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Quote Celri Replybullet Posted: 30 June 2009 at 11:05pm
Really cool idea!  Why don't you add red to your palette - the digital data can then provide an interesting contrast ... just a suggest - I love
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Quote Elk Replybullet Posted: 30 June 2009 at 11:32pm
Originally posted by Lahra

Up to now, I have this. I make it smaler



Please provide the reference for this
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Quote Lahra Replybullet Posted: 30 June 2009 at 11:35pm
I draw it on my wacom.
Therefore are the hands not good.
But here is the reference:



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Quote susuwataris Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 12:39am
Originally posted by Celri

Really cool idea!  Why don't you add red to your palette - the digital data can then provide an interesting contrast ... just a suggest - I love

It's supposed to be a night camera, so I can't use reds.
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Quote Celri Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 1:42am

Oh...blonde moment I guess - I'm the kind of person who'd buy a car because it's pretty (not bothering to notice it has no engine!)  LOL!  Didn't know they didn't have red light thingies =)  Anyway - I like

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Quote susuwataris Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 2:35am
Here's the finished version:


I'm really happy with it.
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Quote Celri Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 3:36am
I've had yet another idea - reference and WIP below...need help with colouring ...
 
The light is supposed to fade away towards the right - almost like those explosions in space...think armageddon asteroid splitting light effect...
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Quote Celri Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 4:02am
LOOK!  Less dithering!  Can't believe it!
I like this one better...want to add in texture on the egg cell - will experiment with some patterns...been getting lessons from a pro!
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Quote Celri Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 5:11am
Yet another update... played with a circular dithering pattern
I think this is the first attempt of mine that looks like real pixel art!...I might be wrong....
 
I think I'll call this one:  Conception - The final frontier!  Where we shall strive to splice no more infinitives and only dither when we need to!
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Quote ellie-is Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 6:00am
Hahaha. Looking great so far Celri.
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Quote Club Beuker Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 6:23am
Looks good, tho it seems like the lightsource is in between the two cells? It also looks kinda flat, since the shading gives a really 2 dimensional feeling.

And what the heck is that thing around the sperm?
Without me, it's just aweso
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Quote generatedanomaly Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 7:32am
Here's a WIP:



Got a lot to work on, still.

:) Everyone elses ideas look superb!!
Celri, I adore your circular dithering. What an improvement!

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Quote Spirou Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 7:47am
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Quote Celri Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 8:33am
  Thanx everyone!  Lemme 'splain....
 
This is the the little swimmer that could - the light source is indeed inbetween the two cells as it is kind of drawing the one towards the other - the "thing" around said swimmer is kind of  a light-wake he's causing due to his exteme efforts in getting to his final destination!  hope that clarifies - as for flatness...wellllll you can either have round and over-dithered or flat and slightly dithered with me - still getting my head around a LOT of these concepts...
 
 
 PS: Gen/anom - I love the angler fish - they are the coolest predators!
 
Spirou - lookin' freaky good :)
 
Thanks Lucas =)


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Quote God_Is_Evil Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 12:37pm
I did some more work on this.


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Quote generatedanomaly Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 1:59pm
Gnah. Photobucket is being extreeeeemely difficult today! It keeps giving me the same image tag as my first WIP, so I'll use tinypic instead :|



The jaggedness of the angler's head (the yellow bit above the mouth) is supremely annoying. Any help would be much appreciated!!! I've tried messing around with it, but this is the best I can get :S
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Quote God_Is_Evil Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 2:59pm
I was not sure what part you are talking about so i
applied the general smoothing that i would do to the yellow parts.


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Quote SHANN0N Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 3:19pm
@ generated- I fixed the aa for you for the most part- Its still a tad rough imo but you can do whatever you want from there. I didnt add any colors.

the small fish is cute, btw


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Quote susuwataris Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 8:09pm
i LOOOVE that tiny fish so far.
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Quote Yogurt Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 8:21pm
I have a feeling the fish one is gonna be, at least, in the top 3.
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Quote Celri Replybullet Posted: 01 July 2009 at 10:55pm
It's lookin' good Gen/Anom - I adore the pattern on the nose!

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Quote Argyle Replybullet Posted: 02 July 2009 at 12:18am
Haha, nice one, GenAnom.  I had the exact same idea this morning but haven't had time to get anything down on the canvas yet.  No worries though, I decided I wanted to go a different direction before I even saw yours :)  Looking great so far!

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Quote robotic76 Replybullet Posted: 02 July 2009 at 3:33am
susuwataris and generatedanomaly, i really love yours !
here's my wip :


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Quote kodoktua Replybullet Posted: 03 July 2009 at 10:36am
hi..
i'm new here..
here's my wip



..confuse with lightning..hu2...someone help me... O_o
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Quote ellie-is Replybullet Posted: 03 July 2009 at 12:03pm
Originally posted by God_Is_Evil

I was bored so i made a example of the star idea iwas talking about.

