Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well.
I wanted to thank you all for your feedback on the CCC Community Survey held during the month of April, it means a lot to me. Please make sure to check it if you want to know what changes will be made for the next rounds. Any changes will apply from the next round onwards.
The main change will concern the choice of characters for future rounds. Instead of the first place winner choosing a theme and a character, and the second place winner choosing a character that fits the theme set by the first place winner, with the Community adding the last ones through a vote featuring characters fitting said theme, now the first place winner will choose two themes, the second place winner another one and then the Community chooses which one they prefer among the three.
Only having themes and no longer specific characters means that artists won’t be restricted to only making art pieces of characters they might not like; however, with themes being more abstract, we’ll still have to define what kind of characters are eligible each round.
Nevertheless, I’ll still present a few characters each round that follow said theme, generally characters that don’t have a lot of portraits or any, like I did before, but those won’t be mandatory, barely suggestions for those who wouldn’t know which character to make art for.
I’ve written this change in the rules; however, if it isn’t clear enough and you have any questions, please feel free to ask me.
Don’t forget to join the CCC Discord Server, to not miss any information or any changes regarding the next rounds.
If you're new to the concept, click here to learn more about it
What is the CCC
The CCC is an art contest where the participants create portraits for Fire Emblem characters to expand the FE Fangame Essentials, a resource that compiles Fire Emblem-related assets, including portraits, battle animations, music, amongst others to create Fire Emblem content or rom-hacking in general.
The artists may represent the featured characters we’re used to in many ways, whether they’ll be their classic attire or re-designs including but not limited to de-ageing or ageing the characters, giving them new outfits or attributes, genderbending them, cosplaying them, etc… as long as they are recognizable and keep defining features of said characters.
This contest isn’t targeted towards a specific audience. Despite being a contest, it is very casual and everyone is encouraged to partake in this contest, no matter their skill level and experience, the main goal is to have fun and create portraits for the Community to use and enjoy!
Rules
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All submissions to this contest will be F2E by default unless stated otherwise by the artist! This contest involves expanding the resources available for the Portrait Repository, but I understand not everyone participating wishes their work to be F2U or F2E.
2.
Artists may create custom battle animations, music, map sprites, or any form of art related to the featured characters, however, only posts with a portrait will be eligible for the vote.
3.
Artists may create an alternate outfit/design/etc for one or multiple characters, if they wish.
4.
Artists may submit multiple designs, if they wish. They will all count toward their one submission vote. (Voters will vote on all of the works they created at once)
5.
No pre-existing artwork! The point of this contest is to expand the repository. It would be unfair to compete against artwork that may have had weeks or months of editing work put into it.
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Eye/mouth frames are preferable but optional. They aren’t necessary, but it would be awesome if they would be included!
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Characters must either be from the main Fire Emblem titles or one of the Fire Emblem spinoffs, such as Heroes.
8.
All characters must be sprited in GBA format!
(Hackbox size is not necessary)
(Halfbodies/fullbodies are authorised)
(Please try to keep the colour count at or below 16, that would be great)
9.
Submissions must at least somewhat resemble the original character!
10.
First Place picks two themes, which are groups or categories that include a variety of characters (such as swordmasters, villains, protagonists, and archetypes…), and Second Place picks another theme for the next round, then the community gets to vote on the theme they prefer!
Schedule
- The artists may submit their work until one month after each round is announced.
- Then, the following week, everyone can vote for their favorite submissions.
- The voting period is then followed by a break of a week before a new round starts, meaning a round lasts one month and two weeks in total, but the deadline will be reiterated further down on the post.
Previous rounds
Round One - Anna, Jake
Round Two - Eirika, Ephraim
Round Three - Karel, Karla
Round Four - Hugh, Cath, Lysithea
Round Five - Nino, Jaffar, Sonya
Round Six - Larum, Elphin, Homer, Phina
Round Seven - Mia, Astram, Flavia
Round Eight - Lance, Alan
Round Nine - Lachesis, Larcei, Rutger
Round Ten - Athena, Marisha, Erik
Round Eleven - Zane, Arete, Klein
Round Twelve - Anna, Ryoma, Hinoka
Round Thirteen - Cecilia, Pent, Saleh
Round Fourteen - Michalis, Minerva, Maria
Round Fifteen - Palla, Catria, Est
Round Sixteen - Camilla, Elise, Felicia
Round Seventeen - Alear, Louis, Yunaka
Round Eighteen - Hector, Jahn, Idunn
Round Nineteen - Cherche, Libra, Olivia
Round Twenty - Hanon, Rutger, Sue, Uhai
Round Twenty One - Silvia, Lara, Nils, Ninian
Round Twenty Two - Dorothea, Annette, Marianne, Yuri, Constance
Round Twenty Three - Tanya, Rebecca, Neimi, Python
Round Twenty Four - Finn, Amelia, Berkut
Round Twenty Five - Merric, Delthea, Asbel
Round Twenty Six - Dieck, Guinivere, Saber, Celica
Round Twenty Seven - Camus, Perceval, Seth
Round Twenty Eight - Caeda, Nanna, Lilina, Tana
Round Twenty Nine - Arden, Oswin, Effie, Louis
This month’s theme is the Eight Legends from Elibe, Hartmut, Roland, Barigan, Durban, Hanon, St. Elimine, Athos and Bramimond.
You can submit artwork for any of them, but I’ll suggest four of them below who don’t have an original portrait made in FE6 or FE7, which means you can freely express your creativity for most of them. However, I can understand how this can make this exercise harder, as you won’t have many references for them. Despite that, I’ll still provide official references from other official Fire Emblem related media and different interpretations made by the Community to give you inspiration on how to draw them. I highly encourage you to give them the appearance you want; there are no right answers, especially for Hanon or Barigan, and I’m eager to see what you are all capable of for those characters!
- Character 1: Hartmut, Founder of Bern and first wielder of the Binding Blade
There are no more official artwork of him, but considering he’s the first king of Bern, you could get inspiration from his descendants, such as Zephiel, Guinivere or Desmond
- Character 2: Barigan, Faithful Holy Knight and the first wielder of the legendary Lance, Maltet
This is the only official representation of Barigan unfortunately, but this leaves you plenty of room for your creativity, considering he’s from Ilia, I’d recommend using characters from there as a source of inspiration.
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There is also this reinterpretation of Pascal made by @UltraFenix, based on @JeyTheCount’s work who is made to look like Barigan, perhaps it could give you some ideas
- Character 3: Elimine, Scouring Saint and first wielder of the Staff of the Saint
Here are some interpretations made by the community, which might help you create new art pieces for this character.
Respectively made by @Alice for the first one, @marlon0024 and @redlightning for the second one and @Obsidian_Daddy and @UltraFenix for the third one.
- Character 4: Hanon, Sacae’s voice and first wielder of the legendary bow, Mulagir
This is the only official representation of Hanon unfortunately, but this leaves you plenty of room for your creativity, considering she’s from Sacae, I’d recommend using characters from there as a source of inspiration.
Hanon was already featured in the CCC before, below are all current designs, could we have even more? Feel free to expand the repository with your ideas, I hope those examples will give you some inspiration.
Respectively mabe by @RedBean, @UltraFenix and @Valak
For those of you who aren’t quite sure about what sorts of designs you could make, you can click on each character’s name to access their wiki pages, complete with alternate designs and artwork.
Reach into your imagination, and the first place could be yours!
The deadline is May 31st.
To not miss any future rounds, you can now join the CCC Discord Server, on there, I announce every new round, voting period and results.
You can also see which characters will be featured in the next round here
Have fun, everyone! 
(I really have to stop putting myself in these positions…)
