Spright Jham 12.14-12.21.05

[big brother]

I'd like to welcome everyone to this thread. Gentlemen...and the la-dy. Oh, you too, I didn't forget you. My, your eyeshadow sure makes that dress look pretty! In case no one reads the titles, this is a weekly character drawing competition, where the winner takes all. And by all, I mean the winner takes my job as host for next week.

Don't all pee your pants at once.

Since my creative well is frozen over, I decided to go with the first topic that stopped by my head for a cup of tea and some hardtack. And since this idea coincides with the holiday spirit, may I introduce:

A TRAVELER!

Should you enter, you must pixel a character who is a traveler. Any time period is welcome, so shovel some coal in your imagination! Here are some ideas to spark that fire:

Things a traveler might have
Snowshoes
Mukluks
Hiking boots
Boots with fur trim
Uggs
Pancho
Safari hat
Extra cell phone battery
Backpack
Icepick
Climbing gear
Water purifying tablets
Dutch oven
Sunglasses
Sunblock lotion
Condom
Baked beans (canned)
Mosquito spray
Mutant repellent
Foreign phrasebook (pocket-sized)
Traveler's cheques (duh!)
Garlic and a wooden stake
Swiss Army knife
A sidekick

Things a traveler wouldn't have
A tutu
Chinese porcelain tea set (with blue flowers)
Self-respect

Restrictions
Max size: 128x128
Max colors: 32
Max bribe: $1,000 (cash, please. I want to keep this below the IRS's radar)

Get to work, people!

[Mordalles]

i'll get the ball rolling:

the traveler that brings death. hope you never meet him.
128x128, 9 colours.




NO PAINTOVER, NOT TRACED, with a MOUSE.
i used a painting that i had on my pc as reference. some of you might have seen it before, especially if you've been in the diablo 2 lod circles.
the original pic's title is "death dealer".
i realised i never really drew a horse myself, and i wanted a horse in it, since the restrictions are 128x128, so i started to search for horse reference, lucky i remembered about this pic.
edit: thanks, bb. here is the reference pic. same pose, lost the shield and sword.
http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/4122/death8tl.jpg

(not an entry. cant really take credit for frazetta's excellent work)

[scourge]

I enter NOW!

The Banished Travelers:
Once in a far off kingdom there lived a princess. In the king's forces were a berzerker. His frenzy was fatal to enemies and opposing armies feared him as he was known as the "red fist of a thousand teeth". He brought the king many victories. Until the day he lost control and he killed an allied knight of royal birth in his rage. The king banished him, and so too the princess as she would not see him go. She is the only one that can calm his anger.

So she is the traveler with the escort berzerker. Together they travel in foreign worlds never to return. Bleh. 3x 114x120 26 colors.



Mordalles: WOW! :o that is the most amazing thing i've ever seen! I am being totally serious and unbiased! My goodness!

[big brother]

Mordalles: Wow, it's about time someone entered a Frazetta classic! Is there a reference pic you could post?

[Redwall]

(3x; 40x100; 20 colors; reference pics: 1, 2, 3)

A Prior missionary from Stargate.

[Chicky]

Ace redwall!

[Ubel]

Buna goes for a travel! For those who don't know, Buna is one of my game characters.

Size: 45x94
Colors: 27 + transparency

[Eggie]

Buloght makes my tongue explode with sheer joy.

[Tiki]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/TikiTikiMan13/rocketeer.gif


31 colors, 128x128.  2 hours. 

As for reference, http://library.sdsmt.edu/friendsvideos/rocketeer_front.jpg

Personally, haven't read The Rocketeer, only watched the movie.

[Squinky]

I remember that movie, even have the movie adaptation comic book thingy. Good sprite!

[Gregjazz]

Trying my hand out at art...




Even with his blindness, Thomas Von Uberschnitzel III had no problem with his world tour.

Uses 13 colors including black and white. (white is only used as the background color)

Drawn in Paint.

[munchiez]

Tom Baker as Dr. Who, everyone's favourite time traveller!

124x119px, 24 colours

[esper]

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

NONOOOO, PLEASE, NNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Mine's more cartoony, and has K-9.

[Gregjazz]

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

NONOOOO, PLEASE, NNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pwned.

[munchiez]

And there's me thinking I had a really original idea! Great minds think alike I guess

Love your Doctor btw

[vict0r]

Am i the only one that thinks Espers drawing looks like himself?

EDIT: I forgot to post my entrance
I bring forth... The mysterious traveler!!! And his trusty sidekick!

[Nikolas]

Am i the only one that thinks Espers drawing looks like himself?

esper has nothing to do with his picture, nothing at all... sorry for that... get back to work now...

And I might enter myself, since Geofkhan did...

EDIT: Yes! I did enter! check the next page! I'm making noise, since this is my very first entry at the sprite J(h)am!!!

[Gregjazz]

And I might enter myself, since Geofkhan did...

I thought you might.

