God School: Assignment 6

[thinkslogically]

Assignment Six



ÔÇ£Well done! It looks like youÔÇÖve all managed to successfully negotiate this little dungeon and access the inner chamber! Now you have a whole new challenge. In this next room, there are four treasure chests each containing something of VAST worth, but as you can see they are rather well protected.



ÔÇ£Now, since the lessons so far should have taught you everything you need to know about manipulating images and making selections, your task this week is quite simple. All you have to do is get the goblin through this inner chamber, steal one (and only one) of those treasure boxes from the top row and then get it the hell out of there.

ÔÇ£Of course, itÔÇÖs simple enough to just TAKE the box and show us the spoils of your adventure, but thatÔÇÖs not a lot of fun. So, in addition to simply removing one of the chests from the room, I want you to show us all HOW you did it! Tell us a story! Make it an adventure!

ÔÇ£And see all those monsters and traps in there? You DID spot the traps didnÔÇÖt you? Well, what those things all actually do is entirely up to you. Make it good!

ÔÇ£Got it? Excellent! Now get in there and get that treasure!

ÔÇ£OH! I nearly forgot: all the sprites you need are already there in the image ready to be pulled out and manipulated except for one:



ÔÇ£And here are a couple of open chests you can use if you happen to do any looting: ÔÇØ





"Sprites will be covered in another lesson, so don't worry about using different poses at the moment, but if you want to try drawing any new ones (or using the ones in the resources thread) then feel free to give it a shot. Good luck and happy treasure hunting."

[Nerre]

I will post it soon, got problems with the uploading. :/

Edit: I made it, the first half is up, so here it is. The rest will follow shortly:

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...to be continued.

[GathersIngredients]

Yeah, um, I'm very sorry to say so, but I can't make this deadline.
...
Considering that some people dropped out completely already, could it be that the schedule of one assignment per week is too tight?


I'll try to get some stuff done this weekend (this weeks assignment at least, but possibly next weeks, too, and if I should still have time and creativity left - fat chance, but one never knows - something about the two Arles gave us), but I can't make any promises yet. Again, very sorry.

[thinkslogically]

I am happy to fit to whatever schedule you guys prefer, but I agree it sounds like once a week is probably a bit much. I'll make a schedule announcement thread and switch us to once a fortnight.

[GathersIngredients]

Phew I made it in time.
... I think. What daytime was the deadline again? I'm sorry, I forgot.

I'll spoiler this again:

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Sprite: Well, little goblin, it looks like here we are again, battling the obstacles of this room.
Goblin: Yes. But I'm sure we won't have to do any real battles.



Sprite: Oh? How do you think you can get past that troll over there, if not by rendering him unconscious, at least?
Goblin: Easy. I'll just ask him super nicely. See? Like this: Please Mister Toll, Sir, may I pass?



Sprite: Well... you can always try that, but ... how are you going to get across the pool of green stuff, then?
Goblin: Maybe the troll is nice enough to help me across.
Sprite: ... Sure. Let's try that. Whatever could go wrong with a well thought out plan like that.
Goblin: I know, right?



Goblin: Hello Mister Troll, there! I wanted to ask you if you would be so kind and let me pass by you. Oh, and maybe you could help me across that vat of acid, too?



Troll: Seriously? You expect me to go against my professional honor and not only let you pass without a fight, but also HELP you?
...

...
Ok, but only because you asked so nicely, and I can't stand to look into these eyes any longer. Here, let me just toss you across."



Sprite: TOSS him? Oh no, not this again!
Goblin: Whee!



Goblin: Ouch. I probably shouldn't sit down for a few days.
Troll: "Oh, by the way, that's not acid in there, the green stuff is just jell-o."
Sprite: Really, just jell-o?! He could have WALKED across that, you ... troll, you.
Troll:



Goblin: Eh, it doesn't matter anymore. Now let's see what is in that chest.



Sprite: What's this, a pair of springs?! What kind of treasure is that supposed to be?
Goblin:A very useful kind. We'll have that treasure chest and be out of here in no time. Here, let me show you. I'll just put them on my feet...



Goblin:... and jump really hard!



