GTANet Needs You - Header Competition for GTANet.com

[uNi 13,014]

Calling all graphics designers! Are you a Rockstar Games fan with an artistic flair? Are you overflowing with creative juices? Do you want to be in with the chance of showing off your wares to the GTA community AND enjoy winning prizes?

 

If you tick at least....well... all of these boxes, GTANet needs you!

 

We're looking to add a little spice to our header on this here website, and where better to look than our community to help us achieve it?

 

Requirements!
Must be Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead or Rockstar Games themed
Can be a mixture of Rockstar titles, or just focused on one game
Can comprise of in-game screens or official artwork
Shouldn't contain any text
Our header on GTAForums is a good example of our style
Must be at least 1900 × 600 pixels in dimension

 

Win!
Our three top picks will win a GTA IV: The Complete Edition copy on Steam.
Additional favourites may be picked as well
We'll credit the winner(s) on our Team page!

 

Submissions can be posted in this topic or you can send them to us privately via any method on our Contact Page until 29th April 2020.

[GTAFanClub 2,267]

Great idea, I'll give it a try.

[Americana 2,536]

Give me a minute.

 

 

Image

 

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Edited April 21 by Americana

[DownInTheHole 1,344]

When is the deadline for this?

 

Edit: nvm i just read the last sentence

Edited April 20 by DownInTheHole

[honeyclem 6]

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Edited April 22 by honeyclem

[CrysisAverted 39,568]

Make the prize returning my sig

[Yhdf 2,372]

Luckily, I've remade one today with this idea

Edited April 21 by Yhdf
Improved the drawing a bit / Changed aspect ratio

[gig 1,935]

1 minute ago, Yhdf said:

Luckily, I've remade one today with this idea

-snip-

Jesus tapdancing Christ that's awesome.

[Yhdf 2,372]

I can add more characters, if needed

[REXX 30,660]

UPDATE:

 

Modified my submission slightly, made it more GTA.net orientated

 

This shall be my final submission.

 

 

Previous submissions (not using these)

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Edited April 21 by REXX
Added final submission.

[Americana 2,536]

Banner.

 

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Edited April 21 by Americana

[DownInTheHole 1,344]

Mine

 

wanted to go for a more classic gta 3 comic book style

 

 

original without filters

 

Edited April 21 by DownInTheHole

[CarimboHanky 26,173]

im a bit rusty but gonna try getting something done before the deadline.

[Sanches 11,093]

Tried to make it shaped like GTAF header.

 

Edited April 21 by Sanches

[Wazabi 207]

I made 3 versions for now, I can make banners for all the GTA's and for all the GTA 5 characters if needed.

I've put my watermark on it just to make sure, I'll send the ones without them to the moderators if they want it.

These pictures are downscaled, all of them are 1900x600.

I can make another banner with this style that is thinner with more pictures if needed.

 

[Lioshenka 873]

 

16 hours ago, uNi said:

Calling all graphics designers! Are you a Rockstar Games fan with an artistic flair? Are you overflowing with creative juices? Do you want to be in with the chance of showing off your wares to the GTA community AND enjoy winning prizes?

Will there be only one header, or will they interchange like the current slogan under the logo does?

Edited April 21 by Lioshenka

[uNi 13,014]

The headers will rotate yes.

[Mudi_Singh 18]

 

 

 

 

Edited April 21 by Mudi_Singh

[(Vip)Met 1,979]

16 minutes ago, uNi said:

The headers will rotate yes.

The current header is so narrow but you requested a larger header of 600px. Does this mean that there'll be more space between the black bar (with the logo and search bar) and the threads area?

Edited April 21 by (Vip)Met

[uNi 13,014]

3 minutes ago, (Vip)Met said:

The current header is so narrow but you requested a larger header of 600px. Does this means that there'll be more space between the black bar (with the logo and search bar) and the threads area?

Yes an no, is just how the responsiveness of that theme works like, it will show more of the banner on lower res and less of the banner in higher res if that makes sense.

[Kirsty 35,553]

To clarify, the header is for GTANet.com, not GTAF.

