Cute!

Agreed, masterful use of distinct marks - would also point out the flattening horizontal shapes using on the path and the strong verticals in the cloaks.  Great work!

Can always rely on you for some absollutely gorgeous dolls~~!

Haha I almost went to bed early but I noticed The Hierophant was still missing!   would have been such a shame to get almost 50 entries but missing ONE card :x

The hurry ended up being really good for encouraging rough/experimental texture

Palette usage here is insanely well handled

I've been working with pixels for a long time and I'm straight shocked at the sense of light ans scale you've achieved in applying this palette.

Heya, this is pretty awesome work!

We do ask that you upload at 1x zoom - PixelJoint has a built-in perfect scaling feature, so the zoom required for other platforms is not required.

@Hapiel is that your farie?

Really great results from this collab!

Looks good to me!  The revised palette is 2/3rds smaller and well within rules 4+5.  Agree that we maybe could have gotten there a bit sooner with better communication!  But life goes on.

Appreciate the patience and willingness to re-export.

Hi all, looks like it's my turn to offer perspective!

As Gecimen notes the main purpose of the rules is to prevent a flood of sloppy art.  They were written and recently revised according to extensive community feedback so that we don't come off as completely arbitrary in determining which pieces to allow in and which to send over to the (largely defunct) WIPS forum.

We've accepted works containing transparency and gradients before on the condition that they are secondary elements.  This has always been the case.  We are also much looser when it comes to avatars (which are tiny and more about personal expression) and larger finished works - again the point of the rules is to prevent a flood of, well, crap.  Maybe the rules are due for another update...

But if the question is whether Cyangmou considers per-pixel relationships as the primary mode of working, I'd consider that asked and answered.

Cyangmou the peice has already been accepted, but if you were to edit this to use a smaller and more linear ramp on the BG rather than the auto-dithered one, I think the piece would look mostly identical and there would be no debate.  You have over 100 colors that are used for 1 or 2 pixels.  Surely those are not strictly needed to convey your artistic intention?

DawnBringer, right or wrong about technique you can't actually curse people out without some kind of warning.  You and Cyangmou are both longstanding pillars of the community regardless of any personal disagreement.  Let's keep the discussion about the art, and avoid the name-calling?

Love these!  They have beauitful movement for such relative economy of form.

Welcome to PJ :)

Ahh, fooled me :)

I enjoy especially the retreating background...it's handled very subtly and is very effective

2021 is off to an incredibly good start!  What a mix of talented work =D

Correct!  Here's a verion as exported from Aseprite...

100x100 canvas created using "Pixel Aspect Ratio: Double-High Pixels (1:2)"

and then later exported using "Resize: 100%" (aka no resize) and "[x] Apply Pixel Ratio"

The required challenge is a tile set.

The optional bonus is to show the tiles mocked up.

The team didn't really discuss the possibility of doing just a tile-based mockup.

I think where we have landed is that we won't reject mockups that clearly show the tiles...

...but if you can include the tile set as a tile set somewhere (e.g., adjacent to mockup, or as the preview image) that's better!

Yep they get attached if you had a listed birthdate in the month the awards are for (meaning the cupcake is always at least 15 days late)

She looks like she'd be right at home in Chrono Cross!

@Sjpixels softness too.  The lighting is objectively hard and doesn't even have AA, yet feels supple rather than stiff in most places.

66 entries has got to be a record of some kind.  I'd guess 2-3 years at least?

> Colors - Max 7, 6 from the palette + transparency.

There's no great way of wording this but I guess we're trying to reflect the idea of combining 2 sprite palettes, each having 3 opaque colors + knockout (making 6 opaque colors and trans couted twice?)

Great work gang!  I thought I was tripping when I was matching up the names but indeed it's the same few artists on a loop this month :D

Tell the reddit haters they can drink from your golden chalice :P

@skamocore yeah that's a great point - with only 2 channels that's basically the universe (give or take some possible interpolation / rounding errors)

This reminds me of an age of the internet I thought was long-over, in a great way

@aamatniekss the script I use to build these posts puts a cake next to any winner who has a birthday during the month the awards are being given for.  Since these are the awards for works submitted in April, you get a cake, even though the votes are tallied in May :)