Contest: Create our future FFX Default Avatar Images - Win A Prize

Nelly's First Contest

I am looking for three images that will be used as default avatar. We have one image for males, one for females and another one for "unknown" genders. I was thinking about using different colors for each type of avatar - yet they should look all the same, style wise while using the gender colors to make them look different. Blue should be used for males, the pink color code for females and the yellowish color code for "unknown"

The values are:

yellowish #FFCC33
Blue: #359CE3
Pink: #F72C95

I am totally open to what you come up with, it just has to follow some guidelines:

1.) The site of the images must be 192 x 192 pixels for the large version, 96 x 96 pixels for the medium version and 55 x 55 pixels for the small version.

2.) The background color should be either black or #121212 and you should leave some padding space, so whatever you come up with is in the center of the image. Remember that we need three sizes of the same image, so it's important to make sure the avatars look nice if they are at their smallest size

3.) The avatar image should include "FFX" somewhere is possible, but it doesn't have to be the main feature of it.

Since this forum is an artist forum, you are free to design whatever you think would look best. You don't have to create tons of images or convert them to their right size yet - just show off what you can come up with, and if you are selected as the winner, then you can convert them to the required size.

Prize: USD 50.00 via Paypal

If you want to join this contest, simply create something nice, attach it to this topic and we will go from there. I am not sure yet if I pick the winner or if there will be a poll, so these details are not set yet.

Questions? Comments? Do let me know!


Quick update: You can submit your entry until March 10th.

You would just re-size it if you are the winner, meaning it's important that the smallest one still looks nice after re-sizing. The forum software only re-sized uploaded avatars but not the default set

I'm not sure if I''ll even go in this direction but would I be able to do something sort of like I did here and incorporate all three colours and just make the main colour more prominent in each one? And are we allowed to deviate slightly, for example adding lipstick to the girl avatar, facial hair to the boy avatar, and keep the unknown avatar more neutral, or even just use different patterns or something provided they all use the same base? D:

What a great banner! Well, I am open to everything as long as it looks nice for all three sizes. I would not even mind if the different sizes are slightly different images - like a full zebra for the lagre, a part of the body and the head for the mid size and the head only for the small one etc. I am totally open for any ideas as long as it looks great.

All ideas are welcome

Good question!
However, I doubt this would happen. And if it happened, I would find a way to deal with it - even if that means coming up with another prize

I updated the deadline to March 10th today to give a few more people a chance to join because of all the recent updates etc. That said, you can submit your entries until March 10th.

To be honest I think we'd be better off just sticking with a full set instead of mixing them up. I don't doubt we could end up in that situation but personally I'd rather go with the overall best set so things at least remain more consistent rather than picking the best individual ones and having them completely mismatched.

Thanks for the extension Nelly, I know I could definitely use the extra time D:

Excited to see some entries. Good luck to everybody participating!

I'm cutting it close to the deadline, I may not have enough time to finish the detailing and blending. If I don't can I just post what I have when its due and give you the finished versions once they're done? (For the sake of voting you can use whatever I initially turn in, it'd be pretty unfair for those that met the deadline otherwise) D: