One of the best pixel activities of the year, Pixelation's annual Secret Santa will be held once again on Pixel Joint this year, due to circumstances (of course with permission from its previous organiser, Atnas). If you'd like to participate all you need to do is hit on this thread and type "I'm in" and note what you'd like or wouldn't like from your Santa this Christmas.
Make sure to sign up before December 6th.
Please only sign up if you are absolutely certain you can finish your gift. Have fun!
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 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!
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.
