Secret Santa 2013

[Crow]

A Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays everyone!

Thank you for taking part in this year's Secret Santa activity, and thanks for being part of this community! It has been a blast once again. Without much talk, have your gifts:

To adcrusher524 from Charlieton:


To Amorphous from Corinthian Baby:


To Argyle from Mr. Fahrenheit:


To AtskaHeart from Peyton:


To Cellusious from offwhite:


To Charlieton from Redshrike:


To cirpons from Zccc:


To Corinthian Baby from Jim16:


To Crow from Cellusious, offwhite and PepperWheel:


To crozier from Gamer36:


To Cyangmou from Jeremy:


To Dex from overkill:


To DragonMarx from numlock:


To Drazelic from PixelPiledriver:


To Elk from Gogglecrab:


To Flummox from Paddy:


To Gamer36 from wolfenoctis:


To Gogglecrab from cirpons:


To hapiel from JosephSeraph:


To HarveyDentMustDie from Lanarky:


To homeworld from Peach:


To jazzat from Mandrill:


To Jeremy from tim:


To Johasu from PepperWheel:


To JosephSeraph from Reo:


To Knick1225 from Lóng:


To Lanarky from Cellusious:


To Letmethink from Drazelic:


To Lóng from pistachio:


To Mandrill from Super17:


To MashPotato from Amorphous:


To Metaru from Flummox:


To Mr. Beast from Regulus Awesome:


To Mr. Fahrenheit from Raster:


To Night from Cyangmou:


To numlock from homeworld:


To offwhite from hapiel:


To Overkill from yaomon17:


To Paddy from Mr. Beast and Peyton:


To Peach from Johasu:


To PepperWheel from crozier:


To Peyton from Night:


To pistachio from Jim16:


To PixelPiledriver from tomic:


To Raster from HarveyDentMustDie:


To Redshrike from MashPotato:


To Regulus Awesome from Zizka:
They want you to see this before unwrapping your gift!


To Reo from Metaru:


To Shrike from Sokota:


To skamocore from AtskaHeart:


To Sokota from skamocore:


To Super17 from Shrike:


To tim from Dex:


To tomic from Ultimaodin:


To Ultimaodin from VinceBetteridge and Cellusious:


To wolfenoctis from adcrusher524:


To Xamllew from jazzat:


To Zccc from Xamllew:

Now, enjoy your gifts, and finish yours if it's still WIP (or if you haven't even handed it in yet! )! Any additional gifts for friends of gift-deprived are very much appreciated!

Still to receive their gift are:
pistachio - Thank you Jim16!
yaomon17
crozier
Zizka
VinceBetteridge
Corinthian Baby - Thank you Jim16!
Charlieton

Those who haven't handed in a gift are:
Elk
Letmethink
Gamer36
Argyle
Knick1225
DragonMarx
Redshrike

[skamocore]

I usually prefer non-cooked dolphins, but I'll make an exception here. Thanks for the delicious dolphin, AtskaHeart.

Some really wonderful and imaginative pieces. My favourite from the bunch being this.

Also, yay, lots of custom wrapping!

[offwhite]

What better to wake up to on Christmas day than pixelated cuteness <3 Super thanks Hapiel! Happy holidays everyone ^^

[Jeremy]

Loving the gifts from gogglecrab, homeworld and pepperwheel

tim, thank you very much. I always forget the likes I suggest, so I had no idea what to expect

[Ultimaodin]

I got two from VinceBetteridge and Cellusious (which are both great by the way) and I didn't even finish my one. I don't deserve such love.

Which by the way, commencing obligatory apology - I bit of far more than I could chew and worked a lot more than expected. Sorry, I will try and finish it before the New Year.

Also wolfenoctis' present to gamer36 is fantastic. Also plenty of other amazing pieces. I think Hapiel's though is the cutest thing ever.

[API-Beast]

☆*･゜ﾟ･*\(^O^)/*･゜ﾟ･*☆

@Ultimaodin: Make at least _something_ small for today or tomorrow. Waiting for a late gift doesn't feel good, yo.

[AtskaHeart]

I usually prefer non-cooked dolphins, but I'll make an exception here. Thanks for the delicious dolphin, AtskaHeart.

