Lenh

Mind showing what you've tried making so far? (You might get better results if you put the effort in yourself and just ask for some critique along the way when you're lost and can't see how to improve. Getting some advice doesn't cost as much as 'do it for me please', so people might be more willing to offer it.)

And Teapot's wins Best in Theme and Popular Choice with 9/15 votes and 87% favorability! Teapot will get to choose next theme and a mug, and runner's-up NICKT™, BlazeKing, and Coby will get to pick a mug for the next round. Great turnout this round and kudos to all who entered!

Harken, Angry Eliwood, Matthew, Oswin, Saleh Theme: Exiled Lord (Crown prince of a country, Leader of a nation, etc. standard qualifications of an FE Lord) Special Note: 5 mugs available this set, with requirement of using at least three --- 2 days to vote~

Harken, Angry Eliwood, Matthew, Oswin, Saleh Theme: Exiled Lord (Crown prince of a country, Leader of a nation, etc. standard qualifications of an FE Lord) I dun goofed on some copy-paste so for this round we have five mug options. Use at least three in your splice. --- [spoiler=COMPETITION RULES - PLEASE READ] The contest theme is optional. The theme is provided as an additional option and is not mandatory. No large "full custom" (made from scratch) areas, parts, or pieces. The final result should be made of and identifiable to areas from the source mugs. If you feel like your entry may be considered "questionable" to others, you are allowed to post work-in-progress screenshots or other visual proof of your process. Only use the given set of mugs; other mugs are not allowed. You may, however, elect to use fewer than the amount of given mugs. (Ex: 4 mugs are given, but you only use 3.) Recommended color limit: 16 (15 on your mug +1 for background). This is rule is flexible, but being cautious with your color count as a general rule of thumb for good pixel art. You are allowed to deviate from the standard FE color choices if you wish to do so, as well. Don't vote for yourself, or I will cry sad tears devoid of mod power. Seriously, if you think none of the other entries are worth a vote, please select the "abstain vote" option. Hosts may enter contests As a public poll is used as the voting platform, hosts receive no benefits or unfair advantages from running the contest. Only 1 entry per member. However, you may edit your entry while the contest is still active. Please edit your first post, or quote the most recent entry you wish you submit for clarification, or the wrong entry may be submitted for voting. VOTING: A public poll (users can view voted results) will be put up once the entry period has ended. Voting consists of 2 categories: 'Best in Theme' (single choice) and 'Favorites' (multiple choice). 'Winner' is the popular vote for 'Best in Theme' and the runners-up are taken from the most popular two from both voting categories. If there is overlap (e.g. 2nd place is the same participant for both categories), a weighted average of the total votes will determine the remaining runner-ups. The winner of the contest will choose the next theme and a mug, and runners-up will choose the remaining mugs once the theme has been decided. If you have been selected to choose a mug for the next set, please try to limit choices to actual portraits and not shopkeepers, blank/placeholders, or dragon Idoun. PARTICIPATION NOTES: In the past, there has been a lot of conflict surrounding what does and doesn't constitute proper splicing techniques. This is not the venue to repeat that argument (if you're interested in it, please look at old rounds between 50 and 65). Please remember to allow participants the freedom to experiment and find their comfort zone in splicing. Give them votes when you believe they're successful, but do not use their entry as a platform to tell the world what you don't like. If you have any questions or concerns, please PM the current host. --- Deadline: Sunday November 6th, 2016

BlazeKing's wins Most Thug with 9/14 votes! He also ties with Looper's for Popular Choice with 65% favorability. Kudos to those who entered!

Isadora, Dozla, Lloyd, Legault Optional Theme: Thug --- 2 days to vote!

Cool entries~ Tomorrow's the last day to enter!

Isadora, Dozla, Lloyd, Legault Optional Theme: Thug --- [spoiler=COMPETITION RULES - PLEASE READ] The contest theme is optional. The theme is provided as an additional option and is not mandatory. No large "full custom" (made from scratch) areas, parts, or pieces. The final result should be made of and identifiable to areas from the source mugs. If you feel like your entry may be considered "questionable" to others, you are allowed to post work-in-progress screenshots or other visual proof of your process. Only use the given set of mugs; other mugs are not allowed. You may, however, elect to use fewer than the amount of given mugs. (Ex: 4 mugs are given, but you only use 3.) Recommended color limit: 16 (15 on your mug +1 for background). This is rule is flexible, but being cautious with your color count as a general rule of thumb for good pixel art. You are allowed to deviate from the standard FE color choices if you wish to do so, as well. Don't vote for yourself, or I will cry sad tears devoid of mod power. Seriously, if you think none of the other entries are worth a vote, please select the "abstain vote" option. Hosts may enter contests As a public poll is used as the voting platform, hosts receive no benefits or unfair advantages from running the contest. Only 1 entry per member. However, you may edit your entry while the contest is still active. Please edit your first post, or quote the most recent entry you wish you submit for clarification, or the wrong entry may be submitted for voting. VOTING: A public poll (users can view voted results) will be put up once the entry period has ended. Voting consists of 2 categories: 'Best in Theme' (single choice) and 'Favorites' (multiple choice). 'Winner' is the popular vote for 'Best in Theme' and the runners-up are taken from the most popular two from both voting categories. If there is overlap (e.g. 2nd place is the same participant for both categories), a weighted average of the total votes will determine the remaining runner-ups. The winner of the contest will choose the next theme and a mug, and runners-up will choose the remaining mugs once the theme has been decided. If you have been selected to choose a mug for the next set, please try to limit choices to actual portraits and not shopkeepers, blank/placeholders, or dragon Idoun. PARTICIPATION NOTES: In the past, there has been a lot of conflict surrounding what does and doesn't constitute proper splicing techniques. This is not the venue to repeat that argument (if you're interested in it, please look at old rounds between 50 and 65). Please remember to allow participants the freedom to experiment and find their comfort zone in splicing. Give them votes when you believe they're successful, but do not use their entry as a platform to tell the world what you don't like. If you have any questions or concerns, please PM the current host. --- Deadline: Monday October 17th, 2016

A little of both... Anywho, Hoshi's wins Best in Theme and Popular Choice, with 6/9 and 100% favorability respectively! Hoshi will get to choose next theme and two mugs, and Blaze and Gentleman Like will each get to choose a mug for the next round. Kudos to all who participated!

