I’m getting tired of the same banners which we’ve had for a while, so here’s your opportunity to show off your stuff. Winners will be used as banners for a good while. These should have a spring/early summer theme.
The requirements are:
1. All banners must be 800 x 250
2. Banners must be submitted in .png format
3. Do not round edges or add frills around the edges, as these will be lost
4. Banners need to be safe for work. Swimsuits are allowed, panties/bras/nudes are not
5. No males are allowed on the banners
6. You may only use characters from Amagami SS, Ano Natsu, ef, Fortune Arterial, Haganai, Hayate no Gotoku, Hidan no Aria, Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi, K-On!, Kami-sama no Memo-chou, Kamisama Dolls, Madoka, Mashiroiro Symphony, Nogizaka Haruka, Smile Precure (ONLY SMILE), Haruhi, The World God Only Knows, Railgun, Yozakura Quartet, and Da Capo.
Banners are due on 2/22. Should there be a lack of banners, we reserve the right to extend this deadline.
Submit by posting links in this thread. Note – 1 banner per post only, please, or your comment will be flagged as spam.
where to submit?
post a link in comment. where else
So making one later. <3
http://i.imgur.com/bygPC.png
didn’t we have a banner post some time ago? I think it had a summer theme as well. Don’t tell me, nearly a year passed since then?
Ahaha wow… only a few days after Doki closed theirs. You’ll be expecting a few from me soon.
I hope someone will like it…
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/3776/chihirofansubsbanner.png
Looking forward to your banners Balance. ๐ The ones you made for Doki were great!
@LeipuriHiiva
Imageshack resized your banner.
@Rokudaime
I’m pretty sure that wasn’t ImageShack. Looks like he/she squashed what was like a whole screen down to banner size.
Kristen’s gonna rage.
@Justin Olbrantz (Quantam)
You’re probably right. Man, it looks terrible like that…
‘5. No males are allowed on the banners.’
So sexist! Not even Hideyoshi? ๐
@Mushyrulez
The question is moot:
6. You may only use characters from Amagami SS, Ano Natsu, ef, Fortune Arterial, Haganai, Hayate no Gotoku, Hidan no Aria, Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi, K-On!, Kami-sama no Memo-chou, Kamisama Dolls, Madoka, Mashiroiro Symphony, Nogizaka Haruka, Smile Precure (ONLY SMILE), Haruhi, The World God Only Knows, Railgun, Yozakura Quartet, and Da Capo.
First one from me for now.
http://fav.me/d4pg7jk
@Balance, nice effects, but that cut is kinda fail I think
I’ll try to fix mine
Fixed
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1272/chihirofansubsbanner02.png
Have to agree with Schezza this time, Balance. The banner is awesome, but I don’t like that cut at all…
ฮฃ(ใะใ) What’s wrong with the cut?
Also, @LeipuriHiiva: Please do something about the typography… anything but comic sans and papyrus please…
Balance, you have so pretty effects (=background) in that banner, so there’s no problem making the character lesser. Maker her lesser, upper cut about 20 pixels above her head, down cut at the middle of the belt. Also, despite the fail cut, being with the size she is right now, being in the center looks good; but if you customize her like I suggested, try to move her a little bit, like 80 pixels to the left. And if you wanted to perfect it, you could use her brush instead of the key; I can’t recall any connection to the key with the anime atm?
This would be nice pic to extract the brush from it:
http://oreno.imouto.org/post/show/158900/elsea_de_lute_irma-gym_uniform-kami_nomi_zo_shiru_
http://fav.me/d4pkofz
Ugh, was hard trying to incorporate an old style I used to use back in the days.
Also, for the longest time I wasn’t sure what you were talking about when you were talking about “cut” but I finally found out that you were talking about the extraction process. You’ll have to forgive me though because I’m a little lost in your explanation. Moving her head down 20 pixels doesn’t really change much except show the bottom of her eyes.
Placing things in the dead center is really overrated. I used to do that all the time but I got tired of it. Not every single composition requires the subject to be in the middle all the time.
The key is in the title of the anime if you take a look. It’s the reason why I placed it in there… Have you not watched the anime (or read the manga)?
With my years of experience in designing I don’t see anything wrong with Balance’s banner and like he mentioned I had a hard time understanding what you tried to say by using the term ‘fail cut’ or ‘cut’ to be exact. Upper cut sounds like a fight move don’t you think? It would might have been more appropriate to say you didn’t like the composition of the character in the banner.
I thought it was a clever idea as people should be able to recognize the character despite not seeing the face. Also, ’20 pixels above’ or ’80 pixels’ left doesn’t make the reply sound anymore intelligent. That’s just what I think.
Tell me some fonts that I should use? And let me know if my banner is good or piece of sh*t, cus I’ll try to make it as good as possible. If nobody doesn’t like it, I can dumb it and start from the scratch.
@Balance & deekay
Fair enough, you make good points, and perhaps it was a poor choice of term, but anyway, I guess it’s just my personal taste, but I don’t like banners like that that cut (this is still the easiset term for me, so I’l keep using it) out the part of the picture used that has the characters’ face. And no, I can’t recognize her without her face. I like that second banner of yours much better Balance.
Step aside gentlemen, and bask in the radiance of my awesome graphics and typography skills.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32029197/ChihiroBanner.png
First one: (I will probably create more later on)
http://i.imgur.com/SS1OO.png
Second one:
http://i.imgur.com/FPr76.png
Third one:
http://i.imgur.com/OBcJX.png
http://i41.tinypic.com/1zpmekz.png
Might have more depending on time.
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/045/4/d/chihiro_banner_contest_entry_by_one_random_otaku-d4pqe1z.png
3rd attempt at posting this. >_<;
http://i.imgur.com/kqeLX.png
Lets try again shall we. Uploaded the image elsewhere to see if it’ll post this time.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34206258/Tags/chihiro.png
i might make another if i cba
Hyou… that name… wow. lol
I was kinda lost wht to do with the font really. due to the simple font used in the actual ef logo. suggestions r welcome xD , anyway here it is, http://i.imgur.com/4XAAn.png
Here is my submission. I’m not to sure about it. I think I could make the text a little lighter in color so i may resubmit my entry. If anyone asks about the sources. Got the image from safebooru and I did the text myself. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/59190471/chihirosubsbanner.png
~Uhh ohh, Chirhirios~
Needs more Kami-sama no Memo-chou… just saiyan… =P
Does Hayate as a trap still count as male?
here’s one from me ๐
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q209/segawaonpu/chihiro_banner_3.png
Here, I hope you like it! ๐
http://oi43.tinypic.com/vdk9s7.jpg
best EU
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/5584/banner02dh.png
best RU
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/9846/banner03s.png
@LeipuriHiiva
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/9846/banner03s.png
isn’t Chihiro sub a bit too small?
@gre
maybe…
So I was stumbling around the site, saw this, figured, “It’s 3:30 AM, why not?” Spent an thirty minutes looking for the renders I wanted to use, and then.. This happened. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8441/chihirofansubbannerwip1.png
Not exactly thrilled with the background right now, but if I have the time I may end up making a new version of this with a better BG. =\
Yet another one, http://i.imgur.com/uI5Uu.png
>taking this as serious as possible
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8961/banner01vc.png
my final and worst one
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6740/banner04p.png
@LeipuriHiiva
The one where the K-ON! girls are holding the Chihiro letters in their hands is really clever! Love it! ^^
Reptilians, they’r already here..
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/4850/random856.png
here is another one last minute
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/59190471/chihiro.png