The 7th Annual E3 Banner Contest

@mushroomer said:

@citizencoffeecake said:

Going for a shitty farmville free to play banner ad look.

It's missing the supermodel with excessive cleavage.

Now to delete my browser history before my wife asks why I was Googling "Sexy Samus".

EA as the Borg probably isn't the most original thing out there, but I'm watching Trek right now so it felt right. Making the CEO into Locutus was a blast. Also, maybe a CBS property will get me some brownie points.

Heres a set of real terrible ones I made in an hour on my iPad.

I did my best to capture the essence of each company. Sorta.

Made a couple more

@aurahack: thanks. The Ubisoft one is from Far Cry 4, admittedly not the most iconic picture from that game but I thought it looked good.

@shadowvirus said:

Here's my first attempt at a Sony banner, will give the other conferences a go later.

That is freaking amazing.

Is anyone having like half of the banners failing to load, no matter how many times they refresh?

@eazeapeazea: Yep, happening for me on both chrome and safari

@brasshi: Good to know, thanks.

@mushroomer said:

@citizencoffeecake said:

Going for a shitty farmville free to play banner ad look.

It's missing the supermodel with excessive cleavage.

Just cut to the chase and give Mario excessive cleavage.

Here is my idea for the ubisoft press conference banner.
It's not very clear, because I got my inspiration from the diversity of ubisoft's games (White on white)

Variations on a Bethesda banner. Pretty sure the difference between the two is obvious.

The pain in the butt with this one was that I actually had to redraw all the test pattern stuff myself in Illustrator. Ugh.

@jumbs said:

Here is my idea for the ubisoft press conference banner.

It's not very clear, because I got my inspiration from the diversity of ubisoft's games (White on white)

Ha.

@natto said:

I laffed.

@dudeglove said:

@brasshi said:

This is really the worst, most contrived pun I've ever made. Even worse than the stupid microsoft one.

I AM NOT AGAINST THIS AT ALL

Ohhhhh, I get it now.

@jman240:

@jman240 said:

I really want this to be the Square Enix one, like with every fiber of my being.

@whitegreyblack said:

Amazing. This.

@feckhead said:

Thought I'd give it a go again this year. (Edited due to spelling error).

That's actually really nice, but the typography needs a little bit of work.

This banner has absolutely noting to do with games, I just thought it would look cool. Also I figured out how to do gifs.

A few more entries

I've got to to say that I'm loving this contest, its really pushing me to find new and interesting ways to do stuff and I'm learning a great deal from it. Everyone else's entries are really awesome and push me to improve my own.

I'd like to draw attention to the fact that the AMD PC show is powered by PC Gamer. Who used to be editor-in-chief of PC gamer? Oh that's right, it's Gary Whitta, friend of the site and big time movie writer man.

Bonus points for whitta-themed PC banners!

@avantegardener:

@avantegardener said:

@feckhead said:

Thought I'd give it a go again this year. (Edited due to spelling error).

That's actually really nice, but the typography needs a little bit of work.

Thanks. Was quite happy with how the 3D stuff turned out. Couldn't get the text the way I liked it though. Still playing around with compositing in Blender so I'll try get it fixed.

@natto said:

Made a couple more

This is just...wow...and with the perfect tagline, too!

There's a second SQEX banner I'd like to try.

I just need to figure out how to make high quality GIFs out of video.

@hashy said:

Had some fun playing with this effect

This has my vote for PC category!

That guy, endlessly doing a one inch headbutt next to Jon Snow. Things like this are why the humble .GIF format was created.

@gerriam said:

@natto said:

Made a couple more

This is just...wow...and with the perfect tagline, too!

Yeah this is stellar. Am I racist?

Oh yeah, right.
I guess what would solve that would be having multiple sources for the same video tag, and make the video tag itself resolve what video format it can play.

Too much for something like this, I'd assume. :P

@shadowvirus said:

This banner has absolutely noting to do with games, I just thought it would look cool. Also I figured out how to do gifs.

It looks super cool!

@humanity said:

@hashy said:

Had some fun playing with this effect

This has my vote for PC category!

Also gets my vote!

@citizencoffeecake: Amateur hour over here. That's what incognito windows are for. ;)

@eazeapeazea: Yeah getting that in Chrome.

Somebody should incorporate this.

Fallout 4 GIF

I'm not that good at photoshop but here's my contributions.

So here are my... "minimalist" entries? I guess? Look I'm not very good at this. I still can't believe one of my designs was chosen last year. But hey, here goes nothing.

Also, I did not make a PC banner because who cares (also, @hashy nailed it).

@marino: YES YES YES

@brasshi:I know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

@vincentvendetta: I still love the fact that you acknowledge this is the 21st E3, the same way you did last year.

@vincentvendetta:I think this stuff looks super nice man. You picked some solid background images too.

@gnomeonfire said:

Presented by amiibo

This one made me laugh.

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Figured out how to render video as a gif, so here's my second entry for the Square Enix Banner.

Based on feedback, I've changed the font, added in some post processing and an extra tie-fighter. Mods can take this as my entry.

@natto said:

I don't care what else happens, this needs to win.

Here's my Playstation banner!

Ubisoft winner is this one, but it might be too un-PC for Giant Bomb.

@shtinky said:

Ubisoft winner is this one, but it might be too un-PC for Giant Bomb.

Not too PC, but probably too meme-y.

Adding more effects and more things on screen. Lucas himself would be proud!

Jokes aside, good work duder!

I went for the most obvious, easy thing that I haven't seen in this thread yet, I actually have no idea if Valve is involved in this event or not.

@citizenkane: Amen.