Challenge Summary
Welcome back to the NNS (NoNameSite.com) Avatar Tournament!
The goal of this tournament is to build the coolest avatars that will be used in NoNameSite.com's middle school and high school students members profile.
We want this avatars to scream cool that most popular kids in every school in America wanting to make an avatar!
NNS is a product of DARPA CS-STEM project, an internet platform for helping middle school and high school students (13-18 year old demographic) develop an interest in the S.T.E.M. fields. The platform features contests, activities, prizes and web-based entertainment shows designed to get students engaged.
For this contest, we are looking for the different skin tones for our existing Avatar Designs.
To know more about the project, please visit the following sites:
NoNameSite.com | DARPA CS-STEM
We will be giving T-Shirt as a bonus prize for TC Studio members who submit and passed screening.
Primary Goal & Design Considerations
We already have an initial avatar design, now we want to apply different skin tones or complexions to our avatars. For this contest, you are going to apply different skin tones/complexions to the provided avatar designs with the features outlined below.
Requirements
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Create a skin tone matrix that will serve as a guideline in changing the skin complexions of our existing avatar designs.
- Your skin tones should mimic real world skin complexions and mix it with some crazy colors that you think will be creative.
- Skin tones need to have a wide variety of choices or an almost complete range of skin complexions would be great.
- The goal here is to let the user choose the skin tone they want and apply that skin tone to the avatar design they initially choose. -
Name each skin tone.
- Each skin complexion should have a name.
- Be creative and fun BUT not offending. -
Apply your skin tone to the provided avatars
- Each skin tone should be applied to all the provided avatars
- Example, if you have 10 skin tones, each avatar should have 10 skin tones applied.
- The provided avatars are saved individually, your submission should show all the skin tones applied to each avatar displaying them in vertical order.
Branding Guidelines
- fit yourself in the shoes of a high school student, then think of the coolest avatar you want to have that screams loud and cool!
- each skin tone color box should at least have a size of 64 pixel width by 32 pixel height.
Target Audience
- middle school and high school students (13-18 year old demographic)
- there will be two student groups who will actually judge the submissions
Judging Criteria
- Creativity in using traditional skin tone mixed with crazy colors
- Creativity in naming the skin tones
- Cleanliness and Graphics Appeals
Submission & Source Files
Preview Image
Create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it.
Submission File
Please upload PNG/JPEG images in a zip file with all requested contest requirements stated above.
Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator (or equivalent) and saved as layered PSD/AI files.
Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics, images (sizes or colors) or modify overall colors.
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.