CHALLENGE: April Fools Gallery V

Welcome to the 5th April Fool's Gallery challenge.

For this challenge we want you to take a look at the gallery of another PJ member and try to emulate their style. Can you fool us into thinking your work is theirs? Well...can you?

No list of restrictions this week; pick what restrictions are appropriate for your chosen artist. Just make sure your entry is entirely your own work and that you name the pixel artist you are attempting to emulate in your description.

For inspiration, have a look at the entries for the previous four April Fool's Gallery challenges [1] [2] [3] [4]

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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 April Fools Gallery V 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!

yeah, :P

Cool, nice start. but you have to iimitaded his style complete. i hope yiou finish. maybe somebody imitates my style, haha :D

haha, nice start. maybe, if i find time, i got to fool your style :P

Edited by bitswitcher - 29 March 2010 at 10:49am

nice entries, but ''vivien'' you should add more light at your picture…
The edit you post me, is nice :)

Edited by bitswitcher - 29 March 2010 at 12:50pm

Tarenken: looks good. The main problem is shoulder anatomy: try to sketch yourself in the mirror with this pose.
Hair might need a little attention too, that yellow 'horn' looks like... a horn.

okay. add a second color, than its perfect. i think!

wtf, i dont know o_O

I've done some looking around and it seems as though there are several other users also sharing your IP address too. Please do explain.

And I can think of many reasons people would want to create multiple accounts. Most of these other accounts don't have any artwork in them anyway, just lots of favourites and comments.

I can't see these "multiple accounts" If that is what they are... Being to much of a problem, unless they seem to always favorite and rate 5 stars bit's artwork.

About the contest, I might try to do Turtlechan;s style, if I have time.

Alright "Bitswitcher",

I'm going to posit that you are ex-member Lahra. You act like him, make the same grammatical errors as him, have an inability to follow rules like him. Also, you're both from Berlin and has a similar IP addresses and use the same ISP. He was banned for submitting RIPs and colour reductions and had a very similar 'style' to you. Several people have already suggested that you are Lahra. Including someone who seems to know you (is that an admission!?):

Dignitas (Level 1 Rookie) at 1/17/2010 12:54:58 PM
Nah, you're right. You never did. Like back when you posted that Nicolas Sarcozy picture all the other guys we're entirely wrong and didn't know of your ability to draw what you see on a photo with the exact proportions. Right, forgot about that. Sorry.

bitswitcher (Level 5 Assistant Manager) at 1/17/2010 1:23:26 PM
well, that was. its not reality anymore

Dignitas (Level 1 Rookie) at 1/19/2010 9:20:48 AM
[...] I know you for two years now and I can tell what picture is yours and which isn't.

You also seem to share an IP address with many other accounts as I mentioned earlier. Here's some (I wouldn't be surprised if there are many more):

Lorenz - http://pixeljoint.com/p/26201.htm
PAkistan0 - http://pixeljoint.com/p/26415.htm
Rythm - http://pixeljoint.com/p/26695.htm
Umviuu..0 - http://pixeljoint.com/p/26416.htm
Chinagirl123 - http://pixeljoint.com/p/26896.htm
Asphyxia - http://pixeljoint.com/p/26204.htm
Strakosvski - http://pixeljoint.com/p/27075.htm
Junkiee - http://pixeljoint.com/p/26673.htm

Notice how they all conveniently have piles of your work as favourites. Some seem to exclusively comment on your pieces, all praise - never any criticism; like this. Also, these accounts seem to have slightly fewer ratings than you have pieces. Looks like these members just exist to give ratings, favs and comments. Most don't even have any pieces in the gallery. In fact the only one that does have something in the gallery (which has now been sent back), is Lorenz, who submitted a colour reduction. You chimed in pretty damn quickly. An attempt to score a RIP spotter award???

You ask:

But why favorites, if rating are count [sic]?

