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Where is the outline?

LMFAO! JESUS OBI!

I don't understand how I can laugh EVERYTIME I see Lionel Richie in one of your posts... It's stupid, it's not logically funny, but EVERYTIME I can't help myself...

SOOOOO

I finally played the tech demo. Everything was perfect! I really like the look of things Ali.

My only gripe is that the speech quality was inconsistent. Not a big bother, though. Also there was a line of missing speech.

Other than that; I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS GAME TO BE FINISHED!!!

I think the only thing about him (the original and Mashs edit) is that I cant really tell where his eyes are, his jaw line, etc... I think you could up the contrast on his face just a little and still maintain the tone but also give him much more depth.

^^^ This applies only to the "small" version.

I say that you should go for it ghost.  Worst case scenario: Somebody gets a little bit upset.

I have to agree that i can't quite tell what it is. BUT! I would hang it in my living room...

Just me, though...

More Frames.

I really like his look and it's a pretty cool concept. Reminds me a little bit of "Monkeybone," maybe pick that up for some inspiration. I just think you need more than two frames per animation.

^^^^

Got this idea so I whipped one up quick... sorry it's not polished.




NEXT UP!

What women REALLY do in the bathroom.

I will be selecting the winner tomorrow and posting awards shortly after.

His right arm has no elbow.
His hands seem crippled. Why are they so bent at the wrists?
His hips waggle, so much so that they don't seem connected to his body.
His chin feels a little pointy.
I think the animation is being cut off (at his feet) and it makes a big difference in the actual-pixels version.

Other than that, I love this Indy to death. Good Job!

No more submissions.

Please review the voting guidelines in the original post and cast your ballots. You may rate as few or as many entries as you like.


COMPETITORS!
Please feel free to vote on your your competition, but be fair; this is a fun community activity, not a bloodsport.

(You may not vote on your own submission.)

I personally prefer the piratey nel! She's seems more like a character that's fun to play with!

Wow, nice entries so far! Diggin' it.

Isn't until Oct. 6th a little long for a normal Tune Contest? It's over three weeks!

The last several contests have been at LEAST 14 days. Anything under 20 days has 3-4 entries. The last contest was approx. 25 days. 

I figured with this time length it would give people enough time to be creative with their scene and also give ample time for making the actual song.

Examples- focus on the music, more than the scene itself.


A gladiator reveals his identity to the man that had his family killed, and believes him to be dead.
http://www.redbalcony.com/?vid=22535


The sky is slowly filling with clouds, the sun shines through holes in the fluffy white puffs onto a gorgeous swamp lake, filled with trees, lillys, frog pads and brilliant white mallards. A couple paddles into the center of our sight, in a small rowboat. A decadent southern bell in pearls and a frilled blue dress. A scrappy gentleman with an everday suave essence on him. They enjoy their time under the sun, and as rain begins to sprinkle them, they head towards the shore.

After docking the boat, the man turns, the woman blocks his way. They share an intimate moment, drenched in the rain. The woman realizes that she's given into the man and confronts him about why he abandoned her. He defends his honor, shouting in the rain, saying that he always loved her, he wrote her letters and she never wrote back. They stare into each others eyes after the argument, in the storm and succumb to their love-fueled lust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNKrCuPGtzY


An explosion damages a space shuttle, endangering it's re-entry. If the hull is damaged too much the shuttle will destroy itself on re-entry. No repairs can be made in-space and so the crew members decide they have no choice but to try and re-enter or starve and die in space. Upon re-entry a cloud of steam and atmospheric gasses shrouds the shuttle. The family of the crew members watch the re-entry live on television hoping their loved ones will survive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2KUh1Xl8k


A barenuckle boxing match with two blokes pounding the chips out of each other.
WARNING: Brutality and Cursing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2SqUEvtVyI


An FBI Investigator reconstructs a massive gunfight in his head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5DlpZiMZ0


Two brothers, who happen to be professional heist-artists (read: Thieves,) haven't had a job in a while. To kill time they decide to race. One in a truck, the other with a super-speed R/C truck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxClWgpq8Kg&feature=related

...more to come... (maybe)


P.S.  The description of the scene can be as long or as short as you like. Just keep in mind that the more vague you are, the harder it will be for most of us to picture your scene and blend the music you create to the scene you set up.

[There is NO time limit, for the song.There is NO format limit. As long as we can play the tune and grade it, you're good.There is NO reason to submit your piece anonymously. If you wish to do so, PM me a link to your piece and ensure that the place it is hosted at keeps you anonymous.Your entry MUST be submitted by, at latest, 11:59 P.M. EST (-5 GMT) on October 6th, 2008.]

