Sprite Jam! January 4th to the 11th!

[Pesty]

Hey hey! I won the sprite jam for my birthday! What a present!

So, I always have trouble thinking up topics for sprite jams, but I think I have a fun one for you all to do. It's something I enjoy spriting, so hopefully you guys will enjoy it too!

Rules:
Dinosaurs!

I prefer useable sprites, but if you feel like doing something elaborate, go for it!

Restrictions:
Max Size:200x200
Max Colors: 256

So have at 'er! YEEHAW.

[Sam.]

its.... a dinosaur, who practises business.

[Arcangel]

My first entry in this category, I liked this Dyno so I use this in my next game.


Size: 150 x 175
Colors: 128

Edit: Modified Version  in Fireworks MX

[HillBilly]

This is for threatening to pull a lawsuit on me Barney, you sack of crap.



Colors: 15, I would say. I probably broke a rule anyway.

[JimmyShelter]

A quick one:

[Damien]

I beileve Pesty ment 256 actual unique colors on your sprites.
Arangel, you use 294 colors, and HilBilly 584. If you save it as a .gif it will automatically be reduced to 256. Just don't use mspaint for that. 

Although it seems to you guys that you used a small amount, your programs automatially anti-aliased it creating much more than 15 or 8 colors.

[HillBilly]

Yeah, well, it's the thought that counts. Hi-res graphics are way too ugly in 256, so you can just withdraw my submission.

[Sam.]

not to contradict you, but this version fo your sprite only has 256 colours. I see little difference.

[Mordalles]

MONSTER FACTS:
Name: Triceratops (try-serra-tops) means 'three-horned face'
Size: up to 9m long and 3m high
Food: all types of plants
Lived: 70-66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous in North-America

[Arcangel]

Damien,
How you calculated 294 colors.
if I copy it in GIF i only use 256. explain to me.

[JimmyShelter]

Triceratops:

"Monster Facts:
Name:  Triceratops (try-serra-tops) means 'three-horned face'
Size: up to 9m long and 3m high
Food: all types of plants
Lived: 70 - 66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous in North America."

and before i forget the actual sprite:

188x142, 15 colours

Wow, very nice!

[nihilyst]

Here is a big one.



He actually is SO big, that he exceeds the dimension restrictions.  Well, since I don't have the time to make him look better, he wouldn't have won, anyway. Not that I ever would win the Sprite Jam ... Guess, I'm dreaming again.

Mordalles, I really like your try-serra-tops. The first time I saw him I thought it was a photograph ... I then realized, that there are no photos of prehistoric beings. 

cheers
nihilyst

[esper]

There. 200x200, although he doesn't fill all the boundaries of that size (he's prolly like, 180x165 or somethin'), with only 6 colors...

EDIT: I hate myself... I saved it as a jpg, and now it sucks... I'm so ashamed

Here. I don't know if we're allowed multiple entries, but in case we are or in case the jpg doesn't count for some reason, here's another. Let's see if someone can come up with what I used as a reference pic 

[AlbinoPanther]

Star wars 

[Corey]

Triceratops:

"Monster Facts:
Name:  Triceratops (try-serra-tops) means 'three-horned face'
Size: up to 9m long and 3m high
Food: all types of plants
Lived: 70 - 66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous in North America."

and before i forget the actual sprite:

188x142, 15 colours

Wow, very nice!

awsome indeed!!

[mwahahaha]

I'm a bit new to this, but anyway...



Yeah, it's not really a dinosaur but it's sorta a mix of various dinosaurs.

I'm also very bad at legs/feet as you can tell.

[Damien]

Damien,
How you calculated 294 colors.
if I copy it in GIF i only use 256. explain to me.

Well, your first version was in .png format. I saved it to disk and opened with IrfanView and clicked on image information or something simmilar. Then a window poped up showing the number of unique colors.

A .gif file is restricted to 256 colors (correct me if I'm wrong) so if you use a program that can convert to gif without distorting the image (photoshop, gimp, graphics gale,...) it automatically converts it to 256 colors or less.

I hope this answers your question. 

[Arcangel]

Yes Damien,

I rework the image with Fireworks MX 2004 and export to .gif with option of 128 color only ( I have the option to work with 2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256 colors or custom color palette. I chose 128 fit good for me.

Thx for your observation.

[HillBilly]

not to contradict you, but this version fo your sprite only has 256 colours. I see little difference.

Get that freak of nature out of my face.

Edited by mod: don't quote images!

[Corey]

yeah his head is way too big compared with his body