Spriter's Challenge
The Spriter's Challenge was a contest run every two weeks
from April 2005 to April 2006. Every two weeks, entrants could submit
their best sprites for a specific theme of Pokemon spriting, grades and
critiques were given, and special awards given to the three best sprites
of the contest.
View the Winners'
Gallery
There will not be any additional Spriter's Challenges for
several reasons. The first reason is that running a biweekly contest for
a year became draining. It was difficult to come up with clever new contest
ideas, sort the entries, carefully pick all the sprites apart and give
constructive criticism, and create awards. It felt too much like work.
Especially when a lot of people seemed unappreciative.
The second reason I'm ending these contests is because of
all the complaining - people complained about everything from the difficulty
of the contests, to the speed of the judging, to the fact that I only
accepted the first 20 entries sent after the contest opened. This site
is something that I publish for fun. These demands coupled with the time
invested in these challenges managed to suck all the fun out of running
this part of the site.
It is unlikely
that I will ever run an event like the Spriter's Challenge again, but
there may be other spriting and artwork contests that spring up from time to time. Thank you to everyone who supported
the Spriter's Challenge during its run, but this portion
of the site will no longer be updated.
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