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Gibbo said:
Its a 3hr job for a seasoned pro, something I could outsource for circa £100 or even get a friend to do as a favour. :)

But we feel we'd do a competition instead and remember OcUK is looking to employ a graphics designer as well.
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LOL

R34P3R said:
Problem? Those statements don't appear to conflict to me.
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Genius!

I wait to see someone's 3 hour mock ups of Aliens and Predators!

Nonetheless, I will give it a go, but it won't be in the design you describe as that is frankly massively cheesy and I don't have time to recreate the Alien/Predator characters to avoid the trademark infringement you will encounter.
 
I would like to take part in this, but i have to be honest, and say I would like better photos of the systems.
I will have to use systems that aren't yours, but I suppose as its just the case, no one will be able to tell.
 
gord said:
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Genius!

I wait to see someone's 3 hour mock ups of Aliens and Predators!

Nonetheless, I will give it a go, but it won't be in the design you describe as that is frankly massively cheesy and I don't have time to recreate the Alien/Predator characters to avoid the trademark infringement you will encounter.
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Seriously I have worked with marketing departments and some graphic designers are something else. I've got a mate who is great but he does it as a hobby mainly so something like this could take him days.

Yet there are others who will do the same thing in a matter of hours, having worked with such people I've seen how quickly some can create something really good.

I state this because you all seem to think £300 for such work is too cheap, well if your suggesting that then that would mean people in these kind of jobs must earn £100,000's per year, which they simply do not or certainly not in the IT marketing sector. The guys working at competitors, Asus and other manufacturers get paid more like £20,000 per year and design such things in hours.

If each page was worth more than several hundred pound, we'd all be learning photoshop and doing it as I could earn £1000 a day, put it simply its unrealistic.

Lots of Antec 300 pics on google, here is a good one:-
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Dj_Jestar said:
Paying peanuts? Expect monkeys. :p
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or expect someone who wants something to look good on there CV. theres plenty of unemployed graphics design graduates who would love £300 worth of goods and something to help them get a job

freelance graphics designers are generally a rip off
 
"andy" said:
or expect someone who wants something to look good on there CV. theres plenty of unemployed graphics design graduates who would love £300 worth of goods and something to help them get a job

freelance graphics designers are generally a rip off
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Thank you. :)

If graphic designers in this market sector were as well paid as some of you think we'd all be doing it. ;)
 
Gibbo said:
Hi there...
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I probably should have focused my lol a tad more. I was in no way mocking the value of the prize, I think it is great that OcUK run things like this.

It was purely the 3 hour comment and the reference to designing entirely new Aliens/Predator characters within that time-frame, which would be so clichéd I would die a little bit inside when the results came through.

You have undervalued graphic designers (not in this prize value), but that's not for this thread.
 
KPeh said:
Do you have the copyright holder's permission to use the alien and predator imagery?
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Its an idea for the theme, what you actually do or design is upto yourselves.

If you do design something using those characters, OcUK will seek any copyright permissions involved. :)
 
gord said:
I probably should have focused my lol a tad more. I was in no way mocking the value of the prize, I think it is great that OcUK run things like this.

It was purely the 3 hour comment and the reference to designing entirely new Aliens/Predator characters within that time-frame, which would be so clichéd I would die a little bit inside when the results came through.

You have undervalued graphic designers (not in this prize value), but that's not for this thread.
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Nope I agree with designing characters from scratch, that is time consuming, though most professionals will already have their own characters designed. But knocking up such a landing page, say excluding characters or something else can be done quite quick. I've just spoken to a guy who does this and he said he could do it very easily within a couple of hours, but he does already have his own characters. :)
 
Posted this in the other thread aswell. I am in no way a graphic designer but it is something i am interested in so i thought i'd give it a go. Couldnt seem to find a decent predator picture with lasers out. Anyway no doubt someone will blast this out of the water later on or tomorrow! :D

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Awww :(

I would have given this a bash but I am in Thailand without my desktop and using CS4 on my laptop is paaaaaaaaaaaaaainfull.

Don't need to be a seasoned pro to come up with something that would look the dogs in a good few hours of work. 75% of the work is the content and theme, all of which has been provided for you. The creative types will get a mock in their head in 10 minutes and the rest is just whacking it out in CS4.

£300 is a cracking prize amount for this kind of a design.
 
A £300 prize for supposedly 3 hours worth of work *IF* you even win... I can't see the attraction of a graphic designer spending all that time doing the work and then someone else pipping you to the post and winning the prize.

Besides who really wants that embarrassing case? It may retail for £300, but unless you want that case you're probably stuck with something pretty useless.

Good luck with your competition tho ;)
 
Jesus Christ, it's a competition for anyone with design flair, 3 hours is sweet FA. Most of you spend more time than that browsing the forum during the day I imagine!
 
Here's my first design. It's not exactly to spec but I can easily throw in the details etc. Its really rough, the outlines of the mouths are very crude and the highlights too. Missed a letter out of my sweary too!

You're 2 copyright concerns will be the font and the tower images. I could use your images, but it would have just taken me longer to clean the photos up to a level I was happy to mock with.

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Stumble Bum said:
A £300 prize for supposedly 3 hours worth of work *IF* you even win... I can't see the attraction of a graphic designer spending all that time doing the work and then someone else pipping you to the post and winning the prize.

Besides who really wants that embarrassing case? It may retail for £300, but unless you want that case you're probably stuck with something pretty useless.
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I get what your saying, but honestly does it really matter ? some people who either work in the sector or are good at it will no doubt just view it as something fun to do, I work in an Architects practice and am always messing about in 3D apps and Autocad at home either for mates/neighbours/ or just messing about cause I'm bored and I dare say its the same thing for GD's, besides nothing is ever wasted with stuff you can create, you can always use bits of layer masks etc etc elsewhere.
 
Looks good gord, bring an alien tail and a predator spear across the respective system names with some transparency/other effects and pad out the black with some alien environment/eggs and predator ship stuff texturing and your almost there :D
 
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