AnimeSuki Forum - View Single Post - The Halloween 2006 Banner Contest! (Surprise! A new banner contest already!)

NoSanninWa · 2006-09-12, 05:00

Welcome to the new Halloween 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.

Before you read any further you should know that the size of our banner is larger than ever before, to give more room for your imagination. We are also using a new Halloween color scheme for the background. Details below.

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 banner contest is the season of Halloween. As an exception to this theme we will be allowing anything that includes our mascot, Kairin since she begged me so cutely to let her in.

All entries should include anime images related to Halloween such as costumes, ghosts, pumpkins or spooky monsters. Feel free to use your imagination, but I will invalidate anything that does not feel like Haloween 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.

The rest of the rules:

All entries must have Kairin or a Halloween theme.
Banners are 760x100 and a maximum of 60KB in size, using the gradiant below as a guide.
The edges of all banners must blend into the top bar. Please see below for details.
All entries must be in GIF, PNG or JPG format. Remember, we want the banner to be able to load quickly for the sake of 56Kers so no animations will be accepted and filesize should be kept to 60K or less.
Each member may only enter 3 banners maximum. If you go over this number you need to specify which banners to use or else your last 3 entries will be used.
Members will only have until 06:00:00 Tues Sept 26 2006 in GMT to create banners. Check Time Zone Converter for information on what time this is near you. (In EST this is 2am Tuesday morning... or really late Monday night.)
This thread is to be used for banner entries only. Nominations in this thread will be ignored. However it is the place to tell each other which banners you like, I just won't count it as a nomination.
After this thread closes, a new thread will be created in which everyone will nominate their favorite banners. Nominations will run for exactly 7 more days, until Oct 3rd, 2006 at which time the nomination thread will be closed.
At this time the 10 most popular banners will be put up on a poll for the entire forum to vote for since more people respond to polls that don't require them to post. Each contestant will only be listed once regardless of how many banners he entered.
The poll will close on October 10th after exactly 7 days of voting. Polls close automatically so please check the poll for information concerning when it will close in your timezone.
The three most popular banners will be chosen to rotate at the top of our forum.
Of these three, One is the winner and the other two are runner ups. The winner is the contestant whose entry got the greatest number of votes. As recognition of the accomplishment this winner will recieve a $35 dollar gift certificate provided by Catgirls.

Disclaimers:

I may disqualify any banner deemed to be offensive or inappropriate.
No moderators (of any rank) are allowed to win the grand prize. If by some stroke of brilliant artistry one of us does win, the prize will go to the first runner up.
All submitted banners become property of AnimeSuki and may be used now or in future years without asking your permission.

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 our new Halloween template:

Make sure you keep the far right and left sides clear of image so that it blends properly at the right and left.

2006-09-12, 05:00	Link #1
NoSanninWa Weapon of Mass Discussion Fansubber Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: New York, USA	The Halloween 2006 Banner Contest! (Surprise! A new banner contest already!) Welcome to the new Halloween 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. Before you read any further you should know that the size of our banner is larger than ever before, to give more room for your imagination. We are also using a new Halloween color scheme for the background. Details below. 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 banner contest is the season of Halloween. As an exception to this theme we will be allowing anything that includes our mascot, Kairin since she begged me so cutely to let her in. All entries should include anime images related to Halloween such as costumes, ghosts, pumpkins or spooky monsters. Feel free to use your imagination, but I will invalidate anything that does not feel like Haloween 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. The rest of the rules: All entries must have Kairin or a Halloween theme. Banners are 760x100 and a maximum of 60KB in size, using the gradiant below as a guide. The edges of all banners must blend into the top bar. Please see below for details. All entries must be in GIF, PNG or JPG format. Remember, we want the banner to be able to load quickly for the sake of 56Kers so no animations will be accepted and filesize should be kept to 60K or less. Each member may only enter 3 banners maximum. If you go over this number you need to specify which banners to use or else your last 3 entries will be used. Members will only have until 06:00:00 Tues Sept 26 2006 in GMT to create banners. Check Time Zone Converter for information on what time this is near you. (In EST this is 2am Tuesday morning... or really late Monday night.) This thread is to be used for banner entries only. Nominations in this thread will be ignored. However it is the place to tell each other which banners you like, I just won't count it as a nomination. After this thread closes, a new thread will be created in which everyone will nominate their favorite banners. Nominations will run for exactly 7 more days, until Oct 3rd, 2006 at which time the nomination thread will be closed. At this time the 10 most popular banners will be put up on a poll for the entire forum to vote for since more people respond to polls that don't require them to post. Each contestant will only be listed once regardless of how many banners he entered. The poll will close on October 10th after exactly 7 days of voting. Polls close automatically so please check the poll for information concerning when it will close in your timezone. The three most popular banners will be chosen to rotate at the top of our forum. Of these three, One is the winner and the other two are runner ups. The winner is the contestant whose entry got the greatest number of votes. As recognition of the accomplishment this winner will recieve a $35 dollar gift certificate provided by Catgirls. Disclaimers: I may disqualify any banner deemed to be offensive or inappropriate. No moderators (of any rank) are allowed to win the grand prize. If by some stroke of brilliant artistry one of us does win, the prize will go to the first runner up. All submitted banners become property of AnimeSuki and may be used now or in future years without asking your permission. 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 our new Halloween template: Make sure you keep the far right and left sides clear of image so that it blends properly at the right and left. __________________ There's not that fine a line between willing suspension of disbelief and something just being stupid. Last edited by NoSanninWa; 2006-09-27 at 02:46.