Please do, though. That'll be cool--getting all the musicians to enter art competitions. After all, there is only one music comp and several art compititions.

[sportyjay]

I'm excited because I have finally gotten around to finishing a sprite and entering it!
And here it is, in

16 colours;
80x114;
3 hours pixel work in MSPaint!

And 2x:


Thanks BB for the help and your great topic which inspired me so.

EDIT: Holy crap Mordalles! :o I have no chance! :'(

[esper]

To survive? Make your time?

Yeah, I thought I was going to vote for Mordy, but I have a new favorite now...

"Would anyone care for a jelly baby?"

[Phemar]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/zor/grim.gif



The DEATH traveller!

[Nikolas]

The Ultimate traveler! Crosses half the world! And then goes back!

126x106

18 colours + background





Of course I took it from a picture which is here

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/goose2.bmp

[Phemar]

Nikolas, nice sprite, but you should crop the ref pic or make it a GIF because it takes ages to load!

[mozza]

To survive? Make your time?

Yeah, I thought I was going to vote for Mordy, but I have a new favorite now...

"Would anyone care for a jelly baby?"

What do you mean?

[Nikolas]

Zor: I thought about it, and this is why I gave the link and not the actuall picture.

(sshhhh... I was too lazy...)

[esper]

Mozza: Sportyjay said "I have no chance," and I finished the statement using the well-known lines from "All Your Base Are Belong To Us." "How are you gentlemen? All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time."

Then, I said I would originally have voted for Mordy, because the Pale Rider is just too bad-ass. However, after seeing a certain person post the same character that I did, only much better, I assured that my vote would undoubtably go to him, using a popular line from that character.

[Redwall]

Sprite jam winners aren't voted for, though.

Nikolas: Why not an arctic tern? They cross the whole world and then go back.

[Tiki]

You don't vote in Sprite Jams, silly.

Edit:  crap.  I've been beaten to the punch! .. 50 minutes ago ._.
Now how did that happen?

[gameboy]

Well I made a guy who's lost and he's looking at his map.
Here:

[Krysis]

2x

17 colors, 120x64

It's the one and only dr. Who! I know, I know, it is the third one in this tread, but i've allready started drawing it and didn't want to make another one.

EDIT: Ohh, I forgot to tell that I used Esper's avatar for reference. I hope I don't brake any rules.

[scourge]

Some excellent entries! That's brilliant krysis

[esper]

DOCTOR WHO HAS TAKEN OVER THIS THREAD!!!

And I think we all know which of the Doctors both past and present is the most popular...

[Kweepa]

It's arctic explorer Magnus Sanchez and his armadillo.

[ElementalWhite]

It's the Elemental Blue Traveler.

[Darth Mandarb]

A Traveler;


Anybody who gets it ... you're my kind of person

[Nikolas]

Oh God! And the minute I saw your name in this contest, I thought to myself two things:

1. This contest for some reason does not have 2 screenshots and will be locked.

or

2. We're all screwed! Darth is taking part in the comp!

Either way, I love your taste!

[MarVelo]

All the good ideas were taken so I just had fun. YO






Alien surface traveler. No further explaination needed. He is on his way to the holiday inn of his home world. 17 colors! gotta love PAINT

[TheYak]

A Traveler;

It was awfully kind of them to squish it down to an easily portable size like that.  Excellent likeness.

[Renegade Implementor]

It's the Doctor with the TARDIS.
x2
84 x 125, 32 colours.

The Doctor's pose came from Tennant's original photo shoot.  The reason for the high number of colours comes from the TARDIS (and that's after abandonding the frosted windows and reworking the colours somewhat).  The Doctor himself is only 35 x 90 and 21 colours.

[Pesty]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/pestilence42/lyra_iorek.gif

65x117px, 31 colors, 1 transparent

I am not very happy with it, but I will enter it anyway. It is Lyra and Iorek Byrnison from 'His Dark Materials'. They travelled a whole lot! All over the place like crazy sort of travelling!

[esper]

@ Renegade Implementor: which Doctor is that? It looks like a young Colin Baker, dressed like William Hartnell, with Tom Baker's hair and Jon Pertwee's stance. And Sylvester McCoy's shoes.

[Kweepa]

It's clearly Doctor #10.
(The post even mentions Tennant.)
Pesty, excellent choice!

[esper]

Sorry for my American ignorance. In American TV, we have only ever gotten to see (as far as I know) Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Tom McCann. William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton were only ever seen in "The Three Doctors," for some reason Peter Davison and I think possibly Colin Baker were only ever seen on video (I listed Colin because I've seen him before, but I think it was on video rather than on TV). Christopher Eccleston's episodes were only ever available for illegal download. I've NEVER heard of "Tennant."

[switcharoo]

FYI David Tennant has only appeared very briefly on British television as Dr. Who (when Ecclestone (sp?) turned in to him). He'll be in a christmas special as the doctor and then in a new series in 2006.

[Privateer Puddin']

Also in a small bit for children in need.

