SUBSIM Wallpaper & Logo contest - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

[Onkel Neal]

I love this stuff!

Ahoy all you saltwater Picassos and Nautical Rembrandts!

We are holding a wallpaper and logo contest! Yay! It has been a while, so it's time we gave some of the new talents here to show their stuff.

Click here for details!




Prizes include:
Silent Hunter 4 Deluxe Limited Edition game pack


Shells of Fury (boxed version)



and more!

Click here for details!


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[Letum]

I can't find anything about copyright.

Do we need to prove we are the copyright holders for all source images or other
resources used, including programs?

Or are wee all fine using google images for material? If so, how far from the source
image must it be manipulated etc.?

Are you happy for us to leave our own copyright marks on the images?

Do you accept entries that are copyrighted by us, the creator at all?

Is it for commercial use?

[Onkel Neal]

Do we need to prove we are the copyright holders for all source images or other
resources used, including programs?

Use your best judgment, images submitted become the property of Subsim.com and Subsim retains rights to full and exclusive use of the art. This is how I upgrade the website graphics. It's like a raffle. you submit art, I give out prizes. If you win the prizes, they are all yours, I won't ask to borrow them back

thanks!
Neal

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Use your best judgment, images submitted become the property of Subsim.com and Subsim retains rights to full and exclusive use of the art. This is how I upgrade the website graphics. It's like a raffle. you submit art, I give out prizes. If you win the prizes, they are all yours, I won't ask to borrow them back

thanks!
Neal

Sorry to be awkward, but....

"images submitted become the property of Subsim.com and Subsim retains rights
to full and exclusive use of the art."

So if I submit something, I won't then be able to display it elsewhere or otherwise
use it without subsim's permission?
I'm not to chuffed about that.
You won't accept entries that are Open Source and free to use by all?

Your call of course.

[Dowly]

Looking at the past entries... I think I let the pro's do it.

[Tchocky]

*whips out MS Paint*

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Looking at the past entries... I think I let the pro's do it.

Uh, what? You are one of the pros, Dowly. Unless someone else has highjacked your forum account!

Originally Posted by Letum

Sorry to be awkward, but....

"images submitted become the property of Subsim.com and Subsim retains rights
to full and exclusive use of the art."

So if I submit something, I won't then be able to display it elsewhere or otherwise
use it without subsim's permission?
I'm not to chuffed about that.
You won't accept entries that are Open Source and free to use by all?

Your call of course.

Fair questions, Letum. I have to add that condition to avoid possible (but not likely) misunderstandings or conflicts. I "retain the right" but I would certainly be open-minded about allowing the use of submitted material otherwise. To keep Subsim looking good, I routinely hire artists, request materials from Subsim members, and often compensate those who help me with a stipend or swag their help. This contest will be fun and generate some great art, and someone will win some cool stuff and recognition.

I will accept art using Open Source material, you decide what to create, in the end I will have to decide if I feel comfortable using it. For example, if someone makes a wallpaper that is basically the Das Boot DVD cover with some changes, I probably won't use it.

Looking forward to what you have in mind, Letum!

thanks
Neal

[Abd_von_Mumit]

My very favourite entry is 8th - the lonely life boat drifting in the heavy mist. To say the truth, it's the only one that struck me immediately, on sight. The only one that elicited what I feel is true about fighting in an iron coffin:

loneliness

sadness

water

horror

slow death

cold

stealth and surprise.


I love the way mist mixes with sea water. I like the light. The picture is unreal, fantasctic, makes you to imagine what's below and behind, "turns on your mind". Nothing is straightforward clear - nor what happened just minutes before, nor what's next to come.

This picture is the only that stopped me for a long while and made me stare at it. In fact I still do.

[Iceman]

Welp...I went ahead and put mine on my site...I like what I did.

Here they are...

1. http://cyberallies.com/miscpics/finalart/asst.bmp
2. http://cyberallies.com/miscpics/finalart/baw.bmp
3. http://cyberallies.com/miscpics/finalart/ice.bmp
4. http://cyberallies.com/miscpics/finalart/assassin.bmp
5. http://cyberallies.com/miscpics/finalart/moon.bmp
6. http://cyberallies.com/miscpics/finalart/redmoon.bmp
7. http://cyberallies.com/miscpics/finalart/subbielogo.bmp
8. http://cyberallies.com/miscpics/finalart/dream.bmp

Number 8 is my favorite actually...I have it as a desktop paper and I really like it.

Thought I'd share...

[Letum]

Not a compo entry, but Ive been messing around with things and its not worth of it's own thread.

[Iceman]

Very nice! Is the water from maya and the mist around the boat photoshoped?...great job.

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Very nice! Is the water from maya and the mist around the boat
photoshoped?...great job.

Nah, the water is from 3DS's Dreamscape plugin and all the water spray/mist is from a perticle
system rigged to be animated.
The water (should) flow off the decks and outer hull holes every time the boat
reaches
a certian degree of rotation (Dreamscape dynamicaly moves the boat in the water,
but the particle controlors are my own).

The only photoshopping done here is a little sharpening of the water spray at the
front and a little bluring of the deck wash as well as a little extre detail in the sky.

I am going to work on the particle system some more to get it looking right as well
as the sky.

With a bit of luck it will form part of a short animation (There is a small clip of
another bit of it in my sig.).

And thankyou very much.

[Dowly]

Congrats!

[Jimbuna]

Congratulations to you all.....the entries were all of the very highest quality

[coronas]

Congratulations to all artist and specially to the winner.