pennywise
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Please take a moment to review the rules, which have been somewhat borrowed from the tried-and-true photo contest.
RULES
1. Avatars must be your original work. This means that while it is ok to use source images, they must be modified in some meaningful way such that they are recognizably different from their original form and can be considered uniquely yours.
2. Animations (in the form of animated GIF's) are acceptable and encouraged. However, all animations must be created entirely by you. This means no taking existing animations and modifying them. It might be ok for images, and it is ok to use source images in your animations, but animations need to be created frame by frame by you.
3. No submitting artwork for other people, for friends, etc. Your OWN work, very simple.
4. Only one avatar may be entered per contest.
5. Avatars need to be no larger than 50x50 pixels with a maximum size of 9.8 kb, which is BL's size restriction. Avatar's must meet Bluelight specifications and size limitations. If it can't be used on BL as an avatar, it will not be a valid entry.
6. Deadline for entries is 12am Eastern (5am GMT) on the posted deadline date.
7. Voting ends at 12am Eastern (5am GMT) on the posted end date.
8. Post your images in the appropriate thread in the form of an image, not a link to click on.
9. Don't be a dummy and vote for your own entry, try and make it fun.
Images which are not relevant to the week's theme will be automatically removed.
If you have a problem with another contestant's entry adhering to the contest guidelines, please PM the forum moderators. Do not try to begin a debate about the issue within the contest submission or poll thread! There will be zero tolerance towards any attempts to devolve a contest thread into a bash-fest or witch hunt.
We will pick the next theme and post it the night a contest ends for the next round so people have a full 7 days to create avatars and submit them. After all the entries have been posted, a poll will be added on the last night, so people can vote. Voting will take place from midnight to midnight over the following 2 days (12am Sunday - 12am Tuesday).
Thank you and have fun!
To help us adhere to rule #5, SA has a few words for us...
And so does Damien8787...
Thanks guys.
As far as software goes, I'm afraid as of now, I can't be of much help in providing any for you. If you don't have Photoshop, you can always use MS Paint or some other similar program that came with your OS. Keep in mind that the size and resolution requirements will keep the playing field a bit more level in this regard, as high resolution or fancy photoshopping has much less of an impact at these very low resolutions and sizes. Ingenuity, composition, and a sense of humor or inventiveness might win the day here, and prove more valuable than shiny polished pixels and filters.
In deference to BL policy, I'm afraid all I can point you towards as far as tools go are the ones available for free download that are not copyrighted, such as SA's link, and for the gif animator link I will give you below. That being said, if you should happen to stumble across some strange and mysterious way to acquire copyrighted software for free, that is your business, and we don't want to know about it.
Here is a simple gif animator program: Microsoft GIF Animator. It is simple, but should serve your needs.
This first subject selection poll went well, and I was happy to see all the people who came out to vote for the contestants. To all the runners-up in our poll, I would like to thank you for your interest, and encourage you to keep your name in the running for next week's poll. If anyone does not wish to remain on the list next week, please post in the previous polling thread, or send me a pm, and I will sadly remove you
. Anyone who wishes to add their name to the next poll can do so in the same way. Thanks for participating, and don't lose hope! It was a close round. Next time it could be you.
With all that covered, our subject selection poll winner, and next subject will be...
euphoricnod!
You may know him as a moderator of Drug Culture here on BL. He really, really wanted to win his spot as the subject of this round of our competition, and launched a vigorous campaign, barely edging out the competition from across the pond.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create an avatar adhering to the following parameters:
That is your mission...
Entries are being accepted immediately, and the deadline will be 11:59 pm EST next Tuesday, April 8, 2008. That's 4/8/08.
euphoricnod, I assume, will follow the tradition of displaying the winning avatar next to his name for a while following the conclusion of this weeks festivities, so please know that should you win, your avatar will get lots of exposure around the site from this (semi ) high-profile member. Similarly, e-nod will have the exclusive right to all entries for use as his avatar in the future, and should he request it, we would ask that other members respect his proprietary right to reserve the entered avatars for his own use. So even if you don't win, you might still see him wearing your avatar one day.
Finally, thank you to Klue for the idea (pm me if you wish to take over any of the hosting duties, it was your idea), and to everyone who voted on in the contest discussion thread.
Thats it! Happy clicking, and good luck! :D
RULES
1. Avatars must be your original work. This means that while it is ok to use source images, they must be modified in some meaningful way such that they are recognizably different from their original form and can be considered uniquely yours.
