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I think best is that I stop doing designs.

Originally Posted by Caleb

ignis, I just got an amazing idea to promote more activity for the SotW (and pretty much any contest within the creativity corner)!

More people visit the creativity corner as a whole than the individual forums within, so if you post announcements in the creativity corner as a whole, more people will see, more people will participate. I don't know if you have the ability to post a section-wide announcement, but I think it'd be a good idea.

Yeah, I can't take care of those, but we can always talk about something like that in the backroom like Holden said. I think one way to keep activity going is by continuing what GKANG once did with his 'Beauty Letters' which were a mass PM to everybody interested in GD. He announced the week's top sig, the upcoming theme and stuff like that. We should play around the whole 'ZU Porn' joke and bring back that beauty letter with extra humor. I can just send it to a bunch of people each week and whoever doesn't want to be part of it can be removed from the list.

Originally Posted by >:3

I think best is that I stop doing designs.

Hey, man. No problem.

Originally Posted by IGNIS

Yeah, I can't take care of those, but we can always talk about something like that in the backroom like Holden said. I think one way to keep activity going is by continuing what GKANG once did with his 'Beauty Letters' which were a mass PM to everybody interested in GD. He announced the week's top sig, the upcoming theme and stuff like that. We should play around the whole 'ZU Porn' joke and bring back that beauty letter with extra humor. I can just send it to a bunch of people each week and whoever doesn't want to be part of it can be removed from the list.

Well as long as we can get everyone that's interested, that seems fine

Major update!

New voting thread (remember to vote for only 1 signature) :

http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/...s-are-old.html

New signup:

http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/...christmas.html

The results for SotW #124 were:


Demon Lord Ghirahim w/ 4 votes

Holden + Snurtlicious w/ 3 votes

Caleb w/ 2 votes

A bit disappointed at the number of people who posted their vote, but I can't blame anybody because it has been a rough, slow week. Let's hope more people vote and submit sigs next time. Great job, people!

EDIT: Updated HoF.

It has to be done in mspaint?

Originally Posted by Demon Lord Ghirahim

It has to be done in mspaint?

Yeah, that's the fun part. Just open up MSPaint and go nuts!

Yussssssssssss mspaint christmas! Excellent theme! Top notch! Number one! Champ!

^Ey, gurl. Show us what you've got.

Bringing back GKANG's beauty letter (thx, GKANG). Spamming it to handful of people to bring them over and get everyone excited. Really need to people to vote and submit sexy MSPaint sigs this week and the next-- I extended this shiz.
So, ya. Les do dis.


Ok, sent the new beauty letter just now. Posting it here for those who might have not gotten it:

Spoiler:  

With a Hint of Prada

Vol.9

Bringing back the beautifully scented Beauty Letter, courtesy of GKANG who left off in Vol. 8. For those of you receiving this for this first time, this is a weekly notification of graphic design and fan art related updates happening in the Creativity Corner section. I hand-pick a lot of the active members of those boards to subscribe them to this PM, but you may contact me if you would like to be removed from this list. Don't!

Let's start off with the latest results from Signature of the Week #124-- ZU's own GotY cuz that's how we roll.

Originally Posted by Rhea

Week #124
Game of the Year

First Place: Demon Lord Ghirahim
Second Place: Holden, Snurtlicious
Third Place: Caleb

Demon Lord Ghirahim recently joined the forums and is already kicking ass with awesome-looking signatures. Good job, Demon Lord!


What the French
Call
Bisexualité
It means biweekly.

Right now, though, because it's the holidays and ya'll are busy doing last-minute shopping and stuff like that, entries for SotW #126 and voting for the previous week have been extended for another week, turning this whole thing into a biweekly affair. Due to slow activity around the boards, it will stay like this for a little while.

Still, now's the perfect time to sit on your computer, open up MSPaint and make a sick holiday signature:

[GD][Signup] http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/...christmas.html

Last SotW saw a huge lack of votes for the awesome sigs that were submitted, so just hop on to the voting thread and pick your one favorite old cartoon sig:

[GD][Voting] http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/...s-are-old.html

If you've got any theme suggestions for the upcoming weeks or want to talk about your SotW sig, come one over to the GD Loft where you'll also find links to the latest signature weeks and all the latest happenings in GD.


