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Loose Ends

Well that’s it! I hope everyone had lots of fun. I know I did.

The blog will stay up for anyone who wants look through the challenges for a bit of fun or inspiration

If you want to do more pixel challengey stuff there is @Pixel_Dailies on twitter 

and there is also the pixel joint challenges 

If you wanna follow us, the peeps who ran this blog

alexa: pachyperfect and also on twitter josh: 8wholebits and also on twitter  and me, kyle: supajackle and also on twitter 

I hope everyone who started pixel art or got lots of practice through the challenges keeps on going with it. Don’t get lazy without us around, ya hear?!

Goodbye everyone!

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100 challenges! One final submission post. A bunch of great art all under the cut one last time

“Time to close shop! Alexa, Josh, and I are there to say goodbye” - supajackle​ 

“ i love you guys, it was a great ride. made an isometric thank you for one last hurrah. compixellated is compixellove! ” -  taptroupe  

Thank you taptroupe. It is always nice seeing iso stuff!

“ A nes styled title screen for the game catherine! Forgot to use the NES pallette unfortunately. Been a wild journey compixelated, had fun entering. ” -  8bithouseoffun  

I’ve always wanted to play Catherine but I haven’t gotten a chance yet. Nice work!

hey buddy! how are you doing? made any new friends?

oh, yeah, i um… i got a girlfriend recently, actually. but keep it on the down-low, yeah? (she doesn’t like me bragging about it~)

“couple tiny portraits of Bellybutton for compixellated (old challenge 74) wish i entered more of these than i did, but oh well” -  catconsumer  

I love these. Adorable character and great animation

“for the last compixellated challenge, i choose “weaponry” (#58) here’s a bunch of swords i made

it’s a shame i discovered it towards the end! i had fun for the few challenges i entered, and looking into the old challenges is good inspiration for pixel art!” -  jaffre

Nice swords! It was nice having you, Jaffre

“ Some mock title screen for the last complicated challenge i cry ” -  owl-music  

:,(!! nice work, owl-music!

“ Well. I tried. Sad to see this blog retire, but glad I got to see so many cool ideas in its time. :) ” -  protospasmx

Really cool work protospasmx, glad to see someone do this challenge again. I enjoyed it

“For the final Compixellated Challenge! I’m hoping to do the challenges I missed, so there might be more entries, if I have time!

This one’s based on Compixellated Challenge #72, Offbeat Classes! This is aCitrus Bard.” -  ziocorvid  

Nice! You picked a great class. Very good stuff

“For the final Compixellated Challenge! I’m hoping to do the challenges I missed, so there might be more entries, if I have time!

This one’s based on Compixellated Challenge #61, Yokai! This is a Shīsā.” -  ziocorvid

Really cool! I liked that challenge a whole lot

“ An entry for Compixellated’s final challenge! The goal was to go back and do one of the previous 100 challenges–this one was “design a Tamagotchi character and a room/environment for it”. Hope to do some other challenges before the deadline. ” -  nightmare-bruce  

I love these. These two were some of my favorite challenges. really cool

“ Challenge 97 - coloring lineart. I used my own from Week 96, using Vulturine Guinea Fowl colors. ” -  schazardous  

wahh really amazin colors, schaz! such nice blues

“For the final Compixellated Challenge - theme is Goodbye, borrowing off Challenge 87 (tamagotchi houses) as well.

I’m sad to see this weekly challenge go - it’s pretty much the reason I picked up and kept running (or stumbling) along with pixelart over the past year and a half. Weekly prompts kept offering me an excuse to try new stuff, and it’s very chiefly thanks to this that my technique’s improved at all over that time.

Thanks a million, compixellated, and especially supajackle (who chiefly carried this project through the latter half, when I got more into it!) It’s been a load of fun.” -  schazardous  

Aw!! Schaz thank you! It’s been great having you here pretty much every week and I am very glad compixellated helped you!

“a pixel gif for the last compixellated challenge, although I only start trying these out not to long ago, it did get me into pixel art and animating. I definitely wanna try and continue doing pixel art. 

so thanks guys for getting me interested! ” -  cutemagicalstar  

Aw! Thank you, cutemagicalstar! I hope you keep on keepin’ on with your pixelling and animating!

“Well, I’m late. Dammit. I remembered “August 16,” but I forgot the “before��� part.

This is Challenge #35: Tiny Bugs! I’ve resurrected it for Challenge #100: The Final Challenge.

From left to right: Medauroidea extradentata

Heteropteryx dilatata

Armadillidium vulgare

Goliathus regius

Scorpio maurus kruglovi

I’m a complete novice at pixel art. I just saw this was the final Compixellated Challenge, and final things make me sad, so I thought I’d join in.” -  isaidgetinthedamnbox

Nice bugs! Nice having you here for the final challenge!

