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I'm really digging this the more I look at it. It's kinda interesting to see the evolution and the placement of the colored boxes. I really love the colors though. It screams videogame with the vibrant, primary colors. It almost looks like you've limited the palette to the origianl 16 colors availble on 8-bit computers. And I love the subtle blue background blobs. A simple effect but it really helps tie everything together.

 

And if I go into over-analyzing mode, there's something interesting going on with the thickness of the brushstrokes that's almost reminiscent of thick, boxy pixels. Very appropriate. End over-analytical mode.

 

Even though it's entirely appropriate considering the game and what's been done, it's still hard to get excited about the fact that what you've done is essentially redone art. One of your strong points is your original character designs and cartooning skills but here you're just recycling classic, and potentially copyrighted characters. Again, probably totally appropriate, just done before. I'd love to see this colorful, rougher style applied to more stuff down the road.

Hm... the thing on the bottom looks a bit like "Simon"

I like the contrast of the bright colorful characters that seem to look painted against the dark background. It's a very nice effect. The rough look gives it an abstract surrealistic style that's just like the game itself. Wonderful concept.

 

I won't be competing in this contest though, I think you already beat me. In fact, I'd say this looks like a winner.

Very nice indeed.

Thank you all for the kind words. It's always nice to get feedback (and even better to get positive feedback ).

 

Even though it's entirely appropriate considering the game and what's been done, it's still hard to get excited about the fact that what you've done is essentially redone art.

I agree completely - which is why I almost didn't enter the contest.

 

I'd love to see this colorful, rougher style applied to more stuff down the road.

Me too. The nice things about contests vs. for-hire work, is that with contests, I'm not really worried about the end result. It's more about the process, and experimenting. In this case, I found a brush in Painter that I really like to use. That may seem trivial, but Painter has hundreds (if not thousands) of brushes that mimic real-world media, and while many of them are very cool, they're not always useful for what I want to do. So it was kind of a "eureka" moment finding one that gave me the look I was after.

 

Now that I'm thinking about it a little more... this might actually work for the next project I've got lined up...