art by @overkillcoin
Contest Rules:
This contest is for one original illustration of the story below and the winning one will receive 50 SBD. The winner will be chosen by myself and @justatouchfey.
What’s the Deadline?
February 14, 2018
What tags do I use?
slothicorn, creativecommons, contest, cryptoart
How many entries can I submit?
Unlimited. As many as you want.
Do I have to add the Creative Commons License?
Yes.
This is what you need to add at the bottom of your post:
Can I submit something that I did not create?
No. Only original artwork will be accepted. The Slothicorn account will not upvote any entries that are not original artwork.
Can I submit a GIF?
NO. Universal Basic Income for shitty GIFs will not be included in this contest. You can continue to submit #UBIGIFs for the regular Slothicorn Creative Commons GIF collection, but GIFs are not eligible for this contest.
ARTIST DIRECTIONS:
Choose a scene to illustrate from this genesis story below. You can choose to illustrate whatever part of the story you want. You are also free to create as many illustrations as you want. Please create high resolution copies of your work. Your artwork must be Creative Commons in order to be considered a valid entry in this contest.
To clarify, this contest has two purposes:
We need background illustrations for the Welcome To Slothicorn AR Game we are currently building.
We also want to find an illustrator who wants to commit to illustrating an entire children’s book for this Slothicorn Genesis Story.
The plan is to have this story published in Amazon, and other places. Once we find an illustrator who wants to work with us, he/she will be very well compensated.
SLOTHICORN GENESIS STORY
Slothy works as a Dream Energy Specialist at the Fallhole Corporation.
Slothy Sanders is a 35 year-old sloth who began working at the Fallhole Corporation nearly ten years ago. She feels lucky to have a job since there are not many job opportunities in her town. She also feels grateful to be able to support herself and her son with her Fallhole income. Slothy’s husband died 7 years ago in a terrible chemical fire at the company where he worked and she has been on her own since that time. She doesn’t make a lot of money at her job, but she makes enough to cover her and her son’s basic necessities.
Every day at her job, she sits in a cubicle and is hooked up to a helmet which extracts her dream energy. She also has an exercise bike, a spinning ball and a small bed in her cubicle. She is free to do any activity, as long as she is alone and producing dreams for the collection boxes. She is not allowed to use her smartphone or talk to anyone though.
After her dreams are generated, they are collected and put into black boxes which get stamped with the Fallhole copyright symbol and locked up. But before they get locked up, a small flying robot goes into the box and injects each dream fragment with a Fallhole copyright symbol. This is done to prevent the dream fragments from trying to go back to their dreamer.
Dream fragments are emotionally connected to their maker, especially when they are first released. The copyright injection numbs the fragments, and severs the emotional connection between dream and dreamer. This step enhances the production flow and creates maximum efficiency of the dream utility line.
Each box contains one complete dream sequence. If a worker stops producing complete dream sequences, he or she is let go. One source of anxiety for all Fallhole Dream Specialists is the fear of producing only dream fragments instead of full dream sequences.
These dream collection boxes then are transported by flying robots to the different departments within Fallhole. Most dream boxes go to several different departments in order to get maximum usage of the dream energy. Most boxes go to the Virtual Reality, Mobile App and Virtual Assistant departments. A few of the super intricate dream boxes will make it to the Movie Tech department. If Slothy’s dream box makes it to the Movie department, she and her co-workers from her Section Camp (SHA-256) will get a pizza party on Friday plus a $25 bonus. This is a very rare occurrence for any worker at Fallhole, as only 14 dreams are picked each year in the entire company to make into full movies.
Every day after work, Slothy is mentally exhausted.
Because she sells her dream energy to Fallhole, her own dreams have mostly vanished. At home, she has her own dream collection box but it is not filled with dream sequences any more. During her work week, Monday-Friday, her dream collection box at home is filled only with thick black liquid which she has to empty out each morning before work. She uses the black liquid to fertilize the strange plants which grow in her backyard.
On the weekends she will sometimes find a few random objects in her dream collection box floating in the black liquid. Last weekend she found a handskin glove stained with light green and purple spots, an ink pen that was leaking blood and a very small pink pom-pom from a fallen Truffula tree. Slothy usually picks out these objects, washes them, and saves them in a large container in the basement.
Her recurring dream fragment that emerges every few weeks is a miniaturized copy of her dead husband swimming in a hot chemical bath.
He usually is missing part of his body, though. Sometimes his arm or leg is missing and at other times he has no eyes or mouth. He rarely appears in her dream box as a completely formed man.
The last time she found a completed dream sequence in her box was over ten years ago, before she started working at Fallhole.
One day at work, Slothy was notified by her supervisor, Mr. Snake, that her dream had made it to the Movie Tech department. She and her co-workers were really excited because it’s a very rare experience. Only one of her dreams has ever made it to the Movie Tech department, and this was several years ago. That Friday, her camp, SHA-256 which included 14 workers got a pizza party.
