Echidna Official PD Contest - with Prizes!

Echidna, Mother of all Monsters

This is an official PaperDemon.com contest!

Contest Objective

Imagine that you are a concept artist for a role playing game and have been tasked with creating the character Echidna as a boss for the game. Create an illustration, sketch, or sequential art showing your vision of Echidna, the mother of all monsters from Greek mythology as she would appear as a boss in a video game. Be creative with it. Think about what type of role playing game this is. Is it a comedy? Is it a scary game? Is it a children's game? Is it a sci-fi game? Is it a romance with the Echidna stopping mid battle to attend to her husband Typhon? Or is she a giant mecha-robot with telescoping tentacles? The possibilities are endless. But we must be able to see some resemblance to the Greek mythological character in your piece.

Please note that Echidna, the Mother of all Monsters, is NOT the same thing as the spiny anteater that will appear in a Google image search for the term “echidna.”

Prizes

The more members that participate in this contest, the bigger the first place prize will be. So encourage your friends to participate and please help spread the word about it.

20 or more Participants

If there are at least 20 participants, one item from the PaperDemon Store valued at $20 USD or less of the winner's choosing will be awarded to the winner.

15-19 Participants

If there are less than 20 but at least 15 participants, one item from the PaperDemon Store valued at $11 USD or less of the winner's choosing will be awarded to the winner.

10-14 Participants

If there are less than 15 but at least 10 participants in this contest, a two-month Premium Account will be awarded to the winner.

5-9 Participants

If there are less than 10 but at least 5 participants, a one-month Premium Account will be awarded to the winner.

0-4 Participants

If there are less than 5 participants, no prize will be awarded.

Submission Instructions

The deadline for this contest is 12:00pm noon PDT July 14th, 2007. You must submit your contest entry into the Echidna Contest gallery for it to be considered for vote. Before you can add your entry to the Echidna Contest gallery you must add yourself to the Contests group http://www.paperdemon.com/group/Contests.html

How to add your artwork submission to the Echidna Contest Gallery

1. Submit your artwork entry just as you would any other artwork entry.

2. Click on Members Area > Manage Submissions > Artwork

3. Click on [group galleries] underneath your contest entry.

4. Click on the Contests group.

5. Check the Echidna gallery. Click on Submit

6. Confirm that your entry has been added to the gallery by viewing the contest gallery at http://www.paperdemon.com/group/gallery/24.html

How to add your comic submission to the Echidna Contest Gallery

1. Submit your comic submission just as you would any other comic entry.

2. Click on Members Area > Manage Submissions > Comics.

3. Click on the comic entry you wish to enter into this contest.

4. Click on Edit your Comic Line Group Gallery settings.

5. Click on the Contests group

6. Check the Echidna gallery. Click on Submit.

7. Confirm that your entry has been added to the gallery by viewing the contest gallery at http://www.paperdemon.com/group/gallery/24.html

Judging

The winner of this contest will be determined by vote of the members of PaperDemon.com. Each member may only vote for one submission.

Contest Rules

• Art Gallery submissions and Comic submissions only. There is no writing aspect to this contest. Art Gallery and Comic submissions will be judged together, not separately. You may submit a sketch, line art, color illustration, short comic, or short storyboard.

• You may submit one Art Gallery entry OR one Comic entry.

• Only members of PaperDemon.com may participate in this contest.

• Your submission must follow all of PaperDemon.com's submission rules. http://www.paperdemon.com/tos.php

• Your entry must have some resemblance to the mythological creature Echidna.

• If you've won the contest and a prize from the PaperDemon.com store is awarded, you must live in a place that CafePress ships to. If CafePress does not ship to your country, a premium account will be awarded instead. It is your responsibility to contact Cafepress and ask them if they ship to your location.

• If you've won the contest and a prize from the PaperDemon.com store is awarded and you live outside the United States you are responsible for paying any Customs/Import Duties/Taxes that may occur.

• Red Curtain submissions are NOT allowed. Your submission must be viewable by people age 13+ and follow all rules and guidelines for PaperDemon side submissions.

• Fanart is not allowed. Your submission must be an original entry not based too closely on any existing characters or copyright renditions of Echidna.

• You cannot submit a piece of art that you had created before this contest started.

Resources

Timeless Myths

http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/beasts.html#Echidna

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna_%28mythology%29

This sounds very cool. I really like the idea of this contest ^-^ I already have an idea for my pic...now I just have to get to drawing it..

Great! I hope more people participate. Hopefully the prize structure I've set up will be encouraging. I can't wait to see what people come up with.

I'm in!

Lol I can make a comic eh? Hmmm...the ideas are already pouring in count me in. I'll have something up....eventually

Sweet, I'm in, too.

Ooh, damn, I just now read that. Could I not do that and instead depict her in my usual "19th-century etching" style? (Cerberus example: http://www.dinosoria.com/religion/cerbere4.jpg)

Your artwork does NOT have to be in a video game art style!

Runic Tunic, yes you can use your etching style. I'm not sure if you've ever seen concept art for games and movies but the concept art often has a great variety of styles. The art doesn't necessarily have to represent exactly what the character would look like in the game. Rather the concept art is used as an exploratory stage to see what the possibilities are. So just about anything goes.

Here's an example of some concept art for Monsters, Inc done by Lou Romano. This style is not at all representative of the animation style of the film. The concept art book is filled with artwork of various styles.

Also keep in mind that its entirely possible that a video game could be created entirely in an etching style! That would be pretty darn original and fantastic, now wouldn't it? Paper Mario is a good example. All the characters in Paper Mario are 2d pieces of paper. A video game doesn't have to be realistic.

Ok I have my computer up and running again! I'll work on my entry asap =D

Just a reminder, this contest ends in 10 days!

I'll be done with my entry in a couple days. I'm really hoping for a shot at the month free Premium account, so please everyone, give this a shot.

I noticed Keen started his "asap," so it should be done about now, unless it's so wicked sweet and detailed that it's taken him all this time to do it.

On Jul 4, 2007 7:24 pm, Runic Tunic said:

Well acutally...I haven't started it yet my computer was knocked out by a storm and I had to get it fixed, now that it's finally fixed, I should be able to get to it on sunday, I have a full day to work on it then, because I work friday and saturday. Sorry it's taking so long guys! I WILL get it done. I'm gonna try some new techniques so it should be the best I've ever done

EDIT: I've finished my entry and put it in the Echidna Contest thing

Ouf, I wish I'd known about it sooner. But I don't think I can pull something off in the next two days. ;D

Oh well, I'll definitely be around for the next contest!

This contest has ended. There was only one entry but it was disqualified. Stay tuned for the next contest. I will start it within the next couple days.