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05-06-2014, 04:33 AM
This is a thread dedicated to myself, Nephila, and Shadami to discuss our URE avatar contest thread.
Nephila: Shadami:
I think it'll be easier if we have our own thread dedicated to this. I keep losing info in Wyrm's thread.
I know we discussed post order, although I don't remember exactly what it was.
And the decided themes were: jewel tones, swimsuits, and genie wishes (backfired) correct?
Some other things I was wondering about includes the general rules: how many entries per category/theme, our banner (I have started making some pixel dolls for the banner of our thread if you want to have some of the load taken off shadami. Though I could use your help with the background of the image  )
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05-06-2014, 07:02 PM
here is from my notes. xD
Nephi -Color Contest - sand tones, jewel tones, gold
Sha -A backfired Genie Wish Avatar - what was the wish, and what happened? (minimum 4 sentences)
Libra - doing a swimsuit at the oasis competition.
Possible one
Story Characters - Design a character that may have been in one of Scheherezade's tales. Who are they, what is there story. (minimum 5 sentences) as a group contest.
This is what I was going to have as my host intro.
Hey all! I'm Shadami, you may have seen me around, always playing with creative uses for items. Sometimes my ideas are a bit too far out of the box to be understood, but that doesn't stop me. I enjoy seeing visually pleasing avatars, regardless if that means super layered, or simple and sweet. Color coordination is a big plus, but I rank creativity even above that. Follow the directions, let the creative juices flow, and you'll score top points with me!
My so far written stuff :
Genie Backfire
You've found a magical genie lamp. You rubbed it hard out of excitement, but you stumbled around on the wish and now it has backfired! Now it is time to design an avatar of your backfired wish.
Rules:
*write a short paragraph (4 sentences minimum) about what the wish was, and what happened.
*represent your wish
*represent how it went wrong
*there is no color constraints
annnnnd the post order idea i had .
Shadami -Banner
Libra -Host intro / Rules / Prizes
Nephi - color
Libra - swimsuit model
Shadami - Genie backfire
Nephi - Group ?
Libra - Reserved
Shadami -reserved
nephi - Reserved
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05-07-2014, 05:03 AM
Ah yes, now this is much easier to find all this information!
All of it looks good.
I guess how many entries can everyone submit? And what will we probably give out as prizes? Will we allow DAC? I'd prefer not to allow it, but I'm willing to be swayed with that decision ^_^
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05-07-2014, 05:26 PM
I'd much rather see people put in avatars themselves with their own items. There is always plenty of people around that will loan out items for these things. Besides which we're not saying any certain item has to be used. The only reason I would sway on that would be because the DAC is usually allowed in the official events.
Oh an as for the number of entries... hmmm there is usually only one entry per person correct? I'd say maybe allow mules to enter as well. since sometimes people...like myself. whatever I get/win/earn on my mule goes to donations and prizes.
As for prizes for the thread itself... When we break up the prizes that have been donated we'll know that more for sure. But I'd say.. what its usually 5k for first 3k for 2nd and 1k for 3rd? I think.....
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05-23-2014, 04:24 AM
Ugg! I'm sorry that I didn't reply! I kept thinking, "why haven't I seen our hangout thread pop up?" and then I keep meaning to reply. ANYWAY!
Ok, I'm down for that. 1 main entry and 1 mule entry.
I think that's a good thing to do, 1st 2nd and 3rd. And depending on how much gold is divided up between all the stickies then we can always change the amount of gold if we all don't have enough.
Also, the whole reason I wanted be a part off this was so I could make some pixel frames for the winning avi's! My idea is to make 4 different kinds of frames (one for each contest theme) and then I'll do one gold, one silver, and one bronze.
That's an example. I think I'll make it the whole size of our avatars though, and I won't include the words around it. Though I'm up for either keeping the name plate or taking it out. It really doesn't matter to me, so I'm all for hearing you two's opinion ^_^
And if their are any frames that you see around that you would like me to kind of base the design off of.
