DESIGN - Create a vector avatar for the Gitcoin avatar builder. (NO LONGER OPEN FOR NEW START WORKs)

[owocki]

I have some fun news.

The Gitcoin avatar builder is about to get the ability to have MANY different avatar types on it.

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Starting with the release of the Bufficorn Avatar builder at ETHdenver 2020, we are going to be allowing MANY different avatar types onto the platform soon.

How it works

Checkout these two sample avatar svgs.

If you open them up in your favorite SVG editor this is what youll see as the DOM structure

Basically there are different categories of accessories.. And different permutations of that accessory.. And they are encapsulated as items in the DOM of the svg.

Bounty

Your task is to create an avatar concept for the avatar builder. To participate

1. Design an avatar from the request list below.
2. Post a sketch .
3. We'll chat about it; and I may invite you to post a full vector image of the avatar.
4. We'll chat about it; and I may invite you to post a full layer avatar file.

The prize for a getting a full avatar file on the site will be 5 ETH. I will fund up to 5 of these in Q1 2020.

Asks

Here are some avatar styles that would be cool to add to the site:

• Robot
• Barbarian (think like Barbarian from Diablo Video Game)
• Mage (think like Mage from Diablo Video Game)
• Burning Man Participant
• Orc (from Warcraft)
• a wookie
• a jedi
• superhero / supervillian
• Protoss (from Starcraft)
• alien
• Brooklyn Hipster
• Rainbows/Unicorn Developer
• Economist
• Willy Wonkas Playground
• pixel art avatars
• moloch (from molochDAO and meditatinos on moloch)

How to submit work

Submit a PR to this directory https://github.com/gitcoinco/creative/tree/master/Product/Avatar on the gitcoin creative repo

Must comply with svg specs Must be 350px x 350px in viewport

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These users each claimed they can complete the work by 4 days, 14 hours ago. Please review their action plans below:

1) writeprovidence has been approved to start work.

Love to participate in this bounty as i understand the process of going about it. 2) robbiekruszynski has been approved to start work.

I have a few ideas that could be fun! 3) hamzaghz has been approved to start work.

I'd like to share my drawings.. I have some great ideas 4) thedatadesigner has been approved to start work.

I've already submitted the formatted artwork via github, just making it official here :) 5) thecydonian has been approved to start work.

I have already finished this and have been posting progress updates on github. I just need to be approved for submission 6) virtual-face has applied to start work _(Funders only: approve worker | reject worker)_.

I love to work on this if it's still available.

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[owocki]

how goes everyone!???

[writeprovidence]

@owocki still on it, will come up with something soon

[robbiekruszynski]

I've got one in a pretty good spot, but want to push a little more on it. Will have work to share this week.

[owocki]

can i get a preivew!???

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I've got one in a pretty good spot, but want to push a little more on it. Will have work to share this week.

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[owocki]

how goes everyone? some new avatar oiptions went live today.. keen to get ur guys' in soon :) https://gitcoin.co/onboard/profile?steps=avatar&theme=female https://gitcoin.co/onboard/profile?steps=avatar&theme=bufficorn

[writeprovidence]

@owocki i came up with the sketch below ( superhero_woverine) and wookie

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[owocki]

i could see doing a superhero avatar bulider.. that could be fun :)

[owocki]

note that we can't use anyone elses IP though.. so the super heros should not be copies of anyone elses IP.

[writeprovidence]

@owocki trust me, this is no one else's IP

[writeprovidence]

I just want a go ahead from you and I will design all its features.

[nasehim7]

@owocki Hey Kevin, I attempted to make mage from diablo 3 and we can give a gitcoiny touch to it. This is a rough sketch around the concept. I can make it with a monoline brush for even outlines. Just two sample here:

[owocki]

@nasehim7 very cool; pls proceed

@writeprovidence pls proceed too.. very excited to get these avatars up!!

[loganbek]

That mage is 🔥

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@nasehim7 https://github.com/nasehim7 very cool; pls proceed

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[loganbek]

w0verines d0pe alsO. I wish I had this kind of artistic skill!

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[nasehim7]

@owocki Thanks Kevin, I will continue then :D Also, I have tried one more rough sketch of Orc. Let me know you take on this

[owocki]

i think it super cool.. i think our users will like it (but we'll want to have some non-angry looking orcs on there too)

[nasehim7]

@owocki yes I understand. I can place non angry features on the face. I will post a non angry faced sketch here and we will take forward from there :D

[owocki]

cool. i know u can do it.. lets move on to the svg step

[nasehim7]

@owocki okay sure 😁

[apoorvlathey]

@owocki Any chance that more users can participate in this bounty? My friend is also designing an artwork for this...

[KushMd]

Made a sketch of the ORC.

[KushMd]

Let me know if i should proceed...

[KushMd]

JEDI

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[writeprovidence]

@owocki Pls take a look

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[owocki]

@writeprovidence looks good! can i see the svg too??

btw guys we just released a new avatar that follows the above svg format.. seriously pumped for this :)

[owocki]

@KushMd those look seriously cool :) are they vector? just wanna make sure they follow the svg file format in the spec... bc thats how the avatar builder works.

if not we can likely find another use for them

[writeprovidence]

@owocki yes i have the SVG. will send them across

[KushMd]

ORC

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DqwaIvshpnE9bCnoQoenyXXDUOr1uLpD/view?usp=sharing

[owocki]

just downloaded the orc SVG.. its DOM looks like this

did you see the 'how it works' part of the spec about how to structure the DOM for the avatar?

[writeprovidence]

[writeprovidence]

@owocki pls take a look

[owocki]

looks good! wanna post the svg so i can verify the DOM looks ok:?

[nasehim7]

@owocki Hey Kevin, putting this up for a review here:

Working on the SVGs now

[owocki]

they look great :)

[writeprovidence]

@owocki should i send the SVG via a PR? or a link to download

[theCydonian]

I made a sketch for a potential robot avatar:

Let me know if you want me to make a full product. Feel free to contact me to ask any questions.

[theCydonian]

I also made some pixel arts if you would prefer me to make that:

[alexgetty]

I'd love to get in on this. I'm already working on a modular character system and would be happy to share!

Here's a few examples of the base character outputs:

Users could also choose from a variety of mutations and augmentations:

I would need to do some revisions to the assets and reorganization with the layers to get all these components fully interchangeable and compatible with your format, but there's a lot of overlap and I already have a handful of variations for each type ready to go with a lot more on the way.

[danlipert]

Hey all - just checking in on y'alls progress! Make sure it adheres to the spec and works with our avatar builder as Kevin described above!

[danlipert]

@TheDataDesigner wow, this looks awesome! Which of the personas from Kevin's list in the OP do you think your modular set covers? Kevin is currently out-of-office for a bit, but lets make sure to continue chatting because your designs are really slick!

[alexgetty]

@danlipert Thanks, glad you like them! I could create custom assets to fit a bunch of different categories from that list, depending on what other contributors are working on. In the original post, Kevin said "Here are some avatar styles..." so I (perhaps wrongly) assumed that the issue was open to other themes as well.

I'd be happy to create new assets specifically within one (or more) of those categories and just use my base character outline as a guide, or we could leverage some of the assets I've already created to give users another option outside of those listed above. I'm definitely in either way, it will just take a little longer to deliver them if I'm creating a whole new body of work.

Let me know what you think!