I wasn't even replying to your leaf thingy, but... whatever :)

A contest idea is already in the works.... geez guys - get out of my head!!

Stay tuned - us admins work slowly but surely

Dejital:  I love Bomberman, but wouldn't know where to begin to program a multiplayer game like that.

1ucas:   The theme park thing would get me off my ass to iso something for sure. I've always loved the idea of designing rides/attractions. I go to amusement parks all the time and I always think of how I could do it better.

Saboteur: Pixel portraits would definitely be something I'd be into. It'd be cool to see how everyone sees themselves.  The template could be a polaroid frame.

Sedge, I was thinking more along the lines of a family portrait style, rather than an individual composition. We've got more than enough collabs that don't amount to a finished collaborative effort, so I figured a non-iso (iso city mosaic) and non-people-restricted(sensei and commodore's) collab was in order.

Prolly tomorrow I'll think harder about background and people size, rules and all that fun.

And in my brain it would add up to a cartoonist look, not realist.

That photo collab is a cool idea. We could make a school photo thing as well, and the template could be a spot on a bench and everyone draws themself sitting and smiling or waving or drinking etc. and at the end we put it all together set out in rows - Pixeljoint 2005.

I used to play this a lot with my girlfriend and I think we did it in the same way. It's a great time... the only thing we'd have to work out is the "connecting lines" between the three pieces.  

Heh, my idea almost got jacked by so-lou. Kinda.

I think you're thinking yearbook style, which would also be sweet.

That's the in-progress background for my version of the idea. The benches might just get chucked, because I feel like it. The main issue I'm having is that this has to be arranged in a way to fit the 30+ people (potentially) that want to put themselves in the shot. Any ideas would be gratefully accepted.

As it stands, I plan to have crates or something for the further back rows to stand on, and maybe arrange it so we could have a row of people sitting on the roof.

One feature I'd love to add is a mini-bio and a place to show the artist's whole self, because the people in the back rows will be partially hidden. That would be when you put the mouse over the person, otherwise you'd not know who did which one. That is yet to be decided, however, and I gotta add that somewhere to the background.

I think people are going to be within 96 by 64 (you gotta allow for fat people) dimensions. 

Any ideas/complaints? Is so-lou's variation better? I think hers allows for less creativity and interaction, but is much clearer in terms of who did which person.

Then again, my goal was for one big finished peice, not many little peices.