2. Animations (in the form of animated GIF's) are acceptable and encouraged. However, all animations must be created entirely by you. This means no taking existing animations and modifying them. It might be ok for images, and it is ok to use source images in your animations, but animations need to be created frame by frame by you.
3. No submitting artwork for other people, for friends, etc. Your OWN work, very simple.
4. Only one avatar may be entered per contest.
5. Avatars need to be no larger than 50x50 pixels with a maximum size of 9.8 kb, which is BL's size restriction. Avatar's must meet Bluelight specifications and size limitations. If it can't be used on BL as an avatar, it will not be a valid entry.
6. Deadline for entries is 12am Eastern (5am GMT) on the posted deadline date.
7. Voting ends at 12am Eastern (5am GMT) on the posted end date.
8. Post your images in the appropriate thread in the form of an image, not a link to click on.
9. Don't be a dummy and vote for your own entry, try and make it fun.
Images which are not relevant to the week's theme will be automatically removed.
If you have a problem with another contestant's entry adhering to the contest guidelines, please PM the forum moderators. Do not try to begin a debate about the issue within the contest submission or poll thread! There will be zero tolerance towards any attempts to devolve a contest thread into a bash-fest or witch hunt.
We will pick the next theme and post it the night a contest ends for the next round so people have a full 7 days to create avatars and submit them. After all the entries have been posted, a poll will be added on the last night, so people can vote. Voting will take place from midnight to midnight over the following 2 days (12am Sunday - 12am Tuesday).
Thank you and have fun!
To help us adhere to rule #5, SA has a few words for us...
SA said:
And so does Damien8787...
Damien8787 said:
Thanks guys.
As far as software goes, I'm afraid as of now, I can't be of much help in providing any for you. If you don't have Photoshop, you can always use MS Paint or some other similar program that came with your OS. Keep in mind that the size and resolution requirements will keep the playing field a bit more level in this regard, as high resolution or fancy photoshopping has much less of an impact at these very low resolutions and sizes. Ingenuity, composition, and a sense of humor or inventiveness might win the day here, and prove more valuable than shiny polished pixels and filters.
In deference to BL policy, I'm afraid all I can point you towards as far as tools go are the ones available for free download that are not copyrighted, such as SA's link, and for the gif animator link I will give you below. That being said, if you should happen to stumble across some strange and mysterious way to acquire copyrighted software for free, that is your business, and we don't want to know about it.
Here is a simple gif animator program: Microsoft GIF Animator. It is simple, but should serve your needs.
This first subject selection poll went well, and I was happy to see all the people who came out to vote for the contestants. To all the runners-up in our poll, I would like to thank you for your interest, and encourage you to keep your name in the running for next week's poll. If anyone does not wish to remain on the list next week, please post in the previous polling thread, or send me a pm, and I will sadly remove you
. Anyone who wishes to add their name to the next poll can do so in the same way. Thanks for participating, and don't lose hope! It was a close round. Next time it could be you. With all that covered, our subject selection poll winner, and next subject will be...
euphoricnod!
You may know him as a moderator of Drug Culture here on BL. He really, really wanted to win his spot as the subject of this round of our competition, and launched a vigorous campaign, barely edging out the competition from across the pond.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create an avatar adhering to the following parameters:
euphoricnod said:I'd like one that has a hammer and sickle. Thats my only requirement. Anything else. Rainbow colors OK. enod is a homo OK. BUT THE HAmMER AND SICKLE MUST BE VISIBLE!!!
Do eet!
That is your mission...
Entries are being accepted immediately, and the deadline will be 11:59 pm EST next Tuesday, April 8, 2008. That's 4/8/08.
euphoricnod, I assume, will follow the tradition of displaying the winning avatar next to his name for a while following the conclusion of this weeks festivities, so please know that should you win, your avatar will get lots of exposure around the site from this (semi
) high-profile member. Similarly, e-nod will have the exclusive right to all entries for use as his avatar in the future, and should he request it, we would ask that other members respect his proprietary right to reserve the entered avatars for his own use. So even if you don't win, you might still see him wearing your avatar one day. Finally, thank you to Klue for the idea (pm me if you wish to take over any of the hosting duties, it was your idea), and to everyone who voted on in the contest discussion thread.
Thats it! Happy clicking, and good luck! :D
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You totally stole my idea PW!
