Fixed up the left eye and the chin a bit, and added a light pink for the left cheek, I feel it adds enough to justify its own color. Thanks for the kind words everyone, I appreciate them.

Instantly recognized this as your work, if nothing else the hair was a dead givaway, plus the palette for that game is forever seared into my mind. The textures are very neat and very you, and the hands turned out really well, but I don't personally find the green on the hand on our left to be very effective at accomplishing anything, I'm not really sure what you were going for with it. Nice job overall though, I'm impressed by how much life you were able to bring out of that dismal palette.

I really really  like this, your style always greatly appeals to me, however, I have a couple nitpicks to point out. Firstly, the HUD elements contrast too much with the rest of the piece, perhaps because yoru intent is to have different stages with different color schemes, with a constant palette for the HUD, I would reccomend either having palettes for them that will match the different areas, or maybe just one muted palette that does not stick out too much in any of the different color themes. The current one mostly achievs this, but the red sticks out a little too much in my opinion. The other, smaller concerns are that the skull to me does not read super well at 1x, and the flame in the lamp does not really seem like fire to me, additionally on that front, the lit lantern of that variety reads as an oval, while the extinguished one in the background reads as a rectangle. Very good stuff, though.

This is fantastic, however, I am not sure what is happening with her neck. To me it appears to be cut off too soon on both sides, I think we should see more of it on the side with her face, as right now I am reading it as almost completely disconnected. As Pheno said though, that hair is superb, really excellent work.

I am always impressed by good 3 color pieces, good picks, nice job working with that limitation

Stumbled across this today, I remember playing this game when I was little. You were some of my childhood inspiration, seeing this made my day.

The improvement here is absolutely fantastic, excellent work.

I am sure your intent was pure, but a flashing/vibrating seizure warning is somewhat counterproductive. The effect of that moving dither is interesting, neat concept.

This is definitely my favorite piece of yours, so much stuff being done so well, and your style works fabulously with the theme. I particularily love how much the fire glows, the fire's effect on the reptiles, and the dome of the igloo. That being said, I feel that the orange light on the croc and turtle could perhaps stand to be just a smidge lighter. Really really excellent work though.

Very much an improvement over the older ones, and still a really wonderful concept. I have to agree with finlal though, the second version has a more desolate and dead atmosphere, largely thanks to its less saturated colors. Personally, I do not care greatly for the drastically hueshifted colors in this piece, I find them, the blue espeically, to be jarring, and they give it an awfully lively aura. The colors of the other were much more dreary, which I found more fitting. Other than that, this is a great improvement, especially in regards to those marvelous reflections in the water, and the overall more polished look. I think it certainly seems more "video-gamey", but really don't think those colors are necessary to generate that effect, especially not with those ghosts and bats and skeletons and effects going on.

Heck yes, I know where my vote is going. Excellent work and really cool style. My only critique would be that the ttwo things in the front are somewhat odd. I am not sure what they are supposed to be, and the green spots beneath them serve no immediately obvious purpose.

Thanks, those are some good points. Mentally I am completely finished with this piece, but I'll keep that in mind when considering dithering in the future.

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Here's the contest, I wanted to make sure it was over before linking it to an entire other site, who only know one contestant and would therefore possibly be biased.