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CHALLENGE 4/2/2012: Oh My, God-Rays!

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Topic: CHALLENGE 4/2/2012: Oh My, God-Rays!
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Subject: CHALLENGE 4/2/2012: Oh My, God-Rays!
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 12:01am

CHALLENGE: Oh My, God-Rays!

Create a scene showing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepuscular_rays - crepuscular rays .

Canvas size - Max 250 x 250.
Colours - Max 28.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

CHALLENGE RULES

  • Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to /pixels/submit_icons.asp'>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 /forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=8'>WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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.

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 :)

CHALLENGE VOTING

/pixels/poll.asp?id=1287' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Oh My, God-Rays! pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

/pixelart/69512.htm' target='_blank' class='winner1'>God-Ray by /p/21045.htm' target='_blank'>a3um
/pixelart/69502.htm' target='_blank' class='winner2'>crepuscularz by /p/551.htm' target='_blank'>st0ven
/pixelart/69530.htm' target='_blank' class='winner3'>Almost monochrome by /p/7846.htm' target='_blank'>Mrmo Tarius


Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

/pixelart/69555.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Cathedral by /p/32587.htm' target='_blank'>CPearson
/pixelart/69533.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Come, Join The Darkside by /p/33723.htm' target='_blank'>ThePixelKnight
/pixelart/69542.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Swamp by /p/35725.htm' target='_blank'>MrBeast
/pixelart/69479.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Weekly Challenge-Oh My, God-Rays by /p/34738.htm' target='_blank'>Heavy Metal
/pixelart/69538.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Dragon flying to the sun by /p/36467.htm' target='_blank'>Nevercreature
/pixelart/69544.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>holy crap! by /p/37302.htm' target='_blank'>ceciltheawesome
/pixelart/69520.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>b&w Rays by /p/33190.htm' target='_blank'>Dont


Replies:
Posted By: Graindolium
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 1:40am

Posted By: CPearson
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 4:35am
Progress so far, Pretty rough.

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 6:07am
Same here...

Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 7:00am
Well, it's a god ray...


Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 7:31am
I didnt liked the green-ish colors and I cant say if the she underwater or not, but its just a sketch you are so good...

Posted By: Rayovatron
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 8:52am
a3um it reminds me demon's souls

Posted By: Franuka
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 9:20am
@a3um
Oh...this is so epic..
(and it's pretty obvious it isn't underwater :p)

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 9:39am
thats what I was thinking;; lol


Posted By: Kravvon Nar'roth
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 9:52am
Meh, been too long since I played with pixels. I'm a bit rusty, I'm afraid. :( I really shouldn't have used such a giant canvas size, but too late now.



And a3um blows my mind as usual. :D

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 10:06am
man this is too big.. 250x250 is the size

Posted By: Kravvon Nar'roth
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 10:12am
Oh shoot, I completely missed the size restrictions. D: Thanks for pointing that out!

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 11:21am
Sketch...

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 11:28am
just a question, if I do the crepescular ray in the moon it wont be wrong right? since the sun's light reflects on the moon and etc...

Posted By: Nevercreature
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 2:26pm
Originally posted by a3um

Well, it's a god ray...



Awesome!!

My first W.I.P. The "body" of the picture is not defined yet...

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 2:49pm
man the size is 250x250

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 5:23pm
update ;)


Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 02 April 2012 at 7:43pm
@Philippejugnet - it's obviously not underwater, and well... I like greens:)

still pretty rough sketch:

most recent update

The lighthouse inspired by the one of Alexandria

Posted By: Nevercreature
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 4:35am
Originally posted by philippejugnet

man the size is 250x250
 
It's true! I've miscalculated the canvas, it is better for me ...

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 11:06am
please guys someone help me out in this sketch.. just tell me what you think.

Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 12:40pm
Well you need some crepuscular rays.

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 1:05pm
can I just add in the shield and warrior?... its going to be the preview. --'

Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 3:12pm
You aren't grasping the theme of the challenge. The image must have

Crepuscular rays

Refer to the link in the challenge description.

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 3:55pm
it have to come from the sun/moon? - -'

Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 4:10pm
I can't explain it to you any better than the link itself does

Crepuscular rays are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_%28optics%29 - rays of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight - sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky, specifically, where the sun is. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions.

Or just type "crepuscular rays" into Google Images.

Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 4:19pm
SO yeah, they must come from the sun.

