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| WE HAVE A WINNER!!! Darren and I both agree that the cover that most captures the wars is Pulp Minisites entry... who are the winners of $100 ![]() With so many talented entries not making the top spot, we've decided to put the 5 runner up places to public vote... Darren and I have chosen our favourite 10 and are launching a POLL to decide the overall 5 runners up. Will be a new thread, as this one has become quite unwieldy ![]() Here's the voting thread: MINISITE WARS - ECOVER JUDGING - YOU DECIDE Good luck everyone, and congratulations to Pulp Minisites. I hope you've all picked up a few enquiries from potential clients from this thread... The battle may be over, but the WARS have only just begun. ------- By the way, Darren won our bout of paper, scissors, stone... with a cheap shot. He made a paper aeroplane and speared me with it from across the room. ====================== A (made up) story... Darren Kaye, a.k.a GraphicsGenie was in my neck of the woods the other day, wearing a trenchcoat and abusing the locals. I confronted him about his deviant behaviour and he became aggressive. As I'm a rock-hard-kick-ass-ninja-blackbelt, I was able to disarm the situation and at the same time I stole his wallet (for the prizemoney) As we all know, Warriors are the most talented bunch of homosapiens on the planet and we have a need for the best designers for MinisiteWars 2008. To help us discover who these designers are, Darren (Baldrick) and I came up with a cunning plan... ![]() How about we put up a competition in the WarriorForum offering $100 for the best designed ecover (chosen by us) for Minisite Wars... WHAT?!?!?! $100 for an ecover? Yes indeedy!!! The theme/spec: MiniSiteWars 2008 - An epic battle of graphicial proportions Two Designers - One Website - One Winner, You! (many thanks to Peter Bestel for the winning tagline) The rest is up to you... If you're good, you may also be contacted by Darren and I about participating in this year's wars. So, show off your skills - even if you don't win the $100, all these lovely warriors will get to see how awesomely amazing you are and you might get a few new clients out of it. You could also be selected as a combatant in the wars and win a nice big wad of the green stuff in the process. You can enter as many times as you like... The competition starts NOW and ends next Sunday... GOOD LUCK. Karl. P.S. Any questions - let me know. |
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You've got a week to learn ![]() Trial version of photoshop is free... |
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A (made up) story... During a trip to the redneck area of Lancashire, namely Morecambe in a search for the mythical beast known only as Karl 'ninja my arse' Warren my wallet was very crudely stolen. It felt like I was been pickpocketed by a dump truck. Due to this REALLY poor attempt at stealth I decided to throw this dog a bone, a whipped out $100 from my wad and told this overgrown sack of spuds to work on his skills. Clearly he isnt using the $100 for that... oh well, an ecover for minisite wars was the next best thing... Good luck on your designs, anything goes, impress and your half way into the competition already, last year our top designer pocketed $2000 This year it could be YOU! |
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Darren... you made me cry... I thought I had uber-super-mega-stealth and you say I'm nothing more than a sack of King Edwards. I'll have the last laugh when I come to Heckmondwike or should I say, in my best Yorkshire accent: 'ckm'nd'waaaak. |
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Where do we enter our work
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...Good luck to you both. You're the most talented -- and original -- graphic designers I know. Darren, I hope you win. Karl, I hope you win. Cheers, Steve |
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lol, we've decided not to compete as we're running the compo. But, everyone knows I'd beat Darren with one graphics tablet tied behind my back - we'll have a design off one day and show the world who the master of the universe is.[runs and hides] |
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| So who won then?! If you don't hurry up and tell us, it'll soon be Monday! Anyway, on a slightly serious note, is there any particular colour scheme that your designers are to stick too? Or is it a complete free-for-all! (He wishes Photoshop would even run on his PC!) Good luck one and all! ![]() ![]() Thanks Mark |
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| Shame on them! ![]() You probably mentioned that in the OP but I missed it! ![]() ![]() Keeping in touch with this $100 ecover, can't wait to see what everyone comes up with! Shame Darren can't enter cause he'd beat you hands down Karl, sorry mate! I mean't to say that it would be a tough battle, with Darren JUST beating you! ![]() (I'm going off-topic now!) Thanks Mark |
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Karl, I need an ecover made, can give you the brief, will pay $10 and it will be the winning cover in this competition. Simple. You design it, I'll pay you a small amount, and collect the prize money |
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lets get the e-covers rolling here is my entry, ![]() No photoshop actions were harmed in the making of this e-cover gimp all the way... |
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Nope. I am not entering.... but.... I was inspired and decided to come up with something that would be... funny. Well my reasoning would be. :P "Remember Warriors, always ask for that elusive 100%, 56 day Money back guarantee!" lol. Here is my pic: http://www.chaos-incarnate.com/trini.../miniwars2.jpg *Please note- this was intended as fun. Nothing else. |
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This is just a quick warmup entry. I'm actually quite busy with clients and such, but I wanted to get one in early. ![]() |
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ok..so here is my warm-up entry... ill probably put 1-2 more as the week goes by. |
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Here's one
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Okay, can anybody tell me how to post the large images in the messages. Thanks |
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Wow, Lucy and Marian, You guys are incredible. Where did you learn to design like that? |
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Ok. Hope the image is attached. Using this could of course get your ass sued!
