Art Battle [Round 1] Prism Cat VS The Face of god

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Birdie - The Face of godVS Hareoic - Prism Cat
<img src="http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4241/facegt8.png", width="100", height = "200"><img src="http://foxmage.com/catanim.gif", width="100", height = "200">

The rules are simple. The contestants choose who goes first, then fight, trading "punches." Upload your punch within a week of the last punch, or you forfeit and the other contestant wins. Four punches total, two each. Everyone else votes for who they think should win the fight.

Good luck contestants, may the best crowd pleaser win.

[Hareoic]

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/6794/duelyl6.png (http://imageshack.us)

I volunteer myself first.

[Birdie]

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/3944/punch1bv5.png
Yay for huge images!

Edit: Comment plz thx. ;d

[Xobim]

The face of god should have a tan now...

[cooba]

Wow, I really didn't see that coming. Great one, Birdie.

[Olsen]

Wow, I really didn't see that coming. Great one, Birdie.

I agree. That's awesome.

[n00b]

Indeed.

Prism cat better have a good trick up it's sleeve, or it may lose to the versatility a character like Face of God has in attacks.

[Torkell]

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[Radium]

I like this battle. It's all so surreal.

[Hareoic]

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/2965/duel2dd6.png (http://imageshack.us)
Yes, he can also call down the wrath of the sun itself without having to magnify it through his body. Usually reserved for clearing away armies.

And I'm just getting started.

(just so you know, prism cats are protected by crystal-like fur with a very unique body structure that is also composed of crystal. in other words, the spike wasn't THAT effective, but it did really hurt, which really ticked him off)

In other words, blunt force for the win.

[Puffie40]

You do a nice job at drawing cats. :-)

[ThunderPX]

He doesn't look ticked off though. :P

[Birdie]

Sorry for the large image.
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/7189/punch2hd6.png
Yay, dissolved.

[cooba]

Gah, When I assumed you had turned yourself into a pressure chamber, I liked it better.

Squashing is cheap D:<

[Fawriel]

Wait, no poll?

My vote goes to Hareoic, because I somewhat prefer the concept of his character. The face of god is interesting, too, but I have to decide.

[Radium]

I'll have to go FoG on this. Mr. Crystalkitten was an interesting concept, but shooting beams of light is no match for an angry morphing box with a face.

Though I rather like the first panel of Gen's second punch.

[Puffie40]

I vote for the cat

[Strato]

I'm going with the Face of God. The attacks were generally cooler.

[Torkell]

Hareoic!PrisimCat

[CrimiClown]

Face of God gets my vote this time. His first attack was just awesome, while Prism Cat's two attacks were basicly the same.

[ThunderPX]

FoG.

[Risp_old]

I'd have to say Face of God also. His attacks were cooler, although I didn't like his concept as much.

[Pako]

Face of God FTW.

[Hareoic]

Mr. Crystalkitten was an interesting concept, but shooting beams of light is no match for an angry morphing box with a face.

Beams of light that are magnified to inflict intense heat. It's essentially like a magnifying lense on a summer day. Except it's bigger and much more precise, since cats are well known for their reflexes and eyesight.

And as I mentioned before, I haven't released its full potential yet. This is only the first round. I have some much more effective and interesting plans for future battles, believe me. Shapeshifting is scary, but not worth going all out against, since I don't want to reveal my hand just yet.

I've already planned at least twenty different attacks, just so you know, each one unique in its own way. And I'm not stopping until I've come up with at least fifty. So I'll have a vast arsenal of attacks to deal with any possible foes in the most effective way possible by exploiting whatever weak points they have.

VOTE PRISM CAT

[Risp_old]

Why were you holding back? Did you have the hubris to assume that you would make an effortless win in the first round? If so, your strategy seems a bit flawed.

[Hareoic]

Why were you holding back? Did you have the hubris to assume that you would make an effortless win in the first round? If so, your strategy seems a bit flawed.
No, because if I used my best strategies then there wouldn't be anything good or flashy left to please the crowd and harm my opponents as well. It wasn't until the second part of the fight that I decided to come up with more ways to fight, anyway, so things are only going to get better and much more destructive from here on out.

