Hey everyone!

With the holidays coming around the corner and my newly found time to be active once again, I figured a celebration contest was is order! I consider the holiday time around Creed to be a special time in our history. Every year, everyone looks forward to the unique Halloween event we host (special thank you to the staff for organizing the prizes and to Sergio for running the event!), the bird we typically roast in our Thanksgiving promo, and then the Advent calendar that leads up to a special Winter surprise. I would like to add to the festivities with this contest!

This is going to be a graphics contest to design a new Pokemon Creed logo and splash page art. Winners will have their artwork featured and credited on both v1 and v2 (see below links for what is currently used).

Current Splash Page Background:
v2 Splash Art
v1 Splash Art

Current Logos:
v2 Logo
v1 Logo

Entry Deadline: January 1, 2025 00:00 Creed Time

Grand Prizes:
GoldenDarkrai
LuminousGalarianMoltres
RainbowGiratina
ShadowZekrom
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Participating Prizes:
Random Colored Smeargle
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Rules / Judging:
1. Artwork submitted must be original artwork that you created.
2. Artwork considered for prizes must be submitted via this Forum Thread.
2a. Logos may be submitted directly as an image within the forum thread, splash background art submission should include a link to where the photo is hosted due to size (i.e. DeviantArt, Imgur, etc).
2b. Minor variations of a similar logo/background can be submitted, but must be submitted within the same reply. Completely different variations may be submitted via a new reply.
3. You do not have to submit both a logo and a splash art background, but we encourage both!
4. There will be 1-2 grand prize winners for each category: (splash art background, logo).
5. Everyone who submits an artwork adhering to rule 1 of the contest will receiving a participating prize, limit of 1 per unique user/IP.
6. Spamming / Flooding - Since this is a contest that will also help I am not putting in place a hard limit to the number of submissions to encourage as many quality submissions as possible. That said, anyone determined to flood submissions with non-serious / low quality submissions will be barred from receiving any prizes.
7. Grand prize winners will be determined by the following method:
Step 1: Staff internal vote for a list of top choices (like a top 10 or so).
Step 2: Community vote for a Logo winner and Splash Art Background winner. Voting will occur in the Discord server at a to be determined time.

Edit: It has been asked if using AI is acceptable. I am fine if AI is used to create the graphics, however, you must show the steps you took to ensure it is an original work of art that belongs to you.

General artwork considerations:
1. Logos should not be done in the "banner" style that the v1 Logo is. The ideal logo would be a stylized "Pokemon Creed" with no further background graphics so that it may be placed on the website in multiple places.
2. Logo text should only contain "Pokemon Creed".
3. Splash art backgrounds should be of a high pixel density (i.e. can fit large computer screens). This will allow for the background to be used and look pleasant at different screen resolutions.
4. Splash art should not contain any text.