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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 9th Oct 2014 05:41 Edited at: 1st Nov 2014 21:14


Greetings to all; so it has been a very long time since one of these contests have occurred, October 2012. As vice president of the forum, I figured it would be good to have another one of these contests. I hope this creates a little activity on the forum, as the forum seems to have hit a little lull the past week or so.

So this thread is what it sounds like, a contest to create banners for the TGC forum! For the record, I have not yet contacted any TGC officials about this, but I am hoping that they will support this thread if it ends up producing some good banners (Clonkex, may you please help me with getting TGC support?). I will structure the rules based upon the rules of previous banner contests.

The Law of the Land:

1) The banner you submit needs to be 459x60

2) The theme of your banner should center around the forums (i.e. geeks and nerds)

3) Copyrighted items shall be avoided in your banner

4) As such, your banner should contain original artwork

5) It is preferable that you add a black fade out gradient to the left side of your banner, so that it blends in with the forum page header

6) PLEASE TRY TO MAKE YOUR BANNERS FUNNY
(We have enough serious ones so far! However, if you can't think of anything funny, go ahead and make what your heart guides you to )

7) Please save your banner in the .jpg file format

8) Remember that the forums are a business tool of TGC's, so please ensure your banners look professional to a degree

9) Please keep this thread on topic



As with the previous banner contests, the images that are chosen to be used as banners for the TGC forum shall be chosen by moderators and forum administrators. I doubt a voting system should be involved, although it's perfectly fine to support another's banner if you wish to influence the decision of a moderator.

Image editing programs such as GIMP and Paint.NET are good for creating such banners. You may link your banner to this thread, or you may also upload it as an attachment to your post. After the contest is over (at a time TBD) and the winning submissions have been selected, I will compile all of the banners into a single zip file for sending to TGC.

Obviously, the currently existing banners should serve as a good inspiration for what you create. Listed below are all of the current banners:





























Soon, I plan to make a banner of my own and post it here.

The previous contest in 2012 was not successful by any stretch; the thread died of inactivity, and none of the images made it into banner circulation. The contest before that, however, is the source of many current banners. Let's make this contest a successful one too!

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Posted: 9th Oct 2014 13:46 Edited at: 23rd Oct 2014 02:47
Shall see what can be done... Have some ideas already, will update this post with my submissions

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Here are my submissions in creation order...

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

#11

#12

#13

#14

#15

#16

#17

#18

#19

#20

#21

#22

#23

#24

#25

#26

#27

#28

#29

#30


Yes #5 & #6 are inspired by a jet engine
#17 is strictly for fun, hence no blending of the black left frame...
#30 is just for a reminder of a good joke

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Posted: 9th Oct 2014 23:20
Can we re-submit any banners we made from the previous contest (the unsuccessful one)?


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Posted: 10th Oct 2014 00:29 Edited at: 10th Oct 2014 00:29
Glad to see my Abraham Lincoln one

Here's this years effort (minimalist):

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Posted: 10th Oct 2014 01:20
baxslash I like that!

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Quote: "Can we re-submit any banners we made from the previous contest (the unsuccessful one)?"
I don't see why not! I would encourage that, in fact.

I like that too, baxslash.

Nice MrValentine, I like all of those! The jet engine ones are cool for sure.

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Quote: "Nice MrValentine, I like all of those! The jet engine ones are cool for sure. "


Thanks, luckily I had little else to do today, but researching for my new publications is proving fun and not so time consuming...

I have been looking at a lot of engines lately

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Posted: 10th Oct 2014 04:03 Edited at: 10th Oct 2014 04:04
Alright, here is my submission:



I will probably make many more, too.

Quote: "I have been looking at a lot of engines lately"
Jet engines sure are fascinating, aren't they? Riding a plane is really fun when you know how the engines work. Especially during takeoff; the force the engines produce is just unprecedented. And all of that comes from accelerating air backwards... That's just so cool. Okay, back on topic.

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Posted: 10th Oct 2014 09:28 Edited at: 10th Oct 2014 09:29
Here's mine, I'll probably come up with a better one tomorrow.

