I asked Hunter if I could make a new banner, he said go ahead. But I feel that i'm putting too much Nintendo Cahrecters and I don't want the banner to be baised so i'm asking everybpdy if there is a certain game charecter they want in the banner.

This one is V1 MK2 Beta3 <-- This is my preferred one




This is V1 MK2 Beta1





This was the first template, but I found it a few days later in a different folder thinking I lost it, it happened to be with the resources, how ironic.




This one is V1 MK2 Colour1, This one is a Beta with colour.



Feedback would be greatly appreciated :lol:

I like them, all of them, especially the color background. The only thing is Barney looks really bizzare and out of place with that Pepsi and you have Link twice, I don't really like that, especially when they are right next to each other. Fox on the side of the first one is very nice! Maybe add in a grunt from Halo or something, it also needs Samus! Maybe add in the Doom 3 marine, that'd be nice, and that is my opinion! Great job!

K, because Link is actually left handed (suprise suprise), I decided not to go with Link on the right side, and also becasue it makes his sword tilt downwards.

I have Samus ready to put in, got the JPG yesterdat but it was 1:22 in the morning so...

I'm also thinking of adding in Dante from Devil May Cry 3, and also do you think the pics are too big? Should they be smaller or stay the same? because in the latest one I scaled down Barney to make way for Link.

And also in the end I want an equal balence of bg brushes and charecters.

And what is your opinion of the glow difference in the first and second? In the first I toned it down, i'm thinking of making it like the second one in terms of character glow.

Edit: Also i'm trying to be as original as possible in the pictures I choose so i'm trying not to use very common ones that people will easily recognize.

Yeah, the glow on the first one is better because it is more subtle and richer in color. I like the color in the retro Link in the second one, it is much deeper and looks better. I still say throw in a grunt and maybe somthing from any of the Doom games and it will balance it out a little more. Link on the left, he must stay there obviously, do you need to make room for "VG Tunes, Always Real, Any Game, Any System?" Because if so, I'd take the character size down a little bit. Dante would be good for the Sony balance. One last suggestion, maybe add some charcter(s) from a multiplatform game.

OOH!! add sam fisher! from splinter cell!

K, I was going to add Dante, exept at the time the pic I got took too long to choose and everything, it's very hard to find a gopod pic of him. I spent most of yesterday looking for a good grunt. Why wont people host good pictures of them?

Edit: I'm also saving the text till I finish the pics, then the coloured background in the end.

I'm getting worried about the size of this banner in relation to the size of the current one. Because i'm also going to make one for the vgtunes main page, I need different charecters :?

So i'm going to find different stuff and stuff :D

But of course.

(I play PC, Gamecube and Xbox so you won't find any Sony characters in here because I don't know any!)
Here are some suggestions,

A scientist, Barney (Half-life 1)
Headcrab zombie (Half-life 1, or 2)
A Tedi (Conker's Bad Fur Day or Conker: Live and Reloaded)
Any soldier from a Battlefield game (Battlefield series)
Ganondorf (Zelda)
Bowser (Mario)
Doom guy (Doom series)
A generic army person (Halo, Halo 2)
A brute (Halo 2)
Toad (Mario)
Viewtiful Joe (Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2)

And that is all for now.

Thanks and also, I'm going to use that barney in the website banner, becasue i'm also making one for that but haven't started.

I tried to sticki as close as possible to the original size of the forum banner so if needed I can start a new one to make it bigger or smaller.

Are there any spcial requests for each banner? Or must I try to figure out which is which >.<

In the latest one I darkened Samus because she was very light, too light.

Update, this is Beta4 :D.

Right now, along with deciding the other people to include, i'm taking out ones that would fit better into the website banner, i.e. the Barney pic would be better suited for the website banner right?

I'm still kind of lost on what people go with which banner but I have a good enoguh Idea, i'm doing the best I can though :D

right, now i'm working on adding the requests, then when the charecters are finalized the text, then the BG colour, but one thing that is troubling me.

Which characters do you want in the forum banner and which in the main site banner?

Little Nintendo-heavy. How about the Doom marine, or Jax? Maybe the guy from Metal Gear Solid?

Gro-Ab-Shalk

1. Chris Redfeild (Resident Evil)
2. Jill Valentine (Resident Evil)
3. Hunk (Resident Evil 2)
4. Nemesis (Resident Evil 3)
5. Gordon Freeman (Half-Life 2)
6. Combine Elite (Half-Life 2)
7. Human Resistance Soldier (Half-Life 2)
8. Jack Carver (Far Cry)
9. Malcom (UT2k4)
10. Xan (UT2k4)
11. John Dalton (Unreal 2)
12. JC Denton (Deus Ex)

<i> Little Nintendo-heavy. How about the Doom marine, or Jax? Maybe the guy from Metal Gear Solid?</i>

I know I know, thats why I asked for requests, because it's got too much Nintendo charecters.

Also, work has been going slow as I finished my major exams last term and i've started yr9.

Any updates?

Not yet, i'm entering the holidays and i've also got photoshop 8 cs, a jump from 7 . . . .how I got it you shall not know.

Also I keep on getting a feeling that this is getting a bit too out of control in terms of characters and placement.

Yoyoyo guys!

Heh, it's been awhile. School, other stuff, losing photshop. I installed potatoshop a month ago and found I lost whatever skill I had. By the looks of it this latest banner would have done much better anyway =P.

I have to apologize for the late reply(heh), I basically stopped coming because everything on the forums just ground to a crawl, not sure if I had that machines files actually reviewed too =P.

Well hey, I might work on it after the major-hsc type exams in two years, but for now expect me to pop in once in awhile.

(By the way, the new website layout is pretty good, keep it up VG staff!)

Edit: Did I mention also how bloody vague the forum boards were, it all made it alittle confusing where to put some topics =>.