OFFICIAL Fantasy Emag Contest Q&A!!!!!

[Hexis]

Can we submit our own thumbnails for out entries? If so, how big you want em? I figure a "-small" added on the end of the file name would be clear enough.

[shartley]

Hexis
No, do NOT send thumbnails for your entries. ONLY SEND THE ACTUAL ENTRIES. They have software that makes them for them. That way each thumbnail will be uniform.

Thanks.

[Hexis]

It was a question, no need for an all caps answer.

That kinda sucks tho, cause a tumbnail can be so much more than just a shrunken down version of the whole picture.

[shartley]

Hexis
The reason I used CAPS is to accent the answer so noone would miss it.

Please keep in mind that when I answer a question it is for ALL to see, not just you. And I often have to answer the same question time and again, or people claim that they did not see it answered.

THAT IS WHY IT WAS ALL CAPS. (actually only a small part was all caps though )

No offense was intended... you can trust me on that. So YES there WAS a need for an all caps answer.

As for the thumbnail issue.... you are correct! But this is not a thumbnail contest, and the thumbnails serve only one purpose.. to allow the person to get to the enlarged version. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Mwmathes]

FANTASY E-Mag

WHOO HOO, my clip(s) went in to contest.airgun today! I got done before the deadline, and may everyone see my work for all its glory.

Good Luck to all who entered, im gonna enjoy seeing what everyone with Photoshop was able to dream up...

See you on the field
MWMATHES

Team Praetorian Guard, IL

[Defalcot]

Wahoowee!

Hey all!

I am glad to have partook in such a fun challenge.
I hope that everyone had as much fun as I did!
Thank you AGD for the opportunity to win such great prizes,
I heard about the contest 3 day's before The deadline. So I figured, what the heck! I'll give it a go.

I haven't played in 6 months, I have been Mountain Biking lately and lost interest in paintball for a while because it was hard to organize all my pal's for a weekly game or two. I hope that this will re-spark my interests in this great sport! I am sooo glad I did not sell my RT, because I knew that I would want to play again. My bud's sold all their stuff and now they regret it, but not me and a couple others! We knew that we could never give up paintball! I see many new things in the world of paintball already, this sport just keeps growing! Well if I win, I will donate my old gun to one of my broke pal's and then he can join me in some butt kicking fun!

Long Live Paintball!!!

Defalcot.........

[nutz]

i cant wait to see every ones entries!!

[omni]

shartley:

Could I make My concept a bit longer, like say 800X800?

or thiner but longer, much like the box contest was, I need more hight due to design?


Would you resize that on me, becuase if you did it would make the Marker look funny :) stubby!

[shartley]

omni
One of your questions is as follows:

Could I make My concept a bit longer, like say 800X800?

or thiner but longer, much like the box contest was, I need more hight due to design?

Noplace in the rules does it state it had to be a dimensionally square, in fact quite the opposite. Please review my actual comments on that issue...

... that being the case, at 800X600 a good size to use for an entry graphic would be no more than about 600 to 700 wide (600 SHOULD be fine). As for height, again, does everyone ACTUALLY want me to start making limits? Sure, there WILL be a problem if someone sends in an image that is 700Wide and 5560000High.

This CLEARLY indicates that you CAN make it longer than it is wide, but to keep the width to roughly 700points or less. It also indicates that you should not make it TOO long, but that we expect some of the graphics to be longer than they are wide. 800 is a bit wider than I asked for so please reduce the width a bit.

You also asked....

Would you resize that on me, becuase if you did it would make the Marker look funny stubby!

This is just not true. When a graphic is resized to a smaller width, the height is also reduced in direct proportions (unless the person doing the resizing does not have a clue). The WHOLE graphic is reduced, not just the width.

I hope that puts your mind at ease. Noone's graphics will be warped in any way by any resizing the contest staff may have to do.

[Defalcot]

Frightend

Hello,
I made mine at: 640x480 72dpi. If you make it bigger or smaller it seems like it gets pixilated. Will the grafx be altered to accommodate the forum boxes?

Defalcot

[shartley]

Defalcot
Don't worry.... the Gallery is not a part of the Forums, it is a part of the main site... so forum boxes are not an issue. Also, your entry will not be made bigger, and it is already well within the guidelines I made (for size), so I see no need to make it smaller.

So......... you are fine.

Hope that makes you feel better. :)

[Defalcot]

Happy

Thanks Bro!

[thei3ug]

Will we be notified and given the option to change it if our entries are too large?

[shartley]

thei3ug
I do not handle the actual entries, but I would highly doubt it. I am sure they will just be resized down to those sizes discussed. This should not be a problem thought.... only ridiculously huge graphics would be negatively effected by this resizing... and I am sure people had more common sense than to make their entries THAT large.

It is, after all, JUST a Web Based contest for viewing online. It almost sounds as if a bunch of people missed the whole spirit and idea behind it all........

[Have Blue]

I don't think anyone really missed the point - it's just that we've spent a great deal of time and effort on these images, and we just want to be certain that people will be viewing them as we intended. Scaling some of them down, even just a little, may render small yet noteworthy details obscured.

Just think of everyone competing as an eccentric artist :-)