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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Gloriano on July 23, 2003, 06:04:44 am
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28.8-20.9 i will offer Contest about making CD covers to any one who wants try to make one
and there will be no awards only prize is see you own making CD-cover in shops
this is unoffciall contest
only who knows about this is me and our Artist
By Sony Staff JP
no need to post here
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come again?
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He wants people to make CD cover-art for Japanese CD's.
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for free (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/images/smilies/lol.gif)
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why i even bother to post here ´this like things
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[color=66ff00]H.I.G. this is the kind of thing that artists get paid an awful lot of cash for, I think these guys are aghast at the fact that you're asking them to do it for nothing more than self gratification.
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Just to clarify, I have no opinion.
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thanks for that Maeg could somebody close this thread
and for last note this idea was for new artist 16 year old girl:)
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is she cute?
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http://www.tamakinami.com/
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Ah cool..she does a few pieces for Gundam SEED?
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All amateur artists laughing at the offer should note that having a published CD cover in your portfolio is a lot better than having only renders posted at some obscure forum.
;)
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yeah you are right
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uhm for free? :p:lol:
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Originally posted by Ashrak
uhm for free? :p:lol:
of course no free CD but real market CD
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I think he meant why don't WE get paid for doing cover art.:)
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Are you an accomplished artist? Do you have a great portfolio? Yes? Good. No? This is a good way of having a real, published work on your portfolio. He gets something for free? Sure, but so does you - publicity and professional recognition.
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styxx said it well publicity and professional recognition.
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Which doesn't count for much small-time. I've done pro photography work for a racing company for free- do I get any recognition for it? No, because it was a smallish company, and I'm not planning on mapping out racetracks for the rest of my life. Never mind it was good work, such that can be applied to many jobs- nobody you give a resume to is gonna care much about that, there are only about 10,000 other people applying for the job who have roughly similar "sorta applicable" skills. Even more if you're talking CG and ****- this ain't rocket science, most of the time, and any little punk with upper-middle-class parents can afford tools that make up for most of the skill gap.
Unless anyone here plans on opening up an extensive CD-label business, this "professional recognition" won't get 'em much of anywhere. Saying you did a CD cover for an amateur singer in Japan and hence are qualified to get a job is just... weak.
You'll have to do better than that, man. I can think of much more directly applicable niche jobs I could have filled on Utopia, inc., which actually would be something sensible to put on paper (actually, much more than it's practical in real life, which is the point of the project), but I'm not arrogant enough to expect that anyone'd work for me for free, much less fight over the opportunity to do so. ****, anyone who wants to work up some professional cred can just go onto one of the dev boards with a decent portfolio and get a job- one that actually pays (albeit with **** salaries) and entitles you to classify yourself as a game developer, etc. and name complete, expansive products thousands or tens of thousands of people will see.
Fact, the only reason nobody does is that most people around here are bone idle. Hell, look at the campaigns- we feel like "working" on this **** maybe once a month.
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why contest must be for money
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... I miss good old English.
Anyway, you haven't even specified what kinda CD cover you want. "Just some kind of image" isn't exactly specific.
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Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
do you know why i butted this here because i like you guys if i but
this public contest we could get too many entry per day and because this is first time offer from Sony to get yout name to credits and no money because we not want that
:wtf:
We find if favor of...BIG AMERICAN PARTY! Everybody disco dancing! Lots of fun! Good time for all! I am having really good time! Robot dancing! Oh-no! Police! quickly! Who is driving? Bear is driving?! How can that be?!
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I can't tell, is hig irrated or dissapointed?
I mean, hell, if you really want something, I could go draw a picture of some pokemon and angry men with cell phones....
Just to let you know though, I don't do Chairs. OR Horse 'parts'. But mostly I don't do chairs.
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you find all the specs when we start
and i am not dissapointed i did know that this would happen
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
I can't tell, is hig irrated or dissapointed?
I mean, hell, if you really want something, I could go draw a picture of some pokemon and angry men with cell phones....
Just to let you know though, I don't do Chairs. OR Horse 'parts'. But mostly I don't do chairs.
You're sad.
really.
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this is gonna sound amazingly stupid....but......imagine if you designed a cover and it got published and then it turns out that the CD is total bs and it kills your rep lol i wouldnt put that in my portfolio hehe
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I did the cover art for Britney's first album. They said it helped raise her market profile.
*Interview panel gets up and beats you senseless*
:lol:
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It's sad when a guy has to provide his own laugh track.
It's even sadder when I have to do this sort of sniping for everybody, because nobody else is doing it.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE???
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
It's even sadder when I have to do this sort of sniping for everybody, because nobody else is doing it.
I'd help, but you've done a pretty good job by yourself.:D I agree with what you're saying to the letter.
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Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
28.8-20.9 i will offer Contest about making CD covers to any one who wants try to make one
and there will be no awards only prize is see you own making CD-cover in shops
this is unoffciall contest
only who knows about this is me and our Artist
By Sony Staff JP
no need to post here
Well I might as well have some fun.