Never thought a cat could do that, did you? Well now you know better. :D

Is it me, or have none of the other battles save one even started their counterattacks?

[Risp_old]

Pfft. You don't win a match through promising that you'll do better. This isn't some tournament in a TV show or video game or something where your opponents start out weak and get progressively harder. You have to constantly give your all. If you use your best trick, then think of a new one! You aren't going to win by using your worst stuff first; in fact, it has appeared you have lost because of it.

[Strato]

Yeah man, where's your GAME FACE?!

[Hareoic]

Well I didn't even know what my opponent was. Mine was obviously some kind of cat, that much is pretty much all that you need to know. But the face of god, I just assumed it was some kind of computer monitor. How can I fight something like that when I don't even know what I'm drawing? Is it a box? Is it a frame? How does it look in three dimensions? What does it do?

(and if you say I never showed what mine did, I had an animation for that)

Besides, if I constantly gave it my all, it'd probably be the same attack over and over again. I ADAPT. I'm FLEXIBLE. And I have a cat that could probably destroy civilization on a whim. What more do you want?

[Radium]

Pfft. You don't win a match through promising that you'll do better. This isn't some tournament in a TV show or video game or something where your opponents start out weak and get progressively harder. You have to constantly give your all.Hey, I didn't even have all my characters in the first battle.

[Strato]

So you figured that an opponent that you had no idea what it's capabilities was would be easier to beat?

[Hareoic]

It's the first round. I wasn't even entirely aware of how everything worked. And I'm pretty sure I'm still making mistakes.

[Risp_old]

Why should Birdie lose because you are making mistakes?

[Hareoic]

Why should Birdie lose because you are making mistakes?
I dunno, I just didn't know what he was capable of. He didn't give a description of his character or anything. I just assumed it was a computer.

If anything, we should have a rematch since we both know what we're capable of and we didn't know much about the other's character at the beginning of the battle.

[cooba]

we should have a rematch since we both know what we're capable of and we didn't know much about the other's character at the beginning of the battle.By that logic, everyone who has already fought should have a rematch.

[Hareoic]

By that logic, everyone who has already fought should have a rematch.
Nobody else already fought, save TRB versus Pako the Shapeshifter.

[cooba]

Nobody else already fought, save TRB versus Pako the Shapeshifter.Eirrukovi vs Crimi's puppet monkey?

[Hareoic]

I meant a full battle.

[cooba]

Me too, apparently.

[Hareoic]

Those were only two battles. Two pictures from what I could see.

Edit: Didn't see the flash movies, my bad.

[Birdie]

Well, I guess that maybe me not telling anyone what it was or what it could do was my strategy? ;D (Even though it obviously wasn't)

[Hareoic]

It was kinda cheap since it was essentially part of the rules if I'm not mistaken.

We should probably all write little somethings about the character's we're entering, because the fewest entries are characters everyone knows, heck, in some cases I don't even know what they ARE.

[Risp_old]

By that logic, if we are doing a rematch, shouldn't you tell Birdie what your hidden tricks are?

I finished my battle already also.

[Hareoic]

There are no hidden tricks. It all depends on how I USE the light. Which is rather obvious, since it's a PRISM cat.

If anything, it's the cat part that you need to worry about.

[Strato]

This is rediculous. Who cares if you lost? Why go through the trouble of doing it all over again? I mean, even with a rematch a lot of people probably won't respect it enough to change their minds.

[Hareoic]

It's because apparently people thought I wasn't "fancy" enough to beat a shape shifter. Why didn't you say it was a shapeshifter, Birdie? Or for that matter, what it was in general?

[Radium]

I voted for FoG because it was better executed. While I agree that Prism would be lots of fun in the future, FoG was the clear winner here. FoG's art was better and attacks were more interesting, while Prism just shot fire and was mostly done with images taken from your initial animation. This is a competition, not a campaign; we are supposed to vote based on who did a better job rather than who we think will do a better job in the future. I mean, I think a future battle with Eirrukovi dodging beams of fire from a kitten would be amazing, but I don't want that to influence me.

