The theme for this isometric collaboration is underwater. Reefs, Volcanoes, Sea Creatures (real and fantasy), Architectural relics, machines, underwater small villages/housing are cool but not 'real city' stuff (roads, buildings, etc.), OTT fantasy is OK as long as all fits within the watery theme. Pretty much anything goes!

Rules
• You can create more than one tile.
• Only one active tile reservation at any one time. You must finish a tile before making a new one.
• Once you reserve a tile you must post an initial WIP within 7 days so it doesn't hold other up.
• Once you post an initial WIP you get 14 days to update your tile or post a comment letting us know its active. Every WIP/post update (busy, school, work, sick, moving, etc.). Every post thereafter buys you 14 days.
• Outer/Edge tiles MUST use transparency to 'break the grid'. (See the ISO-cology collab edges HERE)
• Inner tiles CAN NOT use transparency.
• You must use the supplied palette colors only (No black or white), but you don't have to use them all in your tile (Those making outer tiles will have one extra color for transparency).
• NO animations.
• Your tile must match the tiles surrounding yours, unless your tile has no neighbors (first 5 tiles). This will become increasingly tougher as tiles get added. Some tiles will need to match on as many as 4 sides.
• Matching your neighbors does not mean it has to continue other's idea. Just that it blends seamlessly somehow.
• Please keep the collab's general light-source and scale as shown below consistent in your tile. This may be tweaked in your tile if you use secondary light sources.
• Please post your tile on its own as a comment and make sure to say what number it is and it will be added to the collab master image by a Collab Manager in order to keep the color palette true.
• Your tile may be added to the master image in WIP stages if it shows the tile's direction enough to help others visualize their own tiles.

Special Rules
• The first 5 tiles may be anywhere at all and require no neighboring tiles.
• From the 6th tile on your tile MUST have at least one neighboring tile already posted that your tile blends into.
• If one of the first 5 tiles picked is next to the first 4 tiles then #6 may pick a tile with no neighbors. Or once 5 starting points have begun.
• In the event that a tile is made without a reservation or 2 people accidentally work on the same tile a special vote may be held, or a duel to the death may be started by the 2 people.
• Special rule(s) may be added to accommodate whatever loophole y'alls manage to find and exploit.

Notes
• Novice or pro, all are encouraged to collaborate.
• Possible tile rejection if your tile is not in isometric projection or fails in scale.
• Possible tile rejection if your tile does not match and blend into your neighbor(s) tile.
• Possible tile rejection if your tile just doesn't blend in with some degree of harmony. Should this happen to you check for comments left for you...there will be some!
• You can get tips and help to improve your tile on this thread. No need to make a separate WIP thread.
• You are encouraged to take all c+c on your tile. You do not need to apply all given c+c but please don't ignore them. Especially from your neighbor. Remember this is a 'collaboration'.
• Please use the 'PJs Image Specs' link HERE to check your final tile colors has max 20 colors (21 if an outer tile) and even the right colors.

This project features Dennis' Award Winning 20 color palette.
If you submit your tile to your PJ Gallery you do not need to credit Dennis but it would be nice of you.



Tile Template  Scale & Lightsource

• Collab Director - jalonso • Collab Manager - Gecimen • Helpers - All PJ Mods

Edited by jalonso - 07 September 2012 at 6:19am

Reservations, latest updates and dates of reservation loss (reds need urgent attention, blacks are past the limit):




Edited by Gecimen - 12 June 2012 at 2:25am

Just pick a random number then, e.g. your age or birth year :)

Due my talent for "palette usage" and my lack of talent for "palette creation", I'm in! I'll choose a tile later :)

I'd like tile 51


I'm thinking about a small landed submarine at the edge of a chasm, or something like that.

Or maybe something like unagi the eel...

I'll pick the 13 if it's ok for you:)

Oh, good God, that thing used to frighten me to death when I was younger. O_O

#4 reserved for LuckyF. GL everyone.

 Here's some messy sketch to start things.
This looked so much better in my head )

 Yep. But hey, maybe some day it will be the other way around )))



Edited by LuckyF - 14 December 2011 at 5:15pm

Wait, am I the only one that can't see luckyf's image? I even tried on two browsers. At first I thought gecimen was joking describing something that can't be seen...

I might give this a go when I get back from vacation. I would reserve a tile now, but it'll sit there with no WIP for well over a week, so I'll wait 'till I get back. Seeing the last collab took sooo long, There will probably be plenty more spots available after a week and a half.

I'd like to claim tile number 52 (to the right of tanuki's current tile).

Thinking of starting an underwater sunken city there which may or may not be populated by fantasy humanoid fish creatures.

@tanuki; good job with the chasm edge so far.

@dennis; I can put your name down but you'll have to wait till tanuki's (mostly) finished to continue his tile.

@mdog95; it's a sensible thing to do to hold reserving until you get back. But be sure to give it a go when you can.

@graval and mindiel; to reserve a tile, just give a number, we can not assign tiles to you.


Edited by Gecimen - 15 December 2011 at 4:23am

Much appreciated.

Added LuckyF's WIP as reference to neighbouring tiles.


Edited by Gecimen - 15 December 2011 at 4:37am

#69 reserved for Jackman941.
We will be accepting 1 more no-neighbour tile reservation, maybe, but we want this last one to be someone who can start rightaway, and thus let other people reserve tiles as soon as possible.

Just for clarification, as I do not see my name in the list, do I have 52 reserved or not?

I know I should wait until tanuki is mostly finished but I just couldn't hold myself back any longer and wanted to start playing around with the underwater theme, so here's my WIP:



I promise, I'll change/make it work to fit to what tanuki ultimately ends up with.

The minisub is going to be a challenge and I still need to add lots of details to it. I want it to look like it's slamming into that rock spire. The eel hasn't been started yet, except when I was sketching this. Various other details will come later like making some plants and 1 or 2 small rock spires in the upper right.

So far I've only used 9 colors, but the eel will have some more that I haven't used yet.




Edited by tanuki - 15 December 2011 at 6:30pm

I'm still trying to make the submarine and eel look good. That submarine needs a lot of work. I'm going to try to add some light on the ground.

Soon other people can start working on neighboring tiles.




I tried adding some light. It's kind of hard to tell what it is from 100% view, but I kind of like the texture too.



Edited by tanuki - 15 December 2011 at 11:59pm

@Dennis; Well, just a quick doodle, cause without any texture I think it looks a bit concrete-ish.


@tanuki, going awesome. There are some 'wrong browns' on the tail of the eel.

@Graindolium; you haven't reserved a tile. If you're just trying out the palette, then I advice you to make some plantation or corals and see if you can get the use of all the colors in the palette. Then add up details such as the eel and jellyfish.


Edited by Gecimen - 16 December 2011 at 4:20am

Initial sketch of tile #59. Trying to imitate tanuki's awesome rendering of the cliffs as closely as possible for the sake of consistency, though obviously I still have plenty of work to do in that department.

@Killermachine; sure.

@Kravvon; I advice some kind of ground texture to you as well, to make it more 'underwater' and not just blue.

@Kravvon; up to you really, sand texture, light play (see my post above for an example, I think this is what you call caustics?) or seaweed, whatever makes it look like seabed rather than just ground.