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Re: the Pixel Griffin

The 240x240 does no justice to this design. Very nice.

Re: Dark Branch

Very nice depth. GMV.

Needs more cowbell.

goredbirds101 wrote:EXCELLENT
hey guys, does it look like the shirt in this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZFaprxeBeI

HA! you really did it. Thanks for the comment.

Re: uncle walt

Voted for beard power.

Re: Ghosts

This print is awesome on threadless. :D

mjl9320 wrote:yeah but it's also missing a tail. I understand artistic license but drawing things like giraffes with missing and impossibly distorted anatomy as a child might perceive seems amateurish.

Who cares? It's a t-shirt. If you're honestly going to buy a pixelated giraffe on a t-shirt, would you be the one to care of such things? I doubt it.

I love this shirt, great work.

AdderXYU wrote:Failentry is faaaaail

llo...

This cat is pretty badass for 8-bit.

Re: blue angel

Reminds me of some NES Final Fantasy boss.

Re: Sunflowers

Sunflower seeds = The win.
GMV

Re: The Pixelighter

Pyro instincts satisfied.

tgentry wrote:I can't really get behind reproducing a popular painting without making any changes to it. I don't think it's a copyright issue in this case since the painting is pretty old, but it still is unoriginal artwork. That said I'd love to see Joe do a variation on the starry night that's obviously inspired by it, but not a direct copy. I think he could do it and it would probably still get a lot of votes. It's only Saturday and the voting seems really slow on this one, it could be fogged by the end of the day.

out of the 3 Joe's was the least like the original and definitely had the "inspired by" feel.

addendum: if you reference Joe's version to the original you'll see it definitely isn't a direct copy and has been altered considerably.

Sachmoe64 wrote:Again I dont mean to come off as a jerk. Im trying to be helpful and give a heads up, thats all.

no worries, your vigilance is admirable.

Re: Pixeleyes

Needs more votes...

gambit07 wrote:well you could just have the shirt color coming through I believe

Yeah, I tried that and it just looked weird.

i like it enough to vote for it, but in actuality... if it were truly (w)rightian it would have more symmetry

Re: uncle walt

really like whitman--t.s.elliot is my fav. great job! GMV : )

Re: High-Ho, High-Ho, It's Off To Work I Go

gmv

Re: Wall Pixels

Thank you all so much for the wonderful feedback and compliments! I am glad that there has been such a good response to this shirt. It was inspired by my love for all things William Morris. WM was one of the artists who first got me interested in design when I was a kid. If you don't know his work, check it out.

Sincere thanks to atarango, klswoot, BSmooth357, chicnoir, goredbirds101, BumperK, ChrisRisse, ya2sabes, TAYLORT5 and trumpetgal!

seanale wrote:i like it enough to vote for it, but in actuality... if it were truly (w)rightian it would have more symmetry

I understand your criticism. My goal wasn't to copy any existing Wright stained glass or lightscreen. Just wanted his work to serve as inspiration for this piece, but still be uniquely my own design. Hope that makes sense.

tgentry wrote:Maybe posting the original next to this version highlighting the differences might convince the powers of woot to reverse the rejection?...

it's worth a shot.

Re: (W)Right Angle Neutrality

PhoebeP wrote:This is stunning! i would love to wear this. Oh, I hope you win!

Thanks Phoebe. I'm thrilled to have been in the fog this long, but I'm getting that sinking feeling down in the gut that my stay will be short-lived. Haven't been in the hotness much since yesterday, so the nerves have hit.

But, it's still very exciting right now.

Thanks to all who have voted!

Re: blue angel

thanks everyone for your votes and comments!

cheesesandwich wrote:HA! you really did it. Thanks for the comment.

No kidding. He got me to go to the link too. Stinker!

tgentry wrote:Maybe posting the original next to this version highlighting the differences might convince the powers of woot to reverse the rejection?...