Sprite: Oh, boy this can't end well.




Goblin: WHEEEE-...!
Troll: "What the - ?!"



Troll: "FAQUE ?!"
Goblin: ...-EEEEEE-...!



Troll: "Crazy Sunday spring enhanced jumpers..."
Goblin: ...-EEEEEE-...!



Troll: "Let's see if I ever do you a favor again..."
Goblin: ...-EEEEEE!
Springs: *supersproing*
Sprite: Are you sure this was a good idea?



Goblin: Why of course. Watch me go and grab this treasure chest en passante!
Sprite: Wow. When did you learn French?



Fairies: Watch out!
Incoming!
Goblin: *yoink*



Goblin: GERONIMOOOOOOO!
Wall: crash CRACK crumble



Sprite: ...
Well, looks like you're not only going to suffer a butt-ache from this adventure....
Goblin: Well, I didn't see you come up with any bright ideas. Honestly, what chance would a goblin have in a fistfight against a troll?

Sprite: ... Do you want me to smite you?!
Goblin: Erm, no. Sorry. But you know what would really be great? If you could make my headache disappear. Now THAT's what I would call a miracle.
Sprite: Let me see what I can do...

[Nerre]

I managed to finally upload the first half. The rest will follow. I put it into my first post and in a spoiler. Have fun!

[thinkslogically]

thanks guys! Those are awesome! Looking forward to seeing your 2nd half Nerre

Deadline for assignments is Friday (any time) so I have time to have a look at them before the next assignment goes up.

Also, as you may have noticed, I'm back again! Would you like the next assignment tomorrow or shall we hold off another week?

[Nerre]

How about: 2 weeks or until everybody is done? 1 week is sometimes to little time, at least for me.

[BeanDip]

I'm not going to be able to do this. The two week time limit is PERFECT but when I'm not sleeping, I'm out doing something and vice versa. I really hate to skip out because I had something super ambitious and funny planned. Well, I though it was funny. Sucks cause I already had some of it done. Oh well sorry guys. I'll try the next.

Seriously. Two weeks is the super perfect go go dance fun party time.

[thinkslogically]

Well,since theres only one-and-a-half entries, I'm going to leave this another week anyway (easier for me this week too) so you have more time if u need it. After that, we'll stick to fortnightly updates, but hopefully the extra time now is good for a catch up.

[Nerre]

Thanks, I will try to finish my post today.

[Nerre]

Updated until frame 22, a few more to go until it is finished.

[Nerre]

Finally, all done and uploaded. It got a bit longer than extended, but I had a story in mind and so much fun, I did not want to leave anything out for the sake of brevity.

Hope you like it as much as the story for the last assignemnt!
Have fun while reading. I hid a few eastereggs and intimations, let's see if you can find them all:

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[thinkslogically]

Thanks to Gathers & Nerre for their entries These look really great!

For anyone else who's wanting to enter, today is the last day before we move on to the next lesson which will be on using the path tool and drawing simple outdoor environments.

[BeanDip]

Alright. I really forced myself on this one so I hope this is okay, at least mediocre. Due to a flickr malfunction, the first picture lacks a hat but is all the same.

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Now where are we?
I think it's a mysterious location known in the local tongue as 'a room'.
No reason to be snarky. Look out for the Great White Snark, everyone!
... I might kill myself just to get you in trouble with Messenger for that pun.
Ah! No! I'm not supposed to let you die!
Then we listen to me now, got it? No more silly puns.
But I like puns...



Hello, big cousin! How are you this fine day?



Huh? Wha? Oh! An adventurer! Hold on... I have a speech I'm supposed to read to you... B-bewa bera? damn it! why didn't I bring my glasses? Oh well. I'll wing it.



PUNY ADVENTURER! WELCOME TO THE TOMB OF JUDGEMENT. MANY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO RESCUE THE TREASURE AND ALL HAVE FAILED. SO LET IT BE KNOWN THAT ON THIS DAY, ONE PUNY GOBLIN --



Wait... what day is it, anyway?
Sunday, I think.



Sunday!? Oh gods! It's my wife and I's anniversary! I don't even have a gift yet and there's no time to go get her one!



