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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[xuanmir]

Hello! Is it too late to apply for this?

[owocki]

hi from parental leave.

each of the last sketches posted looks great. keep up the good work everyone!!

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!

what dan said. wed hate to have ppl go too far on the artwork and not be able to integrate it bc the specs dont match

also i have a request. anyone wanna make a metacartel avatar svg that fits the above specs ?

[Popeline5]

What do you think about my Jedi ?

[alexgetty]

@owocki @danlipert Before I take the time to get all these assets formatted and organized, I'm hoping to get a signal as to which option I proposed you guys would prefer: using my original characters even though they don't fit into one of the suggested categories or creating some new assets within one of those categories. I just want to make sure my efforts are aligned with your goals.

Congrats on the new offspring, Kevin!

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[owocki]

What do you think about my Jedi ?

share access with kevin@gitcoin.co or public read and ill tell u

[owocki]

@owocki @danlipert Before I take the time to get all these assets formatted and organized, I'm hoping to get a signal as to which option I proposed you guys would prefer: using my original characters even though they don't fit into one of the suggested categories or creating some new assets within one of those categories. I just want to make sure my efforts are aligned with your goals.

honestly i like all the stuff u posted in your post above..

if u already have a modular character system, and you are in a place in which u can liscense it to this repo under our liscense (GPV v3) then i say lets go in that direction.. why duplicate the effort yknow?

Congrats on the new offspring, Kevin!

thx - ur in denver? see u around colorado blockchain i suppose!

[owocki]

everyone else.. how goes? would love to start getting some SVGS i can plug into a PR!!!

[Popeline5]

@owocki here’s my Jedi

[theCydonian]

@owocki, I can create a metacartel svg avatar. Do you just want it to look like the image you attached but with deconstructed components, or something else?

[alexgetty]

@owocki Sounds good. I have a bit of work to do to get my system in line with your format, but it should be too much of a hassle. I'll work through that as well as start looking into the GPV v3 licensing. Once I get at least one character variant in the correct format I'll post my svg code here so that you can verify it's done correctly, then I'll work on formatting the rest of the character variations.

I'm still new to this... do I need to do anything on gitcoin to "officially" work on this bounty?

To answer your other question, yes I'm in Denver. I came to a few of the meetups in boulder a while ago and met you briefly, but it's been a while since I've been to one. I was able to catch your talk/panels at ETHDenver last week though and have added C&B to my reading list because of it :)

[owocki]

@Popeline5 looks cool :) pls continue

@theCydonian yeah deconstructed parts, and fitting the spec in the desc. we can add more parts to it from there.

@TheDataDesigner great! you can click 'start work' on the bounty if you want.

[theCydonian]

@owocki I finished reconstructing the metacartel logo in illustrator to separate the vector components out into parts. Here are some screenshots of my work:

If you want me to continue work on this bounty, what types/how many variations of the parts do you want?

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31706764/75087697-8cdae600-54f8-11ea-8761-498783d017e7.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31706764/75087698-8cdae600-54f8-11ea-8a18-248a9f4b8c98.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31706764/75087699-8d737c80-54f8-11ea-8ee7-683976f6cb2c.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31706764/75087700-8d737c80-54f8-11ea-8d45-b0b0fdd9b6c9.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31706764/75087701-8e0c1300-54f8-11ea-8555-7f2fabde170f.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31706764/75087703-8e0c1300-54f8-11ea-9272-8882f080fa58.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31706764/75087704-8e0c1300-54f8-11ea-9a1e-15e92affb526.png

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[owocki]

@theCydonian looks great! let me ask some metacartel members what avatar accessories they want. some thoughts from me:

• feel free to steal some accessories from https://github.com/gitcoinco/web/tree/master/app/assets/v2/images/avatar3d
• rainbows/ unicorns
• eth logos in fun places
• a picture of peter pan or vitalik
• a colorado flag
• anything the metacartel community wants from here => https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1231297624289890304

can you post the svg so we can be sure that the DOM is constructed correctly?

[owocki]

hey everyone on this thread; could you post your WIP svg sometime in the next 48 hours so i can validate it against the avatar builder code ? pretty pls

[theCydonian]

@owocki here is my svg so far:

metacartel.svg.zip

I'll start working on the variants today.

[theCydonian]

@owocki I made a bunch of variants and incoorperated assets from the bufficorn avatar. Here is what I've got:

spicyboi.svg.zip

Let me know if you need anything else.

[KushMd]

JEDI https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Vo4fLyMNEgSbl_DF_ZInAOco8rx0hw4B

[KushMd]

ORC https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cJZk1J1c-eabwI898f0lGF3zgOEIPU8d

[KushMd]

JOKER(supervillian) https://drive.google.com/open?id=19CNJzLg9XG4Z1cfNsvg6uWl9Y1mktMCw

[alexgetty]

Here's a sample of the first character along with a bunch of different bases to show the format for variations. Let me know if I need to tweak anything here before building out the other elements

character.zip

[owocki]

just played with all of the above svgs.. were mostly on track!!

some comments for everyone:

• add backgrounds pls, even if its just a few color options
• pls make viewport 350px x 350px upon export

almost all of the samples only had one accessory/hair/clothing/etc type. will need at least 3 of each type before submission :)

and make sure you name your different dom elements as follows :) otherwise the system wont know how to parse/name the individual parts

[owocki]

@TheDataDesigner that looks good.. but note that u wont have to do color variations for skin tones (so u can remove most of the Base's). our system can swap out any base skin color for a bunch of diffrent other ones just by doing a simple regex on the svg DOM :)

[owocki]

cant wait to add ur guys avatars to this list!!