[A-Hed]

Here is my attempt:

x1

x3

110x128, 32 colors + background color.

Im guessing that Swedish people will most likley recognize this character, but feel free to guess who he is. 

/A-Hed

[Nacho]

King Graham stealing something? 

[A-Hed]

You wouldn't have to be swedish to know that. 

The title of the picture contains the name of the artist

[ildu]

Hmm, Swedish people. Wouldn't have something to do with Grimm's Tales would it? They were German, though.

[voh]

The DEATH traveller!

Bobbin Threadbare! How you have aged

[Eggie]

A character from my webcomic,. Disguised as a gypsy. Traveller is another word for gypsy. So it's valid. It's valid!
The colours looked cooler when i was viewing it in graphicsgale. And speaking of colours...I didn't count how many I used in this...I doubt it's more than 32, though.

In other news, I am never doing another piece of pixel-art again.

Also:

Blown up:

and the original sketch I did with my tablet so I could get the pose right:


And now...AWAY!

[Krysis]

Hey! She looks like Elaine Marly! Cool. 

[Tuomas]

I am not very happy with it, but I will enter it anyway. It is Lyra and Iorek Byrnison from 'His Dark Materials'. They travelled a whole lot! All over the place like crazy sort of travelling!

Funny how I immediately thought of Lyra and the armoured bear when I saw this picture Before reading this text under it... Nice job Pesty, but somehow I always imagined the bear to be much bigger, compared to the girl at least.

[Eggie]

Hey! She looks like Elaine Marly! Cool. 

Yes...yes she does.
If I hadn't forgot a couple if key details like the purple lips and the giant earrings she would look EXACTLY like Elainie Marley...
And that's why I wrote her changing clothes into the plot.

[scourge]

hey nice job eggie and a-hed and pesty. This must be a record number of entries for a sprite jam.

[Pesty]

I am not very happy with it, but I will enter it anyway. It is Lyra and Iorek Byrnison from 'His Dark Materials'. They travelled a whole lot! All over the place like crazy sort of travelling!

Funny how I immediately thought of Lyra and the armoured bear when I saw this picture Before reading this text under it... Nice job Pesty, but somehow I always imagined the bear to be much bigger, compared to the girl at least.

That's why I'm not happy with it. I had a lot of trouble with Lyra, so by the time I was done and I realized she was too big, I didn't feel like fixing it.

Just pretend the bear is much bigger and we'll be in business.

[Floskfinger]

I tried to think of the ultimate traveller and came up with santa claus... He travells the whole world and give presents to all the little christian kids.


Unfortunatly I rushed it alot and it turned out pretty crappy

[Nikolas]

Not a bad Santa at all, but one could argue that because of his red nose, he seems drunk!

I know it is the cold and all, but that was he first thing I thought when I saw it! Sorry

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

I would think he's drunk, but more because of the bell...

I actually like the red nose-
"His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!"

[esper]

Santa in the Chronicles of Narnia was one bad mofo... I want Santa to bring me a sword one year... and then give me permission to run around using it...

[Squinky]

I would prefer a gun from santa. I remember thinking that while watching the movie. Screw getting close to those scary looking minotaurs, I would shoot them from afar...because thats manly and adventurous...

[Tiki]

You'll shoot your eye out!

[Squinky]

* Squinky covers his eyepatch in shame...

[voh]

With an eyepatch? You could be duo-eyepatch man

[Tiki]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/TikiTikiMan13/squinkypatch.jpg
Duo-Eyepatch Man

[Krysis]

LOL 
OK, guys enough with the offtopic.

[AlbinoPanther]

Who is the winner

[Gilbert]

It's not announced yet, just be patient. I'm even deciding on whether I should delete all these offtopic posts...

[big brother]

Ok, since time is up, I guess it's my turn to post some things.
As far as the contest goes, my secret criteria was "an original character". I know it sounds cheap, but otherwise it would be impossible to pick a winner.

We should prolly make a separate competition like a "Dr. Who weekly" or something.

A few notes:
Darth: I like your direction! It seems like every competition you enter you really can think outside the box!

A-Head: Your sprite was pretty, but I think it's a little too elaborate for a game (esp the specific lighting and the exterior antialiasing).

Steve: Some of those items look familiar.... Good work, though.

Buloght: I liked your sprites, but it looks like they're more ready to fight than travel.

Gregor: Charming. The character has a lot of personality, and strikes me as a Mr. Magoo sort (cane, hat, glasses). Definitely someone I could see getting into an adventure. Congratulations, you win!

[TheYak]

Nepotism at its finest.  Actually, based upon the Traveller theme, original character criterion, and usability I think it's a fine choice.  Congratulations, Geoff.

[scourge]

i thought this one was a toss up between krysis and darth.

congrats little brother.

[Gregjazz]

congrats little brother.

Little brother? I'm older than you.

[Nikolas]

Ok, little brother...

Now go on and start the new jham!

BTW. Congratulatios! I musician beat the hell out of everybody! YEAH! hihi