[X] My Assistant

The EH Translations team needs help! For long, we've been a disorganized bunch, putting out uncoordinated releases now and then with no real coherency. Well, that's about to change, but we need your help to do it!

As part of this organizational effort, we're going to need a mascot, a unifying brand, so to speak, for our releases. While we may be awesome at editing manga, translating awkward dialogue and procrastinating, we don't know the first thing about character design, much less drawing those designs. This is where you come in!

Your task is to design and draw a mascot for EHT. We like variation, so we would like each submission to contain your mascot in at least three different poses. The mascot also needs to be your original creation; submissions obviously based on/plagiarized from existing characters are not allowed. Finally, all submissions must be in PNG format, to avoid compression artifacts.

Aside from these three rules, you are free to submit whatever you want. Keep in mind though, that this mascot would be used in a logo-ish capacity on our future releases. As such, simple, chibi-ish creations would probably stand a better chance than highly detailed creations. We will not, however, reject any submissions for being "too detailed" or "not simplistic enough" or anything like that; if you have a great idea, go for it!

Since this contest is about creating a character, not just drawing a pretty picture, you're quite welcome to flesh out your submission with a name for your character, a backstory and other misc. information. That said, our primary focus is of course on design and visuals, so don't sweat it if you don't feel like coming up with a story.

Also note that you're not limited to one submission. If you have several good ideas, then by all means, submit all of them!

Submission format; each submission should come in the form of a post to this thread. Submission posts should follow this template:
Please note that it's quite important to ensure that the "Submission" at the top of your post is in bold type, as that will make it easier for us to skim the thread and immediately distinguish the submissions. Also note that name, bio, extra material and motivation are not mandatory, and may be omitted if you wish.

The winner will receive a grand prize of 100,000 credits and 100 Hath, and is chosen by the EHT team. (S)he will also receive the honor of having his/her submission featured on our releases. There are no formal criteria or metrics to measure your submission against; we will simply choose the submission that we like best (or nothing, in the case that we don't find any submissions acceptable). That said, we like some things more than other.

Things we like:
* vector-based images, so they can effortlessly be made to fit any release;
* variety - three poses is the bottom limit, more is better;
* creativity and originality - if your submission is cliched, it had better make up for it by being extremely well done or in some other way.

Deadline
All submissions must be posted no later than 00:00 GMT, Friday, August 20th.

Usage details
By participating in this contest, you agree to irrevocably allow any and all redistribution and modification of your submission by anyone, for any purpose, without reservation, effectively placing your submission in the public domain under U.S. copyright law. The reason for this rights grant is to ensure that we will actually be able to use your submission for our releases.

Good luck!


(Writeup by Vlad)

This will end in failure.

I wish I could upload drawings (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Can we draw our character with a Jewfro?

We like variation, so we would like each submission to contain your mascot in at least three different poses.

You sure about that? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I wish I could draw

I wish I could draw

I wish I could draw on a computer.

I wish I could upload drawings (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Any graphics shop can scan your work to a file.

I wish I could draw on a computer.

Plenty of items that could make it easier, Bamboo seems to be an artist favorite.

Any graphics shop can scan your work to a file.
Plenty of items that could make it easier, Bamboo seems to be an artist favorite.

Intuos is better.

Bamboo is pretty much the Graphire4, so it's legit, but the intuos pads are just so much nicer.

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There you go, his name is stick man. That was a whole two minutes of my time I'll never get back. Whose up for an orgy?

Intuos is better.

Bamboo is pretty much the Graphire4, so it's legit, but the intuos pads are just so much nicer.

Agreed. But Bamboo is much cheaper and seems to do just as well.

Intuos is better.

Bamboo is pretty much the Graphire4, so it's legit, but the intuos pads are just so much nicer.

Agreed, I love my Intuos (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Hmm maybe I will submit something but who knows.... To much drama and other stuff going on in my life. So I'll see if I can made some time for this

Not having a pad is the sticking point here. Let me rephrase:

I wish I could draw with a mouse.

If you're USA I can let you borrow one of mine via mail.

I wish I could teach a mouse to draw. That shit would make bank. Leonardo Da Mousey!

If you're USA I can let you borrow one of mine via mail.

Nah, don't sweat it. I have a lot of IRL business queued up, so I don't know that I would have the time to be creative. Maybe an idea will come from the blue.

Thanks for the generosity, though.

(IMG:[static.img4tw.com] http://static.img4tw.com/i/f601190f.jpeg)

There you go, his name is stick man. That was a whole two minutes of my time I'll never get back. Whose up for an orgy?

This gets my vote. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

This will end in huge failure. I don't think many ppl are qualified to draw original characters (much less edit out pixels on already drawn characters).
I'll give it a try... maybe.
I should finish up the banner contest first.

@Bunz

I´ve got a question would you staff guys prefer a more kawai kinda character or just anything Hentai related? Furthermore would you like me to include some text like "E-Hentai Staff works" as a circle around the chara?

And damn you Bunz, why did you guys have to make this contest now as I am working on a henati of my own :3

We had something 'cute' in mind. That said, the ideas we were throwing around amounted to ungodly abominations being moe-ified.


So, while we would prefer something cute, if you feel like you have a good idea, run with it.

As of now, no text.

Alright, I´ll go for a kawai chibi-chara then. Thanks for the quick response. (I´ll start working on it soon, maybe it´ll be finished in a week) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)