weee! halloween contest! my 1st halloween on PJ! :D



Edited by orenshtiv - 26 October 2009 at 1:24am

hmmm.... can i make the photograff smaller or somethin? ://

*Zombie Invasion Error 453*

Sorry, can't be smaller; your submission should have the exact same canvas size as the template. The actual photograph part of the template should be the same size too.

I'll get back to you about changing the border colours though. Anyway, don't worry about the border for now, the main part is the actual photograph area.

another W.I.P:

well,i'll stop working for now,i g2g :P
but after it i'll continue.... :]]
hope you like it! ^ ^'

Done! :D
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/47566.htm#
[Preview,click on it]
Hope you like it :]]


Edited by orenshtiv - 26 October 2009 at 9:11am

I like it, but I find it a tad inconsistent with the shading... the focus of light comes from the upper left where the moon is I assume... you have to make everything from that direction... like, the shading in the pig tails should be reverse. Everything else is fine for the most part.

Get outta here!! nooooooooo I was going to do the same thing... a zombie hugging a human being. meh, I'll make something else haha. Good luck.

about the shading...that it doesn't come from the moon etc. it's because the flash of the camera.

aw...first my stumik,then my back,and now my head and my neck... i'm really unlucky!.. oh,and i'm quitting this challenge :[

Might enter

Got started on colouring/shading today...
I don't think I'm doing all that great by the standards of the people I look up too, but for me, this is a vast improvement, I think:


The light, like in orenshtiv's, is coming from the camera flash.

[E] Moar shading, to the skull, under arm, neck.

Edited by ekobor - 28 October 2009 at 1:12pm

@Manu~

Ryath: it's not me you want to talk to! ;)

Zombs in human costume: that's great! Be sure to check that perspective though.

if there is still musscle under the skin, then all of that skull is wrong...it would have to be covered by musscle.
I honestly think the exposed skull takes away from the image. there is no reason for the head to be at a 1 year decomposition, while the body is at a 2 week. dosent make sense

Getting there.

Jeremy: That's looking great. You've improved heaps. Perhaps the shirt is too wrinkly though.

shirt's still a bit off, it looks as if it's twisting around on his body. Put a shirt on an look in the mirror :P

or google:



pay no attention to the tshirt design - this was the first full torso shot of a man wearing a tshirt on google images.

ok got it :P outside source obviously

Here is a rough sketch of my idea


here is a rough color block over the sketch






and here is where it stands currently




Edited by Ivy00 - 31 October 2009 at 4:12pm

Something was weird with that png file.  Anyway, re-did the background and uploading another step here.  I'll give it a rest and see what I can do to it tomorrow.

The last one is actually a jpeg (filename = zombie 7.png.jpg), that accounts for part of the problem, but not all of it.
Besides, you now have a transparency layer and auto-aa font. I foresee trouble in the queue.

The zombies look cute, but their texture is a bit random.

ska: sorry for the cross-posting.

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Manu: sorry for invading your post - just for the record, it's neither a colour reduction nor a jpeg. It does have a jpeg extension; this may be because of the host automatically assigning a jpeg extension, but I'm fairly certain that it's not a jpeg. 

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ska: no problemo!

You have a point, although there are typical jpeg artifacts at the top, and the newest version also has them at the bottom (yellowish). That would be an excellent way to accidentally get 5000 colors.
There are none in the chars, though. So the whole thing is not jpeg, but I'm fairly certain the bg has been at some point.

I'm not sure about color redux, but the bg doesn't look handpixelled though. Maybe I'm being über suspicious because of some bad stuff slipping past me lately.

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Ska edit II:

Hm, I guess I was wrong (it happens! ), on further inspection and complaints from Lollige, it does seem like a jpeg (albeit, a high quality jpeg); it didn't seem so at the time. I guess I was fooled by the low amount of compression.

But anyway, regardless of compression, that image definitely wasn't pixel kosher.

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Edited by skamocore - 01 November 2009 at 5:26am

added some background roughness and working a bit on the taller zombie

Cleaned my zombeh lovers up .  This is my final hoping the color count is ok now.

Thanks Manupix

It is quite a large canvas for pixel art.  I am sure I probably missed more than those strays you found.  I also had one heck of a weather related headache toward the end so actually surprised I got it to the point I did. 

I ended up with Photoshop saying 31 colors when I saved as GIF on the last one.  With it being more of a scene than a small sprite or tile based image it seemed to me like it needed a lot of color.  Especially with it depicting a photograph.  

Ska was kind enough to recommend a color counter for me, but I have a 64 bit system and I don't think it will work.  I will note the devs though and see if there are issues with it  on a 64 bit system.

Thanks again