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Weekly Challenge: Oh My, God-Rays!
Top Pixel Art - April 2012 (#3)
I really like the way the rays fade out. Your dithering is great in that. Also the splash of the waves and the subtle color change in your ocean is beautiful as well. Nice work!
Your art is so advanced and inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
The water is just astonishing and i really like those sun rays you deserve a hurray !
Love the palette and the personality in the details of the rocks and waves. The pink sky to blue sky transition seems a bit artificial compared to the realism of the rest of the scene. I want to see a version with a Viking longship approaching from the distance!
Thank you everyone, im very thankful for all of the encouragement.
Junkboy - im particularly honored. You know i love your work as much as the next guy.
I hope you all enjoy the latest (and likely final) updates to the piece. Ive done some work balancing the contrast and some saturation values to make it look a tad more 'striking'. ive gutted a few colors from the water and shared them with some sky values, which allowed me to add some more colors into the rays themselves to make them smoother. Ive overhauled the sky rays with dithering (ugh) so that it was less of an eyesore compared to the rest of the scenery. Ive touched the water just a tad, mostly in cleaning up and adding some desired AA in select areas. the end result isnt necessarily much of a change, just making it a tad more 'crisp'.
fantastic! I would give a tiny bit more transparency to the really dark wave on the bottom right, make it glow blue. It would then be absolutely perfect.
EDIT: argh, it's a rock isn't it! *hangs head*. Apologies
The watersplash shows off the power of hand made pixels. This belongs in a museum for that!
The rest is just nice, I would have to study this at home to figure where the 28 are needed for but the textures on the sea and clouds are really great!
The rays look a little odd to me in the top right corner. Are they going straight to the center or are they being bend? it looks odd, maybe technically it would have been easier to have the thin rays going in this direction and the thick rays to the top (shorter). Although that would have meant changing the whole image.
Not as if I could do any better in this lifetime.
Thanks for sharing and you have my vote!
Amazing. The top half could be more refined but it's great!
//eyes pop out
OMG. That sea is AMAZING, I want to vote for this right now haha :D <3 It's got some really beautiful colours, and the rays of light are impressively used too ^^ Good luck, I can't imagine you not placing in the top three, brilliant and inspiring work :D
That's weird, it shows up for me. Here's a direct link:
http://s14.postimage.org/csh69skan/Edit.png
Waves and splashing water are so well made that it would almost make me forget the rays... which of course are also great haha ^^
This is really very good, one of the best pieces in this challenge, and that's saying something
@kayran - agreed. i will get to it in the future. but not before challenge expriy :(
@Theo - thanks man. i do agree - its not even 'nitpicking'. its just needed. I remember back when i pixelled way more often, i got to a point where i would stop working on my pieces and never finish when large amount of manual dithering was required. ill get there eventually with this piece though.
@Mngwa - no specific reference. i did use google image to study how crepuscular rays behaved. I noticed in in some shots there were orange horizons under the cloud line, and the cloud silhouettes were brightly backlit. the water is something im sort of winging. reference there in some areas would probably have been beneficial.
@ultimaodin - i agree. ill address that as well sometime soon. thank you.
@Faceless - i forgot to mention in my last post that i am completely unable to see whatever edit/image you were trying to post. FF shows nothing, chrome shows a 'broken image' icon. :(
Really really good, St0ven. Liking the colours for the cloud. I currently think it's stronger than a3um's entry because you seem to have more control over the depth and perspective to the horizon. Both yours and his are excellent though!
Well the splasing water itself does it for me. Inspiring piece. Definitely got my vote.
This is such an atmospheric piece, totally love it. Fav, 7/7 and vote!
As a fellow dither-buddy: I know it is not the most intelligent work, but it is satisfying when it pays off in the end! So I agree the top right corner and perhaps a subtle sideways gradient of the rays of light would perfect the piece (although it is a bit nitpicking...)
I like your sea in the front of picture. It has nice texture and colour. But the sky needs more dithering in my opinion
... Damn this is awesome! There are some points on the waves where some AA feels missed but otherwise I absolutely love this. FAVE!
thanks for the feedback so far everyone.
Ive addressed some issues i had with my own palette. i think there was some over saturation in some of the values in the water and too weighted towards just one hue. so ive varied that up some. also tried to give a hint more warmth to the sun rays.
Orange: sometime in the future when i have more willpower and time to dither it properly ill make sure to update this piece.
elk : im sorry to have disappointed you ^^ - its actually quite challenging getting the proper amount of noise in the splash to make it look chaotic and still look like water. throwing another hue in the mix only makes that balance more difficult.
a3um ill be looking forward to seeing your entry of course.
Very nice indeed!. Actually from your post in the wip thread I've been expecting a flying ray :)
If anything it just needs the yellow and orange highlights in the clouds to lean a little more towards cyan. Wonderful piece.
I agree with Faceless, a better palette is in order. Otherwise, flawless
I wasn't really feeling your palette. Here's a quick and dirty edit that I think ties the various elements of your piece together better:
Looks great! :) The dithering doesn't look that good in some places, though. Overall, awesome!
nice