Thread: Badges for the Monthly Tasks

I don't think that's a problem because the task is decided and told to the people that do that task way ahead of time.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I don't think that's a problem because the task is decided and told to the people that do that task way ahead of time.

Yea but what about for someone who wants to make a badge and hasn't done the task? I guess that could be part of the contest...if you do the task, you can get your badge in there. Some months maybe no one who wants to make a badge will do the task tho; then maybe we can just tell whoever might want to what the tasks are in time for them to do it.

P.S. Your badges for November are really good.

Hi guys,

Sorry for the absence this week, things have been crazy both at work and IRL. At work, I could work 24/7/365 for the next 5 years and not get caught up. Guess that's good since I need 20 more years of employment

OK, let me try to address some questions that have been brought up along the way.

1) Badge size: We can increase the badge size a little bit, but by no means whould it be wider than the members avatar. I'd like to keep the actual byte count as low as possible to save on reload time.

2) Wings design: We can tweak a little bit on the wings, maybe make them a stylized version of the current wings, small changes. I'd like to keep the gold and silver colors though

3) Animation: Animation is good, but should not be to the point that it distracts the reader. So, in some cases less is more.

4) Multiple artists: OK, I back off on having a dedicated artist, I would like to have someone coordinating the effort though, probably a staff member.

5) Voting on next months badge: Tough one. It has been proposed that members of the lucid task club vote on them. This limits artists to those that have completed the lucid task each month which is a little unfair. I don't want to advertise the next months task outside of the Lucid Task Club, so we have a little problem here. I'm open to ideas....

Originally Posted by Seeker

5) Voting on next months badge: Tough one. It has been proposed that members of the lucid task club vote on them. This limits artists to those that have completed the lucid task each month which is a little unfair. I don't want to advertise the next months task outside of the Lucid Task Club, so we have a little problem here. I'm open to ideas....

Well, it could be just another perk of doing the task. Just to keep it easy.

Originally Posted by Seeker

5) Voting on next months badge: Tough one. It has been proposed that members of the lucid task club vote on them. This limits artists to those that have completed the lucid task each month which is a little unfair. I don't want to advertise the next months task outside of the Lucid Task Club, so we have a little problem here. I'm open to ideas....

Perhaps the voting should take place among the artists and not the general public...and place the artists under a "task of coming month" gag order. If people don't like what the skilled artists have come up with, it's their problem.

Or you could invite wannabe badge makers into the Lucid Task Club regardless of whether they passed the challenge or not. I for one know that I could not possibly ever get into the Lucid Task club and I want to be a part of the process.

It could be on one condition though. If you don't make a badge for the month's challenges then you're out of the lucid task club for a month or two... ( as a way of making sure that people are always making badges).

Originally Posted by Goldney

Or you could invite wannabe badge makers into the Lucid Task Club regardless of whether they passed the challenge or not. I for one know that I could not possibly ever get into the Lucid Task club and I want to be a part of the process.

Yes I don't see why not; unless it is a lot of trouble for Seeker to give and take away access. In that case, we could just let people know what tasks had been picked, that would be easy to do.

Aye, it could easily be done in a PM.

Just so you all know, this is being acted on. Thanks for all the effort!

I wonder if this thread should be moved to the Art Design Team? Since it's more officially going to be put to use now?

Yep - let's do it.

I'll take care of it.

So, are we going to do this for this month?

Yay! Seeker chose mine for this month! For future months I'll post the wing templates and instructions of how to use them for Photoshop illiterate people.

Got a problem. Does anyone know where I can upload a Photoshop package to? Most image host only take flattened images.

Seeker said that Goldney can do it next month, if he wants to. In the meantime, we can totally decide on the method for choosing a person (if we continue to be lucky enough to have all these talented people wanting to do it).

-is very ecstatic-

Okay, so if I want to I get to do Christmas time?

Cool.

Originally Posted by Goldney

Okay, so if I want to I get to do Christmas time?

Cool.

Well, I guess you'll have to do badges according to the themes of the task, but maybe one will be Xmas themed.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Yay! Seeker chose mine for this month! For future months I'll post the wing templates and instructions of how to use them for Photoshop illiterate people.

Got a problem. Does anyone know where I can upload a Photoshop package to? Most image host only take flattened images.

I have a server I could host them on if needed.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I put this is the Task of the Month Club but was told to take it here:

Well, I was bored at work and came up with these images: I decided to put a stylized DV in the middle.

Basic Task:


Advanced Task:


Both:


I can make the wing flapping more subtle or dramatic if you'd like.

I think these are better than the ones we have used...

I had a mess about too, don't know how to animate though...

Originally Posted by Adam

I think these are better than the ones we have used...

I had a mess about too, don't know how to animate though...

hi, I think it could be better if it will not be animated. Btw. I like design of this badge, it looks clear.

Thanks I prefer the standard looking badges.

Originally Posted by Adam

Thanks I prefer the standard looking badges.

oh, pretty nightmare this your new avatar

Goldney said on the 1st/2nd page sumthin about contest?? contest plz! i think we should keep the wings, but can there be a contest on the custom pic? fun

Originally Posted by Mrs. Jones

Goldney said on the 1st/2nd page sumthin about contest?? contest plz! i think we should keep the wings, but can there be a contest on the custom pic? fun

Well Goldney's going to do them next month; that will give us time to decide how to choose, and how to hold the contest, if that's what we want to do.