Banners for new forum style

[complich8]

I'm gonna do it. I really am. I'm going to redo the forums as vbulletin 4, and that right soon.

But a big problem I have is that I need images to put in the banner rotation. And that's where you come in!

See, I've got no art skills. Me and photoshop are like bleach and ammonia: you mix us up, you get toxic vapors and nothing you want.

So I'm looking to you, the community, anime-themed (gotwoot-specific or just anime generally, either way) banners for the rotator. They should be sized 980x150 px. Maybe?

Anyway, I've got a dev instance set up that I'm working on the styles for. If you want to see what you'd be fitting it into, I'll pm you a link.

For now, I'll pretty much be accepting anything that looks reasonably good. I'm looking at a couple weeks timeframe before I do the actual upgrade, though I'll continue to add banners and such after the fact.



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A little more on requirements:

• 980x150 is the target resolution. I might use taller or shorter, but I definitely won't use narrower.
• please prefix your username in front of the filename, eg: complich8_myawesomebannerthatdoesntexist.jpg
• If you're going to mention an IRC channel, either list no network or list both rizon and gotwoot
• scanlines are optional. borders should try to line up with the theme at http://devforum.gotwoot.net/forums.php
• consider filesize... if the banner's too big it may take visible load time, which isn't great looking
• consider interlacing your file for a faster apparent image load

[Lucifus]

Count me in! Wicked sick. The Xen monk has struck again. =D

Haruhi

[Sapphire]

I humbly request that someone make an Orochimaru banner.

Great banner Lucifus! Please make moreeeeee

[complich8]

I love it ... but it seems like it's a bit on the heavy side at 273kb. Maybe interlacing's and turning it jpeg is the answer to that ....

[Lucifus]

Kabutoro

I was quite a bit surprised, but I couldn't find any decent Orochimaru renders. I even found high quality Kabuto one, but no oro. o.0

Nevertheless, it looks very good on the new forums, just wish I had a better quality Oro render.

Haruhi

Added a new border style, and JPGed em.

And my favorite thus far,

Pain and Konan

Edit: Shinta, Alhuin, Arch, I wanna see some work from you guys. =P

[complich8]

Oh right, I forgot to mention ... that whole pinstripe thing is totally not a requirement anymore. Although you don't lose points for it or anything...

[shinta|hikari]

The really thin and wide format is a lot harder to work with than expected.

Here we go:

Ika musume banner

I recycled my old ika musume sig for this one. I cleaned it up a bit more and redrew some parts.

Shiki banner

[Ryllharu]

Shiki banner

Hahahaha. Perfect. Once seen, the gotwoot forums cannot be unseen.

I'll try and crank out a Macross F one to lure Haku to the forums.

[Lucifus]

Love the Shiki banner! Perfectly done. Lol.

[darkshadow]

Kabutoro

I was quite a bit surprised, but I couldn't find any decent Orochimaru renders. I even found high quality Kabuto one, but no oro. o.0

Nevertheless, it looks very good on the new forums, just wish I had a better quality Oro render.

Haruhi

Added a new border style, and JPGed em.

And my favorite thus far,

Pain and Konan

Edit: Shinta, Alhuin, Arch, I wanna see some work from you guys. =P

Why does it point to irc.rizon.net....

[Lucifus]

./sadface.........wow, my bad. xD

Corrected, Pain and Konan

[Buffalobiian]

The Shiki banner.. wow.

Next favourite is probably the Haruhi one. The cool colours hit the spot.

[Lucifus]

Orochimaru

[Sapphire]

OH GOD YES LUCIFUS~!!! I wholeheartedly love the Kabutoro and Orochi banners! You're the best!! I seriously love ALL of these banners! You guys are truly AMAZING.

The forum will share banners with the front page.

We technically have two-ish channels now.

fansub channel = #gotwoot irc.rizon.net
chill out group (mentioning fansubbing is a bannable offense) = #gotwoot irc.gotwoot.net
(#gotwoot@irchighway is the manga channel but that seems to be on indefinite hiatus)

Complich8 will prolly address how we approach this with the public soon. But I think advertising Rizon is important because that's the main reason why new people visit the front page... if anything leave the server out and just put #gotwoot or put both servers.

[Alhuin]

Well, I am more comfortable with a larger canvas to work with, so I might shell out a few if I have the time. With the holidays and my work schedule, I can't make any promises, but I see that comp mentioned he still may add banners after the deadline, so we'll see.

However, I was curious... if I remember correctly, someone made a vector of the GW logo awhile back. Could that person provide a link and/or a PM with the file? I feel like I'd want to use it if I made a banner.

Although, I guess if the forums change, so too will the logo....

EDIT: Okay, I was bored tonight and tried one out. Not used to making banners, so I tried to think of it like an over-sized sig... therefore I might have used too many effects and/or probably shouldn't have obscured the render so much. Like I mentioned in the sig thread though, I am way out of practice, so comments are definitely appreciated.

Black Rock Shooter

[Archangel]

I'll be reposting a couple i made for the old style, the psds are still available so should i get some nice feedback from any of them i'll adapt them to the new format

Soul Eater:

Kishin

Dragon Ball:

Piccolo

Future Trunks

One Piece:

Black and White

Color

Angel Beats:

Tenshi

PS: Yo Lucifus, would be awesome if you could make a banner preset for the rest of us to work from

[Lucifus]

Well......been a long time since I've done a marathon.

Edit: Arch, I definitely want to see a remake of the Black and White One Piece banner along with the Future Trunks one. DBZ never fails.

Edward Elric

Hei and Yin

GotWoot Girls

The Nightmare

Saber and Rin

Edit: Remade the previous three that I like with a more appropriate border as per request.

Orochimaru

Pain and Konan

Kyon and Haruhi

[Buffalobiian]

GotWoot Girls :3

[Archangel]

I love the orochimaru banner and would like to see the haruhi one with a different background, maybe something a little more colorful

Login to irc gotwoot so we can trade a couple of thoughts dude

[Lucifus]

Man, since I lost all my work in my last hard-drive wipe, I haven't touched photo-shop. It was so difficult making this stuff, I've forgotten so many small little techniques I used to use save the most recent ones.