January 20 was penguin awareness day. We weren't aware of the awareness day until after the awareness day. So, we're going to have a belated penguin-related challenge this week: Create an image that features a penguin using exactly three colours.

Optional Bonus Challenge: Avoid using black or white.

Canvas Size - Max 150 x 150.
Colours - Exactly 3.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

Create a sprite base and at least 4 different versions with costume/hair/feature/equipment variants (for a total of 5 sprites). The base doesn't have to be human and/or anything conventional.

Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - No.

The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for December 2013. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.

 

Death Magic by AlexHW

Gotcha! by a3um

Level 5 - Desert by vierbit

Bookkeeper's Garden by cocefi

Secret Santa 2013 by Wolfenoctis

Turrican II by junkboy

Lunch time by Muxaun

Desconsolo by Jinn

Tree by beetleking

The end is nigh by Muxaun

A new version of Pixel: Art LED on Kickstarter with new features.
Includes the work of several PJers!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/996412530/pixel-led-art

I converted an old bitmap font I made in about 30 minutes, and now it works in Flash and GraphicsGale. Hooray!

This week, your task is to create a Cthulhu Mythos related game mockup. For example, A space shooter featuring Yog-Sothoth or a dungeon crawler featuring the Old Ones under "the mountains of madness".

Canvas Size - Max 320 (width) x 200 (height).
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Radiant Orchid.

VOTE NOW!

The colour gods at Pantone have ordained that the colour of the year is Radiant Orchid. So, this week, the task is to use that colour within the orchid shaped canvas shown below.

You can pixel anything you want, you can even just pixel an orchid if you want to be really boring.
 

Canvas Size - Use the template above.
Colours - Max 18. Must use the colour above (#b163a2).
Transparency - Required (only outside the template shape though).
Animation - Optional.

Hello PJers. I'm an independent game developer, and pixel art fan, and I recently released a new game!

Maybe old news for some, but just thought I'd share this neat thing.