Some really wonderful and imaginative pieces. My favourite from the bunch being this.

Also, yay, lots of custom wrapping!

Yar welcome ^_^!

Also, thanks peyton! Liked the santa !

Merry xmas everyone!

[HarveyDentMustDie]

"Hey, Santa, it's me, Johnny. Remember I'm the one that beat you up last year 'cause I thought you were a burglar?" 

Thanks Lanarky, and merry christmas to all.

PS Wolfenoctis created clearly the best present here. 

[Zizka]

I don't know, I think there are a lot of really nice ones, like Dex's one is superb. I really like Maspotato's one too.

I haven't gotten mine yet, guess I haven't enough of a good boy  .

EDIT2: A lot of them are awesome actually. Good job everybody.

[Mandrill]

WOW, brilliant! Thank you so flippin' much Super 17!

It is extremely well pixeled and exactly the stuff I love. Howling Banshees are just awesome.  I'm really, really happy, thanks again!

--

@ everyone else

Very nice pieces, you girls and guys put some proper labour into this.

[Crow]

At this point, I'd like to thank Cellusious, offwhite and PepperWheel for the gifts I've received from them. Thank you very much

@Ultimaodin: Make at least _something_ small for today or tomorrow. Waiting for a late gift doesn't feel good, yo.

Their gift is up, but WIP. So that's okay.

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

Raster that is so cool! Thanks a lot

[Amorphous]

Aww, geez, thanks so much, Corinthian Baby! You obviously put a lot of work into it.  The palette is delicious!

Tons of good gifts this year; nice job, everyone.

[Raster]

HarveyDentMustDie: holy shit I love it! 

[Cyangmou]

Vikings and Dinosaurs - Christmas is saved - thanks Jeremy =D

[tim]

Wow thank you Dex for the awesome art déco pixel art piece, looks like a Musha artwork, it's gorgeous !

[wolfenoctis]

Thanks for my gift Adcrusher, cool funky looking monster 

Lots of great entries, I really like Super17, Dex and MashPotato's entries

Thanks Skamocore, Ultimaodin and Harvey for the compliments, took me a long time to do that piece I'm glad people like it 

[adcrusher524]

@Charlieton:
That's looking awesome! I really love the style!

Really great gifts this year! I can't wait to see the WiP's finished, a lot of them look really great.

[MashPotato]

Ooh a sleepy, round kitty on a book! That's the best kind of kitty :p  Thanks for the lovely pixel, Amorphous!
I look forward to looking at the rest of these later

[Drazelic]

OH MY GOODNESS my gift is literally everything I could have possibly asked for. I love it! PixelPiledriver, you are the BEEEESSSST.

I also really like Dex's gift for Tim, Cyangmou's gift for Night, and my favorite has to be Homeworld's gift for Numlock. That orange, that glowyness, that composition, MAN.

This was a fantastic secret santa! Here's to next year being even better.

[Parkerbaby]

It's really unfortunate that so many of them are WIPs this year.

edit: Also, Dex's is absolutely spectacular.

[Peach]

Thanks Johasu and Merry Christmas. I might have missed the reference I think

Great entries overall. Good job everybody

[Conzeit]

Every year I only remember secret santa when it's over, and I usually want to make stuff for the people without gifts, buty have too much excuses to even do that

The one thing I do make is a list of their likes and dislikes to see who I could make a gift for, so this year I'm atleast posting that list to lessen the amount of excuses for other people in my situation :p

yaomon17
Like:
Dogs
League of Legends
Pokemon
High Quality Pixels!
My own game that I'm making

Dislikes:
Racism
Uncecessary Profanity
Crime
The judgemental hive-mind of society.


crozier
Likes:
Nintendo 64+gamecube+snes/ video games/ RPGs
Painterly pixel art
Acoustic guitars/music
Somber/gloomy/mysterious/fantasy vibes
Steam punk/ futuristic/ forests/ Victorian/ deserts/ lush plant life/ etc
Non-anthropomorphic animals
Scenes/ mockups/ interesting characters
But most importantly: be yourself and do what you want! Be creative and pixel things you [also] like

Dislikes:
Monkeys and apes
Dancing


Zizka
Likes:
- Nudity (women) (tasteful)
- Full breasts
-Falloutesque art (think pipboy here)

Dislikes:
- Everything related to anime, manga.