[theCydonian]

@owocki I added two new backgrounds. Is there anything else you want me to do, or are you satisfied with this as the final submission? However I might have messed up naming as I'm not sure of how the naming scheme is specified.

spicyboi.svg.zip

Let me know what you think.

[owocki]

@theCydonian theres only one accessory (accessory_14) in the DOM... (similar for hat, mouth, eyebrows, etc)

can you resubmit with several of each category in the main level of the DOM? ie accessory_14 accessory_13 accessory_12 accessory_11

feel free to use the sample svg ( https://bits.owocki.com/v1umkr1e ) as a example

[owocki]

@theCydonian theres only one accessory (accessory_14) in the DOM... (similar for hat, mouth, eyebrows, etc)

can you resubmit with several of each category in the main level of the DOM? ie accessory_14 accessory_13 accessory_12 accessory_11

feel free to use the sample svg ( https://bits.owocki.com/v1umkr1e ) as a example

[theCydonian]

@owocki sorry about that. I messed up the export. This should be better:

metacartel.svg.zip

[nasehim7]

@owocki Hi Kevin, I have been away because of work. Continuing on what I submitted earlier, I have converted the Mage into the relevant SVG. You can give your feedbacks and accordingly I will fix Mage as well as push out the Orc that I have made.

Here is Mage: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DGwPNk0iMUCnxJ7u_hTq0f9JFiPRp1F6/view?usp=sharing

[KushMd]

JEDI https://drive.google.com/open?id=1j3uHoh5GZi1ejmbqE1TeJpe7k_eoK_rV ORC https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aPTQvCMq_IIUp49598KABJDD63YprpfL JOKER https://drive.google.com/open?id=1K4ibwP7FoS5x201gNX4nEpNLEvexIwmh

(copied some backgrounds from bufficorn avatar)

Anything else I should add????

[nasehim7]

@owocki Hi Kevin, here is the SVG form of the Orc which I sketched earlier for the task:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DVaphPS4ZiE-m-kZ9ZuQvSD0mrOksD5H/view?usp=sharing

Moreover, I would like to share a version of Harley Quinn which I made couple of days back for my social media page. You can have a look and lets see if we can make use of it in later version of this task or so or maybe something on the similar lines

Comments are welcomed for these as well as for Mage.

Cheers, Animesh

[simonweniger]

Burning Man

Protoss/Barbarian

We already have some ideas for different versions, types of the characters and accessories.

[alexgetty]

Here's an updated version of my characters with all the variations included. Added some background options as well, per your request. If this looks good to you, I'd be ready to throw it in a PR.

gitcoin characters.svg.zip

@owocki Perhaps this is just user error, but I can't find the "Start Work" button anywhere on the Gitcoin bounty page. I'm authenticated, but there is no option to start a bounty. I even did a text search for the phrase and nothing came up. I feel pretty silly for having trouble with this...

[writeprovidence]

@owocki my SVG . please take a look avatar.zip

[theCydonian]

avatar-01.svg.zip @owocki I made one final tweak, but this should be good for a final submission.

[owocki]

@simonweniger the burning man one is cool but the SC2 player in me LOVEs the protoss!

[owocki]

testing all of these now.. notes soon

[theCydonian]

@owocki thanks. If there still are any issues, I can likely address them within 2 hours of you pointing it out.

[owocki]

notes below

jedi.svgz whats an svgz? can u deliver as an svg? DOM looks mostly good could we add 2-3 clothing options, facial expressions?

orc.svg looks good DOMwise could we add 2-3 facial expressions, beards backgrounds, and maybe a body? some hidden

Orc-01 These are all bitmaps not vector files, is that by design? the system seems to be choking on the svg bc its so big (presumably bc its bit maps) do u have a vector version?

metacartel.svg can we resize this to be 350px x 350px instead of 1000+ px in viewport size? can we add 2-3 more accessories or tattoo or hat permutations?

spicyboi.svg can we resize this to be 350px x 350px instead of 1000+ px in viewport size? can we add 2-3 more accessories or tattoo or hat permutations?

gitcoin character wow this is perfect! no changes needed :)

avatar-01 this looks good to me. thanks!

joker.svg this one is good! could use

• a few more backgrounds
• a few other hair options also background is misspelled in the DOM

mage These are all bitmaps not vector files, is that by design? the system seems to be choking on the svg bc its so big (presumably bc its bit maps) do u have a vector version?

[owocki]

@TheDataDesigner i just set the bounty type to Cooperative so you should be able to start work now.

btw your avatar is behind a staff only on prod now :) nice work => https://gitcoin.co/onboard/profile?steps=avatar&theme=comic

do u have any more items ud like to integrate?

[theCydonian]

@owocki you said my latest avatar is good. How does this work with the bounty?

[owocki]

@theCydonian which avatar-01 ? im haviing a little bit of a hard time integrating it in the avatar builder.. will let u know if any changes are needed

[theCydonian]

@owocki The lastest is avatar-01.svg. What problems are you having? I can make fixes fairly quickly so you wont have to wait until tomorrow for a final version.

I want to get this done today if possible, and I will put in the work to do so.

[owocki]

@theCydonian your export is 1000x1000; needs to be 350x350

also - having some trouble with the coloring of the items; screenshot => https://bits.owocki.com/Qwu7lWpo -- if u can export it straight from illustrator with explicit fill colors in the svg i think that'll really help

[theCydonian]

@owocki give me 30 minutes and I’ll fix it

[owocki]

can you make it in your export so that all of the accessory body features are only one layer deep in the DOM @theCydonian ?

[theCydonian]

@owocki do you know how I should fix the colors? I resized, but I'm not sure about the colors.