This week we want you to draw a monochromatic 2-frame animated scene that involves rain; using the Swamp 8-color palette below. You can make any sort of rain as long as the viewer will understand it's raining.

Colors: max 8, use the colors below

Canvas: Max 160x120 horizontal or vertical.
Transparency: no
Animation: required, exactly 2 frames.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

The Dithered Dunes pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! Check out the Dithered Dunes forum thread for more information.

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Pillow Shading on purpose.

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This week we want you to depict a scene/sprite with at least one part/object pillow shaded. You read it right! We want you to find a good way to use this (lack of) technique.

Bonus Challenge: Make the whole scene/sprite pillow shaded (good luck on that)

Colors: 16max

Canvas: 160x120px max.

Transparency: optional

Animation: optional

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

The Animals_14 pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! Check out the Animals_14 forum thread for more information.

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Dithered Dunes.

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The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for October 2021.

Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!

I drew a set of pixel cards, you can find them in my gallery, and in October I got them printed on professional Casino Classic material. Before selling them all over the world I would like to hold the giveaway, so you can win one of 3 decks!

Be a winner of #okee playing cards in the give away on Twitter
Just RT and FOLLOW to win!
Results in December 4 at 18:00 GMT on my YouTube

Three decks will be given to some of my followers randomly. Take part and get a chance to win one of them!

This week you have to use some kind of dithering! Do you like the mathematically perfect geometric type, do you create new stylish textures, or do you manage to mix 2 or more colors in a completely original way? You are encouraged to experiment, go wild!

The theme is dunes, some kind of dune or desert or drought landscape, optionally with characters in them. Other than that, there are few limitations, so you can apply dithering in the way you think suits best.

Colors: max 32
Canvas: Any size, but the ratio must be 1:2 or 2:1. So width is height * 2 or height / 2, for example if your height is 50px the width can be either 25px or 100px.
Transparency: no
Animation: optional

Please post in the comments your favorite dithered pieces from the gallery to serve as inspiration!

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Animals_14.

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The Blink of an Eye pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! Check out the Blink of an Eye forum thread for more information.

We all loved the horror month, but is there something completely different that we also love? Something that could help us move on? What is an oposite of inanimated scary movie posters? Of course it's ANIMATED SPRITES OF CUTE ANIMALS!

To make things more interesting this week's challenge will be a variant of a random palette challenge. The colours are not random per se, but their choice criteria has little to do with actual colours - those are the colours with animals in their names.


The list in alphabethical order:

#54626F black coral
#C19A6B camel/lion
#FFFF99 canary
#c41e3a cardinal red
#81613c coyote brown
#A7F432 lizard green
#979AAA manatee
#74C365 mantis
#FDDDE6 piggy pink
#00CCCC robin egg
#FA8072 salmon
#59260b seal brown
#DBD7D2 timberwolf
#8a9a5b turtle green


Animals_14 palette:




Canvas Size: Max 80x80
Colours: Max 15 (14 from the palette + transparency)
Transparency: Required.
Animation: Required.
Cuteness: Required. (You can choose a predator but it has to look cute not scary).

Bonus challenge: - draw one of the animals from the colour name list.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Blink of an Eye.

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The Pixelween bonus: Crossove pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! Check out the Pixelween bonus: Crossove forum thread for more information.

 

This week, we want you to pixel and animate a piece where the main focus is an eye. It may or may not be a human eye - also it may or may not be attached to its owner's face. The animation can be anything, such as blinking or changing directions.

Canvas Size: Max 100x100 px.

Colours: Max 10 colors.

Transparency: Optional.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Pixelween bonus: Crossove.

VOTE NOW!

The Pixelween: Bride Of pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! Check out the Pixelween: Bride Of forum thread for more information.