This is the best time of the year to be a mod, bar none. This banner contest is fantastic. Keep up the amazing work.

@rmanthorp: Thanks!

@aurahack said:

@alcor741: Those are some graphic-ass banners right there. Really nice looking, man! :D

ALSO HELL YEAH GIFS ALLOWED

NOW IS MY AGE OF RECKONING

(God it's like a Geocities page up in here now. I'm sorry, I'll make some non-GIF ones tomorrow but I really had to get this idea out of the way because it's too dumb I love it.)

Shut this thread down we got a winner!

I think it's time for a new category.

@face15 said:

Here's my first set. Just wanted to be clean and simple but had the idea to incorporate the bomb into it. I'll probably have another pass at these later and maybe tweak them a bit but for now I'm pretty happy.

I like a lot of the banners that have been submitted but I really like the simplicity of this, really appealing to my eyes. Very nice job.

You all are doing some really fucking terrific work. It makes our job so much more delightfully difficult.

@nightriff said:

@face15 said:

Here's my first set. Just wanted to be clean and simple but had the idea to incorporate the bomb into it. I'll probably have another pass at these later and maybe tweak them a bit but for now I'm pretty happy.

I like a lot of the banners that have been submitted but I really like the simplicity of this, really appealing to my eyes. Very nice job.

Yeah I could easily see these being the winners. They do look very nice

@face15: Digging this. It's clean and simple while still getting the point across.

@bigjeffrey: That Halo one is hilarious.

@aurahack:

@aurahack: really nice work :)

but small typo in the Ubi one (Briefing)

@face15: Those are brilliant. Kudos!

Hell, all the banners here are brilliant. Aurahack's VHS ones are killing me: love that the Playstation one is just Tekken and Tony Hawk.

@ritzkriegrap: Seconded, especially for Aurahack's animated banners.

Fantastic work, duders.

@aurahack: You so sexy.

@aurahack's and @face15's banners are the best so far, I think.

@wikitoups: This is the best.

Can you smell what Reggie's cookin'?

Do you think more people would see this thread if it wasn't pinned?

honestly who looks at the pinned stuff?

@aurahack: That video glitch thing is soooooo last year! :P

(not really, it's awsome!)

@aurahack:

Holy shit those are amazing

@rmanthorp: I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT BUT THIS IS THE ONLY PAUL RUDD GIF THAT MATTERS

@aurahack said:

@alcor741: Those are some graphic-ass banners right there. Really nice looking, man! :D

ALSO HELL YEAH GIFS ALLOWED

NOW IS MY AGE OF RECKONING

(God it's like a Geocities page up in here now. I'm sorry, I'll make some non-GIF ones tomorrow but I really had to get this idea out of the way because it's too dumb I love it.)

These are too good. They cant win it makes too much sense.

The giant bomb E3 banner thread is pretty much the only time I use photoshop each year. I really enjoy doing it and I always learn something new. This year .gifs! I've never made one before but that didn't stop me. Just spent a couple hours fiddling around with the banners I made the other day and figured out how to animate stuff in photoshop. Yay for learning new stuff!

@face15 said:

The giant bomb E3 banner thread is pretty much the only time I use photoshop each year. I really enjoy doing it and I always learn something new. This year .gifs! I've never made one before but that didn't stop me. Just spent a couple hours fiddling around with the banners I made the other day and figured out how to animate stuff in photoshop. Yay for learning new stuff!

fucking winner right here

@wikitoups said:

@aurahack said:

@alcor741: Those are some graphic-ass banners right there. Really nice looking, man! :D

ALSO HELL YEAH GIFS ALLOWED

NOW IS MY AGE OF RECKONING

(God it's like a Geocities page up in here now. I'm sorry, I'll make some non-GIF ones tomorrow but I really had to get this idea out of the way because it's too dumb I love it.)

Shut this thread down we got a winner!

This has to be it, right? I mean I love what I'm seeing here.

If aurahack's or face15's submissions don't win I'm gonna be a sad panda

@face15 said:

Fuck. That's rad.

face15's banners look amazing, especially the animated nintendo one. My opinion counts for nothing of course.

@face15 said:

The giant bomb E3 banner thread is pretty much the only time I use photoshop each year. I really enjoy doing it and I always learn something new. This year .gifs! I've never made one before but that didn't stop me. Just spent a couple hours fiddling around with the banners I made the other day and figured out how to animate stuff in photoshop. Yay for learning new stuff!

God damn that's good.

