kinda been on my "to do list" for a while

(technically Marill/Lucario but eh whatever)

Misdreavus/Shellder has been rattling around in my mind since December i think

i had it in a playthru a while back

[timid shore]

misdreavous/shellder. i couldnt even imagine how it'll be like. using the pearls on misdreavous maybe?

[valid nacelle]

Speaking of Azurill, I may or may not of gotten a funny idea for a fusion starring Honedge...
(W.I.P. by the way. I just had to when the idea hit me...)

[plucky arch]

i mean hes already done and in the gallery if you wanna check

[slow gyro]

I usually post like, 3 daily, and usually full Evo

But I’ve been really busy this days

[plucky arch]

i post one a day usually

and i mean ive been doing that for, 87 days so far

at least one

except that time i posted 10 voltorbs in a day

(keep in mind ill make like 7 one day and then post em thruout the week i dont make one sprite a day)

i have a Backlog

[silver solar]

I plan to go back and do full evo lines after little cup

At least make sprites to replace autogens

[plucky arch]

i could never

[silver solar]

I am not making a new aggron/arbok. I love that one

[plucky arch]

thinking about how Mope7 just pops in, posts the entire evo line, both sides, of like some Jynx fusion, and then leaves without elaborating

[silver solar]

I just hate having gaps in the evo lines

[plucky arch]

thats fair

im always glad when people do it if they have a distinct style

like again, Mope7

[silver solar]

I did it for my glameow and purrugly alts because, who else would

[plucky arch]

he'll come in and do 12 at once just so it stays consistent thru the full line

[silver solar]

Ofc now that whole line is sprited only as alts lol

[plucky arch]

and usually if im making a sprite for a team ill try working off the evo line

like for Qwilfish/Typhlosion it was already done, so i did Cyndaquil and Qwilava and had kept the purple bubbles on Typhlosion

or Voltorb/Tangrowth (or even Drifblim)

[silver solar]

I might see if anyone else plans to do the rest of the evo lines for anything me and someone else did

[silver solar]

Its so much easier with a single stage

But like, the baby x baby fusions. There’s probably gonna be a lot of doubles

If someone else wants to finish the line that leaves me less work on finishing lines

[slow gyro]

Mope it’s like, god

Mope works in mysterious ways

[odd garnet]

Smaller

[deft kite]

yes agreed, i just dont like overly big pokemon fusions thats all

[opal wadi]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Aegide/custom-fusion-sprites/main/CustomBattlers/54.68.png

[teal grove]

Im disappointed really

I expected them to all be revealed and we'd get more choice awards the next time

Guess im still recovering from the gamr's honest thoughts contest

[slow gyro]

Flashbacks on my giant kaiju fusions

[odd garnet]

Me right now

https://tenor.com/view/emotional-damage-gif-24390252

I found an amazing combo

Started making the sketch and am feeling good about the sprite

Realized I forgot to check the Spritework gallery

2 PEOPLE MADE ONE THIS MONTH!!!! AASAHADAPODJASJPAJSDPAJPOSJASJAPJSAPOJS

[plush vale]

are alts eligible? if so do a hisuian+alolan variant

@odd garnet

[odd garnet]

TAT

NO
WE CAN NOT SUBMIT A COMBO THAT WAS SUBMITTED IN THE SPRITEWORK BEFORE THE CONTEST STARTED

[plush vale]

oof

use growlithe? idk

eev?

houndoor?

[odd garnet]

I'll think of something

I'll just finish this another time

[teal grove]

Another sketch done

And i know exactly what mon is gonna win the least used mons award

[frail vortex]

Bellsprout?

[teal grove]

Im not gonna spoil the fun

But hey if i get my goal right ill have one fusion for every 2 mons we can use

So ill always at least have a chance even if im wrong

And rn ive already got 14 fusions, so 28 mons

[frail vortex]

Playing real tactical i see

[teal grove]

15 now

[foggy reef]

the comps were more fun when there were less people tbh

too many to appreciate 😵‍💫

[teal grove]

I agree

The first round is gonna be hell

[foggy reef]

ikr lmao

[teal grove]

Because you're gonna have to choose what mons have the highest chance of winning

~~Or you can sabotage other participants by voting on the opposite ~~

[foggy reef]

lmao I was just thinking about that

[teal grove]

[foggy reef]

but thats unsportsmanlike, nobody would actually do that, right?

...right?

[teal grove]

Solution: make all your entries absurdly good

[foggy reef]

[teal grove]

I want to get at least some cool characteristic in each of my entries

If they arent for choice awards, it’s for something else

Cool, creepy, disgusting, adorable, creative, dope shading, etc.

