A few days ago I announced a design gig to create more faces for Steemy, my animated puppet. I wanted someone to do the work for me and I offered 20 SBD. This wasn't a very smart move. It lead to confusion and disappointing results. Also the money was too low. But luckily I got some upvotes which I will now use entirely to finance this project.
The Steemy-Faces Contest
If you don't know who Steemy is check out my latest video:
I have created that puppet myself but I have reached my limitations. So I want you to create more variety for Steemys expressions. This task is very simple. Even as a total noob in drawing and vectorizing I was able to create what you see below. All I am asking now are some extra faces that build ontop of my work. A simple and clear design without any shadows or fancy things.
The point of this contest is to find the person to do the entire job. So all you need to do is pick two of the requested emotions and create a face for me. I don't think this work should take longer than 30 minutes for someone trained in Illustrator. The winner gets 10 SBD and the second and third get 5 SBD each.
If I am happy with the result I will hire the winner to do the full gig and earn additonal 90 SBD! The entire gig contains 10 emotions and two new mouths for neutral and M phonetic (see below).
These are all the faces I already have for Steemy
Some of them require changes indicated to the the right.
| Faces | Emotions or Phonetics | Changes |
|---|---|---|
 | Neutral | Yes |
 | Smiling | No |
 | Surprised | No |
 | Sad | Yes |
 | Angry | Yes |
 | Blink | No |
 | BitCoin | No |
 | W-Oo Phonetic | No |
 | Uh Phonetic | No |
 | S Phonetic | No |
 | R Phonetic | No |
 | Oh Phonetic | No |
 | M Phonetic | Yes |
 | L Phonetic | No |
 | F Phonetic | No |
 | Ee Phonetic | No |
 | D Phonetic | No |
 | A Phonetic | No |
Final Result
After putting these faces on the Steem Logo we get Steemy:
As you can see it works quite well. What I don't like is the slim neutral mouth, sad and angry mouth as well as the M Phonetic. They all don't work well on a black background. So I think they need to be more than just a black line.
I am also looking for something similar to the following emotions. The style must fit the faces I already have and must come in Adobe Illustrator vector format (.ai). The emotions shall include changes to all elements I am already using. That means eyebrows, eyes and mouth. It is possible to add further elements if that helps the emotion. Below you see the emotions I want. Some of them have extra elements like a heart or a bubble.
| Number | Face |
|---|---|
| 1 |  |
| 2 |  |
| 3 |  |
| 4 |  |
| 5 |  |
| 6 |  |
| 7 |  |
| 8 |  |
| 9 |  |
| 10 |  |
The Contest
- To win you must deliver two faces that express the requested emotions of your choice which includes Neutral, Sad, Angry and the M Phonetic.
- The style must fit the existing style of Steemy
- The result must come in .ai format
- The first place gets 10 SBD and second and third get 5 SBD each.
- The first place wins the chance to do all remaining requested faces for another 90 SBD, so 100 SBD in total.
- I will feature the wininning artist in one of my Steemy episodes
- I'll write a follow-up post with all finished faces for extra exposure for the artist.
I hope things are much clearer now and that we will see some great results with this contest.