Announcing the winners of the 16 color palette contest.
First Place - DawnBringer
Second Place - Crimso
Third Place - Night
Honorable Mention - atpalicis - Super17 - FlyGuy - [thUg] - Drazile - pavanz - Naji & Froste
DawnBringer
Crimso
Night
Congratulations to all who contributed a palette. Excellent and deserving good palettes by all. Anyone using a palette for their work remember its nice to credit the creator.
Winners were chosen by your Mod staff and invited PJers Mandrill, neota and r1k by ballot, most palettes were tested. The most votes moved to Round 2 for points based on all judges 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices.
Thanks to everyone for submitting such great palettes (65), we were honestly very surprised at the overall quality of the palettes and as such it was incredibly difficult to select a winner.
Honorable mentions and palettes in no particular order are:
atpalicis (Entry #1)
Super17 (Entry #1)
FlyGuy (Entry #2)
[thUg] (Entry #3)
Drazile (Entry #3)
pavanz
Naji (Entry #2)
Froste
This comp was to pick the palette for the next PJ forum iso collaboration, which will be posted in a few days.
But the contest was started to make a palette for collab.
So choosing palette by overall quality may harm the collab itself, which would make no sence.
This may sound like a broken record, but I hope the new collab has equilateral triangular tiling, would be cool to see how this would work.
I guess, I just feel that the winner of a palette contest should be the best palette overall, not just the palette that suits the theme the best.
The point for those who enter is to concentrate on balance, harmony and color choices that work well together.
Not knowing the theme is the challenge and winning palettes are not any better than those that did not. Some entries are great and hopefully used by others.
Well, that makes it kinda hard to make an entry, doesn't it? If we don't know what you're looking for, how would we know what to put in our entry?
But OBVIOUSLY DB would win. Cmon, that's his thing. really great, guys.
Not insinuating anything, but are the palettes separate from their usernames during the judging? I feel like that is the normal protocol.
Wow am I ignorant xD
I need some einstein to hurry up and invent a way to show sarcasm over the internet
Palettes were chosen geared to the theme of the next iso collab mostly.
If it were just general good palettes this would have been impossible, tho having a well balanced and attractive entry always helps.
From what I've heard judging was based on how well the palette would work with the next collab, on top of quality and originality.
That would be totally unfair, imagine just you being banned just because you were good at making colors. It's not like DB has some unfair advantage, he practiced and became a master, just as everyone else can.
Yeah, this is the best part of these compos: Trough the compos we are challenged to level up!
I think submissions where the judges don't know the names would be better than just banning a particular user for winning.
Was the comp based upon the next collab or just in general?
I propose banning DB from further contests in the interest of fair play and even chances.
Alternatively, everybody else could work thrice as hard and beat him square. An idea.
I think the overall quality increase is DB's work again. His toolbox is really someting.
Thanx guys and congrats to all winners (esp. [thUg] who now has three thumbs!!). I'm quite happy with this palette and very curious to see what ppl can do with it.
It's my perception that the quality of palettes has increased with each of these compos, but there's still a refreshing amount of creativity among the entries.
Only saw this post (chatterbox draws too much attention to itself). Congrats everybody, can't wait for the collab to begin.
Thanks for honorable mention and congrats to the winners and others who got mentioned!
Can't wait to see DB's palette in the collab. Congrats everyone.
omg! thank you so much! this is such a surprise! 
and congrats to all winners! : )
Congratulations DawnBringer and Crimso, and everyone in the honourable mentions section! Excellent palettes for sure. :)
Wow I thought both of Jinn's entries were brilliant and he didn't even get an honorable mention. The winners are still well deserved.
Congratulations to DB and everybody else!
It's like jal said, the quality of the submissions was extremely high. It took a lot of time and testing to determine the winners.
That is unfair to us all :(
All palettes were judged on their own and against each other very fairly. Most went thru some sort of manual tryout and DB winning has nothing to do with it being DB...he's good at palettes.
The difference between 1,2,3 was marginal and for all practical purposes all honorouble mentions are tied.
Congrats, DB!
I should give it a spin next time, even though I'm pretty terrible at this palette thing :P
Finally the winners have arrived :3 Yeah, I wasn't very confident in my palette anyways and I even forgot about it. Maybe next time I'll do much better, once I understand color theory some more and practice devising palettes.
Either Dawnbringer is some sort of genius colorist or people voted for DB because they already knew he has a strong grasp on color. I don't have the deepest understanding of color theory myself, so I couldn't tell you which is the case.
Great!
I do promote DB16 in my talks about pixel art for game jams. I will try the new FUN16 and possibly include that one!
Good job everyone and congrats to the winners. Night looks tasty :D
Congrats to everyone too! terrific palettes :)
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Nice, wasn't even expecting a mention.