Funny

[foggy reef]

neat

[teal grove]

That too

I just hope to at least win something

[foggy reef]

i'm not really gonna go for any prizes, my entries are probably gonna get overshadowed by 300 other ones

i'm just here cause LC is fun

[teal grove]

I also have to admit that

They take a lot less time to make than my usual fully evolved klinklang fusions

[foggy reef]

mm

[teal grove]

So ill probably spend more time on the fine details, like i did with secret santa

[foggy reef]

you're probs gonna have a good run at that least used prize

nobody in hell is doing a klink fusion lmao

[teal grove]

Shhhh

[foggy reef]

[teal grove]

There’s already a couple mons that def wont get that prize

Chinchou and all the baby mons

[foggy reef]

yeah totally

I'm thinking the starters might be fair game

||chikorita|| would probs be a good candidate

[teal grove]

Caterpie and weedle also are prime candidates

And rattata too

[foggy reef]

true that

I'm gonna accidentally make so many rattata fusions lol

you know an incredibly slept on choice?

||anorith||

it would make some rad fusions

[teal grove]

Nah, i know quite a few people who are gonna do anorith

[foggy reef]

srs?

[teal grove]

Me included

[foggy reef]

damn

oh cool

[teal grove]

I was originally gonna fuse it with scyther but i found a better mon to fuse scyther with so im still lookin

I know i can do scyther twice but u want variation

[timid shore]

anorith is seen as a challenge so people wanna go for it

[foggy reef]

darn

[timid shore]

least used has to be something not least expected too

[foggy reef]

true

[timid shore]

something overlooked

[foggy reef]

I have my pick, I aint telling tho B)

[timid shore]

ironically i feel that sprites that already have lots of customs before this contest could be a good fit for least used award?

simply cos there's less eligible fusions available.

[foggy reef]

true!

[timid shore]

brb finding some bulbas that still dont have customs

[foggy reef]

hehehe

[pastel hollow]

[foggy reef]

big brain move tho

making a crapton of fusions for a certain mon, driving people away from using it, then deleting all but a few to make it unique

[odd garnet]

I still don't know if we're allowed to submit alts
I have 4 alts submitted since no one gave me a proper yes or no yet Lol

[teal grove]

Least used would also be something most overlooked

[teal grove]

Just dm kiwi

[odd garnet]

I already pinged her xD

[teal grove]

This chat gets covered in 5 seconds, if you want her to see it you're best off dm'ing her

Finished another sketch

Last one for this morning

Im at 16 fusions rn

32 mons out of, 140-something

[fading lodge]

I was able to complete a prevo for a sprite I did for a previous contest.

[deft kite]

something something something "vote for my sprite its the best" something blah blah something

:)

[near horizon]

I did this with my Krabby/Trapinch so i guess it's fine

[dawn ivy]

jesus christ people 300 sprites in 1 contest

[near horizon]

And we still have 27 days x)

[dawn ivy]

im not even gonna bother

[near horizon]

If we keep going 300 sprites / 3 days, we're going to have a hell lot of sprites x)

[dawn ivy]

im just wondering if there are even enough open fusions to go with

and whether they are just recolors (so to say) or go more to them

[pastel hollow]

oh, there are enough

[dawn ivy]

only fusions with no customs yet

[pastel hollow]

if the % done for baby fusions is same as the broader amount, there's like.. 30000

[dawn ivy]

ye im just not gonna bother lmao

[deft kite]

im a fan of ur fusions, u should do at least a couple

[dawn ivy]

poor contest managers

I wont, being buried in over 300 sprites is really not fun

i cant see the fun in the contests lately anyway

[near horizon]

"lately" it's been 3 days only x)

[pastel hollow]

its a ploy to get a ton of progress on the games sprites

[dawn ivy]

previous contests as well

yall are just moneygreeds

lel

[timid shore]

a majority will be gone by the first round of votes too

[deft kite]

i know guarenteed that mines aren't gonna win, but for some reason the fact that there's a contest makes we wanna complete these random fusions

[dawn ivy]

im happy the game got more attention and that people like to work on it, but the sizes of contests are too big for me to see any joy in it anymore

[near horizon]

Yup, there will be only 1 per spriter going through elimination poll

[dawn ivy]

and seeing the votes on my sprites in them lately didnt help either, its for my mental image to just ignore this

[teal grove]

[dawn ivy]

im just so amazed how you guys just pump things out

[teal grove]

Im poor af

[deft kite]

i got a total of 26 votes I believe across a few fusions

but we continue >:)

not 26. 6 >:)

[near horizon]

And i'm doing it because :
- i win money and increase my sprite quality
- i win nothing but i increase my sprite quality
so it's a win win situation for me

[dawn ivy]

fair

im a bit more competitive than i like to admit as well tho lol

so ye, to keep it fun ill just vote and stay out the rest lol

[odd garnet]

Is this ok?
Using an item to make the sprite look bigger, but the body of the custom sprite is roughly the same as the original sprite

[teal grove]

"Body"

[deft kite]

ah yes, that looks great

[teal grove]

Is this another klink/ponyta situation

Just looked it up, yes it is

It definitely is such a situation

[odd garnet]

Really?

