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I like the style, both the room and the character are fairly unique.  

Suggestions:  

if there's something interesting in the room, light could be coming out from under the door instead of shadow (or animated flashing lights as if some experiment were going on).  

The style's good but inconsistent.  There are thick lines and thin ones, fine details and few details..  I would suggest picking either a vaguer style or a sharper style and going with that one for everything.  The result of the style mixture is that the char clashes with the background.    There's something else that is gnawing at my brain about the image but I can't put my finger on it.  Anyway.. originality is good and you've skill enough to put it to use.. go for it.

and *bingo* I think Timmy's hit upon one of the major problems.  Smart Arses..  I'm guessing at least 1/2 the results are the byproduct of someone thinking, "Well... I just HAVE to put this.. it's just too amusing.. even if it only amuses myself in some simplistic/moronic way."

Very nice.  The only thing I might add would be foreground details.  I like the style.  Between colors and shapes somewhere in the middle of Samurai Jack and Dr. Suess.  

I gotta go for woodz's.  The topic was college-campus and his was well-implemented.  I'm often biased against 3d stuff, but I think this would work nicely as a background with a touch of work and his also makes me envision a college campus more than the others.  

Apparently there just wasn't a lot of interest in this topic.  Or, people just didn't have time to kill this time.

Not that there might not be a person or two willing to help you, but since I don't remember another post by you, starting off with just a request and no intro or explanation is a bit odd.  

Someone may upload you one, but I severely doubt you couldn't find that on-line somewhere.

Happy day after B-Day!

later,
-junc

Remind me sometime to make a cleaner avatar of GIR for you..  argh.  

Very excellent.  The sense of motion in this image is just spectacular.

I love it!  Excellent cleaning up and detailing the image.  Very nice.  Guybrush looks quite a bit like I think he ought to.  Maybe he should be a tad goofier, but then again, in MI2, his nerdiness wasn't really in his apparel.

As far as the image, all I can thing of that's even slightly criticizing it is that it bears the slight blurriness of the resizing process in areas.  It could be slightly more crisp, but it's all a matter of opinion, I suppose.

The only thing I'd change about him would be seeing if I could fit in enough detail to make his blazer look too large on him.. like it was handed down from a sizeable pirate.  Other than that little thing (which is just personal preference), very very nice.  

Oh, and a hearty congratulations on your first Sprite Jam win!   Excellent job.  Now start the next..  now.  Now, dammit!  

Pardon the pun, but I may've been a bit merciless there.  I just wanted it to be clear that we (as creators in one medium or another) try and show respect to all fellow creators as we go.  I think there was some confusion in your posting.

And I assume mine wasn't over-subtle.    I later made an animated sprite over the image to demonstrate, but it was just too.. ...  crude (both crudely drawn and the subject matter).  Anyway, if we don't hear from Ali soon, I vote for Evil for his tribal sprite (actually liked the art of Squinky's a lot but liked concept for Evil's more).

Well, let's just hope Ali remembers the significance of the day...    If not, then I guess we'll hafta start voting starting tomorrow.  Maybe he's the type who doesn't wanna comment until the last day is 100% over.  

Well, at least he bothered to use a filter.  Looks like the watercolor one or something.

To Kikme II: The Revenge of Kikme;

Your sprite was well done.  Some of us are rather graphically-challenged and would've been quite impressed with your original posting.  Nobody could've called it a poorly-done sprite or crappy effort.  Even if you modified traced the original image for the later posting or used a paintbrush over the original layer, it still remains un-original work.  If you wish to post such a modification, please credit the original author.  

However, your idea (at the beginning) seemed a good one and well-implemented.  Don't feel scared off by our criticism, just let your own work stand on its own.  We've had problems with this sort of thing in the past and do not wish for redundancy.

Thank You.

Egad! Maybe I should blank out the wall section of my pic so I can qual as a sprite too.  

But yeah, the return of dickboy is at hand.

Ah, but WHICH hand?

It's not homestar runner... it's Load-Runner (especially apt if you've seen the animation)

I hate you last-minute entry bastards.  

I like the warped curve look to it, but it might be a bit too curvy.  When doing cartoonish warped drawings, the curves often serve to exaggerate the objects properties or proportions.   So, in the case of a bookshelf, you'd probably want it to go small to large from top to bottom to give it a looming, overwhelming feel.  Or maybe exaggerating the curves vertically to give it an about-to-tip look, depending upon what you're going for.  As far as the coloring attempt, I think it was an excellent job with very clean results and a nice color scheme.  If you want the bookshelf's proportions pretty much "as-is" then I would only recommend making the very top-most edge (as far as the drawing is oriented) less curvy.. maybe more of a sharp diagonal or two than an arc.

Very nicely done, sir.  Good quality, very clean.  Also very spritey.. looks like we have another serious contender in this jam.

One comment I have is that with corrupted midi files, cakewalk seems to do a bit better.  It will attempt to fix it most of the time and allow you to load it regardless.  Anvil Studio has an upper hand by being free, but I tried to edit a midi that played fine only to have no accessibility in Anvil Studio with it.

My post will not be very constructive.

I absolutely love it.  I think the only thing I could ask for is 1 or 2 more frames of animation to smooth it out a bit.  I love the concept and the fact that you can totally glean what's going on from simple pictures..  (I assume the alien is horrified by something he's found on planet Earth - A bunny rabbit)  It's wonderfully executed and I couldn't ask for more as far as hi-res, lower-res, more colors, less colors..   very nearly perfect.