What CBI assignment would you like to see?

[Brandon Hanvey]

If you could create a CBI assignment, what would it be?

[icarus]

I would like to see assignments with sequentials based on full script and sequentials based on a loose plot (ala marvel style). It would be fun to see a cover or pin up for extra credit sprinkled here and there just to see some muscles flex.

[W.Blankenship]

I think it would be cool to see something that challenges timing and pacing. I think drawn from script and bare plot has been mentioned, but I'd like to see something that tests the artists ability at pacing and time in comics.

I would also love seeing artists playing with something other than direct translation, as in not just illustrating a story, but defining it with your art and seeing each artists distinct take on the same story/ plot.

3!LL

[KSBrennan]

I'd like to see a famous/popular sequence recreated from the opposing individuals perspective.

I'd also like to see them pushed to try a style other than their own. Get the contestants out of their comfort zone.

Redesigning a character would be cool too.

[Nick Pitarra]

Perhaps a character design/sequential combo. Give the ten finalist a loose description of a monster/creature(open to interpretation). And a tight 2 or 3 page sequential to go along with it. Make them provide a full character sheet with the sequentials. That away you can see how said artist brings the script to life...and animates his/her own character. You've got storytelling/character design/character consistancy/and the horro genre covered in one assignment(assuming its a monster design)

Other than that...just Meat and Potatoes storytelling stuff (Loose and tight plots)...with hard deadlines. It will be interesting to see how the artist will change/adapt to make it in on time, to compare and contrast portfolio pieces against tight deadline pieces.

Oh yeah....definitely some humor stuff with specific facial expressions. And spandex...a whole lot of spandex.

And boobs.

~nick

[Nick Pitarra]

CARICATURE WORK. Maybe have a celebrity be in a sequential sequence.

~nick

[justin_Render]

I'd like to see a good, solid EC Comics style horror assignment.

[mytymark]

hi guys!

me, probably it would be awesome to have different themes...not just superhero....in the assignments. maybe they can do sci-fi in one. then magic in another. horror's pretty much normal already, so i think we can pass that up. just themes that would show the finalists interpretation of the genre. gonna be fun, i reckon!:)

oh, and first ever CBR post!

[Karl H]

Maybe - and I know I sure as heck am not talented enough to do this - an encounter between 2 characters in the modern style and then the same piece in a more silver age style piece.

[gmsalpha]

I'd like to see a short 2-3 page script involving atypical human characters. For instance, a talking heads shot of the dorks in a high school cafeteria. Maybe an old woman making a visit to the hospital bed of her dying husband, which would make the artist show a lot of emotion in the face of an elderly person.

I'm fairly fed up with seeing every single female character looking like a fitness model or pinup girl and every male character looking like a wrestler. And equally as bad, when artists draw kids like the Teen Titans as if they're the same buff heroes that the Justice League are, just with kid faces.

How do the artists pull of drawing a guy with 25% bodyfat? Not a tubby slob, but a normal Joe. What about a girl who isn't exactly ugly, but isn't Halle Berry either.

That's what I want to see.

[Hieu Le Bui]

no Bendis script as an assignment, I'm serious.

[frbarba]

well since am an avid garth ennis fan, i would definitely love some dark humor type of scripts

[luv2pencil]

I would create some fantasy stuff! Ever since I was a child I've had a knack for drawing barbarians, dungeons, dragons, and babes!!! Some 40's, 50's, 60's pulp/noir stuff would be great also. I would also have contestants listen to a favorite song and create sequential art based on the lyrics (like a music video only in comic book form) but making it totally different than the music video (if it has one).

[gmsalpha]

I would also have contestants listen to a favorite song and create sequential art based on the lyrics (like a music video only in comic book form) but making it totally different than the music video (if it has one).

In Art School, we had to do storyboards from lyrics to a song. I like the idea, but the catch would be that everyone needs to draw the same song. The way that would work for everyone is to let me pick the song. Haha. :D

[warren_0]

Anything at all is fine.

The top ten should have to deal with whatever comes and make it work - just like most pro comic book artists have to. Whatever's closest to the real deal out there, right now, would be great.

[peruzzo]

there really isn't one thing I'd like to see. It's more about variety between assignments. Maybe one week is sci fi, the next a western, then a love story. Something to keep all of the finalists on their toes and pushed, because that is what i would want if I was a finalist. I'm crossing all of my fingers.....

[MartinRedmond]

Mandatory 6 panel grids.

[Brandon Hanvey]

Mandatory 6 panel grids.

Heh. I say we throw a script at them that calls for 12 panels per page over 3 pages. I bet that would be fun to watch.

[the goddamn batman]

Heh. I say we throw a script at them that calls for 12 panels per page over 3 pages. I bet that would be fun to watch.

That would be fun (and hard). I love me some 9 and 12 panel grids, personally.:D

[kalorama]

No specific assignments in mind, but I would suggest keeping it pretty basic. No need to overthink it. Just mix up different genres (action, humor, romance, sci-fi, horror), writing approaches (full script, detailed plot, loose plot description, maybe adapting a short prose piece) and see what happens

[W.Blankenship]

Heh. I say we throw a script at them that calls for 12 panels per page over 3 pages. I bet that would be fun to watch.

That'd be fun. I used to put wayyyyy too many panels in my pages back in the day.:D

3!LL

[mytymark]

i also had an encounter with producing artwork based on a song. i think that would be fun as well, great suggestion, luv2pencil! i remember joeMad came up with Garrison (from his BattleChasers book) after listening to the Last of the Mohicans OST.

Also, just for sheer wackiness, maybe we can have the finalists render a story based on an Anime/Manga title...like have DragonBallZ or Akira turned into anything out of japanese style:)

[Anthony ANMPH Hary]

I just want to see sequencials and also see people put out work that is worth the cost of a monthly book.

[Reed]

Sequential assignments would be best in my opinion. But I think the less specific the assignment the better. Letting people fill in the blanks themselves means they're more likely to use the tools with which they are most familiar. That means cooler pages to look at. Or maybe part of the contest is to test/push people?

Jon

[BoosterBronze]

I really liked the 'Superhero Getting Ready" assignment from a previous CBI.

Perhaps, "Superhero eating lunch." or something else that's not action, but might be dynamic with the right art.

[Butch Mapa]

A lovemaking scene that has to turn people on, but not smutty/distasteful.

A scene based on a licensed property (that hasn't been turned into a comic yet, like Lost or Harry Potter)-- lotta those in the market these days.

[kalorama]

A lovemaking scene that has to turn people on, but not smutty/distasteful.

A scene based on a licensed property (that hasn't been turned into a comic yet, like Lost or Harry Potter)-- lotta those in the market these days.

Unless they use a property that's in the public domain, I don't see that one as very likely (wouldn't want to risk the infringement lawsuit). But it could be intreresting.

[mmmmmike]

ala redmond's suggestion, a set-grid assignment would be good, as well as reinterpreting (covering?) a sequence from a published comic. beyond those two, something free-form. the idea of full script vs loose plot is also a good one.

[mgs]

for an easy, beginning challenge, I'd like to see the contestants having to go out and pick up a comic book, gn, etc., of their choice, no matter how obscure or popular and make a sequential page of their own interpretation of it.