ShadowExile
05-30-2010, 05:49 AM
Hey guys! Just thought I'd like to spruce up Fan Media with something a bit interesting, and something that you don't necessarily have to have a great skill with Photoshop to do excel in.
That's right, this is a particular contest where the person with the WORST signature wins this particular week. I'm hoping to get this going monthly maybe, or maybe this will just be a one off thing. But the results should hopefully be pretty fun and interesting.
Now, some of you may not know this, but there are certain elements to creating signatures, and so it is actually quite difficult to create a masterpiece of filth and disgust. Sure, something can be bad, but can it really be the best at being bad, disgusting and foul? Well, that's your job to pull off :P
Theme:
Free-For-All!
Entries Closing Date: 6th of June, 8PM (GMT+10)
(No entries will be accepted any later than this date. That is one week from now almost exactly.)
You do not need to post to affirm your confirmation of entering this competition. However, there are some conditions:
You must send your entry to me via PM There must be no text that distinguishes who the maker of the signature is. You may not vote for your own piece There is a size limit on the signature of 600x400. You may not have any larger dimensions.
After voting, the judges (myself and hopefully two other Graphics Team members) will just the pieces horribleness on how badly they underachieve the main key-elements that one must consider when making a signature. The combine votes of all three judges will count for 1/3 of the total votes. So after votes have been tallied, a third of those votes will be the max amount of votes the judges will be able to swing the vote by, and each judge will contribute of course 1/3 to the total of that 1/3. So yeah, unless there's a clearly winning horrible signature, there really isn't a huge amount of influence in the judging, however if there is a close result between two pieces, the judges will be able to distinguish it above the other.
If you are in the Graphics Team and would like to be a judge, you may send me a PM to say so. Also, so that I know that you know what you're doing, please in your PM, provide an example of a bad signature (you do not necessarily have to make one, there are plenty around on the Internet from new signature makers), and explain where the critical flaws are. You must have knowledge of the basic-concept of signatures so that you are able to knowingly distinguish the lack of them in a horrible signature.
That's right, this is a particular contest where the person with the WORST signature wins this particular week. I'm hoping to get this going monthly maybe, or maybe this will just be a one off thing. But the results should hopefully be pretty fun and interesting.
Now, some of you may not know this, but there are certain elements to creating signatures, and so it is actually quite difficult to create a masterpiece of filth and disgust. Sure, something can be bad, but can it really be the best at being bad, disgusting and foul? Well, that's your job to pull off :P
Theme:
Free-For-All!
Entries Closing Date: 6th of June, 8PM (GMT+10)
(No entries will be accepted any later than this date. That is one week from now almost exactly.)
You do not need to post to affirm your confirmation of entering this competition. However, there are some conditions:
You must send your entry to me via PM There must be no text that distinguishes who the maker of the signature is. You may not vote for your own piece There is a size limit on the signature of 600x400. You may not have any larger dimensions.
After voting, the judges (myself and hopefully two other Graphics Team members) will just the pieces horribleness on how badly they underachieve the main key-elements that one must consider when making a signature. The combine votes of all three judges will count for 1/3 of the total votes. So after votes have been tallied, a third of those votes will be the max amount of votes the judges will be able to swing the vote by, and each judge will contribute of course 1/3 to the total of that 1/3. So yeah, unless there's a clearly winning horrible signature, there really isn't a huge amount of influence in the judging, however if there is a close result between two pieces, the judges will be able to distinguish it above the other.
If you are in the Graphics Team and would like to be a judge, you may send me a PM to say so. Also, so that I know that you know what you're doing, please in your PM, provide an example of a bad signature (you do not necessarily have to make one, there are plenty around on the Internet from new signature makers), and explain where the critical flaws are. You must have knowledge of the basic-concept of signatures so that you are able to knowingly distinguish the lack of them in a horrible signature.