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Post by squirmydad on Aug 31, 2008 6:22:30 GMT -9
Free monthly figure HOARD guidelines These are the guidelines for including your designs in the free monthly figure compilation. This compilation will be published each month on my website, onemonk.com . Participation in this is completely voluntary, and is open to anybody. COPYRIGHT All submissions must be original works, and are submitted with the understanding that this set will be free under the Creative Commons License 3.0, free to copy, share, modify, but not for commercial use. TIME LIMIT At the beginning of each month I'll create a new topic in the forum for you to add your design. This topic will remain open for the entire month. At the end of the month the topic will be locked, and nothing more can be added. POSTING to the HOARD FORUM BOARD I am changing the restriction from only finished stuff to works in progress for the monthly HOARDS. It's simply much easier to keep things organized, and the rest of the boards from getting cluttered with HOARD figure designs each month. Your still welcome to use your own board.You are welcome to submit any figure design you like. The figure can be an original work, a modified figure design, or a re-color of an existing design. To submit a design, you can include a link in the forum post, as an attachment in the forum post, as an image displayed in the forum topic, or you can send me the file as an attachment to onemonkminiatures@gmail.com . Once I get the emailed file, I'll post a small version of the design to the forum topic for everyone to see your submission. DESIGN GUIDELINES The figures must be two sided, meaning a front and back, or side/side view, both sides must be done, no exceptions. Both sides must match in outline, any figure designs that do not match front to back will be dropped from the compilation. 2.5D figure designs must be test built by the designer, and include instructions for assembly. Like wise, 3D models must be test built before submitting, and include instructions. The designs can be colored or uncolored. Please submit your designs at actual size at 300 dpi, if you are unsure, submit you design at 300 dpi in any scale, I'll adjust the final images. I recommend submitting your designs with no tabs. This will allow me to add them to my figure layout template quickly, even if you do I may replace them with my tabs to be sure they work with the tabbed bases. PROPER CREDIT When you submit an original designs, add your name to the submission so I can include this on the tab. If you are making a modified design or a re-colored designs, please include the name of the original designer along with yours. Include emails or web addresses if you can so people can see more of your designs, or contact you about your designs. ACCEPTABLE ART Please, no nudity, graphic violence(gore is fine), or sexually suggestive stuff. Please submit stuff you will be proud to display yourself, and be kid friendly. Do not send me 50 figures you designed in an hour, because they will look like crap, and I will not add them to the compilation. This monthly design set is have fun and to improve your art skills, it not a place to display whatever submit, that's what your parents are for. If you are unsure that your design meets the minimum quality standard, post it to your forum topic or board and ask others for constructive criticism. It took me a long time to finally get good at drawing these things, I want to display the work of others who are trying to do equally quality artwork. THINGS I LOOK FOR IN THE DESIGNS
- Do the front and rear views match? They must match or I'll trash your design.
- Is there an adequate black outline around the figure? 2mm on the front and 3mm on the back is a good goal.
- Is the figure colored too darkly?, then lighten it up.
- Highlight and shading? TEST PRINT your design to see if the shading and highlights show up.
- Submitting black and white? Make sure it's at least 300 dpi, higher is better.
