I quite like this. It reminds me of some art on an old Apple II graphic parser adventure. I think there is a pleasing amount of variety in shading and dithering, and the main bronze color is nice to look at and makes this piece feel earthy and ancient. I really do like looking at this piece. Thanks for sharing! Also is there anything in particular  that is meant to be depicted on this vase?

This looks pretty good, I like how you made the fire appear as though it is being blown to the right by the wind. I presume this would be to make it look like it is covering up the menu when loading animations? That is a cool way to show that. I like the use of purple on the outer edges of the flames. Do you think some more frames could make it look more smooth and organic? 

I like this design! The mask and the hood have really good shading, and the stylized dithering is really cool. I also love that little trademark on the bototm right. The one glowing eye is so cool. Also I love the colors and just overall I think this is a really classy and cool piece. Thanks for sharing.

This makes me so happy to see. Thank you so much for this . This is beautiful.

This looks so awesome and it would be so great to see in a overhead view game, something like Retro City Rampage. The colors and the shading were really well done and I love how consistenly the model is drawn with each angle.  I love the color of the car by the way. It is also cool that it is kinda styled with a bit of oldschool 1940s cars and modern cars. Thanks for sharing!

A cute design and I like the color scheme! The trapezoid shaped face gives it a nice cartoonish look, and the purple makes it feel "out of this world" and contributes to the imaginary effect. The face is interesting as well because it adds a bit of mystery and mood to this piece. Also...goodness what happened to their arm? D:

I really really like this! The palette chosen is really charming and has an old PC appeal, the colors and shading complement each other well, and this image is quite dramatic and stands out quite well! I love this blue and magenta palette on the snake here. Thanks for sharing!

I like this piece very much, but may you please rescale it properly so that we can put it in the gallery? 

I like the style that you've drawn this cave in and I'm very fond of the color choices. The minty and the verdant green complement the muted purple-red in the background, and together they create this juxtaposition of mossy and lava-y atmosphere. There is an appealing "organic but grid-y" aesthetic which you've achieved with this cave that is genuiely cool to look at. It gives off the vibes of the background in an early Apple II graphic parser adventure. I can tell there was a lot of thought and work was put into this. I get the impression this would be a level with some platforming mechanics, particularly given the cylinder shapes at the bottom. I would gladly play a level that looked like this in an old platformer. Thanks so much for sharing!

Uhhhhh @MetalSlug1988, are you okay?!?!

Holy cow this is awesome! There is so much detail and personality in this it is incredible! I really like that you went for a more obscure pixel art style that looks similar to old FMV animation with an anime art style. The dithering gives this such an oldschool PC vibe, and I love the perspective and colors you chose! Also the anime pixel art style is so appealing and really nice looking. The menu has so much personality and life and I just think this is so great. The flowery background and the pink style of the room is so nice. I feel like I've failed to say enough, there is so much great about this piece. Thanks for sharing! 

I love the colors you chose for this and the cel shaded look. The colors all complement one another so well and the design is really charming. I like the variety in the shading, like the way the bowtie and shoes have a more saturated shaded tone than the lighter variant, but the pants have a less saturated shade to the lighter color, it adds character and texture to the clothes. I love the face and the eyes too. This is a very charming piece and I like it very much. Also, is he being held up by balloons? Thanks for sharing!

I really like the color scheme and I find this style to be quite appealing! Also the shading is pretty nice overall. This is a cool design and I like the colors you used for shading. Also I like the pose as despite being still it feels very alive and quirky. Thanks for sharing!

Not gonna lie I'm getting the impression this is gonna go in the hall of fame one day. The colors are really beautiful and pastel, the sub-pixel animation adds a lot of life, and the reflective surfaces of the bubble-earth and the thing it appears to be dangling from is gorgeous. I love this concept, it is so existential and surreal and feels like dream imagery. Also the vaguely-bushy floral space background is so creative. The slow movement of the subjects makes this feel philosophical and meditative. The blinking stars far behind are also beautiful too.

I can tell this took quite some time. I really like the glowing light,  the flame and the smoke. Also the cave it is placed in is rather atmospheric and heavily complemented by the lone torch. This is really cool.

Love itttt. I like this kind of surreal level with the atmospheric and moody dark blue, and the eye visor poking out of the ceiling. Those pillars and the green lines give some really nice depth to this level. Also I like the Greco-Roman themed menu-box, very nice. Love this.

Gosh this has such a nice summery vibe. The work on the water looks so great, I can feel the heat from the sun coming down on this pool. The reindeer just looks like he's having the time of his life in there. I love this. 

I am from 8 years in the future. Hello. So I can't seem to find the finished pieces for this. Was this challenge ever completed?

This is a great animation to celebration the year of the Red Fire Horse. Great job, it really looks 3D and the colors were really well chosen. The fiery palette along with the rapid-fire animation creates such an energetic and wild image for this Chinese New Year.

This is a fantastic color palette! The anatomy is really well done and the shading with the small color palette is really good! Especially the shading on the suit and the hair. Hair especially can be quite difficult but this is really well done. Also great choice of colors too, the light green and more muted blue-green contrast against one another really well, and both of those against black creates this really cool electro-far-future sci-fi thing. Thanks for sharing!

I think it is really creative to use all of the hair on the horse's face as fire for the dragon. This is a fun concept.The design reminds me of a puppet by Jim Davis. I think the overall colors chosen were decent, however I must admit the off-white of the muzzle I found a bit confusing. Also good job on the animation, it kind of gives off a puppet vibe like I said before. Thank you for sharing!

Dang this is such a gorgeous piece. This is a really clever use of the color blocks with the lighting on the armor. The green and red on tthe respective pieces of armor add a really cool saturated shadow effect that compliments the primary light colors of each suit really well. Also the background is really cool and techno. I love the usage of the blue dithering in the technological areas in the foreground. The armor and the poses all look so good. This piece is just so cool and it caught my attention immediately on the front page. I like the implied story. I imagine this (presumably) space alien soldier is breaking out of this ship and beating up these guards. All fo them look so cool and I really love the way you used the dithering to make the armor look so good. Great stuff.

I love this. The font you used (or made) and the fake interface is really charming and I'd honestly use it if it were a real program. Also I love this little tiles at the bottom that it is implied that this in-art creator used to create the art of Q-bert, I guess this piece is kind of meta in that way. Also I like the little map on the bottom right, and the idea that Q-bert is just such an iconic character that he's just an option to be made in this program. Really cool stuff! Thank you for sharing!

I love the limited use of colors and the dithering is really nice to look at. The way it was used really defines the textures in both the chicken and the dinosaur. I can sense the rough texture of the dinosaurs' scales and the softness of the chicken's feathers. Also the colors remind me of the ZX spectrum, with this piece having the same appeal as artwork from that. Also I like the yellow-brown shading for white bits, it combines nicely with the white to give the shading a nice organic and animal-y look. Also I love the way the T-rex looks. Perhaps the chicken could use a beak but I like it as it is too. Thanks for sharing!

These are all so cool and have so much life and energy in them. You made these characters all so incredibly appealing and loveable even with 1-bit limitations. I really love what you have created here. Not gonna lie I really want to play a game with this art style and these characters.