CHALLENGE 4/13/2015: Starburst
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Topic: CHALLENGE 4/13/2015: Starburst
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Subject: CHALLENGE 4/13/2015: Starburst
Date Posted: 13 April 2015 at 12:02am
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Posted By: fawful
Date Posted: 13 April 2015 at 7:41am
Thought I'd go full blown Mrmo Tarius and have fun with the tile editor by the way does anyone know how to place stuff without it being aligned to the grid in Tiled? ------------- |
Posted By: Aureliano
Date Posted: 13 April 2015 at 11:55am
| You can turn grid on or off if it's Grafx2 you're using, the g key is the shortcut for it :) |
Posted By: fawful
Date Posted: 13 April 2015 at 2:19pm
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I'm in Tiled, but I'll try the g key anyway. it might work you never know
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Posted By: DatMuffinMan
Date Posted: 13 April 2015 at 3:25pm
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Originally posted by fawful
I'm in Tiled, but I'll try the g key anyway. it might work you never know the closest I've gotten was to, say if I used 16x16 tiles, switched grid to 8x8, then select 4 tiles at a time (2x2 square) in the tile window for the big ones and 1 tile at a time for the off-center ones. Another way is to have 2 separate .tmx files, one with a transparent layer of another grid size that you overlay on top of the other one in another program. |
Posted By: Drazile
Date Posted: 13 April 2015 at 3:25pm
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Originally posted by fawful Did it?I'm in Tiled, but I'll try the g key anyway. it might work you never know |
Posted By: iCanteven
Date Posted: 13 April 2015 at 7:32pm
Decided to go with an isometric Starburst shop.
My first try at a.) buildings b.) any type of challenge c.) isometric art Hope you guys like it! |
Posted By: Bcadren
Date Posted: 13 April 2015 at 11:47pm
| My eyes burn. Ouchies. Can anyone make a dither table of those to see if the in-between-shades created are a bit more reasonable? |
Posted By: JosephSeraph
Date Posted: 14 April 2015 at 7:28am
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Posted By: Lone Scout
Date Posted: 14 April 2015 at 8:55am
| The challenge will certainly be dictated by who can maximise their dithering skil with such a low palette. Working with such few colors in the past will pay off now. |
Posted By: Mandrill
Date Posted: 14 April 2015 at 11:02am
Don't believe in dithering, buddy! Clusters, it's clusters! 
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Posted By: fawful
Date Posted: 14 April 2015 at 11:14am
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pfff, dithering is for babies. me and mandrill are way too cool for that baloney update on G key in Tiled - it doesn't work. gonna have to do that stuff outside of Tiled. |
Posted By: Drazile
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 5:04am
| Oh, the flavours are cherry, orange, strawberry and lemon, right? |
Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 6:12am
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Originally posted by Drazile Oh, the flavours are cherry, orange, strawberry and lemon, right? Yep. Personally, my favourite is orange, closely followed by lemon. I don't mind strawberry, but the cherry ones taste like medicine to me =| ------------- |
Posted By: fawful
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 8:34am
 Didn't have much time to work on this today but I wanted to do a bit more. -changed floor -added leaves -clouds -sun position |
Posted By: 7heSama
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 12:00pm
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On the shop: I like it, but the lettering is pretty sloppy. Even up the flat parts so they follow the line of the back of the store. They're all guilty except for the C. |
Posted By: Druid_cz
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 12:08pm
Well... I started working on something too :D I have just rough idea and i dont know if i finish this one in time .(Ludum dare :)
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Posted By: Skurra
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 12:12pm
Super messy WIP, sorry. :P I'm thinking about changing the yellow for pink, since the red and yellow share the same value. I'll clean and update it once I get home, only touched it during work breaks. There'll be some birds on the BG in some branches, but they aren't that clear yet. Not sure if i'll manage to do it. |
Posted By: AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 3:25pm
A sword Single frame anim I'm going to add animation at a later date 
*EDIT* I swear I used to have a pixeljoint account... Maybe I didn't 
Oh look, My name overflows!  
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Posted By: Volrak_Rutra
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 4:41pm
| wow, this palette is hard on the ol' eyes! |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 4:45pm
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Originally posted by AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
A sword Single frame anim I'm going to add animation at a later date
*EDIT* I swear I used to have a pixeljoint account... Maybe I didn't
Oh look, My name overflows! http://www.pixeljoint.com/p/40379.htm - AlexTheRobot We need to take care of these 2 account by picking just one. If you wish to keep this new one then we should remove an Alex or two, right? ------------- |
Posted By: AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 5:37pm
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Originally posted by jalonso
Originally posted by AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex http://www.pixeljoint.com/p/40379.htm - AlexTheRobot We need to take care of these 2 account by picking just one. If you wish to keep this new one then we should remove an Alex or two, right?(IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QvOwOIi.gif[/IMG) A sword Single frame anim I'm going to add animation at a later date (IMG]http://i.imgur.com/T9yEchU.gif[/IMG) *EDIT* I swear I used to have a pixeljoint account... Maybe I didn't
Oh look, My name overflows! Oh, that's me too! 
I don't seem to remember the login or email I used otherwise, I would 'migrate' to that one, as it's 3ish years older *Edit* Just reset my password, no clue what it was previously, but I cannot delete it. And one cannot change a username, I had no clue it would overflow I picked this username because of another forum (TAU - Drazile knows) |
Posted By: Jackster
Date Posted: 15 April 2015 at 7:20pm
Wanted to make my own WIP timeline of what I submitted for this challenge, so here it is.