This thread is off to a good start but we still need more reggie.

@aurahack said:

@face15 said:

The giant bomb E3 banner thread is pretty much the only time I use photoshop each year. I really enjoy doing it and I always learn something new. This year .gifs! I've never made one before but that didn't stop me. Just spent a couple hours fiddling around with the banners I made the other day and figured out how to animate stuff in photoshop. Yay for learning new stuff!

God damn that's good.

Seriously, that's amazing. I could easily see these winning. Great job duder!

@face15 said:

The giant bomb E3 banner thread is pretty much the only time I use photoshop each year. I really enjoy doing it and I always learn something new. This year .gifs! I've never made one before but that didn't stop me. Just spent a couple hours fiddling around with the banners I made the other day and figured out how to animate stuff in photoshop. Yay for learning new stuff!

Damn, that is fucking quality! Good work duder!

@face15 said:

The giant bomb E3 banner thread is pretty much the only time I use photoshop each year. I really enjoy doing it and I always learn something new. This year .gifs! I've never made one before but that didn't stop me. Just spent a couple hours fiddling around with the banners I made the other day and figured out how to animate stuff in photoshop. Yay for learning new stuff!

The animated reveal here took this from being a slickly designed, yet altogether too-simple design and made it nearly perfect. It would be really cool to reverse the reveal direction, and have it actually trigger from the bomb in the center!

@face15: God damn.

Will you do the rest of the companies? Pretty, pretty please?

@aurahack: Dude,

You win

@face15: Those are amazing. If they all did what the Nintendo one did they'd be perfect. Great job duder.

@face15 said:

The giant bomb E3 banner thread is pretty much the only time I use photoshop each year. I really enjoy doing it and I always learn something new. This year .gifs! I've never made one before but that didn't stop me. Just spent a couple hours fiddling around with the banners I made the other day and figured out how to animate stuff in photoshop. Yay for learning new stuff!

You just had to go and nail it didn't you. Couldn't let us crappy design folks be crappy...

Awesome work though duder, seriously. :)

@aurahack: These are seriously awesome, what's your secret to that sweet VHS tracking distortion effect there?

@toots: About an hour's worth of looking up tutorials/help pages, realising they're all kinda bad, and messing around in After Effects for a while until I got something I liked. Channel blurs, noise, frame displacements, etc.

There are some absolutely terrific ones on here. I wanted to see if I could make something simple so I made these:

No way they are gonna win, but it's good design practice. Great work everyone!

@aurahack: Rad, thanks very much for the reply.

@lava: I like the simplicity of them, though they bear a striking conceptual resemblance to face15's banners. ;A;

Hot tip: try fixing the composition, (text on left, logo on right, for example) or knocking out the logos some more to make the text stand out some. Even with the drop shadow, they blend in together a lot and the text is hard to read as a result.

@themanwithnoplan said:

@aurahack said:

@face15 said:

The giant bomb E3 banner thread is pretty much the only time I use photoshop each year. I really enjoy doing it and I always learn something new. This year .gifs! I've never made one before but that didn't stop me. Just spent a couple hours fiddling around with the banners I made the other day and figured out how to animate stuff in photoshop. Yay for learning new stuff!

God damn that's good.

Seriously, that's amazing. I could easily see these winning. Great job duder!

That is awesome.

Lol... WE YOU. plus i vote as of now for @face15 new updated banners, slick an smart.

Keep 'em coming, folks! Entertain us. Wow us. Make us laugh. Make us poop ourselves in fear. Do art!

Thanks everyone for your kind words. Glad you like them.

@trueheresy: Dude, what are you talking about? Your Nintendo banner is rad. Anything with reggie in it is a winner in my book.

@bushpusherr: It actually was my plan originally to reveal from the middle out but I'm too stupid and I couldn't figure out how to to that. Going in from the outside turned out to be a lot easier so I just went with that.

@fattony12000: I didn't really plan ahead with how I made my photoshop file in a way that makes it easy to just replicate the same thing so it will take a while to do the other companies. I'll likely be pretty bored on Saturday morning so I might try and do it then or I might try come up with something totally different.

What freeware can I use to make GIFs or even do photoshop type things besides the Gimp, always hated that confusing piece...

You can use stuff

These are some superb entries so far. Remember folks, we're only giving out one award (of five) per user, so even if face15 and aurahack have you discouraged go ahead and make something anyway.

Don't worry about all this anti-gif talk either. Most of the mods aren't that persnickety. Well, as far as banners are concerned at least.