man this Robot rox and the movie was very instructive. Now I have to check out Pro Motion.

Drunkyduck: this only had 11 colors so yes, the eyes I decided weren't a bad idea. 12 is nicer and rounder.

inkspot, what you describe is more hindrance than benefit. The power to edit your palette slots on the fly later on in Pro Motion, besides being why some people as you feel, copy my style, is also a boon to an artform where ABSOLUTE CONTROL of every single pixel is paramount. Tell me in which other art-style can you go back and edit every little bit of color in a non-destructive way? Perhaps vectors, but it takes more time.

I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree. I think MSpaint is an awful program, hindering the progress of the pixel artist and I always suggest to people to get over it and start using Pro Motion or at least Graphics Gale.

Your process dazzles me.  You seem to have every pixel planned out already.  This is fav'd, just because I saw the process. 

I really like the way the colours have been used in this piece. It gives off a rusty metallic look to the robot. The design, while not complex as many modern robots are, is nice. Although I have yet to see the video, it sounds quite interesting.

Looks to me like he did choose the colors by hand (dragging the R, G, B and saturation sliders), it's just that the software used (Pro Motion?) imediately shows the result on the image.

I have one question about the eyes, since they're just 2 pixels, is it worth adding another color in the palette.

 That codec didn't work for me on most common players, luckily I have VLC player that plays everything   Video was great! But I didn't like the way you achieved those colours though. Try picking those colours by hand in MS Paint without using some automatic hue or luminocity thing and you get different results, but it is better for the brain. For me, pixeling is like painting, you mix your colours by hand and you place them by hand, you have to make certain desicions earlyer since it is harder to change them later. But that is just me though... Your way of inventing the palette also might explain the growing amount of work similar to your style. Anyway you get -1 respect points for that!  Still +2 for great video and shapeing part!

i loved that video.  your skill is insane, its like you knew where each and every pixel was going before you even started.

what program were you using in the video?