Spiral Knights Anniversary Art Contest (Over 190k Ce in Prizes)

THE CATEGORIES!

Category 1: Favorite Spiral Knight Monster Artwork:

In this category you can draw any Spiral Knight monster you wish. This can be a single monster or a grouping. Monsters can be interacting with knights or monsters as well *Snipes do not count as a monster*

Category 2: Fun in the Clockworks:

Draw your favorite Spiral Knights Clockwork Theme. This artwork must show the clockworks as a background or the whole picture. The theme should be easily noticeable. Feel free to include monsters, knights, or just a special area in the clockworks you find FUN.

Category 3: Player Versus Player Fun:

Draw some crazy artwork that shows off the PvP side of this game. It can be Blast Network or Lockdown based, as long as it's some knight vs knight art action.

Category 4: Create Your Own Monster:

In this category you will be given the opportunity to create your own monster for Spiral Knights. You can create your own class, or add this monster to any existing monster group. Please explain what type of attacks this monster has *Or you can show it* and why you believe it belongs in its monster family *A few sentences is good*.

Category 5: Create the Alpha Squad:

Sadly, we do not have enough information on the Alpha Squad to know of their sexy stylings. So draw what you think the alpha squad looks like. Use your imagination, skills and what we know to make something as sexy as their valor. =0.

Category 6: Spiral Knights Logo:

Lets imagine Nick asked you to design a logo for Spiral Knights. Would you be up for the challenge? Remember this Logo would be seen on their websites, projected on walls, used as a desktop icon (can be slightly edited for this) and might even show up as a flag on Nick's Ferrari's window.

Category 7: Create Your Own Weapon:

Create your own weapon or weapons for Spiral Knights! You can create a single weapon or a whole line of weapons. A line means its Alchemy Path - example: Sealed Sword > Faust > Gran Faust. It is time for you to create your own, gun, bomb, sword, or all three =). When you enter for this please remember to put a short description of the weapon(s) (no more than 5 sentences).

Category 8: Create Your Own Armor Set:

In this category you will be able to create a full armor set for Spiral Knights (Helm, Armor, and Shield). The armor set does not have to be a 5* set. Feel free to add a description describing the armor stats and what bonuses it would have. The armor set itself can be 1 to 12+ Pieces (A few sentences)

Category 9: Create A Comic:

Create a comic related to Spiral Knights! Try to add some humor into this comic as they are meant to be funny!!

Category 10: How Cuteeeee are you?:

Create a piece of spiral knights art that is just SO CUTE you just want to hug the picture!

Category 11: Free-For-All:

Anything goes here. Create whatever you want for Spiral Knights. Let your artist freak flag fly!

Category 12: Create Some Accessories:

So in this category you will be able to create your very own Spiral Knights accessories. Any creations must be added to a knight (So if you create a mustache you must put it on an existing helmet or a helmet or armor design you created) Feel free to create as many accessories as possible for your ultimate armor or helm =)

Category 13: Spiral Knights Merchandise:

Create some Spiral Knights merchandise. Hoodies, jackets, t-shirts, etc. You do not physically have to create it, but you can. Feel free to draw it out or create it using real materials. Remember folks, merchandise can be just about anything. Pencils, erasers, key-chains or even a SK themed jello mold. :P

Category 14: Forum Avatars:

Create some new avatars for all of us to use on the Spiral Knights forums. You can use my avatar as as example or take a look at all the existing ones here to get those ideas flowing! What would your dream avatar be for these forums? Make sure you keep these ideas Spiral Knights related.

Category 15: Favorite Npc:

Create artwork showing your favorite NPC in Spiral Knights. Lets show love to those Strangers, Kozma, Punch, Biscotti, Basil, etc. <69

Category 16: Create a GH Utopia:

In this category you will be creating some new spiral knight guild hall furniture. Then take that furniture and designing a room in a guild hall. So basically create new furniture concepts and place it in a room in using your skills of an artist.

Category 17: The Skylark:

Draw what you think the Skylark looks like =) In it's orbiting, planet scanning glory or in it's current state on Cradle, it doesn't matter. Lets see some freaking SPACESHIPS

Category 18: What do monsters do when we aren't around?:

Create artwork of Spiral Knight monsters random stuff you think they would be doing when we are not around. Example: Jellies fanning the royal jelly king, Gremlins playing table tennis, etc.

Category 19:Draw Njthug or Digicom:

Draw myself or Digicom plain and simple draw or make a sculpture or anything else what looks like our knights *Keep in mind my personal color is yellow and I do not wear wolver gear, and Digicom personal color is blue*.
Some screenies of outfits:
Nj's Costumes

Digi's Costumes

Category 20:To Be Announced

This category will be announced on March 20th. Digi and myself sat down and really wanted to test your skills so boys and girls be ready for a CRAZY category. Due to the obscene amount of craziness and well the short window of creating a master piece we will be doubling all the prizes for this category only: 1st Place: 8,690 ce, 2nd Place: 6,969ce, and 3rd Place: 4,690ce.

