FAL Fall Season 2015 Banner Contest Purpose/Goal: The FAL Banner Contest is organized in order to involve the Fantasy Anime League and MyAnimeList community more closely with the FAL seasonal competitions. Anyone, whether they participate during that FAL season or not, can participate in this contest if they wish to help out the FAL staff, make the season a bit more exciting, and add more to the overall experience. Up until a few seasons ago, we depended on a just few people to make the FAL banners. Instead, we now ask the community to help out by contributing with their own skills. Some of the text on the banners will later be generated automatically by a script, so it is important that participants read thoroughly and follow the set rules. Examples: Rules: - Any MAL user who participates in this contest is allowed to submit one work. - The size of the banner must be 350x75. - The banner created should contain official or fan-made artwork of a show from the Fall 2015 season, as well as the official FAL season name, username, and participant rank for that season, which should be in a simple, easy-to-script font. - Do not use fonts where any letters, numbers, as well as _ and - aren't displayed properly. - Even if fonts are displayed properly in your graphics program, they might not be generated properly by the script. Please provide another version with an alternative font just in case. - Make sure that long usernames are still readable. (The script will generate them in a smaller font size.) - Make sure that week/rank information fits for any possible length (i.e., week 1/14, rank 1/23/124). - Text fields generated by the script cannot have fancy font colors and effects. The entire text in one field must be in one color, i.e., no gradients, patterns, shadows, changing colors for "rank", "23", etc. A border or glow effect around the text in one color is fine. - All text fields can be horizontal, vertical, or at any other angle. - Add links to all fonts you're using in your submission. If the fonts are not online, please upload them to a free file hosting site, e.g., mediafire. Submit your banner in one of these two ways: (1) One .psd file with at least two layers: one for the background and season name, one for all other text fields. All text fields must be on the banner as an example of how it should look like, but text that will be generated by the script later needs to be in separate layers so it can be made invisible to get a version of the banner without it. OR (2) Two .png files: a version with all text fields as an example of how it should look like and a version without the text fields for username, week, and rank. Text fields: 1. Season Name Text: FAL Fall 2015 This text will be on the template directly and will not be generated by the script. Different colors and font effects are okay. 2. Username This field contains the player's username and is generated by the script. 3. Week Text: Week X, week X, or WEEK X (e.g., Week 9, week 1, WEEK 14) This field is generated by the script. Please note that the text must be in one line; it is not possible to have a new line for the week number. 4. Rank Text: Rank X, rank X, or RANK X (e.g., Rank 1, rank 23, RANK 124; can have colons, e.g., Rank: 1), or Xth (e.g., 1st, 23rd, 124th, not "rank 1st") This field is generated by the script. Please note that the text must be in one line; it is not possible to have a new line for the rank number. Selection Process: Completed banners should be sent via PM to FALbot until the deadline, September 26th 19:00 UTC. The final banners will be selected by the FAL admins. The final scripted banners will be posted on October 11th, the start of the second week. If you have any questions about the rules or the contest in general, please post in this thread. _______________________ Submissions are now closed! Thanks to everyone who submitted banners and to everyone interested in FAL and making it better! We have received very interesting and very good banner submissions for this season. You should look forward to seeing them and hopefully using them for your own team for the FAL Fall 2015 Season. We hope we can keep this alive and have even more banners submitted for next season! |
NaruleachSep 27, 2015 10:46 AM
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| The rules say we can use Xth for rank. Is XTH fine too? |
A big thanks to everyone who has sent their banner already! We currently have a total of 11 submissions for the following shows:
Shinmai Maou no Testament Burst Young Black Jack Haikyuu!! Second Season (2) One Punch Man Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?? Comet Lucifer K: Return of Kings Heavy Object If you're planning on participating, please have in mind that these series already have an entry so please try pick a different one so we can have more diversity ;) Remember you can submit your banner until September 26th 19:00 UTC. Nate-chan said: Are bitmap fonts considered to be easy-to-script? I think it should be okay as long as, as the rules say, "any letters, numbers, as well as _ and - are displayed properly." I can give it a try to see if they work, but just in case please provide another version with an alternative font, if you can. Mills said: The rules say we can use Xth for rank. Is XTH fine too? The script only supports that indicator in lowercase. Here's an example:  |
MikedSep 26, 2015 11:42 AM
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