CHALLENGE: Impact!

Create an image showing some kind of physical impact occurring - A car crash, a meteor hitting Earth, atoms colliding in a particle accelerator, etc...

Canvas Size - Max 225 x 225.
Colours - Max 25.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

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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 Impact! 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!

Let me see if i understand..
Can it be something that its about to impact ? or has to be something wich has already impacted ?
Thanks!

Rough WIP from a reference photo

Someone is gonna impact on the floor



Its completly killing me off.
Hope i can finish it how i want too, also need to recylce colours i am already about the max. :D




Edited by Evidence - 16 September 2014 at 2:44pm

Alternatively, if you like the current pose, just stick a rock in front of one of the board's wheels. Not only is it technically correct, it spiritually is, too! 

Just wondering if i'm allowed to do this

I took the magic card "Fastbond" Link below

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=382934&type=card

And I traced it in MS paint, cut out all the colouring, resulting in..



And I was going to have him casting a massive spell into a fleet of ships, but before I do anything, I just want to know if that is ripping the art or not

@Siikikala: Very nice colors!

WIP
I'm thinking inferred impact. I may animate it but I think it might be more powerful if the impact is just 'suggested'

@Siikikala- This is looking like a winner! :) I miss the lighter tones in your previous WIP, it gave the image a more 'painted' feel.
But that's just a personal preference, so crack on and get it done!


Edited by felchqueen - 17 September 2014 at 11:53am

Wow!! The way the magenta is mixed with blue, this is amazing!

I'd disagree heavily about the old colors, they were just quick picks somewhere around the hue i wanted to have and i think it lacked contrast. And i felt the excess land mass was just a waste, so i made it fade in to the horizon faster rather than have the broad curve. the focus should be on the explosion, and this is why i made the background darker so the bright explosion would draw attention to itself.

I don't mean to sound ignorant and deny critique, i just wanted to say the reasoning behind the changes. Hope it doesn't have that kind of ring to it. I haven't really lookd into composition at all, so i appreciate the critique i get regarding that.

@Hamenopi, it wouldn't look as dynamic, but within the context of the challenge I think it would be great to do a Newton's cradle at the moment of impact, which I believe would appear indistinguishable from it being at rest.

@Siikikala: You killed the magic :(

May be a laser?



Edited by Temessis - 19 September 2014 at 5:20am

I agree but it's also harder to do "finish" such a piece.

Was it he color change or the cropping?

I think the color change is a little too depressing. That's just my personal feeling since I don't find bright background/devastating action to be too contradictory (like in Guardians of the Galaxy, which has some action scenes in bright daylight).

I also think the cropped scene is problematic because of the pixel detailing. In the bigger scene there's simple sky and simple ground and then busy action. So the eye goes to the action even though it's a big shot. I'm always drawn back into the explosion. In the cropped scene there's busy sky, busy ground, busy action, so the eye gets confused in a very tight shot. The contrast is also lessened between the sky and the smoke. In the big shot it's light blue sky, dark blue smoke. In the tight shot it's mid blue sky, dark blue smoke, making it a little muddy.

made a few changes still looks really weird!!

Nice work, but you see this is the last week's challenge.