VinceBetteridge
Likes: Cartoons
Dislikes: Violence

Corinthian Baby
Likes:
Noir, Uncharted, Cyberpunk, Breaking Bad (Yeah, science, bitch!), Crime, Art, Batman, Concept Art

Charlieton
like: Animals. Especially colourful birds with big beaks, and insects with their life-cycles (egg>larvae>pupae>metamorphosis into adult) and utilitarian design (beetles, butterflies, moths, cicadas). Reptiles and mammals are rad, too (if they have horns, thorns and/or bright colours).
Classic western literature (Ovid, Homer, Euripides).
Folktales and mythological stuff (the aesthetics of greek, nordic, mayan and japanese cultures)

Specific, pop-culture stuff: Dark Souls, Shin Megami Tensei games (esp. Persona 2,3,4 and Digital Devil Saga), Nintendo classic series (Zeldas, Marios, Megamans and so on), shmups by Cave (love Progear!), King of Fighters games (fave characters: Vanessa, Ramon, Maxima, Kim, May Lee), Street Fighter 3rd Strike and onward (fave characters: Blanka, Dudley, Hakan, Makoto, Abel), Mass Effect 1&2 (note: Shepard was always female to me)

Thanks to everybody who gave the gift of pixels because I enjoyed ALL of them =D

[Shrike]

Thanks so much Sokota for my gift! it's amazing! Love the uses of color and magnified style 

Merry Christmas all. Some wonderful entries here. Too bad so many didn't receive gifts this year.

[Jim16]

Every gift is pretty good this year.

Anyway, just in case others are doing the same, I'm working on a gift for Corinthian Baby. But it won't be finished until tomorrow, if not later.

[Corinthian Baby]

Amorphous, glad you like it! I tried to incorporate as much as I could from your list and that includes the crazy pallete. My comp is having trouble booting so I didn't get a chance to finish it but definitely will soon. 

I don't know who my original secret santa is, but much love to anyone who wants to make something for me. Much appreciated!

A lot of cool pieces but my absolute favorite so far is http://wayofthepixel.net/upload/ss13/tim_from_Dex.png

[Gogglecrab]

Loving the gifts from gogglecrab, homeworld and pepperwheel

Whoo, My first shout out! I'm glad you liked it!

Anyhow thanks a ton Cirpons, I'm not quite sure what it is, but it certainly does look cool ! There are a lot of brilliant entries this year!

By the way Metaru's gift is genius (never would have thought of making it a physical gift), I also really dig Peyton's style too. A tip of the hat goes to everyone though, great pieces everywhere!

Merry Christmas to all!

[Opacus]

Ah, such lovely gifts! Some really beautiful pieces here. Very sad that I was unable to partake. Still completes my christmas to browse through the list.

wolfenoctis and Dex: you really outdid yourself.

[Sokota]

Thanks so much Sokota for my gift! it's amazing! Love the uses of color and magnified style 

Merry Christmas all. Some wonderful entries here. Too bad so many didn't receive gifts this year.

As soon as I read your list, UFOs stood out to me for some reason. Glad you like it! Merry Christmas!

Thanks for the gift, skamocore! It's Blooddragon meets Meerkat Manor. Awesome!

[Riva]

Since I was too late (and stuffed with food) to get into regular Santa this year..
Let it be known that I'm working on substitute gift for crozier.
(so there are no unnecessary duplicates etc. etc.)

[crozier]

Many (early) thanks, Riva!
Hope to see you next year for secret santa 2014, and Merry Christmas!

Great gifts everyone! Really good stuff.

[Dex]

Hey overkill thank you for the present! Laser-shooting owls are among my favorite things. I look forward to seeing the finished product-- no rush though, I know it's the holiday season and we're all quite busy!

Tim-- glad you liked it! I had a blast working with a style similar to Mucha's and I hope it shows.

Also-- awesome pieces this year from everyone. Really liked everything here, great to see such lovely stuff. And thank you all for the compliments on my piece. I really enjoyed making it. Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone!