On these pizza party days, Slothy gets to freely interact with her co-workers instead of being isolated in her cubicle. One of her good friends at work is Lily who is an artist. When Slothy’s pizza party day arrived, she spent most of the day in Lily’s cubicle, talking, dancing and laughing. While in Lily’s cubicle, Slothy felt really happy. During the end of the day, Lily grabbed Slothy’s hand and put a present in it. Lily told Slothy to open it up as soon as she got home, but not at work. Slothy was so curious to find out what was in it, but she decided it was best to wait til she got home, as Lily had instructed.
When Slothy got home, she placed the tiny present on top of her black dream box and patiently waited until her son returned home from school.
When her son, Icarus, opened the door, Slothy quickly explained about how she had won a pizza party that day at work and the gift that Lily had given her. She asked him to open the present.
Icarus was just as excited as Slothy as he ripped open the little box. To both of their amusement, a small sparkly unicorn jumped out and let out a long, high-pitched squeal. They could not figure out if it was a real unicorn, or an Augmented Reality projection unicorn.
Then, the unicorn trotted into the kitchen and opened a box of donuts. Slothy and Icarus were watching its every move, trying to determine if it was real or fake. Then the unicorn started spinning around on the countertop, producing low-grade sparks and mango-scented farts.
Slothy and her son began to laugh uncontrollably once they heard and smelled the unicorn farts. They looked at each other and said at the exact same time, “This unicorn is real.”
Official Slothicorn Links
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamslothicorn
Rules: https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@stellabelle/rules-for-submitting-a-post-to-slothicorn
History: https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@spiritualmax/the-sloth-historian-and-so-slothicorn-was-born
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Hello @slothicorn and @stellabelle here is my entry for slothicorn illustrations.Thank you so much for this creative contest.
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@theia7/illustration-of-slothicorn-slothicorn-who-finds-his-way-to-go-to-the-moon
This would be a fantastic contest. Would love to see all the entries. Though I am not an artist and can’t draw this stuff but I would like to make my contribution as well. The winner of this contest will receive 10 SBDs from me as well, so the total reward is 60 SBDs now.
Start submitting your entries!
Add in 5SBDs from me as well so the prize pool is now 65SBD. I can write stories, but cannot illustrations so I'll be sitting out on this one, but I will resteem it so more digital artists can join it. Hopefully, there can be some slothicorn story contests too soon that I can get to be a part of.
This is wonderful! Keep checking all the entries as well and you can upvote them too.
Sure thing.
you both are too generous. Thanks for your support.
this was so nice of you! Thanks!
Wow, so nice of you. Thanks for your generosity!
wowww
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@matytan/slothicorn-genesis-story-contest-unicorn
My entry! Love this story :)
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@lillym/slothicorn-genesis-story-entry
its so cool!
Haha, nice story! As i have really vivid dreams and some lucid ones from time to time i got quite sad for the poor sloth....
I think i give it a go too, but i would like to change the big container into one small container for every object maybe. reminded me of the BFG!
Hi, here is my entry.
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@pual/slothicorn-genesis-entry
Enjoy, and thank you for putting this together!
wow, so amazing, unbelievable!
Thanks @slothicorn!
This is awesome!!!!!!
Thank you!
I'll totally enter! Super amazing contest!
I would like to say if you don't enter I'd cross the street and kick you but I can't do that anymoar u.u
Oh my! This story made my imagination crazy with every line! I am really glad this contest has finally started! :D cheers y'all artists!
I am glad you are inspired. Thank you.
Hello slothy
Ms Sanders story is very relatable.
I have a question.
Is she a sloth in the traditional sense and has perhaps encountered the unicorn that she may in fact fulfil the hybrid prophecy with in the future? Or is she a Slothicorn?
It could mean the difference between dreams drained via her magic horn or her general slothy vibe.
Perhaps I'm over thinking it...
I'm happy to see the inclusion of the farting unicorn.
It is amazing how these concepts can grow.
I watched a couple of poonicorn YouTube videos with my kids a year ago. There wasn't much out there, just a few silly fun clips.
The same search a year later. Games, shows, merch, toys, spin offs... So many possiblities, and that was just a quirky little thing.
You are onto a winner for sure.
Part 2 will explore how she turns her horrible life into one full of magic. She is only a sloth now, but will transform into a slothicorn in Part 2! This story is based on real events.
I hope it is alright but I did a second piece for this, as I thought it was good fun. Here is the link to the post about it. https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@donnadavisart/another-piece-i-made-for-slothicorn-s-genesis-story-contest
And here is the piece, my version of the flying robots (thought it'd be cute if they were sort of like a sloth head)
Hi! here's my entry :3
Check out my version of Slothicorn! click the link to see all the illustrations :)
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@mar.nakamoto/slothicorn-genesis-story
Lovely unicorn, sloths, donuts and unicorn farts XD
another great competition, I hope to have time to participate!
