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teh1337n00b · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:30 am

I am waiting for the original artwork's colored version by D. When I'll have that I can start working on it again.

nothingxs · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2007 1:53 pm

I got a little curious and went looking around and found somewhere that used this banner:

Link: http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/5240 ... omskd1.gif

I don't know if there's anything else, but maybe that'll help.

MrPerson13 · **Posted:** Wed May 09, 2007 3:06 pm

Yeah, uh, any news on the graphic files?

Dulrik · **Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 12:32 pm

I sent them to the people who expressed interest.

teh1337n00b · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 2:05 pm

Working on it. Gimme a couple of days, to reduce it's size into optimal.

teh1337n00b · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 2:30 am

Ok here goes. I have worked on it for a while, this is the output. Information, bellow the image.

Code:

Technical: 
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Chose Background.
Hellion has been cleared of font.
Paladin has been cleared of font.
Drow Sorceress has been clear of font.
Drow Sorceress's left arm has been reshaped.
Drow Sorceress's hair has been filled and altered.
Increased ONLY about 37kb from previous version.

Code:

Notes:
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I could make the movement smoother but that would increase in size.
If we do not have a size restriction let me know what size you would
idealy think of it, and I will smooth out the movements up to that size.
As of the general size X-Y of the banner, it's the official TMS banner size.
If you would like it bigger I could do it, starting from scratch (ETA 1 day).
If you would like any text altered, let me know which.
If you would like any text added or removed, again let me know which :)

I will be waiting on suggestions and impressions for it.

Code:

LEGAL:
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“Shattered Kingdoms Banner, content, images, names and logos and all associated marks, 
are ® copyright ©, of Shattered Kingdoms  1996-2007. Used under authorization of Shattered Kingdoms. 
All Rights Reserved. You may not copy any image or name found on this banner without previous authorization.”
Teh1337N00b provides his work on the SK Banner without requesting any reward or claiming ownership of the 
original artwork. The SKBanner.gif is a donation to Shattered Kingdoms,
who may use it (unaltered) for any purpose whatsoever.

Woa. I said it again

Teh1337L@wy3R :drunk:

Dulrik · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 11:09 am

Critique:
- The bouncing up and down of the characters is fairly unnoticable. Movement grabs the eye and gets people to notice the ad.
- I think the text bubbles should be larger, filling up most of the unused center space. Just offset enough to make it clear who is speaking.
- I'm not a big fan of the fireball graphic. Not sure what else to do there.
- I don't think we should try to list features in the banner. Just end it with the tagline and the telnet address. Interested people will click to go to the website. Keep the same stormclouds for the background, I think.

One Valiant Truth · **Joined:** Sun Jul 18, 2004 3:09 am **Posts:** 2174

The fireball needs to not come so slowly in my opinion. It needs a different graphic but it needs to -streeeak- in with more violance.

The bouncing seems a bit akward. If they could be made to bounce differently....

Try speaking their lines outloud like you would if you were one of them, not make the bounce on syllabel stresses?

That way they just arn't moving to show who's talking, but more or less they are moving in relation to what they are saying?

The whole thing just looks ...slow.

teh1337n00b · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 1:03 pm

Dulrik wrote:

Critique:
- The bouncing up and down of the characters is fairly unnoticable. Movement grabs the eye and gets people to notice the ad.
- I think the text bubbles should be larger, filling up most of the unused center space. Just offset enough to make it clear who is speaking.
- I'm not a big fan of the fireball graphic. Not sure what else to do there.
- I don't think we should try to list features in the banner. Just end it with the tagline and the telnet address. Interested people will click to go to the website. Keep the same stormclouds for the background, I think.

- I will bounce up and down the talking chars faster then, trying not to increase the filesize too much.

- Bubbles will increase in size, as well as font to cover towards the middle of the banner.

- I will design a new fireball graphic for the banner and perhaps a new explosion as well. I will also try to experiment with other spells, based on SK's spell list.

- Listing will be removed, it will end with a (cloudy background) and Shattered Kingdoms : http and telnet in purple color.

OVT wrote:

The whole thing just looks ...slow.

Speed will increase as will the changes mentioned above come into play.

ETA 1-2 days, depending on the workload at the office.

juggernaut · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 11:36 pm

What I didn't quite like was the last comment "I hate you". It's like the two dudes are RPing their asses out, and all of a sudden some lamer comes and ruins it. More of a line you would expect to see on the forums, making a joke or something than in some actual medieval RP. Encourages the wrong target group imho.

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