[deft kite]

i feel like

it counts as kaiju meta

[teal grove]

It really is just a klink/ponyta situation all over again

[deft kite]

what was the situation with that

kiwi allowed it?

[odd garnet]

My Klink Ponyta has a base underneathe since it's supposed to be like a coin operated rocking horse ride

[deft kite]

yeah did kiwi say its g or

[teal grove]

That's your klang/ponyta isnt it

[odd garnet]

No
I'm gonna make another one for Klang ponyta
More gears and more Klang

[teal grove]

Either way, kaiju rule states that the fusion sprite has to be about as big as the sprite of the body mon

So there’s that

[odd garnet]

I'm just gonna play it safe and DM Kiwi about this first

[stray condor]

Wait does that disqualify the one entry I made so far? Drifloon/litwick?

[deft kite]

i'd like to think so

not in liek a rude way, but more like i'd assume so

[pastel hollow]

'no kaiju meta' but onix is allowed

still havent decided to pull out my lickitung onix

[limber venture]

Trapinch's lighter than 101010 outline is so jarring

[quartz locust]

I alone made two Chikorita fusions in the last contest. 😂

[quartz locust]

This isn't a rule that is enforced to any degree.

Oh, for this contest, it is. 😂

So yes, that. 😛

[cedar quest]

But it is enforced in the context of the Contest rules

Dang

I got beat to it

[quartz locust]

I realised the error of my ways quickly. 😅

[cedar quest]

Blaq too quick for me 🤠

[deft kite]

i feel like its okay for onix cuz its big tho, l and only onixes will be big >:)

but obv no bigger than the original onix aye

[lime belfry]

are we allowed to use custom bases or only offical/self custom bases?

[oblique sentinel]

So trapinch sand allowed?

If that’s the case it wouldn’t be allowed too

[lime belfry]

?

[oblique sentinel]

The trapinch init

The sand around it

[oblique sentinel]

.

[lime belfry]

yea but how do i know that sprite wasnt dq'd for it

[quartz locust]

Is there going to be some kind of Thanos snap phase where entries from each member get cut down again? 😮

[deft kite]

wym

[quartz locust]

Last time you could submit as many entries as you want, but then they were pitted against each other and only 2 per member survived. 😅

[limber venture]

Ye thats how it goes this time

[deft kite]

ahh interesting interesting

[timid shore]

i dont think there's any restrictions. 'cept for crediting the custom base used

[oblique sentinel]

I haven’t even posted all my yet

[quartz locust]

I'm a bit iffy about my own personal custom bases being used for contests, but I don't think any of them will be of much use here, anyway. 😅

[oblique sentinel]

Show me one I bet they’re insane

[quartz locust]

I don't think I have a full custom of an unevolved Pokémon except Happiny, most are just edits. 😅

[deft kite]

WAIT WTFFFF

since when was Cleffa a thing

i been making a clefairy fusion thinking that was the unevolved versionnnnn

[waxen mirage]

I think it was gen 2 that added cleffa? But it's probably not seen much by people

[timid shore]

it is gen 2

you're just like 20+ years too late

[deft kite]

broooo thats so irkinggggg

me and my homies hate baby pokemon

[timid shore]

tbh cleffa and clefairy are similar enough that if it's a head fusion you can just. edit the face a little

[deft kite]

its a head fusion but broooo 😠

I liked it better as clefairy 😠

[lime belfry]

you could post both, just using cleffa in the contest

[deft kite]

yeah thats the plan 🙂

[timid shore]

aww the cleffa has the better face angle to me

adorable

[deft kite]

[near horizon]

I think it's going to be only one per spriter

[quartz locust]

I mean, with the assumed number of entrants, that makes a lot of sense, but wow. 😮

[deft kite]

so wait, people are gonna have to vote between all of my sprites? what if I have a lot, is it all gonna go in the first round still

can 50 sprites fit in a single poll for the poll bot? 🤔

[near horizon]

Yeah so 1 in winner bracket 1 in loser bracket

[near horizon]

Idk

[deft kite]

I will put that to the test 🙂

[livid stratus]

Hey balquaza, can you take a look at one of my sprites to give me some feedback later?

[quartz locust]

This isn't the place to ask that, just ping me in the thread. 😄

[livid stratus]

Ok

Didn't know if pings were oo

Ok

Just saw u were on

Thanks

[plucky arch]

honestly its probably not wise to worry about choisnt at this stage im realizing

so much can change in 3 weeks itd be easier just to do it in the final few days

[buoyant bough]

@tall moss i just ran into something that i want to check - if a sprite has been posted to the gallery before (years ago), but that fusion does not appear in the game itself (i assume the fusion wasn't good quality and therefore was not added?), so technically the fusion doesn't have an in-use custom sprite even though there is one in the gallery, would that still be a viable option for the contest?

[tall moss]

weird, what's the sprite?