Welcome to the n^th Annual Tune Contest. This time around I wanted to make sure that regardless of your instruments, style, or creative process-- everyone will be able to contribute. This means leaving the doors as wide open as possible, so:

There is NO time limit, for the song.

There is NO format limit. As long as we can play the tune and grade it, you're good.

There is NO reason to submit your piece anonymously. If you wish to do so, PM me a link to your piece and ensure that the place it is hosted at keeps you anonymous.

Your entry MUST be submitted by, at latest, 11:59 P.M. EST  (-5 GMT) on October 6^th, 2008.
_{Unless an extension is declared, of course.}


Without any further ado, allow me to present...

The Score

If you've ever seen a movie, you know how much the music effects each scene. It can make us feel scared, make a fight more intense, calm and soothe us, give a sense of scale, grandeur, wealth, and enhance any visual experience infinitely.

I want each submission to include a scene/scenario. It could be a fight you had with your girlfriend, a landscape pan in an epic western, a serious scene in comedic sitcom. Just post (or PM) the scene along with your song. Feel free to post the song first and feel free to post the scene first, or at the same time.... whichever.

It doesn't have to be a script, it doesn't have to be a novel, just something for us to visualize while listening to your piece. Just set up the scene that you're about to...

SCORE

Voting
Once every song is submitted there will be a period of voting, where I would like to ask everyone voting to vote based on these criteria:

1. Quality of the Scene: 1-2-3-4-5
2. Quality of the Song: 1-2-3-4-5
3. Quality of the Product: 1-2-3-4-5
4. Over-all Score: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10

1.  Rate the scene described on it's originality, it's vividness, it's power. Whatever you like. Just rate it on a scale of one to five. Five being the best end of the scale and one being the worst end of the scale.

2. Ignoring the scene, rate the song on how well it sounds, how well you connect with it, its imagery, its flow. Rate the song, like the scene, on a scale of one to five.

3. This score will reflect how well the song relates to the scene. If it's a touching scene between a father and his three year old daughter after his wife has just died and you don't really think the heavy metal blaring fits it very well (even if the song is very well executed) then give the over all product [the song and scene, together] a low score... unless, of course, the father and daughter just gunned down all the doctors because they poisoned his wife, they I will question why it doesn't fit in your mind...

4. Taking into account your previous scores and the way the other songs rate in your mind, assign a number one through ten. One being the low end and ten being the higher end. The difference between this score and #3 is that in #3 you are simply rating how well the song matches the scene, this score is the be-all-end all, how you feel about EVERYTHING. Theme, Tone, Pace, Connection, Imagery, Instrument use and everything else.

I am asking you to rate EVERY song in this manner. Once the voting process is finished I will tally the scores.

Example Voter One, #1+#2+#3+#4=X    X/4= Average Score One
Example Voter Two, #1+#2+#3+#4=X    X/4= Average Score Two
Example Voter Three, #1+#2+#3+#4=X    X/4= Average Score Three

Avg. One + Avg. Two + Avg. Three = Y      Y/3= Song Score


People that submit songs can vote, they cannot score their own songs, however.

Any questions?!

It's a little busy and the line going to inventory just bugs me (don't ask me why, i've no idea.) I love it, though; looking at each object in turn I get an easy understanding of what everything does. Ideally the purpose of each key press will be explained when it is required. I understand what everything does, but it's a lot to keep in my head, I need to know what it does in-game and why I'll need to do it. So a tutorial or interactive "how-to play" would be helpful, unless, of course, as the game progresses I will be told to do something and it will be explained how to do it at the first encounter... which is how most modern games do it.

I really dig this though. I can hone in on what i'm looking for, it answers all my questions and it's not bad looking. Being cluttered probably can't be helped much and other than that, I see no glaring problems.

Just a couple of major issues, for me:

The inside of the bar looks like its on an incline.

The sidewalk feels a little off.

The tables are identical.

The door inside the bar doesn't match with the rest of the room.

The building itself feels a little bland.

The lines on the road feel quite arbitrary.



An artist will tell you that it's not an interesting scene- colors- composition- shading, OY VEY!
I'm just trying to help you make what our eyes see make sense.

So that's all I have, really. It's a style that's easy to reproduce through out an entire game, and it's at least an easily recognizable setting. Good luck man and I hop I helped you!

AHAHAHAHAHA OMG I'M FREAKIN DYING!