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AC Secret Santa 2012 REVEALED! [26/29 Submitted] - Deadline Extended +3 Days!
Secret Santa
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
@Agent Coleman
@akanekun
@brokecracker
@bombardier
@Chromatomic
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@desperaterobots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux-ttmUTiZY
Download: http://iseenothing.com/acss2012/desperaterobots.mp4
@earthwormadam
@Esiotrot
@FANTOMAS
@Flay
@Grifter
@Iruka
@JeckalHyde
@Lyrium
@miaAusa
@Mynt
@NakedZergling
@Nibcrom
@no_toast
@Prospicience
@Siegfried
@Stplmstr
@Sublimus
*wip
@Tam
@tapeslinger
What is it?
Everyone who signs up will be randomly assigned another participant and will be tasked with making a piece of gift/fan art for that person! It can be related to their interests, forum persona/avatar, or just whatever you like. The art will be sent digitally, unless you really would like to send an original drawing, but that is entirely up to you and is not required.
How do I sign up?
Just send an email to [ [email protected] ] with your forum username in the subject line and "Artist's Corner Secret Santa 2012" in the body of the message.
The deadline for signing up will be November 14th. You will be sent a private message shortly after with the username of whom you will be drawing a gift for.
Who can sign up?
To keep things fair, only those with a join date earlier than May 1st and more than a handful of posts will be allowed to participate for obvious reasons. If you would like to participate and don't fall under these requirements then you will just have to wait until next year! The final say of who can join this activity will be entirely up to the AC mods so there may be exceptions, but do not count on it. This goes for those who may be disincluded as well. Previous deadbeats are banned from participating.
Submitting Complete Work and Submission Deadline
All drawings must be emailed to [ [email protected] ] by December 23rd. Failure to submit your drawing after agreeing to sign up (shame on you, you awful human being) will result in FULL LIFE CONSEQUENCES. Anything I can threaten you with is bullshit and if you suck then you won't finish regardless, so don't sign up if you suck and know you won't finish, that's all.
Is that all?
This is simply all the information you should need. This is not something to sign up for to get free art, it is about making something for another member. Remember that it could be you getting stiffed out of a drawing so do not sign up unless you are committed to finishing your end of the deal. DMAC will personally end anyone who does not comply. Ok that's a threat, I guess.
Please don't sign up if you know you won't be able to deliver a finished product. Getting a really half assed gift sucks when you spent hours on getting yours in on time.
Feel free to use this thread to discuss and ask questions or post some of your interests to help out your Santa. If you say 'in' or 'I'm so doing this' in here and don't send me a proper email, do not expect to be participating.
Here's a handy template for giving a bit of information about yourself which will help your Santa with some ideas! Thanks to Iruka for the template :^:
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme:
Character(s):
Movies/TV:
Games:
Animals:
Painting, Artist, or Art genre:
||Other||
General interests:
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):
2011's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/151957/ac-secret-santa-discussion-2011-posted-22-24/p1
2010's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/133584/ac-secret-santa-2010-reveal-3434/p1
2009's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=108361
2008's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=78214
2007's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=44966
2006's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=10065
2004: http://iseenothing.com/artchive/secret%20santas%202004/
2003: http://iseenothing.com/artchive/secret%20santas%202003/
If anybody has an archive of 2005's submissions somewhere for some reason, it would be greatly appreciated to have it re-uploaded.
And for posterity:
Participants [29]
@bombardier
@NakedZergling
@Iruka
@Nibcrom
@Mynt
@melting_doll
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@JeckalHyde
@Agent Coleman
@Lyrium
@Grifter
@FANTOMAS
@MiaAusa
@Flay
@Siegfried
@earthwormadam
@tapeslinger
@Esiotrot
@no_toast
@Chromatomic
@Prospicience
@brokecracker
@desperaterobots
@Tam
@Stplmstr
@akanekun
@Thane
@Sublimus
@Godfather
@akanekun
@brokecracker
@bombardier
@Chromatomic
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@desperaterobots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux-ttmUTiZYDownload: http://iseenothing.com/acss2012/desperaterobots.mp4
@earthwormadam
@Esiotrot
@FANTOMAS
@Flay
@Grifter
@Iruka
@JeckalHyde
@Lyrium
@miaAusa
@Mynt
@NakedZergling
@Nibcrom
@no_toast
@Prospicience
@Siegfried
@Stplmstr
@Sublimus
*wip
@Tam
@tapeslinger
What is it?
Everyone who signs up will be randomly assigned another participant and will be tasked with making a piece of gift/fan art for that person! It can be related to their interests, forum persona/avatar, or just whatever you like. The art will be sent digitally, unless you really would like to send an original drawing, but that is entirely up to you and is not required.
How do I sign up?
Just send an email to [ [email protected] ] with your forum username in the subject line and "Artist's Corner Secret Santa 2012" in the body of the message.
