CHALLENGE: Ye Olde Space Exploration

To commemorate the conclusion of NASA's Space Shuttle Program, we bring you this challenge:

Depict space exploration occurring much earlier than it actually did. This could be anything from millions of years ago, right up until the 1900s. So, for example; ancient Egyptian astronauts or neanderthals visiting the moon.

Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200.
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - Optional.
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 Ye Olde Space Exploration 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!

Haha, nice job Tarius :) I like your color choices again :) Why not adding some planets to the BG? 

YES! :)

I've actually been playing the Lost Vikings a few days ago :)

MAN! You are getting GOOD! Every one of your works is well thought out and your colors are amazing. I think you may be on your way to getting featured......maybe....i hope so.

By the wiki definition of "Space Exploration": yes.
Although our host can be more specific.

P.S: Can our output wield multiple panels? Like a comics, or a time-line?


Edited by TrojanMonkey - 25 July 2011 at 12:17pm

My super rough wip for Egyptian space exploration:

Edited by Chibiwing - 28 July 2011 at 12:48am

Big-Ben

I too was wondering for a while what a big bang tower was 

Please people, you'll make me blush.





I could beraly see the rocketship and could not understand how is this space-related, perhaps his on a green planet alas the moon is in the horizon. Then it hit me, that the hut waaaaay behind is the source of attention; Only it was hard to give it any waaay back there.

I can hardly see you getting votes when the main concept of the challange being in the background, unless you're willing to animate it.


Edited by TrojanMonkey - 26 July 2011 at 10:07pm

wip

Edit: Beh, didn't notice it was my post above. I'll just edit it.




Edited by TrojanMonkey - 27 July 2011 at 3:07am

I decided I will going for the crusaders, like Jeremy (semi-important note: I ripped the idea of my VoIP chumps).

While doodling, I thought to myself: "Hey, if I'm going to  illustrate the crusader's hypothetical influence over the galaxy, I should do it with their intake of reality and the world" :



~WIP (Having some issue with the water transition, probably will alter the pallete)

A flat planet. Addin' some humor.
I'm not sure if they really believed, or even had any intake on the world's shape at all at the time,  that the world has an "end", usually is illustrated as an endless waterfall; although I am quite positive I am getting mixed up with the Viking culture.

The idea in this image is to draw chibi characters of each planet:
one crusader launched from a catapault,
and one jello-like alien. (I'm sure this sort of form has a name, anyone?)

P.S: Yes, that pallete is completly random and probably ineffecient. Tried to make a dynamic-pallete with multiple colors.

@Chibiwing
That thing was supposed to be a planet and a practice for dithering.
as I said I got carried away with the shading. It started to look like a 'Snail's Shell' so I just went with it and shared it.


Edited by TrojanMonkey - 27 July 2011 at 3:13pm

no

Reiterating TrojanMonkeys comment that got no reply cos I've been wondering too, can we use multiple panels (separated by transparency or black) to lay it out as a comic sequence? So each individual panel is within the 200 by 200px limit but the piece overall is larger? If not it can be animated to transition between panels..

Marco Polo goes from china to the moon. I know how didn't sail to China and so there wouldn't have been a european ship there for him to take skyward, but that's just one of many details I'm thinking about how to handle right now.



Edited by tanuki - 28 July 2011 at 8:48pm

  

Some things I fixed (hopefully) :

• The spaceship grabs more attention and looks like a spaceship.
• Some shadows have been... randomly patched together.
• Some noise creating objects have been taken out.
• Look! A random red star! And the guy has legs
  

Some things that still need done:

• Animation: I want the guy to draw some "equations" on the "chalkboard"
  
• Grass or w/e... and lots of it. Something needs to add detail to the ground -.-

So... ya took me 3 days to do that. 2.9 of them spent creating the glass hole on the spaceship.
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EDIT:
  <---- I really like the shading on those rocks


Edited by SumYungGai - 29 July 2011 at 4:45am

A U.S. soldier of World War II holding a bomb.



Edited by maganegorap - 29 July 2011 at 2:53pm

In the year 1945 (World War 2) there was no costume for space exploration. As the diving suit that is portrayed isolates the pressure in the vacuum of space, it is adequate enough to walk on the moon He is handling the pump because I want to portray American soldiers by bombing Japan with atomic bombs.

using mspaint is fine if you like willingly sacrficing large amounts of your time due to its lack of shortcuts and proper palette management.

do yourself a favor and switch to grafx2. it's free and much more user-friendly than ms paint.

would crit the piece but I can't tell what's going on. is this a cohesive image or just random objects to be used in a later image? I see a flat earth, mars, and some random templar gear that exist on the same canvas but don't seems to exist in a particular place.

@cure i was not aware that ms paint was such a waste of time! i downloaded garfx2 and was messing around in it to try and learn it and it is a bit hard to learn. I looked for a tutorial and couldn't find one. could you recommended one (or make one) that we all could watch or read?