Brrr! It's cold out there. While we're safe from cold inside our warm houses, I wonder how the trees must be feeling. This week we want you to draw a scene that includes tree(s) covered in snow. Of course the rest of the scene may show anything else you want.
Canvas Size - Max. 160x100 (vertical or horizontal)
Colours - Max. 14
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
We are all to familiar with the classic version of a death race. Badass looking muscle cars right out of Mad Max 2 which try get to the to the finish line first not without doing their best to kill their opponents.
However, how would such a race look in ancient times. You can go as far back in history as you want, just make sure that your vehicle doesn't have an ordinary petrol engine. A war chariot with a ballista or even a steam-powered weapon on 4 or even 2 wheels, everything goes.
Canvas Size - Exactly. 64x64
Colours - Max. 16
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
Happy new year pixel-heads! Have you missed a challenge from the past year? Did you start but couldn't find the time to finish? This week, we want you to pick any weekly challenge from 2018 and make an entry (check the ALL CHALLENGES coloumn on the right).
Please make sure you write in the description which challenge you chose and make sure you follow it's rules and limitations. Have fun!
Canvas Size - see the corresponding challenge
Colours - see the corresponding challenge
Transparency - see the corresponding challenge
Animation - see the corresponding challenge
Merry Christmas, everybody! I hope you are spending some great time with your family and loved ones.
For this year, I want you to pixel an object that respresents christmas for you like no other. It can be anything! Just make sure that you post a small description when the connection to christmas is not obvious.
Canvas Size - Max 100x100
Colours - Max 24
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The level challenge is back after 5 years! What is the most common level theme of all? Of course the jungle. This week, we want you to design a mock-up of a new, original video game showing a forest or jungle level. For this particular game you are restricted to 12 specific colours, these colours are shown below.
Canvas size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 12. Must use only the colours from the palette below:
Animation - Optional.
Transparency - No.
Previous level challenges: Underwater, Lava, Desert
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
This week, we want you to create the flight animation of a character with a mountable or wearable flying machine such as a jetpack, jetman or artificial wings. The character must be seen, so no airplanes with a cabin or cockpit. You can be creative about it and draw something completely unusual, the sky is the limit.
Canvas Size - Max 120x120
Colours - Max 18
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Required.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Engineer, you are given following order:
Design a weapon that has the ability to hit a grain of sand on the other side of the earth. The weapon has to be small and light enough to be manned and carried by a group of two. Cost doesn't matter, you are given every material you can imagine. Now go and pixel that weapon!
Canvas Size - Max. 200x200
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
This week, we want you to create the inseparable duo of video games: the sprite AND the portrait of the same character or monster. The game genre and the perspective of the sprite is entirely up to you. You can use a border for the portrait. You must separate them from eacother by transparency.
Canvas Size - Max 100x200
Colours - Max 14
Transparency - Required (to separate the portrait and sprite).
Animation - Optional.
Rick Nelson seems to like garden parties and so do I. Sitting down with some friends, eating good food and drinking a few beers is an evening well spend.
This week I want you to capture the spirit of a garden party, but there's a twist! You are only allowed to use top-down view and are restricted to a canvas size of 200x200!
Canvas Size - Exactly. 200x200
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Humans are going beyond the solar system to find a new home. Draw a spaceship sprite designed to carry the human race for decades - or even centuries. Of course, imagination is what we're looking for rather than scientific accuracy. The perspective for the sprite is up to you; side, topdown, isometric... anything goes.
Canvas Size - Max 150x150.
Colors - Max 20.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
In a world as huge as Hyrule or Red Dead's rendition of the wild west we would easily get lost without a proper map.
This week I want you to create a game map. It doesn't have to be a map of an existing world. You can be as creative as you want.
Canvas Size - Max. 350x350
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
Fellow PJers, our latest collab PrehISOria has progressed in a record breaking speed and is already 54/98 complete in one and a half months - not to mention it already looks great!
If you haven't (or have) already, don't hesitate to grab a tile now, cause it might be too late before you know it.
Happy ISOing!
