CHALLENGE 1/16/2012: Ears
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Topic: CHALLENGE 1/16/2012: Ears
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Subject: CHALLENGE 1/16/2012: Ears
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 12:00am
CHALLENGE: EarsIn the same theme as the ../../../challenge_item.asp?id=1175 - Hands and ../../../challenge_item.asp?id=1226 - Feet challenges, this week you are challenged to pixel something with the human ear as the focus. CHALLENGE RULES
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CHALLENGE VOTING/pixels/poll.asp?id=1277' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!CHALLENGE AWARDSThe Ears pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:/pixelart/67988.htm' target='_blank' class='winner1'>Lend me your ears by /p/34932.htm' target='_blank'>Super17 /pixelart/68000.htm' target='_blank' class='winner2'>Siamese by /p/20938.htm' target='_blank'>Nyno /pixelart/67951.htm' target='_blank' class='winner3'>An Interear Ganglion by /p/32606.htm' target='_blank'>AG182 Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! /pixelart/68001.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Big Mutang Ears by /p/29919.htm' target='_blank'>Dweller /pixelart/67946.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Bud by /p/34328.htm' target='_blank'>Lathien /pixelart/67941.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Big ears by /p/36420.htm' target='_blank'>Nellu /pixelart/67986.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Frikaan Monk by /p/27691.htm' target='_blank'>ultimaodin
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Posted By: ingl0rius
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 4:50am
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Hmmm - doesn't seem to be a lot of scope for improvisation on this one, but i'm sure someone will prove me wrong!
Edit: I'm going to do something based on this! 
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Posted By: ultimaodin
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 11:45am
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That is great man but the challenge asks for a human ear. That would be a cool non-challenge entry though ;)
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Posted By: ingl0rius
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 3:40pm
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Originally posted by ultimaodin
That is great man but the challenge asks for a human ear. That would be a cool non-challenge entry though ;) I meant based on that - I was thinking a tiny person cleaning a big person's ear, standing on their shoulder or something 
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Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 3:43pm
| Makes sense now. I was wondering how you made a complete entry so quickly, and so large at that. |
Posted By: AG182
Date Posted: 17 January 2012 at 11:29am
Well, I got this ear and I don't know what to do with it.
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Posted By: Trick17
Date Posted: 17 January 2012 at 2:05pm
| Well, you could improve it with some AA, or maybe a little story, because it's just an ear, nothing else. |
Posted By: SlamBlasta
Date Posted: 17 January 2012 at 5:45pm
 Is something like this (WIP) within the limits of the of the competition? It does contain ears, one a general ear shape [made of the arms, and the baby], and the other is the ear of the woman. By the way, where is this image from? I have this horrible feeling that this is a famous work that I'm claiming as my own. I swear I've seen this before! |
Posted By: AG182
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 1:38am
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Originally posted by Super17
Well, you could improve it with some AA, or maybe a little story, because it's just an ear, nothing else. Yes, there's the problem - there is no idea behind this ear, and by now I don't know how to bring it to life. |
Posted By: AG182
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 5:52am
I've illustrated a common Russian saying "В одно ухо влетело, в другое вылетело". But the result looks... Um... Kinda weird.
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Posted By: ingl0rius
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 6:47am
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This is what I have so far
Im gonna do a little man dangling from the cotton bud 
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Posted By: AG182
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 7:53am
I've made a few changes, now it looks more of a human:
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 9:41am
| the direction of the wordflow is odd, since english is read left to right. also 'the other' works better than 'another' imo, as it implies there are two related ears rather than it flew into my ear and out of some other ear somewhere in the world. |
Posted By: baah
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 10:16am
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@AG182: funny, nice idea! Maybe the following to ease the reading: 1. text enters left (right to us) ear, other empty 2. eyes roll from left to right 3. text exits from right ear, other empty 4. eyes roll from right to left and loop @cure: isn't it normal that the text scrolls from right to left then? |
Posted By: AG182
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 11:57am
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Yeah, I was thinking about the direction of the flow, but if it was left to right, well... What would I do with the letters order? Wouldn't it be backwards?
@baah I was thinking about it, but this never ending text flow gives it some hypnotic, sick (lol) touch, I guess. Still, I'll consider this. @cure As far as I am not a native speaker, I was trying to remember the difference between "the other" and "another" and, well... I guess I failed :D |
Posted By: AG182
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 1:57pm
And this is what we call an interear ganglion:
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Posted By: Gavralcraw
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 2:46pm
I think I may have found my subject...
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Posted By: ingl0rius
Date Posted: 18 January 2012 at 3:37pm
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Originally posted by Gavralcraw
I think I may have found my subject... Thats weird, i was thinking of doing that too before i thought of the other thing! |
Posted By: AG182
Date Posted: 19 January 2012 at 12:35pm
Well, I have this WIP inspired by Reservoir Dogs, and I don't know how to improve it.
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Posted By: ingl0rius
Date Posted: 19 January 2012 at 12:46pm
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Originally posted by AG182
Well, I have this WIP inspired by Reservoir Dogs, and I don't know how to improve it. Awesome! |
Posted By: AG182
Date Posted: 19 January 2012 at 1:17pm
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Still, I need to do a lot.
I've opened a topic for this WIP here: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13730 |
Posted By: Trick17
Date Posted: 19 January 2012 at 5:45pm
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I thought of an ear-hunter barbarian. Early WIP:  Well, ears are not there yet, he will collect them on his collar  |
Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 19 January 2012 at 8:57pm
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Instead of just his collar, put them on his belt as well. Remember, the focus must be ear.
Nice palette though. Very dynamic. 
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Posted By: Trick17
Date Posted: 20 January 2012 at 1:32am
| Yeah, right, I think that's the problem right now. |
Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 20 January 2012 at 4:40pm
| Here's an Idea! Instead of just a collar, have his this guy the a huge elf or something on his back, as if he's a monster slayer, and his trophies are the ears that he collects from their dead bodies. He could be taking one home right now! What do you think? |
Posted By: Trick17
Date Posted: 20 January 2012 at 5:43pm
Not bad, but I think this will head the attention to the hunting of elves rather then to the hunting of ears. I Really would to it if the main subject had not been ears, because I like the idea. However, I tried to put the focus on the ear by changing the composition: |
Posted By: baah
Date Posted: 21 January 2012 at 12:52pm
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@AG182: you seem very inspired!... Did you drop the scrolltext idea, i like it very much! @Super17: your use of colors is awesome! o_O (The ear is somewhat tint, why not hunting elephants' ears?) |
Posted By: Trick17
Date Posted: 21 January 2012 at 2:07pm
| Well, the challenge rules say that it has to be an human ear :( |
Posted By: baah
Date Posted: 22 January 2012 at 8:16am
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Stupid me!... Wait, what about elephant man? ;p |
Posted By: ultimaodin
Date Posted: 22 January 2012 at 8:52pm
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Hey guys which version is better? version 1:  Version 2:  or Version 3:  ------------- The world is but a shadow of emotion, cast in shades of grey. |
Posted By: Nyno
Date Posted: 22 January 2012 at 11:07pm
 Last minute entry! Thought the idea was cool. If I would have had time I would have given her an earring or some kind of decoration, but I didn't so I didn't. |