[official] Avatar Contest 28-10-2008

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Its time for you ... yes you the members of forumotion, to help us. Our avatar gallery is seriously in need of a make over, with so many helping hands on the forum why not ask the members to do something??

The theory is simple... we need 30 new avatars for the avatar gallery. The graphics staff and moderation staff of forumotion's forum of the forums will be responsible for half of the avatars and the other 15 are member made.

Its time to take out your Photo.net and your GimpShop applications out of the closet and onto your monitor. We are looking for avatars with a forumotion feel... so we want greens and blues and oranges.
Everybody participating is entitled to download a resource pack which I have specially prepared for you guys. The resource pack consists of 4 images... two of them are the green monster, all redesigned by me. The other 2 images are a surprise... they didn't make the cut for the forumotion shop... so maybe they'll come to use here.

Every avatar has to be 150x200 pixels ... if you don't match these specifications your art won't qualify for voting. Your avatar has to contain at least one image from the resource pack... twist it and turn it how you wish as long as the forumotion accent is in the avatar.

the vitals in a pill:

Avatar size: 150x200 ONLY
at least 1 resource image must be used
We need it to use forumotion colors and style
Due date ... 2 weeks from now the 11-11-2008
max 3 avatars per member
No animated avatars

Contest ends 11-11-2008 ... all entries will be judged by the stunning staff of forumotion's help site.
The top 15 avatars will make it along with professionally made avatars of the gfx staff to the avatar gallery.
So in general your reward is having your avatar featured on the avatar gallery, so everyone can use it at any time.

Start posting your works now.
this thread will be a comment and entry thread. 11-11 remember...

Nessa wrote:

We need a splash of "Pink" up in here..

that explains the black guy in the center

Is the voting going to begin? Can we vote? (By, "we," I mean anyone who designed an avatar here.) if so, can we vote for our own avatar, without revealing it is ours?

paint wrote:Is the voting going to begin? Can we vote? (By, "we," I mean anyone who designed an avatar here.) if so, can we vote for our own avatar, without revealing it is ours?

Um.. I think you need to wait until the contest closes before any voting is done. The contest closes on November 11.

I'm not sure if it's member voting either. It may be staff voting only..

nice avatar scamite, although it is a bit too simple.

dragonfir731 wrote:nice avatar scamite, although it is a bit too simple.

thats the point... its a default avatar with a forumotion flare... you'll see that the basic... easy to use... nice looking and clean avatars will land in the gallery.

and scamite the staff will be voting for the avatars in the staff room. But maybe I could arrange a member voting just for fun...

MEX wrote:

I thought I would ask you, but can I use this one for this forum?

take it freely

Thanks!

new avatar

haha can I use that one?

i just checked 100th reply in this topic

I asked him if I could use one of them, and he said you can use any of them, so it is probally yes.

tomorow is closing day ... at around lunch time ... my time. ... I'll close this thread update the gallery thread and open a poll for members...

the members poll will just be a publicity vote, the real voting will commence in the staff room... 15 lucky avatars will make it into the gallery.

are there not usually avatars added to the gallery section? I'm just wondering where these will go when winners are chosen.

@ canadien... its not the gallery here... as in on the forum its for the default avatars in your profile...
go to your profile ...click avatars and click gallery

I wasn't home... for most of today...
So I now officially declare the contest closed.

Thank you all for participating ... in about a weeks time I'll announce the winners