Cool News from OCR & DJ Pretzel
by djpretzel David W. Lloyd:
"Originally Posted by Reinhold Hoffmann
Hope that Game Art HQ was helpful, are any submissions of "our" artists going to be used?
Yes - definitely helpful!
Winners have been notified & the album trailer should be going live soon, with a full release mid-June!
This trailer is online now www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsjVzh…
Looking forward to see GA-HQ and OCR collaborating on an art tribute in the future
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A few weeks ago i promoted a video game album here and yesterday nobody else than DJPretzel, founder of the well known OverClockedRemix Portal contacted me and asked if i know artist who could be interested to work on covers and other additional artworks related to their upcoming Super Mario64 VideoGameMusicRemixAlbum ""Portrait of a Plumber""
Those OCR Albums are downloaded many thousand times and being part of those projects is not only a damn cool thing which shows how dedicated the musicans from OCR and maybe we visual artists are, but you can also win some nice prizes if you participate! Artists are also credited of course.
These are:
FIRST PRIZE - Album Cover (logo is optional): Win a physical copy of Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin, a physical copy of Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream, and a physical copy of For Everlasting Peace: 25 Years of Mega Man!! Plus we’ll pimp your artist name + URL in our album press release, forum mailout, on the back cover, on the trailer, and on the album website.
SECOND PRIZE - Album Cover Runner-up: For Everlasting Peace: 25 Years of Mega Man download code, listed on album liner notes, website w/ URL, trailer
STAGE ARTWORK WINNERS- For Everlasting Peace: 25 Years of Mega Man download code, listed on album liner notes, website w/ URL, trailer
REQUIREMENTS: FRONT COVER ARTWORK
Subject: A “Portrait” of Mario, of course! This is open to some interpretation, but generally speaking a painted depiction of Mario in some form is suggested, looking at us, i.e. not an action shot.
Format: Square dimensions required, as well as a minimum resolution of 2000 pixels. The album design may call for the work to be scaled a bit to acommodate. A Photoshop PSD file with separate layers is highly preferred.
Limitations: The work MUST be your own and must not incorporate outside assets, including any official Nintendo artwork.
BONUS: Feel free to include an album title/logo layer, or as a separate file, for “Super Mario 64: Portrait of a Plumber” - it’s optional, but if we love it & use it, we’ll try and throw a little something extra in!
REQUIREMENTS: STAGE ARTWORK (8 STAGES TOTAL)
Subject: These paintings should be just like the ones inside the Peach castle, representing 8 of the game's stages, but this time featuring Mario engaging/interacting with the depicted stage. For example, one painting where Mario makes his way up Whomp's Fortress, another where he battles the giant Bob-omb, one where he gets his ass fried within Lethal Lava Land, etc. A high level of detail is not necessary, but each work should at least look like it was painted (oil, watercolor, airbrushed, and so on), and feel free to emulate the style of famous artists from history - Picasso, Magritte, Van Gogh, etc.
The eight stages are as follows:
Cool, Cool Mountain
Whomp's Fortress
Bob-omb Battlefield
Lethal Lava Land
Jolly Roger Bay
Tiny-Huge Island
Tall, Tall Mountain
Wet-Dry World
The deadline for submissions is the 24th March already, i wish they would have contacted us a bit earlier.
EDIT: Talked with djPretzel, you have ONE MORE WEEK, the contest ends on the 31st March now not the 24th!
For all details and questions directly to the OCR Staff about the contest and the album i recommend you to visit: ocremix.org/forums/showthread.…
Submit your artwork entries via email to projects@ocremix.org i guess you can also ask any questions via that contact emailaddy. And please mention it that you heard about the contest and this album through GA-HQ.
Would love to see a collaboration of our two video game fan & artist communities sooner or later! OCR was actually a big inspiration to start Game-Art-HQ and our own game tributes like Link's Blacklist.
