Background Blitz - Imprisonment - WINNER ANNOUNCED!

Mandle · Thu 26/03/2015 02:31:27

Quote from: Monsieur OUXX on Wed 25/03/2015 23:00:53
More evidence that I'm working

ARRRRGGGHH!!! STOP SHOWING AWESOME STUFF IN TINY CHUNKS!!!

I wanna see the full pic all at once and have my head explode from sheer awesomeness!!!

Monsieur OUXX · Thu 26/03/2015 09:35:33

Dammit I work with a monitor that has terrible, terrible contrast.
Every evening, I work on it and I'm happy, but then every morning I look at my drawing at work and I realize it's all black.

Haggis · Thu 26/03/2015 09:40:23

That's how I felt about my entry - if you look at it during the day it's pretty dark and murky. Look at it at night and it's much clearer!

Your entry is coming along very nicely - mystic stone figures and nazi flags. Ominous.

As usual the quality of entries this month is staggering.

ThreeOhFour · Thu 26/03/2015 09:56:21

Get a better light! I work with a ceiling light and a lamp, and also an LED light behind my monitor that shines on the wall and lights the wall up. That way my lighting conditions for drawing are always as consistent as possible.

Monsieur OUXX · Thu 26/03/2015 12:05:59

Quote from: ThreeOhFour on Thu 26/03/2015 09:56:21
Get a better light! I work with a ceiling light and a lamp, and also an LED light behind my monitor that shines on the wall and lights the wall up. That way my lighting conditions for drawing are always as consistent as possible.

Thanks for the tips, but it's not a matter of consistency in that specific case. It's my laptop's screen that is really terrible. IT's very unnecessarily bright while having a terrible contrast. It gives me a headache after 1 hour. You can't see the whole image at the same time (the contrast is significantly different at the top and at the bottom of the screen). I have to move my head up and down...

Terrible, terrible screen. Thank god it will be replaced soon.

Snarky · Thu 26/03/2015 13:03:58

My laptop (an old MacBook Pro) is a bit banged up, and has the peculiar feature that any black parts of the screen get filled with green snow, like some shitty version of the matrix, unless i press down on the case in certain specific spots. And sometimes there's pink static in white regions, but not as much. I don't use it for drawing, but it makes it quite annoying to watch movies on.

WRK · Thu 26/03/2015 14:00:52

Monsieur OUXX · Thu 26/03/2015 14:03:08

Oooooooooooow!!!!!! That is gorgeous! The other ones were gorgeous too, but that's my type of pixel art!

GreenBeams · Thu 26/03/2015 14:04:24

Quote from: Monsieur OUXX on Thu 26/03/2015 09:35:33
Dammit I work with a monitor that has terrible, terrible contrast.
Every evening, I work on it and I'm happy, but then every morning I look at my drawing at work and I realize it's all black.

Hmmm, just thought i'd weigh in on this one too - when i view it on the laptop, i get the detail (a little dark but i'd have to see the whole picture to tell if that shadow is justified given the light source) However, when i view it on the ipad it's mostly just solid black. with no detail whatsoever. i've no real clue as to why this is the case though =(

What i can see of it on the laptop looks typically excellent and up to your usual high standards!

And, @WRK, that's some mighty, puurdy fine work! Lovely stuff

Haggis · Thu 26/03/2015 14:08:35

@WRK - yet more beautiful pixel art from your bad self! Stunning. Love all the little details. How does one pick a winner from all these magnificent works?

@MonsieurOUXX - it's not even finished yet and I know it's going to be another masterpiece! For info - to get around the fact the image is very very dark I stuck your image in photoshop and ramped up the contrast / brightness so I could make it out.

selmiak · Thu 26/03/2015 17:22:59

@WRK: WOW!

Creamy · Thu 26/03/2015 18:44:17

@ Misj': it's funny that your personal text is "Too lazy to add an avatar" when you keep coming up with amazing art.

@ MonsieurOUXX: the contrast is good on my monitor. So far, the background looks like it could fit in your own Indy game

@ WRK : so many details with so few pixels! The colours are spot-on too.

@ Haggis : simple yet effective. Is it a second pod in the distance?

QuoteI think I'd happily live there

Haggis · Thu 26/03/2015 18:55:44

@Creamy - thanks! I was planning to add some text or some markings to the exterior of the pod but I just couldn't achieve it in a way I was happy with within the timescales.

QuoteIs it a second pod in the distance?

Correct! I was going for full on isolation but Cassie gave me the idea to subtly hint at the existence of other pods out there.

loominous · Thu 26/03/2015 19:45:09

Blimey, it's been more than four years since my last entry. Cool to see the standard being so high these days!

GreenBeams · Thu 26/03/2015 20:32:52

@loominous - Holy! Sheep! I think one of my eyes just fell off!

So glad OUXX asked for that extension

Misj' · Thu 26/03/2015 20:48:56

Quote from: GreenBeams on Thu 26/03/2015 20:32:52So glad OUXX asked for that extension

I'm not...all these will make my voting-choices a lot harder.

ps. good to see you're back in the race Loominous...

Monsieur OUXX · Thu 26/03/2015 23:40:21

Holy mother of farping Jesus, what's going on? Are you all becoming insane? Next thing I'll know is that CJ will come back to life just to join this contest.

Still a work in progress:
[imgzoom]https://40.media.tumblr.com/b859841493bdb993330a297842814c04/tumblr_nluf2hy5Yr1tsfksfo1_1280.png[/imgzoom]

Mouth for war · Thu 26/03/2015 23:59:00

Wow! EVERY entry is very nice for this competition indeed!!!! Good work people

ThreeOhFour · Fri 27/03/2015 09:16:30

More great entries. Awesome to see loominous entering again!

AprilSkies · Fri 27/03/2015 11:07:01

Awesome works guys!!!
all entries are soo good ... WRK and M.OUXX ONES are STUNNING!