Haloween is around the corner! This week also marks Skamocore's resignation from the PJ mod squad after a decade of service. So what is a better time for tentacles?
This week, we want you to draw a scene or sprite that involves tentacles. But only use the colors from Skamocore's epic piece Ten Tentacles.
Canvas Size - Max 100x100
Colors - Max 11 only use colors from this palette.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
It feels soft, looks snazzy and does require a ton of care. I'm talking about fur!
This week I want you to draw a piece (scene, sprite, portrait) that involves fur. From a simple character to a car with pads made of a few foxes, everything goes!
Canvas Size - Max Unlimited
Colours - Max 14.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
This week, we are doing a follow up to this classical weekly challenge. So, we want you to draw an RPG party that consists of exactly 4 sprites, depicting 4 different classes. These classes should be chosen between these, albeit with whatever twists you might dream of:
You must separate sprites from eachother in your canvas using transparency, yet slight overlays for the sake of composition is permitted. Please clearly mention in your description which characters are in your party. And remember: you can make a ww2 team or 50s gangsters as well as classical high fantasy themed party.
Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200.
Colours - Max 32. Including transparency.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - No.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
This week, we want you to draw an isometric tower. Anything from an ancient wizard's tower to a futuristic skyscraper is ok.
Canvas size: Max. 80x180
Colour Count: Max. 15
Transparency: Optional.
Animation: Optional.
This week, we want you to create the attack animation of a sprite (vehicle, human, alien, animal or anything) with only two frames. Make it count! Any type of attack (spell, melee, firearms, ranged, etc.) is ok!
Canvas size: Max. 100x100
Colour Count: Max. 18
Transparency: Required.
Animation: Required.
Has it ever happened to you? Playing with your trusty old NES and suddenly...screen flickering, frames tearing and artifacts all over the place.
PJer and former challenge winner SnugBoat wants you to create "glitch art" which is basically art that looks like the computer screen has crashed or something went wrong with the graphics card.
Here is a piece. Snug pixelled to let you know what he means.
Canvas size: Max. 256x240
Colour Count: Max. 12
Transparency: No.
Animation: Optional.
This weekly is about your favourite historical person.
I want you to take your Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela or Cesar and pixel a sprite that represents this person.
Canvas Size: Exactly. 64x64
Colors: Max. 16
Transparency: Required
Animation. Optional.
PJs next isometric collaboration has begun on the forum.
Our subject this time around is prehistoria! This includes everything prehistoric or, well, ancient. Stone age people, tribal people, dinosaurs (and all beasts of old times), hunting/gathering, evolution, ancient buildings, towns & wonders, lost civilizations, cave life, ancient monsters, ancient aliens and any other kind of fantasy element, as long as you can say this existed in our dark ages.
This project features Night's award winning palette.
Announcing the results of the most neck-to-neck palette comp ever (we needed an extra judge to break the four-way tie).
First Place - Night
Second Place - Drazile
Third Place - Gyhoket
Honorable Mention - AdigunPolack
Not only red doors are meant to be painted black! This week’s challenge is a bit different. I want you to pick somehting that is usually quite colourful and convert it into a dark and obscue version of it. Think of a black flamingo with boots and rivets.
Canvas Size - Exactly. 100x100
Colors - Max. 7.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
Imagine you are locked up in a tiny room with only a chair and a small but clear window. You have been in that room for more than a decade without any contact to the outside.
I want you to depict that window and what is behind it from your view.
Canvas Size - unrestricted.
Colors - Max. 31.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional
Welcome to the world of miniatures and model kits! It is quite the task to take something as huge as an aircraft carrier and make it small enough to fit in your hands.
This week I want you to take something really, really huge and make it really, really tiny.
Canvas Size - Exactly 64x64.
Colors - Max. 13.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional
Pixeljoint is holding another palette competition which is open to everyone and is quite simple.
Submit your 15 color unique + original color palette.
The winning palette will be used in PJs next ISOcollab. Other award winners may also be used in other events and challenges.
Add a rare trophy to your profile.
Competition closes in 2 weeks, August 28, 2018. (CLOSED!)