SUBMISSION LIMITS
Everyone is limited to submit only 1 figure design each month. The time involved to make these sets is too much for me, and I must limit how many I have to do each month. Decide carefully what you want to submit, because you only get the one figure. If you want to do more, you will have to host them yourself.FINAL PDF, DOWNLOAD FILE, and WEB PAGE All of the designs submitted will be built by me, Onemonk, and photographed for inclusion to my website, onemonk.com . The finished zipped file will be accessible from the models section of my website, onemonk.com/models. Each monthly set will have it's own web page with a large photo image of the final figures, and a link to download the file. I will create a new column in my models page for these monthly sets. You are welcome to copy and host these sets on your own site as well, within the rights grated under the Creative Commons attribution 3.0, Copy, Share, modify, credit the original authors, but no commercial use. |
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Jan 28, 2016 6:23:51 GMT -9
I am having my first go at assembling the January 2016 hoard, and I wanted to review the submission guidelines. Specifically, I think I would like to strike the "SUBMISSION LIMITS" section. I am personally Ok with more than 1 figure design each month per person (and in fact, there are two submissions from several folks including myself for the January 2016 hoard!) but it would greatly assist me in assembling the hoard if we can put some constraints on the FORMAT of the submissions. I'd like to refine the DESIGN GUIDELINES as described below. I'm not looking to step on anyone's toes or disrupt things - feel free to comment/criticize. DESIGN/SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The figures must be two sided, meaning a front and back, or side/side view, both sides must be done, no exceptions. Both sides must match in outline, any figure designs that do not match front to back will be dropped from the compilation. 2.5D figure designs must be test built by the designer, and include instructions for assembly. Like wise, 3D models must be test built before submitting, and include instructions. The designs can be colored or uncolored. Each submission should be provided in the form of a 300 dpi 8.5"x11" image (that is, 2550px by 3300px) with a transparent background. This allows me to easily integrate figures together, and I can be sure that the scale of the figure is what the original artist intended. I will not be scaling any images submitted. If your piece is very large or contains very large parts, refer to the production packet (link below, see file Forum_Hoard-layout.psd) which includes layers for registration marks used by automated cutters. If possible, design your pieces so they fall within these marks (and preferably well within the marks). It's not always possible, but it most often is. Use the tabs provided in the hoard production packet (link below, see file Master-4mm-tabs.png) If you don't use the standard tabs, I may go and replace the tabs with the standard tabs, or I may leave them alone, or I may not include the submission. It depends on the overall workload necessary to get the hoard together. On the tab, include figure's name (e.g. "FIRE ELEMENTAL") as well as the artist and the year (e.g. "Squirmydad 2016"). I don't much care what font you use and all caps, mixed case, or all lowercase - as long as it's white against the black tab. Overall, I would like to ensure the hoard is an inclusive way for artists to share work, and I'll do what I can to work with people if necessary to help get things into the hoard. I'd like to avoid hoard submissions that are 'extremely large'. They can be freely shared on the site, and can even be provided as a free download on the onemonk site if squirmydad says 'ok' but it complicates the hoard assembly process. Things like assembling and shooting a promo picture, making cutfiles, proofreading instructions etc. all require time. There's no hard-and-fast rule I can think of to define what 'extremely large' is, so I just ask that some judgement is used. FORUM HOARD PRODUCTION PACKET cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/6113/forum-hoard-production-packet |
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Post by squirmydad on Jan 28, 2016 7:26:21 GMT -9
Sounds good, I'll rework my two submissions into the new format.  |
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Post by gilius on Jan 28, 2016 13:12:59 GMT -9
Cool, I wasn't aware of the hoard production package. I'll use the standard tabs from now on (but I will not have enough time to change the Eye of the Deep; working on the Global Game Jam the next days).
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Post by cowboyleland on Jan 28, 2016 14:17:42 GMT -9
I completely understand where you are coming from on this mproteau (Paper Realms). It all seems reasonable. Just one question, if I export from GIMP to png will that preserve a transparent background or do I need to do something else? |
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Post by Vermin King on Jan 28, 2016 15:47:50 GMT -9
images with a transparent background import to Gimp with a transparent background
be careful how you save your work, though
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Jan 28, 2016 17:15:41 GMT -9
When you export a PNG from GIMP, there'll be a dialog specifically for PNG settings. Here's a text version of my dialog, showing what's checked:
[ ] Interlacing (Adam7)
[x] Save background color
[ ] Save gamma
[ ] Save layer offset
[x] Save resolution
[x] Save creation time
[ ] Save comment (this one is disabled)
[x] Save color values from transparent pixels
Compression Level: 9
I don't know if these are the factory settings, or if I had previously changed a setting and hit "Save Defaults".
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Post by cowboyleland on Jan 28, 2016 20:21:04 GMT -9
That looks like my dialog. Thanks. I am about to submit a 2.5 to the Jan hoard. Cheers!
