this is my pixel art

and this one??

these are my other works that olso need revision

those are pixel art as well

probably because of the colours/shading... cause i get a lot of comment on the colours i use (not enough contrast, wrong tints, lightsource etc)...

And i see kinda randomly places pixels in your shading which isnt a good thing to get approval either...

Bad head shape, not-so-well dithering... Do you know how to smooth things out? Check the main site for tutorials, or check out other works.

Dude, I understand you want to get your work approved but it might be a better idea to just focus on one piece at a time rather than just posting everything and asking 'what is wrong with it'.

NMEwithin brings up a good point on the animation. This piece has a couple of odd-looking frames too:

  

What animation software are you using? Maybe you should use another one.

well, stop.  i dont know exactly what you are doing, but you are screwing up your animations transparency when you use it.  click on one of your animations until it is really really big and the watch the outer border and you will see what i am talking about.

i think what you may be doing is using the magic wand tool then pressing delete or cutting it and still having AA on.

and listen to blueberry, work on one piece at a time.  you won't learn anything new and retain it if you attempt to do multiple things, and many arent going to attempt to explain the problems in all the pieces you are throwing at us.

There is definately a noticeble improvement with this piece.

Some advice:  Work on your pixeling before you jump into animation.  I know having animated sprites is cool and all that but without the basics they will just end up looking like crap.

 

When you do decide to start animating your stuff I suggest Microsoft .GIF animator.  It's easy to use and free.  You might also want to download the free version of Graphics Gale for your pixeling....

 

Good luck...

Because there are actual people that aprove work, it's not an automated process. I'm sure the MODs have real lives too and can't sit online all day long without exception.

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw - 19 January 2007 at 11:43am

there are many reasons for this, mainly if one work is obviously to poor of quality, it will be turned down immediatly, if it is on the line, we will wait for the users to vote on it.

The ninja looks like you were going for a simplistic style that didn't need much realism or polish. But the other ones have attempted (but, unfortunately, failed) shading and other techniques. I suggest you use more than just a 50% dither and that you add contrast and hue shifting to the yellow thing.

ok. I understand

You're shading it like a sphere. Think about how light would reflect off something shaped like that is, but 3d. I also notice you have a fricking BUNCH of colors. Try arranging them all in a row like you have 5 of them and you'll see what I mean.

Edited by leel - 20 January 2007 at 4:53pm

It's an improvement, glad to see you upped the contrast, it was something I forgot to do in my edit.  Something to work on - in your palette, the two shades below the black are virtually the same, so you should just use one color (I'd say the lower one which you're using for the outline anyway)  Also, on his tail you have those two colors right on top of each other - it really stands out and doesn't really make sense shading wise, so shorten the top line a little and it'll look less like an unexplainably wide outline. 

I actually like the flatter version more than the pointy one (because it really looks more pointy than round.)

yeah the outline is good, but again, either aa the whole thing, or don't aa at all. 

sorry i am not so good in english wat is aa??

 is this edit without aa??