Greetings, and welcome to the 2017 Ultimate CAAA Character Challenge. The Character Adoption Addicts Anonymous is a community of users who have joined together to discuss their love of adopting, purchasing, and creating original characters. With the new year rolling in, a lot of users share a common resolution - better development of their characters. Based on the previous 2015 Character Challenge, we are instilling some major improvements to create a bigger, better challenge for 2017.
There are 12 different quests that participants may choose to complete. Each participant may sign up for as many quests as they'd like, and the intended goal for each participant is to complete each of their quests for every single character they own (and any new characters they pick up along the way) throughout the course of 2017. The goal is to have everything finished by December 31, 2017...just in time to roll in the new year of 2018 in style!
As incentive for completing your quests, we will be hosting a raffle at the end of 2017. The only way to earn tickets for this raffle will be successful completion (or partial completion) of your challenges with proof. Throughout the course of 2017, we will be collecting prizes that will be awarded to these successful participants at the end of the year!
There are quests for artists, writers, and even some quests for people who just like to collect and order art! If you're interested in developing your characters more in the coming year, please continue to the next post to see our quests.
Once you've decided which quest(s) you'd like to complete, you'll want to gauge the difficulty of completing your quest. To help you with this, we've separated character hoarders into 4 different tiers, based on the number of characters that you own and intend to keep. Click here to figure out which tier you are in. What tier you are in will help to determine how you will be rewarded for completion of each of your quests and what your individual goals should be.
Still have questions about participating? Click here to see our FAQs.
You are welcomed and encouraged to discuss the challenge here! I want to stress that this thread is not just for members' forms; it's for updates, questions, discussions, and tips & tricks!
Things you may wish to note:
- • In the original character development challenge, Solanum and I had planned to give away, sell, or trade all of the characters we did not complete by the end of the year. If your goal is to cut down your amount of characters/undeveloped characters, you may wish to challenge yourself to finish your variation by December 31, 2017 or get rid of any characters you don't finish by then. This, however, is optional.
• Different people work at different paces, and that means that all of you will be at all sorts of stages! I (along with Weege and any other GHs/mods that would like to help) will track your progress and set up a goal-and-reward system to encourage you all to keep going!
Here are some basic rules for the thread:
- 1. You're encouraged to post your progress! However, please do not double post and only post after multiple pieces are finished, not after each and every one.
2. Do not post full stories on the thread. Instead, link them and encourage users to read. You may also ask for critique!
3. Only post 5-6 images in each post. This will likely be a slower moving thread than the CAAA, so big posts full of images would clog the pages.
Here are the rules for the challenge:
- 1. All writing must be new or revised. Click here for more information on this rule.
2. All drawings must be FULLY custom (no lineart color-ins, even if the lineart is your own). You may count pre-existing avatars, tags, and references as completed if they are fully custom, BUT art completed before 2017 will not earn you raffle tickets. All fullbodies/situational or prompt-based art must be brand new. Click here for more information on this rule.
3. Post a warning if your art or story includes nudity, gore, graphic scenes, violence, drug use, or excessive profanity. You're welcome to use these things in your story or art, but be mindful of what you link on CS!
Once you are satisfied that you are ready to join, please post the following form on this thread! PLEASE REMOVE EVERYTHING IN BRACKETS. Feel free to pretty up this form if you'd like~ do not remove the codeword or you will not be included on our participants' list!
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Username:
How many characters do you own? [and what tier does that place you in]
What challenge(s) will you be attempting?
Link to the thread, website, sta.sh, etc. where you will be keeping your progress:
Any additional questions or information: [If you are recycling/counting old art pieces (ie, tags you already have ordered) or writing (that you do not intend to edit) PLEASE let us know here along with the count of HOW MANY PIECES you already have towards your goal. Please feel free to include any other information you feel is pertinent as well!]
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