CHALLENGE: View From A High Place

Challenge winner matt0 challenges you to pixel a scene as seen from a high vantage point. You can use any style and subject - realistic or abstract, sci-fi or fantasy, city or landscape... whatever strikes your fancy.

Colours: 64 max
Canvas size: 320x240 (landscape) or 240x320 (portrait)
Transparency: none

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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 View From A High Place 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 jalonso - 25 August 2008 at 7:44am

Eeeearly WIP :



I think I'll do something like a huge crashed spaceship, or deepsea monster.

Is teengirls camera high enough or should it more like a cliff and someone looking into a distance?


Edited by BlazeAce - 26 August 2008 at 8:41am

i think you should change it frost..

Anyone can post in the forum, right? o.õ

Well...
I'll try to finish this until the weekend...



Is it being cool? ._.

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I update the WIP.


Edited by JinnDEvil - 25 August 2008 at 4:45pm

Of course! To an extent.

Frostpump, you're getting me excited with this.


Edited by Larwick - 25 August 2008 at 7:51pm

Uau! it's great Frost...
I wish i can make that kind of smoke some day, 'cuz it's really great!

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Well... Just another step:

Oh yeah!
Good point, is really true.

I made some changes;
And I think I fixed the problem now.



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O loved the smoke on the other,
But this fog it's awesome too! ^^

I think the other legs worked better with this point of view...
But somehow she still like is sat down.

(I don't know if it's the correctly way to say this x.O)

Anyway, thank you! ^^
I'll try to work more tomorrow

Thanks Frostpumpkin, that really helped  I'm planning to finish this so no need to worry.



The shoulders may still be too big... Anything in need of fixing? I've started working with shadings now and I'll be sketching that left hand to look somewhat "cool" or interesting next. Now it's just hanging there for nothing.


Edited by BlazeAce - 27 August 2008 at 11:39am

I think there shouldn't be vegetation nor water on mars, even if it's colonized...

Oh yeah, i think I close to finish this... \o/
At last... XD





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And BlazeAce you should try to finish the face of the girl rotating the image, like this:


I think this way will be more easy... O.o
Once you end, turn it again!



And yeah, I like this kind of "future" mars, great job Fbg!


Edited by JinnDEvil - 27 August 2008 at 2:14pm

Omg, you rotated it :D I tried that at early phase and noticed it looked terrible. I'm working on it the way it is because it's a pain to do it "upside down" like in the one you posted. It's kind of weird how terrbile a picture can look upside down compared to the original one o___O

Working on the floor:


It's midnight here, need to wake up at 6:20 to make it in time to school... I quess that's how far I got today with it.

JinnDEvil: Your entry is starting to look really good :O Can't wait to see the final one.

My initial ideas for improvement have to do with atmospheric perspective. I think you need push the things that are farther away from us more away. By that I mean lower the saturation and brightness of those back mountains, and even the ones in the middle of the picture. Same goes for the grass/plains you have, you've got them slightly darker in the back but maybe push it more.

In general I also think more variations will help make things look like they've got natural color and form. Change a few of the grays in the buildings, tint them a different color or something, same goes for the mountains or maybe they're sand dunes?  If you can pull out more character from these desolate things, the composition will be much more attractive.

Hope that helps somewhat.

*edit* I also think a more definitive light source will help. And this may be picky but to me, the buildings in the dome fit too perfectly within it. Especially the center one, it's like all the way at the top. I think having buildings that aren't so uniform in size according to the dome would be more interesting... maybe cut them out and move them around a little to test it out.


Edited by thecommontask - 27 August 2008 at 5:15pm

Those tower gives a better impression of high and "greatness" of the towers. Do you think I should keep it ?

@Jinn : Can't wait to see it finished !

The rotation of Blaze's work really shows all the problems there are in it,
Especially on the face and the shoulders. And I think her left arm is still too short.

EDIT : Darkened colors and added a bird to get a size reference about the cliff.


Edited by FrostPumpkin - 28 August 2008 at 3:02am

Now the face of the girl is really nice, Blaze!
I like the left hand too;

But somehow I preferred the old right arm 'cuz the distortion was great...

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Anyway, I think I finish it!


I can post the final work here too, right?

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And Frost, I think you should keep them,
But it would work better if the others towers are smaller than the main one.

Edited by JinnDEvil - 28 August 2008 at 10:59am

Somehow I understand you, Frost! @_@

I submitted too.
Hope you guys comment there! XD

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And Blaze, don't stop to post your WIPs! o.o
I want to know how it is going! ^^


Edited by JinnDEvil - 28 August 2008 at 3:19pm

Just be careful with the colours restriction, you are really near to the limit of 64... ^^"

And oh yeah! a poster will be nice on the wall!

ironically, i'd say go witha plain wall ace, so the focus would be the girl and not her surroundings.

no need to overdo it.

BlazeAce I like your creation VERY GOOD