Hello PJers!
1st December makes 10 years since one of PJ's oldest bugs, jalonso, joined Pixel Joint.
To celebrate his anniversary, we wish to surprise him with a flood of jal themed avatars this week!
To participate:
Create an avatar (max 64x64), in the theme of a birthday party. Cakes, the number 10, your character dancing, scarabs and other bugs, anything goes!
Use the palette of the original jal avatar + transparency: 
Optionally animate this, ideally with just 2 frames (like the other jal-atars)
And don't forget to use it as your avatar for the jal-atars week!
If you feel creative and can improve your work by bending the guidelines, feel free to do so!
Please don't forget to tell Lakelezz via this news item, PM or within the description of your piece, if it is okay to let Lakelezz use your piece in a collage in order to keep the memories saved : )
The collage will be posted via another news post and not be uploaded on a PJ user account.
Last but not least:
A big thank you from us to you jalonso, for your great work as moderator and as community member! 
(note: this isn't a weekly challenge, so don't check that box when submitting)
The temperature is dropping more and more in the Northern Hemisphere and everybody is freezing. But what about the animals?
This week, create an image showing a wild animal in harsh winter conditions taking unusual measures to protect itself from the cold. It can be a crocodile covered in fur, a penguin with a scarf, it's up to you...
Canvas Size - Max 250 (horizontal) x 200 (vertical).
Colours - Max 12.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
Originally posted in 2009 many new PJers and oldies will enjoy seeing Frost's bathroom.
This is what happens when someone decides to pixel his shower with tiles. www.youtube.com/watch
Create a scene that includes the icons shown below - make sure to keep the symbols a single colour. Also; no resizing, rotating, or flipping.
Enlarged:
Canvas Size - Max 200 x 300
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.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2015. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Registrations are open until November 25 for Pixelation's annual Secret Santa. Make sure to read all the rules et cetera!
Challenge winner, Finlal, wants you to create an image using only the randomly-chosen colours from the palette shown below.
Canvas Size - Exactly 130 x 221. Either horizontal or vertical.
Colours - Min 4; Max 16. Use only colours 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.
Create seven portraits/emoticons within a single canvas. Each portrait must correspond to one of the seven 'universal emotions':
The canvas size is unresticted, but try to keep the size of each portrait in check.
Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 21.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - No.
PJer A2J2TIWARI has been working on PonjiRo for past two months along with his buddy Kimmo Bordi aka Emico Gaming from TIGForums.
New bot shown in the character lineup in a new level - Abandoned Hallway by PJer dm404.
PJerand 2D artist Ransom.00 joined an indie team working on a mobile game. Graveyard March.
Create a scene that includes a torii.
Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200.
Colours - Max 8.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
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