Category 20 --- Spiral Knights Crossovers!!

You will have to create artwork which portrays Spiral Knights in other video games or even real life games (Football, Basketball, Rugby etc.). Digi and I want to see what other video-games or real-life sporting events look like if Spiral Knights was added to them. You will be able to create your own style of crossover if you wish to for example: Marvel vs Capcom (A pretty well known video game) you can create Spiral Knights vs Sega if you desire.

More examples of Crossovers:

Spiral Knights meets Splinter Cell

Spiral Knights Call of Duty

Fifa Spiral Knights Edition (Dress up a knight in an Arsenal outfit?)

Spiral Knights meets Mario.
etc. Etc.

*Side-Note remember for each category you can use any type of art which portrays the category, Comics etc. can be used for all categories*

Have fun! Best of luck to everyone and honestly I appreciate any type artwork submitted to this event. I'm always on the prowl for SK art so the more competitors the better <69

support support for enjay!!

Just since I know players will be asking me or w.e about the prize money:

1. I have all the prize money you can see it in this screenie.

2. If for some unforeseen thing like I get hit by a bus and die, I am sure Three Rings can either take the money out of my account, or I Dogrock can pay out of his own pockets *Dogrock will be holding onto the same funds as a safety net, or he probably already has that cash because he is RICH*

Link to Picture of $$$:

http://imgur.com/hRScsXW

Best of luck to everyone once again <69

It's good that you allocated a lot of time for judging. That always takes longer than people think it will.

*cough* *cough*Make a Valentine for a Spiral Knights NPC contest judging time*cough*

Loool!

Loads of Barrel Bellyes xD

69 Barrels ?
690?
969?

I'm curious o.O

Imma just make a note here that I plan to enter all the categories so I can beat myself up about being too lazy to do so later.

Yes.

c:

I am glad that someone thought of this. Although im not a very good artist i will take participation and try my best. Thx Njthug for this contest.

If there are 69 entries and if I post mine so it will go to 70, will you break my arm? :P

YAY I GET TO USE SPIRAL SPY!!! :P

Actually I might do a SS image and draw it...oh and I like the month and a half due date. That helps things.

Nineteen categories!?

Well, the more, the merrier, I suppose...

Now if you'll excuse me. I'm off to create a Sword Weapon Line...

@Stelli -- Thank you, and if you wish to support me you should give me one of your Ctr Vh and Asi Vh swords so I can kill stoof with it lol <69 I joke =0

@Eury -- Thank You Eury and just a funny tid-bit all of this was put together in about 12 hours or less lol. I worked on the main post got a few great ideas from friends for categories, and well a sexy Moonsoon helped me with a lot of the editing and HTML codes, and ta-da =0.

@Mono -- I have over 100 Barrel Bellys atm =0

@Incoherrant --- Yes I have a few friends who already yelled at me for having so many categories they want to enter them all.... A lot of them are up for the challenge best of luck man!

@Gandrau --- I am not a good artist either man, but hey you never know try it is possible to win. We will have 57 winners in the contest, so the odds are pretty nice to take home a prize =).

@Autofire --- I was expecting 169 entries at least =0 Yup man you can use whatever you want 2.... (Thinks of ideas....someone shaves their head to draw a picture of Sk.....Sk tattoos.....OMG lol)

@Everyone: Some Updates and Information:

1. I added another consolation prize which will be 69 Ce. (So I will basically give each person that enters 69 ce or a Barrel Belly)

2. You can win more than 1 contest. You are allowed to enter in all 19 categories and hey you can win a prize in all 19 anything is possible!!

(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ Challenges Accepted!!! (#)

This is the first entry the player could not post their entry here so they gave it to me via Tumblr:

Category Name: Free for All (Category 11)
Title of your artwork: Cradle’s Galaxy
Link to Artwork: http://prntscr.com/tmvy2
In-Game-Name: MidAvionics

@Njthug sorry, I don't know if the entry should be posted here D:

@Mid - No worries man yes all entries should be posted here, mistakes happen and honestly you submitted to the Tumblr which I have easy access to transfer over, so no big deal. Best of luck and I hope to see more art from you.

I'm quite excited to see the entrys. Especially the Merch, Logo, Avatar, Skylark, Alpha Sqa-- ALL OF THEM
Thanks for taking the time & dollars to do this Nj, it really is quite epic.
I might even have to give it a go in the Draw a Njthug category :P

Did you have to use that one word?

