well I started making something...except since there's no chance of me actually finishing this by Sunday...I'll just post my very incomplete WIP

So without further ado I present to you the sloppy-never-to-be-entered-challenge-entry:

 


and...now presenting...the iaza version, complete with ugly filters, just to please the bugman:

great showing Qbi, welcome.

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Metaru, black-and-white is NOT a easy route. Try doing a two-color piece, and you will understand the difficulty involved. If you look at the submissions to the 1-bit challenge, you'll see very few effective pieces, and even fewer that don't resort to large canvas sizes and massive amounts of dithering. In addition, black and white is even harder than other two-color choices, as it has the greatest contrast of dark and light. Many of the pieces in that challenge used other colors becuase it was easier to use them effectively than black and white. Black and white has no in between shades, no anti-aliasing "safetey net", as Greenraven put it, so an eye for lighting is required. You should give it a try yourself before shooting it down.

An update, 12 colours so far :

Making stars twinkle with only two colors looks slightly retarded.

Oh yes, and Metaru, life isn't all about blue ribbons and winning. It's about how much fun you have and how much ass you get to kick along the way.

a start w/e :)

Edited by 1Ole - 05 October 2007 at 5:46am

not pretending to call this my own. its just an old joke. and an edit, of course.

a key that's then struck by lightning.

* the key to your heart

Damn Varock Shade!

Astral dust WIP:



Hope you like it... or not? ;)

I invite you to view finished graphic here: http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/25245.htm

Unless anyone's got some crits, mine is done :


Jal: she's got stubby eyelashes, but I can do a long-lashed one just for you

I can already tell this is going to be a great learning experience for you. Your rocket is already greatly improved, the lighting is great and I can clearly see the window and seam in the middle. However, if you are planning on doing an animation, which isn't necessary, but could turn out well, then you have a lot to learn. When doing an animation, you must think everything out thoroughly and plan everything beforehand. For one thing, stars don't "twinkle" in the way that they are often portrayed to. Your piece shows not twinkling, but blinking, which never happens in the real stars. If you go out at night, you'll notice that most of the stars' light remains quite consistent. They do sometimes glimmer, and sort of twinkle, but usually not something quite as dramatic as seen in cartoons and what not. But that brings me to number two. Look at your drawing, and think about the fact that you are animating a moving spaceship. It looks like it broke out of the atmosphere, and is hurtling through space. Thing is, space isn't moving behind it! The spaceship pushes out flame, but the moon, stars and clouds don't move, so the spaceship looks "stuck" in place. This is one of the most important things you need to change. Now, to animate the stars, there are a couple ways to do it. Simply have the dots moving behind it, or, if you want the ship to look like it's going REAL fast, then comet like "streaks" should be used to show the stars moving in a fast motionblur. It's kind of hard to explain, but I got some examples to show you.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/images/content/101898main_CD1998_76632_516x387.jpg
Non animated shows distortion of stars when ship is hurtling towards them at warp speed.

http://www.itsf.org/brochure/images/manchu-fusion.jpg
Another ship at warp speed. It was hard to find examples from a side view like yours, but you should get the picture.

If you go with "dot" stars, here's an animation that could help you out. http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/amnh/movies/orion5.gif

That leaves the clouds and moon. It's tough to break it to you, but you are much better just leaving them out. You HAVE to leave the clouds out if you want the animation to loop, and the moon would probably just complicate things. You might be able to make it work, but first get the stars fixed and see where it goes from there. Other than that, the flame needs work, but we'll worry about that later. Good luck!

The toes are odd. Why is he looking at the c==3

why is everyone speaking of the 8==D?    

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I Had the feeling I should keep superman in that cartoony/pop art style. AA will come, and those colours will be also used to make more details in the shading...

Edit: AA'd Face, Hair and Shirt-thing...


Edited by Varock Shade - 06 October 2007 at 4:06am

I would try to mimic the look of the old Action Comics Superman

Tongue licking lips?

If you can animate maybe the stars could twinkle a little while
the monkey and banana hover up and down some.
Of course the action lines would have to go vertical and not worth the bother.

Have you tried a dark blue instead of black, that often works.

@Varock, looking great. I hope you have enough time to finish, your
progress seems so slow to me.


Edited by jalonso - 06 October 2007 at 8:20am

Think again Jal:

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I'm at 15 colours atm, so still within the limit. I put his chin 1px forward, gave the face a few new details, AA'd some more and added BG

Gonna work on clouds next, and the border of the bg scene should make it more clear its not a real sky... Also needa edit font of the text...

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Moved to a 16 colour Palette for AA of the clouds. Changed the eye a bit, changed font, finished AA on text bubbles, Changed the dent in the nose (but might have another edit). Anyone with suggestions?

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Made the clouds a bit more fitting to the style (at least, i hope. Cause you were right about that jal ). Also made red part of the cape a bit larger...

Edit: Submitted

Added wood-like pattern-thing-ish something between the black and the air, and some minor things before submitting. Anyone with suggestions is welcome, cause I may put the edit of it onto my gallery instead...


Edited by Varock Shade - 06 October 2007 at 1:08pm

PixelBlunt, there seems to be too many black space BGs. Change the colors of that and maybe shiny up that ship.

my Girlfriend is gonna kill me, but Finally, my Airship is complete.

what do you think?


 All I have to do now is build the whole scene and my entry will be finished.

e: Steampunk rules.


Edited by Metaru - 06 October 2007 at 8:04pm

I really love that mockup. Lots. It looks like it would just assimilate into a SNES game like FF5 or FF6 if you got the two close to each other. Seriously, <3. Now fix that animation bug.

The ship is great, the clouds may/may not match it.

(First post, yes indeed. Hum.)

WIP - 9 colors (probably going to stay at that).


(Obviously the gray box around it isn't going to be there when it's done)

I can see a few things right now that I'm changing - I'm adding a person to the scene, but it's small and so is complicated and blah and... stuff. Also two of the birds are bugging me and must be fixed...

Anything else I may have missed that should be changed, let me know? XD