[buoyant bough]

spearow/spearow

#sprite-gallery message

but checked in calc and sprite pack and it's not there

i also ran into this with the exact same person again just now, same issue, v weird 🤔

the sprites dont fit guidelines so i do wonder if they were not included for that reason, but now it's a dilemma of not being able to do sprites that were already in spritework, but technically these aren't in the game so it's a grey area

[tall moss]

hmmm if its not in the game/packs its allowed

so feel free to make it

[buoyant bough]

ok awesome, thank you!

[tall moss]

up to 20 sprites per poll lol, if people make more then thst the sprites will be spread across multiple polls and we'll check which sprites have the most votes across all of em

[viscid dome]

How do I submit to the littlest cup?

[near horizon]

Read #special-contest

[viscid dome]

How will you know it is an entry? I just write that when submitting?

[near horizon]

You create a folder with your username and it's gonna be like this :

But always do a stop by #1050404143807873157 before @viscid dome

[viscid dome]

Ah so I have to put them in somewhere on the google drive somehow.

[near horizon]

Yes, you create your folder with your discord tag then put your sprites that have valid Spritework in your folder

[viscid dome]

Thanks, I dug around a bit and found pinned messages about this in the contest channel ❤️

[viscid dome]

Wound you guys consider this Kaiju meta?

[plucky arch]

yea

[silver solar]

Yeah thats like 1.5x the size

[viscid dome]

I've already remade it once with the "correct" lighting (not pictured). And now I have to make it tinier too.

My own fault for not being able to read.

[storm grotto]

We are all pokemon fans here, none of us can read 😔

[buoyant bough]

does kaiju meta still count for self-fusions? since those are often bigger than the original 🤔

[tall moss]

for this contest yea

itd be to easy to just make gigantamax self fusions for everything otherwise lmao

[buoyant bough]

tru tru haha

[tall moss]

made the rule clearer

[viscid dome]

And effects can do the same then? 🙂

[tall moss]

yis

[dusk schooner]

Solid 288x288 block of electricity

[plucky arch]

got my Pichu/Pichu fusion :)

[thick harness]

I don't think there's enough electricity there

[plucky arch]

sorry my bad

[viscid dome]

Thanks for the constructive critique guys

[plucky arch]

got it

[thick harness]

Hmm yeah I think that's better

Looks good 👌

[static heron]

Did some sketches

[dawn prairie]

theres too many chinchous help
might have to try competing with some other mains bc everytime i think of a cool chinchou someone already made it
(made in the contest, to be clear)

[amber dove]

how do i enter a sprite contest?

[dawn prairie]

for this one, you make a folder in the shared drive in #special-contest
then post any sprites you want entered there

[teal grove]

Yeah but uhh

Still kaiju for my tastes

[viscid dome]

Yeah I am doing everything from scratch so I appreciate the critique

[wanton drift]

how do u join the contest?

[livid stratus]

#special-contest

[wanton drift]

joe wanna hop in a call?

[livid stratus]

probably not right now, I have some work to do

for school

[late sequoia]

Hey @pastel hollow I was looking through entries and notice you have your Shuppet/Trapinch labeled wrong. It should be 405.392 instead of 356.392

[teal grove]

My work on the contest is put on hold for about a day as i learn how to make a whole-ass website for a uni project in just under 24 hours

[late sequoia]

Oof, gl.

[teal grove]

Thanks, ill manage. It's only basic html and css, nothing major

And as long as it looks nice, im passing

[hollow gull]

Hey look at me funny sprite I'm making

[late sequoia]

Ok, just went through all the entries to see which Pokemon have been the least used... it's interesting to see which ones have been used the least vs most

[plucky arch]

god i do not envy you

that sounds awful

[thick harness]

I was considering doing that but too much effort for me

[plucky arch]

(you should tell us the stats)

[thick harness]

there's still so long to go so yeah I imagine the least popular mons will probably change

[late sequoia]

I'm keeping the least to myself cause Underdog 😛 But the top 5 most used are

1. Chinchou
2. Trapinch
   3)Eevee
   4)Elekid
   5)Azurill

[plucky arch]

exactly what i was saying earlier, worrying about it now is so pointless, the final week is what its gonna count to

Trapinch is interesting

[thick harness]

Not surprised about Chinchou

[plucky arch]

have any mons not been used at all?

[thick harness]

I thought Mantyke might be up there since so many people seem to be making them

[late sequoia]

oh 100% and I did not do it in a way that I wont have to redo it. Sorta brute forced it for now. And yes multiple Pokemon have not been used

[plucky arch]

gonna watch the sprites Eb makes and copy it

smth tells me Pineco is going to end up in the bottom

even if you get money, no one wants to make a Pineco

[thick harness]

Or sprites that already have a lot of fusions made like Pichu or Gastly, since there's less choices for those pokémon

[late sequoia]

Yeah my next thing was gonna be comparing the least used with how many sprites they already have done.

