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Powerpoint Face Blog Contest -- Design A Bionicle Face Using My Guide!

bonesiii

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The above is the fullsize version of adult version of a Flame -- the first place winning entry in my last blog contest, where members entered descriptions of would-be Pet Peeves, and I designed the images in Powerpoint as the prizes.

That's exactly what this contest is NOT. :P

This time around, you guys get the job of artist. Design a Bionicle style face using the methods I outlined in this two-part guide:

Powerpoint Art Guides:
● Vector Art In Powerpoint: Quality, Inexpensive, Easy
● Coolifying With Powerpoint Vector Art

I'll pick winning entries (and listen to any endorsements you guys make of other enterers). No set number of winners -- will depend on how many entries there are -- and you can enter up to three different faces. Only winning face per member. Winners will get BZPower-uploaded avatars made from their winning face!

These can be masks, or just faces. Heads underneath masks, whatever you want.

FREE 60-DAY TRIAL

For those few who don't have Powerpoint but want to participate, there is a free trial of Office (including Powerpoint) available here. :) Haven't tried it but hopefully there's a Mac version too...

ENTRY PERIOD

Contest starts now and entry period ends on Thursday, May 15, probably at midnight. :)

DA IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS

1) Design a Bionicle-style face in Powerpoint that could look good as an avatar.
2) Screenshot the face you've created (it can be a largish, zoomed in pic as long as it's not screen-stretching. Don't worry about making the pic small enough for av-size, I'll handle that, but you might want to watch how detailed it gets, keeping in mind much small detail won't show up in an avatar).
[EDIT: BTW, keep the Powerpoint file handy, because I might need to ask the winners to email me the actual .ppt document. I can see that sizing some of the entries so far down will mess up the pixelizations of the black lines. Also, making sure the lines are thick in the big images you give me would help too.]
3) Upload the image to an image hosting site.
4) Post the image here.
5) If you want you can describe anything about it you want, though try to keep it kinda short.

FANCY-SHMANCY RULES

1) Each member can enter up to three faces.
2) Only one of the three can be a winning pic (you can say which you like best yourself).
3) You can recommend others' entries for winning, and I will take it into consideration.
4) Winners ultimately picked by me.
5) Number of winners is not set in stone.

TIP: If you can find tricks/methods I didn't include in my guides, I'm a lot more likely to be impressed. :P (But it's not necessary to win.)

BRIBERY PRIZE

I will showcase the winners in a blog entry to be permanently linked to in the important entries list here, and showcase the top three winners in a permanent blog sidebar here.

But even better, an avatar version of your image will be uploaded to the BZPower image archive by Black Six, and the link provided to you via PM -- giving you an avatar free of offline hosting sites. If BZPower's server is running for people to view your av, they'll be able to. :)

ADDITIONAL INSRUCTIONS

Have fun! :P
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bonesiii

Whatever you interpret it as -- it's totally up to you!

 

Usually Bionicle faces are masks. But the Toa Hordika, the Piraka, etc. etc. had their own faces. But it could even just be an elemental creature -- like the Flame creature. Anything you think fits in Bionicle. :)

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xccj
TIP: If you can find tricks/methods I didn't include in my guides, I'm a lot more likely to be impressed. (But it's not necessary to win.)

Hmm, I just reread the guides, and I can't really think of anything I do that you haven't already mentioned. Although I do like starting with the grid option on to make the basic shapes, and then turning it off to further detail them.

 

I'm starting back to making vector Mini-figures, but I may have to dab back into Bionicle and see if I can make something before this contest ends. :P

 

:music:

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Ahi-Dagra
Whatever you interpret it as -- it's totally up to you!

 

Usually Bionicle faces are masks. But the Toa Hordika, the Piraka, etc. etc. had their own faces. But it could even just be an elemental creature -- like the Flame creature. Anything you think fits in Bionicle. :)

 

So does that mean we can enter Kanohi?

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AZBlue

Are we allowed to edit the mask/face in another program, after we've gotten the initial vector shape in Powerpoint but need to tweek a few things that can't be done in Powerpoint?

 

-azblue

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bonesiii

Good question, asblue. Yes, if you include a screenshot of the face from Powerpoint, before other editing, and also mention which program you used for the tweaking.

 

I often do that myself in the prog that came with old scanner, Photo Plus, usually to remove a center line error or the like. :)

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kyuubi

mask

 

 

It's the mask of creature that can see into space. It's name is unknown. Some call it MoonLit

I sucked at coloring it, so I didn't.

 

not my entry

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Toaraga

Oh great, now I think I have to read those entries again. Your words are like schoolbooks: very long and sometimes boring yet quite informative, so people might be inclined to read them if they want to pass the class, but it's like a chore to read them again. :P

 

I wonder if viewing your blog would count towards summer reading. :D

 

Joking aside, I shall try to enter.

 

©1984-2008 Toaraga EAM

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bonesiii

Hey, guys, please take note of this edit:

[EDIT: BTW, keep the Powerpoint file handy, because I might need to ask the winners to email me the actual .ppt document. I can see that sizing some of the entries so far down will mess up the pixelizations of the black lines. Also, making sure the lines are thick in the big images you give me would help too.]

I should have thought of that sooner, sorry. :P

 

Also, if you wanna help me out even more, you can just link me to an uploaded copy of the .ppt file when you enter. Note that this won't affect who I'll pick to win or not -- it just might affect whether I'd be able to do a good job with the prize avatars. :)

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Rangan Mercenus

Can the entry be of something we have shown previously? (I'm planning on a certain thing from my comics which I made in powerpoint...)

 

Mercenus

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Rangan Mercenus

Alright, here it is: Firefly (Ta-Mirun in matoran)

Description: Ancient, powerful, Gukko-esque creatures, with an omnipotent mind and a shrill matoran voice. This Bird is one of the few remaining species, almost on par with species wide extinction, they are in hiding, waiting for the shadow to come...

 

Mercenus

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Nuju Metru

Cool! Can it be a pre-existing character? I've got a good Kanohi Matatu, Toa style, as well as a Takadox head. Are those allowed?

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Bepura

I've actually done stuff like this before :P. However, in light of the contest I've revamped one of my old works:

 

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This is my character's mask, the Bevokai, Great mask of limited invulnerability.

 

Enjoy!

 

~Bepura.

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Nuju Metru
Pre-existing characters are allowed, yes. :)

Good. I've got 3 pictures ready...Bonesiii, can I show them here, or do I have to provide a link?

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