Multiverse Guide Art Contest!
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We have a 100 page Multiverse Guide. [Edit: Here's the link to the Guide V2!] It's got just about all the text it needs. But it could use a lot of art. That's what this mini-contest is for!
Now, even though we didn't intentionally aim for 100 pages, now that that's what it is, we like it and we wanna keep it that way. Therefore, we only have room for art in specific spots where there is whitespace, or where later whitespace could absorb expansion.
So I've composed a list of specific images we want.
How you create these images, and what styles and specific details you use, beyond what is described in the Guide itself, is totally up to you! Let your imagination run wild! You can do hand-drawn, computer assisted hand-drawn, totally doing it on the computer, and you can use whatever programs you want. Technically you could do sculpture scenes, for some things even MOCs. Whatever you want.
Plus, you can enter as many or few images as you want. You could theoretically do every single image. We're not attaching the normal constraints to this contest -- we want quality art and as much of it as we can.
And the prize for winning is, your image will be in the next version of the Multiverse Guide PDF file!
There are a few rules to keep in mind for practical reasons.
Rules and Guidelines
- Please go to the page number listed for each image possibility before you get started, for two reasons:
- Tosee how much whitespace is available so you know how big your art can be. This will help you decide the level of detail you can afford to use; if your image is too large for the available space we'll have to size it down and lose some of the detail and quality.NOTE: For some, you won't see whitespace on the page given, but if you scroll down a ways, you'll see there is extra whitespace before a page break later on, where the expansion can be absorbed.Also, youmay want to submit the image as a little larger than what will fitand we will size it down either via computer or in the PDF-making program (depending on what doesn't ruin the image quality). Better this than you submitting it too small; we can't size that up.
- Be sure toread the descriptions in the text itself before you start, so you know what the basics of its appearance should be. But again, feel free to go wild with your imagination beyond those details! :-)
- Your images should have your member name visible in the pic as a "watermark", preferably lower right corner. We might not have room to do credits as a caption, and it's important that you get credited for your work.
You might be confused about this from what we've said about credit; members who USE content from the Multiverse submissions in their own fanfics etc. don't have to cite you the content contributor by name, but in the guides we DO have to cite you by member name.
- As with anything submitted to the Multiverse, you agree to give up exclusive rights to the artwork (as implied above, in terms of other people being able to use the images for their own fiction etc. elsewhere).
- And note that we are talking about your member name; do not use your real-world name. Use the member name you want to be permanently in the Guide.)
- Again, you can enter as many different pieces of art or versions of the same piece as you want.
Swert and I will choose the winners. Ojhilom will help if he has time. If multiple people enter the same image list item, we'll choose the best. If only one person enters a particular image item, that will most likely be the winner. It's possible images won't get winners if we think good enough images weren't entered. We'll decide what to do in that instance later if it happens.
It's possible the same artist could win multiple art-slots, but we will try to fairly balance the winners among the number of people entering.
- Remember: We're looking for cool, quality art!
- Contest begins now, and closes at midnight EST Tuesday January 18, 2010. That's roughly 3 months.
- Olmak Splitting (black backdrop, blue energy surrounding it), p. 7
- Element Key, p.12 (and read p. 87)
- Gemsand, Gems, Orbs (all three in one pic, preferably with a cloth bag holding the gemsand), p. 12
- Blue Grime, p. 13
- Central government island-building (AAG HQ; Alarist Ambassadorial Government), p. 19
- Industrial factory interior (with machines and workers), p. 26
- Clash logo, p. 27
- Tribal thatch hut(s), p. 37
- Small logos of Warzone clans, p. 40:
- Red Skull logo (evil)
- Hand of Faith logo (good)
- Shadow Honor logo (very evil)
- Rockfoot logo (somewhat evil)
- Iron Hawk logo (evil)
- Brethren logo (somewhat evil)
- Lake Aerospace HQ, p. 49 (that's the whitespace for it; read p. 45-46, starting at very end of 45)
- Space Kolhii logo, p. 48
- Obsidian Mountain on Tyrant (NOTE you can't show Tyrant species members since that contest hasn't come), p. 54
- Random Enlightened city interior, p. 70
- Hacker Camp, p. 71
- Hoverplatform, p. 73
- Thunder logo, p. 75
- Kyn colored, different angle, p. 78
- A colored pic of Team Cipher; Kyn, Zuruk, Artakha, Karzahni, Khiri, Bajnok, M'konglii, and Hanashi, standing together, p. 85 (and especially read the Team Cipher bios in the Mini-Guide in the BRC, which include some tool and color details not mentioned in the main Guide).
- Cargo Star colored, p. 87 (and read p. 11)
- Another Gadget version, maybe a MOC, p. 88 (and read p. 14)
- A hovercraft, p. 97
[size="4"][b]Art Slot:[/b] INSERT[/size] [img=PICURLHERE] [b]Art topic link:[/b] [url="http://URLHERE"]Click here[/url]
Insert the slot name before the size end-tag in place of "INSERT" (the slot name is the bolded part of each list item above). Insert the image URL in place of "PICURLHERE." Finally, if you made an Artwork topic for it, insert the URL of the topic in place of "http://URLHERE" (if not, just remove that line).
You don't need to state your member name via text; it must be in the image anyways, but feel free to add it if you wish.
For each separate artwork piece you enter, use the entry form again. Post entries here.
If you see another spot where art could be squeezed in, feel free to suggest it, and we'll see what we think. Please lemme know of any page number errors above too; I found one while preparing this blog entry and there may be more.
Also any questions, please ask.
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ION: Results of Monster Mystery contest begin to be unveiled next week as the first chapter in a Bones Blog short epic. 
I'm going to try an approach I have never done before -- write each chapter each new week instead of writing the whole thing at once (and I'll aim for very concise, thrilling, action-packed for this one 
). So as it continues, even I will have no idea how it will end (other than the identity of the Monster, which is already chosen).
Then when it's all done I'll release it again quickly as an epic in the Library (and probably convert the blog entries to links to the chapters, to save slight amounts of server space 
). Or maybe I'll compress it into an SS, not sure. Anyways.
I'd expect Thursdays to be the days chapters of that get released. I may do other blog entries some weeks earlier in the week, depending on how much time I have. Oh, and I think I'll aim for at least ten chapters, but very short ones. The basic style I want to return to for this is how I wrote my original four short stories back when the Paracosmos first launched, 'cuz I always loved that style.
[Edit: Okay, so other stuff got in my way and Thursday didn't happen this time. Still planning to do this. ]
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