Pixel pusher phun (a mini challenge)

[jeroentje]

Yep, it was your idea...
It's allways interesting to do something you didn't do before, so I will just give it a try.

And you know the standard MINICHALLENGE guidelines by now:
- Be creative and make it look fantastic.
- Rules are not open for negotiation.
Cheers, Jeroentje :beer:

We would appreciate it if you could host your piece from a server.
For free hosting places check out www.tripod.lycos.co.uk , www.lycos.co.uk , www.fortunecity.com . (Links to) free upload software can be found there aswell and also at www.tucows.com. Or do a search in your favorite search engine. When attaching is your only option: so be it.

[wasted weasel]

hmm interesting..... so using a program like "MS Paint" would be ideal for creating pixel art?

[roel]

Well, just about any pixel-based program would do. Photoshop, MS Paint, good ol' Autodesk Animator... Does Painter have any drawing tools with hard edges?

[DocBoom]

what about animation (animated gif :bounce: )?

[roel]

Why not? nobody said you weren't allowed to animate it!

[Totitch]

Great!!! :thumbsup: Very good Roel!!!

I will stop to work on SpaceDuck a moment and Participate this little Challenge!!! Very gooooooooood !!! :bounce: :bounce:

Yet, I don't think restriction to 32 colors for a character is good...
A lot of Sprites have more now. But i will follow the rules. Just Harder!!! :shrug: :D

[Totitch]

Oh...And an other link for those who are unfamiliar with this kind of art

Waow Pixels!!! (http://tsgk.captainn.net/) :thumbsup:

[roel]

Originally posted by Totitch
Yet, I don't think restriction to 32 colors for a character is good...
A lot of Sprites have more now.[/B]

Sure, but then again, a lot of sprites still have less.
Capcom vs SNK 1 & 2: 16 colours.
King of Fighters (all versions): 16 colours.
Guilty Gear X: 32 colours.

And I should also note that one of these colours is transparent, which leaves only 15 or 31 colours for the actual image.

[Cockofthewok]

Yessss.....Guilty Gear X= Best sprite based fighting game EVER!! I'm going to join this challenge with a character heavily influenced by that game.

[DaChickan]

I am starting my entry now! :)

Is there any res limit roel? Because what I am proposing to create will be quite largeish (1280x1024) :)

Thanks. Oh and how long do we have?

[roel]

Is there any res limit roel? Because what I am proposing to create will be quite largeish (1280x1024) :)


I believe the forum rules say you shouldn't post anything larger than 800x600, but other than that, there's no limit.


Thanks. Oh and how long do we have?

There's nothing to win, so a time limit would be rather pointless, methinks. Just try not to keep everyone waiting for too long, i.e. post your work before this thread is old, and senile, and forgotten. ;)

[jeroentje]

This minichallenge is just for fun and for fun only. So there is no deadline, and all the "rules" are in the first 2 posts of his thread. The rest is up to you (too much rules is not good for a person).
This will stay stickied for about a week or two.

General forum posting rules can be found overhere: forum rules. (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20257)
If you want to post a big one anyway that is fine, just post only the link to your server (I mean the URL without the [IMG] tags) and we will all be able to see it without it conflicting with the forum layout ;)

edit - I am sorry for my early in the morning tone of voice in the first version of this post. ;)

[jeroentje]

I think I messed up a bit with the limited color thing. I remembered I made that silly font years ago, when playing around with fontographer. Never thought I would actually use it someday.

Hope you like it, it is my very first pixel thingy ever.
Cheers, jeroentje :beer:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/superjeroentje/ahnuld.jpg

[roel]

Here's a piece of a background I once did for a shooting game. 32 colours used. The original res is 2048x256.

http://senile.et.tudelft.nl/roel/external/backcity.gif

[schmu_20mol]

lil speedy ....aoutraged chess set ....boxing king

[schmu_20mol]

ups...forgot the pic

[jeroentje]

This is fun :)
Will Smith...

http://members.lycos.co.uk/superjeroentje/willsmith.jpg

[roel]

Wow, Jeroentje, you're really good at this!

[jeroentje]

Thanks Roel, this much fun :)
I just hope the thread doesn't stay such a small party...
Who is next?

[roel]

I am!