[plucky arch]

ones that have current teams defo wont, but like

Duskull

Duskull might be skimmed over

[odd garnet]

I made a duskull

Funny ghost whale

[plucky arch]

best bet for Underdog might just

dont think

make completely random ones

[thick harness]

Yeah, i just plan on making whatever fusions inspire me

[plucky arch]

if you dont think youll end up doing the ones nobody thinks about

[thick harness]

got a second chinchou fusion lined up and then one of the baby fusions

and then i'll just wait till inspiration strikes

[plucky arch]

i might do a pineco honestly, just for my Self Chart, this way will be a way to force me

[teal grove]

Cross ||Feebas|| off that list, i still have to sprite it

[odd garnet]

Husk how many sketches have you made already?

And how many have you sprited?

[plucky arch]

the mons with the underdog are prolly gonna end up being like,, Teddiursa and Joltik, just random stuff

[teal grove]

1 sprite and 15 unsprited sketches

[odd garnet]

Wow

[thick harness]

If the underdogs teddiursa then i'm good since that's one of the two sprites i've made for this

[teal grove]

Thanks for the ideas

[plucky arch]

jokes on you i specifically chose ones i dont have any ideas for

[teal grove]

That's

That's even better for me

[plucky arch]

but now everyone sees Joltik and Teddiursa

[odd garnet]

I'm just making cursed ones now for the derpiest fusion

[plucky arch]

i have one for derpy maybe

[odd garnet]

I have 2 good ones for the Chinchou

I am not confident with my baby fusion

[teal grove]

I have 1 made specifically for the derp and two that are accidental derp

[plucky arch]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/882011946801569802/1090083731911475210/tyrogue_1.png

possibly derpy

[late sequoia]

Xeno your Azurril/Ferroseed pains me lol. Such a good expression

[thick harness]

ngl, forgot that derpiest fusion was a category

[plucky arch]

wasnt intentional tho

[odd garnet]

Lol thanks

[thick harness]

i'll have to brainstorm derpy fusions

[plucky arch]

yall want derp? go Wooper

[teal grove]

Yezh That's a really good one

I love the eyes

[thick harness]

I do have another fusion i'd love to do but I just can't think of the second pokémon that would allow me to make the fusion

[odd garnet]

Do derps need 2 eyes?

Or is one eye ok?

[teal grove]

That one shieldon/zubat does it without eyes

[odd garnet]

Cause I just recently made a Ponyta/Golett and I think it's a derp???

[plucky arch]

i forgot Zubat was in this

i gotta do a Zubat

i just like Zubat honestly

[late sequoia]

Yeah I got several I think I can pull off just for fun. Maybe they will be Underdogs, maybe they wont. Maybe a mix. You'll never know

[plucky arch]

ill just make 5 fusions of whatever you do and ruin the economy

quick everyone lets ruin the voltorb economy

[thick harness]

And support the voltorbs? No thank you ✋

[late sequoia]

Quick, ruin the shinx economy then

[pastel hollow]

Oh, I'll fix that, thanks

[late sequoia]

np

[knotty sphinx]

He may not be derpy and he may not be able to go to McDonald's anymore to get McNuggets, but atleast he is warm

[mint lava]

warm guy

[knotty sphinx]

Yes

Warm Guy

[pastel hollow]

trapinch is only #2 and not #1

[supple olive]

Did I make this too big?

[timid shore]

i dont have hoothoot's sprite on hand atm but i feel that its official sprite is a bit smaller than that

[hollow gull]

I think it's too big from like a general design perspective

There's definitely a way to fit all that detail in those exact proportions into a smaller thing

Which is the point of sprites

[supple olive]

Ok

Does anyone have the hoothoot sprite used in the game

[hollow gull]

#spriting-guidelines section 2: "how to get started"

#spriting-guidelines message

@supple olive

All of guidelines are extremely helpful for beginners

It's basically gospel

[supple olive]

Thanks

I assume I use the gen 5 sprites?

[opal wadi]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Aegide/autogen-fusion-sprites/master/Battlers/163/163.png

[supple olive]

Ok cool

[late sequoia]

Nooo, I just finished a fusion I was gonna submit for the contest, but apparently it was done the morning before the contest started. I forgot to double check the gallery before starting. Really liked how the perspective came out too

[supple olive]

I just started respriting I did not realize how huge I made it

[hollow gull]

Yes

[thick harness]

What fusion was it? Since you've finished i'd love to see it anyway

[late sequoia]

Since I can't submit it I still want to show it off. I used a Deku scrub to figure out the Horsea perspective.

[hollow gull]

Join the party bestie

[hollow gull]

Awww poor lil guy

[thick harness]

Aww that's so cute, i'm so sorry you can't submit it

[hollow gull]

Left of his face could use a little rounding

Only note I have

[hollow gull]

He's literally my favorite sprite I've made

[late sequoia]

hmm, still think I'll submit it to the gallery just not the contest. Maybe make it an alt since it's based on the Deku scrub and the person who made the fusion first made the entire line.

