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Quote pixer Replybullet Topic: The breach of imagination: the kraken
    Posted: 07 December 2010 at 1:56am
that picture I'm doing is part of a bigger fresco.
It will represent a kraken who taking off a
lighthouse, and at the clouds, a dead head where will be monsters come out of his mouth ^^'

here is the monster, the first of a large series:



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Quote ChrisButton Replybullet Posted: 07 December 2010 at 5:06am
Stunning visuals, no complaints thus far.
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Quote b-g Replybullet Posted: 07 December 2010 at 5:53am
Nice water efefct! I'm trying to learn that. :p
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 07 December 2010 at 6:32am
thanks =)
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Quote cure Replybullet Posted: 07 December 2010 at 10:08am
lookin' great, rocks seem overdithered though. and maybe those greys can be a bit less... grey

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Quote bannanawalrus Replybullet Posted: 07 December 2010 at 10:12am
looking excellent. the thing in the water looks abit like bricks though. i think it could be less gray. i like the colours of the dead head though
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 07 December 2010 at 10:39am
lol, yes, I'll change the tentacle's colors and dithering's rock ;)

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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 23 February 2011 at 5:47am
heyyyy pixeljoint !
sorry for the double post and the rewinding but it's for a fair cause HINHINHIN !
I continued the kraken after a big break few weeks ago, I've changed most of the picture and at all I came to this:



I removed half of the death's head and the tentacle on the left by put here the mugiwara's boat (one piece), also I drew the kraken who taking the luffy's punch (elephant gun !). At the vortex in the clouds there will be one piece's characters and other characters who'll emerge (the beyond where all of the human imagination is present)...
don't know if you understood with my bad english xD

so that's it...


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Quote Delicious Replybullet Posted: 23 February 2011 at 8:50am
I usually dislike pieces that have too much going on in them, however I'm loving this so far.
 
Not much else to say at the moment, but keep up the good work!
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 23 February 2011 at 9:08am
thx ^^
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Quote Gecimen Replybullet Posted: 24 February 2011 at 6:14am
Maybe you could free the pirate ship from the lines. It's not that it's bad, it just doesn't fit this piece.
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Quote yaomon17 Replybullet Posted: 24 February 2011 at 6:20pm
lol hes/shes not done with it yet
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Quote wenruto Replybullet Posted: 24 February 2011 at 8:36pm
Wow this is getting better by day loll
one problem i can see is that the place where the rocks are and the ground look like they connect with the boat it need a lil bit more depth
liking that zoro attack......and everything else so far
cant wait to see who/what else u add or do in this pic
Great work so far
Earn free stuff by searching like Google
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 25 February 2011 at 4:47am
thx a lot :) but how can i add depth ?
because there grass at top and at the bottom of the cliff: i tried to grow up grasses on the edges of the cliff but it seems that it don't change anything x)
maybe i could add a little cliff here ?
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Quote dscholz Replybullet Posted: 25 February 2011 at 5:15pm
I didn't even notice the cool water effect until a user pointed it out. Love the skull! All in all awesome job! Can't wait to see the finished product.

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Quote eNerGi Replybullet Posted: 27 February 2011 at 10:37am
That is so cool! I've been wondering how's that even possible :O
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Quote Elk Replybullet Posted: 27 February 2011 at 1:45pm
mad pixelskills

very wesome but the lighthouse makes no sense... xD
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 07 March 2011 at 4:05pm
i've finished the boat !


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Quote Alexandre Belmonte Replybullet Posted: 14 March 2011 at 9:57pm
Wow! Love it! Pretty nice composition!
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Quote SatTheArtist Replybullet Posted: 15 March 2011 at 1:28am
I've been following this piece for quite a while, and I must say, this is excellent!

I'm a fan of everything thus far but Idk what that ninja thing is in the background. Fantastic shading, keep going ! :D
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 20 March 2011 at 1:48pm
thx ^^
the ninja is zorro of one piece, he's cutting a tentacle as you see x)
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Quote eagle28 Replybullet Posted: 20 March 2011 at 3:59pm
This is awesome, especially being a fan of one pice (even if i hate it a little because of all the repetition and dragonball-style narration).
Its also so detailed, the boat is perfect :)
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Quote greenmango99 Replybullet Posted: 21 March 2011 at 1:34pm
Beautiful! I did like it a bit more before you took off the skull though :(
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 21 March 2011 at 3:00pm
yes but it wouldn't fit in the context 
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Quote Gecimen Replybullet Posted: 22 March 2011 at 3:59am
I agree with greenmango, yet waiting for what will come instead.
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Quote Ambient Replybullet Posted: 22 March 2011 at 5:55pm
The boat is wonderful, but the contrast really seems distracting. Crazy good on everything else, glad my random topic viewing ended up here.
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 27 March 2011 at 4:53am
thx ^^
I'm correcting perspective problems with the cliff and finalize the sea's right side:



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Quote Elk Replybullet Posted: 27 March 2011 at 11:42pm
the top right doesnt really make sense
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 28 March 2011 at 8:09am
you'll understand later ;)
it's a part of the breach


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Quote Elk Replybullet Posted: 28 March 2011 at 2:49pm
im talking about water comming from the sky and a lighthouse lasering the sky...

thats got nothing to do with one piece o.O
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Quote cure Replybullet Posted: 28 March 2011 at 3:28pm
duh, it's an extra-dimensional portal ripping into the one piece universe
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Quote Reo Replybullet Posted: 29 March 2011 at 1:25am
Well either that or it's supposed to be skypiea,and the Ligthing is due to Enel, but that doesn't make much since since there's no sea in skypiea. Just speculating :P

This is looking rather good though, good technique.

