...due to minimal cnc elsewhere... = you're ugly, but I'm drunk, so you'll do for tonight.

...therefore, a TINY update showing a better direction of where you're going might garner more POTENT cnc. Not that the SIZE of the palette ever matters tho yours is SMALL and perhaps INADEQUATE. The ground thingies don't seem to make much sense with the cityscape having no perspective...maybe this was a PREMATURELY EJACULATED idea. The skull cloud is a good transition to adding perspective...

... no breakfast for you, get out :p

It WAS obvious when you mentioned it, but before, im afraid not. Try attatching several of the waves together maybe into a row? or add highlights ontop? or you could scrap we waves entirely, and just use highlights and shadow (darker further back).

Could well be wrong but it might be worth a try.

I like the idea btw :)

hm.. maybe. I liked the letterbox effect and the shape of the canvas preciously...

Nicer but until further notice/updates the top graphic treatment adds nothing and may possibly take away from the overall mood...its too happy looking.

The clouds, although they could be wonderful, are too scratchy at the moment.

Worked on the clouds and heavily imitated Panda's piece http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/39681.htm.

EDIT: Little work on the skull to less cartoony



EDIT: AA'ed the sh*t out of it



Currently sitting at 19 colors and I'm sure there are some unnecessary ones.

Edited by Leroy - 21 February 2011 at 8:02am

The last update looks like its settling down and finding its way. The previous clouds/skulls were more graphic and exiting. This last as said is too cute and toony. The plane is just silly, it adds nothing.

If your canvas has a cityscape in the distance and 'something' has occurred in the city where a cloud formation showing a skull, implying some type of doom then the story the piece tells has no connection to a plane flying overhead at all. I dunno, seems silly. All smart pieces tell a story.

the plane does add something- Chemtrails

Maybe even add a few more of them, without planes and higher up, intersecting. Like this, but maybe not that many.


Oh hey look my rank changed. Now it no longer rhymes with semen.

Edited by tanuki - 21 February 2011 at 10:54am

Therewego



Edited by Leroy - 21 February 2011 at 11:51am

Heh I guess it didn't work as well there, took out the darkest blue there.
Also removed some dithering and took the mouth from the earlier version.

have you tried a horizontal composition? I just don't feel the planes add that much. I get the concept, but the planes look peaceful and separate conceptually from the smog.

Arg pixeling skywriting is hard.

Done?



Also progress animation
http://i.imgur.com/SRUmm.gif

Hyperlinking fails

Edited by Leroy - 22 February 2011 at 6:32am

I like how you think

Update from comments at Pixelation




and which one do you prefer out of these?

I prefer the left one - it looks more natural. The right one is too washed out.