CHALLENGE: Tiny "Santa"

Whenever you are working on your Secret Santa gift or not, this is a nice little relaxing challenge to make right now.

Draw and animate a tiny sprite of a character that brings presents duting the winter holiday time. Now what that character will be is entirely your choice. In Poland, where I live, this situation is quite confusing. It is traditionally a Catholic country, where presents are given by a Catholic bishop, St. Nicholas, on 6th December (usually golden robes, but also purple or red). But Poland also was a part of the Eastern Bloc, so we also had Dziadek Mróz (usually with blue robes or red), giving presents on New Year's Eve. We also had our pagan traditions long before Christianity took over, so we had Gwiazdor (sometimes a tan furry costume), and of course eventually the American Santa (red and white robes) became most popular, like everywhere else, giving presents on Christmas Eve. But in some regions, presents are given by an angel, or gnomes, or baby Jesus. I'm aware that in Spain presents are brought by 3 kings on 6th January. I would love to see and read about any other variations. You can draw any of those, but you are also allowed to draw an anti-Santa like the Grinch (or the Devil in some regions). Let's make the most diverse "Santa" pixel art catalogue on this side of the internet.

You have to use the Merry Mountain palette by Maber.


 

Canvas size: Max 16x16.

Colours: Max 13 (palette + transparency).

Transparency: Required.

Animation: Required (min 3 frames).

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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 suggest a future week's challenge. If you're a winner and you wish to submit your idea, send a message to Gecimen.
• '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 Tiny "Santa" 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!