Lets Make Some Space Ships
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Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: Collaborations/Challenges
Forum Discription: Submit pixel art project ideas/templates or contribute to an existing pixel art collaboration.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=978
Printed Date: 01 November 2025 at 9:34pm
Topic: Lets Make Some Space Ships
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Subject: Lets Make Some Space Ships
Date Posted: 18 October 2005 at 7:21pm
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Hello again all, Let me say that this is NOT a job offer, but rather a project to see different styles and approaches to a set concept. I know I haven't posted much art here but that's because I'm busy with programming games most of the time. I wish to make a spaceship collab here. You can contribute a small ship, and if you'd like and I could put your ship in a game. (with your permission of course!). I'm not sure if I will make a game out of these, but if you do want to contribute please put the name that is to be credited. I only have two limitations: 1. Ships should not exceed 128x128 and be a a multiple of 16 in size. http://imageshack.us"> a small update: http://imageshack.us"> I used to make these for hours I hope you have fun with this! |
The Walrus.
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Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 18 October 2005 at 7:36pm
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Those are the two I've created a while ago ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 18 October 2005 at 7:38pm
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Wow you definately got some style there! Are these multiples of 16? Giood job though. Anyone else? EDIT: http://imageshack.us"> |
the Mini LarkPosted By: OMGFossil
Date Posted: 18 October 2005 at 8:34pm
 I dunno I'll call it Ghost or Phantom or something
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Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 18 October 2005 at 10:10pm
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I want in! *gets in* I'll have something good. I promise. |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 18 October 2005 at 10:47pm
Excellent idea for a collaboration... I'll definately whip something up later today 
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Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 19 October 2005 at 7:26am
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Glad to see that you are interested! I might make some more later! Gotta love those 90's shooting games. |
Posted By: jujucece
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 8:06am
My contrib...
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Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 8:11am
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Nice. You got an organic look to that one.(it reminds me of a pear's texture) Here is one more from me! http://imageshack.us/"> Hmmm my ships don't seem to have any common style to them or do they? |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 9:21am
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the 3rd is best then the second, the 3rd's style is nice i wanna more
like it. i will contrib one later. |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 11:18am
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Gack, I made one yesterday but totally forgot about actually posting it here. Well, here it is!  8 colours, not counting transparancy. It was actually gonna be animated, but it seemed to mess up the image  ------------- |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 3:00pm
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This is actually for a project of mine, but what the heck...
and for the people asking.. uh thats sposed to be me flying.. yes it is! look at the green! duh.. ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
shows best on a dark background, since the game will be with alot of black and dark bluePosted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 20 October 2005 at 7:24pm
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Excellent work snader! Interceptor http://imageshack.us"> Where is Citizen_Insane's work?
Yeah it looks like a lego art piece. (The 90's space lego sets were the best by the way!! Black Tron, Space Police, Ice Planet ect....). here is a link for inspiration http://http://www.lugnet.com/space/sets - http://www.lugnet.com/space/sets |
Posted By: Akira
Date Posted: 21 October 2005 at 10:28pm
I hope these work...
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Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 21 October 2005 at 10:29pm
We are quite amused VERY PRETTY!!!!!
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Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 21 October 2005 at 11:00pm
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Oops.. haha, I made it but I never got around to uploading it.
Nothing too flashy. Actually one of the first ship sprites I've done in a while. |
Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 22 October 2005 at 3:04am
 Nothing special, just a little ship. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 22 October 2005 at 12:35pm
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Very cool stuff, anyone wanna try a 128x128 that would be cool!
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Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 23 October 2005 at 4:29am
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Originally posted by Pixel_Outlaw Very cool stuff, anyone wanna try a 128x128 that would be cool! Ooh, a 128x128 one would make a cool enemy/boss ship. Might give it a try ------------- |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 23 October 2005 at 12:38pm
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http://imageshack.us"> C'mon folks. |
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Posted By: Wannahlakujuu
Date Posted: 23 October 2005 at 2:00pm
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hmmm.....looks interesting, I might give it a try later ------------- I am Spartacus |
Posted By: Vidd
Date Posted: 23 October 2005 at 3:36pm
Here's mine: |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 23 October 2005 at 5:48pm
Glad to see a new piece. I think it's funny jow all of my ships point down and the others point up.
