im in, already got an idea on what to make.

edit: very early wip



Edited by minipuck - 13 October 2008 at 9:25am

To submit our piece, do we just post it in this topic?

Edit - I figured it out.


Edited by Mitsu - 13 October 2008 at 6:54pm

Get rid of jaggies, fix her far foot perspective on it is wrong.
His waist is really weird.

Actually now that I look at it her whole far leg is f**ked up.


Edited by Souly - 14 October 2008 at 10:26am

very very early WIP

my first weekly challenge entry

Still very early... The idea was originally "disco is Dead"

Cool! 

I just started doing pixel art and this will give me a good challenge.

im working in this xD



Not is really great

wip so far... uni has started.. on work they are pressing me... so I hope I'll just finish it in time. :P

Anyways, any C&C is very welcome thanx :)

And btw. Jinn - you never cease to amaze me with you skill. :)

Sig - interesting...

Thanks a lot guys!



It still WIP, but it's more close to finish now.

Thanks for the tip, withalligators!
I'll try to fix this!

I was planning on making a sleeping dude with zombies in/near his room. Check it out:

Only thing left is coloring it further.. Do I need to make the zombies more blue ( cuz it's night, the guy is also blue )?

Help me improve :D

Edited by Official-NeoSoft - 17 October 2008 at 6:18am

Agree with Raytheon. It doesn't look well if it's pillow shaded/pillowed.I recommend you to fix it..really :)

Ehh... I have no clue whether i'll finish this before the deadline.

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The image was edited...

Sorry; I don't have any other programs other than mspaint right now.  But here is my first challenge piece...


Edited by fbepyon - 18 October 2008 at 10:09am

Well, its not that much time left for the challange... But as some might need some critic on there work now, il just make it rather short to se if you have time to improve the works a bit. Its about learning stuff from these things thats important after all :)

Official-NeoSoft: Just becose its night does not meen that things become blue, it depends on the light of the moon, but even then, most of the time its not a blueish light. Try and rethink what is the lightsource in your piece. Dont think you need to consentrate that much on that the shadows are correct or so, but more importantly what kind of colours work. I would suggest to have a nightlight, so you can draw all the light from that point.
Second, It feels like you have been trying to squeeze everything to fit the canvass, it makes everything look extremly staged and makes the room unrealistic, the door can be half outside the image, you dont need to show everything to make us understand what it is. Also a thing that makes the room feel odd: why is there a door and a window leading in to the bedroom on the same side? Its like its a one room house!
You also need alot more work on your perspectives, if you want to have a image with some deep perspective, you need to apply that to everything in one way or another, its not always needed, but in your case it really does not work right now. the zombies under the bed, I guess you have tryed to make them look as the are stretched underneath it. But becose the bed does not have any of the same perspective, it just looks like the zombies asses are stuck to the bottom of the bed.
You need to use the elements in your images in a more effective way to make us understand how the room is made up. Look at more reference images, dont do everything from your mind when you dont really know how it works.

pipe: Looking at yours, I really think you should try something simpler. Make only a zombie face or something that you have the energy to finish, you can be ambitious, but do it when you know can handel the hole image, would be sad if you endup with nothing but a halfdone piece by the end of the timeline. Right now, not many things are right oe makes a lot of sense. The idea itself now, ok, its a classic, but if your not adding anything new, or do not have the skill at the moment to pull it through, it will endup boring. Look up more pixelart tutorials, they have very good liks to it here on PJ.

Biophantom: If i understand correctly, its a zombie hand comming up from the soil right? Ok, first, I must say that the image is very huge! I se a problem with this as I think a big charm with pixel art is that you can fit alot of detail on a very smal area. So, looking at the time, I dont know now much time you will have to make the details on this. Ofcoures, there is no specific way to make pixelart however, so if you can make this piece work without doing to many details, then al I can say is that im looking foward to se it.
For the soil/ground do think about what kind of quality it has, is it in a grave yard? is it a old gave? are there roots that have grown over it? is there gass ontop of it? is it dry soil or have it been raning? all this does effect on how you can make it. Do remember to add some kind of shadow for the hand on the soil, and also the shading on the hand, so we can easyer understand that its comming UP from the soil. otherwise, it might endup looking very flat.
Just a question aswell, what up with the rose? :P feels very out of place. Some one left it at the grave maybe? even so, does not work.

fbepyon: yours is my favorit of all the WIPs here :) a simpel, yet interesting portrait of a zombie. I like the colours, would say the reds are a little to strong, compared to the decaying green skin. Dont know if you need a background, but dont have a white one, very destracting. Maybe make it look like a painting? a portrait with a frame and everything! would be interesting ;) Otherwise, read up on how you make the white area transparent, they have guides for that if you only have access to mspaint.

zlajonja: The zombie to the right, the arms are odd, looks like ha got two arms on the same side. The hump does not help because it looks like its the right arms shoulder and makes it look even more wrong.
Im not very fond of all your black outlines, aswell as the forms of your bodys, the anotomy is very of. Does not always matter, but if you want to keep it, then work more on your shading and colouring. decide a lightsource, I would say the computre screen, and draw all the light from there, making everything the light from the screen does not touch, becomes very dark, there for creating alot more moody and scary image.
For the colours, just work on more light colors, all the ones you use always feels like the come "directly from the tube" aslo try and stay away from the perfect black, they are alot more effective way of making things dark.

There we go! hope some of you finds it usefull, and good luck! dont think I myself will have time to join this challange :/ but theres always a next one :)

Cheers. Also, I did not correct my spelling to much in this one, hope everyone can understand it :/

Edited by Official-NeoSoft - 18 October 2008 at 5:32am

Removed the white background and added in a transparent one..

There isn't much else I can do to it..  Also adjusted the red color to more of a off purple red..

I will try to finish it but this is what it should look like in the end


Edited by pipe - 18 October 2008 at 1:12pm

hey pipe, max colors allowed is 16. and you really have a lot of work improving those jaggy lines, colors, shading, and anatomy, in some cases.

pipe: put back the smiley face guy!

Edited by withalligators - 18 October 2008 at 4:59pm

jaggy lines: the window at the right, the boots, the bench, the lines of the zombies. in general try to keep all lines under 1 pixel thickness.

Guys I desperately need help for the trousers =O
Please comment and give your opinion, it is needed urgently!! ^^"
Thanks in advance =). The comp is looking good!

yeah nice entry but could someone explain how to submit?Its urgent!!!
EDIT:figured it out too late
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Edited by pipe - 20 October 2008 at 1:15am

hey, there are 4 green guys on my picture