Go for it @ferjart!
Wow... Another opportunity to go slothy
Thanks @slothicorn, i will sure put up my entry
Resteemed!!!
Thank you! We have started sending out the tiny books.........
Really? Wow... I will wait for mine... Thank you
nice competition.
But WHY is it nice? Because saying it's nice will get you an upvote? XD
This is really cool, I think I might put in an entry
The art is for the opening of the game right? something like with a menu and text? Just thinking about how to balance the art
It's to create background and story art for the Game. See post above that explains the other reason to have a contest.
slothi you are amazing !!!
Resteemed.
Your challenge was added to Steemit Contest Compilation (29.01-04.02): Win free SBD and STEEM for current week.
Thank you @slothicorn for giving Steemians (especially minnows) a chance to get free SBD.
thanks so much for compiling it and adding ours. It's so hard to keep track! How did you even find them all?
Have to browse a lot through contest section)
Ooooh a Slothicorn story for children!!! I'm so happy... I want to participate! :D
good. We will wait for your illustration.
This just another reason why Slothicorn is so powerful. It is obviously catchy, but the contests, the engagement that keeps it growing is wonderful. For sure I am going to participate, can wait to see all the entries.
this is my reaction to that story:
I remember those days in "Fallhole Corporation".
ha ha, yeah, we all remember our lives at Fallhole Corp. Falling into the hole of DOOOOOOMMMMM
I would love to enter the contest, but i mainly do stick figures with the software paint xD
Good luck to everyone entering!!
Creativity like this is anything but common lol, it's as rare as a Unicorn! Stupendous work Stella! :)
THANKS SO MUCH! slothy gives you a big hug!
Hello! I am going to get started straight away, but I have 2 questions.
1.) Can slothy look any way we choose to draw her? or should she resemble your illustrations of her?
2.)Where do I post my completed work?
-Sorry If I missed where to post in the description. Awesome story btw! I would love to help illustrate, in any way, even if I do not win! I just want to be part of something inspiring like this!
Great! I want to enter this contest! It is quite creative and original!
I could help but laugh at the unicorn's low-grade sparks and mango farts! Such an interesting backstory!
Here's my entry! https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@drawingly/slothicorn-contest-entry
Good luck to everyone that enters this fantastic contest! <3 And Thankyou for hosting such a cool thing <3
heheheheh it made me laugh :D in the end of story. happy ending :D
my another show :)
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@matytan/slothicorn-genesis-story-contest-icarus-son
Here is my entry. I upvoted this post and also used the tags you said. Here is the link to the post about it https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@donnadavisart/my-art-for-slothicorn-s-genesis-story
And here is my piece:
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@matytan/slothicorn-genesis-story-contest-slothy-sanders
Hi! Here is my entry for slothicorn contest:
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@fragarixie/slothicorn-contest-entry-first-part-character-design
This is my first contest on Steemit. :)
awesome drawing style!
my another entry to contest :)
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@matytan/slothicorn-genesis-story-contest-lily
yes, saw it and upvoted! thank you
Thank you so much :)
Hi! my first sketches of Slothy Sanders :)
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@mar.nakamoto/slothicorn-genesis-story-first-sketches
This is Mr. Snake hehe :) :P
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@matytan/slothicorn-genesis-story-contest-mr-snake
Hi there! here is my entry:
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@federacion45/slothicorn-contest-entry-1
Hi everyone, my first entry:
SLOTHICORN GENESIS STORY - SCENE ONE
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@katari/slothicorn-genesis-story-scene-one
Here is my entry.
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@nizam8089/illustration-of-slothicorn-contest-when-slothicorn-will-land-on-moon
Check out my version of Slothicorn! click the link to see all the illustrations :)
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@mar.nakamoto/slothicorn
I did one! Its when Slothy Sanders turns 35, to have a visual for her age. Here is the image but you can read more about it in my post ! https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@dflo/slothicorn-contest-when-slothy-sanders-turned-35
My friend just informed me she did not yet have her unicorn horn at this time of the story! So if you go to my post you can see her with, and without! :) <3
ok thanks!
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@deverons/slothicorn-contest-slothicorn-s-genesis-story
Hello! Here is my illustration
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@elliebong/illustration-for-slothicorn-s-genesis-story
Hello Slothi, here is my entry :D
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@wanaf/slothicorn
Hello! Here is my entry for slothicorn contest:
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@fragarixie/slothicorn-contest-entry-workplace-design
Slothy's Stolen Dreams
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@juliakponsford/my-slothicorn-genesis-story-entry-1-dream-thieves
Aaaand apparently Slothy shouldn't have a horn yet so here she is without :D
Hi guys, my second entry:
SLOTHICORN GENESIS STORY - SCENE TWO
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@katari/slothicorn-genesis-story-scene-two
Hello all. My entry below. :)
https://steemit.com/slothicorn/@noellesevilla/illustration-for-slothicorn-genesis-story