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on Jan 25, 2017 5:45:14 GMT -9
DESIGN/SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The figures must be two sided, meaning a front and back, or side/side view, both sides must be done, no exceptions. Both sides must match in outline, any figure designs that do not match front to back will be dropped from the compilation. 2.5D figure designs must be test built by the designer, and include instructions for assembly. Likewise, 3D models must be test built before submitting, and include instructions. The designs can be colored or uncolored. Each submission should be provided in the form of a 300 dpi 8.5"x11" image (that is, 2550px by 3300px) with a transparent background. This allows me to easily integrate figures together, and I can be sure that the scale of the figure is what the original artist intended. I will not be scaling any images submitted. If your piece is very large or contains very large parts, refer to the production packet (link below, see file Forum_Hoard-layout.psd) which includes layers for registration marks used by automated cutters. If possible, design your pieces so they fall within these marks (and preferably well within the marks). It's not always possible, but it most often is. Use the tabs provided in the hoard production packet (link below, see file Master-4mm-tabs.png) If you don't use the standard tabs, I may go and replace the tabs with the standard tabs, or I may leave them alone, or I may not include the submission. It depends on the overall workload necessary to get the hoard together. On the tab, include figure's name (e.g. "FIRE ELEMENTAL") as well as the artist and the year (e.g. "Squirmydad 2016"). I don't much care what font you use and all caps, mixed case, or all lowercase - as long as it's white against the black tab. Overall, I would like to ensure the hoard is an inclusive way for artists to share work, and I'll do what I can to work with people if necessary to help get things into the hoard. I'd like to avoid hoard submissions that are 'extremely large'. They can be freely shared on the site, and can even be provided as a free download on the onemonk site if squirmydad says 'ok' but it complicates the hoard assembly process. Things like assembling and shooting a promo picture, making cutfiles, proofreading instructions etc. all require time. There's no hard-and-fast rule I can think of to define what 'extremely large' is, so I just ask that some judgement is used. I apologize if this comes across the wrong way. As always, I appreciate the generous submissions artists make to the hoard, and I want to stay as inclusive as possible with submissions. However, I'm struggling to stay on top of the hoards as well as my day-to-day life activities, so the little details start to matter to me. Folks often offer to help, and the biggest help would be to follow the guidelines. So, with that, let me stress some things: Please use the tabs from the hoard production packet. Please include the name of the figure and the artist and year on the tab. Please provide submissions as a 2550px by 3300px (8.5"x11" 300dpi) image with a transparent background. Moving forward, I'll be pretty strict about dropping figures that don't have front/back art, and I'll try to remind folks of that at the time of submission rather than just not having a figure appear in a hoard. Providing me a link to a zip file on dropbox is a lot more convenient for me than having to cope with three... four... five... even more different hosting services that all have different interfaces for getting at images. You probably think that your preferred image hosting service is totally straight-forward to use, but they're all different. If it's more convenient than dropbox (or another click-this-link-and-I-swear-you-will-get-the-zip-file-you-want-without-watching-ads service), just zip up your submission and drop me an email (mproteau@comcast.net). If you provide a PDF, I have to go about reformatting it so I can provide consistent registration marks for making cutfiles. I also typically combine figures from multiple artists onto a single page, so don't rely on some banner being there that indicates who the artist is. The banner is going to be the hoard banner. This hasn't come up too often, and there's no hard-and-fast rule, but if you include text in the submitted image, I will likely move that text out of the image and into a README text file that goes along with the hoard. If your mini properly indicates the author and figure name, then it gives me an easy way to correlate the README text with the figure. It's not often that this would be necessary, but it happens now and then. Keeping the text in a separate text file will keep the hoard files smaller. I'm going to try to keep 3d models separate from standees. They'll get their own PDF file named after the model, so it should be easy for someone to find it and print out just what they need without mixing up other bits from other models. 3d models should have instructions, and it would be exceptional if they were provided as a small PDF that has step-by-step assembly pictures and descriptions. Creating cutfiles is also difficult if it is not clear - really clear - where the cut and score lines are. If it's hard to make it clear from the provided model itself, provide another image that has cut, score and reverse scorelines clearly marked as a guide. For me, assembling PDFs for minis, creating cutfiles, assembling the standees and creating promo pics takes about a day (so, that's like 3 days in real time, since I only have about 3 hours a week to devote to extra-curricular activities). Assembling PDFs where I have to make decisions about how I'm going to reformat pages to work with cutfiles, decide if I'm going to replace tabs, label tabs - that adds time, but it's not the worst. Building complex (relative to making standees) 3d models for me takes a LOT longer than everything else. Making the cutfiles is often more time consuming, especially when the line work is messy and/or unclear as to where cut and score lines are. Assembly is significantly slower, especially when I don't have clear instructions and have to infer which parts go where, or what the right order of assembly is. If you have any questions, comments, criticisms or outright complaints, drop me a PM and we'll be chatting in no time. If you don't know how to make use of the hoard production packet, or you don't know how to make a PNG file with a transparent background, or you don't know where to start with making instructions for a model, just let me know and I'll help. |
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