Round #20 of our pixel challenge, ColourThis, kicks off today. The rules are simple - you are provided with an outline and all you have to do is colour it, making anything you like out of it. The more creative and original the design the better, and the winner is chosen for the creativity of their entry rather than their pixel skills.

The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next.

This round’s outline is…

It’s a tricky low-res outline this round, so get your creativity pencils ready and download this image, rotate it, flip it, colour it in, and then submit it in this thread!

Last round was a tricky outline, so hats off to Nyu001 and his Ninja:

Check out previous winners here!

Round #19 of our pixel challenge, ColourThis, kicks off today. The rules are simple - you are provided with an outline and all you have to do is colour it, making anything you like out of it. The more creative and original the design the better, and the winner is chosen for the creativity of their entry rather than their pixel skills.

The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next.

This round’s outline is…

So download this image, rotate it, flip it, colour it in, and then submit it in this thread!

Last round was won by Nickenstien with his amazing Space Squid:

Check out previous winners here!

Round #17 of our pixel challenge, ColourThis, kicks off today. The rules are simple - you are provided with an outline and all you have to do is colour it, making anything you like out of it. The more creative and original the design the better, and the winner is chosen for the creativity of their entry rather than their pixel skills.

The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next.

This round’s outline is…

So download this image, rotate it, flip it, colour it in, and then submit it in this thread!

Last round was won by, er, me with this mousey/hamstery thing:

Check out previous winners here!

Round #16 of our pixel challenge, ColourThis, kicks off today. The rules are simple - you are provided with an outline and all you have to do is colour it, making anything you like out of it. The more creative and original the design the better, and the winner is chosen for the creativity of their entry rather than their pixel skills.

The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next.

The challenge this time is…

…can you make this outline into anything other than a turtle? So download this image, rotate it, flip it, colour it in, and then submit it in this thread!

Congratulations to MashPotato for winning the last ColourThis round with her excellent “Large Lady doing Aerobics” entry:

Check out previous winners here!

What a challenge! How do you turn some of the most iconic and well-designed videogame characters of all time into 3D equivalents without compromising the style?

Capcom show us how:

Stylish!

Facial Animation!

Dramatic!

Yep, it all just goes to prove that it’s not the size of the tool it’s how you wield it. All we’ve got here are polygons, normal maps, some textures, and lighting - just like every other PS3 and XBox360 game - but with an added extra pinch of talent. Actually, lots of talent.

Source: Eurogamer

Round #15 of our pixel challenge, ColourThis, kicks off today. The rules are simple - you are provided with an outline and all you have to do is colour it, making anything you like out of it. The more creative and original the design the better, and the winner is chosen for the creativity of their entry rather than their pixel skills.

Download this outline, colour it,
and submit your entry in this thread!

The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next.

We had great entries last round with contributions from many ColourThis first-timers! Ultimately, congratulations go to round #14 winner Nyu001 and his “runny-nosed, tam-o-shantered Scotsman”:

Check out previous winners here!

GameRecruiter have announced the first of their 3D artwork contests, the “Battle of the SuperModelers”.

It might sound like something from America’s Next Top Model (Mondays, 9pm, LIVING TV - I definitely do not watch this, okay?), but it’s not. With prizes from the likes of Alienware, Autodesk, Wacom (a Cintiq 12 WX, no less!) and Gnomon Workshop, if you’re a game artist, fancy yourself as “quite good, really”, and are based in the US or Canada, then it’s probably worth a shot.

Game artists are invited to create an original real-time character model of a monster, creature, robot or alien that might be found in a fantasy, sci-fi or horror game and submit their 3D art entry online by Friday, August 15, 2008. The contest Grand Prize Winner and three finalists will receive a combined total $50,000-worth of digital art tools and technology.

Real-Time Art Asset Budget:

10,000 tri-polys for everything: the creature and any minions (sidekick, friends, pets, parasites, etc). Also weapons, and objects, special effects and equipment, etc.

Required Maps:

1 x 2048 Color Map
1 x 2048 Normal Map

Additional Optional Maps:

1 x 2048 Specular Map
1 x 2048 Specular Color Map
1 x 2048 Bump Map

1 x 2048 Reflection Map
1 x 2048 Opacity Map
1 x 2048 Glow map
1 x 2048 Glossiness map

Isn’t it a bit nuts that “real-time” nowadays can mean 10,000 polys with two (and the rest!) 2048 pixel textures applied?!?!? Whatever happened to polygon limits that you could count in your head and teeny tiny little hand-pixelled textures? Bah!

Full contest info and guidelines here!

Round #14 of our pixel challenge, ColourThis, kicks off today. The rules are simple - you are provided with an outline and all you have to do is colour it, making anything you like out of it. The more creative and original the design the better, and the winner is chosen for the creativity of their entry rather than their pixel skills.

The winner of the last round provides the outline and chooses the winner of the next.

The challenge this time, quite obviously is…

…to not draw a cat! So download this image, rotate it, flip it, colour it in, and then submit it in this thread!

A hearty congratulations to MashPotato for winning the last ColourThis round with her excellent “Dinosaur eating Ham” entry:

Check out previous winners here!

After the resounding lack of support for my “is this the cutest videogame creature ever” from the completely awesome-looking Spore on Nintendo DS, I thought I’d try again. This time, courtesy of the it-could-go-either-way Fable 2. Frankly, if this lovely screenshot fails to emote some sense of excitement then you have no soul.

Because that’s one lovely sunset.

In fact, this is all shaping up to be an exceedingly beautiful game indeed. Add to that the amazing pet dog AI and you’ve got me sold already. Of course, with the plethora of features that Mr Molyneux raves about to Eurogamer in their preview, there’s just the hint of possibility that it may all be too complex for its own good. “Keep It Simple, Stupid”, a wise man once said.

More screenshots here!

Congratulations to Bignobody for winning this round of CGEmpire’s Colo(u)rThis! pixel art contest!

You can see previous round winners (and get information on how to enter the next round) in the ColourThis! Hall of Fame!

Round #13 will be starting shortly, so get ready to pop your crayons out folks!