July Proko Challenge - Influencer Animorph with Ethan Becker

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July Proko Challenge - Influencer Animorph with Ethan Becker

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

ethan becker

assignments 19

Bruno Mars becomes just "Bruno"

LESSON NOTES

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"Animorph" an influencer!

Prompt

Do an illustration of any influencer morphing into an animal. Try to be clever! What animal would Logan Paul most likely turn into? Don't take this too seriously, the submissions won't necessarily be judged of technical skill and execution. More so humor, storytelling and creativity.

Medium: Any medium, traditional and digital, 2D and 3D is allowed

Prizes

Winners will be contacted via the email on their Proko.com account.

Ethan will pick 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place based on creativity, humor, and story telling. Not necessarily technical execution.

1st Place

1 class by Ethan Becker
Wacom One Creative Pen Display
Vision X Live VIP Replay Pass
Proko Figure, Portrait, and Anatomy courses

2nd Place

Wacom Intuos Small Bluetooth
Vision X Live VIP Replay Pass
2 Proko courses of your choice

3rd Place

One by Wacom Pen Tablet
Vision X Live VIP Replay Pass
1 Proko course of your choice

Community Choice

$1000 Proko Gift Card - YOU get to choose a winner by upvoting your favorite submissions!

Proko Team Choice

$1000 Proko Gift Card - The Proko team will vote on their favorite.

Skelly's Choice

Proko Skull - Skelly will choose his favorite.

Proko Impromptu Awards

10 impromptu winners will receive:

1 Proko Course of your choice

Wacom Random Winner

To give students a higher chance of winning, Wacom is awarding a random participant a Wacom Intuos small tablet.

Proko Random Winner

To give students a higher chance of winning, Proko is awarding another random participant a Proko course of their choice.

Sentient Academy Award

1 Year Skill Accelerator Subscription ($360 value) - Sentient Academy will select a winner who used traditional media.

Trekell Award

Trekell will select a winner who used traditional media.

Trekell Brush Set for your medium of choice
Trekell Panel
Trekell Brush Soap
Trekell Brush Restorer
Trekell Brush Case

Shipping Restrictions

Free shipping of Wacom prizes to US, Canada, Latin America (except Venezuela), EU, UK, Japan, and Australia. Participants in all other countries would pay shipping costs to claim a tablet.

Free shipping of Trekell prizes to US, Canada, Latin America (except Venezuela), EU, UK, Japan, and Australia.

Participants in all other countries would pay shipping costs to claim prizes.

COVID-19 Alert Shipping to certain countries will not be possible right now because of the pandemic. Please be aware of an indefinite delay for shipping prizes to winners outside of the United States.

ASSIGNMENTS

Works in Progress

Post your process sketches and works in progress for the challenge here if you want feedback from the community.

This challenge is closed for new submissions. Congrats to all the winners!

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View judging video and all winners

Mira Sand

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4yr

These are my process stages for the challenge. This was so fun!

Marlena Cieślik

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4yr

I love your rendering and full of emotion poses! I'd like to see your colouring process one day 😊

María López

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4yr

the idea is to turn Khabane Lame into a suricate xd so I'm sketching them first. ¡Saludos desde Colombia!

@chute_mi

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4yr

So I took that scene from FMA where the guy combines his dog and his daughter... and I substituted moistcritikal. I thought I'd be funny to add an actual picture of them incase people didn't know what he looked like. If someone could give me critiques that would be sweet.

Marlena Cieślik

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4yr

I learned about the contest today ;; posting this first stage of work, the Scribble to fight off my fears preventing the participation. Any feedback is highly appreciated! (Especially on the composition it feels cramped at the top and too spacious on the bottom. And on the words placement) As Three of my favorite teachers are hosting this I choose Marshall, especially after seeing Marsh Wren bird today. Sorry for my baby student scribble lines.

Marlena Cieślik

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4yr

Made some changes and it feels better, this concludes the sketch phase. It’s time to make some confident lines and splash some colors

lewis xavier

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4yr

brachiosaurus turning into James Gurney

lewis xavier

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4yr

Charlene

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4yr

The muscles of that brachiosaurus look good!

Vigo

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4yr

I did 3 storyboards so far. The first ones are about Cristiano Ronaldo turning into a cheeta in a football match; the last one (my favourite) is Khaby Lame, an Italian-Senegalese influencer turning into an owl and doing his "gesture" after seeing two airplanes (Yes, that's a reference to Invincible and the meme! I had to do it!). I'm not sure about the last shot, i have 3 options and i'd like to hear your feedbacks :)

@javieruskara

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4yr

i like cheetas, but the last one made me laugh

Jon Fredrick

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4yr

Bruno Mars becomes just "Bruno"

Charlene

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4yr

Ooh I really like the expressions, poses and gesture in this one

@aby_graphite

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4yr

Can we only morph social media influencers or can we choose any celebrity?

Stan Prokopenko

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4yr

Since Ethan specifically said influencer instead of celebrities, I would stick with that. A lot of celebrities are on social media, so I think someone like the Rock who is very active on social would be fine.

Abhighyan Sabarigiri

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4yr

yea @Stan Prokopenko can we do any celebrity or anyone

San

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4yr

Hi guys, I think I will still modify this piece. Please give any feedback.

Jon Fredrick

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4yr

Who is the influencer? Also, I don't see a lot of transformation here

Anthony Francisco

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4yr

this is gonna be a fun challenge !

Stan Prokopenko

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4yr

Please keep in mind the thumbnail in this lesson is just a poorly photoshopped example of an Animorph. Although photo bashing is allowed, you'll probably have a higher chance of winning if you actually draw, paint, or sculpt. Aside from that, I think the 3 on the left all look very much like the bunny and then a sudden jump to human.

Gino Datuin

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4yr

I noticed the shipping policy for prizes includes free shipping to the US. Does this include US territories? Thanks.

Leonardo Flores

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4yr

The animal version has to be realistic, or can it be cartoonish?

Stan Prokopenko

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4yr

There are no rules about style for this challenge.

yute yang

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4yr

you came to my house, and insult my dog

Charlene

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4yr

This is hilarious! And I still have the Animorph books in my room. However, how do we know which influencers we could pick? Isn't there a consent issue with using another person's image without permission type thing?

Stan Prokopenko

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4yr

You're creating your own work of art, which is protected by the first amendment (in the US) and you're not using it commercially. You're safe choosing anyone for this challenge. It gets more risky once you start selling and mass-producing the image on commercial goods and licensing out the image that includes someone's likeness.

Abhighyan Sabarigiri

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4yr

Do we need to draw or like photoshop the influencers like how you showed on the thumbnail

John B

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4yr

Draw, paint, 3d model... The thumbnail is just an example of what Ethan's looking for when he's judging entries.

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I have a question, can I illustrate more than one influencer or just one?

John B

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4yr

There's no limit on the entries you can submit

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I am preparing! I already have some influencers to transform XD.

Kristian Nee

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4yr

This is my favorite challenge so far

Linette

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4yr

Ok, but for real, what a cool throwback challenge! The original artist for the Animorph covers has a store on Etsy with all of these too so people can look it his stuff to get inspired for the challenge heh : https://www.etsy.com/shop/AnimorphsArtStore?ref=profile_header

João Bogo

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4yr

Ok, everyone. Be honest... How many of you will draw kangaroo Stans?

Stan Prokopenko

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4yr

It's so obvious it's already in the thumbnail! But who knows... If there's a really good one, there could be an impromptu award for Best Kangaroo.