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The Autumn 2006 Banner Contest ** Starring Kairin **
Welcome to the new Autumn banner contest. You've all seen the great banners we have at the top of our forum. Some of you remember the last banner contest. Others have wondered where those cool banners come from. In case you didn't know, they were made by people on this forum. Now is your chance to make a banner that will grace our forum for at least the next season.
Banners may contain anime artwork from any source including your own art. They must be anime related and they must be appropriate for our forum. The theme for this Autumn banner contest is our mascot, Kairin. Unfortunately Kairin artwork is not prevalent. In order to encourage entries I will be accepting anything anime related that is inspirational of the Autumn season such as fall leaves, harvested fields and wine. Feel free to use your imagination, but I will invalidate anything that does not feel autumnal to me, unless it contains an image of Kairin. Kairin is always good! Hopefully we'll see some original artwork of our beautiful and classy mascot. If you want to work with any of the official images created by Kiva128, you will find some of his drawings in the Kairin Fanart Thread. I'll mention that while Kiva128 has granted permission for use of the images that he has released in that thread, other artists have chosen to keep their rights and you should ask their permission. Naturally all our resident artists are encouraged to draw their own renditions of our beautiful mascot. If anyone wants to post Kairin artwork for others to photoshop into banners, that would be a generous gesture earning much good will. The rest of the rules:
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If you want to use the AnimeSuki font, there it is. This is optional. Important: The right and left edges of the banner must blend into the top bar. That means the very edge of the template below must not be covered by any image or else it will look like it has been cut off. If a mistake is made on edge blending we will all try to point it out so that it can be fixed. Banners whose edges are messed up will be ineligable. Here is the template: Make sure you keep the sides clear of image so that it blends properly at the right and left.
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2006-07-10, 19:13 | Link #3 | |
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1. http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/2352/animesukiaruruu8ec.jpg
2.Utawarerumono 1.01 Final version Kiva128 Kairin 1.0.0 Final version3. Higurashi 1.0.0 Final version Quote:
...Perhaps maybe, an mandatory Kairin banner, in that out of the 10 most popular banners, that should an Kairin banner not make the list, #10 is bumped off the nomination list, and next highest nomination count Kairin banner, ...#15 for example, gets bumped to #10. Then broken down, say, if that Kairin banner #10 doesn't make the top three, the Kairin banner either takes place of #3, or Kairin banner becomes fourth banner in rotation. ...not that Kairin is taking anything less than first place of course. Last edited by Green²; 2006-07-25 at 00:54. Reason: Banner edits |
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2006-07-10, 19:57 | Link #4 |
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Kairin or no Kairin, that's one excellent banner, Green²! I'd vote for it.
I love the font you used btw. Looks very nice. Sorry about the lack of Kairin art everyone. I'm just a perfectionist by nature so I take too long on things that shouldn't take so long. I have some ideas on how to get some new Kairin art out at a decent speed. However, getting it out before the deadline so people can actually use it is another story. On the bright side, there's a few chibi pictures around you guys could use. Everyone loves chibi, right? Right? I'm not sure if I'm entering the contest yet. I want to finish the wallpaper I'm working on pretty badly since I really like it. I might do a Kairin banner at the last minute again, I'm not sure yet. Anyways, best of luck to the contestants!
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I will only say that if a Kairin banner doesn't win, it is guaranteed that the best Kairin banner will be presented on our forum in addition to the three victors. Quote:
I'm hoping that you will draw a Kairin banner to present for this contest. As Kairin's number 1 fan, I suspect your entry will be quite exceptional. I'm hoping others will draw their own Karin banners also. There can't be such a thing as too much Kairin.
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2006-07-11, 08:22 | Link #6 | |
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I had a great idea for a banner actually, but unfortunately Kairin's long ears thwarted that plan. Oh well, I'll think of something...I hope EDIT: I wonder how long it's going to be before someone posts the mandatory Haruhi banner. You know it's coming.
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2006-07-11, 09:20 | Link #8 | |
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I'm doing a banner, but its going to be black and white, hand sketched, like everything else I've ever done. Not sure if I should continue any further though, it doesn't seem to fit the bluish template.
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2006-07-11, 10:17 | Link #9 | |
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Incidentally: Green², the banner is fantastic... my only comments would be I'm not keen on the font... and the left (and right too now I think about it) side jumps from purple to blue too suddenly. A different font and a softer edge (i.e. blended over ~100px rather than ~5px) would make it practically perfect in every way! |
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2006-07-11, 14:31 | Link #11 | |
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That's just what I think though.
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2006-07-11, 15:14 | Link #12 | |
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The better version. Last edited by Maxon; 2006-07-11 at 15:38. |
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2006-07-12, 00:47 | Link #13 |
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Small update: I've posted the contest schedule in the Forum Calendar. There are several advantages of this.You can tell the forum to email you a reminder when it's time to nominate banners, and again when the poll opens. Also, you can check the calendar to see when the deadline is in your timezone. (Assuming that you set your timezone in your User CP.)
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2006-07-12, 09:34 | Link #14 |
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Here's my 1st try, actually just posting here to see what's the response to a black and white banner lol
The entire banner is hand sketched, except for the template and font. It is compiled and edited using MS Paint. I have no photoshop nor photoshop skills lol. Monotype Corsiva is probably too overused, I would get another font, or sketch one, if I were to continue with this. The quality of the picture isn't really good too, I can't get too far without photoshop or some other vector programs. The sketches I used:
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2006-07-12, 15:41 | Link #16 | |
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And yes she's wearing a bikini not those high school swimsuits you love oh-so-much, Jojo. It'll be done when it's done.
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2006-07-12, 15:54 | Link #17 |
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Hue: 84, Saturation: 138 Hue: 40, Saturation 212 Hue: 28, Saturation: 214 Hue: 69, Saturation: 50 I bet those colors would make it a lot prettier.
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2006-07-12, 16:06 | Link #18 |
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Also, for anyone thinking of drawing Kairin, please don't be afraid to change her clothing or hair style. The way I drew her isn't the only way. For example, if those chun li things in her hair (what are those called anyways? ) are too hard, just don't put them in. If the dress isn't working, give her a T-shirt. In other words, have fun experimenting instead of being locked into thinking there's only 1 way to draw Kairin.
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2006-07-12, 16:12 | Link #19 | |
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Still good work though. I didn't even realise Monotype Corsiva was used so much. I just used what came naturally. |
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2006-07-12, 19:57 | Link #20 | |
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Didn't know it was such a common font.
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