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Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 24 October 2005 at 12:16am
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Obviously your ships are the enemy ships. |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 24 October 2005 at 6:45am
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kill him! ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 24 October 2005 at 8:01am
| Somebody should make a ship that could defeat my two boss ships. Lotsa huge weapons and such. Yesssss kill me with that one! |
Posted By: Indigo
Date Posted: 24 October 2005 at 6:03pm
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Originally posted by Pixel_Outlaw Glad to see a new piece. I think it's funny jow all of my ships point down and the others point up. ... Somebody should make a ship that could defeat my two boss ships. Lotsa huge weapons and such. Yesssss kill me with that one!  (i think its within the 128 128 limit) well i think its funny that i have the only side view ship  oh - and mine can kick your ship's trash....because they're pink....and colorful I just desided to post this cuz I was rummaging through my old old pixel arts and found this. Its actually one of my oldest pieces. |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 3:17am
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jeez, thats awesome. it would definitley make an amazing ship for a
game. |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 3:46am
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Ooh, nice work Indigo. I just never seem to be able to get side view ships right :/ ------------- |
Posted By: initial_reality
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 8:17am
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Nice idea Outlaw!
I never did a space ship before, I had to try this. Here's the ship wich is going to blast you all! 
Babylon: 
And it's not the last! More comming later... |
Posted By: Vidd
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 8:59am
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Originally posted by Indigo well i think its funny that i have the only side view ship Is it not because the examples were made for vertical shooters? I took it for granted that they were supposed to be like that. |
Posted By: alkaline
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 6:46pm
 For some reason, my PSP refuses to use a transparent background.  |
Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 6:50pm
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do you have animation shop as well? If so, next time make all your intended tranparencies a bright pink or some other colour that isn't being used. Then when you've compiled your animation into Animation Shop, select all (ctrl+a) and go to the Animation toolbar and select Replace Color. You can figure out the rest I'm sure. If you don't have it, then I dunno what to say ------------- |
Posted By: alkaline
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 7:49pm
| OK, I'll try that later. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 25 October 2005 at 7:50pm
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Well top down shooters are my personal favorite type, but feel free to make any view in this thread. I love the one that's not symmetrical nice touch! Is there such thing as an iso ship we don't know...Sorry I often use the Royal WE. too much Katamari Damacy I guess!!
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Posted By: Centrefuge
Date Posted: 27 October 2005 at 5:04am
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Some ships I threw together. The orb would be a alien ship, or maybe something to grab for points? How they'd look on black: Plasma Gun Ship thingy: Orb: Ol' Drippy: -------------  Someday I'll take over the world, just not today...
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Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 27 October 2005 at 6:58am
| Wow those are so original very nice!! |
Posted By: Centrefuge
Date Posted: 27 October 2005 at 8:13am
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Why thank you. There are two more asymmetrical ones now, I guess, with the orb and the plasma ship. ------------- Someday I'll take over the world, just not today...
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Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 30 October 2005 at 1:53am
 Another little ship by me :) |
Posted By: initial_reality
Date Posted: 30 October 2005 at 1:49pm
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Nice sprites centrefuge! I wonder how a game would look like if it had a lot of glowing sprites filling the screen.
Here's an enemy for a change: 
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Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 30 October 2005 at 3:33pm
 A enemy (a weak one :p) |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 30 October 2005 at 5:00pm
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Small but good none the less1 I might make some more when I get time...until then Happy Space Craft!
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Posted By: Dutrho
Date Posted: 02 November 2005 at 10:48pm
 the streaker. lots of speed, no weapons..  ------------- Mmmm.. Thats good placebo! |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 12:00am
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no weapons, AAAAAH we're all gonna die!!!!
*screams and jumps out 3rd story window* |
Posted By: Skaterboy J
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 1:30pm
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well here i go...heres my attempt
anyone like it? ------------- "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" |
Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 3:58pm
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Originally posted by Skaterboy J well here i go...heres my attempt
anyone like it? We shall call it, cyber ship! |
Posted By: Centrefuge
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 8:11pm
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Holy crap, 1st thing Sk8J's done that I like! Cool ship! Who says you gotta AA or dither... Seriously, sometimes less is more I guess... just does something for me. ------------- Someday I'll take over the world, just not today...
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Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 8:42pm
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It looks like it came from a cyber desert where it posed as a cactus until the enemy fleet fluies over head. Then is pops out and rams them!!!
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Posted By: Centrefuge
Date Posted: 03 November 2005 at 8:50pm
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In the game you could sort of do that. make a level where these are camoflaged(sp?) amongst this computer chip pattern (maybe on a mothership or a planet) and then they fly out and attack. ------------- Someday I'll take over the world, just not today...