The deadline for signing up will be November 14th. You will be sent a private message shortly after with the username of whom you will be drawing a gift for.
Who can sign up?
To keep things fair, only those with a join date earlier than May 1st and more than a handful of posts will be allowed to participate for obvious reasons. If you would like to participate and don't fall under these requirements then you will just have to wait until next year! The final say of who can join this activity will be entirely up to the AC mods so there may be exceptions, but do not count on it. This goes for those who may be disincluded as well. Previous deadbeats are banned from participating.
Submitting Complete Work and Submission Deadline
All drawings must be emailed to [ [email protected] ] by December 23rd. Failure to submit your drawing after agreeing to sign up (shame on you, you awful human being) will result in FULL LIFE CONSEQUENCES. Anything I can threaten you with is bullshit and if you suck then you won't finish regardless, so don't sign up if you suck and know you won't finish, that's all.
Is that all?
This is simply all the information you should need. This is not something to sign up for to get free art, it is about making something for another member. Remember that it could be you getting stiffed out of a drawing so do not sign up unless you are committed to finishing your end of the deal. DMAC will personally end anyone who does not comply. Ok that's a threat, I guess.
Please don't sign up if you know you won't be able to deliver a finished product. Getting a really half assed gift sucks when you spent hours on getting yours in on time.
Feel free to use this thread to discuss and ask questions or post some of your interests to help out your Santa. If you say 'in' or 'I'm so doing this' in here and don't send me a proper email, do not expect to be participating.
Here's a handy template for giving a bit of information about yourself which will help your Santa with some ideas! Thanks to Iruka for the template :^:
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme:
Character(s):
Movies/TV:
Games:
Animals:
Painting, Artist, or Art genre:
||Other||
General interests:
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):
2011's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/151957/ac-secret-santa-discussion-2011-posted-22-24/p1
2010's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/133584/ac-secret-santa-2010-reveal-3434/p1
2009's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=108361
2008's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=78214
2007's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=44966
2006's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=10065
2004: http://iseenothing.com/artchive/secret%20santas%202004/
2003: http://iseenothing.com/artchive/secret%20santas%202003/
If anybody has an archive of 2005's submissions somewhere for some reason, it would be greatly appreciated to have it re-uploaded.
And for posterity:
Participants [29]
@bombardier
@NakedZergling
@Iruka
@Nibcrom
@Mynt
@melting_doll
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@JeckalHyde
@Agent Coleman
@Lyrium
@Grifter
@FANTOMAS
@MiaAusa
@Flay
@Siegfried
@earthwormadam
@tapeslinger
@Esiotrot
@no_toast
@Chromatomic
@Prospicience
@brokecracker
@desperaterobots
@Tam
@Stplmstr
@akanekun
@Thane
@Sublimus
@Godfather
Secret Santa on
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Posts
Color or Color scheme: I like red. And blue. Not too picky.
Character(s): Nibcrom, Luke Skywalker, Optimus Prime, Hot Rod, Buckaroo Banzai
Movies/TV: Star Wars, Seinfeld, GI Joe, TMNT, Exosquad, Ghostbusters, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens
Games: Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Bros, Advance Wars, Perfect Dark, Gears of War, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Rogue Squadron, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II, Red Faction II, Jackal
Animals: FAT cats, racoons
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Geoff Darrow, Kilian Plunkett
||Other||
General interests: graphic design, illustration, automobiles, Corvettes, collecting spores, molds and fungus
Link Photograph/self portraits: ugh please don’t draw me
Link Avatar/persona character: http://www.nibcrom.com
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn’t mind redesigns or fanart of): Nibcrom! I love it when people draw Nibcrom!
Gonna fill this out somewhat but honestly? I'll take pretty much anything.
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Cool colors, blues, greys, etc
Games: Pokemon
Animals: Cats, Ducks
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: McBess, Sam McKenzie, Tyson Hesse
||Other||
General interests: Music, comics, games
Link Photograph/self portraits: Me
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Sig
||Favorites||
Movies/TV: Anything by Studio Ghibli
Games: Borderlands 2, Torchlight 2, Zelda, Final Fantasy 6, Super MNC
Animals: Foxes, Owls & Alligators
||Other||
General interests: Drawing, comics, vidya games, running, riding my bicycle & robots
Link Photograph/self portraits: (I'm on the left) > http://tinyurl.com/c5jrpab http://i.imgur.com/DchIb.jpg
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):Feel free to fool around with anything in here: http://myntcondition.tumblr.com/tagged/art
I'm gonna send a drawing to myself instead.