[teal grove]

Almost done with the website

Just gotta wait for my groupmates to write some shit for the last web page

[dawn prairie]

I had such a cool idea for mankey chinchou and it got taken after i woke up

[silver solar]

It’s still valid for the contest

Nothing made after the contest started matters for contest validity

[late sequoia]

^

[dawn prairie]

Yeah thats true
Worth giving a shot regardless

[teal grove]

18 sketches done

It's getting harder to find dope combinations of mons

[late sequoia]

There are still some good ones out there

[teal grove]

Lots of unreasonably funny ones is what im noticing

@foggy reef you dickwaffle

I had a great idea for tyrogue/azurill, but apparently you already did that one... FOR THE PREVIOUS LITTLE CUP

[foggy reef]

Hehehe

[viscid dome]

De-kaiju'd

Still working on it tho ahah

[thin dove]

argh, need to step up my game. had some stuff going on that made it impossible to sprite for a few days. still feel numb.
thinking of what sprite to do next...

[silver solar]

Hey contest people i need opinions

Which modernized colors looks better

[thin dove]

1

[viscid dome]

1 but with a bit darker shadow underneath?

Ahh but it's a limited palette...?

[silver solar]

I actually color picked from a tiny sword and shield sprite

Top is picked from tiny, bottom from legends

[crude cedar]

for the little kiwi cup , only baby if mons , right?

[silver solar]

Well there’s a choice thats only baby babies

[crude cedar]

nono i meant only baby mons that are in if

[silver solar]

But general contest is all first stages that evolve in if

I think the idea is no joke alts and using pokemon not in game counts as joke alt

[crude cedar]

awwwh

[late sequoia]

For the overall contest its all first stages that evolve, then there is a specialty choice award that is called the littlest cup that is fusions of just baby Pokemon.

[crude cedar]

i wanna ask skel'n but i dont wanna bother her

[silver solar]

I could certainly try to darken that. After a nap

[crude cedar]

@teal grove uhm typical question from me

but for the contest am i only allowed to use baby mons that are in if

[silver solar]

Once i get a solid mantyke recolor I’ll share it here in case anyone else wants to do modern color alts 💖

[late sequoia]

Yeah it's only Pokemon that are in IF allowed. Check out the rules in #special-contest

[crude cedar]

mmmmmmgh

grrrrr

grrrrrr

im so angry

[teal grove]

Boy

Like Eb said

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/926291667663859754/1089362194954719362/little_cup_comp_3.png

[crude cedar]

omg you called me boy 🥺

[teal grove]

These are the dudes you’re allowed to use AND they arent allowed to have had a sprite before the contest announcement

[hollow gull]

Woman 👹

[crude cedar]

individual :side_Eye:

[hollow gull]

Wait are you trans

[crude cedar]

nope

[hollow gull]

Oh ok cool

[teal grove]

So for example if someone made a sprite for charmander/charmander, you cant do a charmander/charmander for the contest

[hollow gull]

Woman woman woman woman haha

[crude cedar]

:(

[hollow gull]

I'm that one guy that purposely misgenders cis people

I'm so evil and mean

[crude cedar]

men >:)

[hollow gull]

MEN

[crude cedar]

uhm i use he / she / they pronouns

so

[hollow gull]

If you're NB then you're trans I thought?

[crude cedar]

im not sure

[hollow gull]

Isn't trans just - not cis

[hollow gull]

Awww

[silver solar]

I think i got it, a good modern recolor

[plucky arch]

its more a label you can tack on if youd like

trans is

i know some folks who arent cis but dont like being called trans

[silver solar]

Anyone feel free to use these sprites to make modern colored mantyke heads

[hollow gull]

Hmm

Damn it's funny to misgender people who won't be upset by it, but it's too risky so I'll stop

[silver solar]

(Modern colors would probably be alts but it’s also what most people think of when they think mantyke)

[hollow gull]

Sucks to suck, as it were

[round sedge]

It

[crude cedar]

uh ok?

[hollow gull]

Hmm

[crude cedar]

misgendering is not cool

[round sedge]

Huh

[hollow gull]

I don't like that

[round sedge]

Oh sorry i was pointing out a pronoun that could be used for wyags sake ig

[hollow gull]

This feels like a bad thing

[round sedge]

I wasnt misgendering

[hollow gull]

Ohhhhhh

[crude cedar]

it isnt , actual people use it pronouns

[round sedge]

Damn 😭 i make everything seem so much worse then my intentions

[hollow gull]

I thought you were using the incorrect pronoun on minced which is in fact lame

[round sedge]

Yes very lame

I am not bigoted

[crude cedar]

ok good

basic human decency slays

[round sedge]

In fact i am a very gay human being

[hollow gull]

I don't have like issues with using the correct pronouns or anything I just think it's funny pestering people

[crude cedar]

SLAY

[round sedge]

Especially transphobes/homophobes

[hollow gull]

So when I say something incorrect to a cis person it's like hah I'm teasing you hehe

[crude cedar]

MISGENDERING IS BAD (unless ur misgendering bigoted homophobes and transphobes)

[hollow gull]

