The 4th Annual E3 Banner Contest Challenge

@Marino: Fixed! At least, for the second set. The PSDs for my first set are such a mess, I fear going back in there.

@A_Cute_Squirtle: Thanks! :D

@aurahack said:

@Marino: Fixed! At least, for the second set. The PSDs for my first set are such a mess, I fear going back in there.

@A_Cute_Squirtle: Thanks! :D

Should have represented the beast coast.

@Hockeymask27: I almost did, but decided not to confuse those of an inferior time zone than ours.

Bunch of great stuff so far! We're definitely giving the mods a tough decision again this year.

Anyway, I went and made a full set of that second design. I'm probably done now unless I think of something completely different or flesh out that E3 Mysteries idea I had.

Man.. Already so many good ones! I might give this a go if I can find time between revisions.

Great work so far from everybody but I'm especially loving the use of the old-school EA logo.

@B0nd07: You get my vote simply for using the old EA logo

Edit: Upon further review, apparently a lot of people did that. Kudos to all of you then!

@aurahack said:

@Hockeymask27: I almost did, but decided not to confuse those of an inferior time zone than ours.

ya be cause staying up tell 1:30 am to watch konami is the best thing in the world.

@Hockeymask27: If it's like last year, it's not live, so I'd rather just watch that in the morning anyway. :T

@ShadowVirus: You gotta give me some tips on how to make things all shiny and pretty! Great stuff!

How are you guys saving your files? The one I did keeps looking all pixelated, I've tried everything.

@Coafi: Try saving as a .PNG?

@zyn said:

@MoleyUK said:

OK. Apologies for leaving Alex out of the last one...

I like this set.

same

There's a real lack of Brazzers logos on these banners...

@aurahack: Those look fantastic, you've got my vote.

@Coafi: PNG that shit up! It is possible you are saving as a JPEG with horrible compression. If saving as a PNG does not work, then something with your image is wrong. At that point, you can try copying the merged layers (Ctrl + Shift + C in Photoshop) and pasting that into a new document.

@Marino said:

@Coafi: Try saving as a .PNG?

Marino, you the man! Thanks duder! I also finished a quest thanks to you.

@aurahack Thanks, that was the problem I was saving it as JPEG, it looked ok in my end, but when I uploaded it to GB it looked pixelated.

@CapnMango said:

Well that took longer than I expected. It was fun though!

I overlooked this one before. It makes me happy.

@Coafi: Yeah, GB's image uploader compresses JPEGs pretty heavily. Always default to PNG, especially since it saves transparency!

Just put these together. They're a little silly but they came out better than I was expecting.

@Sparklykiss said:

@CapnMango said:

Well that took longer than I expected. It was fun though!

I overlooked this one before. It makes me happy.

My vote's or this one. Reminds me of the nightclub mission in Max Payne, and god damn I love that controller.

Old white guys! It's an E3 mystery.

@TheHT: Crusty old white men solving E3 mysteries together... I like where this is headed.

I put together a team of our best investigators to crack down those E3 Mysteries.

Lot of awesome entries coming in now, I especially like @aurahack,@face15 and @Coafi .

@TheHT I love the GB E3 mini logo you created, but if I had one small suggestion it would be that if you made the part of the image underneath the magnifying glass and bit bigger or the stuff not underneath it a bit smaller so it looks like its magnifying part of the logo. Apart from that love the banners.

And also thanks mods for choosing my Konami banner :)

@TheHT said:

Old white guys! It's an E3 mystery.

My favourites thus far. Nice job :D

@aurahack said:

Done with mine, though I think I'll work on a second set. Another design or something, because I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with how these look.

These are fantastic!

@aurahack@DrColeslaw: I agree. Those are the best.

@Roger_Klotz: @DrColeslaw: Thank you! :'D

@aurahack said:

Done with mine, though I think I'll work on a second set. Another design or something, because I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with how these look.

My vote is for these.

@CapnMango said:

Well that took longer than I expected. It was fun though!

And I also really like this one.

I can't stress how ungodly difficult you're going to make the voting process for us, what with all the quality in this thread.

It's a lovely problem to have, really.

man these are so fucking AWESOME good job guys/girls wish I could submit one but sadly I don't have the talent .

@ShadowVirus: Well fuck, I was going to try and gin up somethin but those are much too awesome for me to compete with, awesome as my skills are. Damn you!

@aurahack: Really like the look of these, but I feel like the space border around the main picture is a bit too dominating. I'd like to see what they'd look like reworked with a thinner border.

@TheHT said:

Old white guys! It's an E3 mystery.

Not sure why Ballmer's there, since I don't recall ever seeing him at E3. Wouldn't Kudo Tsunoda be more appropriate?

I don't have too much experience with photoshop, so I kinda used this as a learning experience. Hope they turned out well.

@Weird_Fish said:

I don't have too much experience with photoshop, so I kinda used this as a learning experience. Hope they turned out well.

These two banners really capture the best and worst of a Microsoft press conference.

@ShadowVirus: I tried doing that, but it ended up looking too weird. I'll fiddle around with it and maybe submit a second set with it magnified.

@Siphillis: Those dudes are the CEOs of their respective companies (or division). Regardless, Don Mattrick might be more appropriate... hmm.

@TheHT: Mattrick has been the primary host the last two years. "Whisper quiet"

@CapnMango said:

Cool stuff all around!

@RedRoach said:

@Sparklykiss said:

@CapnMango said:

Well that took longer than I expected. It was fun though!

I overlooked this one before. It makes me happy.

My vote's or this one. Reminds me of the nightclub mission in Max Payne, and god damn I love that controller.

Thanks for the kind words, folks.

This is great, you should make a set of them. If no then mix this one with these:

@ManU_Fan10ne said:

@zyn said:

@MoleyUK said:

OK. Apologies for leaving Alex out of the last one...

I like this set.

same

I like these as well.

@TheHT: OK, well at least you tried doing it then, your banners still look great.

@aurahack said:

Done with mine, though I think I'll work on a second set. Another design or something, because I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with how these look.

My vote is for these.

Threw a quick one together with polygon man, because, "hey- remember that guy!"

@TheHT said:

Old white guys! It's an E3 mystery.

They all looked pissed. Now I just want a press conference host cage match. Ubi guy looks like he would fuck shit up.

I made these

More polygon man. Don't say he's making a comeback because he never left!

@EverydayOdyssey said:

More polygon man. Don't say he's making a comeback because he never left!

Classic! The only way to make this better is if it had URNOTe worked in there somehow.

@Wakka said:

This is scary good.

@CapnMango said:

This inspires good feelings in me.

@Marino said:

@Wakka said:

As does this.