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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
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?

Either way works. :)

 

PLEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEEE let me use FreeHand! Please!

Since this is a Powerpoint contest, I have to say no to that, sorry. If you have or can get Powerpoint though, it works similarly. So you should be able to compete that way.

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Ary
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?

Either way works. :)

 

PLEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEEE let me use FreeHand! Please!

Since this is a Powerpoint contest, I have to say no to that, sorry. If you have or can get Powerpoint though, it works similarly. So you should be able to compete that way.

And I had a good picture going too... Aaah, I'm gonna see if I can paste it over.

 

EDIT: Wow, PowerPoint stinks. I can't even get a simple image going.

 

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

Holy Kanohi... That thing is gonna get the grand prize.

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Matoro3311
I'm not sure if I posted this already. but how do you make those Avatars with the 2007 edition of Powerpoint? If ANYONE knows, PM me on BZP.
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bonesiii
I'm in. =D

 

Does it have to be frontview?

Angled or sideways faces are fine too -- as long as the face is visible. :)

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Xykon

Hoo boy... here I go. Probably not great compared to other entries, and it's the first thing I've made like this... Here goes nothing.

 

Mask (Full size)

 

Avater Version (Target reticle went boom. :P)

 

Recolors! :o :D

 

Shiny ones, too! ^_^

 

And just to clear up any confusion, the recolors wouldn't need avatars made. And is there any way to make transparent backgrounds in MS Paint?

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bonesiii
And is there any way to make transparent backgrounds in MS Paint?

Not that I know of, but I can add them for any winners who want them. :)

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Zaxvo

MY first try at powerpoint vector art and my first entry into this contest can be found here.

Compared to some of the others, it's not very good, but, oh well.

Over and Out

Toa Zaxvo

EDIT: fixed the url tags

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CyclonatorZ

Okay, here's my entry:

 

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It's called the Kanohi Maleka, the Mask of Size. I know, not very good, but I only just read your tutorial a couple days ago. :P

 

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Guest thormen

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Finished my entry:

 

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It is the Kanohi Krunoch, the legendary Mask of Chaos. It is not just sentient, it is also schizophrenic, wrecking chaos in the mind of whomever dares to wear it.

 

You could say I used an other technique than the one you teach in your guides, but in that case it's only unfortunate that I did. I namely didn't thoroughly read the 'Symmetry' section, so I actually used shapes with borders. When I finally came to mirror the picture, I had to fix it in a different way (which I wouldn't recommend) because I messed up and didn't feel the need to go back and start from scratch again.

 

It is my first entry and very probably my only one too, 'cause I don't feel like entering more than once at the moment (and I feel like I won't feel like that the next coupl'a-days either ;) ).

 

EDIT: Just in case, I will be away from the fourteenth till the twenty-fourth, so if I'd be among the winners, would I send the .ppt file to you after the twenty-fourth or should I send it before te fourteenth to prevent you from having the risk you'd have to wait until the twenty-fourth?

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Ary

And here's my SECOND entry! It's the Kraakhan, obviously.

 

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Meh, I don't think I spent enough time on the shadows (no pun intended) and lower portion of the mask, but I like the upper portion of the mask a lot.

 

It looks like a shoe, LOL.

 

I can see that it'll be between me and Rangan Mercanus.

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NecroticUnicorn

Hey Bones, quick question. Are we able to use autoshapes use as a basis for our entries? For example, could I take a triangle, move different points, add different shapes for a 3d look, etc. and call it an entry as long as it is easily recognizable as a face?

Just checking. :)

-Ax-

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Nuju Metru
I'm still gonna enter a Kraakhan for my second entry.

 

That's odd...I was thinking about doing that one also, but decided on Brutaka, Vezon, & Kanohi Ignika because they're all metalic.

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