WIP for an idea for #23


You guys think it'll work ?

If nobody recognizes the movie then i have already failed

40 more ideas and I'm gonna give up this frikkin' tile o.O

all early stage WIPs

I always start with a concept idea in all my pixels. For this tile I had nothing at all and only picked it because its the hardest and most challenging tile that's free and I felt it might be difficult for others to work with it (I was right).
You have dark dramatic lighting from the gear door and warm organic from the dragon area with a great deal of height difference. I was hoping to tie those two areas while making a smooth transition to the upper free corner that could be taken in other directions in height.

* maybe I'll try a mini-golf idea next _._


Edited by jalonso - 23 April 2011 at 4:45pm

mini golf would be awesome...maybe with hidden Easter eggs and a few bunnies.

@Jalonso, yes it's a very hard tile and it's dropped twice already. So I'm afraid if you drop it as well, it'll stay empty for a long while. Also I don't see a problem about the lighting in the WIPs you did.

@dpixel; up for making 1 more tile if you've got the time? #26 is crying there without an owner (it has been dropped 3 times).

@Oke; Sure!

Can I try #91?

Here is a (very) rough sketch:

Sure.  Put me down for #26

@IvanM; It's a very cool idea and layout. But I think your plane doesn't look ISO. here's a biplane sketch I did a few months earlier. I'm putting this for a reference of the perspective of the plane. You can do whatever you want though. Also note that mine is a bit too big, since it's intended to be realisticly scaled to human size but I think it's too big to fit in a tile composition.


@JuninFC, going better each time. But that brown line that shows the eye-lid, is wrong. you should put darker pixels in the middle and go lighter to the sides. You did the opposite so that line looks cut. Also the iris seems very dirty this time. A fix for both issues:


@dpixel;

@pandora's secret; is it me or did you forget to put the update?

@Oke; you don't have to stay loyal to the full-gray border with the upper-left tile (KevinK), because that tile is not finished yet.


Edited by Gecimen - 24 April 2011 at 6:38pm

It's going awesome. It's one of those hard tiles really.
I've got one thing to say, I think you should smooth out the black outlines, even replace them with light colors according to lighting direction. I can make an edit in 5 minutes if I couldn't make myself clear.

@Gecimen , thanks, always thought it was dark pixels on the sides and bright pixels in the middle , and took the part that was''dirty''

Thanks Gecimen.
Actually I'm not totally sure about what really mean "isometric" in pixel art, so I just mixed up our two pieces:


Now I have to find a trick to break theses obvious parallels lines:

Personally i don't think the plane HAS to be in iso perspective. Planes don't fly perfectly level in a cardinal direction for most of the time. Still, i like the new one so i'm not complaining.

@JuniFC, things that will make the tile better:
1- Use whatever is on the right tile already and work into your tile.
2- Use whatever is on the left tile already and work into your tile.
3- Fixing the little box which you have over pixelled.
4- The overall eye area is over pixelled in areas and underpixelled in other areas. Use the palette colors to your advantage.
5- Notice that once I brought the neighbor tile edges into the tile I mostly faded everything to 'black'. This is so the eye stands out better and gives your tile a better overall look. I don't think the background you have is bad its just that its a visual vertical curtain that looks flat. Notice the left tile is at an angle that casts a strong shadow into your tile so fading to black makes a bit more sense and actually opens the area behind the eye.

I did not do a real good job so you can examine my edit and not copy. My edit should just show you a concept, lighting, coloring direction.

When something you have pixelled doesn't look right its probably the color you used so try different combinations.



Edited by jalonso - 26 April 2011 at 7:50am

Yes, those are the towers of the Russian style building when you get a high score.

Thanks.  Guess I never got a high score before.  

On the contrary, it's lovely and this was my favorite theme among your load of WIPs. Yet the new colorfulness of the UFO renders it even more spectacular.

I think I'll give a shot at #22. Unless you have a spesific tile in your mind that will be unwanted by other participants. You know, I love doing unwanted tiles :)

One more thing Jal, I think tile #60 will be a tough one. Now that Pandora's secret has almost finished #67, someone will have to look into it. It's my neighbour so I can't touch it, maybe you'd like to give it a shot? Or maybe you have someone in your mind?

I find 26 a bit rough.  I mean rough in sense of not doing the expected and a lot of style matching.  I'm also confused about the shadows on the lava cast by the technodrome.  Wouldn't the lava be it's own light source?

And jal, that's good to know about the towers being in shadow.

Also, what's going on in (I think #18)?  Looks like there's a big gap in the lava flow.  Or is it supposed to be something else?  It's hard to read all this lava.  

Thanks for the illustration.

I meant this section though:

It looks like there's a break in the flow.

EDIT:  Oh I have ideas...lol 


Edited by dpixel - 27 April 2011 at 2:07pm

Don't feel bad.  I like the quicky draw.     I was just trying analyze the lava flow and shadows.  Maybe a mis-communication on my part.  

@IvanM, looks wonderful. My only c+c is that overall that whole general area is devoid of greens which might make your tile stand out. Both the rocks or the plane could be greener. The plane is in the greens now but is reading blue...just a thought.

Almost done, I guess...
Playing with the propeller, here is the best result I v got so far. I will try to improve it asap.

=> In situ

edit: removed the blurred freak from imageshack
edit2: smaller fix ever

Edited by IvanM - 28 April 2011 at 1:43pm

@IvanM; great stuff man. Onto the next tile perhaps? :)

@wuhu; Everything's great in general. Only thing is, you should AA the black colors in the lower left with a few dark brown pixels. Also maybe you could try to blend that green on the lower part of the cliff by dithering? Nothing big really, I can add an edit if you wish...

Edit:



Edited by Gecimen - 28 April 2011 at 6:46pm

Still a ways to go, but here's a wip of #26

Made some edits to blend better with Stratto's tile. Still not sure about JuninFC's