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Carlie

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Blacksmith

Posted October 14, '09 5:32am UTC

Hello Armor Gamers!

Halloween is fast approaching, and it is time for a new armatar contest! You can submit your own original armatars to this thread following the theme of Halloween. If it meets our quality standards, I will add it to the 1AP armatar section for all members to use! You can reference previous contests for a better idea of what this is all about here.

There are some guidelines, and unless your entry follows these set of rules it will not be accepted.

GUIDELINES:
1. Must be appropriate. Cannot be offensive or profane in nature. Try to keep it clean!
2. The entry must be square, and at least 100x100 pixels in dimension.
3. Must scale down well to 100x100. So if it is larger, make sure that it will still look good when it is scaled down to armatar size. A few suggestions about this:
- Sometimes simple is better. If you go into a lot of detail, it might not look as great when you scale it down. So just keep in mind what the final size will be.
- If you are able to do vector, that can help with the sharpness of the image. However, since they are so small this probably isn't a big issue.
4. Must be completely original. You cannot use elements from other piece of artwork, the entire armatar must be 100% original.
5. Must be Halloween themed.

Good luck! I look forward to seeing some creative new Halloween armatar ideas!

Hello Armor Gamers!\r\n\r\nHalloween is fast approaching, and it is time for a new armatar contest! You can submit your own original armatars to this thread following the theme of Halloween. If it meets our quality standards, I will add it to the 1AP armatar section for all members to use! You can reference previous contests for a better idea of what this is all about [url=http://armorgames.com/community/thread/3859006/summer-armatar-contest]here[/url].\r\n\r\nThere are some guidelines, and unless your entry follows these set of rules it will not be accepted. \r\n\r\n[b]GUIDELINES:[/b]\r\n[b]1. Must be appropriate.[/b] Cannot be offensive or profane in nature. Try to keep it clean!\r\n[b]2. The entry must be square[/b], and at least 100x100 pixels in dimension.\r\n[b]3. Must scale down well to 100x100.[/b] So if it is larger, make sure that it will still look good when it is scaled down to armatar size. A few suggestions about this:\r\n- [i]Sometimes simple is better.[/i] If you go into a lot of detail, it might not look as great when you scale it down. So just keep in mind what the final size will be.\r\n- If you are able to do [i]vector[/i], that can help with the sharpness of the image. However, since they are so small this probably isn't a big issue.\r\n[b]4. Must be completely original.[/b] You cannot use elements from other piece of artwork, the entire armatar must be 100% original.\r\n[b]5. Must be Halloween themed.[/b]\r\n\r\nGood luck! I look forward to seeing some creative new Halloween armatar ideas!

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FloydTC

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Nomad

Posted October 21, '09 12:19am UTC

how do you make a 3D effect in gimp?

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Ernie15

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Bard

Posted October 21, '09 1:34am UTC

how do you make a 3D effect in gimp?

If I had any idea, I'd be wearing an armatar I created.

I will probably submit one more (later), but if it doesn't make it, I'm just giving up on it.

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GuitarHeroFtw

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Nomad

Posted October 21, '09 8:04am UTC

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Flippin3500

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Shepherd

Posted October 21, '09 11:09am UTC

That looks like one of the ghosts on Pacman. jaja Well done my friend. :]

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supercoo222

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Nomad

Posted October 21, '09 1:10pm UTC

Carlie said this is not the correct size. It IS 100 x 100. So here it is again:

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Klaushouse

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Nomad

Posted October 21, '09 8:02pm UTC

I'm sorry. What? Can we hire Cenere to do the new armartars? Seriously? Shit is fantastic. AND ITS SO CUUUUTE.

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Cenere

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Jester

Posted October 21, '09 8:58pm UTC

Can we hire Cenere to do the new armartars?

*cough*Wouldn't mind it*cough*.
And besides, that one is just one of the three I have made, so I guess it was more of a one-timer...

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jdoggparty

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Nomad

Posted October 21, '09 9:36pm UTC

[quote=Carlie]Silhouettes often do not have detail.. the point is that they are an outline. It was creative, and different from what other people have been doing. I don't see what is wrong with that.
Not all armatars can be accepted, and it clearly states in the rules of the contest that not all armatars will be chosen.
Its just that ever single time we have this contest, half the people end up complaining that they didn't get in. And it makes it a lot less fun when people get grouchy that all of them aren't uploaded. And yet each time people want the contest to come back. But then criticize other armatars and get upset over the whole thing. If people can't graciously lose, and continue to act immature about it, there won't be anymore armatar contests. We don't need a few rotten apples spoiling the bunch here.[/quote]

Why didn't the update make it Carlie? I thought it was a lot better. It covered more space. The other only covers the bottom half. And it looks proportioned bad to me. So here is my update in case you didn't see it...

[quote=Carlie]Silhouettes often do not have detail.. the point is that they are an outline. It was creative, and different from what other people have been doing. I don't see what is wrong with that. \r\nNot all armatars can be accepted, and it clearly states in the rules of the contest that not all armatars will be chosen.\r\nIts just that ever single time we have this contest, half the people end up complaining that they didn't get in. And it makes it a lot less fun when people get grouchy that all of them aren't uploaded. And yet each time people want the contest to come back. But then criticize other armatars and get upset over the whole thing. If people can't graciously lose, and continue to act immature about it, there won't be anymore armatar contests. We don't need a few rotten apples spoiling the bunch here.[/quote]\r\n \r\nWhy didn't the update make it Carlie? I thought it was a lot better. It covered more space. The other only covers the bottom half. And it looks proportioned bad to me. So here is my update in case you didn't see it...\r\n\r\n[img]http://i37.tinypic.com/2wd3b6r.png[/img]

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supercoo222

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Nomad

Posted October 21, '09 11:56pm UTC

time to submit another,

I call it pumpky

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Ernie15

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Bard

Posted October 22, '09 1:44am UTC

Why is one half of the inside pink?

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supercoo222

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Nomad

Posted October 22, '09 1:52am UTC

Why is one half of the inside pink?

its dark red, but with the power of screwing around on GIMP i added lighting and it looks pinkish, i also made it slightly cartoony, like classic armatars, i found out many things on gimp by testing out tools and filters and such.

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ThePois0nator

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Nomad

Posted October 22, '09 2:08am UTC

*is ttly gonna make a candlejack armatar*

*gets to work on th-

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the_manta

4,536 posts

Peasant

Posted October 22, '09 2:18am UTC

*is ttly gonna make a candlejack armatar*

Aw no way! You stole my idea of making a candlejack themed armatar!

Great. Now I need a new i

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Ernie15

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Bard

Posted October 22, '09 2:19am UTC

Why not draw a pumpkin with a manta carved in it?

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the_manta

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Peasant

Posted October 22, '09 2:20am UTC

Why not draw a pumpkin with a manta carved in it?

Because tha- Uh...

brb.

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