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CHALLENGE 10/12/2009: Silly Walk Cycle

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Topic: CHALLENGE 10/12/2009: Silly Walk Cycle
Posted By: administrator
Subject: CHALLENGE 10/12/2009: Silly Walk Cycle
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 12:01am

CHALLENGE: Silly Walk Cycle

You have a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlBUglE6Hc - silly walk and are looking for a government grant in order to
develop it. Therefore, you must create a walk cycle animation for a character showcasing your proposed silly walk.

The more crazy/ridiculous/silly the better.

Canvas Size - Max 96 x 96.
Colours - Unrestricted.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Required. The animation must loop seamlessly.

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=1159' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

CHALLENGE AWARDS

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

/pixelart/47318.htm' target='_blank'>Do the Egg Walk! by /p/1891.htm' target='_blank'>big brother
/pixelart/47384.htm' target='_blank'>Dainty Long-Legs by /p/24658.htm' target='_blank'>epoxy
/pixelart/47383.htm' target='_blank'>Silly walk by /p/9092.htm' target='_blank'>Lollige


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

/pixelart/47299.htm' target='_blank'>Silly Walk [Updated] by /p/20306.htm' target='_blank'>dpixel
/pixelart/47371.htm' target='_blank'>Handwalker by /p/24668.htm' target='_blank'>Ryath
/pixelart/47285.htm' target='_blank'>Silly mr. Gray [Weekly] by /p/18647.htm' target='_blank'>Prenn Saranda
/pixelart/47367.htm' target='_blank'>Stealth Insane Cat Walk by /p/23917.htm' target='_blank'>TioLuko
/pixelart/47245.htm' target='_blank'>Walk with a Twist by /p/10924.htm' target='_blank'>crusader333


Replies:
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 2:58am
That is going to be soooo difficult...

Why don't you do this next week? I have vacation next week, which would give me a lot of time to do this :D


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Posted By: Sly
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 12:24pm
Oh this is going to be fun. :D

Here is a topic that may help may not.

http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=8738.0 - Mr. Boo


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No zombies here

Posted By: orenshtiv
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 1:12pm
mr. bin is the best for this challenge! :D
idk if i'm going to enter this challenge,but if i do so i'll make mr. bin :]

Posted By: orenshtiv
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 1:40pm
no! not mr. bin! im doing the headless testman doing a kinda moonwalk! :D

Posted By: orenshtiv
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 1:54pm
nvm,this is all i can give you,srry:

Posted By: Justincrdibl
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 2:02pm
My silly walk isn't particularly silly; I mean the right leg isn't silly at all and the left leg merely does a forward aerial half-turn every odd-turned step. But with Government backing, I can make it very silly!

Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 3:56pm
Small technicality question: Does it strictly have to be walking? Or can it also include jogging, running, etc?

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"pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso   

Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 12 October 2009 at 11:47pm
how could a silly walk EVER be strictly walking?

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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 13 October 2009 at 4:43am
Hey, I'm asking cuz of technicalities. Like the gateway to hell, it had to be an actual gateway, no conceptual crap. You ask, that's how you learn these things.


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"pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso   

Posted By: susuwataris
Date Posted: 13 October 2009 at 5:27am
I think i'll skip this one, hah. I'm really anxious to see the results.

Posted By: crow
Date Posted: 13 October 2009 at 5:55pm
man! i was soo excited about this and then i read we had to use trancperency which i dont know how to do! ugh.
 

Posted By: orenshtiv
Date Posted: 14 October 2009 at 2:47am
post some WIP's! i wanna see something! ><

Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 14 October 2009 at 11:57am
How about this?



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Posted By: dpixel
Date Posted: 14 October 2009 at 12:35pm
I think it's drunk.

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hehe (ಠ_ಠ ) o_- :p

Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 14 October 2009 at 1:42pm
Originally posted by dpixel

I think it's drunk.


It is not supposed to look drunk in the finalized smooth version. I wonder if I will find the time and motivation to get it there :)


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Posted By: dpixel
Date Posted: 14 October 2009 at 2:03pm
I was just being a smart ass.  It has potential.  Animation is time consuming and walk cycles are tough.  Making it look silly...well that's the point where I'm at now.  Too many hours for this, this week.

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hehe (ಠ_ಠ ) o_- :p

Posted By: smk
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 12:35am
Originally posted by crow

man! i was soo excited about this and then i read we had to use trancperency which i dont know how to do! ugh.
 


Google is your friend...

Even the Pixel Joint FAQ is your friend:
Originally posted by Pixel Joint FAQ


    FAQ#8 - How do I make my GIF transparent?
You can find a free application to do it here...

http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/giffy23.zip

Check the Pixel Joint Forum thread on applications for pixel art for the latest and greatest on what other pixel artists are using.

An online free utility is http://www.iaza.com  NOW WITH ANIMATION CAPABILITIES

NOTE: Internet Explorer 6 and below does not have transparency support for PNG-24. Since the vast majority of internet users are using Internet Explorer we suggest you use PNG-8 or GIF if you want to use transparency.


Also most imaging software can do transparency by themselves. It's almost effortless to use transparency and you can google on the subject and get extensive help, so not knowing "how to" is not an acceptable reason on this subject :3

Posted By: fossey
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 1:52pm
Help for the animation:

^^

Posted By: Evilagram
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 9:05pm
Of all the challenges for me to return and find running. I just came back to submit a walk cycle: 

Too bad it's not all that silly. Double bad that it's nearly the end of the week.


I think I might rework it to be sillier later.

Posted By: Pragz
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 11:07pm
Fossey, you're not allowed to simply color reduce and call it an entry.

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Posted By: mambazo
Date Posted: 16 October 2009 at 12:09pm
@Pragz:

He posted that for inspiration, not as a competition entry. "Help for the animation"

@OP:

Is recreating a silly walk from the actual Monty Python Silly Walks Sketch allowed?

Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 16 October 2009 at 3:04pm
@mambazo - yes, unless you plan on doing something like Fossey .

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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 17 October 2009 at 12:26pm
This will take ages to finish, and I am not sure if I want to put in that time yet.

Funny that I add the suitcase unconsiously because the original shows a suitcase too!




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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 17 October 2009 at 1:32pm
I can not imagine how to smoothen this out yet, why are pixel art animations so hard to edit, if made this way?

And then even worse, I might also have to color it...




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Posted By: Ryath
Date Posted: 17 October 2009 at 2:43pm
Hey everyone, I've been following PJ for a while without joining, but I figured this was a contest that i might have a chance at.

Anyways, here's my WIP. It's not actually very silly, but it was fun:


Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 17 October 2009 at 2:52pm
Hi Ryath, welcome :)

'That is not particulary silly'
I think it is a wonderful animation! How about moving those legs around to make it a silly one?

And I suggest adding a / to the last img tag ( [/img] ) so we can all view it :)


About mine, here is the last update for tonight (yes its 0:00 midnight here)




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Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 17 October 2009 at 6:05pm
@Lol - I love it; go finish it. The lunge part of the video is one of my favourite parts.

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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 18 October 2009 at 7:59am
This is silly for sure.




But actually it is an animation made form my 5 finished frames :p

EDIT:

Some more frames are finished now.. But even if I am able to color them all on time, I would still like to spend a lot of time extra on smoothening things out, and perfecting the palette!
And there are only a few available hours left for me..



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