(Since just Christmas might be offensive ^^)
Winter Holidays Banner Contest! 

All is Brawl will display a special themed banner for 1 week to celebrate the Winter Holidays.

Specifics:  

1. Banner must be 964x175 pixels.   
2. Banner should have a seasonal color scheme. However it does not have to complement the orange theme.
3. Banner should be 100% related to Smash and represent AiB.  
4. The logo should be displayed near the middle of the banner in a decent size. You may use this logo or create your own: [click here for logo] (original, not rendered )  
        [click here for logo v2]  (rendered and edited by Spellman)

Rules:  

1. Each entrant may submit up to two entries. Once a banner is submitted, it cannot be changed.   
2. The banner may be a redesign of an older idea of the entrant’s. However, do not submit old work.   
3. Entrants will be penalized accordingly for plagiarism, faked votes, and other inappropriate conduct.  
4.
The process in which the winner is decided will depend on how many
entries we receive. It will most likely involve public voting as well
as admin panel selection.   
5. The admin panel reserves the right to rule that the banner will not be changed for this banner contest if
the qualities of the banners do not meet the required quality.   
6.
Contest entry must be sent via private message to me (Zolga) with
“Winter Banner Contest Entry” as the subject before December 17th, 2009
at 11:59 pm (Eastern Standard Time). 

Resources:  

Planetrenders.net – Register an account for access to good quality Smash character renders and other resources!  

Old banners: [click here for old banners]  

Brawl logo rendered: [click here for rendered Brawl logo]  

As you work on your banner, you may post it in this thread to gather opinions from other artists. I will also offer my opinion on banners, just PM me with a work in progress banner with the subject “Banner Contest ADVICE.”





I didn't totally steal this format from LadyMartel's Halloween Banner post

Will banners that follow the colors of the site be favorited. Just wondering before I start.

Hey Zolga, do you know if badges from the last contest are going to be put up any time soon? Martel said it here:

Considering the Halloween banner made by Aberz was black and darkish, I'd say it doesn't matter.

Allright ill try this one. Ill make it better than the last one i did.

Working on an entry now...

o: I'll start on one.

i wil try my best to make a cool one

Time to put my training to the test, HAHAHA

I'm working on a mspaint based pixel art one. With reference, of course, I'm not god xP

k ive entered, probly wont win but it was really fun making it ^_^

Where is a place to upload so the size doesn't get downgraded? I seemed to put it on tinypic but it looked like the size got smaller =[
Also are banners allowed to be animated? Or are you kinda staying away from that kind of stuff?
Thank you ^_^"

Animated signatures aren't allowed in SOTW so probably not
They might make an exception if you use animated snow, though

imo Imageshack is the way to go.

Just don't use photobucket....;-; it's like saving your artwork in jpeg format, it's just devastating

The ONLY problem I've ever encountered or heard of was that PB will resize really big images. Otherwise I've never heard of any change in quality.

I use PB, sometimes it tend to re-size random large things. But, if doesn't take away quality. O.o

I submitted ! Hopefully you received it Zolga!

I sent mines =D

By the way, I tested the difference between a Photobucket image and the original
and both images are the same. So, Photobucket does not reduce quality.

No one wants to post their banners in the thread for critique?

Man I really wish I had more time to work on mine :/

I guess I'll submit it either way... :L