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   CHALLENGE: Shrouded in Fog
Create a foggy scene. Smog and mist are okay too.

Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200.

Colors - Max 18.

Transparency - No.

Animation - Optional.
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.
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.

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 :)
CHALLENGE VOTING
Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!
CHALLENGE AWARDS
The Shrouded in Fog pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

No Exit by Lyud
ShadowShip by Sak
Ph.. Phantom Train by ||||

Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! 

No One's Fishing by macdoom
Dense fog by WSX
Route 33 by Evidence
Tea Break by DatMuffinMan
MIST by Omrii
Daegel-Bruhz Portrait: Fog by LTPATS
Misty Shoreline by DoctorDRG
Trees in the mist by TheInternetsGirlfriend
Misty by felchqueen
child of an abyss by harine
Sword in the Mist by BlackZero
jaeger by Dont
Forest by Daimoth
Skyline smoghaze by pixelsyntax
Carpenter's Fog by kedume
A City Night Shrouded in Fog by Hamenopi

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administrator Admiral Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Topic: CHALLENGE 8/25/2014: Shrouded in Fog Posted: 25 August 2014 at 12:01am
	CHALLENGE: Shrouded in Fog Create a foggy scene. Smog and mist are okay too. Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200. Colors - Max 18. Transparency - No. Animation - Optional. 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. 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. 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 :) CHALLENGE VOTING Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge! CHALLENGE AWARDS The Shrouded in Fog pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces: No Exit by Lyud ShadowShip by Sak Ph.. Phantom Train by \|\|\|\| Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! No One's Fishing by macdoom Dense fog by WSX Route 33 by Evidence Tea Break by DatMuffinMan MIST by Omrii Daegel-Bruhz Portrait: Fog by LTPATS Misty Shoreline by DoctorDRG Trees in the mist by TheInternetsGirlfriend Misty by felchqueen child of an abyss by harine Sword in the Mist by BlackZero jaeger by Dont Forest by Daimoth Skyline smoghaze by pixelsyntax Carpenter's Fog by kedume A City Night Shrouded in Fog by Hamenopi
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Siikikala Commander Joined: 27 May 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 54	Posted: 25 August 2014 at 2:31pm
	Still super messy, but it's a start.
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Dont Midshipman Joined: 09 February 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 45	Posted: 25 August 2014 at 6:35pm
	rough rough rough rough rough wip at the end of the day daily update!! bring the JAEGERSSS haha shazam Edited by Dont - 26 August 2014 at 12:11pm
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Pixelarg Midshipman Joined: 14 April 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 41	Posted: 25 August 2014 at 7:12pm
	*Originally posted by Siikikala* Still super messy, but it's a start. Beautiful! haze also has it? is the same as mist right? Thanks! Edited by Pixelarg - 25 August 2014 at 7:13pm
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rhlstudios Commander Joined: 17 September 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 106	Posted: 25 August 2014 at 8:42pm
	My goodness! Both of yours are looking so amazing! Wow! I can already tell this is going to be a good week of challenge pieces lol. Siikikala, I absolutely love the colors and mood in yours. And Don't, I love the content in yours, it's going to be awesome! I'm a sucker though for giant collosal creatures XD
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Siikikala Commander Joined: 27 May 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 54	Posted: 26 August 2014 at 5:42am
	Got rid of the hanging tree and added a magical elk. Edited by Siikikala - 26 August 2014 at 5:42am
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atei Seaman Joined: 25 December 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 6	Posted: 26 August 2014 at 6:33pm
	oh that's a shame, the fallen tree brought something to it for me!
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harine Seaman Joined: 29 August 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1	Posted: 26 August 2014 at 11:48pm
	Since he does not understand English, it is the Excite translation request. Finally 12 colors was used. Since the carried web site did not go well, it reraised to the server of its company. Edited by harine - 27 August 2014 at 4:53pm
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felchqueen Midshipman Joined: 18 May 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 88	Posted: 27 August 2014 at 5:50am
	I know it's misty because I pixeled it, but does it read as misty to anyone else? May put a tree or animal in the fore ground for a bit of interest.
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 27 August 2014 at 5:57am