Then what's stopping you from using those accounts to give out ratings. This, I believe is what you are doing.


Now, let's look at your gallery. One thing I've noticed is that you always seem to skirt around showing references for your images and instead play coy by posting irrelevant images or pretending that you used no reference at all. does this look familiar? Of course it does:



Also, several members have complained about the strange and inconsistent nature of your work. Especially your ability to create almost perfect lineart, but with an inconsistent quality of shading. And what about just simply taking Jeremy's shading on the turtle?

One member comments that you posted this image one day after this one. "Such a vast improvement in one single day? Neither bitswitcher nor anybody else could successfully do that."

Not to mention of course, all of your suspicious 'abstract'/cropped avatars. You know the ones I'm talking about, the colour reduced ones. And of course the other ones which you mysteriously deleted.



Conclusion: from what I can see you are always looking for some scheme, whether that be taking someone's lineart without credit, submitting rips, colour reduction or creating multiple accounts for ballot stuffing and other disingenuous reasons etc...

How about practicing and working on areas you feel you might be weak in instead of ripping and resorting to disingenuous practices. Read through critique, study other people's work and keep practicing; don't just immediately try to find the sneaky way around. That's my advice to you.

But unfortunately you'll have to find some other site for that because I am banning you, again. You and your fake accounts too.


Sorry everyone for derailing this thread; this is not an April fool's joke. If anyone wants to discuss this further you can use the contact form or PM me personally.

Is it even worth mentioning that the entry she was planning to submit was a rip?

Edited by AngelOTG - 30 March 2010 at 11:58pm

Nooow?!..... how cheap is that?
great investigation skamo!    

Arrrgl, I was working on a Bitswitcher style picture…


WiPStopped ?

I don't see why pple wouldn't vote for Bitsw-inspired pieces. It's the submission that's judged, not the inspiration.
If the vote was now, I'd definitely vote for one of the Bsw pieces.

@ AOTG: thanks for the link, this is one step towards the image search engine of my dreams.

I have to agree with the 'weird' feel, but I wouldn't say 'wrong'.
Take it like this: these entries are what Bsw could have done in this interesting style he/she found, had he/she been honest about it.


Edited by Manupix - 31 March 2010 at 8:10am

This challenge is great, but I find the biggest problem will be the judging part.

Say, some artist tend to call more attention than others (ie: Fool), so if someone could mimic Fool's style 60% might have a better chance to win than if you fully mimic a lower tier artist.

And a question, it says clearly you "want [us] to look at the gallery of another PJ member and try to emulate their style", but are we really restricted to PJ members?

Can we mimic some famous pixel artist like Henk Neiborg, who is not a PJ member?

How about attempting a CG artist into a pixel style fake, like Hyun Tae Kim, or Vovo Tzeng?
probably too hard haha

Yes! that way it makes judging easier since its all here. We find the cream always rises to the top, as it should be. Just emulating someone well known means nothing.


How do you know he isn't a member? he might well be one of those countless silent types. I happen to think he is :p Anyhoo, for this week its best not to choose someone not in the gallery that can be linked to. There's plenty to choose from.


You are always welcome to send in challenge ideas to your fave Mod.


Edited by jalonso - 31 March 2010 at 10:13am

LOL, no problem. They even have a Firefox add-on that makes it so you just have to right-click an image and click "Search on TinEye" to check for rips.

It's a pretty useful feature round' these parts. ^^;

I don't see the feature.. 

The one AOTG just said, and okay. Thanks. 

It's been a while since I took part in a contest, and this one looks fairly easy.

WIP:


Mimicking Leroy's style:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/48888.htm

About the bitswitcher thing, someone should really make an example of them to all the would-be rippers.


Edited by Onichi - 31 March 2010 at 11:18pm

shame I can't enter this, gonna be over at my boyfriends this easter

Yeah...turtlechan should imitate Ahruon...wait...hes already doing that!

I hate dithering... you wont get my vote