Big advertisement opportunity

I"m just gonna make this easier on Careno and post a list of everyone I suggested. They are in order of quality, as it goes down the quality lowers.
I'm crossing out those who I have replied and thus there is no point in contacting them again.

Offical Artists:
Arumakan
rockman-forte
Toberboobap
Sheshin
Cessa
Rocksubaru (Equals Cessa and I know is active on Deviantart)
Techno Rocker
PlantMan
TJZero
francoslavic
Hikaizer
Mana.exe(Best at Lineart)
Suraida-chan/(Best at lineart)

Misc. Artists:
Milliliya (Manga-style Artist(They recently changed Deviant Accounts so there are no examples, but if you ask her I'm sure she would be willing to upload her manga style megaman.)
Hinatsu
Higure(Best as a concept artist :/)

Animators(commerical maybe ;O )
Riyami


Spriters:
Hey Stop That Python!
Robertoakes(Good at just about anything)
BlackBeltDude (Very good at Area sprites and title screens type stuff)
Xterra (He is very polished in my opinion, he looks like he would do well at mugshots and battlechips.)
Phantosanucca
Sharingan Navi/ ShotoMan(He is quite good, not perfect, but he has a lot that you all can work off of.)
ActionFence(You would have to contact him on myspace

3-D:
Dionicio(I have no clue if he'll work for you all, but you might be able to get some awesome stuff if he agrees to help)

Programmers:
BluesSoul.EXE (He was reccomended by Rags.)
Tophunter7 (Untaken thought he might be good)

This post has been edited by ngaurhoth1 on Nov 4 2009, 05:44 PM

I bow to you for telling us about this.

Eh... not sure how that'd work to be honest. If I could understand that, I could tell you what I think.

He meant that we could/should make an entry for the contest using the Project Advent characters, because so many people enter and look at the contest it could draw in attention to the game.

TO THE DEVELOPMENT CAVE WITH THIS CONVERSATION! Quickly, Careno...

And so it would seem we are going to further discuss this in the dev. forums.

Thank you once again for all your help ngaurhoth.

We can't use anything that hasn't been inserted into canon yet, I believe. This is against our favor. Also, it's not RPM's contest. It's technically Maq's contest, which has been going on for YEARS now. It's just that RPM is co-hosting.

It's going to be difficult to use this in our favor, guys.

Okay so I'm going to reverse this topic of mine(I don't want to make yet another topic...)

I found a few artists you all may wish to look into, so I want to advertise them so you can contact them. They all seem to be pretty good at drawing EXE style. Also I have contacted all of these artists, but all I could offer them was a suggestion to try out, maybe they would pay more attention to an actual developer saying something.

Artists:
Rocksubaru
Suraida-chan/
Milmaid (She can draw manga style)
Francoslavic-banter
Hikaizer

Spriters:
Robertoakes
Sharingannavi(I asked him once and he said he wanted to be a better spriter so he may want to do it now.)

This post has been edited by ngaurhoth1 on Jul 9 2009, 11:43 PM

Have we told you that we putting you in the game? Because we are.

A new batch of people I think you all might like. I haven't messaged any of them so try to leave a message with anyone you like.

Artists:
Hinatsu (She is also a spriter [x])
Skydreia(Their style is rough, but the line art could produce some amazing artwork, here's why I think that [x])
Ijuin Netto(I haven't see exact EXE style, but I think she can do it)
Mana exe(Most of their stuff is in the scraps)


Spriters:
cm-d
Pallas4
raizor-blaid


Here is a new one.
3-D:
Dionicio(I have no clue if he'll work for you all, but you might be able to get some awesome stuff if he agrees to help)

1st and 3rd people seem like they do shounen-ai, read fanfiction, and yaoi. Fourth person does furry. IIRC, when it comes to serious stuff, people like that usually end up being more trouble than they're worth, especially if they enjoy reading bad fanfics.

Also, Noobus said he and a few friends could help out. The catch? No joining the forums, have to send everything through Noobus to them and vice versa, refuse to do coloring. Your call, guys.

This post has been edited by He Who Adds Order on Jul 10 2009, 04:57 AM

I don't see what people have against joining forums, and if they're not coloring either then why bother with them?

Oh holy hell yes for the spriters. Only problem with cm-d is the fact that two years is mentioned somewhere and only shows one sprite. Worrying if that is the only sprite and that taken two years to do when an equally good spriter can do it with a month. Pallas4's sprite needs an extra frame for it to work IMO so he'd be out if we could only take in two more spriters. As for raizor-blaid, just a few rough edges and not quite like the origina sprites but it's close.

To be honest, we're not lacking people who can color. We're lacking decent artists. Coloring is relatively easy to do if you have lineart and decent skill. Making said lineart is not, due to the sheer amount of penwork, experience, fiddling and such. And to be honest, right now, we need all the artists and spriters we can get(at least those who aren't total rabid fangirls and are likely to help).

