# Cartoon characters?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 14, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242 "2003-01-14T13:56:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/21 "2003-01-16T11:10:27Z")

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Wow, you’re really packing trout… :cyclops:

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/22 "2003-01-16T14:55:04Z")

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Makaveli, just coz you don’t do line art doesnt mean you can’t enter, i mean, my fish & trout were quick deals, i tend not to get too technical n stuff and just go for simple designs which work through simplicity. in fact, entering is more important if you think you’re no good, gets you doing stuff…

if no-one posts rules by end of tomorrow, i’ll propose somethin…

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/23 "2003-01-16T17:51:47Z")

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**Theme:** Create your own cartoon monster.  
**Programs:** Flash Only  
**Size:** Maximum of 400x400  
**Participants:** AJCrowley, Kitiara, Playamarz, Ilyas  
**Due Date:** January, 23, 2002 (One week from today)

If anything needs to be changed here, like another suggestion on a Theme, to change the size, added/removed participants, or to change the due date.

All participants must agree on the change if it is a Theme, Size, or Due Date change.

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/24 "2003-01-16T19:09:18Z")

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This sounds good to me… Only Flash too?

Allright that’s cool… Good Luck Guys 🙂

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/25 "2003-01-16T20:33:10Z")

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Line art, is that right? If it’s the case I’m in :beam:

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/26 "2003-01-16T22:02:43Z")

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Cool ill probally be in to

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/27 "2003-01-16T23:18:02Z")

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No line art from the looks… Flash only… No outside means… I guess.

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/28 "2003-01-17T02:33:35Z")

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I guess it is, Playamarz…

And here are the final rules. So far…

[http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12823](http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12823)

pom :cowboy:

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/29 "2003-01-17T03:30:55Z")

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Cool cool…

So we have to draw and color in Flash only…

Which means no scanning in hand drawings…

I see… That’s kind-a cool though… Maybe after this battle we can have one where you can scan in 🙂

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/30 "2003-01-17T03:33:08Z")

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No wait! I think we ARE allowed to scan stuff. We are the mods when you need them… :hangover:

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/31 "2003-01-17T03:35:11Z")

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Well if you all agree you want to be able to use scanners.

But the original idea was that you created from scratch inside Flash.

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/32 "2003-01-17T03:39:17Z")

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Arghh!! I started already, and I’ve use my scanner. :-\

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/33 "2003-01-17T03:41:24Z")

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Ok, I will add scanner optional then. Seems a lot of people here want scanner too, so I will leave that optional.

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/34 "2003-01-17T08:09:41Z")

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pleah. the whole point was that it would be using the drawing tools in flash only…

grrr.

the point being that give me (and Makaveli apparently) a pencil and paper and we suck, so scanning our own designs from paper into something like flash is pointless. but let me play with flash a while and i can come out with some interesting designs, re: the fishbowl robot, the trout, and the main character at [http://meathook.net](http://meathook.net) on the index page.

no scanning of previous work… completely original design made in flash only.

so there 😱

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/35 "2003-01-17T09:53:34Z")

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Alright, sounds fair to me.

Although is it OK if I draw on paper first then recreate in Flash? No scanning in, just a visual guideline sitting on the table next to me?

[SIZE=1]Oh, and even if we aren’t scanning anything in, I think this still qualifies as line art…[/SIZE]

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/36 "2003-01-17T10:00:22Z")

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err, k.

😉

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/37 "2003-01-17T13:31:52Z")

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Well, I don’t feel like starting all over again, and I don’t think I can do anything with my old mouse, so… ☹

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/38 "2003-01-17T13:36:59Z")

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aww, c’mon, i havent even started yet… 😉

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/39 "2003-01-17T15:00:05Z")

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Ever tried to draw with a mouse? It’s even harder than playing Street Fighter 2 with a Wacom… :hangover:

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cartoon-characters/11242/40 "2003-01-17T15:26:58Z")

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err, yeah, that’s part of the point… using a scan, and tracing lines then filling them in is a cool method of getting your original concept into flash, but it’s no fun 😉

i’m not going to say it doesnt take any skill coz it does, and besides, i’d get trouted by kit…

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