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Wow, nice work. This one's pretty incredible.

daedalusknight wrote:When converting any image to a jpeg, the program you use to convert the image will sometimes create compression artifacts, regardless of how uniform the colors are. This can be seen in the numerous red shirt designs that constantly wind up having compression artifacts in the areas that started out as just plain red areas.

I actually had the problem with my shirt, with compression artifacts appearing in the orange, but I managed to change the settings in my design program to produce better quality images (at the cost of larger file sizes, of course).

The other issue, of course, is that there appear to be 8 colours, not just the 7 we're debating:

This might effect the resub as well, since there was only talk of one extra color earlier.

As for the pixels, I really don't think it's a matter of compression so much as being an issue of a designer taking a full-on photo and not converting it as accurately as he'd planned. But I'm just an angry bitter cynic, so that presumption is based only on jealousy, not the designer's succession of silhouette work speaking to a possibility of serial "sourcing" in his art.

This one's pretty neat. Nice work with the sense of motion.

This one is one of the best that has been submitted. It really shocks me that it's not getting more votes.

AdderXYU wrote:The other issue, of course, is that there appear to be 8 colours, not just the 7 we're debating:

Oh, man... Is this one really going to get rejected from the fog? Well, there's already a new submission up, and it's only Saturday.

This one is super nice. I can't believe it's not in the fog.

Nice little bomb explosion.

daedalusknight wrote:Read these unofficial rules compiled by derekfilley. :-)

Thank you very much daedalusknight. I read though it and it is very helpful. I will hopefully avoid many of the pitfalls listed.

Re: Pixel Truck

I knew it! I knew it! I saw this truck and it looked familiar!

Re: Sunflowers

I think this is the best shirt in the derby right now. Really hope this wins

Xijar wrote:

Nice simplistic pixel art seems to be a great time to give my first attempt at the Derby. Any feedback welcome!

I love Egyptian mythology. :-)

earthart wrote:Thank you very much daedalusknight. I read though it and it is very helpful. I will hopefully avoid many of the pitfalls listed.

You're welcome. Good luck to you. :-)

noisdois wrote:Nice little bomb explosion.

Thanks, I like your misbehaving primate!

rachinha wrote:Teehee! I love monkeys!

My nieces would love this! Voted.

Re: Pixel Goddess

I really like this one. I couldn't tell what it was right away when I saw it last night in the forums, but once you get it you can't un-get it. GMV

Re: (Heather) Grey Beard

I clicked the pirates... >o.O<

Re: ~ Wobot Wuv ~

Very cute! They look like little people made out of leggos

mrwednesday wrote:Putting a good design on the ugliest shirt color possible isn't really the best way to get votes.

And what would YOU rather it be on? Because I personally like the color blue, if I chose black, many of the monsters would work and a few people would whine about how it's "summer and I don't want to wear dark colors" and greens or browns may hide monsters as well. And no one really likes white. I'll resub on another color if you'd rather vote for that though =P

Re: Dead Pixel

This is awesome! I've gone through enough crappy monitors to really appreciate this. I wanted to do a little red dot on a black shirt as a stuck pixel...but I'm afraid I would've been at the bottom. GMV!

Re: All we have are pixels...for now

Hi,
I created this image because something about this derby really struck a chord with me. I'm a graduate student in planetary science, and recently I've been studying images of Jupiter. By far images comprise the most abundant form of information about Jupiter that we have right now (and the case is worse for most of the outer solar system), and yet there's (clearly) a limit to how much insight we can gain from them. Even though the resolution we can get from spacecraft is way way better than this, I always find myself coming up against the pixel barrier and wanting to see more...I guess I'll have to wait for the next mission to Jupiter.

I think it's really good for this theme, you got my vote!

daedalusknight wrote:Uhm... wait... so should everyone vote for the new one instead and kdeuce ask for the original one to be removed?

It's times like these I wish we had an official quick-response team from Woot to make the call.

