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CHALLENGE 1/26/2009: Isometric Alien Buil

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Topic: CHALLENGE 1/26/2009: Isometric Alien Buil
Posted By: administrator
Subject: CHALLENGE 1/26/2009: Isometric Alien Buil
Date Posted: 26 January 2009 at 12:11am

CHALLENGE: Isometric Alien Building

Create an isometric building that you would expect to find on a strange alien planet.

Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Maximum 32.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.

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=1122' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Isometric Alien Building pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

/pixelart/39586.htm' target='_blank'>Desert building by /p/18578.htm' target='_blank'>Sev_4
/pixelart/39669.htm' target='_blank'>Something is wrong! by /p/18608.htm' target='_blank'>Calv
/pixelart/39670.htm' target='_blank'>Solar-Renaissance by /p/2033.htm' target='_blank'>Zenobia


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

/pixelart/39566.htm' target='_blank'>Isometric : Dumbell Alien building by /p/16783.htm' target='_blank'>Arylic
/pixelart/39651.htm' target='_blank'>Isometric Alien Apartment Block by /p/20030.htm' target='_blank'>mogeeoh
/pixelart/39622.htm' target='_blank'>Alien Dog's Home by /p/19544.htm' target='_blank'>Antiboton
/pixelart/39633.htm' target='_blank'>Invader Building by /p/12437.htm' target='_blank'>SUPAFLOW
/pixelart/39482.htm' target='_blank'>Alien House by /p/11224.htm' target='_blank'>Platnium
/pixelart/39556.htm' target='_blank'>Sunnymoon Estate. by /p/9784.htm' target='_blank'>Stickman
/pixelart/39520.htm' target='_blank'>bulding ALIEN by /p/20227.htm' target='_blank'>Spirou
/pixelart/39653.htm' target='_blank'>Iso alien competition by /p/19957.htm' target='_blank'>GuiZ
/pixelart/39548.htm' target='_blank'>Alien Building by /p/20344.htm' target='_blank'>mach
/pixelart/39567.htm' target='_blank'>Isometric Alien Parking Building by /p/19218.htm' target='_blank'>Jeremy
/pixelart/39561.htm' target='_blank'>Alien Building by /p/20349.htm' target='_blank'>JoPix
/pixelart/39582.htm' target='_blank'>aliens ... by /p/13659.htm' target='_blank'>Canty


Replies:
Posted By: .:Exar-kun:.
Date Posted: 26 January 2009 at 3:43am
We must use transparence = We must draw only the building and not the background ?

Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 26 January 2009 at 3:51am
yes

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Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 26 January 2009 at 4:13am
Ooooowyeah! Can't let this one pass!

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Without me, it's just aweso

Posted By: MaladeMental
Date Posted: 26 January 2009 at 10:04am
A wip from space! let's take place in one of those yellow building!

Posted By: skooba-dude
Date Posted: 26 January 2009 at 5:56pm
WIP, might need help with the glass l8ter

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Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 26 January 2009 at 6:03pm
Working on a semi Organic, semi High tech building thing
Just wondering if the people/spaceships'll be allowed if a landscape isn't
(Plan to animate)

Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 26 January 2009 at 6:24pm
Yes spaceships and people etc.. are fine. Just keep the focus on the building that's all :P

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Posted By: dpixel
Date Posted: 26 January 2009 at 8:01pm
Here's my work in progress.  It kind of looks like a thumb-tac in a thumb-tac.  I seem to be having a problem with transparency though.  I'm using Graphicsgale(free edition)  Can transparency be done with that? 

Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 27 January 2009 at 12:23am
If you're having trouble with transparency you could try http://www.iaza.com/ - Iaza.com

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Posted By: ProgZmax
Date Posted: 27 January 2009 at 2:12am
I haven't done anything in ISO in a long time.  I might just give this a go!

Posted By: dpixel
Date Posted: 27 January 2009 at 5:31am
" If you're having trouble with transparency you could try http://www.iaza.com/ - Iaza.com "
 
Thanks,  That works great! 

Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 27 January 2009 at 5:07pm
I've done everything I think, now for animating!

Posted By: Arylic
Date Posted: 27 January 2009 at 5:50pm
well i am gonna work on this on form the next 4 days... its a alien or space building/factory/home. Ill add more details this is just 1 days work.

Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 27 January 2009 at 8:50pm
Gah, it's a little hectic but I'm tired of looking at the thing already
http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/isoalienanimatedwoo2.gif">

Posted By: Arylic
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 12:48am
My second wip still lacks a lot of details.

Posted By: Oren_shtiv
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 6:14am
Wow great job Arylic!,
even my account is disabled i still can write stuff in the forum so i will comennt your stuff ok?.
if i could login so i would be happy to join this callenge!
because i really love aliens...and i did one and its really smoote...in 2 years or 1 year i will be happy to post it on PJ.
good-bye! and good luck with the challenge!.

Posted By: Oren_shtiv
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 6:15am
oh and another thing....i think the second place is Jeremy's work!,really cool!,but the other stuff are good too :P
and 3rd place is dpixel's job,really cool (even i still didn't saw the reall one..)

Posted By: dpixel
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 9:40am
Everything is looking real good here! 
 
This is almost complete.  I'm kind of lost for more ideas.  I guess I'll kind of just let it be the structure and shadows. 
This is my first pixel art challenge, so I'm looking at this as an experience.
 
