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Title: Abandoned Park
Pixel Artist: Manjaman  (Level 8 Cannibal :: 8498 points)
Posted: 8/30/2009 15:25
Palette: 8 colors
Statistics:  9 comments    3 faves    0 avatars

This is my entry for the Retro Pixel challenge : Neglected... Represents a neglected amusement park. I tried to give a spirit to the park, so that it becomes a person, abandonned by its visitors (abandonned and neglected are the same word in French). Hope you'ill be moved by the nostalgia I tried to instil in this landscape.

I know there are still a lot of problems with this piece so I would be grateful for any C+C !

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Jabber (Level 3 Private Eye) @ 10/2/2009 23:36

 Uhhhh, I think that park is abandoned for a reason.

If I were standing in that picture, I would be creeped the hell out.


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dakael (Level 5 Killer Klown) @ 9/4/2009 04:24

Good composition, nice idea, but personally I don't like the palette. It shouldn't be so "flat".


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sharprm (Level 4 Deputy) @ 9/1/2009 19:38

You could keep the grey for the eye of the horse only like it is a haunted horse. i retract my shadow comment since I looked carefully and saw this type of shadow (maybe it was because of multiple windows and light sources i don't know).

 

Try drawing layout roughly on paper. I think it'd be a really tall hill


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Manjaman (Level 8 Cannibal) @ 9/1/2009 11:18

For the time being, I'm satisfied with the clouds and the tower... And you must trust me when I say I've already seen all these errors ^.^" I'll repost a new version, this time in 5 colours (the grey shade were imposed by the challenge rules).

No skull, cans or any other ugly things on my merry-go-round >.< I want a dirty floor, not a waste collection center !

And no, there won't be any kind of aa : 5 colours and that's all, I cannot stand aa any longer for the moment...


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Manupix (Level 11 Godzilla) @ 9/1/2009 11:01

Wow! Great atmosphere!

Now, since you ask... (ricanement sarcastik)

I see a conflict between the wheel and clouds, the way the wheel is broken make it look like the clouds come through it;

I can't relate the bluish ropes to a source of light;

the roller coaster doesn't have enough props, esp the broken part;

the broken column turns opposite to the other 2, and the light on the horse's one is much better;

the merry-go-r could use a dais (une marquise?); the floor could have texture, dirt, rats, skulls, coke cans...

the whole thing could use some strong aa, but I don't think that's possible with 8 colors. Why not an aa version for PJ?


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ellie-is (Level 5 Assistant Manager) @ 8/31/2009 15:48

 Really awesome man. 


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Manjaman (Level 8 Cannibal) @ 8/31/2009 07:21

sharprm :

The colours were imposed but I'll fix that. And, yes, why not teeth, I'll see.

You're right about the perspective and the shadows. The merry-go-round is on a hill (at least in my mind >w<). Why should I comlplete my broken column ? I thought it was working well...

Thanks for commenting !


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Cocazero1c (Level 2 Peon) @ 8/31/2009 01:34

 I can see this creation before the vote of the challenge ^^


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sharprm (Level 4 Deputy) @ 8/30/2009 21:24

Why not make the whole thing redy (ie. remove the white strings)? What about teeth for the horse?

 

There are perspective seems off. How high is this merry-go-around? It seems as if it is on a high building. Maybe the pole closest to us should be completed and made black. Shadows should be extended (ie. you cut them off)

 

Nice clouds.


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