Scylla Gym Sprite Challenge: Umbreon Shadow vs. Surly Professor

[Seawolf]

Scylla Gym's Umbreon Shadow versus the challenger, Surly Professor!

Their challenge was a simple one; to create an evolution for the Pokemon Qwilfish. Both had free-range on their entries. Here is what they came up with:

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Umbreon Shadow's 'Spikemish'

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Surly Professor's 'Fencer'

Please vote for which entry you think is the best. Voting ends on March 7th, so make sure you cast those votes! :rolleyes:

[gun6]

Beautiful job on Surly's part. It looks like it came from a game, plus it's all spikey.

[Nefarious]

As much as I like Umbreon Shadow's, I'm going to have to go with Surly's. They are both great, but Surly's has, less to be desired.

[Cris]

I like both, but Surly's rock, a marlin!I really like the pose and the colors.

[Sleepy Sheep]

I liked US's. It's not that I don't like Surly's; infact I like his better. However...Surly's doesn't really look like quilfish, but if it was a...maybe huntail evo, Surly woulda got my vote.

[Tabbloza]

I like Surly's, it's amazing, he made the outline look very smooth, the coloring and shading is amazing. He's got my vote. But US's is very nice too, I like the idea of it, a fish with spikes on it's back is cool.

[Pidgeot79]

This one is tough for me.

Fencer looks really clean and executed, but it needs more of the Qwilfish look.

US captures Qwilfish's evolution better than Surly. The colors seem a little bland compared to Fencer. Spikemish's head looks weird too.

I voted for US.

[HKim]

Hmmm, both are good entries and both work.

If you put Surly's pokemon's head on Umbreon's pokemon's body, that actually might be better overall as an evolution.

Anyway, I voted for Surly based on appearance.

[Omis]

They both rock. But I chose SP's. It is better in quality, plus, I think its more of a likely evo for Quilfish.

Yours is very creative, US.

[Channel Delibird]

Both are fantastic, but Surly's seemed more like Qwilfish in its colour scheme and continues the Pokemon tradition of looking like a familiar animal. Well done to both.

[Night Rider]

They're both fantastic sprites, but I'll have to choose Surly Professor's because IMO, it was sprited better. Yet Umbreon Shadow's captured Qwilfish more to me, so it was a rather tough decision. :tongue:

[Neptune's Disciple]

I voted for Surly's because I thought it was a much more refined sprite than US's. Both very good sprites though

[Kylee the Larvitar]

Surly's sprite has no obvious shading, while it is still there if you look closly.

[TVTMaster]

Fencer doesn't look much like Qwilfish, and it looks a lot like a real animal... BUT THAT THING IS BEAUTIFUL! I've never seen anything like it! You've superbly executed the "shiny" look, gave it an amazingly 3-D pose, and managed to keep enough cartoony look to qualify it as a pokemon! Sweet!

Anyway, Spikemish is cool, but its pose is just another side view, the shading doesn't look natural... and it just looks sad! A better pose, cooler expression. It has lots more originality, but the sprite is poorly executed in itself. This isn't a contest on concept, it is specifically a sprite contest.

[Miravana]

Everyone keeps saying that Surly's poke doesn't look like Qwilfish at all, but I must bring this up..

How does a Remoraid look anything like an Octillery? :3

[RocketMeowth]

O.O D*** SURLEY!! You freakin went all out with that sprite. I love it so much! To me it looks nothing like a pokemon which is great. I have always wanted pokemon sprites that look realistic and you my friend have given me that sprite.

[DaRkUmBrEoN]

Voted for Surly.
US's looked more unrealistically, and had some weird pixels near the left top.

[Ultima Shadow]

Surly by far. It's just so awesome... it even looks realistic!