[Gamer36]

Dear Crozier,

I am sincerely sorry that I did not turn in your present in time. I could pull many excuses out of my hat, but I won't. Plain and simple, I kept saying to myself "Oh, I'll work on it some more tomorrow". It happened so much I just stopped thinking about it. Hopefully, if mine isn't satisfactory, Riva can make a piece that you'll love! (Crow probably hasn't gotten around to posting my work, since I sent the PM a few minutes ago, but it will most likely be up soon!)

Have a nice holiday season,

Gamer36

[PixelPiledriver]

You're welcome Drazelic. 

Thanks tomic!
Awesome, exactly the type of thing that I like. 
No worries on the wip.
Finish when you can.

All of the gifts are great.
Merry Xmas everyone!

[Cellusious]

Thanks offwhite

Those who didn't finish anything...

[Gamer36]

Thank you sooo much wolfenoctis! I didn't think anyone could utilize two of my likes in a work, let alone three! Those beasts remind me of the cheshire cat. Those bunnies are really cute, too.

[Metaru]

this thing is so big and fun to browse every year that it feels every present is for all of us to enjoy.

and just like last year, i'm going to fade away into darkness to resurrect right in time for the next secret santa.

Feliz navidad a todos ustedes, nerds.(and specially to you, flummox)

[Overkill]

Gosh, so many great pieces this year! Let's hope all of us WIP-ers can finish ours too. Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays / etc, everyone!

yaomon17: I love the character you made for me Great colors, I like the chaotic scarf and his demonic fire eyes. And the little blue flame! Heehee. Hope you had fun with it!

Dex: Thanks! I'm *really* sorry I had to submit that in such an extremely unfinished and roughly sketched state, it's a bit embarrassing I've been swamped with contract work, but I really hope that you'll like the final version! This at least shows the kind of elements it will have, hehe

[Lanarky]

Thanks Cellusious! It looks really cool!
Hope everyone had a good day!

[yaomon17]

Gosh, so many great pieces this year! Let's hope all of us WIP-ers can finish ours too. Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays / etc, everyone!

yaomon17: I love the character you made for me Great colors, I like the chaotic scarf and his demonic fire eyes. And the little blue flame! Heehee. Hope you had fun with it!

Dex: Thanks! I'm *really* sorry I had to submit that in such an extremely unfinished and roughly sketched state, it's a bit embarrassing I've been swamped with contract work, but I really hope that you'll like the final version! This at least shows the kind of elements it will have, hehe

Oh yea, it was great fun.

[Redshrike]

Mashpotato, that is awesome!  I am utterly in awe of these lobsters (awebsters?).  Thank you so much!


And my apologies to Charlieton for my tardiness in giving you your present.  I've sent it to Crow and such, but for now here is a link to your gift: http://i.imgur.com/iZBSdSY.png

[Charlieton]

@Charlieton:
That's looking awesome! I really love the style!

Really great gifts this year! I can't wait to see the WiP's finished, a lot of them look really great.

Glad you do! I started off making a more ambitious gift, but as the deadline grow nearer I knew I had to do something a bit smaller. Even then, I went through several revisions before I ended up with this style. Anyway, I'm working on it a bit more. Hopefully it'll end up more dragon-y, too!

And my apologies to Charlieton for my tardiness in giving you your present.  I've sent it to Crow and such, but for now here is a link to your gift: http://i.imgur.com/iZBSdSY.png

Felt my heart beat as I opened up the link... YES, I'm so glad you got me a flashy tropical bird! Sweet, glossy body + cool bug.

[Night]

Awesome! thanks Cyangmou.

[Super17]

Thanks so muck Shrike, exactly what I like, to bad that I can't play this   

And a short note to my gift for Mandrill: I have really no idea of Warhammer 40k, but I took some time and looked into many pictures and some articles. It turns out that I really like the setting of the Eldars and so I tried my own interpretation. I'm glad that you like it and that you could recognize it 
And it's still WIP in some places (the hair), I will fix that as soon as possible.

[Mandrill]

Thanks so muck Shrike, exactly what I like, to bad that I can't play this   

And a short note to my gift for Mandrill: I have really no idea of Warhammer 40k, but I took some time and looked into many pictures and some articles. It turns out that I really like the setting of the Eldars and so I tried my own interpretation. I'm glad that you like it and that you could recognize it 
And it's still WIP in some places (the hair), I will fix that as soon as possible.