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Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 04 November 2005 at 5:17am
 New (wierd) enemy ship. |
Posted By: Wannahlakujuu
Date Posted: 05 November 2005 at 10:35am
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Please note that I didn't pick any of the colors and that this was made from looking at PeppermintPig's post http://pixel-arts.org/pixelopolis/index.php?topic=436.0 - here for the colors and because it finally inspired me to do something. So, I thank Pep, and please comment. Oh, and this is the first ship I have ever done. ------------- I am Spartacus |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 05 November 2005 at 6:35pm
I've got one, a sorta stereotypical one, though.  ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 4:17am
 Another ship :D |
Posted By: Steel Monkey
Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 6:22am
Heres mine a big ship that is slow moving |
Posted By: Fugitive
Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 6:56am
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Heres mine
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Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 3:44pm
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http://imageshack.us"> Sorry I like black lines so sue me!!! |
Posted By: randomblink
Date Posted: 08 November 2005 at 8:35am
Here's mine... ------------- www.randomblink.com I am me... no! Really! |
Posted By: alkaline
Date Posted: 08 November 2005 at 2:35pm
 Ah. It should work now.
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Posted By: jesusbot3000
Date Posted: 10 November 2005 at 6:08pm
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Hm, little quick design. The shape turned out a bit like Skaterboy's on accident. It's halfway between old school and new school, because Im lazy.
Shown moving sideways (no tilt animation, sorry), boosting (was the ship trail a good idea? even noticeable?), regular fire, and special fire. Probably need to add a little bit of delay in there...
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Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 16 November 2005 at 3:49pm
 #2 for me. A armored freighter.------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com">
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Opacus
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 1:44am
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Lineart by Greyknight!!! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Shadowwwolf/?chartstyle=Bones"> 
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Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 3:00pm
 Maybe I have to change the colors, it looks so bright. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 7:44pm
| Sorry guys i've been unable to sigfn in for a while. Very nice updates! Only one thing bothers me that's the wing shaading on Shadow Wolf's wings. Very nice overall! |
Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 3:27am
 For a game I'm making with Helix Note: the animation looks best in Firefox, I dunno why. |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 1:01pm
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looks pretty sweet in safari :D, hopefully the game will have a dark
bg to show those bullets, cant wait!! |
Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 19 November 2005 at 2:15pm
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Originally posted by Shark looks pretty sweet in safari :D, hopefully the game will have a dark bg to show those bullets, cant wait!! I've already made the background black, so the bullets will be visible. |
Posted By: Mindiell
Date Posted: 21 November 2005 at 5:56am
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I did mine I think I can improve it a bit... ------------- Mindiell French n00b |
Posted By: GreyKnight
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 12:44pm
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Somebody should make a ship that could defeat my two boss ships I thought I'd post ths in for the fun of it. :)  By the way, it seems like there is something missing to it, but I can't figure out what it is. GreyKnight |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 12:46pm
Damn, that's great. If it were in the PixelJoint gallery I'd definately add it to my favourites  Can't really think of what's missing though. ------------- |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 1:52pm
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decals, 2 turrets on the big empty spaces just above the jets and animations =D but mostly decals.. probably red decals are best.. go make em =D ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 2:16pm
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wohaa this is amazing, wood be in my favourites now too. yes add
some turrets and red panels. how would those tiny jets power this beast? ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: GreyKnight
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 2:18pm
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Blueberry_pie: Thanks, I might do that. :) Snader: That's a good idea, I didn't even think of that. :D I'll add it as soon as I can. GreyKnight |
Posted By: GreyKnight
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 2:19pm
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Shark: Well, that's why I added alot of them. GreyKnight |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 2:35pm
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Originally posted by Shark
wohaa this is amazing, wood be in my favourites now too. yes add some turrets and red panels. how would those tiny jets power this beast? in space, there is no gravity(duh) thus you need only very little energy to propel yourself (eg. a fart makes you float away) but considering the shape and bulkyness, this ship wouldnt be a fighter but a gunship. so it wouldnt have to be as maneuvrable, and (simple economics & maths here) that would save fuel & plating, as the jets dont need to be extra reinforced. those resources could in turn be used as additional armor, or extra fighter ships buh =P ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 3:03pm
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well thats the longest answer to a stupid question ive ever seen.
