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Contest Eliza Winpose Design Contest

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Update: This contest is now closed! The winners will be announced soon!​

It's been a long time since we've run a contest on Skullheart! To celebrate Eliza's rapidly approaching completion date we're offering you the chance to win a pretty rare Skullgirls prize in exchange for some art of our resident blood sucker.

As you're probably aware, our vampiric diva has limited shapeshifting ability and a penchant for wearing the latest fashions. Depending on which button you hold after you win a game, Eliza will change into one of six different outfits.

Surely someone as glamorous and long lived as Eliza doesn't only have six outfits though! The goal of this contest is simple: Draw Eliza in an alternate win pose outfit. One extra catch on this is that for the sake of this contest we're going to be imagining these outfits as if they appear in game, so you need to make your costume work with Eliza's default palette. It would also need to get past the ESRB, so no outright nudity please.
You can enter as many times as you want, but we'll be judging each entry separately. Quality over quantity.

Please note: Winning this contest does not mean your costume will appear in game. This contest is not being run by Lab Zero, however your entries will be judged by the Lab Zero staff. (Edit clarified wording. Sorry for any misunderstandings!)

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To help you out with this we've prepared a couple of Eliza bases for you to dress up as you choose. Each has slight variations, so you can cut and paste to mix and match the different parts you want, or erase them and add your own. Eliza does change positions slightly in her various poses, so feel free to change it up a bit, but your entry should still be based on this standard pose. That includes making sure the Staff of Ra features somewhere in your image.

It should be pretty clear but one base is utterly plain with Eliza's breasts hanging loose, the other has various common accessories and her breasts are pressed together.

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You can find transparent versions of all the bases at the bottom of this post.

For an idea of what we're looking for here's some examples:

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Please remember that your design must be drawn using Eliza's default palette which you can see examples of below. Any color that Eliza or Sekhmet use at any time are fair game for any part of your design:

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And @Rakurin was kind enough to put together a quick reference guide!

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Of course, you'll probably be wanting some incentive for all this effort, so the winner of this contest will get one very rare Valentine model kit from h-unit which was only available at WonderFest 2013 in Japan, plus a $10 credit voucher for Steam or their console of choice. Two runners up will also get $10 credit.

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Please note that this prize is unassembled and unpainted.
You can see a video of the Lab Zero team receiving one themselves over on their tumblr.

You will have just over 2 Weeks to submit designs to this competition, so that means your deadline is Sunday, August 24. To submit entries you can either post them into this thread, or PM them to me (@Cellsai) directly. After all the submissions are in, this contest will be judged by the team at Lab Zero, so if you've ever wanted a chance for the Skullgirls dev team to look over your artwork, here's your chance! They will be judging your entries on two criteria:
Design Quality: How creative and well designed your outfit is. Just having Eliza in a bikini isn't terribly creative.
Art Quality: The overall quality of your art. Your piece doesn't need to be an absolute masterpiece, but a rough sketch will rate lower than a fully finished piece.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment below. Feel free to discuss the contest and the entries down there too!

To summarize everything above:
  • Design a new outfit for Eliza to wear in her win pose. You must make it compatible with her default color palette and it must include the Staff of Ra.
  • You do not have to use the templates provided, but Eliza must be in that pose, some variation allowed.
  • The winner of this contest will receive one unpainted and unassembled Valentine garage kit designed by h-unit and a $10 credit voucher. Prize includes shipping costs.
  • Two runners up will also receive $10 vouchers.
  • You can enter as many times as you like.
  • You are only eligible to win one prize no matter how many entries you submit.
  • The contest will last two weeks, with the deadline being on Sunday, August 24.
  • Submit entries by posting them in this thread or sending a private message to @Cellsai .
 

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Can I ask some questions?
-Do dresses that reference something else count less than original ones(I hope so tbh)?
-Is colouring only the dress okay or do we have to colour all of Eliza every time?
-Are silly costumes not allowed/not considered?
 
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That is a pretty rare prize.

Better than cash or something of monetary value as you can't get it anymore. Shame because I would gladly buy one however they're not sold anymore and I have the drawing skill of a 10 year old.
 
chickenwithtie said:
Can I ask some questions?
-Do dresses that reference something else count less than original ones(I hope so tbh)?
-Is colouring only the dress okay or do we have to colour all of Eliza every time?
-Are silly costumes not allowed/not considered?
Questions are good!

-The judges will be making their own call on specifically how much weight they put to references over originality.
-The reason a precolored base was not made was because the costume itself will massively change a lot of the shading on Eliza so it'd be a waste of time. Also, my shading style would likely be completely incompatible with your own style so it might reduce the overall quality anyway. You don't even have to shade the picture if you don't want to, this is a design contest more than an art contest. However as I said above, the more finished the piece, the better.
-The idea of this contest is to make a costume as if it would appear in the game. Make your own call on how silly you want to go with it and how well it fits into the game.
 
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I missed SH's art contests. And what a comeback!
This sounds like fun. Too tall an order for little ol' me though. <:3

Looking forward to see what our artistically-inclined fellow forum members come up with.
 
Curse my terrible drawing skills! I could cludge together some music to go with Eliza, but I don't think my MS Paint skills are up to par
 
When's Eliza Dress-Up adobe Flash game?
also you guys have a sick sense of humor making this last two weeks.
 
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@Cellsai Oh dang. I'mma gonna take a crack at this. Do they need to be coloured or just shaded? You know what forget what question I'll do both.
 
Question: Can you add win quotes to the Eliza pose you create?
 
Technical details seem less strict than EightySixed contest. Any file format/resolution/art method is OK?
I'd use probably use a .png/300 dpi/Flash. No limit on how many entries we enter? Wow!
Thanks for the opportunity!
 
Dat Persona 5 poster
Well I can't draw worth a monkey's toenail so good luck to ya all
 
I might give it a shot. I was never good at designing clothes.
 
Do we have to color in our entry, or can it just be linework?
 
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I had the thought of putting Eliza in the coconut bra/grass skirt combo and just had to do it.
But I couldn't figure out how to match it with her default color scheme.
So I just left it black and white.

I'll probably make a better entry later.
 
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Aw, I thought the best entry WOULD be included in the game. Ah well...
If there was a promise like that and nobody made any entries except for that hideous top one we would not be including it. So no promises like that were made.
 
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Mike_Z said:
If there was a promise like that and nobody made any entries except for that hideous top one we would not be including it. So no promises like that were made.

I think the word you were looking for is gorgeous.
 
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Are we limited to one entry per person, or can we just submit as many as we want?
 
ShortbreadJim said:
Are we limited to one entry per person, or can we just submit as many as we want?

You can enter as many times as you like.
 
Damn, I could swear I skimmed well enough to find that.
 
I Have A Question Does The Design Have To Be Done On A Computer Or Can I Just Hand Draw It?
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Wow. These are all so goodddd. I wish I could draw/be creative.

:c
 
Do we have to use the base?
 
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