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Posted: 10th Oct 2014 12:41
Oh OK. I am starting to create mine, right at this very moment.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2014 13:13 Edited at: 11th Oct 2014 13:21
Ooh cool. Surprised I didn't notice this earlier.

Definitely gonna make one or two

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http://youtu.be/tCnj-uiRCn8?t=33s

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lol

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Here:
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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=710222309026705

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Posted: 13th Oct 2014 01:30 Edited at: 13th Oct 2014 01:58
Keep on topic, folks.

I made another one:



Cool, 20 entries so far!! Many of those from MrValentine. Thanks everyone who has posted submissions so far.

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Mrs?

I did not know she was in here...

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lol good one DJD64!

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Posted: 13th Oct 2014 17:58
So, when will you be able to confirm the deadline?

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Posted: 13th Oct 2014 21:42 Edited at: 13th Oct 2014 21:52
I wish I had a better quality version of the text. Here's the album.





I think my favorite is one of the top 2. Probably the 2nd one

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Posted: 14th Oct 2014 00:22 Edited at: 14th Oct 2014 00:23
Quote: "So, when will you be able to confirm the deadline?"
Hard to say! Right now we are up to 25 submissions, and while slow, the pace seems steady. If this thread begins to die off, and if attempts at raising it back up fail, I will probably try and get some mods in here (break the AUP!) to vote on submissions. So for now, you probably have plenty of time to make a banner.

Nice Swissolo, I like those a lot. I agree with the top two being good, and the second one being the best.

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Quote: "Nice Swissolo, I like those a lot. I agree with the top two being good, and the second one being the best."



Here's this one too. More space theme.


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Posted: 14th Oct 2014 06:29 Edited at: 14th Oct 2014 06:45
Nice, that looks wonderful IMHO. I think I will make another one and post it here in a minute...

I am actually rather impressed with how this one turned out!!



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Posted: 14th Oct 2014 23:23
I'm not an artist so I don't think I want to enter, but many people are posting a bunch of very similar ones. I think you should narrow those down to one if there are a group of 8-10 similar ones.

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I agree. I'll still leave it up to others, probably you mods, to narrow things down.

You do raise a good point in my mind; most of the banners submitted thus far aren't really funny, but rather, they are fancy TGC logo banners. Of the 27 or so submitted, I personally find only one to be funny, and it looks like four of them have a humorous intent. So more funny ones, perhaps?

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Quote: "I'm not an artist so I don't think I want to enter, but many people are posting a bunch of very similar ones. I think you should narrow those down to one if there are a group of 8-10 similar ones. "

I only meant for 1 of the moon banners to be picked, I just wanted to provide options.

Quote: "So more funny ones, perhaps?"

I would if I had any ideas I started out trying to make a couple but they didn't really work in the end If I have any ideas I'll go for it though!

Quote: "I am actually rather impressed with how this one turned out!!"

Yeah it turned out pretty well It's a minor detail but the outer logos seem to have a flat line on top of them. The blur was cut off I think. I didn't think it mattered but now I can't unsee it

Maybe someone can come up with something funny with this picture of Lee. I saved it as a png so it can be layered on top of other images.


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Quote: "I would if I had any ideas"
Same boat here!

Quote: "Yeah it turned out pretty well"
Thanks!

I see potential with that image...



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DJD, make it more artistic and it's good!
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I like it

Here's mine:



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Quote: "DJD, make it more artistic and it's good!"
My brain is not capable of creating art

That's awesome, christmas bunny. 29th submission!

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Please Dark App Inventor for Android's visual block language Dude, stop being discriminatory of jews, it's Hanukkah Bunny or nothin'

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Quote: "I'm not an artist so I don't think I want to enter, but many people are posting a bunch of very similar ones. I think you should narrow those down to one if there are a group of 8-10 similar ones."


Agree much! Too many people posting 8-10 near-identical versions of the same banner. Just pick the one you like the best and go with it.