Here's an animation of my hamster in its normal state:

http://senile.et.tudelft.nl/roel/images/cage.gif

[jeroentje]

That's a nice one Roel :)

http://members.lycos.co.uk/superjeroentje/jaws.jpg

[roel]

Jeroentje, you are a machine!

But why did you save your work in JPEG format? The shark, for example, has less than 16 colours, so GIF would have been a better choice. Lossless compression, and about 5 times smaller filesize in this particular case.

[jeroentje]

Tried that, but gif seems to **** up the colors.
Btw, are we the only who finds this challenge amusing?

[roel]

Messed up colours have nothing to do with the GIF format, but rather with an erroneous palette setting.

I seem to remember others saying they were interested in this challenge, but the number of entries seems indeed quite meager... :shrug:

[wedge]

no man, i think its great! i love seeing these!

[Kirt]

I like the challenge jeroentje ... I just haven't had the time to do anything yet. Soon ... (I hope)

[jeroentje]

Oh, I am not pushing anyone...
We'll just see what'll happen.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/superjeroentje/hannibal.jpg

[DocBoom]

ok how´s that? 16 frames @ 30 colors:
http://www.85hertz.de/bilder/pixelart/ballgame.gif

and a still, 200%:
http://www.85hertz.de/bilder/pixelart/ballgame_still.gif

cool pics in here so far.
roel are you gonna show your hamster in another state? (maybe on a caffeine overdose? :) )
jeroentje like those portraits but where is ELVIS?? :scream:

[DocBoom]

btw here´s a pixelated webcomic: www.dieselsweeties.com (http://www.dieselsweeties.com)

[otacon]

I just came up on this thread, and these are looking really awesome! That hannibal one is awesome jeroentje!:thumbsup I just wanted to say good work to all of you. keep it up.:D

[jeroentje]

Thanks :)
Nice work DocBoom.

[Kirt]

This will have to do until I get a chance to work on a new one. This image was created about 10 years ago when I was bored at work. Based upon a pencil sketch I did while studying the work of M C Escher in junior college Art History class. I call it "dogs" and it was created using MS Paint in Windows 3.0 ... :argh:

[jeroentje]

http://members.lycos.co.uk/superjeroentje/frodo.jpg

[stoo]

I only just noticed this thread! Reminds me of my old gaming days.

Jeroentje, may I ask what process you go through to draw these pics? I just had a go but found it really difficult to capture the features of a character. In fact, I always have.

Do you fill out the main shapes first, and then shade them?

Hope to see more!

stoo

[DaChickan]

Looking goooood guys... Jeroentje, methinks you're done this type of stuff before. Great work you have done :-)

I have been extremely busy and will try and have something up soon. If not, I'll post whenever.

Just wanted to ask some questions.
Docboom, animation rocks with pixel art. How do you, or anyone for that matter, get realistic movement or animation with pixel art?

I suck at anything "organic" looking in pixel art... its the one area I really need to work on. :)

Wonderful to see my 'lil old ps2 work started this, let's keep it going :)

[jeroentje]

Thanks DaChickan :)
No, this is the very first time...

[DocBoom]

How do you, or anyone for that matter, get realistic movement or animation with pixel art?
as these are my first steps in animating and pixelart and animating pixelart, most of it contists of :thumbsdow very much :wip: , some :beer: , some :eek: , some :rolleyes: and a bit of :lightbulb . if i´m lucky it´s :applause: and i´m :cool: .
hope this did help...


not?!?

ok, old skool sketching with pen and paper helps a lot. It´s far more easier if you have kind of a plan before pixelating. I guess i´ll try this next time, too...

[Virusescu]

:surprised: so far so good.:applause:
I love this forum :drool:
Something quick in 10 colors

[MikaelPersson]

My first post ever showcasing 2D art.
I had to contribute when you all started with pixel art.
This is old, but the last time I was into pixels was with Deluxe Paint.
Five colours.

http://home.swipnet.se/hvaetaen/pics/Snowmonster.gif

(Maybe I should add that this is just a pixelated version of a drawing from a _very_ famous comic creator. Anyway, no scans or bullshit just used the pic as reference.)

:wavey:

[AJ]

Wow - very cool Mikael P!

