Creature Collab

[Kajenx]

NOTE: Please skim through the last few pages of the thread before creating anything. This is going to evolve over time, but I%u2019ll try to keep regular updates.

Hey everyone! I've wanted to do some interface work for a while, so I've decided to put together a bestiary of all sorts of creatures. In essence it'll be a library with pictures and text descriptions of each creature.

Concept
The game/animation will run a lot like a futuristic handheld encyclopedia would. The main menu will list the different creature types (I'll decide how to sort them out once the content is all created), and from there will be a list of creature names that you click to bring up the bio. The bio screen will display the creature's name and picture or "video" next to a text description of it. At the bottom there%u2019ll be a line that says "Entry created by: {Name}" with a text link to the creator's user page. All of the menus will be animated. (Check out my website for an example: www.particlasm.com).

Setting
I'd like the setting to be post-apocalyptic. The basic idea is that most of the people on earth are dead from disease or natural disaster, and strange creatures have taken over. I didn't want to come up with the exact story yet so everyone who enters can help with the final version if they want.

Entries
This is going to be a serious collab, so I won't be accepting penis-monsters and vaginafish, sorry. If you don't feel like writing a bio, that's okay, you can just submit the art and I (or someone else in the thread) can write something up (just remember you can't protest if you don't like the description). If you don't feel like drawing, but want to write, that's cool too, except you might not make it in if no one makes a picture for it. If there aren't too many of these, I won't mind drawing a few.

All the art has to be sent to me as vector art in a .fla document so it can be sized appropriately and doesn't take up too much room. I'd like to have a lot of entries. If you're feeling ambitious and want to animate, I'd definitely accept that, just make sure the creature stays in one spot and doesn%u2019t move around the screen. Also, no backgrounds.

The text portion should be included in the email so I can keep everything together. For this, try to keep it in 3rd person format so it sounds like an encyclopedia entry. You can include things like weight, diet, what cities it%u2019s attacked, where it originated, etc. I have an example below. There%u2019s no limit to length.

You can make a whole species, or a monster that is one of a kind. They don%u2019t have to be violent or evil, either; a spiked lava squirrel is perfectly acceptable. Just try to be somewhat original, don%u2019t draw a centaur or a dragon. Humanoids are fine as long as they don%u2019t look human (i.e. no elves; refer to my example below).

Mainly, I%u2019d like people to spend some time on the art. It doesn%u2019t have to be amazing, but if you draw a circle with stick arms and legs I%u2019m not going to include it.

This will be open until the file is too big to submit to Newgrounds or everyone loses interest. Please send .fla files to [e-mail] or you can IM me on MSN messenger at [e-mail].

Feel free to post WIP, ideas, etc on this thread, I%u2019ll be checking back for questions regularly.

Credit
Everyone who contributes art or writing that is used in the Collab will receive credit. There will be a credits page with links to user-pages, each entry will have a link to it author%u2019s user page, and I will collab everyone when I submit the file.

Example Entry

Name: Brockun

The Brockun is a massive monster made of seemingly solid stone. When it first appeared on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona, where a rather large settlement of humans still remained, people thought it was peaceful, though intimidating, and generally left it alone. However, when torrential rains struck the area, the creature went mad and rampaged through the already decimated city, killing hundreds. From that time onward, the survivors, having nowhere else to go, moved down into the sewers to deal with less intimidating monsters. The Brockun%u2019s name comes from a word the children made up to describe the deafening sounds of its footstep on the streets above.

[InkyBoy]

Sound like a fun little thing to do.

be right back with a pic

[MindChamber]

lol

looks like you spent more time on the damn rules than that wack pic.

[Skippt]

it really does sound like a fun little thing.

ill get you a pic within a few days

[Kajenx]

Hey, I like my rock man!! Don't come and crap on my parade unless you wanna show me up with something better. :P

[senior-twinki]

XD OMG lol

[Spamurai]

This sounds neat...here's a WIP of what I have so far...I hope you don't mind hand-drawn stuff...

[ElementalSoldier]

At 7/19/07 10:56 PM, Kajenx wrote: Hey, I like my rock man!! Don't come and crap on my parade unless you wanna show me up with something better. :P

You do know who MindChamber is right,and I'll be making an entry for this.

[Vortex00]

At 7/19/07 10:50 PM, MindChamber wrote: lol

looks like you spent more time on the damn rules than that wack pic.

LOL

I may do something for this

I didn't even read half the stuff in the rules tho >_>;

[Kajenx]

"This sounds neat...here's a WIP of what I have so far...I hope you don't mind hand-drawn stuff..."

That looks great, but I really only want to use vector art to keep the file small. If possible, please import it into flash and trace it. If not possible, we'll see, go ahead and post it anyway I guess. If the file get too big the .jpgs will be the first to go.

