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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

  1. 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.

  2. Name each skin tone.
    - Each skin complexion should have a name.
    - Be creative and fun BUT not offending.

  3. 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.

Stock Photography

Stock photography is not allowed in this challenge. All submitted elements must be designed solely by you. See this page for more details.

How To Submit

  • New to Studio? ‌Learn how to compete here
  • Upload your submission in three parts (Learn more here). Your design should be finalized and should contain only a single design concept (do not include multiple designs in a single submission).
  • If your submission wins, your source files must be correct and “Final Fixes” (if applicable) must be completed before payment can be released.
  • You may submit as many times as you'd like during the submission phase, but only the number of files listed above in the Submission Limit that you rank the highest will be considered. You can change the order of your submissions at any time during the submission phase. If you make revisions to your design, please delete submissions you are replacing.

Winner Selection

Submissions are viewable to the client as they are entered into the challenge. Winners are selected by the client and are chosen solely at the client's discretion.

ELIGIBLE EVENTS:

2012 TopCoder(R) Open

CHALLENGE LINKS:

Screening Scorecard

SUBMISSION FORMAT:

Your Design Files:

  1. Look for instructions in this challenge regarding what files to provide.
  2. Place your submission files into a "Submission.zip" file.
  3. Place all of your source files into a "Source.zip" file.
  4. Declare your fonts, stock photos, and icons in a "Declaration.txt" file.
  5. Create a JPG preview file.
  6. Place the 4 files you just created into a single zip file. This will be what you upload.

Trouble formatting your submission or want to learn more? ‌Read the FAQ.

Fonts, Stock Photos, and Icons:

All fonts, stock photos, and icons within your design must be declared when you submit. DO NOT include any 3rd party files in your submission or source files. Read about the policy.

Screening:

All submissions are screened for eligibility before the challenge holder picks winners. Don't let your hard work go to waste. Learn more about how to  pass screening.

CHALLENGE LINKS:

Questions? ‌Ask in the Challenge Discussion Forums.

SOURCE FILES:

  • AI files created in Adobe Illustrator or similar

You must include all source files with your submission.

SUBMISSION LIMIT:

Unlimited

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