But if they're trans it's like "oh god oh fuck I'm not passing I'm going to die in hole"

[silver solar]

Honestly it as a pronoun feels weird but, at least i know how to conjugate that word

[hollow gull]

So the little funny tease is not worth the potential pain

[silver solar]

Other stuff i gotta see how it conjugates by comparing to the other pronouns

[hollow gull]

Whatever knocks their rockers off, as the saying goes

[round sedge]

Yeah, it feels kinda dehumanizing but i will obviously still be supportive

[crude cedar]

neo pronouns wanna talk with you

[hollow gull]

Xey/xee doesn't make much sense to me but once again, I do not care if it's something someone needs to feel valid

[silver solar]

Tell them to get in the chart

[knotty sphinx]

What is a neo pronoun and why is it being discussed in #event-general of all places?

[crude cedar]

a neo pronoun is like , instead of he him its xe/xur

or sei/jur

[silver solar]

Neopronouns are basically ones other than what you were taught in school

[knotty sphinx]

What

[round sedge]

Xe/xur salad

Caesar salad..

Get it

[knotty sphinx]

Lol

[silver solar]

I need a chart to conjugate because i need to compare them to the pronouns i already know

[knotty sphinx]

Salad

[crude cedar]

pick/me

[silver solar]

Neopronouns are valid tho. They’re just harder to pick up on because they weren’t taught in school

[tall moss]

my fave neopronoun is "em" because its just "them" but shorter and i am a lazy typist

[torn dawn]

I think with neo pronouns it’s just the matter of getting used to it

But that’s like constructive cognitive schema thinking

The strange and alien is always considered weird and maybe even „potentially dangerous“ and gets alienated until you’ve incorporated in your schemata and it’s normal and completely fine

This is why representation matters

For whatever is considered alien or weird

Make the bigoted watch Drag Race is all I’m saying

[hybrid shell]

wait whats the current contest goin on?

[late sequoia]

#special-contest Kiwi's Little Cup 3

[hybrid shell]

oho

ok Ill do that ig

[near horizon]

How much entry is there?

[late sequoia]

When I checked this morning (10ish hours ago) there were 353 entries. So somewhere between there and I'm guessing 400?

[weary pagoda]

making a quick check, hold on

we got 381

best number

[late sequoia]

Nice and it looks like 109 individual contestants though some folders are empty.

[thick harness]

oh god; that means assuming that most of those contestants submit at least two sprites we'll have about 100 polls just to determine each participants top sprite

[wide knoll]

[digital valley]

knowing some people have made over 10 sprites

[pastel hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/troy-community-room-fire-pizza-gif-5612111

pollbot out here like

[late sequoia]

Pretty much

[wide knoll]

we still have like a solid month

[late sequoia]

yep

[wide knoll]

for people who can make 1+ sprites every day, theres gonna be a lot of stuff to vote on

[digital valley]

I’m probably stopping where I am (6 entries). If I do make more it’ll be because it was something I did and then remembered it fit the contest after the fact and figured I’d submit

[wide knoll]

after my axew/lickitung, im only doing more if i get a sudden strike of motivation and a good idea

[hybrid shell]

yep, and Ima do as many as I can

[fading lodge]

This contest had me do a sprite I felt I should have done a while ago. I wonder if I have any other prevos to make.

[slow gyro]

I just uploaded 9

[weary pagoda]

(props on you

[cerulean ice]

I've madeeee five? I can't make any more until I complete their evolution lines. XD

Not doing full lines before posting kills me.

[valid nacelle]

Done 4 so far. One going through a full rework after realizing people would struggle figuring out which one was the head.
I've been learning a lot when it comes to making sprites too!

[pulsar rampart]

so im kinda confused for the contest rn-
is it like, baby mons only? or all first-stage evolutions?

[plucky arch]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/926291667663859754/1089362194954719362/little_cup_comp_3.png

you can use any and all of these but only these

[pulsar rampart]

aw, ok

thanks

[late sequoia]

Another 'mon knocked off the not used list

[supple olive]

I was about to say "only these??" Til I realized that that IS every 1st form pokemon

[plucky arch]

so either Horsea or Oddish, got it

presumably Horsea, considering team Oddish is going on

[late sequoia]

Who said I was the one who made it?

[pastel hollow]

are you calcing exclusively off of what's already in the google drive?

[late sequoia]

No I used that to generate the list but I've kept tabs on spritework for seeing if any of the missing ones have been done

[pastel hollow]

interesting

[plucky arch]

hmm could be Tangela or Growlithe then

Mope7 moment

both of which i could see

[late sequoia]

I lied, hadn't checked gallery in a bit I think they all have been used now

[plucky arch]

someone needs to do Google Sheet magic and create a sheet that has tabs of how many each fusion has

[late sequoia]

yep all have at least one entry

I have a very rough one from this morning but that was strictly from the drive and not from gallery/spritework

It's also one I can't update since I just brute forced the data (tallied each pokemon fusion by fusion).

