Best Imagery: Tsiox Selected by contest judge's (Lirina, SylakentH, and TheHolyPotato) votes.
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Tsiox is a prominent graphic designer, so naturally their list shows off good taste in imagery while being pleasing to the eye!
Runner-ups: D_cuy, Shishio-kun
D_cuy's list style has amazing and smooth animated imagery that captures a strong bloody Akame ga Kill theme! I made sure to use spooky and bloody images in mine. There are also many ghosts hidden throughout the layout if you search carefully.
Most Creativity: Shishio-kun Selected by contest judge's (Lirina, SylakentH, and TheHolyPotato) votes.
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I really appreciate the judges voting my design in as the most creative layout. Its a horror game themed list design, meant to be create a creepy unique atmosphere with many animations and scary imagery. Each floor has a different horror theme as you see above. I hope it inspires other designs to be very creative in the future as well!
Runner-ups: D_cuy, Hahaido
D_cuy and Hahaido's layouts are both very unique with consistent and fluid animations throughout. D_cuy's changes frequently as you move your cursor around, and if you move your cursor throughout Hahaido's you'll see lighting changes among other things popping up!
Best Table and Menu Design: Hahaido Selected by contest judge's (Lirina, SylakentH, and TheHolyPotato) votes.
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Hahaido's tables and menus are made of custom graphics and extensive coding, so its no wonder the judges chose his layout as the best with Table and Menu design!
Runner-ups: Kiokuzoku, D_cuy
Kiokuzoku has an amazing Halloween theme menu bar that easy and fun to use- fans of moe and the kawaii will love the Halloween pumpkin icons - while D_Cuy has an extensively animated menu, list table, and top bar matching the bloody dark theme of the layout!
Member's Favorite: Shishio-kun Selected by contest judge's (Lirina, SylakentH, and TheHolyPotato) votes.
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I really appreciate being voted in with the member's favorite layout. I hope it was a fun experience for everyone who visited my design, and I'll try to make another cool one for next contest!
Runner-ups: Kiokuzoku, Nymphaie
With their easy to use designs and spooky anime themes, its no wonder Nymph and Kio's layouts were close runner ups in the Member's Favorite vote. You have to love the pretty color schemes and fun Halloween backgrounds!
D_cuy
a redesign of the summer layout, and I think this one is even better! Shishio-kun
very complex, lots of animations and effects. the "asylum" room really creeped me out, good job!
comments on other designs I haven't voted for: rusette
nice colour scheme and graphics, but the topbar is really distracting, if only it was coordinated with the rest of the layout.
Kiokuzoku
very well thought out, nice menu, but the colour scheme isn't pleasing for my eyes.
Hahaido
love the effects, but this reminds me of a war like theme more than halloween.
Tsiox
could have voted for this if I didn't have the feeling it's unfinished. very good graphics and colour coordination though.
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Galaxia said:
Kiokuzoku - I appreciate that they weren't afraid to use brighter colors. Top bar is so cute! I like the blocky feel of the layout.
nymphiae - Bright, cute, and simple!
Tsiox - The buttons are my favorite. I also like the top bar a lot.
BerserkerTmG said:
- Hahaido I like the style, theme and anime :)) + RORY
- Shishio-kun your theme was a little scary, I mean, in the storage I was a little scared when the music started playing :))
Digga said:
1. nymphiae (I like the simplicity of the layout and even though it's mostly bright colored, it gives a halloween vibe. It harmonises pretty well overall. Also a Pokemon cursor can't be wrong.)
2. Hahaido ( I couldn't really decide on the 2nd place, whether it'd be Hahaido or Shishio, but i had to choose Hahaido. Even though it has some effects on the list, which I'm not quite a fan of, because i like simple layouts, it matches pretty well together. Also I like the Rory Mercury pop up and the spotlight effect thing is a nice additional feature.)
3. Shishio (In my opinion the most halloween themed layout of all the participants. You can see the effort which was put in the interaction feature thing. But it's a bit too much for a list layout. Howsoever this is just my personal opinion and it's without a doubt a great layout and deserves the 3rd place.)
TheHolyPotato said:
Nymphiae
There isn't a single thing that stands out way too much above the rest, everything is in a perfect rhythm. Cursor suits it very well, and there is no useless space, everything has a purpose.
Tsiox
Very beautiful header picture, draws the eye to it instantly. I like the neat touch at the top with the diamonds, giving the list a circus/poker feel kinda.
Kiokuzoku said:
Shishio-kun - Lot of thing to be explore here, a complex animation and hidden link on each room, funny conversation on every room (i feel bad to people who died in asylum) lawl. people with high curiosity might also try visit "all anime" link, which is there just a creepy room like other but the text exactly the same as people chatting on MMO game lawl. good job overall.
Hahaido - Very Hahaido-ish, menu is only made of four link as always, minimalist with well made fancy graphical thing and menu sprite. not much animation effect here, but great idea on the flashlight. only one thing bother me, Manga link on menu i prefer to be linked to hahaido mangalist not viewer mangalist (if its just profil, add, ani/manga, logout). you can use one from #mal_cs_otherlinks ==a. still i love t btw.
having hard time to vote the third ==a rusette and tsiox seems the same layout to me, great banner with the rest layout follow up the style of banner, the difference is tsiox sacrifice the topbar to match the overall layout, and rusette topbar is there with default mal topbar which is would be nice if use the same style as the layout ==a well since the layout is dark so it wouln't stand too much. as for D_Cuy list is great just like one he used before, kinda like this layout sort menu ==a to bad we cant see superman flying around anymore :sadlyf batman would be nice replacement .-, nymphiae list and mine seems the same layout to me too ==a, dont know how to call it, i cant go into scary list that halloween-ish so i make list that halloweenish but not scary ==a maybe that is what nymphiae thinks too, if just scary list i might go with Fatal Frame :3 so i give last vote to nymphiae, it's more halloween thn the rest. great job everyone ^^
D_Cuy said:
nymphiae
it's minimal, and all parts (text, chars, icons, etc..) are so mini.. it's more perfect because there's no unnecessary things added there. lol, I'm using one of her designs right now, her minimalist style and its user-friendly capability made an example for me to how to minimize my complex layout.
rusette
It was great to keep 3 dominant colors (white/grey, black, & orange) combined together, so the fascinating dark-orange color contrast would be born. Moreover, she created some wonderful arts on its banners, those are the most magnificent image-editing in this contest.
Kiokuzoku
The design comes with appealing color scheme and fun menu design. No one can beat his styling menu. With cute & unique halloween icons, we can easily access all of the functional-buttons on one attractive drop-down bar menu.
Hahaido
Creative, animatable, good table design, lovely character choice, fancy background style, great graphics, good functionality, not heavy, and easy to read, make it the most balanced of all designs...
Tsiox
Really informative, I can see the "Cover", "Rated", and "Tags/Comments" in one glance. The blue text color with some spaces combined with a white background makes it feel soft and comfortable to read. And the halloween girl wins my favorite character, very cute :3
Shishio-kun
his list is the most ideal place to experience terrors from some ways. The effects are creepy, surprising, yet fabulous. The backgrounds are perfect to bring you to another world. Unique, creative, complex, and the most frightening design.
Final tallies
Judge's votes
Three judges (Lirina, TheHolyPotato, and SylakentH)chose the Best Imagery, Most User-friendly, Most Creativity, and Best Table/menu categories. They are well known, experienced, and influential list designers I trust to be impartial and choose the right layouts for each category.