Artists Needed: Banner for XS in the "10 Days for 10th Birthday WCG Challenge"

[OldChap]

Any of you good at art? Making Banners?

With a little over 1 month to go until the WCG 10th Birthday Challenge https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.or...37235_offset,0 I figure it would be good to get a good banner/sig on the go to help advertise this.

Who haz the skillz ??

[Charles Wirth]

Ashraf usually makes the banners, I will poke at him.

Banner size 729x90

[OldChap]

Thanks Boss

[[XC] Oj101]

I do portrait retouching, I don't know how my skills will weigh up for a banner but I can try

[[XC] Oj101]

A quick half-minute mock-up?

[jeanguy2]

Very nicely done Captain XC, you can now take a bow and then beam up to the bridge.

I like your subtile use of shadows and the resulting lifted WCG lettering. Can you do something similar with the XS portion of the banner?

[[XC] Oj101]

I can't take credit for the drop shadows, I grabbed the image from the discussion thread on the WCG forums All I did was put the XS logo on one side and split the 10 year logo in half so I could keep the text as large as possible while keeping the four squares within the space constraints. I then added a solid background with the colour #dcdcdc and Bob's your uncle. Like I said, it was a*very* quick mock-up. I'll do the entire thing properly with text (and a drop shadow on the XS logo if you'd like - drop shadows are very easy).

[yojimbo197]

I can't take credit for the drop shadows, I grabbed the image from the discussion thread on the WCG forums All I did was put the XS logo on one side and split the 10 year logo in half so I could keep the text as large as possible while keeping the four squares within the space constraints. I then added a solid background with the colour #dcdcdc and Bob's your uncle. Like I said, it was a*very* quick mock-up. I'll do the entire thing properly with text (and a drop shadow on the XS logo if you'd like - drop shadows are very easy).

That actually looks pretty decent. I was thinking something more along the lines of this cartoon, with XS being the truck and the WCG teams being the bump runover by the skid marks:

http://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoonv...catref=dre0783