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   CHALLENGE: Breaking the Law
Challenge winner, Finlal,   asks you to depict a crime whilst sticking to the strict limitations   listed below. However, there's one catch: You are able to break exactly one   of the restrictions (horizontal canvas size and vertical canvas size  are  two separate restrictions).

Canvas Size - Exactly 101 (horizontal) x 55 (vertical).

Colours - Exactly 4 (remember, transparency counts as a colour).

Transparency - Required.

Animation - No.
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.
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.

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 :)
CHALLENGE VOTING
Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!
CHALLENGE AWARDS
The Breaking the Law pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

I'm a GameBoy by HZoltan
Gunpower, Treason and Plot by moogleymog
The worst crime evr by redstone_pii

Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! 

4 colour robbery by MVegum
public blackness by tomic
Stop right there, criminal skoom! by Morbidus
anarchy by epax
alley way by shadowcopalypse
Speeding in 4 colors by Master484
Bloody Murder by had0c
Just Hangin' Out by awestsecurity
The Murder by Strazt
the shoot and run by iownfish
A Crime of Color by TheTalentedHero
Hermosura Planet by Evidence
Horus Heresy by Morbidus
Jewel Thief by buprettyinpink
Breaking the law by darksoulcreator
Too Much Health by NeithR

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administrator Admiral Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Topic: CHALLENGE 6/15/2015: Breaking the Law Posted: 15 June 2015 at 12:00am
	CHALLENGE: Breaking the Law Challenge winner, Finlal, asks you to depict a crime whilst sticking to the strict limitations listed below. However, there's one catch: You are able to break exactly one of the restrictions (horizontal canvas size and vertical canvas size are two separate restrictions). Canvas Size - Exactly 101 (horizontal) x 55 (vertical). Colours - Exactly 4 (remember, transparency counts as a colour). Transparency - Required. Animation - No. 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. 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. 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 :) CHALLENGE VOTING Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge! CHALLENGE AWARDS The Breaking the Law pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces: I'm a GameBoy by HZoltan Gunpower, Treason and Plot by moogleymog The worst crime evr by redstone_pii Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! 4 colour robbery by MVegum public blackness by tomic Stop right there, criminal skoom! by Morbidus anarchy by epax alley way by shadowcopalypse Speeding in 4 colors by Master484 Bloody Murder by had0c Just Hangin' Out by awestsecurity The Murder by Strazt the shoot and run by iownfish A Crime of Color by TheTalentedHero Hermosura Planet by Evidence Horus Heresy by Morbidus Jewel Thief by buprettyinpink Breaking the law by darksoulcreator Too Much Health by NeithR
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Asmodeusss Midshipman Joined: 06 August 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 43	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 1:13am
	Oh man. I had an idea. So it's an image of a professor drinking a potion and the asistant has a speech bubble saying "It goes against nature!" and then suddenly the image animates and he gains a speech bubble that says "no..." then changes to "I am beyond beyond the laws now" and gains color, the image changes to frames of him making a daring escape from the facility as guards show up to arrest him and in the end he jumps out of the canvas, out of the image itself... but that's too many rules broken. Plus I cant animate things with pixel art that well. :(
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MVegum Midshipman Joined: 08 June 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 19	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 7:39am
	so 3 colours plus transparancy? i felt like this challenge was too interesting to not do edit: do we HAVE to break one rule or can i just stick to them? Edited by MVegum - 15 June 2015 at 7:52am
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redstone_pii Seaman Joined: 18 June 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 10:49am
	In Quitman, Georgia, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road. I made 2 different pixels of chickens crossing a road. This will not have any transparency Any tips on the dithering, the chicken or your opinions plz :D
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 11:10am
	redstone, nice but very boring greys :/ MVegum, your call ;)
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skamocore Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3866	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 11:12am
	*Originally posted by MVegum* so 3 colours plus transparancy? i felt like this challenge was too interesting to not do edit: do we HAVE to break one rule or can i just stick to them? You are able to break one rule, but you don't have to.
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redstone_pii Seaman Joined: 18 June 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 11:20am
	i added a little more colourful palette :D tips on the chicken please :D
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 11:23am
	The chicken is great. Its the rest that needs work. How you managed to pick even uglier colors than the greys you had is a real skill :p Just pixel and worry about colors later.
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Mr.Fahrenheit Commander Joined: 01 April 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 238	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 11:48am
	I dont think having transparency is a rule, it was just clarifying that transparency is a color, right?