Gorthala is going to kill me...



Well, you have a problem and I have a hat! Here. Women love hats.



Ha! Yes! It's perfect! The material will hold the blood of our enemies extremely well during the traditional anniversary slaughter!



You've been a great help, little one. Let me help you in return. I'l use my big, red button and close up the toxic pit. Normally we just use it for refilling the chests but for you, I'll make an exception.
Thank you.
You're welcome. The chest is unlocked. I'm leaving early so just remember to turn the lights off when you leave.



So what do we have in here... What the?



It's got a screen and a keyboard and reads: Psi and Son Realiting Warping Computer System. Hey look! When I turn it on the screen shows me!



oh dear Mags. I have gotten fat.



Seems intuitive enough... let's try clicking on this guy...



and pressing delete. Cool!



Let's try those bars. click.



press open. yes!



alright. I'll nab the treasure. Hmm... I don't have any place to hold it... i'll just cut for now and paste later.



And now to ride out of here! Yeehaw!

[thinkslogically]

Hah! Awesome Nice work Bean! That's great

[LAYF]

Yea.. not so good entry.. but I want to continue.. so I had to make something.. tried to be a little bit original here....

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[thinkslogically]

Awesome! Love it LAYF If it was me, I'd have been tempted to colour your ghost sprite plain white and then adjust the opacity so it's a bit more transparent. But that's just picky! I really like your take on it, though the little dead goblin corpse is pretty sad

[LAYF]

Yea.. I thought about it.. but decided to make it in paint...
But thanks.. and yes... he is kind of a sad sight is he not?

[LAYF]

Oh.. I see now that I uploaded the wrong Artifact... (old version)

here it is... only a small differences

[thinkslogically]

Shiny!

[LAYF]

So.. reply to the 3 others

Nerre:

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Really great job, a lot of humor
I'll comment on the things you made yourself, as I think that's the best part of your assignment:
-The magic effect when he was healed: nice and simple, not much to add here, it worked and was not over done.
-The armor: A bit over done IMHO, but that's mostly because I newer liked that style of armor (huge shoulder pads and other huge decorative but impractical parts) that said, Its well made and keeps in the style with the rest of this dungeon, so that's a win
-The bridge: Not much to say, not bad, but not great either.. simple and fitting.
-The grappling hook: I like the "swing" effect, but I'm not to keen on the hook itself, the reason is that you have chosen to tilt its "shaft" but you have forgotten to put this tilt all the way through, and because of that, it looks bend rather than tilted.
-The Sponge bob goblin head and hover board: What is not to like here? I love it... okay, it does not fit into a fantasy setting I like, but its well made, and fits within the humor that have been made so far.

Over all... really great work

GathersIngredients:

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Pretty fun humor and over all good job.
Some small things:
The springs are a bit to simple for my taste, I'd have like to see them worked a bit more.
The reactions, I like the reactions of the minions when the goblin comes flying, they are great, but 2 things:
The eyes of the troll, you have used outlines on the others eyes, and that fits within the style, but you did not keep it on the troll... why is that?
The legs on the troll when bend, They looks like they suddenly are 1 or 2 pixels more thick, I think it would look better if they were thinner.. IMHO.

Besides that. nicely done

BeanDip:

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Well.. lets start from the start shall we

A bit sad that you missed the hat due to a malfunction.. but as that say..... you know...
And then I wonder, why are all the images scaled down? That does means that we loose some detail

I love your facial expressions on the troll, nice diversity there

When the troll sits down, you "bend" his legs in a curve rather than a point at a joint, I'm not saying that's wrong, just remember to keep the same style throughout (joints or no joints)

I like the computer Idea (as long as its not used inside a fantasy game), but one question! Why the thick line style for it? seems.. I don't know... wrong? I'f its to make it stand out from the other things then okay, it works.. I might had added a shadow instead, but maybe that's just me

[BeanDip]

Mkay so responding in points:

1- The images were unfortunately sized down for the same reason that the hat was missing in the firsts panel; I wasn't used to Flickr yet, having just switched from Photobucket literally hours before. Now I know how the sizing feature works.

2- Thanks! I love doing expressions.