GD Shiz

There's still effort on trying to bring back some energy to the Graphic Design board and start more activities to lift it up, so we've got some people starting to post their GD creations again for feedback at the general GD discussion thread:

[GD] http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/...mpetition.html

If you're messing around with Photoshop or GIMP, get in there and show us what you're up to. Somebody will have a comment on it.

Other stuff going on is our little inside-joke about softcore porn obsession and ZU Porn-- it's just arousal all over the place, sexy signatures and all.
To support our board and activities, Caleb came up with these spiffy banners:

Spoiler:  

Originally Posted by Caleb

I just whipped these up:

Feel free to pick up your favorite color and bother a Smod to apply it to your Custom Rank. It's for GD support, people!

The Art Scene

People were excited earlier this month when it was announced that the Art Contest's theme would be of Skyward Sword. There should be a number of entries in by now, but we're all looking forward to see the most awesome SS fan art yet and vote for our favorites:

[Artwork][Signup] http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/...r-contest.html

Deadline is December 27. Make something nice and show us what you've got! The voting thread will be posted shortly after the deadline, so make sure to stop by.

There's a also a lot of excitement for the Artist of the Moment at the Artwork board. Member R-w@n recently received the recognition for his cool 3D animations, pretty renderings of LoZ folks as well as his thrilling fan-made series, Past and Present:

[Artwork] Legend Of Zelda Past And Present 2 ( 3D animation)

The Artist of the Moment now is our very own Shadi who has shown us humorous and awesome Legend of Zelda and other fan art. Images like this one:

Spoiler:  

got her the spotlight at the main site recently. Cheers, Shadi, for your exciting work! The thread:

[Artist of the Moment] Shadi's Art

Happy Holidays

Last but not least, wishing you all a merry Christmas and happy new year. Let's all take it easy with our ZU activities and enjoy the holiday season, but let's also support our Creativity Corner section by checking out what's new, where to vote for your favorites, and leaving some feedback to our talented and creative ZU members.

All the Best!

IGNIS

On the OP of this thread, I have the list of the PM recipients. If anybody wants to receive the beauty letter, let me know so I can add you to the list. OR let me know if you want to be removed.

I submitted mine for the MSP-X-MAS one
it's soooo baddddd

Ahaha, I kind of like it, actually.

Well thanks ;D
(I still throw up thinking about it, though )

Don't take it so seriously, and I'm sure you'll feel a lot better about it. It's all fun.

no I mean like throwing up at how terribly I did working with MS paint
i've made such better stuff on there
although it was like spriting...
never made a sig before

okay, better now.

I'd like to receive the PM, IGNIS. No matter if I am participating or not.

Danke.

So if you don't have ms pain, you can't enter this weeks contest?

[/frowns]

Originally Posted by Bewbs-chan

So if you don't have ms pain, you can't enter this weeks contest?

[/frowns]

Macs don't have paint? Any dumb imaging app can do the trick. Make something, teh bewbz!

The only image thing that macs come standard with is preview :/

Originally Posted by Caleb

no I mean like throwing up at how terribly I did working with MS paint
i've made such better stuff on there
although it was like spriting...
never made a sig before.

I agree. I'm a little iffy about it.

Guys, guys: MSpaint is about humor. Of course any image out of there is likely to be of funny quality, but that's what it's about! No mad skillz required. Draw a stick reindeer (my idea!), the creeper with a Santa hat-- go nuts, literally. This is meant to be a fun theme.

@Bewbs: I think there's a few web-based imaging apps around? That kind of stuff will do.

Also, logging out now and might not be back till after Christmas. I wish you all happy holidays once again and hope you're enjoying the hell out of this season. Cheers!

One I found was iPaint. iPaint - An online painting program.
Click "try iPaint" about half way down.

I'll keep looking for more.

You could also try Pixlr, but that's more GIMPy.