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skamocore Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3866	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 12:40pm
	*Originally posted by Mr.Fahrenheit* I dont think having transparency is a rule, it was just clarifying that transparency is a color, right? Transparency is required (unless you're breaking that rule). Transparency is mentioned under 'colours' because people often forget that transparency is considered a colour.
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Mr.Fahrenheit Commander Joined: 01 April 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 238	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 1:09pm
	whups, completely missed that line, i figured it was always mentioned in the colors line... #embarrasing
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Adarias Rear Admiral Joined: 18 July 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 45	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 2:03pm
	*Originally posted by jalonso* How you managed to pick even uglier colors than the greys you had is a real skill :p I think he's going for "gameboy brownish-green"
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Evidence Midshipman Joined: 01 September 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 33	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 7:38pm
	Nice, ill be missing the no animation.
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clefairykid Midshipman Joined: 24 May 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 40	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 11:04pm
	Have an idea... but whether it will translate very well or not, is another matter :P
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Eggy Commander Joined: 01 October 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 354	Posted: 15 June 2015 at 11:38pm
	Wanted to post this earlier, but for some reason I had problems accessing the site and forums... So far, so good. I like how it turned out. I'll probably have to add some stuff in so people will have a somewhat easier time acknowledging the exact canvas size. I won't be surprised if you guess what am I planning to do though, since I bet it's obvious. After all, how much crime can you do with a wall?
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clefairykid Midshipman Joined: 24 May 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 40	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 12:02am
	idea: crimeception committing the crime of breaking this rule of committing the crime of breaking this rule... Feeling like I may be inadvertently committing more than one crime by making something so hideous D: It's really bad and I know what I'm doing wrong (light source, too many colours, too much dithering, yucky palette, missed a few transparency spots and so on but knowing this doesn't make the versions without those things not look twice as hideous too though) I'll delete this one entirely and try again for something smooth and minimal but I think I'll ultimately have to let this one go, I'm just not smart enough/experienced enough to make it with these restrictions XD *apologies for eye burn Edited by clefairykid - 16 June 2015 at 12:05am
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Morbidus Midshipman Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 19	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 2:57am
	I can't believe my own eyes. A challenge where I can use as much colors as I want? Yeeeeah! Here's Horus, committing the crime of treachery against the Imperium, depicted in a stained-glass triptych. On the sides are heretek vs. a loyal techpriest and witch vs. witch-hunter. That thing has 40 colors, but that only means that I'm breaking the colors restriction all the harder.
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redstone_pii Seaman Joined: 18 June 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 8:06am
	I added some dithering :D it is very hard to pixel grass with a few colours Edited by redstone_pii - 16 June 2015 at 8:06am
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sakhart Midshipman Joined: 17 May 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 11	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 9:02am
	the transparent requirement is quite intresting, I have an idea but i don't know if it will work because transparent is actually a colour and there is too many themes that have to work together with this... (btw why so much off-white backrounds in those?) But if i do a picture depicting several crimes that tie together, is it against the assigment? clefairykid; i think that pic stilla had potential :)
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 10:53am
	*Originally posted by redstone_pii* I added some dithering :D it is very hard to pixel grass with a few colours Very nice. The colors are great and add to the story with its warmth :) You could do some minor pixelling on the grass to imply that its grass without over pixelling. You could also add some small blades of grass using the orange color on the purple mountain were the jaggies are to soften that up ;) Maybe because the sun is behind the chicken the ground shadow should come toward the viewer instead of top down as you have it and make it more dramatic and elongated. One last thing is that maybe you could clean the sun to one color so it stands out better. --- I hope you did not get offended that I found your colors real terrible and maybe sounded harsh :) Edited by jalonso - 16 June 2015 at 10:54am
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redstone_pii Seaman Joined: 18 June 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 11:04am
	Thanks for the great advice! lol i'm gonna make a bigger shadow so a picture of a chicken crossing a road will become dramatic :D:D:D::D
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 12:10pm