Oh! Oh! I know. Anyone that doesn't get a drawing for whatever reason, I'm gonna mop up. Can't say fairer than that! That means I might be busy come January
Whaaat. come on
||Favorites*||
Movies/TV: Adventure Time, Avatar (the series, not the movie), Gravity Falls
Games: Beyond Good and Evil, Guild Wars 2, Half-Life
Animals: Whale, Raccoon, Deer, Fox, Cicada
Comics: MS Paint Adventures, Sandman, Lackadaisy, Scott Pilgrim
Books: Anything by Neil Gaiman, 'John Dies at the End' by David Wong, 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z. Danielewski, 'The Scar' by China Mieville
||Other||
General interests: Art/Design, Animation, Science, History, the Future, the Undead
Link Avatar/persona character: 1 (WIP) 2 3 4 5 6
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Green
Character(s): Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Grifter, Dipper and Mabel from Gravity Falls, Barney from How I Met Your Mother,
Movies/TV: Looper, Safety Not Guaranteed, How I Met Your Mother, Sons of Anarchy, Revolution, Last Resort
Games: Assassin's Creed, Borderlands
Animals: Dogs (I own a chocolate labrador), Cats, Pigeons, Pandas
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Art Nouveau, Alex Ross, Tony Harris, Peter Gross, Tony Moore
||Other||
General interests: Sailing, Football (Soccer), Hockey, Comic Books
Link Photograph/self portraits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grifter81/8170589515/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grifter81/8170589549/in/photostream
Link Avatar/persona character: coming soon
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme:anything between red and blue, or anything between cyan and green.
Character(s): Frank Zappa
Movies/TV: Anything by Kurosawa, and old ridiculous kung fu movies, like: Once upon a time in china 1-4, Fist of the white lotus, drunken master 1, etc.
Games:Anything from the Total War: saga
Animals:dogs, bears.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Caravaggio.
||Other||
General interests:playing electric bass, drums, music in general and video games.
Link Photograph/self portraits: there some stuff in the iseenothing server (thanks bombardier!)
Link Avatar/persona character: Ill get one working link soon.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): my avatar, I still dont have a decent link to it.
Color or Color scheme: Cools
Character(s): Akuma, CHEW characters,
Movies/TV:walking dead (comic more), INVINCIBLE!!!!!! omniman, allen the alien, jim raynor
Games:star craft, street fighter, halo
Animals: bears, wolf, min pin
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Matt Dixon, Joe Ledbetter, Mucha, Humberto Ramos, Joe Mad, JASON SEILER, Sebastian Krüger, Gris Grimley, Jesse Mcgibney
||Other||
General interests: I wont lie...i LOVE to see other artist takes on my Killer Pink Fluffy characters
Link Avatar/persona character:
My Portfolio Site
Color or Color scheme: Blues and pinks
Movies/TV: 80-90's cartoons, Starship Troopers, Dredd, Robocop, Avengers, Breaking Bad
Games: Halo, Darksiders
I don't really care TBH, just gimme something... with loooouuuve
Color or Color scheme: Black, White and Gold, or some bright neons.
Character(s): Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, Salvador the Gunzerker, David Tennant as Doctor Who.
Movies/TV: Doctor Who, Grimm, Supernatural.
Games: Borderlands 2, Assassin's Creed 3.
||Other||
General interests: Typography,
Link Photograph/self portraits:me1, me2
Link Avatar/persona character:my drawing
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.
You are going to start sending us spam about russian viagra and stuff, right ?
Happy birthday Flay!
||Favorites||
Colour or Colour scheme:Blue, Yellow, Brown
Character(s): Hmm...Teemu Selanee, Bruce Willis
Movies/TV: Action movies, comedies, sports, cartoons (Simpsons, American Dad, Bobs Burgers)
Games: NHL '13, Assassins Creed, Red Dead Redemption
Animals: Bears, snakes, dogs
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: I'm still trying to figure this one out myself...I do enjoy working with ink though.
||Other||
General interests: baseball (Blue Jays), hockey (Winnipeg Jets), football (Steelers), comedy, chicken wings, nachos
Link Photograph/self portraits: Fun with facial hair
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):
I had so much fun with this last year.
I'll write a thing and send an email in a few.
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Red, Brown, Green
Character(s): Star Trek, Console RPGS, Chrono, Alis, Alys, Dukat, Damar, Wesely Crusher,
Movies/TV: Star Trek, ExoSquad, Evangelion, NASA,
Games: RPGs Lunar, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy IV,VI, VII, X, IX, Phantasy Star 1-4, Star Trek Online, Pokemon,
Animals: Dragons, Cats
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Webcomics, Video Game Artwork, Pixel Artwork
||Other||
General interests: Video Game, Webcomics, Video Games, Star Trek,
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character: My avatar is like this, http://www.roleplayingamer.com/images/rpg18.png, the girl with the heart trek shirt
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): any of my web comic characters
Gamer Dater - My Video Game Dating Website full of Faygo
Strip Search Wastebasket of Broken Dreams App I made
My derby name is Brutaloo and my color scheme for skating is white, pink, black, and teal.