Edit: after looking at the original I would highly recommend posting a comparison. That would really help your cause. I think I, like the rejectorators, -assumed- it was a line for line copy, but placement, scale, etc. is totally different.

reply to edit: and we all know what happens when we assume..

ashre wrote:It doesn't have cat eyes...

Or perhaps it doesn't have human nose and mouth!

Re: The dinos came to town!

WHY???

ya2sabes wrote:Gah, I hate to do this and I despise when other people get technical but aren't the building blocks of life amino acids????

Don't hate me, I'm a science major.

uhhuhhuhhuh wrote:Science! Hehe. I like it, GMV.

ya2sabes - Okay, amino acids are the building blocks and DNA is the blueprints. But, common knowledge is that life is made from DNA. So, you are right, but hopefully voters will get the concept and still like the design.

uhhuhhuhhuh - I'm glad you like it. I still hope yours gets printed. I would be happy breaking 100 votes.

'nuff said

Re: Squarry Night

Re: Waffles!

Mmmmmm... waffles.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the plus and the equals sign have both been rejected in the past as "text" characters. Just about any character you can type on your keyboard counts as text in Woot's eyes.

Perhaps there is a way you can convey the same idea without using the plus and equals signs? I'm not quite sure how... maybe with some triangles that act as arrows? At any rate, good luck to you.

theinfinityloop: thanks, i really tried to make sure i had the best possible colors, and i thought that the three primary colors would look very nice.

SydneyB: i didn't want the balloon to be exactly in the middle; perhaps i should have positioned it a little more off to emphasize that.

uhhuhhuhhuh wrote:Thanks! I like your double helix! I have a couple friends who would definitely wear it.

Thanks! I really hope we both start getting more votes.

Re: The Music Matrix

I would buy it if the notes were a little smaller, so you could fit more lines of them.

toe2254 wrote:now that you circled them i think it's just a matter of the pixels being missed when the artist was possibly changing the color of the tree. it's obviously a minor error and not an intentional 7th color (i can't even see the difference but this monitor is rather dark). if woot rejects this design because of such a minor error that's easily fixed they may incite a riot.

Hmm... I wasn't thinking about the squares that got circled there... I was thinking of the two squares in the far left panel at the bottom of the "blossoms." They seem to be a lighter gray than the rest of the gray boxes. But, as I said before, I think this is compression. If a non-compressed image could be posted that shows, clearly, what colors these pixels all are, I think that there would be no danger of rejection.

Re: Wall Pixels

i'm a sucker for damask
......i believe that's the first time i've said that

nicely done, cheese
sometimes ocd pays off

daedalusknight wrote:Hmm... I wasn't thinking about the squares that got circled there... I was thinking of the two squares in the far left panel at the bottom of the "blossoms." They seem to be a lighter gray than the rest of the gray boxes. But, as I said before, I think this is compression. If a non-compressed image could be posted that shows, clearly, what colors these pixels all are, I think that there would be no danger of rejection.

actually, i was too. but, like i said, if woot rejects this design because of such a minor error (which is clearly not intentional) there may be a riot. i understand the need for rejections since they don't screen entries like some other websites like DBH, but i would hope their sphincter isn't THAT puckered. (no offense)

Re: Shout

i think this is extremely cool, but did you get the idea from Bumperk's?

annkingwriter wrote:I like it, but wouldn't it be a stronger design if you used the shirt color for your dark pixels? There are better critics out there who I hope will comment. Also I can't quite tell what the right side is doing.
It's the kind of design that I wish I had done. GMV

OK, so I changed the color of the smaller shirt so you could actually see it, but, yes, I would like the shirt color itself to be the dark area.

atarango wrote:I totally agree. Some of these shirts are just too "out-there" to wear--too bright or too cartoonish. This one is subtle and almost sophisticated, as far as T-shirts go anyway. I hope others are inspired by this one.

Mmhmm, a lot of shirts these days are trying way to hard to be funny or bright and explosive. It's really good to see some design and art get back up on the fog, keep it up cheese.