Edited April 24 by Spider-Vice

[Spider-Vice 37,717]

We'll be rotating the headers every so often, with the winner being our first and main header.

[ChengizVlad09 1,163]

I have never been good enough at things like this sadly, but here's the possible idea for some of you who are tech savvy:

 

Two-toned or multi-tone, pencil sketch alike Architectural Theme - maybe one should be forums blue to highlight the correlation between the Net & Forums.

 

Good screenshots of prominent places and objects from GTA Universe, such as bridges, signs, billboards, railroads and buildings, or even simplified versions of city outlines made to look like they've been drawn. Simplistic in style, but with visible details. Something that's similar to cover & general art from 3D Era games - check out SA for the best example.

 

Like I've said, I absolutely have no idea how to work in Photoshop or similar applications so don't be to harsh, but this is the closest I could do on my own when it comes to the general idea. It's nowhere near as artsy as I would like it to be, but it's just for the sake of reference anyways:

 

Sketch:

 

Painting:

 

Edit: Finally managed to get on the right track with the idea:

 

 

Whoever is artsy enough is more than free to "steal" the idea, but I will definitely try it out myself as well, now that I'm an expert in Photoshop - just a joke 😋

Edited April 21 by ChengizVlad09

[Americana 2,536]

These are interesting, gives me a Grand Theft Auto III hype.

 

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[REXX 30,660]

Some great submissions!

 

I have just updated mine

 

 

 

[deathfr1enss 16]

Mine!

 

Edit: GTA themed

Edited April 22 by deathfr1enss

[CallTheCoroner 641]

12 hours ago, Kirsty said:

To clarify, the header is for grandtheftauto.net, not GTAF.

Ok cool, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!

 

@deathfr1enss Nice work! 

Edited April 22 by CallTheCoroner

[IzzyBlues93 601]

Question: I'm not talented enough to make a banner, but how are you guys looking at scaling the banner for monitor's with higher resolution displays? 1900x600 as a minimum is too low to be frank, and I'm personally not a fan of banners that are looped like the one we have currently. Is there a reason why you guys are opting for that resolution as a minimum?

 

Just so you have an idea of what I mean, if you look at the r/pcmasterrace subreddit banner as an example, that particular image has a width of 4320 and scales cleanly depending on the resolution of your monitor (I'm at 2560x1440p and the banner cuts out with the image of the three monitors with the red lighting).

 

This is just my opinion and all, but having a higher width image that scales properly depending on whether you are using a phone, or whatever resolution you are running at would look a lot more professional and pleasing to the eye. If you guys are taking the effort to make a new banner for the website, you might as well do it properly (not to discredit anyone's submissions or idea's).

 

I'm kind of surprised nobody has brought up this point earlier to be honest.

 

EDIT: I just realized that the contest is not even for the forum, but in saying that I think the forum could do with a new banner.

Edited April 22 by IzzyBlues93

[The Lucky Mole 105]

So, you want the aspect ratio to ideally be 19:6?

[uNi 13,014]

3 hours ago, IzzyBlues93 said:

Question: I'm not talented enough to make a banner, but how are you guys looking at scaling the banner for monitor's with higher resolution displays? 1900x600 as a minimum is too low to be frank, and I'm personally not a fan of banners that are looped like the one we have currently. Is there a reason why you guys are opting for that resolution as a minimum?

 

Just so you have an idea of what I mean, if you look at the r/pcmasterrace subreddit banner as an example, that particular image has a width of 4320 and scales cleanly depending on the resolution of your monitor (I'm at 2560x1440p and the banner cuts out with the image of the three monitors with the red lighting).

 

This is just my opinion and all, but having a higher width image that scales properly depending on whether you are using a phone, or whatever resolution you are running at would look a lot more professional and pleasing to the eye. If you guys are taking the effort to make a new banner for the website, you might as well do it properly (not to discredit anyone's submissions or idea's).

 

I'm kind of surprised nobody has brought up this point earlier to be honest.

 

EDIT: I just realized that the contest is not even for the forum, but in saying that I think the forum could do with a new banner.

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