	@felchqueen, I think it may not read as misty as it is because the greens are slightly to yellow and the white too bright... more I look at it its an overall color issue. Dirty bits here and there ;) Edited by jalonso - 27 August 2014 at 5:58am
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DatMuffinMan Commander Joined: 03 April 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 150	Posted: 27 August 2014 at 7:24am
	hopefully that looks foggy enough :/ Edited by DatMuffinMan - 27 August 2014 at 7:39am
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Omrii Midshipman Joined: 04 November 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 40	Posted: 27 August 2014 at 9:13am
	WIP. I have yet to add the fog and I wanna add some SotC-esque monster in the background. Edited by Omrii - 27 August 2014 at 9:13am
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 27 August 2014 at 11:01am
	Pretty entries so far. Muffin, lineart defines and in a misty/foggy scene definition is not desired, imo.
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Omrii Midshipman Joined: 04 November 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 40	Posted: 27 August 2014 at 6:46pm
	Update. I've revisited the trees and I'm working on the colossus-esque chracter right now. Edited by Omrii - 27 August 2014 at 6:46pm
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Evidence Midshipman Joined: 01 September 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 33	Posted: 27 August 2014 at 7:49pm
	Main character of my WIP. Hope i can achieve the fog effect =) Some progress Edited by Evidence - 28 August 2014 at 4:29pm
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Limes Commander Joined: 15 September 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 683	Posted: 27 August 2014 at 8:23pm
	@omrii I don't like how the neck looks like teeth... maybe have a fur neck? or just a band separating the neck from the rest. Edited by Limes - 27 August 2014 at 8:23pm
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Omrii Midshipman Joined: 04 November 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 40	Posted: 27 August 2014 at 8:43pm
	It's just the head man, I didn't add a neck yet (tbh I don't know if I'm gonna give him one at all!)
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felchqueen Midshipman Joined: 18 May 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 88	Posted: 28 August 2014 at 12:58am
	@Jal - Thanks, tried using your advice, had to resort to dither too :( Should the stag be bigger? really don't like the dither in the transition from mist to grass may try to find an intermediate colour
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Omrii Midshipman Joined: 04 November 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 40	Posted: 28 August 2014 at 4:57am
	*Originally posted by felchqueen* @Jal - Thanks, tried using your advice, had to resort to dither too :( Should the stag be bigger? really don't like the dither in the transition from mist to grass may try to find an intermediate colour I persoanlly like him as he is now. If I'd chanbge anything then it would be the color of the grass and maybe the sky. The feel a bit out of place to me
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felchqueen Midshipman Joined: 18 May 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 88	Posted: 28 August 2014 at 5:25am
	@Omrii - hmmm, I thought the sky was OK, but the pale blue background of the forum makes it look a bit brighter than I would want it. The grass is still WIP and proving to be a bit of a pain, thanks for the advice.
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Omrii Midshipman Joined: 04 November 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 40	Posted: 28 August 2014 at 5:57am
	Need to work a bit on the fur, the colors on the mask and start making the actual clouds of the fog, the first cloud I've made is a very very very early WIP. Thoughts? Edited by Omrii - 28 August 2014 at 5:58am
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Hamenopi Seaman Joined: 17 September 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8	Posted: 28 August 2014 at 10:16am
	Everyone's art is so clean! I think I'm going to go abstract. I'm going to try to use 6 colors on this one since. Well fog desaturates. This is a WIP prototype using pyxeledit. The story behind it is light gradually illuminates the darkness giving way to a figure masked in the fog. Edited by Hamenopi - 28 August 2014 at 10:20am
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\|\|\|\| Commander Joined: 31 May 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 202	Posted: 28 August 2014 at 4:49pm
	Had to join this challenge. Going to make the phantom train from Final Fantasy VI. (kind of lame I do so much Final Fantasy crap.. but it seemed just right for this particular challenge). Rough/ WIP: further: Edited by \|\|\|\| - 29 August 2014 at 3:08am
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Evidence Midshipman Joined: 01 September 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 33	Posted: 28 August 2014 at 5:18pm
