2012-12-26, 16:31 | Link #1 |
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AnimeSuki 10th Anniversary Banner Contest - Planning Feedback
As you may know, AnimeSuki is now 10 years old!
To commemorate this special event, we are planning a special banner contest that focuses on the last ten years of anime. The basic outline of the contest plan is as follows:
This time, because of the diversity of the subject, I am proposing that each person be allowed to create their own background gradient to go with each submission (or to select from a set of pre-created gradients). However:
Other than that, the banners would be center-justified and obey the same rules as we've used in previous contents. In addition to the usual required "AnimeSuki Forums" text, I am wondering if we should add the text "10th Anniversary 2002-2012" (or just "10th Anniversary"?). It's also possible that we could have the designs incorporate either the series title or the year of airing for that show... but not sure about this. Would there be enough room? Anyway, the purpose of this thread is to get feedback about this proposal and make any adjustments before we launch the contest proper in the new year. So please let me know what you think! We're excited to have a new banner contest to help promote this anniversary!
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2012-12-26, 16:43 | Link #2 |
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Basically I'm both excited and confused. Anyway..
1. Would it be better than the staff will be the one that will provide the gradients instead to have a 100% clash free submission. 2. The links should be given as well, right? What about if its an edited "screenshot" in an anime series? |
2012-12-26, 16:56 | Link #3 | |
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Maybe what we could do instead is have people submit gradients for approval before the contest starts? I'm open to suggestions here on how to best do this. I just don't want to be too limiting... but at the same time, maybe having some limits is better. I think you should still identify the anime in question and where it comes from if the source is available. A capture from an anime episode could be okay if you can make it work.
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2012-12-26, 17:08 | Link #5 |
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Cool, this sounds like fun.
Submitting gradients for approval sounds like a great idea to me. Personally, I think the less text there is, the better. Too much text will clutter up a banner. So, "AnimeSuki Forums" and just "10th Anniversary" would be best. |
2012-12-26, 20:11 | Link #11 | |
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That's just an idea, anyway.
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2012-12-26, 20:22 | Link #13 | |
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2012-12-26, 21:31 | Link #14 |
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This is just my opinion, but personally I prefer not. I'd rather have franchises that somehow representative of the year they were released. If we have a bunch of older franchises that were only remade recently, it doesn't change the fact that they're older franchises. Perhaps we should outlaw sequels for that reason too, but not sure...
Again, this is just my opinion, and not a decision.
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2012-12-26, 23:16 | Link #15 | |
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Anyway, I will respect any decisions will be made.
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2012-12-27, 00:24 | Link #16 | |
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And don't worry about the limits sempai, I think the designers can do something about the gradients/bg just like the previous contest.
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2012-12-27, 07:04 | Link #17 |
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I agree with Patchy there. Probably uploading different types of gradients that we can use and choosing only 1 or 2 of them as the main gradient would be quite fair. (It MAY take a long time for the decision to be made).
Like Patchy, said, there is no reason to be worried about the limits. Normally the people that are designers or do these things would of course choose the right kind of gradient to use. There wouldn't be any limitations at all One question, you said that there is going to be a case where people upload their gradients for approval? Will a thread for this be made or do we just upload them here (since it's only a feedback thread) For the text, I think going for "AnimeSuki Forum's 10th Anniversary" would be fine for me. I'm not sure about other people.
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2012-12-27, 19:52 | Link #18 |
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I think there should be an option of "choose this, this, or this gradient"...I mean, I feel like having a free for all for that would be too complicated and also that it should look at least somewhat uniform. (so the three options should definitely go together...analogous colors maybe? e.g. violet, blue violet, and blue) Definitely no judging on the gradients.
As for text: Maybe "Animesuki 10" or Animesuki's 10th"? I think it could either be a requirement to put 10th anniversary in there in some way shape or form, or an option. (The artist could be allowed to represent it however they wanted).
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2012-12-27, 21:30 | Link #19 | |
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Would it be too difficult to add the "series title and/or year" info as part of the banner's alt-text, or does the forum software not allow this?
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