Posted By: shampoop
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 4:28pm
can the rays come from heaven?

Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 4:35pm
is "heaven" in the sky? And seeing how it's called "God-rays" I would say yes, but it's up to the admins to decide.

Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 5:43pm
you can show Jesus Christ descending on a cloud with crepuscular rays shooting from his face, just pixel some crepuscular rays.

Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 8:42pm

Posted By: Nevercreature
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 9:48pm
Next W.I.P. Cloud are still a little rough.

Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 03 April 2012 at 9:50pm
too much dithering. Try a more simplistic look, and see how it looks.

Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 3:58am
Well, here's a wip. Tried to keep it simple, should use 6 or so colors.

It also has a dragon, I guess.


Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 5:50am
It's about time you showed up, Mrmo! Nice WIP.

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 7:46am
should I try this then?


I need to add some nature in it and something under the water;)

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 7:58am
update i think its better

Posted By: Jinn
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 8:54am
Por que desistiu do dragão? ele estava bem bacana. Era só inserir os raios vindo por de trás dele, ou algo assim...

Posted By: Nevercreature
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 11:44am
Next W.I.P.



I like this dithering. Do you think I should change some colour of the palette? (17 colours)

Posted By: Graindolium
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 11:49am
little WIP !

Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 11:55am
@NeverCreature: ...That's 17 colors? Whoah! Yeah, you might want to do something about that. And not ALL of the dithering needs to go. I was talking mainly about the noise in the center of the bluer parts of the cloud. Seems unnecessary in my opinion.

@Graindolium: What's with all the creepy stuff?

@NeverCreature: UPDATE: Oh, now I see why. Forgot the shafts of light doubles your color count. I think you're fine. Still think the dithering needs some work, though.

Posted By: st0ven
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 1:03pm
a3um - it looks like we're going down a very similar path in terms of subject matter. however it should be worth noting that i went the opposite approach - less evil/dark, more natural/light. should be interesting to see how your piece finishes up. the composition is very nice :)

Posted By: ceciltheawesome
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 2:02pm
@Jeremy crepuscular rays come from the sun, not the son. See what I did there? I'm sorry, I had to.

I'm thinking I'm going to go for some "holy crap", a cartoon-ish piece of poop with some rays on it. Any thoughts?

Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 2:19pm
That description doesn't sound like a crepuscular ray. Not every ray is a crepuscular ray.

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 3:13pm
@Jinn - Valeu cara ;) vc é exelente.

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 3:32pm
Ok then jinn update =)

Posted By: Friend
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 4:32pm
Grandolium, you would be a great artist for the band Tool 

Philippe, I always love your scenes, but it seems like you have a consistent problem with pillow shading, which really hurt the look of your cool scenes. 

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 4:43pm
yes I know =/ I think I will just add the rays comming from the fire. then the pillow shading should look fine

Posted By: Erstus
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 4:44pm

Here's my sketch. Not sure, if i can finish it.

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 5:10pm
I guess the rays should look fine now:

Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 6:21pm
from the sun.

@cecil: it was just a joke response to cure :p

Posted By: ceciltheawesome
Date Posted: 04 April 2012 at 6:33pm
@Jeremy Yes, I realize it was a joke, I was trying to make a clever pun, however an unfortunate typo kinda ruined it. The second sun was supposed to be son.

Posted By: yrizoud
Date Posted: 05 April 2012 at 7:42am
For inspiration : Frank Sauer's work on the game Agony (1992)

Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 05 April 2012 at 8:56am
Well, I've added a few more colors. Still quite far from the challenge restriction, though :)



*edit* current version

Posted By: Bloobier
Date Posted: 05 April 2012 at 9:45pm

I don't know what to do anymore, so I'm going to post it here, hope someone says something about it, and go back to it later.

Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 8:19am
...what is it exactly? I see the multicolored areas of sunlight, but I don't know what's going on in the bottom left and bottom right corners of the pic. What you could do, though, to justify the God-rays, is to add a sparse amount of cirrus stratus clouds and have shafts of light pierce through them. I like the overall color scheme, but I can't give much more critiquing without knowing what this is exactly.

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 9:43am
you guys like takiking out my awards don't you?

Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 9:48am
..........not what you meant.......or what you said....

Posted By: ThePixelKnight
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 11:32am
Here's my wip, I went all Star Wars with this one.