[Hareoic]

I thought it wasn't a battle based on how well you could draw. If I had known that, I would've sketched everything.

[Radium]

But what did you think it was based on? The only thing you had over Birdie was that future battles with Prismcat might be kind of fun, and we shouldn't let that influence our decision for this battle.

[Hareoic]

MOST IMPORTANT[/B], you do NOT have to be as good of an artist as Faw or Rad or Michelangelo to compete. I plan on competing, and the only thing I ever draw is this (http://n0.freehosting.net/Stuff/elephant.htm).
Then what was this?

[Radium]

Saying you didn't have to draw well doesn't mean the result is random. I didn't draw anything and I beat Crimi. Risp just did sprites in Paint and beat Paco. You have two chances to do <i>something</i> better than your opponent, not necessarily drawing. Like I said, future battles with PC may be interesting, but it's unfair to vote on the character rather than the battle.

[Strato]

Who said anything about you losing on grounds of artwork alone?

[Puffie40]

This concerns me about my fighter. Prism Cat was fighting using basic attacks involving light, yet he lost to some stupid face on a wall. How does my soldier fight? With a laser gun and some grenades.

So if my soldier picked a fight with FOG, I would be wasting hours of drawing time because Everybody else will love FOG for simply turning my rabbit into a red smear.

So that means that opponents who fight involving a basic element cannot fight against a target that is more "Random" with his attacks.

I think we are going to need some guidelines set up on how to vote.

[Strato]

I think it's a statement that you feel threatened because of something imaginative. The voting is based on opinion, and I think that the consensus is that you just vote for the person who overall entertained the audience better. Can it be that hard to realize that it's not about who wins or who draws better? A basic element can be turned into something creative with ease.

[Radium]

I think we are going to need some guidelines set up on how to vote. I think the fairness comes from the fact that there are no guidelines. Art is all about warrenting a reaction. Your goal is to get votes from the battle, and you can do this by making people go "ooooh", "hahahaha", "hmmmm", or "omg". If you can get a reaction, any reaction, people are more likely to support you than if it just makes people say "oh, so he lobbed a grenade" or "oh, so he shot fire". There's an air of surreality to FoG; it's monolithic, it's mechanical, it's gelatenous, and Birdie's exaggerated perspective and large images compliment this perfectly. FoG makes a >O face as it lashes its spiky black tongue through innocent kittens. It's a definite "oooh".

If you don't think you can outdo it in the "ooooh" department, you can try to outdo it in another. It's all about fighting apples with oranges... or something. I butchered that analogy.

[KRSplat]

I think voting based on whose punches you like more is simple enough...

[Radium]

I think voting based on whose punches you like more is simple enough...That's essentially what I said, though I picked it apart a bit more =/

[KRSplat]

Yeah. You picked it apart a bit more, making it seem less simple. which is evil

[Fawriel]

I support Radium's reiteration of what I've said before. \o.

[ThunderPX]

Puffie, it's not that hard to be imaginitive with your characters. For example, in the last three seconds I thought of Rabbitearth Soldier calling a bunch of friends and they throw the Face of God up into the air. And that's not even a good attack.

[Puffie40]

I guess I could sum up my comments what that Yes, I feel a little threatened about these imagnitive attacks. I take things in a technical matter when it comes to situations.

Plus, I replied just after I came out of a chemistry final, so I was a little strung out...

After reading you post thunder, I thought of a good attack, But I'll keep it on hand incase I face off with someone... :p

[Hareoic]

I think voting based on whose punches you like more is simple enough...
Wait, so it didn't matter how strong your attack was supposed to be?

Ugh, NOW they tell me. If they wanted imaginative I'd give them imaginative and then some.

[Fawriel]

Wasn't that.. obvious? I mean, anyone could be like "I summons level 4 SSJ vegitotrunks!" "Universe destroyer blast!"...

[Hareoic]

I chose power over imaginative. I thought this was a BATTLE after all.

[Risp_old]

If the factor was sheer power, then why would we need to have everyone vote?

[Strato]

Taken from the first post of this thread:

Good luck contestants, may the best crowd pleaser win.

Note how it doesn't say "May the most powerful killing machine win."