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Title:	IT'S PARTY TIME! - Weekly Challenge
Pixel Artist:	Jinn (Level 11 Godfather :: 35605 points)
Posted:	9/6/2008 12:36
Palette:	16 colors
Statistics:	24 comments 9 faves 0 avatars
Process: http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/3325/zooegaprocessjf7.gif - - - - - - - - - - - - Pixel made for the Weekly Challenge, My first experience with the EGA 16 colors. Hope you like! (c) Jinn D'Evil - - - - - - - - - - - - Desenho feito para o Concurso Semanal, Minha primeira experiência com 16 cores EGA. Espero que gostem! (c) Jinn D'Evil

Weekly Challenge: At Night in The Zoo

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bobowitzbob (Level 4 Team Leader) @ 10/28/2011 17:26

A tad overdithered, I might say.

Jinn (Level 11 Godfather) @ 8/8/2010 16:35

Hmmm... I see. Now I have a LCD monitor and it does look a bit strange...
I'm kind of used to, tho...

But I miss my old CRT, I hate to see diferent colors depending of where I'm looking...
I really don't know for sure how my art look for the other people, thanks for sharing!

ptoing (Level 7 Underboss) @ 8/8/2010 16:27

Because dither looks very different on CRT than it does on LCD or TFT. It blends much more, 50% dither becomes new colours. So I imagine on a CRT this looks much smoother :)

I actually planned for some time now to get a 2nd monitor (CRT) just to check oldschool pixelart on more or less :D

Jinn (Level 11 Godfather) @ 8/8/2010 16:20

Sure. May I ask how do you know?

ptoing (Level 7 Underboss) @ 8/8/2010 14:54

This is quite nice for EGA. Question: Did you make this on a CRT monitor?

Dino502Run (Level 6 Serial Killer) @ 5/28/2010 16:03

I LOVE this!!

Igor K. (Level 5 Soldier) @ 6/19/2009 16:43

toda vez que eu vejo aquela propaganda do cup noodles que o cara ta no zoológico e os macacos comecam a dançar, ai um pega uma caixa de som e bota no ombro! hahahha

RollerKingdom (Level 7 Mass Murderer) @ 6/10/2009 18:01

OMG this is so cool and a whole new style!

Raytheon (Level 5 Lieutenant) @ 9/29/2008 00:29

Not your best, but a great polics nontheless

Hapiel (Level 11 Admiral) @ 9/11/2008 10:40

Its very hard :). Check out my work http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/27125.htm where I make exactly the same mistake in trying to go for realistic colors ;)

Jinn (Level 11 Godfather) @ 9/11/2008 08:06

Well, thanks for all the tips.
I'll pratice some more with this pallete!

Anyway, it's really hard to do great pieces in the first time...
But I'll search for more references and inspirantion!

Thanks again.

Hapiel (Level 11 Admiral) @ 9/11/2008 04:31

From my own experience I know it is indeed very difficult, and I do not believe I could do it better than you did now. However here are my tips and examples:

Don't always go for the realistic colors. If your panda becomes black with magenta instead of black and white, it might look good as well.
http://bog.old-cans.com/img/ss/commander-keen-5/commander-keen-5-ss1.gif
Check that image. Keen has a white skin there, but it totally doesn't matter. Of course the creator of this image could have tried to make a skin tone with the orange or so, but this just fits better.

Another example of that: Arg the example I had in mind is not hosted any more. Ok another one:

http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/8865.htm#
If you take a look at that building, you immediately understand its gray, even tough in the drawing there is much more blue and yellow!

Oh take a look at this, this is a good one! http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/18507.htm#
This animal would never have this color in real, still we don't immediately notice something weird is going on with that picture. Also its not really dithered like yours, its just a lot of small color pieces..

http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/34449.htm#
Ever seen a dog with a green nose?

And offcourse, it is possible to do realistic drawings with the ega palette:
http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/26441.htm#
Its just very very very hard.

So what I am trying to say is: If you go for the ega palette, also go for the ega feeling. That will improve your drawing a lot because when you go for the ega feeling, you don't need this intensive dithering!

Jinn (Level 11 Godfather) @ 9/11/2008 03:19

And can you show me an exemple? I tryed many ways to do this...

Hapiel (Level 11 Admiral) @ 9/10/2008 23:39

I like the composition a lot, but its a bit overdithered. There are most likely better ways to use the ega standard palette on this...

khobby (Level 1 Rookie) @ 9/6/2008 20:01

...animal house...

RPGlaubr (Level 3 Stalker) @ 9/6/2008 18:41

Não gostei muito do chipanzé/macaco/gorila e do globo . De resto ficou muito bom, principalmente o tigre e o panda. Não esqueci de aparecer lá na PP assim que der. o/

Frost (Level 6 Serial Killer) @ 9/6/2008 17:33

JinnDEvil: Yes, I know. At the moment I'm pixeling for the c64 and I have a bit of the same problem. :)

LandShark (Level 2 Flatfoot) @ 9/6/2008 17:31

bom, se você tivesse usado um estilo mais desenhado, menos realístico, seria mais fácil, mas eu entendo oque você quer dizer. :D

Jinn (Level 11 Godfather) @ 9/6/2008 17:30

As I said in Portuguese below...
It's very difficult to make the correctly tones and midtones whit this palette without abuse of dithering...

And it's my first experience btw,
if I'll make another pixel with this palette, i'll do better, I think ^^

Frost (Level 6 Serial Killer) @ 9/6/2008 17:19

I think you utilise dithering a little bit to much but otherwise this is good. :)

Jinn (Level 11 Godfather) @ 9/6/2008 17:04

Acontece que é realmente difícil trabalhar sem dithering com cores tão específicas,
As cores são muito puras, e não funcionam bem sozinhas...

De qualquer forma, valeu!

LandShark (Level 2 Flatfoot) @ 9/6/2008 17:02

na minha opiniao, tem dithering demais D:

eu acho que seria mais atrativo se fosse mais limpo.

muinto bom, de qualquer geito

Jinn (Level 11 Godfather) @ 9/6/2008 16:47

I tryed to make a kind of sandwich. And somehow Taco is a sandwich too.

So... yeah! XD

Pokapopcorn (Level 1 Rookie) @ 9/6/2008 16:43

xD

I can see very clearly that the panda has a cup of pepsi in his paw, but what's he eating? A Taco?

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