Quote: "Please Dark App Inventor for Android's visual block language Dude, stop being discriminatory of jews, it's Hanukkah Bunny or nothin'"


loool

I AM gonna contribute to this comp. Just gotta get some stuff outta the way to free up a bit of time. Hopefully I can achieve that today

EDIT: Also, DJD I fixed your first post - the second-last row had three banners in a line. Hope you don't mind

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Quote: "EDIT: Also, DJD I fixed your first post - the second-last row had three banners in a line. Hope you don't mind"
Awesome, I don't mind, and I do appreciate the fix. For a second I forgot that you were a mod, and I couldn't quite figure out how you had edited my post... Haha

For picking one banner from 8-10 similar ones, I'll let the community nominate banners they prefer! In the end, it's up to the mods and other people in charge to select which banners they like.

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Quote: "For a second I forgot that you were a mod, and I couldn't quite figure out how you had edited my post..."


lol

Quote: "In the end, it's up to the mods"


Is it? I have no power to choose final banners. Influence, maybe, but not power

I'm going to be blunt and make of the list of the only ones I like and would be happy with as banners (even if it is most of them ):



















And yes, I'm going really well on getting necessary stuff out of the way so I can make a banner myself

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This is my personal fav so far


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Quote: "This is my personal fav so far "


There's so many good ones I'm not sure if I have just one favourite... But yeah that's the best one

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Added #17 for fun... could have done more with it but too lazy recently... might be due to lack of energy and the weather being so crappy... oh well...

EDIT

Added #'s 18,19,20 and 21, and then #'s 22 and 23 and #24 to complete the set...

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Here is mine two:

A parody of Wikipedia banner


One referenced image from this post was removed by me for the following reason: too vulgar.

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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 15:24
Quote: "This is my personal fav so far "


Quote: "But yeah that's the best one"
Oh wow, I'm flattered! That one took me like, three minutes to make?

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Quote: "That one took me like, three minutes to make?"


Do it again with an awesome text style and it'll be my favourite too.
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Nice! Will be done sometime this afternoon.

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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 20:58 Edited at: 16th Oct 2014 19:10
Some pretty good banners, guys!
Thought i'd make some banners too. Had fun doing them.









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I feel my banners will not again

Also, I insist to remove banners with "apollo" text as here is not apollo anymore AFAIR

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Quote: "Also, I insist to remove banners with "apollo" text as here is not apollo anymore AFAIR
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It's still Apollo.
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EDIT

Added #25 which after getting sleepy half way sort of got lost in design...

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Cool, we are up to 44 submissions! Nice work MrValentine and all the others who have participated. I mention MV since he has made so many.

Just a little request MV, please post future submissions into new posts, instead of editing them into your previous post. That just makes it a little easier for me to keep track of them.

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Quote: "please post future submissions into new posts, instead of editing them into your previous post. That just makes it a little easier for me to keep track of them."


Will do both

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Nice, that works too.

Oh right, does anyone have a good font to recommend to me for this banner?



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Quote: "It's still Apollo. "

I heard not. edit: here!


@Dark Java Dude 64
Mods are good, we don't need to unleash them. Maybe change text to "Unleash me..."? with same Lee Bamber picture? IMO funnier.

edit 2:
Quote: "Copyrighted items shall be avoided in your banner"

I shall resurrect my old question: why this banner contains Ubisoft's Assassin's creed copyrighted elements?


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Quote: "Mods are good, we don't need to unleash them."

That's why it's funny

Quote: "Oh right, does anyone have a good font to recommend to me for this banner?"

I tend to look for obscure fonts online to use. If the font is recognizable it usually feels cheaper (unless you chose that font for a reason ex) courier new for code, comic sans because... well you know )

Anyways, I'm sorry I posted 5 similar banners! I wanted to provide some choices. Maybe the mods would prefer to keep the official TGC logo, perhaps the texture is enough, or something like that. Since the final decision wasn't up to me I wanted to provide choices! Evidently that was wrong I'll stick to one from now on Anyways, thanks for compiling all of the true entries into one post Clonkex (At least up until that point). Makes it easier to keep track of them I'll probably make a few more when I have some time.

Edit: @Mr.Handy I suppose he's referring to the beta forums. As much as I like the changes, I'll be using the original forum until the day it dies It's just what I'm most familiar with.
Edit2: How did you find a post from 2004

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