If I were to request something in particular, it would definitely be something derby/skating related (:
Yes yes yes!
Oh crud I almost forgot to send an email.
||Favorites||
Movies/TV: The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones
Games: Borderlands 1/2, Orcs must die
Animals: The Cute Kind
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: early modernist, retro, design
||Other||
General interests: graphic design, gaming, hand-crafted leather goods
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Spymaster II (This isn't a character of mine, it is me though)
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: dark, really really dark
Character(s): various demonic and devilish fiends.
Movies/TV: The Wire, Game of Thrones, Jam
Games: Grim Fandango, Ico, Planescape: Torment, Guild Wars, Diablo 1-2
Animals:Giant Squid, Octopus', Ocelots, Crows, Ravens, Hawks, Wolves,
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Phil Hale, J.W. Waterhouse, Aubrey Beardsley, Klimt, Gustav Doré
||Other||
General interests: 80's goth music, Sci-Fi Novels, odd religious practices
Link Photograph/self portraits: God no, not my face.
Link Avatar/persona character: don't have one
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): or any of these.
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Monochromatic - warm or cool colors don't matter, even Black and White. Again, I trust all the artists and their styles and schemes so it doesn't really matter honestly.
Character(s): Adam Jensen, Rubick
Movies/TV: Pans Labyrinth, The Secret of Kells, anything Pixar, Game of Thrones, James Bond
Games: DotA, Portal, Deus Ex, Resident Evil
Animals: Ravens, fuckin' love me some ravens, bats,
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Jeremy Fish, Escher, Coro Ink
||Other||
General interests: Photography is my job, and I love it - so that. Anything to do with Design and Sci-Fi as well.
Link Photograph/self portraits: facebook.com/lee.stonehouse
Link Avatar/persona character: A raven
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Meh...
My Portfolio Site
INSTAGRAM
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: I don't have an absolute favorite... I like pretty things! every color has the potential to be pretty in context.
Character(s): pretty much anyone from any of the stuff I like, I don't usually have absolutes.
Movies/TV: Venture Brothers, Battlestar Galactica, and ... Fringe!
Games: TF2-- Pyro for life! I also love any game with zombies.
Books/comics: Sandman! also Transmetropolitan, Hellboy, Batman and, uh, Elfquest. (yes really)
Animals: the virginia opossum is my favorite animal! you have to admit, they are badass.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: I am really into pretty much any form of comics, and I generally like most vintage/retro art-isms of the 20th century from Art Nouveau forward.
||Other||
General interests: knitting, writing, sculpting, boardgames-- we play a ton of Arkham Horror and I love Lovecraftian things.
Link Photograph/self portraits/Avatar/persona character: right now my avatar is me dressed up as Death from Sandman from Halloween last year. I use this image on most of my "public" accounts so that they're uniform and "linked"! if you do anything with that your artwork might be my twitter/fb/etc avatar for a while.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): I don't have any current character designs posted on the interwebs, but if you read any of my writing and one of my characters inspires you to draw, go nuts!
My tumblr at http://jayxwolf.com does have a little bit of character work on "Dav Fairchyld," the protagonist of my novel series. It's "early" draft type stuff so I'm not sure how useful it might be to define him.
Hope that helps; you could pm nexuscrawler if you get stuck!
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
I totally don't post here enough anymore.
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Purples and blues,
Character(s): any kind of cephalopod, Ness, Link, funky lookin' robots
Games: Earthbound, Zelda (A Link to the Past)
Animals: Cephalopods, Elephants
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Pixel Art, Low Brow, Graffiti, Tattoos, Big swooshy lines McBess style
for a look at my stuff check out my thread or my tumblr (http://brokecracker.tumblr.com/) A redo of something I have done in a different style is always cool if you get stuck not knowing what to do.
Plus, I enjoy needlessly adding to my to do list!
THINGS I ENJOY: stuff
FAVOURITE COLOURS: yes
ETC: okay
[just do something fun
http://l-makesart.deviantart.com/favourites/1154068. I recently stripped down my DA, so I dont have a folder of me any more but you can still find drawings in my gallery: http://l-makesart.deviantart.com/?rnrd=3415
Any redrawing of my avatar, or reinterpreting of my work, is cool.
@Fugitive
@DMAC
@Angel_of_Bacon
@beavotron
@Squidbunny
@Wassermelone
@Kochikens
@MagicToaster
@wakkawa
@ChicoBlue
@Tam
@F87
@rts
This is just a list of people that should be signing up. At least two more people before this even gets going.
I would, but in order to do this "well" I'd want to dedicate a significant chunk of time to it...and my days are pretty full currently...of real work, and guilt when I'm not working
etc. etc. excuses etc.
...etc. etc. excuses etc.
you mean you want to participate as TWO forumers ?