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twsc20142014-05-25 10:58 am
fantalaimon) wrote in twsc20142014-05-25 10:58 am
Bonus Round 0
I'm a week late on this, I'm very sorry, so I'll extend this until June 8, when BR1 opens.
Hello, shippers! The event proper will be beginning in a week, but we thought we’d start you off with a little exchange to get the ball rolling! For this round, we’d like you to foster the spirit of sharing by creating graphics for other teams!
Create a set of 2-6 icons or 1-3 banners (or both!) for a team that is not your own.
Icons/banners can feature canon art, fanart (ONLY fanart that you have permission to use!), quotes, lyrics, gifs, basically whatever you think is awesome! Remember that these are presents and intended to be good natured. We're trusting you to put some degree of heart and soul into them!
FORMAT
All activity for this bonus round will take place in the comments below. Format your comment's subject as follows:
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] for [GIFT SHIP], [RATING]
SCORING
The first five entries from each team for this challenge will be worth 10 points each, and the next five will be worth 5 points each. While your team can absolutely submit more than ten entries, the eleventh entry onwards will not be for points; it will just be for fun!
This is not how most bonus round entries will be scored. This is more of a bonus bonus round!
All scored content must be created new for this round.
RESOURCES
GIMP - Despite its somewhat unfortunate name, GIMP is an excellent freeware image manipulation program. If you don’t have software like Photoshop, this is an excellent place to start.
Lost and Taken - An excellent collection of high resolution textures.
Font Squirrel, Lost Type Foundry, and League of Moveable Type - Free font resources! And the best part is that they're all hand-picked or created by professional graphic designers, so you won’t have to slog through a million lower-quality fonts.
Icon-Extras - A pretty good resource for icon tutorials and the like. Also features textures, brushes, bases etc. that are particularly good for icons (rather than the all-purpose textures at Lost and Taken).
Remember: Dreamwidth icons are 100x100, and can have a filesize of no more than 40 kb.
Banners are typically around 150-400px tall and 400-800px wide. This is pretty flexible, though.
Realtalk here: we don't know what teams are going to make the cut. Here is my advice--look at the team roster and make graphics for any of the teams listed there. I would also recommend making graphics for Team Druid, on account of it being likely that some people whose teams don't make the cut will have to transfer onto that team.
Hello, shippers! The event proper will be beginning in a week, but we thought we’d start you off with a little exchange to get the ball rolling! For this round, we’d like you to foster the spirit of sharing by creating graphics for other teams!
Create a set of 2-6 icons or 1-3 banners (or both!) for a team that is not your own.
Icons/banners can feature canon art, fanart (ONLY fanart that you have permission to use!), quotes, lyrics, gifs, basically whatever you think is awesome! Remember that these are presents and intended to be good natured. We're trusting you to put some degree of heart and soul into them!
- Upload them somewhere (imgur works well), and then post here with the images themselves or a link to them!
- If/when your team receives a gift (and feel free to request icons/banners if you are in need!) it would be nice to thank the gifter, even if you don't end up using any of the graphics! You are of course not obligated to use them or thank people or anything. But it would be cool of you to acknowledge people's hard work!
- This challenge will run until 12:00 AM EST on June 8. After that time, even if it's just by a minute according to the timestamp, no submissions will be accepted for points.
FORMAT
All activity for this bonus round will take place in the comments below. Format your comment's subject as follows:
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] for [GIFT SHIP], [RATING]
- Replace YOUR SHIP with the name of the team you belong to
- Replace GIFT SHIP with the name of the you're giving the gift to
- Replace RATING with the rating of your fill, G - E, as explained in the
- Place major content tags in the first line of the comment when applicable
SCORING
The first five entries from each team for this challenge will be worth 10 points each, and the next five will be worth 5 points each. While your team can absolutely submit more than ten entries, the eleventh entry onwards will not be for points; it will just be for fun!
This is not how most bonus round entries will be scored. This is more of a bonus bonus round!
All scored content must be created new for this round.
RESOURCES
GIMP - Despite its somewhat unfortunate name, GIMP is an excellent freeware image manipulation program. If you don’t have software like Photoshop, this is an excellent place to start.
Lost and Taken - An excellent collection of high resolution textures.
Font Squirrel, Lost Type Foundry, and League of Moveable Type - Free font resources! And the best part is that they're all hand-picked or created by professional graphic designers, so you won’t have to slog through a million lower-quality fonts.
Icon-Extras - A pretty good resource for icon tutorials and the like. Also features textures, brushes, bases etc. that are particularly good for icons (rather than the all-purpose textures at Lost and Taken).
Remember: Dreamwidth icons are 100x100, and can have a filesize of no more than 40 kb.
Banners are typically around 150-400px tall and 400-800px wide. This is pretty flexible, though.
Realtalk here: we don't know what teams are going to make the cut. Here is my advice--look at the team roster and make graphics for any of the teams listed there. I would also recommend making graphics for Team Druid, on account of it being likely that some people whose teams don't make the cut will have to transfer onto that team.