“For the 100th compixellated challenge I decided to break out the tablet while I still had time to submit something.

Times like these make me regret that I didn’t take the time in the past to join in on more of these things, but you can only do so much in a day!” -  filecreation  

No regrets, filecreation! Great work

And that’s it for the submissions.... Forever!

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for these past 100 weeks of challenges. It’s been a lot of fun. 

See ya!

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Weekly Challenge 100: August 9 2015

100 weeks. 100 challenges. Over 700 submissions. Almost two years old. It’s been a hell of a ride. We think it is about time to draw the book of compixellated to a close

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

Pick a favorite challenge and do it again. Optional theme: Goodbye

The final challenge

That’s right. This is the last compixellated challenge. Compixellated has gone on for 100 weeks and we think that is a good time for us to end it. It has been a lot of fun. So to end it, we want everyone to go back and do a favorite challenge from the past. Maybe one you missed or your first challenge and compare how much progress you’ve made since then.

here’s a big list of every challenge and their results

Since this is the last challenge I think it would be awesome to end with a bang and get a TON of submissions. Which is where the optional theme comes in. In case you don’t want to do the main challenge or want to add an extra spin on your submission. 

So. If you’ve ever made anything for compixellated, wanted to but never have, or haven’t even tried making pixel art but followed to try it now is the time to do it.

this challenge...

should adhere to the rules of the challenge you pick

must be submitted or posted and tagged “compixellated challenge” before August 16 2015

The last challenge post. Wild. 

I look forward to seeing all the submissions this week

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Some scenes under the cut

“I turned my background from last week into a platformer hack-n-slashy mockup” - supajackle​

“ i didn’t participate in last weeks challenge so i used the base background tto make like a scene from a fake game. ” -  twitchyspeed

Oh man rad! Really cool addition

“ heres my finished thing, i dunno I wanted to add a little save point just to be silly but decided against it ” -  owl-music

Ah it’s so cute and calming. Very nice work

And that’s it for the submissions this week! hope you liked em

See yall next week

Remember that we always need challenge themes so send us any ideas you have!

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Weekly Challenge 99: August 2 2015

99! Wow dang! 

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

Backgrounds Part 2: Make a full scene

last week we made some cool backgrounds and the challenge this week is to add onto those. Characters, a foreground, something. Turn it into a full scene

If you didn’t make anything for this week, dont worry! You can still make something for this week. Either from scratch or you can feel free to use the background I made! That might be fun

If you do decide to use it, feel free to edit it in any way you want, i won’t mind

this challenge...

should be a full scene

can be any size

can use any colors

must be submitted or posted and tagged “compixellated challenge”

Backgrounds and full scenes are a huge weakness of mine so I am excited to work a bit on that this week

Good luck, if you have any questions dont hesitate to send them our way

Don’t forget about tumblr’s tagging system, and make sure to put the “compixellated challenge” tag in the first 5 tags

Remember that we always need challenge ideas so send yours in.

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Some backgrounds all under the cut!

“I think my weakest point is backgrounds but I think I did a pretty good job! Im excited to add on to this next week” - supajackle

“ some sort of dusk background, sorry my brain went blank about details and such ” -  owl-music

Very nice colors! i also really really dig the stones you have on the bottom, very cool

And that’s it for the submissions this week! hope you liked em

See yall next week

Remember that we always need challenge themes so send us any ideas you have!

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Weekly Challenge 98: July 26 2015

Hello again everyone

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

Another two parter this week. For part 1 the challenge is to draw a background. Then next week we will add an environment, foreground, something too it

Draw a background

This challenge...

should be a background

can be any size/color

must be submitted or posted and tagged “compixellated challenge” before August 2 2015

Good luck, if you have any questions dont hesitate to send them our way

Don’t forget about tumblr’s tagging system, and make sure to put the “compixellated challenge” tag in the first 5 tags

Remember that we always need challenge ideas so send yours in.

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Tons of colored lines all under the cut!

“This is my favorite challenge we’ve ever done on here, so much fun!! lines by wybert, ziocorvid, jaffre, infrar-ed, taptroupe, and azurealsky” - supajackle​

“ coloured owl-music‘s cute lineart! dithering is great on the hands :P it wasn’t until after i was done colouring that i realized this was the new animal crossing npc.. oops ” -  taptroupe  

Very neat palette! I really dig the shading you used on the legs

“ here’s my bunch for this week! I mostly tried limited palettes except for the robot where i just kind of forgot what i was doing woops ” -  wybert

Really cool colors! the dog is really cool looking. The hand thing? looks almost like clay. I love it

“ my entries for this week’s compixellated challenge, where we had to colorlineart from last week’s challenge. The dinosaur lineart is by ziocorvid and the deer lineart is by jaffre I’m indecisive when given free reign with colors, so I made multiple versions of each. I’m sorry! ” -  miggrator  

