Wow ... that's amazing. It's hardly just a draft jalonso ...

I really love this industrial atmosphere ! This remembers me back in the 90' when the bitmap brothers ruled ... they could create this kind of detailed backgrounds.

If you're looking for ideas to complete your 'draft' (as you call it ), you should put two or three streetlights ... as the air is obviously over saturated, there are no sunlights.

for one frame, one of your smoke trails goes from yellow to purple

Fantastic start jalonso, i almost choked on my food when i saw it. That's a good thing. For some reason. The details on the buildings and the colour choices are brilliant.

Okay so, crits...
Umm, you've got some highlights and shadow colours right next to each other in the lighter portion of the sky, which makes it lose the soft cloudy texture it should have. Not much else from me really, keep going's all i say.

@snader, good call on the smoke. I need to find some references. I'm not as good as I thought, with smoke. Anyone have a reference or tut for me?

@Lar, yes, the clouds will need lots of clean-up. The sky will be done using parralex so I have to study how to break it up before pixel pushing it. I did rework the area you mentioned with this update.
@Aleiav, as I mentioned these BGs all have a monochromatic scheme. I am not able to add colors that are not yellows. I already made a purple BG too.

added some lights to introduce the pinks I feel are needed to balance all the yellows?

EDIT: ensellitis gave me this link, thought I'd share with all :D




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Pittsburgh?

I didnt think pollution could be so beautiful

Doh. :P aaah okie doke. I originally felt like the pallate was too yellow, but the lights counter balance it well. :) Nice work!

i think the sky would look nicer in pink/lilac. I am also not fond of that
blue maybe more green hues, to give a rusty copper sorta feel?

The overal pixelling is nice, but it might look better with different
colours.

I came up with some smoke I think looks pretty good? Other tweaks here and there. I'm dividing the clouds into 4 layers so updates aren't to exciting at the moment.

@Shark, I'm bound to yellows now.

This is such a treat for the eyes. To me, the palette is perfect.

It's quite simple how you animated the smoke, yet it works pretty well.

Trying to look for crits really... perhaps the building on the right is a tad less detailed/contrasted than the one on the left? I don't think it really matters though.

And c'mon, you've gotta have 1 flickering light.... lol, it's the law.

ah art is great , i just think pallet should be a bit less saturated , since all the smoke should make things grey and such

the smoke is perfect btw

Ooh, i like that idea.

I hit a creative block on this piece over the smokestacks. I will proceed with all yellow smokestacks/clouds because like the other BGs for this game any level beyond the playing layer is monochromatic. Even if it means less happy viewers. I now suppose these are things I should have forseen when making the original blue one with the buildings. Lesson learned 

I have in this update unified all the yellows and added more lighting. I have also added, Shark's suggestion (thx) of adding green to the metal in the playing layer. I also tried rust and copper but it looked messy so I left the oxydized green by itself.

@Lar, with 16 layers, I am unable to add 4 more for the flickering light

The cloud animation still leaves a lot to be desired, HELP!

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@ BlackFang - the smoke will be programmed in the game itself. I make the animations for the PJ gallery because without them any comment would mention that I forgot the smoke or that it should be animated  (think Sab)

This is now complete for me and I have posted into the gallery.
THX ALL!