We have made a giant 5- layered Pixel Art. The palette we used for indexing the pic was with 432 colors of which almost 200 were included in the final sprite.We have only used the default texure pack, but we combined leaves, water and normal blocks to make varieties of colors.
Builders: Toxicstriker91 & MrMonkey91

Additional Notes

Second part of the vid can be found in the description of the first, or at this link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQXbby2Sz8