Coloring Ball: Early 80s [Winner Announced!]

AnasAbdin · Sat 18/04/2015 21:24:13

Monochrome graphics is ancient technology to us. We are the future, we are the one.
Finally and after years of dedication in our labs, we finally introduce the seed of success:

CGA graphics baby! Yes! Those are colors you are observing with your eyes!
Your options are unlimited now!
Let your imagination take you to other realms and places you didn't dare to go to in the world of black and white.
Show us your talents by filling the following shape with anything that scream 80s

Rules:
You can rotate the shape 90, 180, or 270 degrees.
You can flip the shape horizontally or vertically.
You can color the outline of the shape as you like.
You cannot scale the shape. But using imagezoom is good practice.
The shape and the outline MUST only be colored using the four colors in the following palette:

Trophies: (1st 2nd 3rd)

Submissions deadline: May 1st ~~2015~~ 1981

>>> WINNER ANNOUNCED! <<<

	[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/WR5WxEn.gif[/imgzoom]	by WRK
	[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/gsPy17Z.gif[/imgzoom]	by Sinsin
	[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/AAy39dD.png[/imgzoom]	by AprilSkies

Congratulations AprilSkies! You won this CGA coloring ball!
Thanks to every amazing participant in this round! And thanks for all voters too! I'm glad that I couldn't vote since it was a very hard decision

See you in the next Coloring Ball by AprilSkies!

AnasAbdin · Tue 21/04/2015 15:13:17

Hello?

? Is it the pallette? I even chose a large shape to give space for gradients and cool effects

cat · Tue 21/04/2015 15:30:59

I think it's a great topic and I already have an idea, but sadly no time at the moment. Maybe next weekend

AprilSkies · Tue 21/04/2015 16:05:53

WHAT A GREAT COMP!
I hope to find time very soon!

AnasAbdin · Tue 21/04/2015 16:27:34

Yay

I will extend the deadline if needed

Mandle · Tue 21/04/2015 17:26:09

Quote from: AnasAbdin on Tue 21/04/2015 15:13:17
Hello?? Is it the pallette? I even chose a large shape to give space for gradients and cool effects

I don't know how to use gradients in the expected way to achieve the '80's look when this technical advance came out.

I know what it looks like. But I don't know how to do it with modern day graphics tools (GIMP)...

I don't know if this is what is holding back entrants. But this is what is holding me back...

AnasAbdin · Tue 21/04/2015 18:38:16

Mandle you don't have to use gradients! It was a suggestion only to stir things up

check out the pod in the center of this SQ ]|[ background or even google cga games to get an idea of how simple this can be

Now I really wanna see an entry from you!

selmiak · Tue 21/04/2015 21:02:49

there are at least 80 s in this!

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/fW45hkQ.png[/imgzoom]

oh yeah, it also screams 80 s!

Spoiler

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/JIvzXPn.gif[/imgzoom]

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I should turn it around and get some zzzz

WRK · Tue 21/04/2015 21:14:45

@Madle: Although this tutorial is for Photoshop and involves
some weird layer options, maybe it will help you:
http://8088mph.blogspot.com/2013/10/using-photoshop-as-cga-bitmap-paint.html

Also, I would just search for cga artworks (games, demoscene)
and study them very close, pixel by pixel to find out different
gradient patterns and what effect they create (edit: as AnasAbdin said earlier).

jwalt · Wed 22/04/2015 00:18:21

Pretty much came up empty of ideas on this shape with color limitations. Decided I'd just get even:

[imgzoom]http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/jwalt10705/anasTry2_zpsvriztrdk.png[/imgzoom]

It was interesting to look at some of the CGA images, however!

AnasAbdin · Wed 22/04/2015 14:42:39

My my! selmiak your animated shape is awesome. It is indeed screaming 80s

jwalt I spelled my drink when I saw your shape! I like it

but if you want it to be part of this competition make sure you get rid of these few transparent pixels outside of the palette's limit.

Thank you WRK for the tutorial, but guys seriously this is supposed to be fun after all! Now you made me wish I never used the word gradient $:-\$ Tell you what? Fill the shape with as much colors as you want. Shade and do whatever you do. Then decide which colors from the palette fit best. If you want to melt two colors together was the simple chess board method

If you want more shades simply check the CGA banner in the first post in this thread!

Putting in mind that you can always draw stuff with 4 colors and no shading at all!
Good luck

jwalt · Wed 22/04/2015 18:58:10

Quote from: AnasAbdin on Wed 22/04/2015 14:42:39

jwalt I spelled my drink when I saw your shape! I like it but if you want it to be part of this competition make sure you get rid of these few transparent pixels outside of the palette's limit.

Transparent pixels outside the palette's limit... Looks like I wound up on the wrong side of my revenge. ;-)

Edit:

Okay, I found and fixed three pixels outside the color palette. If there are more, it's okay with me to disqualify the entry. I'm having some problems uploading images at the moment, and it's not likely to change in the near future.

[imgzoom]http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/jwalt10705/anasTry3_zpsxe9drxll.png[/imgzoom]

kconan · Wed 22/04/2015 20:09:42

This reminded me of my 5.25 disk notch puncher from Electronics Boutique so I pulled it out from the deep recesses of my old IT stuff box, and there is only a passing resemblance...I think seeing CGA and those 3.5 floppies implanted the idea in my head or something.

AnasAbdin · Wed 22/04/2015 20:28:49

jwalt no one is being disqualified

you're in.

kconan... wonderful find

AnasAbdin · Thu 23/04/2015 07:41:49

I fixed a few pixels from jwalt's entry

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/THx2GEE.png[/imgzoom]

Fred7162 · Thu 23/04/2015 10:10:02

Here's my entry. Hopefully it's sufficiently 80's or something.
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/rVwwuqa.png[/imgzoom]

AnasAbdin · Thu 23/04/2015 13:26:07

Great entry fred!
is it an 80s stereo cassette player with a huge pause button?

Fred7162 · Thu 23/04/2015 14:46:55

Quote from: AnasAbdin on Thu 23/04/2015 13:26:07
Great entry fred!
is it an 80s stereo cassette player with a huge pause button?

To be completely honest with you. I don't know anymore. The more I look at it the weirder it looks, so I'll just call it art and let people come to their own conclusions.

Monsieur OUXX · Thu 23/04/2015 16:12:30

My entry :
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[imgzoom]https://41.media.tumblr.com/722748d3ea7cf2670dee8ac23126fa5c/tumblr_nn9m5oInoT1tsfksfo1_400.png[/imgzoom]
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Cassiebsg · Thu 23/04/2015 16:42:44

That's amazing!
I'm always amazed to see what you guys come up with!

I'm working on something too... but am not sure I'll have the patience to get it looking as good as that!