i'd like to reserve tile # 67.

some progress.
I'm still finding it difficult to link to the tile on the left.

Edit: some more progress




Edited by Stratto - 24 January 2011 at 8:13pm

yeah, don't worry about sand or water they're still wip.
and I'm going for this lava to sand kind of thing.

@Pixel-Ninja, 96 reserved for you :)

Please see all the rules and stuff on page 1 if you haven't already. Especially:
• Pink outer tiles MUST use transparency to 'break the grid'.
• You must post a WIP tile within 30 days of reserving a tile. Thereafter, every WIP post buys you a 30 day extension before you lose your tile reservation. (Added Jan 2011- Gecimen Rule )

@Pixel-Ninja, its a nice start but you have problems as it relates to this collab.
Your tile is not isometric which it must be. Outer (border) tiles like yours need transparent edges (see main image page 1 post 1).

Almost finished, just need to improve the water.

Why is that?

 I mean there's two turtles, but they don't look very good. (

 So I guess drawing a better turtle is out of question? Anyway don't mind me.

Gecimen I disagree about Pandora's turtle )
Ok a bit of the sloppy edit of how I would do the turtle. A bit flat but I didn't have much time to play around with it.

And if stick more to your idea and go with more flat turtle, I would pick something like snapping turtle.
Even more sketchy edit )



Edited by LuckyF - 31 January 2011 at 10:13am

Just make a better turtle than the first one and you'll be fine )

That's a pretty good idea )

How about a nest with some eggs in there and turtles around?  Leaving tracks in the sand.  Maybe on their way to water.  Try google to get some inspiration.

You're still forgetting to break the border. For a better layout you should first decide what your landscape will look like.

Note that you don't have to make it rounded. But you can go outside of your lower border as much as you want (without entering anyone else's tile).

EDIT: I have some important notes for you.

1- You have semi-transparent pixels at the borders of your tiles. Please check if you're using "Feather" or "Anti-alias" in Photoshop's cutting tools.

2-You're using pure black. Please use the fake-black in the palette.

3-Check this edit below. It's only one of the options to show you how you can break the border. No pixels get into another person's tile but I used the empty space out of my tile. It blends with the existing tile on your left, and leaves something to blend with for the empty tile on your right. But the real important thing is it secures the integrity of the whole project by not leaving anything that seems unnaturally cut-off.


4-If you want to do a good job dont leave huge empty areas. In the above edit I tried to texturise the sand. You can do other stuff such as plants, cracks, mud, or scene elements (humans, animals etc.)


Edited by Gecimen - 01 February 2011 at 5:11am

You are doing good but you have to draw in isometric perspective.
You are new to PJ and to pixelart so please know we are trying to help. We are here to help in any possible way but you should have the basics of isometric projection first, k.

Please see the resource section in the forum or the link section of the main gallery if you need to understand the basics of isometric projection.

Overall you are being somewhat sloppy. Way too much pixels in one waters edge and not enough in the other. Half the rocks have clean lines and half have dirty lines.

There is no silly question in PixelJoint if its about Pixelart.

@Samurai; to help you understand what's wrong with the perspective;

The iso perspective is something like this. Your turtles are from the top.

Whereas this may or may not be the only mistake of the perspective, this is the most significant (as far as I see) and if you corrected all the turtles the whole scene would look more iso.

I agree with Jalonso about the rocks and the line where the sea touches the beach. You can spend a little more time on these parts.

Important note: you still have semi-transparent pixels on the edges.

Important note 2: As Jalonso said, this whole critisism is for the better. The whole pixel-joint community are based on this participation process. It'll go up to the point you're satisfied with your work.

EDIT: dpixel was faster than me :)

@dpixel; why don't you grab another tile dude?


Edited by Gecimen - 01 February 2011 at 7:10pm

Thanks for all the help guys. I'll take another crack at it tomorrow. I'll do you proud.

Edited by Pixel-Samurai - 02 February 2011 at 11:52pm

Only on top of the coloumn-ish thing (with no eye).
Other than that this is great.

Is 37 taken?

Um, no, I don't quite get why my tile is not visible on the main pic though. Why? And, how did you notice?

EDIT: I update my pic in order to sinc it with the ones next to it:

Edited by antymattar - 05 February 2011 at 8:04am

Why don't you pick another tile that doesn't touch 30?

Also if you want critics with tile #30, why don't you make a brick texture on the pyramids?


Edited by Gecimen - 05 February 2011 at 5:29pm

Sometimes its not what you do with the item challenging you but working on its opposite. For example, if you had a female Moi statue in the water being all sexy it would not just give the 2 guys a purpose but the viewer would not focus on the water. Moi mermaid too... any story would work, just think about it.


Edited by jalonso - 05 February 2011 at 5:16pm

okay, I took everything you guys said into consideration
so I hope this is an improvement

@Stratto, I simply love your dark/light blue use on the left corner. Reminds of a very natural reflection.

I have ideas for either 91 or 37, but I'd prefer 37.