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05-23-2014, 02:06 PM
That is amazing!! Mine should have those genie lamps on them. xD
Genie Wish Backfire
You've found a magical genie lamp. You rubbed it, and your magical genie came out and granted your wish. But it backfired! Now it's time to design an avatar of your wish and how it went horribly wrong.
Rewording mine. does it sound better?
Nephila: you coming in here ? <3
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05-23-2014, 09:36 PM
I have a template already from last year when it comes to to the color portion of avatar contest. Most of my work is going to come in when I bash people thusly over the head for not following the color combos. XD I have very little work to do other than a paragraph or two of "fancy talk" and swapping out the color names.
Prizes can't be decided till we know what were getting. To me an Avatar contest is pretty straight forward so I don't know what I could add to this convo. Unless your looking for an opinion on the frame. If it's something you want to do and have time for I say go for it. I'm not for or against them in anyway. :)
I don't know how I feel about all this info being so out there. When Cora and I did it we did it mostly threw PM and our own the private blog posts so it was more of a surprise to mene. If someone was a sneaky bugger like me they'd already be working on their contest entries. XD
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05-24-2014, 02:12 AM
@Shad: Clean and straight to the point. I like it :)
-shrugs- We may not be able to completely decide on prizes, but that doesn't mean we can't discuss the possibilities.
You must be talking about this thread here.
I like how you all used to the colors of the event to be the colors in your thread. I hadn't quite thought of doing that until just now... I'm not used to being overly colorful with my threads.
I mean, this was my only idea of how all 3 of us could talk, I'm more than willing to move this elsewhere. (Facebook, Email, blog posts, wherever). I haven't really hosted a successful avatar contest so that's why I was trying to figure out what rules we want to lay out, since I'm gonna be making that post.
I think I have some idea's for the frames now ^_^
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05-25-2014, 09:54 PM
It's doesn't mater either way. It's pretty much all out there now. :)
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05-27-2014, 07:14 PM
i'm really more worried about the layout and such. (i can totally delete all my info if need be . xD)
as well as Did the two of you want to have a fourth entry that we're all judging? As a group entry?
I know it was briefly discussed that we needed a group one. And an idea for a contest could be dressing as the storytale characters from Scher's Tales. SO Maybe if we combined the two?
hence the layout for the thread i posted up there ^^^
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05-30-2014, 04:51 AM
That sounds good to me. :)
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05-31-2014, 05:55 PM
Cool. this will be awesome. :]
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06-01-2014, 12:46 AM
I'm cool with that. So I was thinking about the prizes. What if we had a CI for 1st place for each of us, 1000G for 2nd place, and 500G for 3rd place? I feel like out of all the gold we've gotten, 6,000G isn't that much for our little thread. And since their won't be that many group entries (I've noticed there typically isn't that many, we could even cut the 2nd and 3rd place out for the group entry and just have 4 CI's total + 4,500G for our prizes.)
Depending on how much more gold is left over after it's all been divied up to the stickie threads, we could come up with page prizes of some sorts. Or we could do avi art for some page prizes... Since the 3 of us makes some sort of art anyway xD
I think that's fair to ask for. If worse comes to worse, we'll tell Wyrm that we'd be fine with downgrading all of our prizes if needed, that was just our best case scenario for prizes for our threads.
CI Ideas:
Mindas touch
Obsidian butterfly wings
Noxious Nasties of the Alien Kind
Desert Hideaway
Most of those things have multiples, so we won't be taking the only one there is.
---------- Post added 05-31-2014 at 08:50 PM ----------
Ok, so let me re-word, 6,000 is a lot... But we are having 4 contests in one spot.
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06-01-2014, 12:56 AM
remember that the group entry will be a prize that we need multiples of. And we won't know the exact number until we get the entries.
I'm thinking I definetly want the desert hideaway for my prize. (genie and all :3)
1000 for 2nd 500 for third sounds fair I think. 4,500 for just our three contests is what that would put it at.
with the group contest, I think we should probably request... well gosh... It depends how many entries we get completely. and how big the groups are. i've seen REALLY big groups before. o.o
oh right. and which of us wants to hold on to the prizes?
