This week you are challenged to create something using the controversial pillow shading technique.
Canvas Size- Exactly 400 x 100.
Colours - Unrestricted. Because pillow shading can often require a large number of colours, we recommend saving your work in the .png file format this week, as .gif can only handle 256 colours.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
If you are having trouble with this technique have a look at this handy video tutorial.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Yes, it is a bit early for an April Fools joke, but this is something that we thought would work better by pulling it off at the start of a challenge week.
Happy (almost) April Fools Day everyone! =)
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1277/pxpillowshading.gif
qrakis's wip. xD
Knew it :D
I'd nearly finished my sonic though 
April Fish!
lol, I made a complete fool outa myself *puts on a yellow yester costume and wanders the street*
am I hip now? :O
Well, at least you aren't CLOSING PIXELJOINT FOREVER. >:(
Not fail! I should get the 1st place as I had the best (and only) entry :<
Aw come on! I knew it was April Fools, but I was working on something really interesting.
lol, good i checked :]
i was going to discard this challenge.
Damn... That was just perfect for restricted minds :D Someone could have made something really good with that. Oh well, that happens.
Oh you bastar.....
I lol at thee, u had so many fooled xD
So whats the real chalenge?
So is pillow shading where the light source comes from the front? And does everything in the entry have to be pillow shaded?
So bad, I must un-learn all the techniques I know to draw like a noob?
Don't think is a good idea to ask for PNG files and don't think somebody uses (need) more than 256 colors. If that happen I will suspect that image is just a color reduction pic.
Is that a joke? But its sure a challenge to draw stuff how I used to be 8 years ago. :/
This is what you can really call a challenge. I must try to do somethign for this challenge because of it's "weirdness" 8D
yuss... O__o
seriously guys - why make a challange and PROMOTE a bad tech?
Also, pillowshading is used on sprites mostly. Using it on a scene (no trans?) would be very weird..
But oh well, the magenta challenge had some nice entries too
well, didnt see this coming. Now Im gonna need to think of a way to make pillow shading look good...
Whoa, whats this?
Pillowshading is ok, but did you know there once was a rule that you can not upload stuff with more than 265 colors? But the counter machine broke =)
Anyway, how about setting the limit to 265? Youd never need more if you do everything by hand.
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Fail.