CHALLENGE: Jumpk Food

Create a jumping animation of a character based on food. You can make a relevant background if you wish.

Canvas size - Max 100x100.
Colours - Max 14.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Required.

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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.

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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.

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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 call the following week's challenge...sweet.
• 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
• No matter what happens you get challenged :)

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CHALLENGE VOTING

Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Jumpk Food pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



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

Just neet to color, render, and maybe add some more tweening frames.

@vampy_09- I don't see why not. It just has to be based on food, so anything goes really. Adding eyes/mouth/etc shouldn't be against the rules (the phrase "based on" is a little subjective, so I'm not sure what the mods had in mind. But by the seems of things it means anything inspired by?). You could technically do a human in a hamburger suit if you really wanted to (I believe).
And welcome to pixeljoint's forum.

Edited by crozier - 23 October 2013 at 2:37pm

Pretty much done, unless people tell me otherwise.

yea, what's the deal? Doesn't seem up to par with your ability, fahrenheit.

Clean up the outline. Color in the random white pixels in bwtween the fries and cup. Remove the black floating pixel noise. Shade a little-add some depth to the cup, at least. Use better colors- have mild orange or purple tints in the red color, and try experimenting. Your colors are a bit generic and saturated, by the looks of things. Try playing around with light sources. Keep at it!

I don't mean to advertise, and I'm not even sure if it's against the rules. But I updated my entry (better AA, etc), and would like some feedback on the new version from those that have not seen it after the update.(Link).

Hi everyone!
It took me some time to figure out the concept for characters.. I really want to do a trio!! Can I? I think I am done with the char idea and I will proceed to jumping animation..

@atpalicis- Looking good, so far! I'm sure you can. (even if the rules of the challenge are saying only create 1 character, I bet you could convince them the two others are part of the relevant background). You should be fine.

@Mr. Fahrenheit- Personally, I used to use GameMaker 7, but it isn't really available anymore (I know gamemaker studios can't save as gifs, and gamemaker 8 may or may not save as them). Otherwise I have to load every frame in Benetone movie maker in order to save as a [transparent] gif.
As for your piece, you should still fix the outline. I, personally, would anthropomorphize the doughnut. Give it crazy surprised emoticon like eyes, or something along those lines. My advice to you would be to make things more charismatic. And an idle animation (before the hand arrives) would be a good way to go, in my opinion. Have it just float there and blink (or wait or something interesting). You gotta set the stage, and perhaps make it more cute/funny/outlandish/creepy/etc. Its boring, right now, but there is still a bit of potential.

@Alex Pang- Not bad, not bad... I like the water drops that fly everywhere.

Edited by crozier - 24 October 2013 at 3:15pm

You are good. If you don't promote yourself who will ;)...just don't ever be harsh or desperate about it (you were not).

@Jal- it just says "based on food", and those are obviously "based on" food. Right?

Edited by FireWheeZ - 26 October 2013 at 4:44am

@atpalicis, no please continue. I will ask the challenge chief of the week to reply here so all are clear. My concern with your piece was more that it looked like a person wearing a food hat/mask instead of the piece being a food.

Forgot I downloaded to test and review Animaki :(

@tesi_antitesi, Oh noes! what does interpolation mean to you. That's normally a very bad thing.
If you have not seen it yet review cure's pixelart thread/tutorial in the resource section.
http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299

What you have shown we do not think of as pixelart because of the dirty line quality and because the pattern on the chest suggests CGd artifacts.

Edited by jalonso - 25 October 2013 at 7:28pm

Turns out the challenge managers of the week think you've got the rules and spirit of the challenge best of all entries so far...carry on.

The gallery/challenge Mods and the voting PJers.

All PJers can vote in the public queue on every piece waiting to be added. This is very important to us when adding anything to the gallery. No one here is an expert in all aspects of pixelart so we take that seriously. The current Mod/Admin list is in the resource section always updated. First on the list 'Moderator Roll Call!'
Knowing PJ well enough that piece in question will get mostly no votes because the artifacts in the belly and the extremely dirty/oekaki lines is just something not well received because it goes against having control on the pixel level.

Edited by jalonso - 26 October 2013 at 3:09pm

The response of jalonso was somehow harsh and made me mostly almos dump my work, but ok, the link to the tutorial was good.

Anyway, i've worked the morning on polishing the start, apart from some little tweaks better than this i can't do, so at a negative response i would quit.

Keep in mind that the body is not a dithering pattern but a simulation of the biscuit cone of an icecream.
It's 14 colours, apart from background, so i must ask: is trasparency considered a colour or not?
Thanks.

I am very sorry as that was not my intention at all. I am always seeking to encourage and share whatever I can to help all.
I sometimes login to PJ to make my 'Mod rounds' and don't always have lots of free time but always want to answer any question. In an attempt to cover everything I sometimes make quick comments that fail.
The idea, concept and layout design of the ice cream is terrific and because off being new to PJ I was just pointing in the right direction because unlike other digital mediums pixelart relies heavily on precision on the pixel level. I had prior to commenting checked out the website/portfolio and was aware of the general creative talent and with such skill I assumed being to the point was a safe thing to do :/

the level of detail is good. The more you work on it, the more you'll smooth out the rough bits.
The animation could use more push from the legs. They don't extend enough to suggest kicking off the ground.