I will add god-rays at some point :)

Posted By: maganegorap
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 11:34am
Very nice Vader bro! I dunno if I will go make that challenge...hm...But a3um win...

Posted By: JDaddario
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 11:44am
Hey, all. I meant to post this here yesterday but I sorta ran out of time. Anyhow, here goes:

Since I recently snapped my left wrist had surgery on my left wrist, I figured I'd try to take up pixeling. I figured I'd take a crack at this challenge after reading some stuff on how to create, and color properly.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/7/sraysentry.png/

As you can (hopefully, if the upload worked x.x) see, I am already having some big problems with my image. I managed to clear all of the jaggies from the smaller circle, but I have no idea where to start with the larger one. If you guys have any suggestions as to where to start, I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks,
Jacob

(If anything in this post sounds... well stupid, I apologize in advance, as I currently am on some pain killers. )

Posted By: Bloobier
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 2:10pm
I wanted to have the water being sucked in up to one point. The sun is supposed to be dying in an expolosion, emitting all the energy, but I am yet to add the rays which will be that energy. I wanted to have a red color scheme, but I don't know how to make it look more like tinted water and distinguish it from lava.

Posted By: JDaddario
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 3:03pm
Guys, I could really use some help. I can't even get started until I figure out how to get over this road-bump.

Posted By: AirStyle
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 3:14pm
There are times where you'll have jaggies that you can't avoid. Most of the time it comes with really huge objects or things that involve huge curves. What you do at that point is apply AA, or anti-aliasing. (Not sure if you already knew what that meant :))
Apply it to the spots where it looks a little off, and it should work. Unless, someone else has some better advice?

Posted By: ThePixelKnight
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 3:29pm
Here's an update, now with god-rays.

Posted By: Elastico-Gadget
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 3:35pm
@ThePixelKnight : Great ! :D The only thing that bothers me here is the low part of the ray which comes over Darth's shoulder. The shoulder's great, but where the ray is on the cape, it is strange how it comes to the foreground, it is a bit hard to know if we see the reflection of light on the leather, or if it is the ray itself.

Posted By: Graindolium
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 4:13pm
 

Posted By: JDaddario
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 5:54pm
Thank you so much! I didn't think to try AA. Thanks for helping out a newbie!

Posted By: Friend
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 8:15pm
Originally posted by Graindolium

 


maybe darken everything to give more power to the light?

Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 06 April 2012 at 9:29pm
those don't seem to be coming out of the sun or sky.

looks cool though

Posted By: ThePixelKnight
Date Posted: 07 April 2012 at 5:09am
Another update, I'm slowly getting there :)

Posted By: Nevercreature
Date Posted: 07 April 2012 at 7:52am
Originally posted by AirStyle

@NeverCreature: ...That's 17 colors? Whoah! Yeah, you might want to do something about that. And not ALL of the dithering needs to go. I was talking mainly about the noise in the center of the bluer parts of the cloud. Seems unnecessary in my opinion.

@Graindolium: What's with all the creepy stuff?

@NeverCreature: UPDATE: Oh, now I see why. Forgot the shafts of light doubles your color count. I think you're fine. Still think the dithering needs some work, though.


Yes. For that reason dithering is an allied.

I've added more contrast and a dragon (they are fashionable I see it...).

But now I don't like it very much... (23 colours)

Posted By: philippejugnet
Date Posted: 07 April 2012 at 8:59am
well godlike work on this competition,.. I should retire lol I will finish my little dragon soon =)

Posted By: ceciltheawesome
Date Posted: 07 April 2012 at 9:18pm
so, this morning I submitted some pixel art for this challenge <http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/69544.htm> and I thought I pressed the submit for weekly challenge button, but evidently did not (or the less likely of some form of computer error) should I re-upload it or is there something else I'm supposed to do?

Posted By: Graindolium
Date Posted: 08 April 2012 at 5:14pm


I cannot finish for the challenge, I is not had time this week ,

Posted By: Yielmo
Date Posted: 08 April 2012 at 8:11pm
I know im not gonna win, but im giving it a try anyway



im not done btw.

Posted By: Friend
Date Posted: 09 April 2012 at 9:15am
Originally posted by Graindolium



I cannot finish for the challenge, I is not had time this week ,


do you plan on finishing this and posting to the gallery though?  I REALLY really like this.

Posted By: Graindolium
Date Posted: 09 April 2012 at 12:01pm
maybe if i have time, thanks for encouragement, 


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