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Thanks to all who entered, winners and photos from the opening will be posted sometime in October.
We assumed that wasn't enough to sell you on the idea, so here's some incentive.
Though this is a show and not a competition, the entries will be judged and awarded accordingly.
Prizes are as follows:
1st Place- $100
2nd Place- $ 50
3rd Place- $ 25
There's no cost to enter, and you can submit old work- or use this as an excuse to make something new. So there's little reason not to enter.
To enter, simply send the piece to my email at thereaintnocure@hotmail.com, or provide me a link in a private message here at the site.
It'd be very useful if you'd include your name, location (country/state), profession or student status, program used and any information you'd like to provide about the piece.
There is no limit on the number of entries, but prizes are restricted to one per person.
Deadline is the 23rd of September.
Just a heads up to everyone.
RULES
- Resolution: 16 pixel x 16 pixel image
- Format: .png, .gif, or .ico
- Size: 5 KB
- Transparency: 32 bit alpha transparency
- Deadline is June 20, 2008
- You must be of a legal age to form a binding contract to participate.
- Make the shape and profile visible.
- Incorporate some or all of the letters in "Google."
- Utilize the primary colors that are used in the Google logo.
- Avoid being product specific.
- Be timeless.
Anyway there's a thread on the PJ forum where you can discuss it! :)
*a favicon, also known as a website icon, page icon or urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon)
Normally I wouldn't be interested with such things, but it's for educational purposes.
Vote here!
(Also thanks should go to Metaru for coming up with the idea.)
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Album - Slideshow
Individual pics:
Halfway
Finished
Close-up
The Artists
Signatures
Snader is obviously in green, Larwick in grey and Brian in red. Incase you couldn't tell because of our laser-eyes.
Our restrictions were 400 post-its, 100 of each bright colour. The canvas (wall) was pretty much exactly 32 post-its in height.
Read the full post...
The site is all Japanese so navigating is a little confusing. Just click on the dots and you'll see the galleries.
Prizes....
First Prize will be $dA100 deviant dollars
Second Prize will be $dA50 deviant dollars
Third Prize will be $dA25 deviant dollars
These can be redeemed for anything from the deviantART shop including a subscription if that is desired.
If you enter please note me a link to your work on deviantART to http://www.deviantart.com/ and make a note in your artist comments it is for the competition.
If you you have not received a DD feature within the last three months the winner will also be featured with a DD.
Features include...
- layers
- layer effects
- dither brushes
- better palette control
- image color adjustments
- and much much more.
Given it's written in .net, I wonder how hard it would be to make a canvas-networking plugin? the possibilities are endless! Definitely give this program a try.
-Dan
Check out the entries here.
I neglected to mention it in my original post. Oops! My bad!
This should quell any and all sense of panic for those that thought they only had until Oct. 15th to submit.
Once again, there will be prizes (TBA) as well as a fancy page set up as in previous Pixelweens.
Have a read!
The 2007 collection has been announced and will be on display at the E for All Expo at the L.A. Convention Center, October 18-21st.
Go to the ITP website to view the 2007 collection online.
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Create a character using a DS Lite design tool and you can have your creation appear in a THQ game and win a $500 prize in addition to various other goodies courtesty of IGN.
At least two Picasso paintings, worth a total of nearly $66 million, were stolen from the artist's granddaughter's house in Paris, police said Wednesday. The paintings, "Maya and the Doll" and "Portrait of Jacqueline," disappeared overnight Monday to Tuesday from the chic 7th arrondissement, or district, a Paris police official said.
(I think its the chimps with spears)
Read the full story here.
For all of you guys interested in comics (and art in general) this music video might be interesting to watch: http://bubblare.se/fattaru_horde_jag_skal
Just sit back and enjoy the music and this very cool and unique video!
Check the video out on YouTube
This in depth look at the For Better or Worse process is really a terrific guide on how to produce a quality sequential art piece. Really well worth a look even if you're not a fan of this particular comic strip.
Bobby Chiu, conceptual artists, releases several helpful digital painting videos on Youtube showing his approach and artistic philosophes. Check 'em out here.
Looks like we've got another Game Dev Compo coming up!
Here's the link http://www.72HourGDC.com
Hope to see ya in the comp!
His website has a large gallery of his work, and also some prints/originals for sale. Some one needs to teach him how to pixel.
http://www.armpix.com/pixelopolis/index.php
, it might be an interesting visit. Details.
For those artists looking to bone up on color theory it's well worth your while to check out the following videos white, red, blue, yellow, green, pink and black each with their own unique RGB website address.
Story of the color red is definitely a good one to start with.
For everyone else, read the full story as told in the New York Post
Spider-Man first burst into the scene way back in 1962 in Amazing Fantasy #15. Fans all over the world have seen him reincarnated in various forms over the past 40+ years - from comics, to a number of animated cartoons, to the live action movies.
Spider-Man 3 swings into theaters May 2007.
Paper Inside - A site dedicated to "paper models". They recently posted a camera and even have the GhostBusters car.
PaperCraft - These are nothing short of amazing. Owned by Yamaha Motor Company, these are created by engineers. The have rare animals, motor cycles, and more.
RecorteCole - Some random paper models.
Be warned, paper models are NOT EASY! I highly recommend you take your time, and use card stock when printing them, as there are alot of small parts, and standard paper is almost to weak. And be sure to read and follow the directions, and most of all, ENJOY!
