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LuxKen27 ([personal profile] luxken27) wrote2010-05-30 01:01 pm

IYFG: 1st Quarter 2010 Banners (Ready...set...go!)

Congratulations to all the winners of the IYFG 1st Quarter 2010! (The complete list can be found here.)

I figure that nobody knows their stories better than the authors, and in order to give you a prize banner you'd be proud to display, I'd like to have your input! Please let me know if you have one of the following:

(1) Fanart for your story, drawn by yourself or others
(2) A specific character or image in mind, from any source of "official" artwork
(3) **Crossover and Original Character winners**: specific details, descriptions, or images from your crossover canon universe or OCs

If you have one of the following and you'd like me to use it on your banner, please comment on this LJ post (anon commenting on my LJ is open, and this post is public), with the following:

(1) a LINK to the image
(2) PERMISSION FROM and CREDIT TO the artist of the piece, if fanart or doujinshi
(3) a description of the manga or anime arc you'd like me to cap a picture from

Please respond within the next week or two, if you'd like to have input in your banners. (I realize tomorrow is a holiday for the US, so that might delay response.) If I don't hear from you by June 8th, I'm assuming that means I can have creative freedom to do whatever I want with it, and you won't bitch about the end result =)

Banners will eventually be displayed on the IYFG website for all to admire. I will also post them here to LJ when they're done. Right now, I do not have a timeline for completion, because June is going to be a very busy month for me, offline, but I am shooting for them to be done by the end of the month.

[identity profile] eggplantlady.livejournal.com 2010-06-01 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd prefer the color be kept to a minimum, if you'd like color I can do that pretty easily in photoshop with my tablet (yay coloring funtimes), it's really just the vectoring that's slowing me down (possibly because I can't draw a consistent line to save my life, LOL).

[identity profile] eggplantlady.livejournal.com 2010-06-01 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Much of the Aion artwork uses black or gunmetal-gray text on a light/white background with aqua blue details... For example: the game cover art (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/AionTTE.jpg) and the OST artwork (http://www.downloadost.com/ost/big-aion-the-tower-of-eternity-ost.jpg).

I was hoping to have subtle dabs of color in the picture itself, and to clean the lines up a bit, but yeah, these are probably not things that you could do easily. If I can't get anything figured out in time, it's fine if you just use the lineart pretty much as-is. Since my sister also plays Aion, it fits with the game art style pretty well anyway.

If you'd rather screw around with screencaps, I can do that too, but it'd be scenery only because I'm out of character slots (and therefore can't recreate the characters from my story without sacrificing an existing character). LOL

[identity profile] eggplantlady.livejournal.com 2010-06-01 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
There is not a font that looks like that (I can only assume this is because they only needed four letters); so far as I can find, it's a custom-made logo... the closest I've been able to find are downloads for certain sub-texts in the art, or the in-game fonts. I will ask my sister if there are any decent look-alike fonts, as she is my resident font expert, LOL. Otherwise, whatever you choose will be fine.

And don't push yourself to have this finished by next week, especially since you already know what you want to use

I want this stuff done as much to make a generic fic banner for myself as to have a super-shiny IYFG banner. So if it sounds like I'm rushing, it's because I'm excited to finally have a resource, so to speak, for graphics to go with this fic. :D