The 4th Annual E3 Banner Contest Challenge

Alright, duders. E3 2012 is next week. I know! Crazy, right? Well, if you've been around Giant Bomb for a while, you know that the last couple years, the moderators have held a contest for users to create the banners that will be placed at the top of each press conference's discussion thread.

The Rules

• You each can submit up to THREE banners for EACH press conference. So, if you've got multiple genius ideas for Konami's insanity. Have at it!
• Although you can submit many banners, you can only win once. We gotta spread the love.
• All banners must be 600 x 100.
• No animated GIFs.
• General forum rules apply. (i.e. no nudity or otherwise NSFW stuff)
• Deadline (except for Konami) is Sunday night-ish.
• Moderators will devise some type of unscientific means of selecting the winners.

The Info

• Konami - Thursday, May 31 @ 10:30 PM PDT
• Microsoft - Monday, June 4 @ 9:30 AM PDT
• Electronic Arts - Monday, June 4 @ 1:00 PM PDT
• Ubisoft - Monday, June 4 @ 3:00 PM PDT
• Sony - Monday, June 4 @ 6:00 PM PDT
• Nintendo - Tuesday, June 5 @ 9:00 AM PDT

Now you know the rules and the basic info you should probably to include. So, get to photoshopping! Here's a template that CitizenKane made last year if you need a visual aid. And, if you need some inspiration, just check out some of the past winners below.

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/502/template.png

Past Winners

• by @buzz_clik

• by @eeegac

• by @Twilight

• by @face15

• by @cookiesforbreakfast

• by @buzz_clik

• by @bonorbitz

• by @skarinator

What's the deadline on this?

@Gunslinger0130: The Konami one needs to be done pretty quickly. Deadline the rest should be...let's say Sunday night. We'll need a little time to get input from the other moderators on who should win each one.

@Marino: I'll see if I can come up with a pretty painless way for the mods to toss their votes together.

Working on something right now.

@Marino: FYI, the link to "last year's thread" actually links to 2010's thread. Also, the template link seems to be dead.

Click for animated version (I know its against the rules but I couldn't resist).

Threw something together for Konami:

And here are mine for the big 5:

And my second design:

Side note: anyone else having issues embedding multiple "large" files at a time? It keeps stalling at the second image I try to post.

did some ubisoft ones.

@B0nd07: I like how the little cross section part in the EA banner has nothing in it. Good play, sir!

I was beginning to think this wan't going to happen. Glad I'm wrong,

I probably won't be able to do a Konami one as I'm gonna be pretty busy these next few days but when I get some time I'll get cracking on these.

@Willin: Only because I couldn't remember anything they were working on, lol.

@BeachThunder: Thanks, I completely forgot about Crysis 3.

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And here.. we.. go! 
  

@BeachThunder said:

@B0nd07: Crysis 3

Thought I'd knock something up for a couple of them as I had some time spare this afternoon, nothing earth-shattering, though.

Maybe I'll take another crack at it if I get more time later...

@MoleyUK: No Alex love?

@Winternet: Holy Cra...! What an omission.

Totally unintentional I swear.

Better get onto fixing that.

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

Saving a spot for my banners.

Great job so far, everyone.

@Marz: I love how you added Mr. Caffeine, good job.

Made some for fun, can't wait for E3!!

Not a real entry, but I I'll chuck it in anyway...

...and that's enough from me!

GLHB everyone.

@RobotHamster said:

Made some for fun, can't wait for E3!!

This actually is the most appropriate.

You guys have no idea how much I am dying for Ginant Bomb 2,011 to make a return in this thread.

Also, working on my stuff at the moment. Will probably be up tomorrow morning or some shit.

Here's my first set of attempts.

Will have another go later today or tomorrow.

@CapnMango: That is awesome! Welcome to the forums.

Cool, will get cracking.

Got 3 started before bed.Got them all up anyway, I'll continue working on them.

I think they are clean but bit too sterile, plus ShadowVirus is killing me above :)

Right Done, went with a colourised version.

@ShadowVirus said:

Here's my first set of attempts.

I'm thrilled to see the legacy I established last year of using EA's classic logo carries on this year. Doing me proud, Giant Bomb. :'D

@aurahack: It's a tradition :)

Quickly through together a Konami one, hope its not too late?

@ShadowVirus: I pretty much think you should win for using the OG EA logo. Well done!

I'll be updating my first post (first page) with any updates I make. Consider that post as my final entry when the deadline arrives.

Anywho, I've made a some changes to mine. Here's a sample:

I also toyed around with this design a bit, but couldn't make it work for me. However, looking at it now on the site, I might continue with it some more.

@ShadowVirus: Definitely not too late. I'll probably post the Konami thread around 11 PM tonight (since I may have to go to sleep before it starts). So, everyone's got another 8 hours or so to get in a Konami banner.

@dudeglove said:

What, no E3 mysteries?

I actually have ideas swirling in my mind for an "E3 mysteries" themed set of banners. I also imagine P.O.D.'s (terribad) "Sleeping Awake" as the official Giant Bomb E3 2012 theme song only because I imagine the group singing about the E3 mysteries and not the Matrix.

But maybe these are better kept as ideas.

@MoleyUK said:

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

I like this set.

@MoleyUK: Yours are definitely my favourites so far. Nice work!

@ShadowVirus said:

No Contest! That's frikkin' perfect! Great Stuff.

@Brendan , @zyn : Thanks, chaps.

All the entries are pretty strong so far. I'm sure they'll only get better too.

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.

We're getting close to having to shut off Konami submissions. Only have four so far. We've got European mods that have to go to bed soon.

@MoleyUK said:

This one is pretty swanky!

@B0nd07 said:

I prefer this design (out of the two) though the smoke effect in the middle looks a little weird...

EDIT: weird, it didn't post the other picture :\ anyway, I was referring to the second retooled design of your Nintendo banners.

A lot of good looking banners here, though I would like to see some more fun ones or related to E3 Mysteries... but I guess vidja gaems r srs bizniz... or something.

All of these banners are really sweet. It's a shame most of them can't win!

@MoleyUK said:

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

If it were up to me, You're Winner.

@aurahack: Duder, I love your banners! I love the fact that you use a different shape for the banners, maybe use bolder type for the dates they get a lil bit lost. I can't wait to see your second set.

@Coafi: Thanks! The font was a problem for me. :( Couldn't get it to work the way I wanted to. S'why I decided to make a second set.

Second set is here. I like these a lot better, although there's no space in them. :( I love space. Space is so cool, I want to put it in everything. Also, Konami one!

@aurahack: Those are pretty sharp. Nitpicking technicality: The time should be PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) instead of PST (Pacific Standard Time).

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

Oh wow, I had no idea that my Nintendo banner was used last year. That's awesome.

I'll make some up for this year later today.

Okay...

NO MORE KONAMI BANNERS!

I'm giving some other mods some time to vote. I'll be posting the thread in a few hours (well before the thing starts).

Thanks!