CHALLENGE: CGA Cyclops

You are challenged this week  to create an image using any of the CGA palettes listed below.

The image must include some kind of cyclops. You do not have to make it a 'typical' cyclops, it can be any creature with just one eye. However, it must be clear that the creature does just have one eye.

    NOTE: If you were intending to make an image of the X-Men character "Cyclops" your piece will NOT be accepted into the challenge as technically that character is not a cyclops.

 Canvas Size - Maximum 320 (width) x 200 (height).
Colours - Exactly 4. Select one of the following CGA palettes:



Transparency - No.
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 CGA Cyclops 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!



Edited by skamocore - 09 March 2009 at 1:17am

Probably going to try and do Leela Turanga :)

looks cool!!!

doodling around with palette 4..


lacks of a cyclops still, except for that alibi-sun ;D

awesome tomic

Hmm... I thought all CGA modes had black color?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

Edited by A.B. Lazer - 09 March 2009 at 10:58pm

All of the challenge options are valid CGA palettes. Each CGA palette  must consist of 3 colours + an extra background colour, which can be selected out the remaining colours from the 16 available. Black is very frequently used as the background colour, but it is not required.

None of the palettes include black for this very reason. I am interested to see what can be created without the option of using black.

@x-death, I would be interested to hear your thoughts on which valid palettes, that do not include black, would be "way better" for this challenge. Personally, I think that all four of the provided palettes are both challenging and interesting.

Progress:


Holy crap Tomic, that's looking awesome already!

@x-death, Here is an explanation of some of the choices that were made when selecting the four palettes:

I wanted to have a brighter colour for the first palette, leaving the cyan and white as midtone colours. This differs from the other palettes where the two brightest colours are very close together.

The other colours could've been possibilities. However, I find that the CGA brown to be fairly repulsive and the 3rd palette was intended to use all four "primary colours" - yellow, green, blue and red. I wanted these palettes to be nice (as nice as CGA can get), but at the same time I wanted to make things a bit interesting.

Just keep in mind that this is a challenge and working in less than ideal conditions is all part of that challenge. There is sometimes a lot of problem solving involved, ie. - "what do I have to do in order to achieve what I want under these conditions? Is it possible to get exactly what I want or do I need to approximate"

RobbieE: the size of the arms seems disproportionate, either make the bicep of the left (as viewed) arm larger, or make the forearm smaller.  I like the concept though, I look forward to seeing what you do.

1. It's not very funny.
2. The button is too big, so it looks like he has two eyes, but one under monocle.
3. The form is made without logic. If you look closely at teddy bears - those which are really cute have clear construction and design - you can tell that outline of head is round, ears are two smaller rounds, body is bigger round and arms and legs are ovals:
http://images.google.com/images
You can note that those which are looking better have at the same time simpler geometric figures as basis.

Edited by A.B. Lazer - 10 March 2009 at 10:23am

If you don't enter, I'll cut off your dick, Sol!



sketched this but I hate it, gonna make a better version.

can someone please give me some examples of good dithering patterns? like a really gradual color change? thanks :D

Technically, starman has no eyes or no visible eyes at least. It's face, if it even has one, is hidden so there's no real way of telling.

That appears to be more of a visor, rather than an eye per say, same problem the starman had.

I think you may not have noticed, but that appears to be a jpg.

well yellow and red are wrmer colors so i wouyld be using them more for your highlights and midtones. and i'd be using green, blue or purple for your shadows. as they are cooler colors.

thats just some basic color theory though. also i think your color count is 5 colors. but challenge only allows 4 as they should be from one of the provided sets.


Edited by x-death - 10 March 2009 at 7:22pm

when you used green and dark blue it made the green seem like cyan. so i thought you grabbed an extra color. my bad.

um yeah you can switch them if you want. its up to you. but you will need to consider how you shade it, with only having a few colors.


Edited by x-death - 10 March 2009 at 8:42pm

When I read about challenge, one of the first characters that came to my mind was Starman DX from Earthbound. He with his famous visor on the cover of SNES game is iconic cyclopic character, probably derived from that alien Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still. In other words, it seen by viewer only as cyclops, it's moving on it's own, so it fits.

Slicing off robots and statues (golems) has no point as it slices off half of fun with no reason. In art-related community main guideline should be aesthetics, I think, not biology. Basing on what you read and seen in the movies you can tell most of the time if character could be called archetypical cyclops or he just winking.

And, still, if robots don't count, then do cyborgs count?

Edited by A.B. Lazer - 11 March 2009 at 1:45am

Is there a minimum size?

Actually 10x10 is the minimum size for something to be submitted here.

And since there is no actual minimum size set for the challenge that makes the minimum size technically 10x10, as something can't be submitted any smaller than that anyway.

First forum post. I guess it wasn't my first forum post.

I consider this to be my first serious/real pixel art.

It's still heavily WIP.. Just a sketch for now.



Any crits?

Note: I added extra colors to help me mold, I will be removing them.
Also, I just realized it had to be a creature.. However I think I can make this read as a creature in the end.

What exactly is defining a 'creature' in this case though? Would the hand with an eye in it be acceptable enough?


Edited by Dr D - 12 March 2009 at 2:02am

reminds me when someone said that the mona lisa couldnt be made in a 16x16 canvas.