I dug the skullthingy more than the cosmic-waterfall though, it reminded me of an Iron Maiden cover.
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Quote Elk Replybullet Posted: 29 March 2011 at 9:08pm
Yeah, very good spriter work :)
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 23 October 2012 at 2:35pm
lol, it's been a while ! x)
i often continue this creation, i improved it to that:



i'll make the WIP gif soon ;)


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Quote Friend Replybullet Posted: 23 October 2012 at 3:41pm
the green deck of the pirate ship looks really weird because it blends into the green hill.  And I miss the skull in the top right!  Btw, mindblowlingly good piece.  I hope you continue and eventually upload the finished version
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 23 October 2012 at 4:19pm
thanks a lot =)
there is no more skull, i replaced it with a vortex (between the imagination dimension). Unfortunately, in one piece, the thousand sunny's dec has a grass floor :/

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Quote RileyFiery Replybullet Posted: 24 October 2012 at 5:52am
Poor, poor Surume. He's merely misunderstood. I'm loving all of the references. It sure has changed a lot since the original post. 
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Quote CookieCrumbles Replybullet Posted: 25 October 2012 at 8:30am
Wow looks good! ;) Loving the Rayman and the Rabbids!
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Quote skallian Replybullet Posted: 26 October 2012 at 4:19am
WoooooWWW I really love it!! A lot of references and very imaginative! I want to see more! 
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Quote monotov Replybullet Posted: 26 October 2012 at 10:38am
Mother of god! How big is this picture
great work man!
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Quote cure Replybullet Posted: 26 October 2012 at 10:49am
Lets remember to sprinkle some critique in these responses, one-liners are fine in the gallery but the WIP section is for constructive criticism.

These is really massive, and very well-pixelled, definitely impressive in that respect. However it doesn't feel at all like a cohesive image. I definitely see what you're going for, throwing Ina little bit of everything for a where's-Waldo sort of effect, but it's evident there wasn't a lot of planning put in to the overall composition or palette. The result is a lot of things that are interesting in isolation but an overall image that is pretty confusing.

I still say finish it up of course, I'd just do more planning for composition/colors/narrative in the future.
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 26 October 2012 at 1:07pm
Thanks a lot for your remark cure and all the others too :3
The fact is there is a kind of anarchy due to the liberation of imagination, so they can't be any logic or cohesion in this piece. Also, I'm not accustomed to make a palette at the beggining, i prefer pick them on the spectrum progressively :p At the end, maybe i'll try to decrease the number of colors, but not to much xd
if you want to see a brief plan, look at this:



that would be larger maybe, but at the center, we can clearly see the center of the breach where the imagination/creativity is represented by a brain, but maybe i could make something else ?
elsewhere around of it, few creations out: i put categories of what it might be there, but this is not yet on.

(sorry if i made mistakes in my english xd)


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Quote skeddles Replybullet Posted: 26 October 2012 at 5:17pm
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Thanks a lot for your remark cure and all the others too :3
The fact is there is a kind of anarchy due to the liberation of imagination, so they can't be any logic or cohesion in this piece. Also, I'm not accustomed to make a palette at the beggining, i prefer pick them on the spectrum progressively :p At the end, maybe i'll try to decrease the number of colors, but not to much xd
if you want to see a brief plan, look at this:



that would be larger maybe, but at the center, we can clearly see the center of the breach where the imagination/creativity is represented by a brain, but maybe i could make something else ?
elsewhere around of it, few creations out: i put categories of what it might be there, but this is not yet on.

(sorry if i made mistakes in my english xd)

That's the best thing I've ever seen in my life.

I really like how this is going. The kraken texturing is my favorite part. Grass looks great too.

I  think you should tone down the dithering in some places. And some things look a bit flatter/softer than they should, such as the dragon scales and the clouds. Colors could use a bit more contrast too. Make them nice and bright, make them pop. Don't worry about trying to hide pixels, it's pixel art, they're meant to show =]



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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 27 October 2012 at 4:28am
okay !  i'll take care on it ;) thx a lot
most of the clouds were made when i was not to much comfortable with AA but now you tell it, i know i can improve them ^^
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Quote Friend Replybullet Posted: 27 October 2012 at 11:18am
I disagree with Cure's comment and think your composition does achieve its desired result, which I think is simply to be a smorgasbord for the eyes.  I think the elements mix in a splendid cohesion though it is chaotic because each element does seem to possess compositional power.  Everything fits well together like a topsy turvy puzzle. The image is fun and displays unrestrained imagination with enough going on for an actually sound compositional effect. 

If one looks past the actual objects and tries to just see the image geometrically, it works quite well in my opinion. 

And the pixel work is top notch
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Quote skeddles Replybullet Posted: 27 October 2012 at 7:10pm
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okay !  i'll take care on it ;) thx a lot
most of the clouds were made when i was not to much comfortable with AA but now you tell it, i know i can improve them ^^


In most beginning pixel art tutorials, the first thing they teach you, is AA and dithering. They really shouldn't. They are concepts you should learn after mastering cell shading, shapes and texturing.

Most pixel art tutorial are written by people who aren't very good at pixel art...


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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 28 October 2012 at 4:52am
sorry, i never took tutorials xD
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Quote skallian Replybullet Posted: 28 October 2012 at 5:20am
In most beginning pixel art tutorials, the first thing they teach you, is AA and dithering. They really shouldn't. They are concepts you should learn after mastering cell shading, shapes and texturing.

It would be cool if there were colour palettes and everything you've mentioned in video tutorials on youtube for people that learn visually. Instead there are a lot of people that only show how they make a simple pixel drawing : /

By the way, the only thing that i don't like too much in this piece are the choice of colours, everything else it's great.
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Quote pixer Replybullet Posted: 28 October 2012 at 5:30am
well, i don't know what colors i could take
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