Topic: Pixel Art

The Chain Chomps with the primary colors look cool, 110%.

New updated avi!

That's amazing, zez. The ocarina has turned 16-bit.

@110 Your chain chomp art reminds me of a certain level from Super Mario Sunshine and even more of a certain level from Super Mario Galaxy and more still of a certain level from Super Paper Mario. Let the guessing begin (for a virtual cookie, of course).

On super mario sunshine, the level where chain chomp gets his bath.
On super paper mario, the fight with the three primary color chomps, where nothing moves, and it is turn based like the original paper marios.
On super mario galaxy, I have no idea

The super mario sunshine level is where I got the idea of making a gold [I guess it turned out looking yellow] chain chomp.

@zez: WOW, you did a great job with your avatar. You should do something with the background, though.

I can't beleive I thought about gifting you a VC game for it. What should I do with the background?

In it's original size, I've decided to make three ghosts from Pac-Man:

Artist's notes: it's not been resized; the first one was created the other two were copied and pasted, albeit altered; I used the brush feature, but it's all pixels; the three ghosts each represent the emotion from their colors (blue=sad; pink=shy; red=mad); and it was a fun project.
Any thoughts on it?

Great job Starboy!

@pixelman: How do I make resize an image(pixely art) without losing quality? My ocarina, for example, when zoomed to 100%, it is really small. How would I make it NL-avatar-sized? Also, what should I change about my avi background?

Looks good StarBoy. :3

@zez: Use the scale tool. Select the entire image with the Rectangle select tool (topleft), then click the Scale Tool, and resize it to twice the selected area's dimensions. Also, make sure you set the Interpolation on the scale tool to None so it won't be blurry.

As for your background, I dno. Just a green background seems a bit bland to me. Perhaps change it to white and put a snazzy shadow under it? lol

@pixelman: Thanks alot!
I don't want to copy you. I'll try out some different backgrounds.

@zez: You could try making the background whatever color you like, and make some slightly brighter rays shooting out from the center, like this:

I might try that! (GREEN FTW!!)
Okay, what is with the distorting? The pixels are not the same size???
EDIT: Fixed.

i like it, Starboy. the... "tails?"... need a little adjustment, but it's pretty cool, i think.

I made ToonLink a new avi.

I fixed my image some:

Thanks for the tip about changing the tails, bro. Now, they really look like Pac-Man ghosts. I also made their heads rounder, and added some more tears to the blue ghost.
Improved image.

i agree, Starbiy. better, all around.

man, i love this thread. so much talent. (btw, good job, zez) it really makes me wish i had the patience and/or artistic mind enough for pixel art.

@110 Nice! Two e-cookies for you!
The Mario Galaxy level:
http://guides.ign.com/guides/748588/page_54.html

I'm currently making an avatar-sized pixel art.
Hint, hint.