Mike at BrashMonkey

Thanks for your patience, everyone. I'm about to unlock the thread.  Please make sure you've read Lucid's post (above) thoroughly before replying and though we will not censor, I'm asking and hoping we can avoid further accusations and arguments and hopefully bring this back to a friendly competition where only the quality of the art matters.

thanks again.
-Mike at BrashMonkey
 

Thanks for your patience, everyone. I'm about to unlock the thread.  Please make sure you've read Lucid's post (above) thoroughly before replying and though we will not censor, I'm asking and hoping we can avoid further accusations and arguments and hopefully bring this back to a friendly competition where only the quality of the art matters.

thanks again.
-Mike at BrashMonkey
 

Thanks for your patience, everyone. I'm about to unlock the thread.  Please make sure you've read Lucid's post (above) thoroughly before replying and though we will not censor, I'm asking and hoping we can avoid further accusations and arguments and hopefully bring this back to a friendly competition where only the quality of the art matters.

thanks again.
-Mike at BrashMonkey
 

Thanks for your patience, everyone. I'm about to unlock the thread.  Please make sure you've read Lucid's post (above) thoroughly before replying and though we will not censor, I'm asking and hoping we can avoid further accusations and arguments and hopefully bring this back to a friendly competition where only the quality of the art matters.

thanks again.
-Mike at BrashMonkey
 

Hi everyone,

I just locked this thread for a few minutes. Not trying to censor anyone..Edgar and I just want to interject in a few minutes with a potential solution to these current issues.
Please stand by.
-Mike at BrashMonkey

We (BrashMonkey) can't make any promises, because it depends on a unanimous agreement from all contestants..but it's possible the contest will be given a new, extended window for submissions, so you might wan't to finish this in the mean-time just in case. But again, we can't promise what other people will agree too, so don't do the work if it's not rewarding enough just to get it done... even if the contest does not re-open for submissions.

cheers.
-Mike at BrashMonkey
 

Hello, here¡s my entry for the contest. Hope you dig it. Had no time to create additional animations though. Any thoughts are welcomed.
See you guys around
 

Hello, it my Old Giant
 

We're a little late to the party but quite excited to present our version of an "awesome boss", Lord William GreasyWheel.
 
We had a few ideas and it was difficult to choose a direction since the theme was broad. But hey, that was half the fun and we're happy with how this little guy turned out.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we did working on it.
 
 
 
A lot of thanks to Brashmonkey for the awesome piece of software that is Spriter, and for this contest which was a nice distraction from our main project.
 
Keep rocking! Good luck everyone!

Here's our team entry: Yokai Monster Cat: NEKOMATA

Watercolor painting, to digital animation! Thanks guys!
 
 

I really encourage everyone to watch all spriter videos on brashmonkey youtube first and then ask questions about more tutorials because to be honest - everything was already explained by them in videos

"The Avatar of Mischief"
[Concept Art] - From 2D Sketch to Sprite Atlas
http://imgur.com/a/fVCGL
 
[Update] V2 up.

Hello. This is my entry for the contest: Creature Boss
 

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Here is my entry,  i cant record spriter cause it doesnt playback animation smooth enough so i recorded gifs with transitions
I hope i didnt broke the rules, im on dualcore pc now so i cant record screen without dropping frames.
 

This robotic sea dragon boss is made to mimic the NES 8-bit restrictions and limitations, so he'd be made mostly out of animated tiles with sprites used for various effects and details.
 
Enjoy!
 

Hi everyone,

We value everyone's feedback and we want everyone to have fun with the contest and to feel it's fair. Our plan is to have other contests in the future where we will likely try other methods of judging based on everyone's suggestions. For this contest however, it would be inappropriate and potentially illegal for us change the rules (or form of judging) sense the contest has already begun.

There are many reasons we went with this simple YouTube approach for our first contest.

1) It eliminates the need for individual official judges and potential perceived “conflict of interest”. We have in the past and still do work with and sometimes commission many members of the Spriter community to do official work for BrashMonkey, and it would have been terrible for them and for the quantity and quality of entry animations if none of those artists could participate.

2) Popularity is not only a good thing for Spriter, its a great thing for artists. Really popular YouTube or social media people who enter the contest will bring with them all their followers. Each entry will directly link to a playlist with all entries and will have carefully worded text in the description asking that they click like on the art of their choice only after having seen all of the entries, and mentioning that they can vote for multiple entries if they so choose. This should mean each artists creations will be seen by a lot more people than would otherwise be the case, and even if fans of a specific person click like on that person's entry, they might very well also click on yours. This means increased visibility for all of the artists and publicity for your art and whatever game or art project you're working on.

3) We intentionally chose a subject matter for the contest which is fun and very flexible.. which would overlap as much as possible with projects artists would already be working on... so that work you were already creating or would have to create anyway for your personal projects could be entered into the contest. This allows all potential entrants to decide how much effort to put into the contest.. the potential of winning is very real, but in general, one should only enter contests if the other, tertiary benefits alone would make it worthwhile (publicity, practice, excitement, or, in this case, free advertising of a sort for your project if you use one of its characters as your entry). This way, winning is a potential bonus and you don't feel like you've wasted time and effort if you don't take home the grand prize.

We hope our decision at least makes sense and that despite the potential for your favorite artist or yourself to not win, we hope you'll agree its still worth it to enter and find out - as well as to reap the other benefits, if you perceive them to be there. Also, the more successful this contest is (amount of exposure the contest receives, amount of participation, etc), the more often we can have contests in the future, which can explore new themes, new prizes, and new methods for judging the entrants.
One last note about the benefits of increased visibility. Don't forget, we have a community marketplace. If you are not creating the Boss Animations for your own project, you could put it in the marketplace and potentially sell your creation to other game creators for them to use in their games. The contest would be a great way to introduce your for-sale animation to a larger part of the game making community.

Cheers
-Mike at BrashMonkey
 

I made a fix for this.
Edit: My fix was merged. Just update to the latest version.

You already have them:

You'll find the Essentials in the following directory: 
<Steam Installation Directory>/SteamApps/common/Spriter/Art Packs/Essentials 
 
cheers.

Select the object you want a keyframe for and then click "key selected" near the top right of the timeline bar.

Very nice!  An excellent milestone.
 

Simple animations working   (arrow keys to up and down anim)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8mnhWOnho8nZ0pHTmZ6dVNiLUU/view?usp=sharing

Spriter has guide lines like Photoshop does.. if you left click and drag out from the Rulers on the side of the canvas. That can be handy.

Awesome! Thanks for working on this and sharing with the community. Please contact Edgar (Spriter's programmer) directly vial email: lucid@brashmonkey.com if you run into any issues which require technical clarification regarding the data format etc.
 
cheers.
-Mike at BrashMonkey

That's just a guide image