	Just doodled and i wonder how to create a correct fog pattern for the background... The file has already exactly 18 colours so i cant create de fog pattern effect on the frontside due i used layers with transparency.. any suggestion ? i would also try some animation but im lost anyways Thanks ! Edited by Evidence - 28 August 2014 at 7:16pm
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 29 August 2014 at 6:23am
	*Originally posted by Hamenopi* Everyone's art is so clean! I think I'm going to go abstract. I'm going to try to use 6 colors on this one since. Well fog desaturates. This is a WIP prototype using pyxeledit. The story behind it is light gradually illuminates the darkness giving way to a figure masked in the fog. This may just be a WIP but just in case you should know that at this stage this would not be considered pixelart, k.
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 29 August 2014 at 6:26am
	*Originally posted by Evidence* Just doodled and i wonder how to create a correct fog pattern for the background... The file has already exactly 18 colours so i cant create de fog pattern effect on the frontside due i used layers with transparency.. any suggestion ? i would also try some animation but im lost anyways Thanks ! Using trans layers is not a good thing, especially on a challenge dealing with fog. Generally speaking you should be pixelling and not depending on CGd FX of any kind to create pixelart. There is nothing in your pixel that could not be manually made. I would likely not add this to the gallery for the trans layers because its mostly unfair to others.
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Hamenopi Seaman Joined: 17 September 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8	Posted: 29 August 2014 at 6:52am
	Yeah, That's not even close to pixel art. 200x200 may be too beast for animating, at least for me. It's what I originally pictured in reading the challenge rules and I wanted to prototype something on the fly. I have since scrapped that prototype and am seeing if I can make a foggy tile set for the challenge as well as for my game.
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Siikikala Commander Joined: 27 May 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 54	Posted: 29 August 2014 at 3:03pm
	Wasn't able to work on this for the week, but i might be able to complete it during this weekend. I lifted it up a bit so the backgournd wouldn't take as much attention and to focus more on the foreground and middleground. Some colour changes aswell, still playing with them, now uses full 18 colors when it used to be 15.
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Evidence Midshipman Joined: 01 September 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 33	Posted: 29 August 2014 at 5:27pm
	Hope you happier with it ! =) I AM and this is just my entry thanks folks !
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skittle Commander Joined: 20 July 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 350	Posted: 30 August 2014 at 9:38am
	*Originally posted by Siikikala* Wasn't able to work on this for the week, but i might be able to complete it during this weekend. I lifted it up a bit so the backgournd wouldn't take as much attention and to focus more on the foreground and middleground. Some colour changes aswell, still playing with them, now uses full 18 colors when it used to be 15. Looks brilliant, really hope you finish it.
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bluedxca93 Commander Joined: 27 February 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 104	Posted: 31 August 2014 at 12:21am
	my first pixel art i ever made. Im normally more into user interface themes for computer, such as windows and linux themes.
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Hamenopi Seaman Joined: 17 September 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8	Posted: 31 August 2014 at 6:43am
	I'm glad I scrapped my prototype. Unfortunately I most likely will not have the time to produce a piece of pixel art I think can contend with others. That's okay. Seeing some of the other works are inspirational. Alas, the work I do have, I find novel in it's own sense. It uses 6 different colors. It uses 30 unique 10 x 10 tiles on a 200 x 200 canvas.
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noaqh Seaman Joined: 03 April 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13	Posted: 31 August 2014 at 7:21am
	QUOTE=bluedxca93] my first pixel art i ever made. Im normally more into user interface themes for computer, such as windows and linux themes. [/QUOTE] ... 5001 colors, Idk if this is a WIP or anything but you shouldn't use Auto tool for anything refer to the challenge 'round here. Edited by noaqh - 31 August 2014 at 7:22am
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DatMuffinMan Commander Joined: 03 April 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 150	Posted: 31 August 2014 at 5:38pm
	c'mon siiki, finish it >:(
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Daimoth Midshipman Joined: 26 August 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 33	Posted: 31 August 2014 at 9:23pm
	Opted for something more eye-catching this time. Edited by Daimoth - 31 August 2014 at 9:51pm
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