"9. No porn or rule34 of any kind."

Edited post: Can we use spiral spy?

RESERVED!!! *places a devilite tied in a rop and blindfolded on forum with little sign that says "Reservation"*
EDIT: Just so you know, Stolidly's picture is not their work nor is it present work. I remember finding that picture a half YEAR ago. Your welcome. As far as I can tell, the rest of the picture's are real :P

Njthug=Nj=Jn=Jessica Nunn

:P

That's it, getting a imgr account. and then checking to see if my scanner works. I will actually try to try this time. Also, does color matter?

@Night-Rove --- If you use Spiral Spy to create amazing art go for it

@Dmatter --- Really matters on the art itself. It is honestly all up to you in terms of coloring it in etc. If you feel the art is amazing in black and white go for it example of some art I found today what is Sk related: http://bechamelsgossip.tumblr.com (The girl knight with the gun) that is a black, gray, and white drawing, but it honestly looks pretty nice.

*gulps down a huge mouthful of papaya juice*
2 weeks to work on this? 0_0
Oh right, time to ask what I want to ask :P For the "How Cuteeeee are you?" category, does our knight.....have to be in the form/shape of a knight? :3 If you say my entry for Tev's contest, I drew a papaya, with the following Accessories (and of course, eyes,hair [leaves], and a mouth :P): Hallow Vertical Vents, Hallow Ribbon, Hallow Wings. Is that ok? :3 Oh, and her (yes, she is a girl) name is Papalice ^^ Don't get her name mixed up >:O

"Create Some Accessories"
My reaction= :O
/grabs favorite hat

Category Name: Category 9, Create A Comic
Title of your artwork: The Truth about Cakes is that the Cakes are a Lie
Link to Artwork: http://i.imgur.com/sMOEOPz.png
In-Game-Name: Xplad

I also tumble. It's fun.

Category Name: Category 15: Favorite Npc
Title of your artwork: Cutie Patootie
Link to Artwork: http://stolidly.tumblr.com/post/43721260634
In-Game-Name: Stolidly

NJ, stop sending me links about your contest :C

2 questions for when you wake up ( to snow if you live in the Midwest ( I don't know why I brought that up.)). One: can we have a picture of your knight for reference in the last category? And two: can we post a comic for any of the categories other than the create a comic one?

njthug uses aa.

@Papaya --- The contest ends April 4th so it is longer than 2 weeks to work on this stuff. Honestly for the how cute category it is up to you. If you feel that picture of your knight as a papaya will be ubber cute go for it, but do keep in mind no re-submiting old art.

@Dmatter --- Yes I will hook you up with a picture of my knight I have over 25+ outfits *Basically own every costume, and armor set*.
Yes you can use a comic for all the categories if you wish. Best of luck <69

@Cobby --- I hate you!

Outfits of me can be found on the tumblr --- I do apologize if you need to scroll through the tumblr to gain access to them I will try to figure out how to do a direct link: http://bechamelsgossip.tumblr.com

Added a Photobucket link let me know if you have trouble with it *This is for outfits of me*:
http://s548.beta.photobucket.com/user/njthug/library/Outfits

Category name: Player versus player fun
Title: Out-matched
Link: http://i.imgur.com/vStV7g8.jpg
IGN: Dmatter

Note: Sorry for the sketchy-ness, drew it by hand. I'll get better further on. Also, I'm the one on the right.

i will try to get as much work as possible and i hope to win

So uh, are non-image entries allowed (I had making a game in mind... ;D )

Oh man this sounds like a ton of fun and I've been dying to get some SK artwork going. Expect me to be bring some fun to the Clockworks as well as giving my own spin to the SK Logo (Hey OOO I'm looking for a job ;) )

<69 Splinter

This looks fun. Definitely doing me poking NJ for the last one... If I can pull it off. I have to artistic talent =/

Category Name: Favorite Spiral Knight Monster(Category 1)
Title of your artwork: Jelly Unco
Link to Artwork: http://i.imgur.com/v4RbLF1.jpg
In-Game-Name: Miabot

*will edit a lot as I doodle more @_@*

Category Name: Category 19: Draw Njthug
Title of your artwork: "Best of Buds!"
Link to Artwork: http://shuie.deviantart.com/art/Best-of-Buds-355919034
In-Game-Name: Shuichi

BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH I so deserve a waffle banquet XD

@Krakob -- Stories, poems, etc. Would not work with any of the categories listed. I would have to see some type of art to go along with your game.

@Paska --- Lol I am eager to see the Spiral Knights logos!

