Welcome to the MBRQ Challenge Board for summer 2017! In here, you will find various challenges that you can take!
Be sure to read the FAQs section to learn all about MBRQs.
Some General Notes:
- The deadline for any of these is September 22nd, 2017.
- Exceptional work may be uploaded on the official MM YouTube channel by request.
- Returning quests from previous seasons may be repeated once again. Do not use your same entry as last time.
- Have fun and don't procrastinate!
Animations
Summer Sundae
Objective : Create a short involving ice cream. Mmmmm...
Beach Battle
Objective: Create a fight or summer sports scene on the beach between characters or monsters (or both).
Bayhem
Objective: In light of summer blockbusters, create a short involving a heavy amount of visual effects.
Explosions are a plus.
Surfs Up
Objective: Create a surfing animation!
Avant Garde
Objective: Create an experimental, art-house stylized short. Can be virtually about anything.
Great example (Animator: Dan Derps)
Collab Trailer
Objective: If you're working on a collab this year, make a trailer for it! Must at least be 30 seconds long.
Example (Yes, you better believe we're still working on this one xD)
Color Wars
Objective: Talk about throwback! Create a fight scene involving colors or characters on different colored teams! Must at least be 30 seconds long
Melee Madness
Objective: As an alternative to regular 1v1 MBRs, create an epic fight between two characters with Maple or anime sprites. Must be longer than 30 seconds.
Animated Short
Objective: Create a short of any genre. Must have a coherent story and/or theme.
Beautiful example here. (Animator: PathofHeaven)
Character Origins
Objective: Create a short that introduces your OC in a creative, entertaining manner. Must have a cohesive story!
Great example here. (Animator: Jaycie)
Gaming Short
Objective: Create any kind of skit based on any videogame franchise or genre.
Can be an animated short or parody. Be creative!
Maple Anime
Objective: Create an anime parody or tribute using Maple characters. Please be careful if you use copyrighted audio though. We do not own said protection rights.
Lock n' Load
Objective: Create an action or comedy short that involves guns. Lots of guns.
Sprites
Excalibur
Objective: Create your best version of Arthur's sword. Can be inspired by best girl Saber in Fate/Stay Night :D
Go Big or Go Home
Objective: Create a ruby greatsword or any kind of giant royal arm.
Diamonds and Pearls
Objective: Create a weapon that integrates pearls or diamonds in its design. This is good practice for shading and lighting contrast!
Flames of Fury
Objective : Create a fire-based elemental weapon.
N-Notice me Senpai
Objective: Create a sprite of an OC...in a custom swimsuit.
APES! TOGETHER! STRONG!
Objective: Create a npc or Maple version of Caesar or any kind of ape from the Planet of the Apes prequels.
The Last Jedi
Objective: Create a npc or character based on the new Star Wars trilogy.
Fantasy Bladez
Objective: Create a sword inspired by a signature weapon in a RPG.
Back to the Past!
Objective: Create a npc or character based on the Samurai Jack universe!
Anime NPC
Objective: Take any anime character and sprite him/her/it into a MapleStory NPC. Must be an original sprite.
Game NPC
Objective: While at it, let's add games too! Take any character from a favorite game of yours and sprite him into a MapleStory NPC. Must be an original sprite.
Art
Summer Serenity
Objective: Create a scenery drawing or painting with a summer theme.
Party On
Objective: Create a portrait or painting of a party or summer celebration involving 2 or more characters.
Smile this Season
Objective : Create a portrait of a character dressed in summer attire. Make it exquisite!
My True Self
Objective: Create a wallpaper with a theme based on an OC.
Maple Bonfire
Objective: Create a painting or drawing of MM members chilling at the beach.
Typography Challenge
Objective: Create a building for Maplemation HQ with a custom logo design.
Nom Nom Nom
Objective: Draw a character DEVOURING (or just casually eating/drinking) his or her favorite food in the summer.
Maps
Summer Slaying
Objective: Create a summer-themed battle arena.
Sandy Shores
Objective: Create a peaceful beach or summer-themed map. Something beautiful and/or surreal.
Aqua Hidden Fortress (Not a Kurosawa reference lol)
Objective: Create an underwater military base or prison facility.
Age of Aku
Objective: Create a map based on the future ruled by Aku in the series Samurai Jack!
Oceanic Challenge
Objective: Create an undersea map without aquaroad props/sprites
[I]The Future[/I]
Objective: Create a futuristic map. Can include sci-fi or apocalyptic elements! Be creative!
Objective Object
Objective: Incorporate a particular map object in your map 5 times. Must be of creative effort, not just spammed 5x.
Comics
Holiday Havoc
Objective: Create a summer holiday themed comic!
Action Thriller
Objective: Create an action-oriented comic.
Once Upon a Time
Objective: Create a comic with an enthralling short story. Be creative!
HUGE THANKS to the following idea contributors and drawn inspirations:
@Juan. @Noziki @Alex303 @jose117 @Johano Sarutobi @Tra-La-Tracey @StayFrosty @ForgettenSoul
If you have any questions, comments, or further suggestions, please post them below or message me on Discord.
As always, it is my hope these challenges will motivate and spring forth some new, great content from our talented animators/artists here!
Do your best! がんばってね! :)
Spritesheet status: Technically still unfinished, a good number of poses completed, but many of them are duplicates with slight changes. Quality over quantity I say. I'm too lazy to do much, but if I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well.