Alright here's my questions:
Required image size and color depth.
(Pixel size x Pixel size, color depth in bpp)
Required symbols/text.
Title of the album, is this done at Sony and we simply need to provide the artwork?
Album theme.
Is there an overall theme to the CD that the cover art should reflect?
If I know those two things, I'll take a shot at this on monday :)
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Required image size and color depth.
idea was that peoples make 640x480 picture so we can edit it and use it for Marketing and make good as you can
Required symbols/text.
Made by Sony
Album theme.
you can choose if you want but if i rememper from early concept
theme Theme was mountains
if you ask why 640x480 we do that all ways
and send it here [email protected] or my icq i can`t give Sony`s E-mail right now there is lot of proplems in there and our webmaster is so lazy and i am vacation
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http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/image.php?server=dynamic&url=art/big/gallery22/tgen-visage.jpg
Made by Killmenow
if you could do something like this it would be cool or better
and if you could add some future feeling in that was our artist idea btw and if you got better idea than this it`s all right we love new ideas.
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Thats like... easy to do :D
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Just your standard Terragen, correct?
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Basically, yes. All you need to do is generate terrain, make a few surface layers (snow, grass, rock and sand) and render :p
Now, that could be seriously improved if you'd actually took some time using Terragen, but I'm not gonna write up an entire tutorial here :rolleyes:
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(http://www.savant-online.net/graphics/cd_covs.jpg)
That's a sample pic of the cover I've done up. (It's 2am Monday here, so I kept my word ;) )
I've sent the link where I've uploaded a non-compressed bitmap of it to Holy Imperial Gloriano.
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Poor guy got the *snippy-snip*:devil:
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Poor guy got the *snippy-snip*:devil:
Hey I wanted to keep it rated G, for all I know they're as anti-nudity in Japan as in the US.
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japan is probably the least anti-nudity nation on the planet.
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Originally posted by Carl
japan is probably the least anti-nudity nation on the planet.
Hmm... nah... probably on par with The Netherlands :D
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Oy, now a bukkake-shot cover submission's inevitable, ain't it?
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so, what is the music like, I might do something if I feel like it, but I mean is this sort of hard rock, techno, or is it (as I am assuming) your standard japaniese soft rock cute cat eared anime poke'mon ^_^ thing.
what is the name of the album?
what is the general feel of the whole thing suposed to be?
not only do you not give us anything for our efforts you don't give us an idea of what you want or what it's suposed to be for,
would a danceing happy flower be good or would a decomposeing skull with someone ****ing the empy eye soket be more apropriate?
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Ten to one they just stole some old Led Zeppelin songs and had her shriek along to the lyrics.:D
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name of album
i can`t give album name yet
What type music
we are using 2 type music for this we start record them when i go back work but we use techno and rock type music
General feel
make people happy
;)
danching flower would fit better than skull
not only do you not give us anything for our efforts you don't give us an idea of what you want or what it's suposed to be for,
but thing was that what our artist all ways say when cd cover is ready it`s easy build album around cd cover theme yeah i know it sounds odd
and as i said this is our first this kind contest so it`s not easy to us too
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ok we put this hold until i get latest report and and some data 7-8days it`s because ace`s cover looks good and i got contact few peoples in staff:)
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Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
thanks for that Maeg could somebody close this thread
and for last note this idea was for new artist 16 year old girl:)
You mean 14? Her profile states she's in her third year of middle school (9th grade in the US system). She's not exactly a new amateur, nobody kid either.
On www.oricon.co.jp there's a daily singles ranking, her recent single "Realize" happens to be 12th. I have a very hard time believing Sony would leave a CD album's cover image of a rather popular singer to some unknown, smallish web community in the middle of internet-nowhere (don't take that as a diss HLPers :p). Please excuse my skeptism, but is this authentic?
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yeah i forgot that she is 14
and this is just test what amateur artists can do and this was unofficial art contest that was in our head few years begin in our artist head and sony is customer frendly so we got this idea
why i started it here i seen lot good art stuff here so i got idea to post this here to test
and she is not amateur
and note if we don`t get more contest entrys we got cd-cover art ready for her album
and our artist wanted look some amateur made cd-covers if they
would fit and of course they will be edited
and this was our artists idea to post here when i was here one time with our artist he wanted look to art gallerys he liked those arts
i wanted to post to somewhere else this but our artist wanted to post here in end he did win
okay i am not boss in sony yet but my boss trust all things i do
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Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
Required symbols/text.
Made by Sony
That right there would worry me. Doing free art work for the sole purpose of getting something published is one thing. Giving the credits to the company is another.
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there is cd cover desinger name in cd somewhere
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okay we run some proplems our artist has left to vacation to Usa
for 3 weeks
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this contest is online again we fixed something anyone who want make his contest entrys come here as for spammers stay away from this thread
oh and we are still open to new ideas for cover
and last note if we not get more contest entrys i must kill this contest in 15 days