As for not joining...I don't know, but I sure as hell know that I prefer chatting as well.

Yes to the spriters and 3-D. No to the artists, personally. Fanfics are one thing. Yaoi and furry fanfics start ending up cheesy and disturbing after the first 2 pages or so, and I don't want something like EXE going into the hands of people who thrive on the stuff. Namely since we might end up getting Enzan x Netto art. >__>;;

This post has been edited by He Who Adds Order on Jul 10 2009, 10:51 AM

HWAO:
I'd like to hear your opinion on the second artist, what did you think of her art? Also my brain is slow today, who are you refering to with noobus?

At least it's not Netto x Rockman, I mean first of all they're brother and secondly how would that work? Well Pulse Transmission solves that problem.

Dunno. I think I'm seeing SOME shounen-ai and yaoi fangirl races, but not sure.

Also, what I'm saying is, yaoi-fanfic-reading rabid fangirls=godly artists. In return, a good majority happen to be lacking a few brain cells and lead to things like Gundam SEED Destiny.

As for Noobus, don't expect to know him. Drei, Kilik, Manson and I know, Wisher may or may not.

This post has been edited by He Who Adds Order on Jul 10 2009, 11:53 PM

This time I am advertising a sprite of GravityMan.EXE.
http://www.sprites-inc.co.uk/forum/showthr...=gravityman.exe

I do not recommend this user as a spriter based off of the quality of his most recent works. However the person who made the original GravityMan sprite may be very good, I don't know since most of his photobucket is deleted. You might be able to reach him at these:
Email: Baldoak@gmail.com
MSN: xxbaldoakxx@hotmail.com
But he seems to have dropped off of the face of the earth since 2008....

This post has been edited by ngaurhoth1 on Jul 12 2009, 12:56 AM

A new spriter:
BlackBeltDude
So I am recommending this guy because he could make an awesome title/gameover screen.

Woa! You're sprites are awesome!! Mind if I use them for my game? I'll give you loads of credit!

...They're not mine... They're the artist/spriters that I am recommending the Developers contact.

This post has been edited by ngaurhoth1 on Jul 17 2009, 12:21 AM

Contacted the above people, 1 response saying they couldn't help, and still waiting on the others.

This time rather than posting people I think should be contacted I will make a few suggestions for advertisement.

First of all I have not seen very many advertisement threads, I have seen one at Sprites INC and one at TUS which is a very small number. I recommend posting one at The Megaman Network, Rockman Perfect Memories, and The Mechanical Maniacs(Ask Gauntlet for permission first please).

Thread suggestions:
-I HIGHLY suggest posting your character designs; that is what drew me in and it might draw in more people too.
-Take out all uncertainty in your posts such as: "So, uhh... yeah."
-Separate your post into sections, like this: Plot synopsis, what you are about, and positions available.
-Do NOT say that you need something; try to strategically make the people reading the thread think it is their own idea to help out. Persuasion has a lot of power.

Post about this in several different not-so-popular websites, such as the GameMaker forum or even an unpopular Megaman Blog.

I am not requesting these, but I am suggesting that you post a sprite thread at Sprites INC with very minor "sprite spoilers" such as a virus made from scratch or maybe the first area of the net. This will show off how high your quality is. Do NOT use Halos, he is an obvious edit of SearchMan and edits are likely to be frowned upon. Do NOT use these:

I say this because they are bad sprites, the one on left looks like a serpent of somekind rather than Halos. The one on the right is too dark and in addition to this it is obviously an edited picture of Zero. When it comes to battlechips I am 90% sure that Capcom HAND-DRAWS them and then pixels over them.


This post has been edited by ngaurhoth1 on Jul 20 2009, 11:37 PM

So, I'm not the only one who noticed it? >__>;; Don't worry though. It's not like I'd be the type to let things like that slide for the final project. Remember that I'm the one who's constantly bitching, and if they don't listen I'll just force them into submission.

Another artist:
http://cessa.deviantart.com/gallery/#Rockman-Related-Fan

Who all has been contacted?

New spriter:
Action Fence ( you should be able to contact him through MySpace, he isn't on Sprites INC very often)

A possible programmer:
http://www.sprites-inc.co.uk/forum/member.php?u=12 (I got the recommendation for him from Rags who had a Battle Network 7 Fan-Game)

A new programmer/spriter(?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz872xE8vHU
It is something simple, but it is still something/someone who may be able to help you.

Right now, it's difficult to discern whether he modified the EXE6 engine with sprite, graphic, and text edits or whether he did it with GM.

I had trouble figuring that out as well, but if he really did make it there might be a new much needed programmer.

Also new spriter:
Xterra http://www.sprites-inc.co.uk/forum/showthr...p?t=7628&page=3
I think he/she could do really well as a mugshot and battle-chip spriter.

I know most of those people on Sprites Inc already, so I'll try and convince them to help once we get a super amazing demo out.

As if finding info on PoN and LoN wasn't enough...ngauroth, you sir, are a god.