CHALLENGE: Ides of March

In honor of the Roman Empire and the death of its most famous and arguably best leader, Julius Caesar. This week's challenge is limited to 3 colors, red, yellow and black. Size and scope is up to you. Sample things include, Gladiators, warships, chariots, daily life, animals, scenes, weapons, architecture or anything else as long as it retains a Roman 'look'.

PS: It can be any shade of red, yellow and black even default MSPaint colors \o/

Let the almighty Wiki be your guide!

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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 Ides of March 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!

Oooooh, limited palette goodness.  Can't wait to get started.

Is transparency allowed oh challenge creator?

What exactly does "limited to 3 colors...", "...it can be any shade of red, yellow and black" mean?

Does that mean the palette is limited to 3 entries of which each individual entry can be any shade of those or does it mean that the palette is not limited in its' entries and that participants can use as many shades of red, yellow and black as they please?

(not saying that I'm going to participate, just curious)

I was gonna enter this still might if ive got enough time after school camp :/
this is where i got up to

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5462/romanswordul5.png

Lol there is written: Any shade of red, yellow and black.. and white is a shade of black isnt it?? However im not planning to use white (or gray) anyway :p



I think im this time isometricly right :)


Gladly im allmost finished with those lines.. but I think the colors will be alot harder





Edited by Lollige - 12 March 2007 at 9:32am

i think i may participate in a challenge for the first time... i just need my self an idear...

WIP, something whipped up, We'll see if Im going with it. Oh, is that too brownish BTW?


Edited by drZool - 12 March 2007 at 1:04pm

this is funny.... and the colors read fine to me.

parts (the menu) ripped from final fantasy tactics advance? it's a nice head, maybe you should design your own menu though.

mspaint doesnt have transparency

Some really creative looking solutions so far! Adam's works really well. I like that there is so much variety to this challenge.

then no, you cannot.  you can get someone to do it for you, but it is red, black, yellow, and transparency only

There are free programs out there that allow you to add a transparency to a gif. Pardon the plug, but I typically use 'Giffy.' It can convert .BMP to .GIF, .GIF to .BMP, as well as add a transparency to a .GIF file.

http://www.hultshome.dk/b_b_makers/vej_blink_not_psp_en.htm

there's also GifAnimator on that site too. It's a simple program that makes animations...but if you're just looking to add a transparent background to an image, just download giffy.

Can I get some tips on how to improve it?

Thanks!

AWESOME!! I thought they where different color shemes, but they are just 3 colors!! here is the transparant version!

Thank you so much

I have never worked with a 3 color palette before but I assured myself that the colors would not be arguable. Feedback please?



A more appropriate shade of red..



Edited by Genesis - 13 March 2007 at 1:29pm

simple to begin with, may enlarge and detail and rework quite a bit though.  right now i really havent used all 3 colors effectively

change the colors.  right now they are painful to the eyes

flyguy:  www.iaza.com for all your transparency needs.

Hairyu, you have until Sunday to do this, i would suggest working on it a little more