CHALLENGE: Sprite Sprite

Sprite a sprite of a sprite*

*that is a small mythical creature, such as a fairy, imp, pixie, etc...

Canvas Size - Max 48 x 48.
Max Colours - Max 8.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.

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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 Sprite Sprite 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!

Not sure what the challenge means.. are we making a new sprite based on another one?

Interesting challenge :) This is what I came up with so far:



Would like to add a lantern or something, but i'm out of colors :D


Edited by CarstenVania - 16 September 2013 at 7:33am

Your confusion is based on the fact that the word "sprite" has multiple meanings:
One of them is the "sprite" as we know it from games, as a 2D bitmap..
Another meaning is for a legendary creature like a troll, fairy or elve..

So this challenge wants us to create a sprite (first meaning) that shows a sprite (2nd meaning) ;)

Edit: got rid of the purple to make room for other colors.

An early wip I have. Supposed to be a fire sprite :P

Yes I know transparency is is required, I will add that later.

Update:


Edited by Bryroz - 16 September 2013 at 1:42pm

Final Sprite -



On a side note, the sprite has a 2-frame animation, but on imgur it doesn't loop. Will it do so on PJ?

Edited by DatMuffinMan - 16 September 2013 at 7:14pm

It's intresting,i think i should join.

Edited by Zeenkw - 17 September 2013 at 11:46am

Any suggestions? I feel like there's problems with it that I can't quite put my finger on.



Edited by Nutcase - 18 September 2013 at 12:29am

Is it 8 colors and transparency or is the transparency one of the colors ?

I'm making fairy for this challange, haven't been in one for a while ...

Here's a little gnome I'm working on. Any advice/comments/scorn would be appreciated.

Is it looks okay and match the rules?
Some kind of fairy in body of plush doll.


Edited by RendyanHunter - 18 September 2013 at 1:52pm

I tried to avoid dithering over there, by it came awful, I disliked its look. It was really sloppy. What should I do? D:

He's Gus the Gnome. The big burly cousin of David.
Slimmed down and sans the checkerboard beard.

i want critique too :(

@Nutcase- The fairy's face could be a little less cartoony. Perhaps have the head/face anatomically correct/ smaller. Slotted oval eyes instead of messed up circles, give her a nose, etc.I do like your colors and shading style.

@elk- I think your grammar could be a little better. It is also a rule of thumb, in pixel art, to capitalize your "i"s. And frowny faces are kinda cliché. Hope that helped ;)

(But elk it is looking good so far. Do you have a more current wip?)

Edited by crozier - 18 September 2013 at 11:33pm

Just an idea.

want to animate. may not have much time.

Nevercreature, your piece is uncharacteristically bright!

Edited by failureboy - 19 September 2013 at 10:33pm

Oh man! I didn't know transparency counted as a color! I almost went over the limit! xP

current WIP, and planning on animating:

She's sort of a water sprite ballerina. if you look really closely, you can see that the hair is transparent in places.

Well, I'm no expert, but I'm a bit confused as to what's going on with the dress(?). Is it form fitting, and the person is chubby, or is it flowy and that roundness on the left side is a flowing piece of fabric?

Hmmm... maybe try dithering together the light and dark skin colors instead of the dark skin color and the black?

EDIT: Or maybe making it a solid color. I don't really know a lot about dithering atm.

Edited by Rydido - 21 September 2013 at 9:03am

Hehe, I chuckled. The outstretched tongue is a nice touch!