3- It was deliberate. I tried it both ways and preferred the 'jointless' style as you called it. I did the same for the trolls arms in all the panels but it's more noticeable with the severe bend of the legs.

4- The computer was fun. The first panel with the thick black sides was used to show that we were looking at the screen and the thick lines for the cursor was because I tried to do that stupid cursor in like a billion different ways and it just never looked right. I didn't try a shadow though... I still hate how that cursor looks.

[Borys]

Yeah, I don't have much time for doing this, so the process is slow. Here is what I made so far (half or more of the entire work).
I know about levitating Ada┼ø in 3rd or 4th strip and some other mistakes/strange looking things.

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DiB: Ok, mortal goblin, here is our final test. See that troll?
Ada┼ø: Yeah
DiB: Kill him.
Ada┼ø: But I don;t have any weapons...
DiB: What? I see plenty of them around. I once killed three elite koboldian warriors, with my right arm tied behind my back, using only one little rock. Now take that piece of door and kill that fool.
Ada┼ø: If you say so...

Ada┼ø: I'm scared.
DiB: Fear is normal, it indicates you're sane, but don't let it overpower you. Warrior controls his fear, but doesn't forget about it. That helps him stay alive, and run when it's needed. But you aren't battling five dragons, or army of golems. Just one little troll. Go and kill him.
Ada┼ø: If you say so...

Ada┼ø: I can't...
DiB: You aren't warrior, are you?
Ada┼ø: I'm shoemaker. Who told you I'm warrior?
Troll: What do you want? Who are you talking to?
DiB: (whispers) He's dead. (Aloud) Run!
Ada┼ø: What, uhm...
Troll: Schizophrenia? Don't worry, it isn't important for me. If you want to work in our dungeon, good, you can find a spot and just it. If you kill an adventurer you will get 20 gold and half of his gear. Deal? I know goblins are good at guarding stuff, so I don't worry about you references.
Ada┼ø: Uhm... what spot is good?
Troll: Try the pool.

DiB: Well... we can still win somehow. Try to get closer to the treasures.
Troll: So, what do you think?
Ada┼ø: Uhm... it's too cold here... maybe I can go upwards?
Troll: Can do. (Screams) Hey, Geri, throw the line. (Speaks normally) You will help Geri, our engineer.
DiB: Good work mortal, I'm starting to like you.

Ada┼ø: Hi Geri.
Geri: Hi, new one. I built this dungeon. I'll show you everything you ask about.
Ada┼ø: Well... what are these light bars?
Geri: They can cut everything they touch, just throw this piece of wood and see what happen.

Ada┼ø: Ups...
DiB: You little oaf! You can't even throw properly! What kind of goblin are you?
Ada┼ø: Shoemaker.

Ada┼ø: What is this button doing? Disabling bars?
Geri: No, it is only designed like this to fool adventurers. It activates our new prototype flying robo-pixies, they will now attack closest target.
Pixies: Target found.

Pixies: Rope attack
Geri: We can't let them fly away!
DiB: Despite being shoemaker, you still have ability to push, right?
Ada┼ø: Yeah, of course.
DiB: Then push him.

DiB: See? It was easy.
Ada┼ø: Did I just killed him?
DiB: Yeah, exactly. I'm proud of you. Now move on to this chests, take that rope and go on. We don't have entire year to spend on this.
Ada┼ø: Which one should I take?
DiB: The smallest, they tend to contain the best items.
Pixies: Wall breaking started.
Troll: Hey, what's going on up there? What was that noise? And this blood?
DiB: Quickly! They be there soon!

Ada┼ø: Thats just pixies escaping, we can handle this by ourselves.
Troll: Are you sure?
Ada┼ø: Yeah, completely, don't go there for now.
DiB: Don't waste anymore time, jump there.
Ada┼ø: It's quite high, isn't it?
DiB: Come on, that's just your last task. Unless you want to be ripped apart by this troll, for killing his friend?
Ada┼ø: I guess I have no choice.

[LAYF]

Hmm.. I'm not sure what you mean to say with your opening post.
Is it going to be slow updating and you'll add more to this, or are you done as you are?