Pimp my ride by Adam
Made in... by panya
Statuesque by Helm
Lollige challenges you to create a character, and make it dance! 8 frames exactly! If there is a certain beat to it, please make the beat start on the very first frame, so it will look even better viewing all entries together! Any character is allowed, humanoid or animal, alien, original or not.
Canvas Size - Maximum 48 x 48.
Colors - Unrestricted.
Animation - Exactly 8 frames. Each frame must be 1/10th of a second.
Transparency - Required.
Note: If you don't have an animation program you can draw every loose frame in any graphics program, save them, and create the animation with iaza or download unFREEz.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Magentleman by iLKkeCreate a comic that uses exactly one word. It can be used in a speech bubble, a sound effect, a street sign, anything; as long as there is only one single word. It must be a legible and hand pixeled word in English. Loan words are acceptable; for example you may use "Aloha" as your word.
Also, no concealing extra words.
The comic must have at least 3 panels.
Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Unrestricted.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - No.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Challenge winner [thUg] challenges you to create a portrait of a Two-Face type character, like the character from Batman, but not necessarily with a human side.
Examples: robot/animal, boy/girl, alien/human, firecreature/watercreature, etc...
Canvas Size- Max 100 x 100.
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
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.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Challenge winner Squirrelsquid wants you to create a self-portrait that incorperates the 'Omnivore eye' (see below). You may let your appearance mutate if you like.
You must create your own Omnivore eye. No edits.
Example of an Omnivore eye (several more examples can be found within Squirrelsquid's gallery):
Canvas Size - Max 128 x 128. Preview image must be exactly 64 x 64.
Colors - Max 32. You must only use colours from the Omnivore palette for the eye. See below.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
Update: black has now been added to the challenge palette.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
This week Lollige challenges you to create a space ship sprite in side view.
Some examples:
https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/17107.htm
https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/4640.htm
https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/13825.htm
Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colors: Max 16.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for May 2009. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
APH picnic by emlanLast week marked the the anniversary of the first time X-rays were used. Therefore, Club Beuker challenges you to create a scene that involves X-rays. For example: A crime scene investigator using X-rays to solve crimes, or a superhero using X-Ray to see through walls...
Canvas Size - Max 120 x 100. Either horizontal or vertical.
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Once again, you have a randomly generated palette. Use at least 4 of the colours shown below to create a portrait.
Optional Bonus Challenge: Use all the colours!
Canvas Size - Exactly 137 x 114. Either horizontal or vertical.
Colours - Min 4; Max 9. Use only colours from this palette:
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
February 2011 was a month dominated by monsters and mockups. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
Pixel a full-body sprite of a human chieftain from a fictitious primitive tribe.
Remember to consider what sort of clothing or accessories distinguishes the chieftain from other members of your fictitious tribe.
Canvas Size - Max 100 (width) x 120 (height).
Colours - Max 16 (plus transparency)
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Eldboll wants you to create a pixel piece based on this line:
"...And so the greatest battle ever fought had begun."
This is an open-ended challenge, so feel free to interpret this line however you want (within reason, of course!)
Canvas Size - Max 200 (width) x 150 (height).
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for September 2012. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.
"Once you get much past [ 512 x 512 px resolution] you can't tell that it was drawn with a computer. And to me that quality is part of what i want in my drawing, that is what's interesting and exciting to me." - Lauretta Jones, 1984
Instead of featuring a member of the site as we usually do, this interview will spotlight a pioneer of the medium, someone who became a professional pixel artist before anyone knew it could be a career path.
Lauretta Jones began her career as a freelance digital illustrator, before going on to direct the undergraduate and continuing education computer art department at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She then contributed to the field of digital art in new ways as a user interface researcher, finding more intuitive methods for artists to interact with their computers. She currently teaches botanical art at the New York Botanical Garden.
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