For the chance to win Minevast store credit and become famous!
As most of you don't know, I have been very busy working on a new website for Minevast.
I'd like to keep it under wraps until it's ready to be released, but I have come to the community for something.
Long story short, we are having a contest.
The contest is to create an animated background for the new site.
Here is a pretty good example (made by me) of what we're looking for:
Here are some more definite requirements:
Still animated .GIF - The picture should be still, but there should be a noticeable hint of animation (such as the lava in the example) - Could be water, trees, grass, animals.
1920 pixels x 350 pixels - Should be pretty self-explanatory.
Quality - The image shouldn't be dithered, it should be fairly high quality (considering it's 1920px x 350px) but should remain short and hopefully less than 5 megabytes.
Almost perfect loop - The image should loop to the point where it is almost unnoticeable (There is a little lag in the example, which is alright)
Minevast - The image should be of something on Minevast.
Default texture pack - We'd like to keep the images as uniform as possible, so please use the default texture pack.
Shaders highly encouraged - Again, we'd like to keep the images as uniform as possible, so please try to use SEUS Ultra (DOF or not doesn't matter)
Now you may be wondering if there's a prize.
We will be displaying your animated image on the homepage of our new site, and will be sure to credit you as well.
Also, the 5 banners that we use (or 3, depending how many good entries we get) will recieve a $10 coupon to use on our Buycraft page.
The deadline for the contest is August 27th.
If you're wondering what I used to make mine:
Fraps - For recording
Free Video to JPEG Converter - For converting the video into an image sequence
Photoshop CS6 - For creating the .GIF
If you are using Photoshop, some helpful tips:
Importing the images into Photoshop - http://goo.gl/KF0Vfc
For showing the image timeline - http://goo.gl/zkbIV5
For turning image layers into timeline frames - http://goo.gl/zBqk3R
For reversing the frames (since they import in reverse) - http://goo.gl/lx15A4
For cropping to 1920x350 - http://goo.gl/YCVwCB http://goo.gl/dJMX2x
For saving as GIF - http://goo.gl/fu39Xu
As most of you don't know, I have been very busy working on a new website for Minevast.
I'd like to keep it under wraps until it's ready to be released, but I have come to the community for something.
Long story short, we are having a contest.
The contest is to create an animated background for the new site.
Here is a pretty good example (made by me) of what we're looking for:
Here are some more definite requirements:
Still animated .GIF - The picture should be still, but there should be a noticeable hint of animation (such as the lava in the example) - Could be water, trees, grass, animals.
1920 pixels x 350 pixels - Should be pretty self-explanatory.
Quality - The image shouldn't be dithered, it should be fairly high quality (considering it's 1920px x 350px) but should remain short and hopefully less than 5 megabytes.
Almost perfect loop - The image should loop to the point where it is almost unnoticeable (There is a little lag in the example, which is alright)
Minevast - The image should be of something on Minevast.
Default texture pack - We'd like to keep the images as uniform as possible, so please use the default texture pack.
Shaders highly encouraged - Again, we'd like to keep the images as uniform as possible, so please try to use SEUS Ultra (DOF or not doesn't matter)
Now you may be wondering if there's a prize.
We will be displaying your animated image on the homepage of our new site, and will be sure to credit you as well.
Also, the 5 banners that we use (or 3, depending how many good entries we get) will recieve a $10 coupon to use on our Buycraft page.
The deadline for the contest is August 27th.
If you're wondering what I used to make mine:
Fraps - For recording
Free Video to JPEG Converter - For converting the video into an image sequence
Photoshop CS6 - For creating the .GIF
If you are using Photoshop, some helpful tips:
Importing the images into Photoshop - http://goo.gl/KF0Vfc
For showing the image timeline - http://goo.gl/zkbIV5
For turning image layers into timeline frames - http://goo.gl/zBqk3R
For reversing the frames (since they import in reverse) - http://goo.gl/lx15A4
For cropping to 1920x350 - http://goo.gl/YCVwCB http://goo.gl/dJMX2x
For saving as GIF - http://goo.gl/fu39Xu
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