@korakc --- I see you

@Miabot --- Unco looks like a ho-ho

@Shoooechi --- I can not wait to see what Cootie says =0 *throws waffle at Shoochi*

Not gonna say anything. I think I will just go kill myself, twice, to be sure...

xD It's okay Cootie! lol on the bright side, its super cute >XP

I still wub you ^^ Hope you win a cute prize ♥

http://www.reddit.com/r/spiral_knights/comments/1935st/njpalooza_njs_ve…

First off thank you Perronius for that honestly man the more people that know about this contest the better <69

Updates:

1. Added a new judge --- Digicom (Guild Master of Solo Art and amazing friend)
2. Digi added 57k Ce to our pot of Ce for prizes.
3. 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place prizes for each contest is now 1k Ce more (1st Place: 4,069, 2nd place: 3,069, and 3rd place: 2,069)

Enjoy folks and remember you can win in multiple categories so if you somehow whoo us in each category and take home 1st place: 77k Ce you can bring home!!

That's... a lot of CE.

I tried to make a good sword, but kinda failed...

Catagory: Catagory 7
Title: Vengeance
Link to art: http://i49.tinypic.com/1oa89z.png
IGN: Korakc

Vengeance is a 5 star sword that is upgraded from the Ascended Calibur. This sword has the same attack mechanics as the Leviathan Blade, except with shadow damage and a lower chance of multiple hits per charge. It could be a Shadow Lair weapon, possibly with a new update letting weapons be craftable.

Lore: A spiral scientist once decided on crafting a Gran Faust. Putting all the required materials and energy in the crafting machine, he slid out his sword and entered it. Upon hitting the craft button, he realized he had entered his Ascended Calibur into to machine, instead of his Faust. Desperately the scientist tried to stop it, but to no avail. Slowly, a hilt of a blade slipped out of the machine. Pulling it out , the scientist saw it was an evil weapon, capable of causing mass destruction. Immediately the scientist programmed the machine to never be able to craft the evil weapon. Alas, the scientist forgot one small thing: Shadow Lair crafting machines. The sword had resided inside all Shadow Lair crafting machines, awaiting an owner to claim it. To this day, that sword awaits for a knight to wield it.

Category Name: Fun in the clockworks (If it is invalid, Free-for-all)
Title of your artwork: The nature of Clockworks
Link to Artwork: http://dragnor425.deviantart.com/art/The-Nature-Of-Clockworks-356032778…
In-Game-Name: Dragnor

You don't consider games art? That sucks =/
Have you ever considered how much work goes into a game? There's game design, art, music, sound design, et cetera.
If you only consider traditional visual art to be art, you should've asked for 2d raster images and not art.

Very nice art submissions guys keep it up =) I blogged it all as well.

@krakob --- Ah well I misunderstood what type of game you were talking about. If you are designing a game with art, music, sound, etc. Yes it would count towards an entry if you can make it fit into the categories, but if you are talking about giving me a load of text describing a board game or a word search puzzle and count it as art I would have to decline. Digi and myself are looking for art that we can see or well mess around with. If you created a flash animation, youtube video, sculpture, music for Spiral Knights, etc. (Honestly we are not omitting any entry. The only submissions we are not looking for is fanfic, poetry etc. We have nothing against this style of art, but for this competition it is not what we wish to judge). If you can give me an example of the type of art you wish to submit I am sure I can give you precise feedback.

I'm referring to the kind that you'd download in a .zip file and extract so that you can run a .exe file which provides some entertainment. You know, a so called videogame, quite like SK itself, except that it wouldn't have any network interaction, it'd probably not keep you hooked for a few thousand hours and chances are it'd throw a "Made with GameMaker" splash while loading. Maybe one if I work a lot on it, it'll last for at least one hour. Thanks for the clarification and pardon the slight upsetness. I do realise I should've formulated myself more properly in my first post.

So yeah, tomorrow I shall start working then.

@Krakob --- Yes I can see something like that fitting into some of the categories for sure feel free to try it out man I am certain that we will accept it as a form of art work since it is. As far as the program runs I am certain Digi and I both run on Apple, so I would set it up so you can have access to the program using Apple and Windows. No worries man we both see eye to eye we just had a small confusion on the game style you suggested.

*Side-Note*
A spiral Knights board game would be a pretty neat way to enter something in this contest, but it would need to come with a picture and a set of rules lol.

Ah dang, I can't compile to Mac. I could possibly set up a virtual machine for you, or have a friend compile it to HTML5. I'd probably go for the latter. I could make a gameplay video anyway.

Small-Update:

Category 12: Create Some Accessories:

I added in that you can put the accessories on helmet and armor sets you created on your own. I think this will allow players who submit artwork in other categories use their pre-existing submissions to end up creating something magical (yes I used the word magical)!