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06-01-2014, 12:59 AM
So... All the presents have like 30 of each... That's the only thing that I see serious multiples of. Oh, and there are like 8 of the angel wings and 8 of the black angel wings (I don't remember their exact names xD)
Oh gosh, I forgot that we'd need multiples for the group prize D:
Sweet! So 4,500 Gold it is. Which Ci did you want to throw out then?
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Obsidian butterfly wings would make such a cute prize for the jewel themed contest (personal opinion, we don't have to go with that) and I really like the minda's touch one for mine... I don't know, I just like it xD
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06-01-2014, 01:25 AM
I kind of want to look through the CIs and see if there is maybe one that is ocean/oasis/paradise feel for yours. It might make more sense? Though the wings are a cute idea for the jewels.
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midas touch, obsidian wings, and the desert are all somewhat around the same price. the wings are 1k higher i think. but similar ISH. i think the three would work in that sense for sure.
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06-01-2014, 01:35 AM
Well... Lifes a beach is technically the closest to ocean/paradise kind of prize. I guess I'll ask for it, and if worse comes to worse, Wyrm could deny it xD
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I PMed Neph, did you want to send off the Prizes request for our contest thread once she makes her decision?
So 4,500G. Life's a beach, Desert Hideaway, her prize...
So what did we want to do about the multi prize?
Purity/Wings of iniquity?
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06-01-2014, 01:54 AM
I hadn't actually looked yet. I'm almost thinking we do some gold prize. but ugh. it's really hard to decide. i have to actually head out here shortly so i can get my leg up. I'll be back tomorrow though. . . i kinda busted it up...
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06-01-2014, 02:04 AM
Oh
What did you do to it! I've seen lots of broken legs today, I don't want yours to be too
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06-01-2014, 02:05 AM
I like your structure for the gold. As for Ci's /Ei's it doesn't matter to me. I'm sure people would be happy with anything.
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06-01-2014, 02:09 AM
Yay! :D
We could leave the group prize up to Wyrm? Depending on what there is a lot left of after everyone puts out the main prizes they want.
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06-02-2014, 06:35 AM
not sure. i've been taking lots of ibuprofen. its been hurting so i can't get up and down stairs without cringing. and than I decided to jump to try to clean something and when I landed i had a sharp pain shoot through it. I'm still walking around on it. so i'm probably fine. I just get that sharp pain every time i jolt my leg to hard. or bend my knees. or you know. oww it hurts. xD but i'm a survivor!
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06-02-2014, 03:38 PM
Oh boy I hope your ok Shadami. O.O
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06-02-2014, 04:59 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadami
not sure. i've been taking lots of ibuprofen. its been hurting so i can't get up and down stairs without cringing. and than I decided to jump to try to clean something and when I landed i had a sharp pain shoot through it. I'm still walking around on it. so i'm probably fine. I just get that sharp pain every time i jolt my leg to hard. or bend my knees. or you know. oww it hurts. xD but i'm a survivor!
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...Did you do anything to your leg? Was there a specific incident that started the pain? Like did you knock your leg into something, or did something fall on it? Or, were you in a car accident recently? Is there any bruising? If none of the above, then I'd like to think nothing is wrong with your bones... That doesn't rule out everything though.
If it's anything that is impeding your day to day activities you should go see a doctor about it, the doctor may know what's going on, or prescribe an x-ray or ultrasound to rule out some things it could be
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06-02-2014, 06:15 PM
eh i'll toughen it out. it can't be to bad. i was thinking it had to do with my oshgoodslaughters. (spg idfk) Which sometimes acts up, but the whole jolting pain kinda changed my mind. I only have to sit and rest every so often so it can't be to bad.....
bruising yes, any incident.. no, not that I can think of. I mean i've been doing a lot of hard labor, and bo on the go stuff with the toddler. It was swollen though :D
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