Really nice work! Various flavors of dinos and deer

“ Yo schazardous I colored your line art c: ” -  owl-music

Very nice colors! Very elegant and royal

“ hello, infrar-ed I colored your line art~ ” -  owl-music

Really good colors

“ hi miggrator I tried to keep pi simple and cute just like the lines C: ” -  owl-music

Nice bot, i really dig the shine you put on it

“ i kinda gave up on the shading but i still wanna post it lineart by wybert “   -  jaffre  

Really cool color choices

“For this week’s Compixellated Challenge! We had to take last week’s lineart entries and color them for this week.Lineart is by hardrockangel-art!” -  ziocorvid  

Really rad. It feels almost 3D

link to a good size since our theme kinda fucks it up

“My week’s work for the Compixellated challenge! The linework was given by various fantastic people, I did the colors.

Lilith is by infrar-ed

Squids are by supajackle

Smolkapi is by jaffre

Bird squad is by wybert

Lottie the Otter is by owl-music” -  schazardous

These are fantastic schaz! Great work

“ Compixellated challenge thing! linework by schazardous. “

“This one by azurealsky. (sorry).

I don’t consider myself good at coloring at all, i’m kinda terrible at it.

Also wanted to do more but i didn’t have enough time.” -  infrar-ed

Woaaahhh really cool work. Great job thinking outside the lines!

“ First colored line art, some compixellated chocolate cake. Lineart provided by http://taptroupe.tumblr.com/ ”

“ owl-music’s Animal Crossing-esque lineart with a candy-esque palette??? ” 

“ A purple dinosaur from ziocorvid’s lineart!!! “

“ Last one, Lilith by infrar-ed with 8 palette variations based off this! ” -  errorfunction

These are SO AMAZING!!! Goodness gracious error. God *o*

And that’s it for the submissions this week! hope you liked em

See yall next week

Remember that we always need challenge themes so send us any ideas you have!

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Weekly Challenge 97: July 19 2015

The second part to last week’s challenge!

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

Collaboration Part 2: Colors!

Last week everyone made some lineart like this

And this week the challenge is to take someones else’s lines and color and render them! (you can also color and submit your own lines, but make sure you do someone else’s too) Try to do a bit more than just using the fill bucket tool, maybe some shading or somethin

Here’s a link to last week’s challenge, grab some lines from here and get colorin!

We got a TON of submissions to use last week so there’s plenty to pick from. Feel free to do more than one if you want. And even if you didn’t submit anything last week you can still totally participate this week

Make sure to link back to who made the original lines with ur submission!

this challenge.....

should be lines that were submitted last week

keep line edits to a minimum, remember this is about coloring

can use any colors you want

should include a link back to the original artist of the lines

Must be submitted or posted and tagged “compixellated challenge” before July 26 2015

I’m really excited for this challenge and I’m going to try and color as many of the lines as I can! Good luck, if you have any questions dont hesitate to send them our way

Don’t forget about tumblr’s tagging system, and make sure to put the “compixellated challenge” tag in the first 5 tags

Remember that we always need challenge ideas so send yours in.

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A ton of awesome lineart all under the cut!

“I drew an inkling, ready to be colored! feel free change any of the lines or whatev when u color it!” - supajackle​ 

“ took out the colors of something I did a little while ago and re-purposed it to make sense without the colors, hope that’s okay. ” -   zorms887  

Yeah that’s fine! Im interested in messing with this since its so simple, it should be fun to color!

“ delicious cake lineart :D ” -  taptroupe  

Cake! Very cool. I’m hungry.

“ heres a bird and a weird dog ” - wybert 

Really cool shapes and designs! cant wait to color these!

“here’s my entry for the latest Compixelated Challenge, where we’re supposed to create a lineart. Next week the challenge will be to color someone else’s lines!

Anyone is welcome to color this lineart, whether it’s for the challenge or not, but please remember to give credit. Minor edits to the lineart are fine. (also pretty please show me?)” -  miggrator

I dig it! A simple but fun design

“ smol deer for this week’s compixellated challenge ” -  jaffre

What a cute deer! very nice work

“Pixeled this outline for the “compixellated challenge“ for this week, which requires people to send in outlines for others to color during the next weeks challenge.

I wasn’t sure what to pixel, so I freehanded this … gem/elk-ish design? I don’t even know what I was aiming for, but it turned out pretty neat, imo. I’ll be curious to see how it turns out next week with someone else’s colors.

I did add a tiny watermark, so I hope that’s alright.” -  hardrockangel-art  

Very cool design! looks like some kinda forest guardian, i like it

“ I’m really sorry, i’m actually really bad with line art ;n; ” -  owl-music  

This isnt bad at all! Im looking forward to coloring it 

“For this week’s Compixellated Challenge! We had to make line art, which will be colored by other people for next week’s challenge.