I absolutely love Calvin & Hobbes... I copied the strips over and over again when I was younger (I never got Calvin's hair right). :D

Though I'd have a little crack at this - nothing fancy at all (I don't think I could do fancy if I wanted to anyway!), just this miserable little guy.

http://www.moonjam.com/cheerup.gif

I might make something more substantial that this - but I'm pretty damn lazy... :D

[Rye]

Mikael that brings back memories of reading Calvin and Hobbes. I always wished I lived where it snowed so I could build snowmen as morbid as he did! Maybe one day... :) Everyone is doing such awesome pixel artwork, makes me want to give it a shot.

[DuRanG]

well I got this old alienkind image.. 5 colors

[bjotto]

It was a long time since I did stuff like this, fun.
it's 6 colors:
:buttrock:

been trying to post for more than 10 minutes now, it's geting worse

[pregnant embryo]

Had blast with this project while rockin' out to FRANKY! :buttrock:

http://pregnantembryo.com/microfiche/zappa.gif

[caioss]

Hi everybody
I am a newbie here, as you can see!I'm brazilian, from São Paulo, and my english is not good!!!as you also can see
i'm 14 yrs old, and I also work with 3d, but I do not have any complete project, only experiments and studies(on max 5)

Ahn..my posting may look too didactic for you...but is the coolest i have

here it goes:

http://www.pixelarte.kit.net/versaofinal.jpg

http://www.pixelarte.kit.net/robo2.jpg

thanks, and sorry my english also

[jeroentje]

Here you go buddy :)
Very nice work btw :buttrock:

[jeroentje]

****ING HELL!!! You are only 14??? great work :eek:

[Gholias]

my entry :buttrock:

http://www.elonline.com.br/~f-camilo/files/fotos/coalho.gif

www.artepixel.cjb.net

[well]

Não falo ingles hahahahahahhahaaha :p e agradeço a Deus por isso.

http://www.game2d.hpg.ig.com.br/abobora-sepia.gif


Well

Brasil

[Slacker]

lol Gholias

:thumbsup:

[caioss]

Yeah, gholias, your "monster" is very "funny"(?)
"funny" is strange in this phrase ahn?

Jeroentje, thak u for the compliments
i sad, my english is bad, and the book is on the table

I already also made others pixel arts, but they are the first ones, therefore they are worse(wrong phrase again)

thanks

[Gholias]

hehehe
Now the Brazilians shows
that we are good in soccer and in Pixel Art

;0

Well good job
Show us some of yours game characters...

[]s

[roel]

Originally posted by caioss

Ahn..my posting may look too didactic for you...but is the coolest i have


Now this is the stuff! Especially the first one, he reminds me of the "Streets of Rage" series.

[caioss]

Thank's everybody!!
I used as reference some scenes of games 2d, as Street Fighter and King of Fighters...

I am affixing some experiences of the "fight character" before the final work...

here it goes:

http://www.flashbrasil.kit.net/img1.gif


and the URL:(PSD)

PSD (http://www.flashbrasil.kit.net/fight.psd)

bye

[jeroentje]

caioss, you can edit your posts by hitting the edit button.
You can delete them by editing, checking the delete box at the top of the field and hitting the delete now button.

cheers, jeroentje

[caioss]

oh, ok jeroentje, sorry, I tried, and it gave up...but now I's edited normal...

sorry my english AGAIN

[DuRanG]

poe esse sorry 4 my english na assinatura.. :rolleyes: :D

[DuRanG]

TEP (wip) bedroom.. dunno how many colors:

[caioss]

hahaha, yeah durang, good idea!!!

He's said to me it leaves "Sorry 4 english" as signature!

vou fazer isso mesmo, porque se não os caras vao achar que eu sou analfabeto!

[GandalftheGrey]

Here is my pixel picture of a stormtrooper my brother wanted me to do. :D

[Sharky]

Here it is ... Pinky from Pinky & the Brain (HELP ME I'm totally addicted !)

[jeroentje]

Just unsticking it to make some room for a next one, soon to come.
If you have some more pixel-art to post, this mini-challenge has no deadline, so go ahead :)

[caioss]

oops, here it goooo:

http://www.flashbrasil.kit.net/bobodacorte2.gif
http://www.flashbrasil.kit.net/andando.gif
http://www.flashbrasil.kit.net/pixel2.gif
http://www.flashbrasil.kit.net/vaca.jpg

simple, and small images....that's all folks..

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