Husband has to leave the house, doesn't trust wife, leaves a parrot to spy on her. Parrot tells him that there was a lover, then everyone gets upset, etc.

Not sure how to make the colors look nicer to fit the dramatic "in-the-dark" scene without sacrificing enough contrast to make the main parts 'pop.'



update -



Edited by DatMuffinMan - 04 August 2014 at 4:29pm

I'm going for Alibaba...suggestions?

Well here's my entry step-by-step for the contest. It's the very first time I do something like that. Loosing and messing with frame was a pain in the a**. I'll finaly make it. Hope you'll enjoy :)

Each frame was designed with grafx2, the animation was done with gimp.

First a proof of concept. I wasn't sure if I'll do something animated or not.


I then focused my self on the sky part.



then the city



I quickly done an incomplete animation to had an idea how it's looked



the first dune layer



Well, the second dune layer. I put some detail but due to translation we can't really enjoy it...


he he here's the fun part. For the logo I first wrote the name of the game in grafx2. I used "Times" font.



I also quickly made a blended gold/chrome effect



Then I used color selection to made full alpha on the logo, made the animation.

And then remove the grey background.

I finaly made a third dune layer



Assembling all the stuff...



total frames: 64
total colors: 18
4 frames cycles for stars
5px/s for the city
10px/s for the first dune layer
20px/s for the second dune layer
40px/s for third dune layer
64 frames cycles for the typo

;D


Edited by d9nis - 09 August 2014 at 6:43pm

d9nis,
I forgot your English is not the best.

'you lost me' is an American way of say you got confused or lost focus and attention.

Times is a very basic font and this is an Arabian themed challenge and because your pixel depends on the type then something that looks more Arabic would look nicer.

Just my opinion. The Times font is not that bad :)

Well, that's a design choice so Times is fine then :p

I will however say that the problem I saw was that I did not get a 'feeling' for Arabian because of the type but maybe too because the building go by so fast.
Generally speaking an Arabian 'mood' is not fast because the traditional transportation is classically a camel.
Maybe the type is right but the speed is not?

I am still an amateur in backgroundpixelate...

17 colors.
Sorry for my bad english,
Kerberos.

Edited by Kerberos - 10 August 2014 at 8:27am