it looks great but having such small jets on such an impacting image seem a little inadequate. ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 4:02pm
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Originally posted by GreyKnight
Somebody should make a ship that could defeat my two boss ships I thought I'd post ths in for the fun of it. :) By the way, it seems like there is something missing to it, but I can't figure out what it is. GreyKnight Whoa vert very nice. Usually organic dithering is bad for ships but this turned out very well. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/"> 
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Posted By: GreyKnight
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 5:37pm
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What is organic dithering? I have only heard of regular dithering. GreyKnight |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 30 November 2005 at 7:40pm
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What I mean is using materials that have a low reflection and lumonosity. The roughness/smoothness of a material effect the amount of light that is absorbed and reflected. What I mean is that your ship has a more light absorbant material or coating then mine and it works well for it. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: Fugitive
Date Posted: 01 December 2005 at 5:41am
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 01 December 2005 at 6:24am
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Originally posted by Pixel_Outlaw
What I mean is using materials that have a low reflection and lumonosity. The roughness/smoothness of a material effect the amount of light that is absorbed and reflected. What I mean is that your ship has a more light absorbant material or coating then mine and it works well for it. that is because it gives the object (in this case the ship's hull) a more roughened up look, which is ideal for a battleworn gunship ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 01 December 2005 at 10:23am
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fugitive, try not using the gradiet tool, use about 3 or 4 colours and
dither! ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: Fugitive
Date Posted: 01 December 2005 at 10:56am
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Originally posted by Shark
fugitive, try not using the gradiet tool, use about 3 or 4 colours and dither! I didn't use the gradiet tool... I made it all in paint |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 01 December 2005 at 11:06am
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tool or not, gradients are gradients ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 01 December 2005 at 12:24pm
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ok it may not be gradient however you used far too many colours.
Fugitive pm'd me with the lineart for his ship and asked me to colour it for him. so here it is, took about 8 minutes.  ------------- Snark, we love yuu. |
Posted By: drr
Date Posted: 02 December 2005 at 2:18pm
 Here's mine, not that great, but I tried |
Posted By: GreyKnight
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 1:53pm
I animated it, added in the port and starboard lights, and some green stripes. GreyKnight |
Posted By: -DE-
Date Posted: 03 December 2005 at 3:27pm
 I didn't bother animating the fire =) 16 colors. ------------- 
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Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 04 December 2005 at 1:46am
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Posted By: Blick
Date Posted: 04 December 2005 at 2:23pm
I made ships a bit this past spring/early summer.       About the same time, I had a fun idea of a low color shmup and had made some animations for it. In my mind, it would be a lot like Gradius. I've always been obsessed with Gradius III. Anyway, the animations.      Maybe I should start making ships again. That was a good time. Probably the most productive time of my pixelling days too. ------------- http://punaji.com/"> 
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Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 04 December 2005 at 3:51pm
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EXCELLENT work everyone!!! I'm glad this is still alive. How many peple started with pixeling spaceships? ( I did that's why I asked.) ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: Opacus
Date Posted: 08 December 2005 at 2:29am
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Greyknight, you are airplane master Improved my colouring: Better isn't it? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Shadowwwolf/?chartstyle=Bones">
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Posted By: initial_reality
Date Posted: 08 December 2005 at 2:56pm
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Originally posted by GreyKnight
I animated it, added in the port and starboard lights, and some green stripes.
GreyKnight Wow gray that's awesome!
I think I'm gonna make some new ships now. |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 08 December 2005 at 3:20pm
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i was thinking about making one but i saw greyknights and i cried.
lol not really but it was jus toooooo gd.
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Posted By: PandaPlanet
Date Posted: 13 December 2005 at 4:31am
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Can my Phantom join in? Lmao, I just noticed it doesn't have any guns ------------- |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 13 December 2005 at 6:15pm
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Sure your suicide dart ship has been welcomed!:) ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: PandaPlanet
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 4:17am
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'tis fast, 'tis shiny, 'tis bumblebee! xD ------------- |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 16 December 2005 at 11:24am
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Man those would look sweet coming out of a hive like transport ship!!! ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: Joenorton
Date Posted: 16 December 2005 at 1:39pm
Here mine nothin specataculare -------------  
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Posted By: Fredde
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 1:33pm
 sorry for the black background ^^. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 17 December 2005 at 3:06pm
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Hey guys those are very original. They both look good. Man I really need to do another one soon but I never have time for pixeling lately waaaaay too much game making. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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