Pixel Art Game Sprite Competition

[Dominicaninja]

Or have two competitions going at the same time, one for those who like "true" pixel art and those that use Photoshop. There could be two separate winners.

[adi4x]

What do you mean it has no meaning? That's the whole point of "pixel" graphics. That's how you get the whole "pixel" look. By limiting yourself to the "pencil" tool (in Photoshop) and limiting colors (so people can't just take a 3D render or paint with the airbrush tool and, reduce it to 256 colors and still call it pixel art).

Fewer colors to work with is more challenging. Try shading something with only only 4 colors versus 256. Here is an example:

12 colors total. Palette was limited to these colors:


Maybe I'm just getting too old!

Ok Ray Beez.. is more chalanging with 2 colors.. but most of us are not pro's so a say we could make this contest to a acceptable level of difficulty and i mean to 255 colors (gif)

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I also agree with PRadvan ... we should participate only with "clean" hand pixels.
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Dominicaninja... i think is not a problem to use Photoshop since you are not using rendering functions and tools.

[Dominicaninja]

Well I remember people saying something like using the airbrush tool (or other similar tools) in Photoshop automatically makes it not true pixel art. That's why I suggested that.

[Ray Beez]

Ok Ray Beez.. is more chalanging with 2 colors.. but most of us are not pro's so a say we could make this contest to a acceptable level of difficulty and i mean to 255 colors (gif)

If you can draw, then there's no challenge without limitations. I guess that's what I'm saying. It's like those programming challenges where you have to squeeze as much as you can into 1kb. I assumed Flashkit had members who could draw more than stick figures.

[LeechmasterB]

If you can draw, then there's no challenge without limitations. I guess that's what I'm saying. It's like those programming challenges where you have to squeeze as much as you can into 1kb. I assumed Flashkit had members who could draw more than stick figures.

Hehe be careful! Better don't mess with daydream .

Anyhow i agree with the limitations of colours and tools like the last time we had this competition.

[adi4x]

Well I remember people saying something like using the airbrush tool (or other similar tools) in Photoshop automatically makes it not true pixel art. That's why I suggested that.

They were right... you have to calculate each pixel.
I fair to use only line and pencil.

PS This is my post number 500.. .. FK is a great forum. Im sory i could participate more...

[Pugger]

Sooooooooooo . . . are we going to have a competition?

[adi4x]

someone should make a new post!!!

[fil_razorback]

Mine would be full of english mistakes and no one could understand it...

[mr_malee]

COMPETITION 2

Theme:
-Create a Boss sprite for use within a 2D platform game. Animated submissions scores are added to by the amount of frames the animation has.

Rules:
- Must be Pixel Art
- No use of filters, don't blur to fix up mistakes, antialiasing can be achieved by hand, and in most cases looks better and more genuine
- Must be original work
- Maximum image size is 100px by 100px
- No limit on file size
- 32 colour limit
- Submit your creation in an uncompressed state, e.g (.png, .gif)
- Post as many submissions as you want (do not create a new post for an edit or update of a previous submission)
- Provide a breif description and/or name for your creation

COMPETITION 2 HAS STARTED

DATES:

Begins - 02/02/2006

ends - 12:00am 02/03/2006

Have fun.

[OpethRockr55]

Alright, Paint! Time to see what you can do!

[Ironclaw]

No colour limit? aww .... well, will still be fun to watch... I wont enter the competition as I can't draw anything...

[Pugger]

I agree with Mr Malee's rules. No color limit means I can make my rainbow stealth mech.

Oh, by the way, love the pixel battle going on. Awesome idea Mr Malee.

[mr_malee]

yeah, i'm lovin pixels at the moment, so should we wait for a few more replies before this thing is set in stone or what?

[Pugger]

Give it a day

[Ironclaw]

Limit the colors or it wont be true pixel art, I say.

16-32 colors is good, not more.

[mr_malee]

i guess that would elimate the blurring stuff, rules updated.

[Pugger]

Actually, Ironclaw is right. According to the wikipedia definition of pixel art you are using:

The aspiring pixel artist must remember to keep the color count low; the art is often to be used on systems where the number of available colors is limited, such as older video game consoles or mobile phones. The color constraint is also part of the genre.

So their we go. Case closed. I think we should limit the color to 24 colors. For no reason that I like the number 24 and it is also the name of a show I don't watch, which is isn't really related but, hmm, yeah, 24.

[fil_razorback]

I agree with all the rules here ^^

[adi4x]

Lets start then.. maybe someone could post a sample drawing