Yeah... now it's taking up two spots in the hotness.

Re: Optical Illusion

Not original

Re: ~ Wobot Wuv ~

Great! My favorite sub so far!

fablefire wrote:Yeah... now it's taking up two spots in the hotness.

Uhmm... that's kooky... I wish there were some kind of protocol here or that you could remove your own entry more than 24 hours later...

Motenai wrote:I think this is the best shirt in the derby right now. Really hope this wins

This one has been my favorite since you first posted it and it still is my favorite!

GMV!

socalicitizen wrote:This shirt is beutiful. It's the best shirt that's not going to make the top four. If it had been submitted on the first day of the derby maybe it would've placed. The problem is that no one scrolls down this far. sorry man. i really want your shirt.

Thanks so much, and actually i'm a girl *giggles*.. there has to be a way i can get people to look at my design, how do i post a thumbnail of my design when i post comments?

meg317 wrote:Hi,
I created this image because something about this derby really struck a chord with me. I'm a graduate student in planetary science, and recently I've been studying images of Jupiter. By far images comprise the most abundant form of information about Jupiter that we have right now (and the case is worse for most of the outer solar system), and yet there's (clearly) a limit to how much insight we can gain from them. Even though the resolution we can get from spacecraft is way way better than this, I always find myself coming up against the pixel barrier and wanting to see more...I guess I'll have to wait for the next mission to Jupiter.

If enough people wanted it, I would consider tossing this up on a print to order site. Just offering, not saying anything against your design.

Re: Meow

M E O W

Re: Meow

Nice cat face, but your squares got all rounded when you resized. Or when you switched to jpeg. You may want to try again and resubmit with squarer edges or else you risk getting rejected.

silverice86 wrote:Thanks so much, and actually i'm a girl *giggles*.. there has to be a way i can get people to look at my design, how do i post a thumbnail of my design when i post comments?

You can include an image in your signature file by clicking on "your account" at the top of this page and then scrolling down to the signature section. There should be instructions on how to format images in a link there at the bottom.

fablefire wrote:Yeah... now it's taking up two spots in the hotness.

The second one should be rejected just for being a jerk and taking an extra hotness spot.

Or maybe only I think that

Re: Pixel Wave

We spend a lot of time at the beach near our house (background of comp), and there are a ton of crabs running around, as well as plenty of waves. Waves seemed well-suited to a pixel derby, so I created a 5-color wave, sand, and crab/lobster design.

Re: Meow

Thank you to DAEDALUSKNIGHT for the heads up about my resizing and SMJK for the hint about how to fix it! You guys are great.

If you like my kitten (who stares at me while I work on the computer), please vote!

Re: Shades of summer

Is a butterfly... on a flower... that I was not going to submit because of the whole looking like half a squashed butterfly thingy... llo... but what the heck - all that time coloring squares... ;-)

AdderXYU wrote:The second one should be rejected just for being a jerk and taking an extra hotness spot.

Or maybe only I think that

One of them needs to be rejected or withdrawn. I don't really see why it has to be resubbed anyway. If it's a poorly done sourcing job then someone needs to find the original picture, or people just need to chill.

fablefire wrote:One of them needs to be rejected or withdrawn. I don't really see why it has to be resubbed anyway. If it's a poorly done sourcing job then someone needs to find the original picture, or people just need to chill.

poorly done sourcing is mainly a hypothesis. The rejection comes from the shirt including 8 colors, which, poor sourcing or not, is very rejectable.

AdderXYU wrote:poorly done sourcing is mainly a hypothesis. The rejection comes from the shirt including 8 colors, which, poor sourcing or not, is very rejectable.

So the pixel detectives only found the 8 spot colors today?

Lawl... oh hell. Let's just have two sakuras in the fog, and two reinstated starry nights in the fog. That'll be good. It's been awhile since we had multiples in the fog.

Re: Pixel Collision

Hah. Great pixel collision explosion.