This is my new submission to Pixeldam. It is a museum of bugs and beetles and other creepy crawlers. I was inspired by Bliz and his awesome palette used in the "Judge Dredd" trucks in the gallery. Went on his site and he had a bunch of bugs.

The base that you see here is the Pixeldam base (the blue parts) not made by me. I am unsure that the brown colored steps and floor are the right colors for this. I tried the same blues and it didn't look good. Should I place lots people on it hanging aroung and going in/out, or leave it bare? Can you tell the eggs are lamposts? Are the benches too "wrong". I am going for an Art Nuveau kind of look. The stuff on the building are mossy vines, that I placed to soften the structure a little bit since there are no windows.

c+c welcome and requested





Edited by jalonso

this will be, by far, the most kick ass thing on pixeldam 

Wow.. It looks so different in it's style. Amazing. Really great trans. on those wings.

Hmm.

 

The one line running ground-level across the front wall of the building is annoying me, because it lines up with the lines in the sidewalk. Such a consistent line makes my brain chop the legs off where they intersect, making it hard to figure out what's going on.

I need a new brain, this one is stupid.

Regardless, you've not stopped making sweet, sweet love with whatever program you use, and I'm loving that fact. You're brilliant, >(")<

Lar, thx for catching the lame door, I had missed that.
Sab, I have tried so hard to see the line you refer to and can't find it :/
Beefur, that's the trick to making iso work interesting :|
pie, and others too, this is an update showing what I made in color and the Pixeldam base in greyscale.

The wing shadow is not in the correct place on purpose cuz it looked ugly, composition wise. I will now polish it up while looking for that line? and while any other error is called, thx again.







Edited by jalonso

the wing is orange, it is orange on white because it is semi transparent, so the light filters through the color and causes hues

it's special... it looks unaltered, like a shadow... of light

That is the line I was referring to. It is now much more broken up in your update, so my whining and insane particularity has been rendered obsolete.
Something still looks wrong.

The wings aren't centered over the head.
and in the wing's shadow the line is colourful. The line on the street. (Edit - it's supposed to be like that. Oops and meh)

Edited by Saboteur

Looking AMAZING so far. But I gotta say I perfer the one without the blue. 

Not the blue of the sidewalk. The second version seems to have a bluer sidewalk around the museum than the first. Did you greyscale the rest of the neighboorhood in the second one? 

I've moved the head to be centered and redrawn the whole front of the building in the hopes of meeting Sab's approval 

more awesomeness!

Looks awesome jal, but one thing that bugs me is the people. The old lady and the guy walking down the stairs seem in awkward poses. Methinks.

BUt hoorah it's great.

@Sab, I'm so relieved :D
@Lar, I do fail at anything sprite :(
@Souly, Yes the wing would cast a pinkish shadow. I added some red to the wing shadows. I was trying for the lowest possible color count :/

This is my final submitted to Pixeldam. I will post in the gallery after its posted on Pixeldam. Post closed and thx to all!

EDIT: dammit, there's a blavk blob left over from when I moved the head. Will fix and resubmit.




Edited by jalonso

Jalonso is just showing what he did himself... the roads are part of the Pixeldam template.

Edited by Blueberry_pie