Calling All Artists for a Worldwide 25th Anniversary Homage!
It’s time once again for fans around the world to contribute art to show their love of Mega Man. This past summer, we put out the call for a worldwide art project in support of Rock Day. At the time there was only two days’ notice, but we managed to rally an overwhelming response nonetheless. It’s gearing up again now, and with much more additional time, we expect the response to be phenomenal!
It all starts here, at the 25th Anniversary Birthday Collaboration page. Be sure to check it carefully, because there’s a lot you need to pay attention to in order to properly submit your work. Right now, the project is only taking applications for characters. You can comment on the site which character you wish to draw – you can draw up to two (one per picture), and you cannot pick a character that’s already chosen (so hurry!). Not just characters, but minor enemies are fine as well. The application deadline is October 17th, 11AM EST. You must comment on the site to choose your character, not here! (Go to the very bottom to find the comment field.) You can see characters already chosen beneath the example comment form.
After that, your artwork will be due by November 17th, and you can email to submit it. Again, be sure to follow the image guidelines properly! Once that date passes, the final collage will be edited together in preparation to be shown off on the Blue Bomber’s 25th birthday: December 17th.
We know the world loves Mega Man, so let’s show it off. We got nearly 100 pictures for Rock Day, and I know we can do way better than that for the 25th anniversary. Reserve your characters and get to it!
Tags: 25th anniversary, Artwork, collaboration, Fan Art, homage, worldwide
Filed under: Community Developments
@ Glitcher: Woah chill Glitch, the homage mods already told me I can’t change my choices, which is cool too coz Freakin’ Double AND Colonel XD.
And Iris is awesome, just sayin’.
Just signed up for the second character, Blossom from ZXA, since I sketched her on a whim and liked how she turned out.
I’m already excited by the number of people that have signed up and the variety in characters that are picked. =3 I hope more characters are taken!
How do I comment on the page? I already applied and I’m still confused.
@Pwings: Should be good enough, the mod then momentarily closes the sight to post the new names before it get’s back up again.
CG entries only? That’s kind of lame… XD;
@Irism: Oh, I get you now. I’m new to this so it will take some time for me to adjust. I do plan on doing Bright Man from the original series.
I signed up for Red on that site!
I’ll be doing new art of him for this. It’ll be fun! ^w^
I don’t think I can take on a second character, but I’ll be really happy to focus on doing one character well, rather than mediocre effort on two images. That’s just me, though. And I could not pass up this opportunity to be a part of the Mega Man 25th Anniversary celebration!
I registered Ballade and it looks like the rest of the Megaman Killers are in! This is looking really promising!
Many people signed up for this collage, but quite a few didn’t finish. I find it kind of off-putting that the MMZ collage will have no Zero.
Come on, people. If you can’t commit, don’t bother signing up. Imagine how many others would have liked to draw your character, but can’t because you took it and didn’t do a damn thing with it!
Sooo, where’s the picture?
Is the picture running late, or something?
I agree with Ryan on that it’s a bit off-putting that people will sign up for a character, and then not turn it in. It will bother those that really wanted the character and would’ve gotten it done. It’s one thing if life suddenly threw a series of hurdles that you weren’t expecting, but it’s another thing if it was laziness or poor time management. Don’t commit if you can’t do it. I know I’m not as technically skilled as some other artists that signed up, but at least I got mine done.
Also, it kinda bugs me that Quake Woman, an Archie-only character, was allowed, but characters from games like RM&F Wonderswan and Rockman Strategy weren’t allowed (and I /love/ Quake Woman, I’m just bugged by the double standards). Oh well, I’ll deal with it.
@RandyPandy That bugged me a lot, too. The Mega Man from SFxTekken is from an official Capcom title, and the Wonderswan and the Strategy games were Capcom approved and made as well. Why weren’t they allowed? Personally, I’d have loved to draw both him and Roll for this. Double standards all around.
Also, on another tangent here, I don’t like Quake Woman, the design is bland and her name is laughably bad (I prefer Tempo, to be honest) and she rubs off on me as shoehorned into the MM Universe, especially since Time Man already has dibs on the whole ‘emotionless’ schtick, and he pulled it off way better.
To be honest, with the last collab, I’d understand because that collab was announced mere days from the deadline, but here’s the thing, we were all given more than a month to do this. That’s more than enough time to do your art. And I tried my hardest to churn my pieces out before the deadline. It really ground my gears to see Atlas from ZXA, somebody I REALLY wanted to draw, taken early, only for the artist to not do -squat-.
If the guy putting together the collab is reading this, I just want him to know that I really appreciate his effort in putting this together, we all do, but please consider my little rants here as some honest critique. It’s not fair for people to take characters and not do anything when everybody else is doing their part, for one, and also, anything Capcom officially releases with regards to Mega Man should be fair game for things such as this.
@ Ryan Rodriguez
Yeah, I would have actually LOVED to draw R-Shadow (2nd favorite character) for this, but was upset when I saw that the game he was from wasn’t allowed (and I think Gonzo/Radix wanted to draw Fan from Strategy). Would’ve also loved to draw Quint (1st favorite character), but someone had taken him early (at least that person got it in). So I went with my third favorite character (Copy Megaman) and a ZX character that I’d never seen fanart for (Blossom).
Eh, opinions are opinions, I like her design (doesn’t seem anymore bland than regular RM designs, honestly) and don’t see anything wrong with how she’s been portrayed, especially in 19 where we got to see a bit of her still-developing personality due to previous events.
Yeah, I saw the deadline for the previous collab, and didn’t do it because I /knew/ I wouldn’t get the art in. I had a lot to do that point plus I’m not the fastest artist. But I hopped in on this one because I had the month, had no major obligations outside of job-searching and helping out at home, and knew that I could get it in on time.
And yeah, the organizers for this were amazing – but that’s my only complaint, the double standards on allowing Archie stuff but not allowing games licensed by Capcom. Next time, I think that stuff from ANY Megaman media should be allowed, like the PC games, RM&FWS, Strategy, etc.
Ah, gotcha. Glad to know and not have to speculate. =)
I get that, but I think it would have been common courtesy to at least give us an estimated date when it actually would be up. It’s one thing to be late, but another to keep people’s expectations up in the air like that.