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 avatar background 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.
THERE WILL BE UNLIMITED NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS AND WE WILL PURCHASE ALL AVATAR BACKGROUND DESIGNS THAT WE LIKE. First place is $400, 2nd place and any other submissions we want will be $100 prize.
Primary Goal & Design Considerations
We already have an initial avatar design, skin tones, facial expressions, hair styles, top shirts, and acessories, and now we want to apply different background design to our avatars. For this contest, create different background design and apply it to the provided avatar designs with the features outlined below.
You can create unlimited design and submit unlimited submissions for this contest and we will purchase all designs that we like.
Requirements
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Create different background style
- you can design normal or traditional design or come up with crazy or out of this world background design
- your design can be creative and FUN as much as you like
- we are also interested in seeing NEW or out of this world designs.
- think of different places, or concert scene, or maybe with a known celebrities in the background, think something fun. -
Create 6 different background designs
- choose from the available avatar to design
- ideally 3 style for boys and 3 for girls -
Apply your style design to the provided avatar
- if your background is specific for male, you need to apply them to any applicable boy avatars
- if your background is specific for female, you need to apply them to any applicable girl avatars
- if your background is not geneder specific, you can apply it to any avatar you like.
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!
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 and Fun
- 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.