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   CHALLENGE: Steal from Mirre
Animated avatar autoportrait week.

Take "inspiration" from Mirre's avatar, and create your own in the similar manner. You don't have to try to copy the style, it can be completely your own thing, but it have to be your own self-portrait, that interchanges betwen "realistic" you, and you as a member of a different humanoid species.

That different you can have a different skin colour and facture, covered in feathers, scales, cybernetic implants or even flames, pointy ears or protruding fangs, and of course different garments and accessories, but your face still have to be recognisable. 

You have to use some kind of animation to swich between them. 

The minimum is one human you and one nonhuman you, but you are allowed to change into as many difefrent species as you like.

Canvas Size - exactly 64x64.

Colors - Max 24.

Transparency - Optional.

Animation - Required.
CHALLENGE RULES
Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
Only new pixels allowed.
Open to all members.
Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.
CHALLENGE JUDGING
Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
Winner announced the following week.

CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES
Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
Top finisher gets to suggest a future week's challenge. If you're a winner and you wish to submit your idea, send a message to Gecimen.
'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
No matter what happens you get challenged :)
CHALLENGE VOTING
Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!
CHALLENGE AWARDS
The Steal from Mirre pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

Undeadx3 by gawrone
Steal from Mirre: Mermaid by Mermaid
Animated avatar by Lik

Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! 

Cryptid in disguise by Korban
Avatar by Tipleloop

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administrator Admiral Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Topic: CHALLENGE 10/30/2023: Steal from Mirre Posted: 30 October 2023 at 2:20am
	CHALLENGE: Steal from Mirre Animated avatar autoportrait week. Take "inspiration" from Mirre's avatar, and create your own in the similar manner. You don't have to try to copy the style, it can be completely your own thing, but it have to be your own self-portrait, that interchanges betwen "realistic" you, and you as a member of a different humanoid species. That different you can have a different skin colour and facture, covered in feathers, scales, cybernetic implants or even flames, pointy ears or protruding fangs, and of course different garments and accessories, but your face still have to be recognisable. You have to use some kind of animation to swich between them. The minimum is one human you and one nonhuman you, but you are allowed to change into as many difefrent species as you like. Canvas Size - exactly 64x64. Colors - Max 24. Transparency - Optional. Animation - Required. CHALLENGE RULES Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox. Only new pixels allowed. Open to all members. Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART. CHALLENGE JUDGING Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged. Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries. Winner announced the following week. CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy. Top finisher gets to suggest a future week's challenge. If you're a winner and you wish to submit your idea, send a message to Gecimen. 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter. No matter what happens you get challenged :) CHALLENGE VOTING Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge! CHALLENGE AWARDS The Steal from Mirre pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces: Undeadx3 by gawrone Steal from Mirre: Mermaid by Mermaid Animated avatar by Lik Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! Cryptid in disguise by Korban Avatar by Tipleloop
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Mermaid Midshipman Joined: 18 October 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 15	Posted: 04 November 2023 at 5:30pm
	I thought I'd give this a go, but now I have some questions about file sizes. After optimising my avatar animation as much as possible it's still bigger than 25k, and I've yet to add the transitions between the portraits. According to the FAQ this means the anim won't be shown on the front page, if it is too big for the front page, does that mean it can't be used as an avatar either? I also noticed that Gawrone's entry seems to work fine on the front page, so I downloaded it to see what dark sorcery he used to fit all that lovely, lovely animation into 25k, and to my surprise that file is roughly 40k. Now I'm really confused. Is the FAQ wrong?
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Trigonomicon Rear Admiral Joined: 20 October 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 155	Posted: 04 November 2023 at 5:36pm
	Yes, I believe that the maximum file size was actually increased not too long ago, if i don't completely misremember. Looks like the FAQ is out of date in that case.
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gawrone Rear Admiral Joined: 20 June 2025 Online Status: Offline Posts: 510	Posted: 04 November 2023 at 6:12pm
	My file was too big to fit, but since many frames are similar. Compression took down the file size by 70% without any quality changes I found. I use this optimizer https://ezgif.com/optimize Use the setting "lossy gif" but turn the slide to minimum which is 5, and quality loss will be next to 0. If your file will still be too big, than move it a bit to the right and try again. If the quality doesn't satisfy you, you can always put the full quality as main artwork, while keeping this one only for the preview/avatar.
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Mermaid Midshipman Joined: 18 October 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 15	Posted: 04 November 2023 at 6:13pm
	That's great, thank you! So up to at least 40k should be ok then, maybe even a few kb more, that should be enough for what I'm hoping to add :) (The page for uploading entries still says 25k as well, btw)
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gawrone Rear Admiral Joined: 20 June 2025 Online Status: Offline Posts: 510	Posted: 04 November 2023 at 6:17pm
	ooooh, sorry. "On the front page" doesn't mean it will not work as avatar. It means only it will not show in New Artwork section but this seems also be outdated? The swiss army knife I had before as avatar was 100k and worked fine. You are good IMO.
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Mermaid Midshipman Joined: 18 October 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 15	Posted: 04 November 2023 at 6:17pm
	*Originally posted by gawrone* I use this optimizer https://ezgif.com/optimizeUse the setting "lossy gif" but turn the slide to minimum which is 5, and quality loss will be next to 0. If your file will still be too big, than move it a bit to the right and try again.If the quality doesn't satisfy you, you can always put the full quality as main artwork, while keeping this one only for the preview/avatar. Thank you for the tips! I'll try those if I run into size issues again :) I won't have time to do more than one creature in addition to my regular old face so hopefully 40kb should be enough.
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Mermaid Midshipman Joined: 18 October 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 15	Posted: 04 November 2023 at 6:19pm
	*Originally posted by gawrone* ooooh, sorry. "On the front page" doesn't mean it will not work as avatar. It means only it will not show in New Artwork section but this seems also be outdated? The swiss army knife I had before as avatar was 100k and worked fine. You are good IMO. 100k! Oh, I won't get anywhere close to that, I think. Looks like I don't have to worry about any size issues then, awesome :)
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