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Posted By: 7heSama
Date Posted: 16 April 2015 at 12:46am
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Well sh*t. That's damn fine, Jackstar. I think adding some detail to the sun would help, though. Here's what I got so far, will edit in updates.   edit1: superfluous "good night" update |
Posted By: HarveyDentMustDie
Date Posted: 16 April 2015 at 5:12am
I've always wanted to try this kind of limited palette. But I still didn't decide which which one I should finish left one or right one. Btw this is my first weakly challenge. :)   |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 16 April 2015 at 5:13am
I did a thing.
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Posted By: Sturo
Date Posted: 16 April 2015 at 11:14am
I normally don't create material like this but I couldn't help myself.
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Posted By: Mandrill
Date Posted: 16 April 2015 at 11:28am
| ROFL! |
Posted By: ||||
Date Posted: 16 April 2015 at 2:05pm
 The Tangerine Keep.. I don't think I will finish/ enter but I made a rough image anyway. |
Posted By: AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
Date Posted: 16 April 2015 at 5:26pm
v5
v6 
v7 - realized all my colors were off by a lot
Sword in a scabbard on a belt Still not final |
Posted By: Mandrill
Date Posted: 17 April 2015 at 4:03am
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Very strong concept! I reckon doing the finishing touches and smooth everything out would take too much time. |
Posted By: SeanNoonan
Date Posted: 17 April 2015 at 7:11am
Just a quick one from me :) |
Posted By: skittle
Date Posted: 17 April 2015 at 8:55am
Really love the idea for the challenge, but I don't think it'll work for the scene I pictured in my mind : (
@Alex Very nice use of the palette! Not sure where you plan on taking the background though. Imho, I would suggest just using a yellow as your bg instead of the pink. |
Posted By: fawful
Date Posted: 17 April 2015 at 1:02pm
 well I'm calling this done |
Posted By: AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
Date Posted: 17 April 2015 at 2:18pm
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Originally posted by ADrawingMan
Not sure where you plan on taking the background though. Planning on some mountains; another layer or two with more pink grid overlay (similar to how far away stuff is bluer, but you know, not blue) Also waving banners on poles in the closer background, and maybe some clouds Originally posted by ADrawingMan
Imho, I would suggest just using a yellow as your background instead of the pink. The yellow is the brightest color, and I wanted the highlights to be a little brighter than the background. At one point, I filled the background layer with red, it honestly wasn't bad Originally posted by ADrawingMan
Very nice use of the palette! Well thank you
Your city scene is very nice! |
Posted By: AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
Date Posted: 17 April 2015 at 6:57pm
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@Bcadren
On a semi-related note; I have HTTP switchboard and the default replacement for blocked stuff (like annoying Facebook buttons) is a diagonal red and white stripes tile. Every now and then I go to a page with a massive social section on one side (or both) and it is literal eye burn. 
It seriously hurts. The small ones are fine so I never remember to change it to something else. 
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Posted By: AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
Date Posted: 17 April 2015 at 7:12pm
v8
Finished mountains, added more layers, demonstrating the depth coloring v9 
Added middle field and antialiased mountains better v10 
Unmoving flags added Still not final Working on animation! |
Posted By: rowodepowo
Date Posted: 18 April 2015 at 8:15am
ma entry
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Posted By: AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
Date Posted: 18 April 2015 at 12:41pm
Flag anim I was starting to get pissed at myself so I worked on the animation separately, instead of copying each frame to each flag
*EDIT* Aaah Imgur's .gifv's only seem to work on their site 
Aaand just found out that every color I have been using is a little too dark, no wonder it looks different |
Posted By: Mandrill
Date Posted: 18 April 2015 at 3:17pm
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@ ADrawingMan Wow! You sould definitely enter, this looks absolutely brilliant!  |
Posted By: AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
Date Posted: 18 April 2015 at 5:09pm
v11
Added flag animations and shadow animations for the flags Still going to do clouds |
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 19 April 2015 at 2:36am
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Originally posted by ADrawingMan Really love the idea for the challenge, but I don't think it'll work for the scene I pictured in my mind : (
the 2 colour red and orange version at the bottom is really great, stronger than the more 'finished' ones imo. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 19 April 2015 at 9:22am
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Originally posted by jeremy
Originally posted by ADrawingMan the 2 colour red and orange version at the bottom is really great, stronger than the more 'finished' ones imo.Really love the idea for the challenge, but I don't think it'll work for the scene I pictured in my mind : (
How true! Maybe just add the other 2 colors in the most minimal of ways. Perhaps even just the headlights of the train so its a power outage type of scene? ------------- |
Posted By: AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
Date Posted: 19 April 2015 at 1:41pm
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Any gif makers I use seem to adjust my colors for me
Anyone know of a good gif animator with no color weirdness? *EDIT* v12 
https://pyxeledit.com - Pyxel is definately worth more than 9 bucks, actually exports in the colors you used! |
Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 19 April 2015 at 4:35pm
Not going to enter the challenge, and this image is not quite finished...but it was a good opportunity to try out the 4-dither (2x2) technique I've been working on recently.
I'll probably write a snippet about it at some point... |
Posted By: AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex
Date Posted: 19 April 2015 at 4:46pm
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Originally posted by DawnBringer
Not going to enter the challenge, and this image is not quite finished...but it was a good opportunity to try out the 4-dither technique I've been working on recently. (IMG]http://hem.bredband.net/ricfha/misc/4chal_beta.png[/IMG) I'll probably write a snippet about it at some point... I see, dithering with 4 colors in a 2x2 space, p y y o Gives a nice middle color Also, on the neck, there is a rough spot, goes from red/yellow to orange/pink Very nice work, very smooth |
Posted By: Naji
Date Posted: 20 April 2015 at 3:08pm
| I hope you finish it at some later point. It's a great piece so far. |