[plucky arch]

idk how sheet stuff works

im sure theres some way so that it automatically updates when the drive does

[late sequoia]

yeah idk scripting for Sheets. If I had access to Microsoft Office suite I know how to set up an Access data base and run queries with it. With the master sprite sheet it shows that Sheets probably has the same capability I'd just need to learn how

[pastel hollow]

just on vibes i'm gonna guess Rhyhorn, Tentacool, and Parasect as least represented pokemon

i dont care about winning so I'm just gonna do that to anyone who was relying on those >:3

im 100% every pokemon has at least 2-3 sprites that are LC valid in spritework by now

unless i missed something obvious

[odd garnet]

Parasect definitely will have 0 entries

[pastel hollow]

er, is it Paras? I mix up the names

lol

yeah its paras

[odd garnet]

https://tenor.com/view/paras-pokemon-spore-mushroom-crab-gif-24533007

[pastel hollow]

i blame pidgeot line for making it hard for me to trust names

why is pidgeot after pidgeotto???

[fading lodge]

Not every first form. First forms that can evolve.

[pastel hollow]

smh nintendo

[late sequoia]

Yeah I think so, the ones that didn't have any submissions into the drive this morning were || Spearow, Bulbasaur, Seel, Magnemite, Drowzee, and Pawniard || but looking at gallery all have at least a couple made in the past couple of days

[pastel hollow]

yeah ive seen some of all of those

[odd garnet]

Your name gets shorter later in life due to nicknames existing

Like
My name is Xenophacilus online
But later on people shorten it to Xeno cause it's more convenient

[pastel hollow]

ah thats why parasect comes after, its further from life

[odd garnet]

THE EVOLUTION OF NAMES

[fading lodge]

So... These are the sprites I need to make now? Too bad my Pawniard/Drowzee isn't eligible for the contest.

[odd garnet]

Lol kidding

[pastel hollow]

there are like 9 pawniards in spritework lol

[late sequoia]

Not any more, I didn't look through gallery/spritework this morning just the drive so really can be anything at this point

not to mention we still have just under a month so we have no idea how this could end

[odd garnet]

Kaiju Or not Kaiju?

[pastel hollow]

machop really is tiny huh

[odd garnet]

It's actually one of the bigger little cup mons TBH

[pastel hollow]

oh im looking and yeah it snot that big

its more that trapinch actually has a huge sprite and thats my mental reference lol

[plucky arch]

i found a solution to using Pineco

[molten crater]

using pupitar instead yeah

[fading lodge]

I don't think it's kaiju.

[shy river]

Hes a wide boi, but not kaiju no

[silver solar]

Stanced up

[teal grove]

I finally found a good mon to fuse with onix and it looks terrifying

[glad bough]

My Mankey/Paras (Pakey) is a great coverage sweeper

[glad bough]

Is it Paras?

[teal grove]

Nope

It wouldve worked well too though

[crude cedar]

Guys should I submit sprites with more or less aura or Is It too much?

[cedar quest]

The correct answer is more aura...if you're a coward* (*As in the context of the goal to try and win money)

More aura is flashier, but since Sponsored voting is only done by people with the Spriter role, people can absolutely ""call you out"" ((not literally by typing)) and just...not vote for it because you are just taking the flashy route

That's something you people should consider when making your sprites, Flashy =/= Great

[teal grove]

My take: if the aura isnt essential to the design/ doesn’t add anything to it, dont use it

Im of the opinion that special effects should only be added if they add to the design itself and not simply the "ooga booga special effects awooga sprite good" reaction

[cedar quest]

Exactly

Like this is the exact time of the day I would go full GHT on...someone

But hey, I'm retired from being a CM

[teal grove]

Can i take your place and go HHT on people

[cedar quest]

HAT

Husk's
Angry
Thoughts

[teal grove]

Husk's Awful Thoughts

Husk's Amazing Thighs 👀

[cedar quest]

I will re-iterate that voting is only done by people with the Spriter role in Sponsoreds, don't throw yourself into this bigger is better trap, participants.

Just because I'm retired doesn't mean I won't roast your asses

[pastel hollow]

Yeah, and this seems to follow through with voting results honestly. Flashy ones that do well do well because they're good in every other way too :B

[cedar quest]

Exactly

[pastel hollow]

clarified intent, silhouette, colours, etc are extremely important

[cedar quest]

Exactly!!!!

[pastel hollow]

a lot of sprites i see that get past the first rounds but not too much further have cool fx but are kinda hard to read

not gonna stop me from making overkill sprites though :BB

also in my perspective when you do want to have an sfx, it should feel 'internal' to the pokemon design, rather than 'additional'/'external', as a rule of thumb

and that's not literally internal, some vanilla pokemon like gastly, koffing/weezing, hippowdon, etc have some sort of thing outside of their body in their sprites

[thin dove]

ahh...the dichotomy
make more of what i love

and also

make a cool thing that does not feature the thing i love in it...(...unless?)