CHALLENGE: Palettebots

Design one of these robots using its corressponding palette:

Friendbot - Just wants to be your fwiend.

Assassinbot - Could kill you in five seconds flat - even while in sleep mode.


Nervousbot - Is known to suffer from bouts of robo-anxiety, especially around other robots.


Glitchbot - ERROR! ERROR! ERRO-*Bzzzttt* Error message is malfunctioning! ERROR!


Canvas Size - Exactly 100 x 100.
Colours - Exactly 4.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

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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 Palettebots 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!

I'm here at the moment, not sure if you should see the rear wheel or not?

so Its been a long time since I pixel'd.
would love some C&C on what I could
do to polish this up



(incase it isn't clear,
I'm going for a medical-bot thing,
I.V. for right arm and vitals on chest)

Great concept...fix that curve of the stage and the banding on it ;)

Looking cute! Try polishing up the lines and making sure your shading follows the form of the robot. I like the large-pixel face, maybe you could use some subtle pixeling to make it really stand out.
This is great. Maybe using the lower-brightness yellow to do some AA for the spotlight? You can also use the vertical lines of the curtain to "hide" the jump of pixels as the light widens. You did this at the bottom right side of the beam. Try seeing if that can be used more to hide the jaggedness this palette promotes.

To be ergonomic with posts, I'll drop my WIP here.

I figured I'd go the "Iron Giant" route for friendly robots.


Any thoughts on the design/composition/lighting/etc?

Edited by SuperTurnip - 07 July 2014 at 4:09pm

Fricken love this challenge, you can enter as many times as you want right..?


That's a shame, I really dig what you have.

I cannot because of the challenge. Only 4 colours, haha. Thanks, though.
I think you have a bit to many colours there, by the way. Looks very nice, however!

Another update though:

Added a micstand. I'm not sure what to think of it, but it looks kinda bad.

I'm using the exact four colours specified for Friendbot, and I was suggesting you AAed one of the ones from the palette you're using--the warm grey, which could be used for lower-brightness yellow. My bad in specifying that. Oh well!
Maybe having the mic stand come up from the center edge of the stage, so you have a nice line of symmetry down your image? I'm not sure about having too much stuff on the stage. Your call, of course. Keep up the good work!

making this, i know is not a bot, but i think the pallete
is going to be good in this. (maybe bad english)

JackBreak, if jalonso is talking about the ties on the left/right, I agree, color's bad. The spotlight does not interact well with the shadows on the drapes, or the circular details on the top.
That's also not really how spotlights work, unless it's incredibly dusty -the circle where the rays hit the stage/backdrop should be much lighter than the triangle drawn to the source - if the latter is included at all.
Finally, I think you could revisit his face and try to get more emphasis on it. Right now, the yellow spotlight draws the most attention, but that should really fall to the main character.

Not trying to get you down, I think you're off to a good start. Also, the mic is a good addition imo, and definitely does add to the story. I'm against centering it - the piece is already very symmetrical and static, and it would make the 'bot harder to read.

jalonso, of course. I'm considering friend bot developing anxiety, glitching out and assassinating people. I like working with limited palettes - picking them myself is paralyzing.

Reminds me of the Iron Giant

I think it would be better to make an original character... a robotic Castle Crasher would honestly fit in the game just fine. And it could still be love themed.
Nice piece regardless, definitely submit it even if not to the contest.

What I've got so far:

@Dastal, It's readable enough and looks great, perhaps use a bit more of the darkest colour in the shading.

I'm slowly working on a glitchbot. The background is gonna be psychedelic, but it's just green for now.


MS Paint likes to mess up the color palette when working with gifs so I've had to use Paint.NET instead. I'm hoping the colours are still correct.

UPDATE:

did some additional line fixes, a little AA for smoothing, and fixed the eyes. still having trouble smoothing out that shaded portion though.

Here's my entry so far, any warhammer fans should recognise this. Based on my character in a RPG's minion. Perhaps not a skilled assasin (yet) but it has a Las rifle and a blade and might get lucky lol

*EDIT*



added a door and a rope in front of it. the person-to-be-shot will try to get in there

I'm trying to make a more shadowy/high contrast kind of picture but I'm afraid it might become too messy.
Any comments on readability so far? It's still very much WIP.

First PJ challenge <3



submitted :



Not as readable as what I had in mind though, but I like it the way it is.

Edited by baboum - 09 July 2014 at 12:47pm

It´s my Wip for The weekly challenge.

Ok, I've changed my original concept for this:

Hey,

got here because I'm coding a game and need to learn to draw fine pixel art for the graphics. This challenges seem to fit perfectly to do some practice combined with a nice competition.

So this is "WIP" and my first pixel art here:

"A small assassination robot with a poison sting is waiting for his victim..."



Damn it, 4 colors is difficult


Advice appreciated

Greetings

Oh-oh-oh, I think I will not have time to complete it %)

Hey 7heSama,

thank you very much for the honest reply! First of all, I think I'll continue this piece with the 4 colours of the challenge, even if it is harder (I guess painting with more than 4 will be a pleasure afterwards).

At the moment, I am working with the tutorial I found here in the forum ("Topic: The Pixel Art Tutorial").

Here is the new WIP:



-tried to work on the shoulder
-the human legs should look more "moving" now
-tried to add some shadows on the wall for the assassin bot
-corrected the outlines a bit

Maybe you can give me another piece of advice? Right now, I don't know what to do with the background (streets,pavement)...


Greetings