I made a small, semi-disgruntled dinosaur :D” -  ziocorvid  

Aw what a cute dino!

“I came back from my “hiatus” to join the weekly pixel challenges at compixellated.

Here’s a 50x50 dog I did for this week’s challenge, hope it’s cool with ya! :D” -  azurealsky

nice work! the simplicity of the lines should lead to some creative coloring

“Little Lilith.

For this week’s compixellated. Someone’s gonna color this for me and i’ll color someone else’s pixels.” -  infrar-ed

This is killerrrr! Fantastic lines. Cant wait to color this!

“A pheasant for Compixellated - tumblr probably messed up the image size so the original is here jic.

There are many kinds of pheasant, with many kinds of rad coloring! If anyone picks this up for next week’s challenge, look up gamebirds like the Siamese Fireback, Golden Pheasant, or Lady Amherst’s Pheasant. Or ignore these examples and choose your own glorious, weird colors for this critter :>” -  schazardous

Ooo very nice work schaz! Love the line work on the legs

And that’s it for the submissions this week! hope you liked em

See yall next week

Remember that we always need challenge themes so send us any ideas you have!

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Weekly Challenge 96: July 12 2015

This week’s challenge is a bit special, it’s a two parter

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: 

Collaboration Part 1: Line Art!

This is a special challenge this takes place in two parts. This week the challenge is to submit some line art, no colors at all just lines. Like this:

And then next week, you will take the submissions of other people and color them!

Make sure you’re completely okay with other people coloring your art before you submit anything for this challenge!

this challenge...

should be line art (no color, just lines)

can be any size

will be used in next week’s challenge, so make sure youre okay with other people coloring your art!

Must be submitted or posted and tagged “compixellated challenge” before July 19 2015

Good luck, if you have any questions dont hesitate to send them our way

Don’t forget about tumblr’s tagging system, and make sure to put the “compixellated challenge” tag in the first 5 tags

Remember that we always need challenge ideas so send yours in.

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When are the new challenges posted each week? Because I keep checking and missing them, apparently. :C

Challenges are posted on sundays, sometimes mondays depending on where you live! Usually just a few hours after results posts! the next challenge is going to be posted right after this 

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A few submissions under the cut!

“My air conditioner is a gift from the heavens and I make sure to do monthly sacrifices to keep the Cool Air Gods appeased.” - supajackle

“ I helped out at a lemonade stand on the 4th and that’s all I can think about right now,  strawberry and original ” -  owl-music  

Dang I would kill for some lemonade right about now. Really dig the colors you used here

And that’s it for the submissions this week! hope you liked em

See yall next week

Remember that we always need challenge themes so send us any ideas you have!

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Hey do you know any similar blogs to yours that posts challenges but for low poly 3d models?

Unfortunately I don’t :(

I’m going to publish this because maybe one of our followers knows?? 

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Weekly Challenge 95: July 5 2015

I hope everyone that celebrated it had a nice 4th of July

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: 

Best way to beat the heat

It’s HOT. What is your favorite way to beat the heat? Draw it!

To add a bit of twist to this challenge, you will have a limited palette of only 8 colors

this challenge…

should fit in with the theme

can be any size

should use no more than 8 colors

Must be submitted or posted and tagged “compixellated challenge” before July 12 2015

Good luck, if you have any questions dont hesitate to send them our way

Don’t forget about tumblr’s tagging system, and make sure to put the “compixellated challenge” tag in the first 5 tags

Remember that we always need challenge ideas so send yours in.

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Some really nice submissions all under the cut!

“Terrariums are nice” - me supajackle

“ Arches terrarium for this week’s compixellated challenge! ” -  cottontrek 

I really love the colors you used for the rocks so much. Great work!

“ Here’s my bottle, i tried to mimic a piece of scenery from samurai jack e-e ” -  owl-music

Oh this is adorable! very nice soft colors. I really like the lid and the way you drew the grass. very nice

“ Ant penthouse with stunning 360-degree views ” -  schazardous

Very nice blues. very very nice blues. I really dig the dithered lid too

And that’s it for the submissions this week! hope you liked em

See yall next week

Remember that we always need challenge themes so send us any ideas you have!

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Weekly Challenge 94: June 28 2015

this challenge comes from schazardous

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

Snowglobes/Terrariums/Little Worlds in Glass

i really like this challenge idea

this challenge...

should fit in with the theme

can be any size 

can use any colors

must be submitted or posted and tagged “compixellated challenge” before July 5 2015

Good luck, if you have any questions dont hesitate to send them our way

Don’t forget about tumblr’s tagging system, and make sure to put the “compixellated challenge” tag in the first 5 tags

Remember that we always need challenge ideas so send yours in.