CHALLENGE: Urban Runners

Challenge winner, Mambazo wants you to show us an energetic figure traversing an urban environment, not unlike Parkour. So for example, a postman acrobatically avoiding a dog.

Canvas Size - Min 120 (width) x 90 (height) | Max 320 (width) x 240 (height).
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - No.

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CHALLENGE RULES

• Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
• Only new pixels allowed.
• Open to all members.
• Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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CHALLENGE JUDGING

• Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
• Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
• Winner announced the following week.

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CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

• Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
• Top finisher gets to call the following week's challenge...sweet.
• 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
• No matter what happens you get challenged :)

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CHALLENGE VOTING

Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Urban Runners 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!

So... basically it's Green Raven doesn't submit anything week

oh wait...

Shush. One of these days... I promise...

I was hoping for animation, too XD

A mailman is just about as urban as a super hero, I'd suppose.

Not at all. Shadow from the Sonic Series had Rocket Rollerblades.




Funny you mentioned his pose, I changed it due to workability :D

( p.s. Going to reposition his right foot--And finish the background this evening. )

Edited by Mr Blu - 02 August 2010 at 12:41pm

i tried something ;

Do I detect a hint of Shadowrun?

i've never done anything with a full size person

spiderman jumpin off of somethin' maybe, i don't know anything about anatom


Edited by MrSkeleton - 03 August 2010 at 3:59pm

A figure doesn't have to be 100% human, as long as it can convey the actions :)

Hmm, I would say at least somewhat humanoid otherwise it steers too far away from the Parkour aspect. Sorry!

So, I've been meaning to start entering competitions, and I was wondering- what are your thoughts on how close in to the character we should be? Because my immediate idea has been a slightly more zoomed out city scape with runners traversing it. The thing is, from the WIPs posted so far, I get the feeling that people are going for a very zoomed in approach. Would my idea be against the spirit of the competition? I can post up a WIP if needed.

So it should focus on one runner only? A had a kind of race thing going on, but I could change it, as  have mainly been focusing on the landscape so far. Apologies for all the questions, I'm new here and don't want to anger the masses by bending competition rules...

You can have more than one 'runner' as long as one of the runners appears to be the main focus.

The deadline is at 9 AM on Monday in our time zone.

Looking good! Can't wait to see it get 'urbanized'

Well here's my go at this so far. I'm not really sure about it, and would love any input on how to improve it a little.

The image is supposed to depict one runner at different stages of his journey. Like someone had taken a photo every few seconds and put them all together. I'm not sure how well that comes across, but I don't know how to make it more obvious.

13 colours at the moment.