	Hey redstone_pil, before I forget. When you are all done and submit remember to write in the description how this scene is breaking the law in Russia because without that context most will just not get what the scene is all about. A chicken crossing the road means something entirely different in America, for example and in some countries a chicken doing anything is a miracle :)
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awestsecurity Midshipman Joined: 20 July 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 14	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 12:49pm
	I feel like I'm not taking advantage of breaking the height rule so I'm thinking about going underground. This is my first challenge and I am being challenged! Still lots of work to do and colors are not final, but I'm kinda into pink today. Edited by awestsecurity - 16 June 2015 at 12:52pm
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Iscalio Commander Joined: 29 March 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 224	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 1:55pm
	"edit: do we HAVE to break one rule or can i just stick to them?" 100 pixel horizontal would be breaking a rule. Edited by Iscalio - 16 June 2015 at 3:17pm
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sakhart Midshipman Joined: 17 May 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 11	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 2:30pm
	i do like where that picture is going
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clefairykid Midshipman Joined: 24 May 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 40	Posted: 16 June 2015 at 10:07pm
	redstone_pii for what it's worth I love those warm colours you have there now!
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shadowcopalypse Seaman Joined: 15 June 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8	Posted: 18 June 2015 at 1:41am
	This is what happened thus far. Also went with a graffiti theme. No intention to plagiarize Eggy What is transparency? Edited by shadowcopalypse - 18 June 2015 at 1:41am
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 18 June 2015 at 8:12am
	*Originally posted by shadowcopalypse* This is what happened thus far. Also went with a graffiti theme. No intention to plagiarize Eggy What is transparency? This does not qualify as pixelart the way you saved the file. Use gif or png output only.
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Evidence Midshipman Joined: 01 September 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 33	Posted: 18 June 2015 at 12:33pm
	got this Edited by Evidence - 18 June 2015 at 7:43pm
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shadowcopalypse Seaman Joined: 15 June 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8	Posted: 18 June 2015 at 1:25pm
	website was changing picture to jpg. that better?
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 18 June 2015 at 2:58pm
	*Originally posted by shadowcopalypse* website was changing picture to jpg. that better? Yes that is better to view the pixels. Clean it up, k. Its a bit dirty and scribbly. Just because its 4 colors don't mean it can't be polished ;) In case you need it, many here use imgur.com to host their pixels and it works really well.
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sakhart Midshipman Joined: 17 May 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 11	Posted: 18 June 2015 at 3:05pm
	So in Britain it is illegal to handle a salmon in suspicious circumstances, and i my mind went to places and what i am trying to do, is a man with a salmon behind a corner trying to ambush and rob a fellow citizen (that i just took out because it looked awfull) hmm, i seem to be in a deadlock with this one... any suggestions about how to do a brickwall while still conserving transparency? Any C&C really...
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awestsecurity Midshipman Joined: 20 July 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 14	Posted: 19 June 2015 at 9:22am
	@sakhart I'm having a hard time making out the person. I can sort of figure out the salmon, but are you only using 3 colors? Having a tone between the black and white might help clarify. As far as transparency goes you can imagine it will be the default grey of PixelJoint for most viewers and use it as that color. It is more reliable to use it to break the rectangle though. It wouldn't be cheating to round the corners a little, and that wouldn't interfere with your image much.
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awestsecurity Midshipman Joined: 20 July 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 14	Posted: 19 June 2015 at 9:25am
	Posting my (probably) last update, but I still feel like there's many details I should be working on. Is there anything glaring I should focus on?
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sakhart Midshipman Joined: 17 May 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 11	Posted: 19 June 2015 at 3:43pm
	yep, the bg should be transparent, i did experiment with chaging white with gray transparent, but it looked funny in my eye, but i do get the critisim about the colour, the bg was suppposed to be the transparent colour... Edited by sakhart - 19 June 2015 at 3:46pm
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sakhart Midshipman Joined: 17 May 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 11	Posted: 19 June 2015 at 3:48pm
	perhaps leave the underunderground out, it would be more defined in my opinion
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tomic Midshipman Joined: 21 July 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 93	Posted: 20 June 2015 at 5:07am
	public blackness, appears to be against the law in parts of the u.s., breakfast doodle wip
	pixel suit up!
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had0c Midshipman Joined: 03 September 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20	Posted: 21 June 2015 at 5:09am
	Murder with a knife. Color rule breaking.. Edited by had0c - 21 June 2015 at 7:33am
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