On a bet you spend the night in an old abandoned house rumored to be haunted... In the middle of the night you hear strange noises and feel the floor beneath you vibrating, ever-so-slightly. Never one to believe in the irrational you decide to seek answers.
During your investigation in the grand entry room you notice that one of the spindles on the banister doesn't seem to connect to the railing. You give it a tug. To your surprise the stairs begins to move! They seem to be sinking! The stairs continue to lower and reveal a hidden doorway! The stairs, now leading downwards towards the newly revealed door, stop moving and with a final creak, seem to settle in place. You walk down the stairs and with a final, hesitant breath, swing the door wide open.
In front of you is a massive complex, it reminds you of a hospital, or maybe the science laboratory your mother works at... You hear an intense rattling noise just ahead of you. Regaining your focus you remember why you were awoken in the middle of the night. Sheets of cloth cover many items in the room, sheathing possible noise makers from view. You decide to rip all of the sheets off and find out exactly what's causing strange noises. You walk to a nearby stainless steel table with a number of objects on it; you grab a corner of the sheet, take another hesitant breath and rip the sheet off!
You take a step backwards... There, on the table! It's... It's...
WHAT IS IT?!
You tell me! The object of this coloring ball is to render something that could exist in a creepy, subterranean science lab. Is it an instrument of science? An otherworldly creation? Maybe it's a visual non-sequitur! Who knows? You do... You do...
The Guidelines
1. No color restrictions (but I love clever usage of limited palettes.)
2. Rotation and scaling is fine as long as the "general shape" remains the same.
3. Due to the nature of how I created the outline there are several small peaks and valleys that can be ignored as long as the "general shape" of the outline is maintained.
4. Warping the outline is not allowed.
5. An explanation of your creation is not required but can help identify some of the more creative/obscure creations.
The Outline
(http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/6546/shapez.png)
P.S. Trophies will be made- but they are pending. I'm a busy bee these days. =D FTW!
Too difficult?
I don't think it will be too difficult, but the shape needs some refinement:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/otomosc/Pixel%20Art/shapez-questionablecolorball.png)
Since this is a bigger shape, i will do a progress thing... so far, this:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/otomosc/Pixel%20Art/cball-quest-prog1.png)(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/otomosc/Pixel%20Art/cball-quest-prog2.png)(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/otomosc/Pixel%20Art/cball-quest-prog3_1.png)(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/otomosc/Pixel%20Art/cball-quest-prog4.png)
update1: Some basic shading to get an idea of what I'm making.
update2: Started the coloring process a bit.
update3: More coloring, especially the intestines.
update4: COMPLETE, more details, some refinement to the shading, and teeth.
SO WHAT IS IT?!
A mistake that's what! While trying to clone a cross-breed of piranha and human this was the outcome. It became known, as mistake #13. Will they ever succeed? let's hope not.
By refinement you mean multiple "passovers" on your artwork, or that I should clean up the outline a bit.
As a side note- it doesn't have to be that large. You can resize the outline, as long as it retains a modicum of fidelity to the original outline.
P.S.
That already looks awesome Darius!
The outline just had allot of anti-alias going on that I felt was unnecessary, so I refined it by just cleaning up the lines.
Oh! I understand, that was accidental. I typically draw in MASSIVE sizes and then make the image smaller and then edit for "pixelish" looks. I wasn't thinking and when I made the outline I opened up my regular template for it... a side effect of this is anti-aliasing, which I then clean up/simplify in order to reduce the image size.
I should have thought about that. I'm sorry. =' [
(http://s2.postimage.org/meXVi.png) (http://www.postimage.org/)
Dead rat on a piece of cheese.
and I'm done!
Niiiiice. Any idea's on what it is? =P
I'm going with mutated squid-human hybrid.
Quote from: Questionable on Wed 06/10/2010 13:35:26
Niiiiice. Any idea's on what it is? =P
I'm going with mutated squid-human hybrid.
by now you've probably read my actual description on what it is but I kind of like your idea. It actually would make a bit more sense I think, especially with how I decided to color it in the end, there's not not allot there that says piranha, except the teeth I suppose.
I'm actually going to be out of town until Thursday; so, Extension until the 19th!
QuoteSummary - Questionable
Last Active: 16 Oct 2010, 03:56
Is there any plan of action in place if a host forgets the competition for a week?
Hmm... Questionable gave the extension until the 19th, when he was due back in town on the 21st. So he should have been in town for two days and not realised, and indeed he is in town as we speak. So Questionable has forgotten about us :'( So wonely :'(
It took me forever to draw that dead rat.
Bueller? Bueller?
This contest was never officially closed, so here's an entry to remind people of that fact:
(http://www.deviantart.com/download/188919610/scrap2747_by_masochisticcannibal-d34h7ay.png)
The scary thing is that he hasn't been active on the forums since he last posted that. I hope things went well when he left town.
Anna nother one rides the bus!
Seriously, who's taking out all the awesome people around here?! :-X
Quote from: Wonkyth on Thu 09/12/2010 00:45:17
Anna nother one rides the bus!
Seriously, who's taking out all the awesome people around here?! :-X
He apparently was last active in the forum on the 10th of Dec... the day after wonky said the above... maybe he's still working on the trophies :)
Would anyone have a problem if we put this to votes?
ie: Post here who you think deserves to win. Winner will be announced on the 15th April.
Darius Poyer
+ 1
Darius Poyer.
Yep.
I don't know what happened in the last four posts... four votes for me? three? two? It's a bit confusing.
I'd like to suggest we just move this along, break it off now, ive got a contest all lined up, lets just reanimate the ol' colorball already.
Anyone in opposition?
Oh just do it already ;)
Yeah to be honest, I think you're pretty much the clear cut winner Darius Poyer. Congrats, No trophy but if someone with some artistic ability wants to make one for you?
The other contestants appear inactive anyway.
Congrats!!
EDIT: If you want a trophy, I shamelessly stole your entry and goldified it. It's crap, but better than nothing right? ;D
(http://i.imgur.com/kQpgc.png)
thank you Stee!
that must be the biggest trophy in colorballing-history right there.
New contest in a few minutes!