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[Roarz]

No new banners will be put on the site until 26th November. However, please feel free to submit them here until that time, when I will put the new batch up.


Allo there ladies and gents; fancy seeing your work in the SSMB forum banner? I've put up the past two banners having cobbled them together myself and they're not much good, so this is where you come in. There are a plethora of talented people on this forum and seeing your works in the banner would be a nice little community venture thingymajig. Anyway, if you want to see your art in the SSMB banner, this is what you do:

• Post (or link to) your banner in this topic (1000x200 pixels).
  * DRED: Changed to 1000 pixels. Already-made banners not affected.
• If accepted, you'll see it on rotation as the forum banner. Banner images will be randomized, a different one popping up on each refresh.

Isn't that easy?


Not so fast though, here's some rules:

• Banners must be based on Sonic, naturally XP. Other Sonic characters are welcome too, but no fancharacters.
• Banners should include the name of the website (The Sonic Stadium) somewhere in the artwork.
• Please make your banners to a decent standard, so no shoddy jpeg artifacts or just some shit you scribbled in MSPaint.
• Images must be in PNG format.
• You can make banners amusing, but no internet memes please XP.
• Be sure that all artwork is suitable for all ages, so nothing inappropriate.
• Make sure that all artwork is your own stuff. The whole point is to have your artwork on the site, so altered official images and art used without permission are not acceptable.
• Banners can be transparent or opaque, just make sure you stick to the dimensions (1000x200 pixels).
• If you want your logo to have a background that loops seamlessly across the screen, you can have your main logo be transparent and have a separate background image. It can be any size up to that of the main logo.
• You may submit more than one banner image but make sure they are completely different from eachother or one of them will not be selected. Please also be aware that a second banner you make may be rejected or delayed for use in order to be fair for other members submitting theirs.
• Banners will be used on the site for one month before being replaced by new images made by other members. Around 15 new banners will be used each month, provided there are enough submissions. If there aren't, older banners will be recycled.

If you'd like to partake of this opportunity or ask some questions, please do so in this topic XP.

[The Blue]

Can it have Blue Wisp?

Serious question, I want to have Sonic along with Wisps on the banner.

Edited by (屮ʘДʘ)屮, 13 July 2011 - 10:27 PM.

[Valkyrie]

Make sure that all artwork is your own stuff. The whole point is to have your artwork on the site, so altered official images and art used without permission are not acceptable.

Soo... no photomanipulation / signature using official Sonic character renders? What? 'Tis a Sonic fansite/fanforum... Aww. .-.

Edited by Valkyrie, 13 July 2011 - 09:32 PM.

[Roarz]

Make sure that all artwork is your own stuff. The whole point is to have your artwork on the site, so altered official images and art used without permission are not acceptable.

Soo... no photomanipulation / signature using official Sonic character renders? What? 'Tis a Sonic fansite/fanforum... Aww. .-.

The whole point of the banners is to celebrate fan art, so no photomanipulation. You can put what you like in signatures XP. SSMB banners have pretty much always been official art, so this is something different.

[The Blue]

So I have to draw it.

Ok, not entering. Sorry.

[Adamis Fox]

I'll enter.
Does we need to add a specific logo or something? And can I use watercolours?

Edited by Adamis Fox, 13 July 2011 - 09:41 PM.

[Roarz]

I'll enter.
Does we need to add a specific logo or something?

Ah, good question there actually XP. You should have the name of the website in the banner, I'll add that to the rules now XP. And yush, feel free to use watercolours XP.

[Nemain]

So up for this. Any "official" SSMB logos I should include? =)

EDIT: Ninja'ed. Okay then!

[Roarz]

So up for this. Any "official" SSMB logos I should include? =)

EDIT: Ninja'ed. Okay then!

Nah you don't need to use any proper TSS logos matey XP.

[Blue Blood]

Aw, that's a shame. Zero drawing skills on my end so I won't be able to contribute anything either. We've have official art plastered around the forum banner before (it makes up all the art in the forum skins), so why not now?

[Roarz]

Aw, that's a shame. Zero drawing skills on my end so I won't be able to contribute anything either. We've have official art plastered around the forum banner before (it makes up all the art in the forum skins), so why not now?

Thought it would be nice to have a change for a while XP. Plus, we can make official art banners easily ourselves anyway.

[Adamis Fox]

How many entries can we submit?

[Rabid-Noodles]

I'm interested, is there a due date?

Edited by Rabid-Noodles, 13 July 2011 - 09:50 PM.

[Roarz]

How many entries can we submit?

For now just one will do, possibly more in the future; we'll see how things go XP.

I'm interested, is there a due date?

Nah, take your time XP.

[Nepenthe]

I'm assuming based on the transparency that our character artwork is merely going to go over the GHZ background, and that altering that part with a background of our own would be discouraged? I'm asking out of curiosity.

[Blue Blood]

Thought it would be nice to have a change for a while XP. Plus, we can make official art banners easily ourselves anyway.

Anything's a change from Poorly Looped Green Hill Zone. How essential is it that characters are actually drawn in the banners?

[Roarz]

I'm assuming based on the transparency that our character artwork is merely going to go over the GHZ background, and that altering that part with a background of our own would be discouraged? I'm asking out of curiosity.

Well the GHZ thing is there so that it doesn't matter what res people are viewing the forum at, so to cover it all you'd have to make a massive banner for the biggest screen resolutions, which would automatically rape smaller resolutions. You can make a solid banner but do it at the dimensions specified XP.

Anything's a change from Poorly Looped Green Hill Zone. How essential is it that characters are actually drawn in the banners?

Well if there are no characters in the banner it'd be kinda shit. If they aren't drawn/created from scratch by the person submitting it, then it breaks one of the rules XP.

[Adamis Fox]

So, we just draw some characters with no background (so it'll be pasted on that GHZ background) or can we use our own background?

[Roarz]

So, we just draw some characters with no background (so it'll be pasted on that GHZ background) or can we use our own background?

You can make an opaque banner, ie has your own background, but just don't make it bigger than the specified dimensions XP.

[Adamis Fox]

Thanks for the replies