CHALLENGE: 360º Panorama

From challenge winner GingerStu comes this week's panorama challenge.
Pixel a panoramic scene, interior or exterior, with seamless edges. The scene must contain reflections. Reflections may be in mirrors, water, shiny metals, etc.

Rules:

• Must be one complete scene and not split into comic panels or used as sprite strip.
• Seamless match on the ends to achieve 360º
• Panorama height cannot exceed 120 pixels high.
• Panorama length cannot exceed 640 pixels wide.
• No transparency
• Animations allowed
• 16 colors maximum

EXAMPLE 360 Panorama

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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 :)

Don't forget that the winner of this week's challenge will have their work featured as a Daily Deviation at deviantArt!

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CHALLENGE VOTING

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

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The 360º Panorama 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!



Edited by sedgemonkey - 07 August 2007 at 7:40am

There are some examples on 360 degrees panorama photos on flickr:
http://flickr.com/search/?q=360+panorama

Check out the syndey 360 image if you want to have a bridge between
the previous challenge and this one

There are even some java/flash tools on the web you can use to
have a view of panorama pictures by moving the mouse so that
you get a tour ....

Best regards from

M.E.

I don't see why not. Go for it!

ive been toying with entering this challenge.  not sure if Ill come close to finishing, but since no one else has put up a wip here's mine. 

i wanted to go with a buddhist/tibetan style landscape.  im  running out of colors and the scale and shape of the canvas are bugging the f@#k out of me. 

after reading your post i realized it's not exceding 640x 120.  which means im gonna probably change mine. 

Hello guys, I'm novice on this board but I see this contest...

There is my London Tube station in progress:



Colors are only for main shape view...

that one looks more like a wide-angle camera rather than panoramic... or i'm wrong?

Just in case it answers questions. This is a panoramic fighting level made by flaber and me. (had to watermark it :/  )

I thing, this is true view of 360° panorama picture... See the real preview from one of first posts...

Ok, and there is my next step:

Great ideas coming up. I was concerned about this one but its looking great by all.

@MistakeFur, I really look forward to your pano.
@Pnaky, that is one fantastic view.
@Klav, It has a very Chinese feeling to it, I likes.  *(DDD)

I forgot to make progress, but ill try to make something... and maybe if you see this image, youll see im making things difficult for myself...



So you dont only look 360º, but also from one horizon to the other... and as far as i can see on everyone's pictures you all try to replicate some fish i lens-ish thing, but ill keep things flat.


Edited by Varock Shade - 09 August 2007 at 9:39am

damn why do i think that im doing this totally wrong?

really elk, its awesome already, just make them edges seam...

*dangles a fav and 10 blue dots

Ok guys, I do big step to early finish...  But 3 days are good time to draw last details, reflection, make better shading, etc...



elk: good man, keep it


Edited by Pnaky - 09 August 2007 at 4:04pm

this would be soooo awesome as animation you know O_O?

Yes, I know but for animation I need more then 8-10 frames and I don't have too much time for draw all frames... One interest for end this post: I draw it in MSpaint...

Ok, especialy for you I made animation of this panorama BUT after official challenge end...

This is my entry to this challenge

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/23563.htm
and WIP with some steps.


It took for me approx 8-9 hours to do this panorama, and I'm still not
sure that it's ready. There are a lot of places where detalisation isn't accurate. But I decided to submit it anyway, because
I'm going to take some rest and spend holidays outdoor with friends, so it will not be available to update this picture before deadline.
Required reflections: - city and aircrafts are reflecting in the water. And it was really hard to do this picture in 16 colors!
I hope you like it=)

Edited by raynoa - 10 August 2007 at 1:29am

*in silence, raynoa was making his plans to win this weeks challenge* very nice work, 1 vote is already yours... 

edit: my progress again...



up next is the air, after that the reflections of the droplets, which im both not too good at, but practice makes perfect better.


Edited by Varock Shade - 10 August 2007 at 7:56am

Simple but brilliant texture.

Looking cool, Verock.

I've taken the liberty of completely not doing this challenge.

Tnx soda 

The progress so far, from old to new:

(First sketch)

(Fast fill)

(Shaded landscape)

(Quick fill of the air)

(Halfway Finished dithering of the air)

Edit: (Fully finished dithering of the air)

Colours will be changed, first gotta finish dithering the air (Takes a lot of work, and some careful placement to make sure everything is pixeled in the right position as i am using 2 sides on the piece).


Edited by Varock Shade - 11 August 2007 at 5:52am

check with irfanview (www.irfanview.com)(It's free) (to check, paste and go to Image>Information

and nice work so far, although it will be a lot of work to finish on time

Another edit. now the palette is changed, i can start on the reflections:
Old


New


question about the reflections... does it have to be a bit reflective (like reflecting light) or reflecting shapes like chrome?

Edit: I saw that the reflection bit isn't too strict if i look at other pieces, so here i got my reflections on the droplets. Colour edit up next, and then it should be almost ready:


Edit: I think i am quite finished, this is the result:
http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/23595.htm


Edited by Varock Shade - 11 August 2007 at 10:24am

k, but fix that single white pixel on the right side.