Lets get this started

The theme for this week is: Pokemon.
Anything as long as its pokemon related.

Restrictions
Palette: none
Size: No restrictions
Animation: none

Also, you have until the Wednesday of July 22nd, 2009 to finish.

Good luck everybody!

Oh Ethan. you know what gets me going.
can you add 2 days onto the end time, I don't have enough time this week to get round to finishing a pixel

This looks great and I love the lack of restrictions. Good luck everybody!

God i remember this but i might do something

lol ill see what i can do

I was going to take part, since i have nothing to do for 7 weeks, but then i saw the topic and i must congratulate you on choosing something that i appsolutely refuse to do. Have fun guys

Pikachu. Epic Win

My first pixel!
Yea, not gonna try much anymore, takes too much time.
Decided to go with the most simple pokemon ever:


I really don't like the right eye, but couldn't figure out how to get it to look good. Oh well.

I'm going to enter.
I might go over the 20th in finishing it though.
But that's only if I get extremely bored doing it and get distracted or I don't do anything at all tomorrow.

I'm working on a Cyndaquil, not sure how it's gonna come out, but it's not even funny how much his head looks like a piece of male anatomy. Seriously.

EDIT:

Here we go:



Used this as a reference:

Cyndaquil is the best Pokemon ever and his head does in no way resemble a male member.

Nearly finished mine.
Only got to pixel up my Pokeguy.

Here's My Submission.

Doubt I'll get a place in the top three, but might as well enter it anyway.

This is what took so long. I hate doing grass.

Used a sillhouette as a reference for the shape (so no colours ftl) and then had to use a separate for colours so some of the placements of colours are a bit off, especially in the tailwing.

EDIT: Yes, it's small. It was originally over twice the size but I wondered what the point was if Ho-Oh was going to be small.

http://www.freewebs.com/dark_charizard/charizard2.gif
Google Image Search -> Charizard
This is traced. Is this allowed?

It's generally frowned upon in the pixelling community, but since everybody is so lax in the rules and restrictions of these i can't say for certain. I do know how annoying it can be trying to get an outline done though...

None of these are pixel art cept for pokes but ye ill still put em in the competition thing..

It's not completely traced. Look at the tips on the wings. On Mike's it's more of a rounded shape. On the actual picture they're a sort of cylinder.

I haven't pixeled in so long...

but heres my entry--thought of doing some lightning or something coming off him--but couldn't get it to look right.

No reference.

So far

I'll try and get it done for tommorow


No but it's exactly the same size as the origional.

Wicked! So because the tips of the wings are a very (obviously very very different) Its not copied what so-ever!

i dont trace, i just tried to get as close as i could... i made the dimensions the same because it looked good at that size. Also, lots of the features are different from the reference image such as his arms (didnt put much effort into them), The nostrils,the wings, the random lines on his neck and wing, adn the spikes on his legs and hands. The features are also much more anglular on mine, ill do another if it pleases you

Yeah, it isn't traced. I just compared them.

It isn't hard to trace something and then change parts.
And I just compaired...


original image is underneith. It's the same bloody size and scale.

I smell something fishy.. is it magikarp?

Finished

There is no way on earth that isn't traced. It's too accurate to scale, size and shape for it to be made by simply using it as a reference. It is literally impossible for a human to be so accurate to copy something to such a similar scale.

am done



a quicky

its perfectly possible, not for most, but it is. u should see some of the stuff friends at school do just using references.

One day left of competition guys... GO GO GO!

If it was by reference, the scale, the size, and the shape would not be exactly the same.

its not the axact shape, make mine transparent so u can see the differences, all u can see is the edge.

and i did make the dimensions the same, all u gotta do is make ur canvas the same dimensions as the original, aint that hard >.>

It honestly is that hard. You don't start off with a canvas and then do the outline, you do an outline and then resize it to fit. The body is identical and the wings are within a 1-2px range of the original. It is traced, or you have a photographic memory and damn steady hands.

your wish is my command.


need I say more, do I need to make a witty animation aswell?

Oh please do, that would be charming

It's clearly traced, i don't know why we are arguing about that. But the point is, should it be allowed in the competition? It is frowned upon in the pixelling community, but since Kingy and everybody else who hosts these competitions is so lax in the rules, there was no prior warning about what sort of action should be taken in such an occurrence. This could be considered unfair.

What is unfair?

Shunning something from the competition when it hasn't broken an 'official rule'.
It's against the spirit of fair play but nobody laid down rules saying you couldn't trace it.

I'm not bothered that he traced
I just want him to admit that he did. I'm a bit love-child like that but I don't like being lied to.

I never said it couldnt go in the competition.. but he obviously lied about tracing.


COMPETITION IS CLOSED!!