Imagine the time, skill, and patience something like this would take.
From Boing Boing: John Kricfalusi and Katie Rice are going to exhibit and sell their work at Every Picture Tells A Story in Santa Monica this Sunday. After the show, watch a bunched of BANNED John K cartoons at the theater across the street. Link
John K, creator and genious behind Ren and Stimpy, is running free, thats right, FREE drawing lessons! His blog, an infinite source of cartooning wisdom and wackiness, is now home to John K's very own drawing class. Read his instructions, pick up a pencil, and DRAW. It's an awesome opportunity to sharpen your skills and knowledge of one of the most engaging art forms known to man.
Since there is a doll category being crafted at deviantART (that will hopefully, in turn, rid the pixel art gallery of non-pixel art compliant submissions -- trying to say it as nice as I can!) , running is a contest for a little 16x16 gallery icon for the section. Of course, there are some meaty subs (hungry?) as prizes.
The terrific classic video game art contest is all over folks and the winner is posted for all to see. If you happen to be in the Los Angeles area from April 19 - May 19 drop on by Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight on Melrose to see the exhibition up close. I'm definitely going to try and make it to the opening reception on April 18th.
Hey guys,
Thought you might dig the ability to have all your readers submit art for possible inclusion in the "i am 8-bit" exhibition this April. Lots of prizes up for grabs!
http://games.ign.com/articles/694/694719p1.html
Cheers,
// jon
jon@iam8bit.net
Check out these interesting creations by artist David Chatt. They're three dimensional sculptures of everyday objects and figures made entirely from tiny glass beads, interestingly enought they sort of resemble pixel art (if you squint and cover your eyes). My personal favourite is number 9 of 12.
Thanks goes to my girlfriend Justine for spotting these.
Lifemeter is such a simple and pure gallery idea carried out elegantly -- art inspired by a love of video games.
I've blathered on about the "i am 8-bit" book previously, but a digg post reminded me just how effing cool the art is. Check out the gallery featuring Excitebike, Kirby, Mario, Centipede and a bunch of other classic games as interpreted by top notch artists.
Isometric Drawing Tool
Pixel art with Rubik's Cubes is all the rage these days. A Paris based artist named Invader is creating "pixel art" with the old mind teaser toy.
Hard to not to smile while playing through this beautiful and simple puzzle game. Reminds me of a low-tech Katamari Damacy (in a good way) or my all time favorite interactive portfolio design found here.
I've always been fascinated by the people behind all the wonderful characters we see in movies, television, comic books, video games, etc. Character Design at blogspot is a promising new blog that interviews some of these character designers and I encourage anyone looking to break into the biz to read through all the interviews for to get the insider dish.
I usually don't get too excited about product design, but these spiffy little flash drives really got me thinking. Companies like Apple have pushed industrial design with elegance and we are all better off for it (those nasty beige PC cases were a blight on society). Unfortunately, there just hasn't been much improvement in making tech products with personality. "Elegance" can sometimes just be code for "boring".
Why can't tech equipment be colorful and fun?
Found a bunch of great stuff on the excellent illustration blog Drawn this morning. The following are a nice variety of animated music videos featured at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
A quoi ça sert l’amour? is a beautiful little animation by the French animation studio Cube. It follows the rocky relationship of a stick figure couple set against a jazzy song.
Yet another gem found on Drawn!
What me worry? Sorry, I just had to throw that in there. Some nut has scanned every Mad Magazine cover going all the way back to 1952. Found on the ultra-nifty drawn illustration blog.
Check eeeeeeet!
Let's take a stroll down memory lane when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos. Check out these beautiful interpretations of classic video game characters...
- Mario and Princess
- Mario and Donkey Kong
- Pacman in Hospice
Mega Man and Punchout?- Luigi and Yoshi
There's a whole bunch more over at the eatpoo retrogame fanart thread.
Jil Lee put 500 empty speech bubbles in the streets and took pictures of what people wrote in. Some funny stuff.
[ Via Ozone Asylum ]
The title says it all. Check out this amazing artist's chiaroscuro work. Oooooh, chiaroscuro... that's the kind of vocabulary a couple of years of art school will buy. Money well spent.
Such a great concept executed perfectly... endlessly amusing videos using every day objects for props, special effects and actors. That is the world of PES. Who needs ILM when you've got a paper clip and a tape dispenser?
PES did the bobblehead campaign for the Los Angeles Dodgers and a beautiful CoinStar ad. There's also a fantastic Bacardi set of ads using only items you would find in a bar. Great stuff.
On my quest to make sense of the vast wasteland that is the internet I came across a lovely little Illustration blog with bazillions (give or take a gazillion) of cool artsy links.
While browsing Drawn!'s blog I came across a must see for the Manga fan in all of us... Garnier's Manga Head. Unfortunately, my hair isn't quite long enough to pull off any of the cool styles. 
Where's my Optimus Prime suckaz?
Check eeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
http://www.duracel.de/zoom/zoom.htm
It's finally done. You're very own iSTVAN (going by his real name, Ivan) has released his brand spanking new website for the superhero black comedy 'Black Hole.' You may have seen some images for the 'Black Hole: The Game That Sucks.' This is where it all began...
You can read the first episode, view non pixel related art, read about me and the other co-creator and lots of other neat stuff.
Check it out!
Special thanks to Jonathon Smeby for designing the site.
Click here!
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