Topic: April 2015 Castlevania Dungeon Sprite Contest

[Shiroi Koumori]

Duration: From now until April 30th
Deadline for submissions: April 28th (11:59 PM PST)
Judgement: by tribunal and popular vote from April 28th to April 30th at midnight and Winners announced on the morning of May 1st

Volunteer Judges: Belmontoya, Kokushibyō

Theme: Take a monster, demon, or deity from any lore, and sprite it.
Prizes: Award medals for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.

Guidelines for Participants:
-Provide your sprite in 1x and 2x zoom at least if your sprite is small. (High resolutions sprites need not have a 2x version)
-The chosen creature cannot be in the series already
-Contestants may update their entries freely before the submission deadline.
-You may withdraw any entry at any time before the judgement begins.

Important info: Due to some controversy regarding the use of sprites from other members from our contest be sure to mention from now on if you want your final entry to be open-sourced or not. Meaning other members can or cannot use your sprites for their projects! (Just so we are clear.)

Guidelines for Judges:
-Judgement will use a point system.
-4 points awarded for your first place choice.
-2 points awarded for your second place choice.
-1 point for your third place choice.
-When posting your scores write up an explanation/critique of your judgement.
-Additional rounds of judgement will be used for tie breakers.
-Judges cannot participate in the contest.
-There will be a poll to vote for the most popular sprite and this popular vote would serve as an extra judge.

Entries:
Jop's Aho Aho 1st Place

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Ancient creature looks like a sheep so people can be confused, have sharp nails and devours people, the only way to survive its to climb a sacred tree (palm tree)

Jop's Tanga Tanga

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This creature isnt bad but isnt good, have a face of a Guanaco, body of an ostrich and the tail is a snake.
 Im bad in english so I will leave this in spanish, its the info of this creature:
 Personaje fabuloso que puede hacer tanto el bien como el mal. Tiene cuello y cabeza de guanaco, cuerpo de avestruz y cola de serpiente. Sus malos sentimientos se manifiestan cuando destruye las cosechas y se afana por prolongar la sequía. Para conseguir esto se traba en encarnizada lucha con Puyuspa, el nublado, su eterno enemigo. Recorre las llanuras absorbiendo la humedad de plantas y secando la garganta de los animales, que mugen lastimeramente.

Donvermicelli's Thunderbird 3rd Place

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Lore:

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Name: Thunderbird, Thunder Bird

Features: Extremely large bird resembling an eagle

Source: Native American Folklore

Habitat: The Americas


The Thunderbird was an enormous supernatural bird of tremendous strength and power, capable of causing storm like winds and thunder by simply beating its wings.

This creature was said to be able to shoot lightening from its' eyes and fill the sky with the darkest clouds as it flew overhead.

It resembled an oversized eagle with either one or two heads and sometimes described as having rows of teeth inside its' huge menacing beak.

This was one creature that many agreed was best to avoid and at all costs, refrain from disturbing or upsetting in anyway.

Some North American indigenous tribes believed that these formidable mythical creatures could shape shift into human form and take on human mates.

The families created would then keep to themselves while living the day to day in human form but, if the need arose, they could simply put on their supernatural feather blankets to tranform and take vengeance on anyone or anything that threatened their existence.

Donvermicelli's Yithian

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Shiroi Koumori's Kasa-obake 2nd Place

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Kasa-obake (Ghost Umbrella)
A mythical ghost or yōkai in Japanese folklore. They are generally umbrellas with one eye and jump around with one leg.

[Jop]

1st!!!

Aho Aho


Ancient creature looks like a sheep so people can be confused, have sharp nails and devours people, the only way to survive its to climb a sacred tree (palm tree)

[Dracula9]

Aw yeah, delving into some obscure ones baby!

[Belmontoya]

This is great. I volunteer for a judge position.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

Eh, I'm not good at creatures and such. Put me down as a Judge plez.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Updating the first post and adding the volunteer judges.

[Jop]

Eh, I'm not good at creatures and such. Put me down as a Judge plez.

Im not good too but this can help you to test your skills, make one, dosnt matter if looks bad just try, im not good with creatures too (you can remember the Dracula I make it was simple).

[Jop]

One more and I think I dont have time for another but if I found a little of time I will see if can make better this 2 creatures.

Tanga Tanga




This creature isnt bad but isnt good, have a face of a Guanaco, body of an ostrich and the tail is a snake.
 Im bad in english so I will leave this in spanish, its the info of this creature:
 Personaje fabuloso que puede hacer tanto el bien como el mal. Tiene cuello y cabeza de guanaco, cuerpo de avestruz y cola de serpiente. Sus malos sentimientos se manifiestan cuando destruye las cosechas y se afana por prolongar la sequía. Para conseguir esto se traba en encarnizada lucha con Puyuspa, el nublado, su eterno enemigo. Recorre las llanuras absorbiendo la humedad de plantas y secando la garganta de los animales, que mugen lastimeramente.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Updated the 1st post.

Anyone else who's gonna join this contest?
The deadline is in 4 days....

[Las]

Damn Jop those are some crazy ideas..very nice touch!. The first sorat reminds me of a chubacabra from your description though the picture doesnt seem to give off its' scaly presence. Still good for folklore,or truth either way. With some of the stories on some of these shows on tv it's hard to know what is real and waht is fake.

[theANdROId]

I've been wanting to...but I don't really know much mythology outside of CV.  I did search a little, but I never sat down to do anything. :-/  It was a bit crazy this month.  Next month is looking better I think.

[Donvermicelli]

It's a little crude but I guess it's ok to enter it like this.

Lore:

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Name: Thunderbird, Thunder Bird

Features: Extremely large bird resembling an eagle

Source: Native American Folklore

Habitat: The Americas


The Thunderbird was an enormous supernatural bird of tremendous strength and power, capable of causing storm like winds and thunder by simply beating its wings.

This creature was said to be able to shoot lightening from its' eyes and fill the sky with the darkest clouds as it flew overhead.

It resembled an oversized eagle with either one or two heads and sometimes described as having rows of teeth inside its' huge menacing beak.

This was one creature that many agreed was best to avoid and at all costs, refrain from disturbing or upsetting in anyway.

Some North American indigenous tribes believed that these formidable mythical creatures could shape shift into human form and take on human mates.

The families created would then keep to themselves while living the day to day in human form but, if the need arose, they could simply put on their supernatural feather blankets to tranform and take vengeance on anyone or anything that threatened their existence.

EDIT: just for putting it here: ask permission before using this.

[Donvermicelli]

Second entry: Yithian



EDIT: just for putting it here: ask permission before using this.

[Shiroi Koumori]

I decided to join in the fun before the deadline.

Kasa-obake (Ghost Umbrella)
A mythical ghost or yōkai in Japanese folklore. They are generally umbrellas with one eye and jump around with one leg.

[Jop]

NIce, I like how its looks boths but i have a complain, not try to say anything bad but Thunderbird is a Card monster that appear in Circle of the Moon and you can summon the creature so its in a Castlevania, thats count?