Uther, Kyle, Beyard, Valter --- 2 days to vote!

Woah, nice~ Reminder that last day's today unless someone'd like an extension~

Uther, Kyle, Beyard, Valter Optional Theme: Decadence: moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury. dissipation, degeneracy, debauchery, corruption, depravity, vice, sin, moral decay, immorality; immoderateness, intemperance, licentiousness, self-indulgence, hedonism --- [spoiler=COMPETITION RULES - PLEASE READ] The contest theme is optional. The theme is provided as an additional option and is not mandatory. No large "full custom" (made from scratch) areas, parts, or pieces. The final result should be made of and identifiable to areas from the source mugs. If you feel like your entry may be considered "questionable" to others, you are allowed to post work-in-progress screenshots or other visual proof of your process. Only use the given set of mugs; other mugs are not allowed. You may, however, elect to use fewer than the amount of given mugs. (Ex: 4 mugs are given, but you only use 3.) Recommended color limit: 16 (15 on your mug +1 for background). This is rule is flexible, but being cautious with your color count as a general rule of thumb for good pixel art. You are allowed to deviate from the standard FE color choices if you wish to do so, as well. Don't vote for yourself, or I will cry sad tears devoid of mod power. Seriously, if you think none of the other entries are worth a vote, please select the "abstain vote" option. Hosts may enter contests As a public poll is used as the voting platform, hosts receive no benefits or unfair advantages from running the contest. Only 1 entry per member. However, you may edit your entry while the contest is still active. Please edit your first post, or quote the most recent entry you wish you submit for clarification, or the wrong entry may be submitted for voting. VOTING: A public poll (users can view voted results) will be put up once the entry period has ended. Voting consists of 2 categories: 'Best in Theme' (single choice) and 'Favorites' (multiple choice). 'Winner' is the popular vote for 'Best in Theme' and the runners-up are taken from the most popular two from both voting categories. If there is overlap (e.g. 2nd place is the same participant for both categories), a weighted average of the total votes will determine the remaining runner-ups. The winner of the contest will choose the next theme and a mug, and runners-up will choose the remaining mugs once the theme has been decided. If you have been selected to choose a mug for the next set, please try to limit choices to actual portraits and not shopkeepers, blank/placeholders, or dragon Idoun. PARTICIPATION NOTES: In the past, there has been a lot of conflict surrounding what does and doesn't constitute proper splicing techniques. This is not the venue to repeat that argument (if you're interested in it, please look at old rounds between 50 and 65). Please remember to allow participants the freedom to experiment and find their comfort zone in splicing. Give them votes when you believe they're successful, but do not use their entry as a platform to tell the world what you don't like. If you have any questions or concerns, please PM the current host. --- Deadline: Monday September 26th, 2016

There's jpg/compression artifacts in there. Make sure you're saving them properly (would need to know what application you're using) and using a clean source (X). At your level try to stick with borrowing vanilla colors instead of making your own. The red on #1 and grey hair and purple trim on #2 have rough transitions.

My (Lenh)'s takes Best in Theme with 6/14 votes, and Wan's: takes Popular Choice with 50% favorability! Since there were 5 entrants I'm passing my mug choice to give everyone runner's up picks this round.

Bone, 4th-wall Formal Hector (FE7), Isadora, Joshua Optional Theme: A Novice Magic User --- 2 days to vote~

2 days left!

Someone please make a hack bringing these beautiful sprites together <3

I'm pretty well settled on GraphicsGale, but that one looks pretty nice. It's really up to you whether it's good or not: after all, it's only a tool! You'll have your own set of preferences and needs. Some people prefer the bare minimums (MSPaint), while others like fancy time-saving features available to them. :P --- On unrelated/related note, found Pixelation's list of resources, which includes the Rendera reference. And glad to hear this small one has helped you out! http://pixelation.org/?topic=3467.0

You can 'Report' yourself and just note that you made a post in error or something. (At least that's how I've done it.) If you just added the 6 and 8 recolors, ty for those too, now it's even more useful ^^ if those were there before whoops sorry.

Your sprites are fine and get the point across. Think whatever I'd say has been said, with one more thing: You shouldn't need to feel like you need to make a flawless epic just because you see others tackling that. Dial back your scope (knowing your limits and how much time you can invest in your work) to something you can actually see yourself completing (in 1 month to a year, until you know you can actually deliver). It doesn't matter if certain aspects aren't great just because you're inexperienced with it, but at least you can take pride in that it was your work and you didn't depend and coast off of other's efforts. What matters most is you having fun building it, getting people's feedback from the benchmarks you share, and gaining a little bit of experience from it all (even if it does end up being a fabulous train wreck).

(Added SweetBasil's compilation to the main thread. Thanks for building that!) Also added the Rendera link. Might back-pedal on that to keep to what people around here confirm they actually use/like? Particularly since Rendera's sourceforge library latest update was last year (while the author promised an overhaul), and I'm not certain what it provides over Gimp or other Paint clones. There's many tools out there for pixel-art (Aseprite, GrafX2, iDraw3, Photoshop, Fireworks, etc.), figure most times it ends up being whatever you've grown comfortable with / is available.

I'm closing requests~ My turn around time is way slow anywho~