 

Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 10:29am
dpixel: you should take a look at some of the iso tutorials we've got to help you determine where you might have gone wrong with this. The concept itself is cool, but I'm afraid it doesn't add up to typical iso proportions

Posted By: dpixel
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 10:45am
I though isometric was 3d represented in 2d.  I looked at a few tutorials and it looks like I have a few isometric cylinders.  And the whole thing minus the shadows could fit in an isometric rectangle.
 
Could you give me a link to an iso tutorial to show more of what I'm not seeing?
 
I won't submit this if it doesn't fit.
 
Thanks.

Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 1:50pm

I made a tutorial yesterday for future reference on how to create Iso-Circles. It's based on something done in Technical Drawing but it's not as exact

 
Your circles ATM aren't quite isometric

Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 2:03pm
dpixel:

http://pixeljoint.com/pixels/links.asp?id=2254 - http://pixeljoint.com/pixels/links.asp?id=2254

Posted By: dpixel
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 2:37pm
Ok.  I see.  It's from the angle you view it...that's why my circles aren't right.  I actually tried to fit them to match the others after tweaking them.
 
I'm actually  a programmer who has made city building sims using a 2-pixel then step up..another 2 pixels, etc...maps.  I'm new to this pixel art thing and should have thought more exacting; like a programmer.  
 
That's too bad.  I put a lot of time into this for the challenge...My own fault though.  I won't submit this.
 
Thanks for the "How to create iso-circles"  tutorial. 

Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 4:05pm
dpixel, you still have plenty of time, don't give up!  Yours looks futuristic, like something out of the Jetsons.
 
On another note, I've submitted mine and changed the timing so it's not so jerky

Posted By: dpixel
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 4:27pm
Thanks for the encouragement Jeremy.  If I can find some more time I might submit something else.  This one would be time consuming to convert to something isometrical and have it come out right.  I'm new at this and it probably takes me a lot longer to create pixel art than most for now.   There's always seems to be weekly challenges here anyway.
 
Thanks again

Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 4:41pm
Originally posted by Arylic

well i am gonna work on this on form the next 4 days... its a alien or space building/factory/home. Ill add more details this is just 1 days work.



The shading makes absolutely no sense. you really need to go and read some basci concepts about Isometric PA arylic.


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I ate leel's babies

Posted By: Arylic
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 6:57pm
@ metaru - i exactly understand your quires and it also has a reason behind it. There is not only one source of light in that particular atmosphere such as earth and thus there are also more buildings beside it so basically i made a unknown shading based on a unknown building... 

Posted By: Arylic
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 12:59am
Ok here is my my third wip.

Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 2:23am
please, show me your lightsources in that image. bet you have no idea what you're talking about.

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I ate leel's babies

Posted By: .:Exar-kun:.
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 1:49pm
http://i38.servimg.com/u/f38/13/38/08/96/ccpjal10.png

[EDITbyLarwick: Censored image. There are some people who might not want to surprised by a dick on their screens.]


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Posted By: dpixel
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 2:17pm
Holy phallus!     LOL

Posted By: Arylic
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 5:19pm
Am i wrong or that was a dick ?

Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 7:35pm
@Exar: yucky >.< Are you saying that a guy's body is an alien planet?
 
Update:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/finallyfinished.gif">
 

Posted By: Arylic
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 7:54pm
submitted mine. 

Posted By: Slemboll
Date Posted: 30 January 2009 at 3:19pm
Originally posted by Arylic

Ok here is my my third wip.


 
to get a little variation in the picture why not rotate some off the "watch" towers it would look a lot better :)

Posted By: .:Exar-kun:.
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 9:36am
http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/39616.htm - submitted

Posted By: Antiboton
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 1:36pm
One more time I decided to enter to the week contest. And after 2 days finally I finish this:
















Questions or comments? ^_^ Hope you like it.

I will submit it to Kenneth Fejer, Isocity's page, too.

Posted By: Ricki
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 1:53pm
Very nice and smooth work :) ..I like it :)

Posted By: SUPAFLOW
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 6:25pm
Here's my WIP.

Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 6:59pm
Awesome   What is it, an alien apartment building?
The one thing I'm not liking at this point is the bright green radar things

Posted By: mogeeoh
Date Posted: 31 January 2009 at 8:38pm
This is my first challenge entry and I've just realised everyone has been posting WIPs. Wish I'd kept a log of my work to show you guys but live and learn I suppose.

I'm doing some Iso work for my Honours year and was recently in a bit of a lul of ideas. I saw this challenge and thought I'd give it a bash.

I think it's an apartment building of some kind with a comunal garden on the roof. oh and orange goo powers everything for some reason.

All comments and Critique welcome and encouraged.

Posted By: Antiboton
Date Posted: 01 February 2009 at 9:33am
I'm not sure about the curve in the hot liquid at top. But almost everything looks nice.

Posted By: SUPAFLOW
Date Posted: 01 February 2009 at 2:24pm
10 h and my building is not approve... 

Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 01 February 2009 at 5:31pm
Don't worry, you still have plenty of time. The voting doesn't usually start until all challenge pieces are out of the queue.

Posted By: Antiboton
Date Posted: 01 February 2009 at 6:54pm
Calm, surely it will be in the contests. I like your retro composition.


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