Cool. But then the glow would be a star, and stars arent that mysterious, are them? :P

Originally posted by Dr D


@lucasLooks pretty nice, but it doesn't really make sense. (If it doesn't bother you, then by all means, keep going.)If light was hitting his face, as we on the left of his face, naturally, the skin color would be shown.. in color. (Unless he was really pure white for some reason.) Thus making me believe that the black-and-whiteness is more of a stylistic choice. Having color on only one part of the picture kind of confuses that.Anyways, the contrast between b-n-w and color is nice.

Yeah. I was gonna make it just black and white, but then God is Evil told me I should add another lightsource with color, so I did. =P
Think I ll stick with these colors though, even if they dont make sense. :/

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Quote Celri Replybullet Posted: 03 July 2009 at 3:46pm
He reminds me of Patrick Stewart...Capt. Picard!!!!
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Quote Henoi Replybullet Posted: 04 July 2009 at 1:06am
@minipuck

Just a suggestion but what about using a bare tree, or a lightning struck tree, so you could have a creepy silhouette and cast some interesting shadows...?
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Quote susuwataris Replybullet Posted: 04 July 2009 at 7:22am
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hi..i'm new here..here's my wip..confuse with lightning..hu2...someone help me... O_o??

I really like the face, but I'm not getting the other stuff, is that his hair or black&white fire ? and is that water or a ponytail?
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Quote kodoktua Replybullet Posted: 04 July 2009 at 8:29am
@susuwataris ..mmm...it was smoke and the pony tail like thing is water with a mouth of bottle stick in his head...he2..I don't know how to make it more real..hu2...(sorry for my bad english :p)

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Quote ellie-is Replybullet Posted: 04 July 2009 at 8:48am
It looks like smoke to me. :P
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Quote Souly Replybullet Posted: 04 July 2009 at 12:27pm



Edited by Souly - 05 July 2009 at 12:08pm

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Quote Arun Dhir Replybullet Posted: 04 July 2009 at 1:30pm
This is what i've got so far:


but I have no clue as to how I can create the 'glow'. I'd like to do something like this but again, I'm not sure how to do that. Anyone mind starting me off?

Also, any other tips?
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Quote Souly Replybullet Posted: 04 July 2009 at 6:04pm
My tip is look at the picture you already provided. :/

Dennis' piece is also a good idea for how to start your glow

The rays are what I'm talking about.


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Quote Arun Dhir Replybullet Posted: 04 July 2009 at 6:35pm
I worked on it some more and now I've got this:



Ignore that stray white pixel. I want to ray to fade off, and for that I'd have to dither, but I don't want to make it look like I Just learned what dithering is and I'd like to abuse it whenever possible.
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Quote minipuck Replybullet Posted: 05 July 2009 at 12:52am
im not sure, im not great at lighting but i think you made a mistake, the closest side of the box is the lightest side, but it also is the side where shadow is. Seems a bit weird to me.


please click it, otherwise it will die, and it seems special.
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Quote Arun Dhir Replybullet Posted: 05 July 2009 at 10:27am
Yeah, a friend pointed that out to me. The shadow is now to the left.
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Quote slym Replybullet Posted: 05 July 2009 at 5:46pm
how many entrees are allowed?
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Quote AngelOTG Replybullet Posted: 05 July 2009 at 6:00pm
As many as you can make. :3
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Quote slym Replybullet Posted: 05 July 2009 at 9:39pm
Shoot, I submitted my piece (http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/44610.htm) but time is running short. If it isn't accepted by the challenge deadline does that mean its invalid? I would hope not because I submitted it 4 hours short of the deadline.
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Quote minipuck Replybullet Posted: 05 July 2009 at 10:33pm
no, you can even just submit it 1 second before the deadline i believe,
the person who starts the voting and stuff will have a look at all the final unapproved pieces.

please click it, otherwise it will die, and it seems special.
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Quote generatedanomaly Replybullet Posted: 05 July 2009 at 11:57pm
Aww. I'm not going to be able to finish mine in time :( sorry guys!
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Quote slym Replybullet Posted: 13 July 2009 at 11:16am
I know challenges aren't about winning... but last place? Not exactly what I had intended... I didn't think my piece was that bad, I was hoping for maybe not in the top 3 but certainly the top 5.
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Quote Blueberry_pie Replybullet Posted: 13 July 2009 at 11:33am
Entries that don't make the top three are listed in a random order. I doubt you came in last place :)
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Quote slym Replybullet Posted: 13 July 2009 at 11:46am
Oh, that's nice to know lol. Thanks for letting me know that.
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