Hello and welcome! This is the official sign up thread for the 2012 GMC! Don't know what the GMC is? The Graphic Maker's Cookoff is a time for graphic makers of all kinds to increase their production and skill, and to challenge them to stretch what they're used to doing. Visit
this thread for some more basic information.
This summer the GMC will take place between
July 21st and July 30th. The theme is
The Hobbit! Graphics can be made of
any subject, but challenges will revolve around the theme.
Challenges will be based around experimentation and an effort to make you step outside your normal range. There will be daily challenges
July 23-28. Challenges will go up daily, but can be completed any time by the end of the 28th. Challenges are optional, but encouraged.
This year we will not have judges in the regular sense of the word. Instead, we will judge one another.
This is optional. You don't have to have your work judged. Your graphics will be judged against one another, not against those of other people. There will be various criteria, such as
best text, best texture, best blending, most unique coloring, best avatar, best banner, etc. (Thoughts on this would be good. PM me.) Every person who wants to participate will be assigned someone else in the GMC. At the end of the time, you will rank that one person's work according to the criteria. It may sound confusing, but it's not too bad -- if something is unclear, just ask.
Rules! We all like those.
1) If you wish to take part in this, sign up here, on this thread. Right here. Where you're reading.
2) If you want to be part of the judging proccess, SAY SO when you sign up.
3) Late sign ups are allowed. Just sign here, then you can start posting.
4) Post all your graphics in the Official GMC Posting thread (currently not up, but that doesn't matter because you
can't start yet anyway).
5) DO NOT COMMENT on other people's work in the posting thread! Comment in the Official GMC Comments thread (also not up yet).
ParticipantsNurrantiel Mashiara // judging
Raithea Rhuitaure // judging
Shadowcat // judging
Ariadne394 // judging
Feanor
Maneth Eruvadhril
Aranel Fae // judging
C a r a // judging
Darkheart
DamsonRhee