Yeah I know who Mindchamber is. That's why I put a ":P" smiley. Hopefully he wont ban me... :x

[thetravelingbassist7]

At 7/19/07 10:50 PM, MindChamber wrote: lol

looks like you spent more time on the damn rules than that wack pic.

somone just got rofled by a mod

[AwesomeSaurus]

This sounds very interesting, its just a shame you can only use vector art, alot of great creatures can be created in photoshop. Is there any way you can tell us the max dimensions so we could use PS instead? If not thats still cool and I will most likely participate. I like the whole "post apocalyptic" theme, very nice. If you are looking for some entrants, I could use this for the theme for next weeks "Creature of the Week" and see if people wish to submit to your collab.

[ElementalSoldier]

At 7/20/07 12:14 AM, AwesomeSaurus wrote: This sounds very interesting, its just a shame you can only use vector art, alot of great creatures can be created in photoshop. Is there any way you can tell us the max dimensions so we could use PS instead? If not thats still cool and I will most likely participate. I like the whole "post apocalyptic" theme, very nice. If you are looking for some entrants, I could use this for the theme for next weeks "Creature of the Week" and see if people wish to submit to your collab.

Yes I'll like PS to it would be easyer that way any ways,and yes that would kill 2 birds with one stone,and I could spend more time on one entry.

[Kajenx]

Alright, I'll take .jpgs too, but please make them nice and big so I can downsize them without losing the details. Hopefully it wont make the file too big.

[Kajenx]

I just realized that sounded confusing. Please make them big enough so I don't have to upscale them instead of downscaling.

[Kajenx]

Oh, and please make the background transparent. *Wishes there was an edit button...*

[ElementalSoldier]

At 7/20/07 12:43 AM, Kajenx wrote: Oh, and please make the background transparent. *Wishes there was an edit button...*

N00b question,how do you have a transparent bg on a jpeg.

[BitmapPirate]

Wow, I might actually make something for this. It sounds like a good idea, although the starter pic was a bit off. Either way I'll get started later on, because it's almost 1 in the morning.

[Kajenx]

GAH! Leave my rockman alone! I was trying a new style!!

Anyway, oops, maybe you can't transparent a .jpg. Whatever, just send me anything and if I can't get it to work I'll hunt you down...

[DJkazuya]

At 7/20/07 12:47 AM, ElementalSoldier wrote:

At 7/20/07 12:43 AM, Kajenx wrote: Oh, and please make the background transparent. *Wishes there was an edit button...*

N00b question,how do you have a transparent bg on a jpeg.

It's not a really noob question. Most people don't know, but only .png's are any good at capturing transparency, and maybe .gif's... But with most of my work (unless its animated) i use .png's because they have no restriction on colour, as .gif's have a limitation of 256.

[Paper-Shadow]

Name: Shining Reaper

A discovered reality more than a legend, the Shining Reaper wonders the world, killing any living creature in its path. Named for his shining teeth, no one is sure where it orginated. A popular rumor says it once was a dentist who sold his/her body to the devil for immortality and perfect teeth, the devil agreed if he/she also became a reaper. When the Shining Reaper dies, it enters a body of a person it has killed, like normal Reapers, but its shining teeth go with him.

[ElementalSoldier]

At 7/20/07 06:14 AM, Paper-Shadow wrote: Name: Shining Reaper

You spent more time writing the description than drawing that didn't you?

[Paper-Shadow]

At 7/20/07 06:31 AM, ElementalSoldier wrote:

At 7/20/07 06:14 AM, Paper-Shadow wrote: Name: Shining Reaper

You spent more time writing the description than drawing that didn't you?

Mainly because I couldn't think of a name, but I think so...

[ElementalSoldier]

At 7/20/07 06:57 AM, Paper-Shadow wrote:

At 7/20/07 06:31 AM, ElementalSoldier wrote:

At 7/20/07 06:14 AM, Paper-Shadow wrote: Name: Shining Reaper

You spent more time writing the description than drawing that didn't you?

Mainly because I couldn't think of a name, but I think so...

I was saying thats not a very good drawing,by using sarcasm.

[Skippt]

draft

http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image =blisterxs6.png

voluntary detonation of boils containing corrosive volatile digestive fluids, no arms, uses legs.

consumption of pray through that stomach mouth thing i threw in there.

teeth on head more for mechanical destruction of flesh to disable foodstuffs.

whoa.

[ElementalSoldier]

At 7/20/07 07:18 AM, Skippt wrote: whoa.

Looks great for a draft and its original to.

[crazerfish50]

I'M IN!!!! I'LL POST SUMTIN LATER!! >:D

[Rock-Dido-God]

Here I did this in about 15 mins

-Andy

[Paper-Shadow]

Name: Common Mutati Virus (and Man)

The Mutati (M%u016B-t%u0101t-%u012B) Virus was first created in the Heath and Protection Lab in North Japan. Scientists were trying to create a gene to make humans quickly adapt to their enviroment due to an increasing number of viruses, but a miscalculation caused the birth of a new virus. The Mutati Virus quickly became airbone and infected most of North Japan. When infected, the host will lose control of his/her body and a unearthly creature will grow somewhere on his/her body and gain control. The worst part is that the host is awake throughout all the creature does. The Common Mutati Virus is dangerous but can only be spread within one fortnight of infection.

[ElementalSoldier]

People.spend time on your entrys,also he said make them some what big.