No worries chap, pleas take your time. You did a real brilliant piece.

Your efforts are more than appreciated. Thanks again!

[Johasu]

   It's beautiful!

Thank you Pepperwheel.

[crozier]

Thank you Gamer36!  Better late than never, right :3 But yeah, I too found myself lacking time to do mine. Had several finals to study for and family flying in. I'm surprised I finished mine in time, too XD But, Happy Holidays to you as well!


Oh and Riva, if you haven't started that piece (or haven't gotten very far in it) I would really prefer if you made a gift for one of the people that is still giftless. I appreciate your spirit, and hope that you make someone else happy. Thank you!


Oh and I didn't have time to say this yesterday, but I LOVE the works by wolfenoctis, Tim, Cyangmou, Night, offwhite, PixelPiledriver, and Mr. Beast. I also look forward to seeing the finished versions of those wips (especially the piece from Ultimaodin- that's gonna look pretty wicked when it's done.) Bravo everyone, and great pixels!

[Jim16]

Oh and I didn't have time to say this yesterday, but I LOVE the works by wolfenoctis, Tim, Cyangmou, Night, offwhite, PixelPiledriver, DEX and Mr. Beast. I also look forward to seeing the finished versions of those wips (especially the piece from Ultimaodin- that's gonna look pretty wicked when it's done.) Bravo everyone, and great pixels!

I agree with this. I've added one you missed.

I've made Corinthian Baby a gift. Enjoy bud.

[Crow]

I've made Corinthian Baby a gift. Enjoy bud.

Thank you Added.

[crozier]

How could I miss Dex? His work for this year is amazing! Truly flawless.
And, nice job Jim16 on that batman piece. It's very nice, and a great gesture on your part. Thanks for spreading Christmas cheer.

[PixelPiledriver]

Metaru how do I build your awesome robot?
Green dots are fold?
Grey tabs get folded down too?

[Argyle]

LOVED the gift, Mr. Fahrenheit! Thank you so much!

My gift will be in soon, so sorry! Time got away from me with work but it's mostly finished.

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

Your welcome Argyle, I had a lot of fun working on it!

I wanted to try to do something with that horse blanket you mentioned a few years ago, but alas, I had no time.

[Pepperwheel]

Thanks so much for the lovely gift Crozier! I love that you put my avatar portrait in there hehehe

I'm glad you liked it Johasu! It was lots of fun being your secret santa this year ^_^

It was my pleasure Crow Merry Christmas to you all!

[PixelPiledriver]

Mission Accomplished.

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

Dude that's awesome.

[Metaru]

Mission Accomplished.

for the emperor.

[RAV]

Now this is really damn funny. 

[Opacus]

Mission Accomplished.

for the emperor.

It is better to die for the emperor, than live for yourself.

Seriously though: that is way neat.

[PixelPiledriver]

For anyone else that wants to build the bot, I should mention that I modified the feet.
There's an extra face on one, so I cut it down to match the other.



All the other pieces worked out fine.

[Corinthian Baby]

Jim16, this is awesome, great style would love to play a game that looks like this. Extra kudos for not letting me go giftless!

Thank you.

[Zizka]

Extra kudos for not letting me go giftless!

Yeah, now I know how it feels like when Santa gives you the finger.

[Crow]

Yeah, now I know how it feels like when Santa gives you the finger.

Don't let it get to you. I've had that happen to me as well in the past.

[jazzatt]

Thanks Mandrill I love it!

[Mandrill]

Thanks Mandrill I love it!

No worries, chap! Glad you like it.

[Argyle]

Zizka! There's not really anything I can say for myself for being so late with your Secret Santa gift, so I'm just hoping you'll accept my apology. Got wrapped up right after I started work on your gift with a high priority project that ate all my time all the way through the end of January, so I had to be late with my gift for the first year ever

Happy belated santa day!

[Jim16]

thats Awesome

[tomic]

just for the record:
finished mine.



being on a sick leave is a great opportunity to finish old stuff
and i'll think twice before entering secret santa this year, promised.