The 1st illust contest by EA Japan UO team!

[athos_uo]

EA Japan UO team announces the 1st illust contest!

The original page in Japanese: Here!

I translated how it goes in this contest, Enjoy and win prizes!

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1st Illust contest

Period for application:
From Jun. 5. 2009 to Jun. 29. 2009 15:00 JST
This deadline is extended: the new deadline is: Jul. 13, 2009. 15:00 JST

Thema:
- The Gargoyles: the new race of the next expansion "Stygian Abyss"
- "The summer" of "Ultima Online"
- Illustrations or arts of items, terrains or add-ons that you would like to see implemented in game

Conditions of applications:
- A screenshot of what players create in the game (an unworked picture like a radar map art or a backpack art that makes use of items in game )
- An illust painted with image painting softwares

*1: You may use either of KR client or 2D client.
*2: The form of pictures should be .JPG file, at most 2MB, width 1200 x height 900 pixel
*3: There is no limits of number of pictuires that a player can apply. (A player can send in as many applications as you like without limits.)

Prizes for winners:
The 1st winner:
- An exclusive title for the 1st winner (for 1 character )
- An exclusive item in the game for the 1st winner,
- A miniature house
- 5 Pigments of Tokuno

The 2nd winner:
- An exclusive title for the 2nd winner (for 1 character )
- An exclusive item in the game for the 2nd winner,
- A miniature house
- 1 Pigment of Tokuno

Announcement of winners:
An announcement will be made by the end of July, after EA Japan UO team examines all the applications fairly.

Conditions and Notes:
- You should make all the pictures by yourself.
- All the things except your account name, your e-mail address or filenames of your pictures will be opened to public when we make an announcement of prizes
- You should not violate the agreement of UO.
- All the rights and licences of applications regarding UO belong to Electronic Arts.
- Applications shoud not include desigins that violate licences, trademarks or copyrights(e.g. portraits of celebrities, images of name brands, or images including similar parts of other known characters than in UO )
- EA Japan UO team might create items in game based on applications, or make use of applications as materials of websites related to UO.

How to send in your applications;
Please go to the form of the 1st illust contest! -> Here!

 

[athos_uo]

The 1st illust contest took very well and more applications than we expected are entered in until now. So we will extend the deadline of entering applications according to the request of some players that they need more time to complete their applications. The new and final deadline is July 13, 2009. 15:00 JST.

 

[athos_uo]

I should have more concretly described and shown you some concrete examples.

So, the following one could be an example for it:
"a Llama on a roof"

This is an example for description:
"Conditions of applications:
- A screenshot of what players create in the game (an unworked picture like a radar map art or a backpack art that makes use of items in game )"

This SS conforms to a criterion above.

But one more criterion exists: Thema should be "Gargoyle" or "The summer in UO". This SS doesn't conform to this criterion. If you created an figure of Gargoyle on your roof and made an SS of it, the SS would conform to all the criteria.

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Sarsmi was kind enough to introduce a tool for creating roof arts easily: Here!

Thanks to Sarsmi!

It's a really wonderful tool.

I think using this tool is accepted, but if in that case, the original picture should be drawn by players.

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Another example from me.

This is just an example, including a little joke.

"A summer in a backpack"

This is an example for description:
"Conditions of applications:
- A screenshot of what players create in the game (an unworked picture like a radar map art or a backpack art that makes use of items in game )"

This SS conforms to the criterion above. And the design shown in the SS means "Summer" in a chinese letter. The theme of the SS conforms to one of themes of this contest:"Gargoyles", "The summer in UO".

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Harlequin was kind enough to make the following post and help us to understand what is needed on this contest more precisely and correctly. Thanks to Harlequin!

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A - The theme needs to be based on any one of the following:
1) The new Gargoyle race for Stygian Abyss
2) Summer in UO
3) Things you want to see implemented in UO (items, terrain, decorative furniture add-ons etc)


B - The illustration that you submit can be any one of the following:
1) An unedited screenshot made in-game. Including, but not limited to, radar art or backpack art etc etc.
2) An illustration drawn/rendered using any graphics design/editing program (eg photoshop, maya etc etc)


C - Other requirements:
1) Must be in jpg format
2) Max resolution is 1200 x 900
3) Max file size 2mb
4) No limit to how many illustrations you submit
5) Can be done in either the Legacy client or in KR (in case the people doing screenshots are wondering)


Winning entry may also be implemented in-game or be added to the official webpage (latter applies to the Japan UO page).