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Britters
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Posted: 12/11/2016 at 8:42 PM
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~Sylestia's Next Top Designer (Cycle 3)~
"The Next Level"
ROUND TWO Welcome one and all to Cycle 3 of my big design competition! I'm so excited to see what this next season brings and I can't wait to see what kind of awesome designs the contestants come up with!
There is going to be a decent amount to read and I encourage ALL of the contestants to read through very carefully. This contest is going to be a bit more complex than the usual contests in this forum and I want everyone to have a fair and fun time. The prize packages will be in the post below, so if you read this before I have those posted just give me a few minutes. Trust me, it's worth the wait to see what you're playing for. :)
The rules are very simple but they should be read thoroughly. There will not be any "secret words" since the contestants won't be posting their designs here, so PLEASE take your time and through all of them. The rules are also going to detail how the contest and the eliminations are going to work.
Contestants, please read through all the rules.
RULES
1.) Always the most important rule, please be nice to each other. Like I said, for the most part the contestants won't be posting much, but the rule still stands. No fighting, bashing, harassing, and just generally being mean to each other. Contestants who do so will be warned once and disqualified if it happens again.
2.) There will be a total of 8 (or 9) rounds to this competition. There will be approximately 3-4 people eliminated each round for Rounds 1-6 (or7). These eliminations will be based off of the voting rounds. The two designs with the least amount of votes will be eliminated. In the event of a tie, a 24 hour Sudden Death vote will be started, and the two designs in a tie will be voted on by the public again.
3.) There will be a WILDCARD ROUND before the FINAL ROUND. This means that every contestant who was eliminated before will be given the chance to return to the competition for the FINAL ROUND. The eliminated contestants will be given their own theme and the ONE person who gets the most votes will be reinstated to the competition and given another chance at competing for a Prize Package.
4.) Unless otherwise stated in the theme explanation, you are required to design for both the male and female of whatever species you are using for the theme. This means that whatever design you use must be shown on both the male and female, so design accordingly.
5.) CONTESTANTS: Do NOT post your designs in this forum, or say anything about what you're going to base your design off of. This is VERY important, because the voting rounds are meant to be "blind votes". This means that the public are not going to know which contestant made which design when they vote. When you complete your design you need to Private Message them to me. I will then save the images to my Photobucket under your username so that there is no confusion when I post them for the voting round, and your designs do not get lost.
6.) If you, as a contestant, break Rule #5 and post your design in this thread, you will be asked to drastically redo your design. This is the only way to keep things fair for everyone. I'm not going to penalize anyone more harshly than that, since I don't see anyone breaking this rule except by accident.
7.) First of all PLEASE SAVE YOUR DESIGNS. That way if there is an issue the first time you send them to me you don't lose all your work. What I want everyone to do is to send me the URL for the very big preview. You get this big preview by clicking on the smaller thumbnail of the Sylesti on the sidebar of the generator. When you copy and paste to me in a message it should look like this...
Now, you can send this to me, and that will be fine, I can resize it slightly in Photobucket without distorting it because its big to begin with. What I would LIKE everyone to do is to add &size=300 to the end of the code above. So it would look like this.
If anyone has any questions you are, of course, free to ask. :)
8.) HAVE FUN! Yes, this is a rule. I made this contest to be fun and challenging. I am SUPER excited to see everyone's designs and creativity. This is your chance to push your design skills further than you've ever pushed them. Do research, think carefully about your design before hitting the generator, try multiple designs before choosing, do whatever you have to do to make your design the best you can. I know you're all capable of greatness. :)
Now for the fun part...this week's theme IS...
Movie Posters
Requirements: You MUST make three designs and include reference pictures for each one.
This week you are going to make designs based off of Movie Posters. This does mean you are going to base your designs off of the movie itself but specifically a poster for that movie. You may use any official poster for your movie you can find.
The twist is each of your three designs must be based off movies in THREE different genres. A list of genres can be found below, and while I suggest sticking to the ones on the list, if you want to do a different genre or have questions about the different genres, please let me know. Again each of your three designs must be based of a different movie genre.
Action
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
Documentary
Drama
Family/Children
Fantasy
Historical
Holiday
Horror
Mystery
Romance
Science Fiction
Thriller
True Story
Western
Also, if you have any questions about the instructions in general please don't hesitate to ask.
ALL DESIGNS MUST BE ENTERED BY: Friday, December 16th at 10:00PM Sylestia Time
Voomvoo
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The Kind-Hearted
Joined: 10/31/2016
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Posted: 12/12/2016 at 8:13 AM
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Quick question: Does the design have to be submitted on an adult member of the species or can it be designed for a hatchling?
Britters
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Posted: 12/12/2016 at 11:05 AM
Post #3
Well, to answer your question, it must be designed on an adult. Unfortunately, the way this contest is run people have to sign up before the contest begins so sign ups are closed. I'll be doing another after this one probably in the Spring so keep an eye out for that if you're interested. :)
Dunno
Level 66
Benevolent Brewer
Joined: 1/4/2016
Threads: 37
Posts: 1,629
Posted: 12/12/2016 at 9:06 PM
Post #4
Hey, um, Britters... My being online might be a little spotty nowadays, so if I don't give you an entry by the deadline, just disqualify me. Thanks!
SatsumaSunset
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The Kind-Hearted
Joined: 3/18/2016
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Posted: 12/12/2016 at 10:12 PM
Post #5
Hello! Are we allowed to use restricted traits in our designs?
Britters
Level 72
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Posted: 12/12/2016 at 10:23 PM
Post #6
Yes, just try to limit it to just a couple. I don't want to see an entire set of four on one design.
SatsumaSunset
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The Kind-Hearted
Joined: 3/18/2016
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Posted: 12/12/2016 at 10:57 PM
Post #7
Alright, thanks!
Starline
Level 71
Cutely Creative
Joined: 3/14/2016
Threads: 97
Posts: 1,830
Posted: 12/20/2016 at 7:30 PM
Post #8
should be up soon for voteings! cant wait to see everyones designs.
Fernwhisper
Level 60
Trickster
Joined: 6/11/2016
Threads: 25
Posts: 1,841
Posted: 12/21/2016 at 10:36 PM
Post #9
When does the voting start?
Britters
Level 72
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Joined: 8/25/2014
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Posted: 12/22/2016 at 12:41 PM
Post #10
Soon, I've had to recruit someone to,type the voting thread up for me because I had to sell my laptop (long story). Should be up tomorrow.
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