I want to wait until people post a few tiles before I decide what colours to use, and I think that plays a big part in what I make.  Plus I'd like to blend in to adjacent tiles somewhat.  I'll get started now, can always edit

Well,   After a month past the deadline I finally got around to finishing this off.  Reasonably pleased as it's my first pixel art but there's still plenty of things I wish I could've done.

                    

I should point out that I didn't adhere to every machine rule - all sprites have no more than 3 colours plus alpha, (per 8x8) same with bg tiles  -  but little things like the 2x2 tile rule and amount of pallettes I didn't worry too much about.
Obviously I used references and traced that Tygra face.   For the logo and the face there's more than 3 colours, but under an assumption that there would be bg tiles with sprites overlaid. 

I may be tempted to make sure I can justify everything to machine rule but I've already played with this enough so for now I'll just post it up for crit etc.

I can submit soon, I basically overestimated the work and had alot on professionally too.  Shame - I know it's not a contest but I wanted my first pixel art to be at least decent and finished.   Oh well I'll post it up soon.

Cave you're acting like a gay rights activist on prozac.

This is a pixel art forum, anyone who got offended by the mockup to be honest has other issues to go deal with rather than bring all these morals and motives into a forum like this.  Just because I gather the film had a bit of gay bashing in, doesn't mean a mockup is of a gay bashing game.  A woman was shot in the head multiple times in the Terminator film, but it doesn't mean that's what the NES game is about.

I'm surprised Helm or Adam haven't stepped in and given you a big wet slap for being so politically correct.
Please appreciate some light hearted parody.
I live in the UK and have enough PC overload to deal with on a day to day basis.  It would be sad if it invaded forums too, especially ones of this calibre.

Hi everyone,

Are there any restrictions on what films we can and can't use?

I.E.  Films that already have NES games like TMNT, or STAR WARS etc.  Along with things like anime and cartoons.  I'm not making all that sense of what we can and can't do with character sprite overlays etc so maybe someone could elaborate a little more or put it in layman's terms.

I'm going to get started and if it needs a bit of alteration then I'll do my best. 

One more thing - are we allowed to animate it if we have time?  I couldn't help thinking why there's a parallax rule in there if this would be a problem.