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Hi Karl can we create more than one ecover? |
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Here's my effort. |
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really nice Theron. But i'm still gonna top you |
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I think during the course of this week we'll both have plenty of people to top . Not sure if I'll get around to submitting anything else, so have fun!
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Aaaaaargh, I'm jealous now - a competitive sonovagun-ninja-potato-head like me gets all twitchy when he can't show off his skills... shame I can't enter the compo and win $100 |
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the bigger the competition the better cant wait for more ppl to put some up , where would the fun be if it would only be 3-4 covers?
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Enter for fun Karl. You'll have to go through the trauma of disqualifying yourself if you win, but at least your skills will be on display, and I'm sure Darren will give you a sympathetic shoulder to cry and dribble gooey stuff on. See, doesn't that sound like fun already?
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I'm in guys. Expect something any moment from me. A little busy, though, i'll get to put up something. This is going to be fun. Olatunde. Hey Nicholas, do you remember me? We had a chat together back at a forum called conqueryourniche.com some months ago. You dished out some tips on graphic designing that i followed and got awesome results. I can't remember where that link is now (maybe when i get it, i'll send it to you so you'll be able to recall). I've updated my portfolio with the new designs i've just created just as you adviced and you can have a look at it in my sig. below. Hope to see more of you here. Warmest regards. |
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What you don't know about Darren is that he is very very hairy, somewhat like a Wookie. If any tears got within spitting distance of him, he'd smell like a wet dog. So I'm afraid that I'd have to win - to negate the need for tears |
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Think film festivals. There are also out-of-competition entries. So you post your ecover with the tag line "This would be the winner if I was allowed to enter". Then, of course, Darren would follow suit and then you would have an out-of-competition competition, if you see what I mean. Martin | |
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I am a WOOKIE! please dont make me repeat it, I would smell like a wet dog, not good, not good at all Thanks | |
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Karl you missed my solution, you design the perfect one and I will enter it on your behalf |
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Darren, wet dog smells are so last year, and not original in the UK |
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Let... the... Wookie... win.... |
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1) It would be fraud - you'd have to get Sherlock on your own ass 2) Karl design the perfect cover, pfft! c'est impossible! Thanks Darren 'The Wookie aka GraphicsGenie' Kaye | |
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Ok everyone, I get it... everyone loves Darren... bleurgh.... |
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ok..here is another rough one from me |
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could not resist, ![]() Might need to add some captions/speech bubbles any ideas.... |
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But I do believe you have got the wrong idea about MiniSite Wars, it isnt about me and Karl, we are the organisers, it is a competition I hosted last year where 32 designers battled it out for a $2000 first prize, in total $4000 in prize money was paid out. So any designs with GraphicsGenie or eCover Ninja wont be able to be used in the final site, but it is certainly good fun, Just didnt want you spending too much time on the wrong concept Thanks Darren 'I am the Wookie - Hear me ROAR' Kaye | |
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O boy o boy o boy! A competition! O goodie oh yes! O yea! O boy! I feel like a dog being released from the leash |
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Darren, I offered Karl $10 to design the perfect cover for me, so no fraud, he does it as I outsource to him. He ignored my offer of $10 today, so might have to go higher with the offer |
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Will contribute in a second - just a few more lines of rendering and it is done! Hope you guys wouldn't mind my comment on the cover, I am being naughty | |
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