Forum Thread
Falling asleep isn't easy sometimes. However, if you are lucky enough you might have a wonderful dream that you can recall the next day.
This week I want you to dig deep and depict a scene from a dream/nightmare that you can still remember. Playing cards with Abraham Lincoln or being chased by an elephant that wields swords with its trunk.
Canvas Size - 300x300.
Colors - Max. 32.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Former challenge winner and top-notch pixel artist Fleja2003 has a great weekly for you!
Every person has a character arc. With time, experiences, or better understanding we all change as a person someway. Pixel a drawing that tells a story of this change in a way that is meaningful to you.
Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colors - Max. 16
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
This week is a real challenge!
Reflections are hard to pixel, but what do you do if you only got 3 colours to mess with?
I want you to put your pixel skills to the test and depict a scene that has a water reflection in it.
You can pixel what you want just make sure to only use 3 colours!
Canvas Size - Max. 200x200
Colors - Exactly 3
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Sweeter than sweet and a real joy for every child. Candy! This week I want you to pixel your favourite candy, but with a twist! It has to be alive.
Try to add arms, eyes and everything it needs to become a real boy.
Canvas Size - Max. 120x120
Colors - Max. 7
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
It's monday and we are back with another "Tiny" challange.
This week I want you to pixel some sort of building. A skyscraper, a primitive hut or just a shell some sea-based creatures live in.
Canvas Size - Max. 64x64
Colors - Max. 16
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Beginning in the 50s sightings of UFOs ord flying saucers haven't declined. Even though footage is mostly blurry and shaky it's still utterly fascinating to watch.
This week I want you to pixel a photo or video footage of an UFO sighting.
Canvas Size - Max. 250x250
Colors - Max. 21
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
No being is more beautiful than the Greek goddess Aphrodite. She stands for love and beauty like no other.
This week I want you to imagine and depict her in a way you see fit. Portraits, sprites, everything goes.
Canvas Size - exactly. 64x64
Colors - Max. 12
Transparency - Optional
Animation - Optional.
There are almost as many books and stories as people on earth. From Kafka's The Metamorphisis over Lovecraft's dark worlds to Stephen King's insane stories.
This week I want you to take your favourite book/story and pixel something inspired by it. Please make sure to put the title of your book/story in the description.
Canvas Size - Max. 400x400
Colors - Max. 32
Transparency - Optional
Animation - Optional.
We all love beating bosses in video games. We shoot, stab, smash, bludgeon them and make them explode.
This week I want you to pixel a sprite of an already beaten boss character. From humanoids over monsters to machines, everything goes!
Canvas Size - Max. 100x100
Colors - Max. 16
Transparency - Optional
Animation - Optional.
I just love a rainy night...
- Eddie Rabbitt
There's something wonderful and relaxing about rain, especially when it's already dark outside.
For this week's challenge I want you to depict rain. You are free to do whatever you want, Portraits, scenes or even sprites. Just make sure that there's some sort of rain in your pixel.
Canvas Size - Max. 350x350
Colors - Max. 32
Transparency - Optional
Animation - Optional.
Eleven artists took part in the teamwork competition, for which the participants had to submit line art, and then had to finish someone elses line art to which they were randomly assigned!
This competition was judged by PJ members and moderators: Cyangmou, Jinn, Dawnbringer, slym, skeddles, skamocore, pyrometal, Mandrill and myself (Hapiel)
The winners:
First place goes to Jeremy (lines) and Arkan85 (colors)
Second place goes to Nevercreature (lines) and Jeremy (colors)
Third place goes to jackhummer (lines) and JerryPie (colors)
All of the other particicpants receive a participation trophy, check them out here!
Thank you everyone for taking part, and congratulations to the winners! I hope we can organise more interesting collaboration events in the future, feel free to suggest some!
They sting, are green and don't need much water to stay alive. Something that is that resilient must have a lot to talk about.
This week I want you to pixel a cactus that has come alive. You can do a sprite, portrait or basically anything you want, it's up to you.
Canvas Size - Max. 100x100.
Colors - Max. 16.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
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