CHALLENGE: Starburst

Create an image using only the colours of the four Starburst Original flavours.

Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Exactly 4. Use only the colours shown below:



Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

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CHALLENGE RULES

• Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
• Only new pixels allowed.
• Open to all members.
• Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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CHALLENGE JUDGING

• Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
• Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
• Winner announced the following week.

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CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

• Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
• Top finisher gets to call the following week's challenge...sweet.
• 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
• No matter what happens you get challenged :)

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CHALLENGE VOTING

Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Starburst pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

You can turn grid on or off if it's Grafx2 you're using, the g key is the shortcut for it :)

the closest I've gotten was to, say if I used 16x16 tiles, switched grid to 8x8, then select 4 tiles at a time (2x2 square) in the tile window for the big ones and 1 tile at a time for the off-center ones.

Another way is to have 2 separate .tmx files, one with a transparent layer of another grid size that you overlay on top of the other one in another program.

Decided to go with an isometric Starburst shop.


My first try at a.) buildings b.) any type of challenge c.) isometric art

Hope you guys like it!

Edited by JosephSeraph - 14 April 2015 at 7:29am

Don't believe in dithering, buddy! Clusters, it's clusters!

Oh, the flavours are cherry, orange, strawberry and lemon, right?

Didn't have much time to work on this today but I wanted to do a bit more.

-changed floor
-added leaves
-clouds
-sun position

Well... I started working on something too :D I have just rough idea and i dont know if i finish this one in time .(Ludum dare :)

A sword
Single frame anim
I'm going to add animation at a later date

*EDIT*
I swear I used to have a pixeljoint account...
Maybe I didn't
Oh look, My name overflows!

Edited by AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex - 15 April 2015 at 3:58pm

AlexTheRobot

We need to take care of these 2 account by picking just one. If you wish to keep this new one then we should remove an Alex or two, right?

Wanted to make my own WIP timeline of what I submitted for this challenge, so here it is.



Edited by Jackster - 15 April 2015 at 7:43pm

I've always wanted to try this kind of limited palette. But I still didn't decide which which one I should finish left one or right one. Btw this is my first weakly challenge. :)
   

I normally don't create material like this but I couldn't help myself.


Edited by Sturo - 16 April 2015 at 11:14am

The Tangerine Keep.. I don't think I will finish/ enter but I made a rough image anyway.



Edited by |||| - 16 April 2015 at 2:05pm

Very strong concept! I reckon doing the finishing touches and smooth everything out would take too much time.

Really love the idea for the challenge, but I don't think it'll work for the scene I pictured in my mind : (



@Alex
Very nice use of the palette! Not sure where you plan on taking the background though. Imho, I would suggest just using a yellow as your bg instead of the pink.

Edited by ADrawingMan - 17 April 2015 at 9:00am

Planning on some mountains; another layer or two with more pink grid overlay (similar to how far away stuff is bluer, but you know, not blue)
Also waving banners on poles in the closer background, and maybe some clouds


The yellow is the brightest color, and I wanted the highlights to be a little brighter than the background. At one point, I filled the background layer with red, it honestly wasn't bad


Well thank you
Your city scene is very nice!

v8

Finished mountains, added more layers, demonstrating the depth coloring
v9

Added middle field and antialiased mountains better
v10

Unmoving flags added
Still not final
Working on animation!

Edited by AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex - 18 April 2015 at 10:39am

Flag anim
I was starting to get pissed at myself so I worked on the animation separately, instead of copying each frame to each flag
*EDIT* Aaah Imgur's .gifv's only seem to work on their site
Aaand just found out that every color I have been using is a little too dark, no wonder it looks different

Edited by AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex - 18 April 2015 at 12:57pm

v11

Added flag animations and shadow animations for the flags
Still going to do clouds

How true! Maybe just add the other 2 colors in the most minimal of ways. Perhaps even just the headlights of the train so its a power outage type of scene?

Not going to enter the challenge, and this image is not quite finished...but it was a good opportunity to try out the 4-dither (2x2) technique I've been working on recently.

I'll probably write a snippet about it at some point...

Edited by DawnBringer - 19 April 2015 at 4:59pm

I hope you finish it at some later point. It's a great piece so far.