MOD Fan Art Banner Submission Thread

Not 100% sure I did it right, or that it's worthy, but here's a banner I made from what we had from the 30th Anniversary challenge. A couple of characters had to be omitted because of space, but a lot of the characters made it in. I think out of the character finished, the only ones that didn't make it in were the Death Star Trooper, one of the Sandtroopers, and R5. Not to say they weren't good, but it was just getting crowded and I felt the Imperial presence was satisfactory, and R5 shouldn't be present if R2 wasn't. I also hope people don't mind that I coloured a couple in for consistancy.

Here's the full image for what it looks like:
[image=http://www.basement24.com/fanartforum/fan-art-banner.jpg]

And here are the elements:
Ad Left Side
Ad Right Side
Back Banner
Curge Graphic
Left Graphic
Main Banner

If it's not worthy, then no worries, I don't mind if it doesn't make it up, but I had a bit of free time, so I thought I'd try.

EDIT - Looking at it more, I'm not too fond of it... It's not very quality work. Meh... I'll leave it up anyway because otherwise it was time wasted.

 

I'm having a bit of trouble with the style sheet aspect. My main idea was the same layout we currently have, but instead of the black bar on the left, if would be white to match the white around Luke's leg. I'll plug away at it, but if anyone else can make a CCS that would be super. Programming isn't my kind of thing, I'm a Photoshop kind of guy.

 

[image=http://www.odj310388.com/other/pictures/fanartbanner/fanart2.jpg]

No split images yet, or style sheet. (never knew how to make them) Just wanted to see the response before I split it up.

 

B24: Nice idea bringing the Anniversary collage images into the banner. Although it'd probably be better to wait till we have 'em all.

odj: I see you used some of the artworks from back in the day when we had the banner competition. Or is it even the same banner you submitted back then? In any regard, it's nicely done, and it's cool to see one of my oldest photomanips on it.


A general question: Source Images. Can I also take source images from other sites than TFN Fan Art? And when it take a fan's artwork, should I ask the artist for permission to use it, first?

I already have an idea where I can find great source images, in the favorites section of my Deviant Art account, hehe... But only if that's okay with you, HS29.

 

Yep, its the same banner. Saw this thread and thought 'hmm wonder if I still have that banner I made ages ago somewhere...'

 

Well last time I made a banner for the forums my style sheet got made by someone else. If it gets accepted this time hopefully this image will give them some idea of where I was going with the background colour. Not sure if it helps or not but... *shrug* Oh and individual pieces will come soon.

 

Here's my first one, stylesheet and direct links to the parts follow once I finished the second banner:

[link removed]

Wait, two banners?! Yep, I've got a big heap of artwork from DeviantArt, and I don't want to tell those who I asked for permission to use it that it didn't have any more space for it.

EDIT:
Alright, here's my FanArt banner 1 finished:

http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt1/testpage.htm

http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt1/adleft.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt1/adright.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt1/side.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt1/curve.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt1/main.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt1/back.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt1/reply.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt1/stylesheet.css

And there's the second one:

http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt2/testpage.htm

http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt2/adleft.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt2/adright.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt2/side.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt2/curve.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt2/main.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt2/back.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt2/reply.jpg
http://www.daves-sw-rogues.de/banner/FanArt2/stylesheet.css

A few comments to banner 2: Yeah, I know, it probably looks like shameless self promotion, but out of my pool of source images, I couldn't find a good image for the upper left corner, the "curve", so I took one of my own - or at least halfway, since Kuk-Man did the lineart, after all. I also decided against linearts in this banner, because there are so many great colored pieces, I wanted to give them precedence. And I've got enough "white" in the first banner already, after all.

Now, the credit the great artists behind those amazing pieces. They're all from http://www.deviantart.com , although a few are TFN Members, too.

AbKi, angelgaby, BlackJackWhite, Callista1981, CucumberBoy, DarthFar, Earwig, FalconFan, Fastfood, Fire_Scorpion, jeddibub, Jeff Confer, JosephB222, Jubran, Kuk-Man, Laubi, nattzvart, Radojavor, Remainaery, seangordonmurphy, stevecriado, tansy9, usernameunknown, and ZedderZulu

Be sure to check out their galleries over at DeviantArt. To find that just insert their username in "username.deviantart.com".

 

Yeehaa, that was fast!

Just one thing... the "reply.jpg" doesn't show up on Post Reply pages. I know, it isn't much of a reply image, anyway, but that's the only way I can credit the original artists.

 

Fixed! I'll fix the other one as well now that I know what to do.

 

I got excited seeing the Mando in the corner, especially when I recognized it! Cool work Corran!