Banner of the Month - Monthly Guidance and Submissions

[Brother Tyler]

If you have any questions or comments about the Banner of the Month challenge, or if you want to submit any banners, please reply in this discussion.

 

In addition, guidance for any month's challenge will be provided in this topic.

 

All banner submissions should be uploaded to the Site Banner Submissions album in the galleries. Once that is done, the submitting member should post a comment reply here that includes:

• the banner image
• the banner image URL/link in the album
• the URL of their B&C blog (if they have one)

Note that a member is not eligible for the month following a month in which their banner is selected (i.e., if your banner is selected as banner of the month for January, none of your banner submissions will be eligible for February). The intent is to feature different members each month, hoping to see as many members as possible having their banners featured.

[ThePenitentOne]

Regarding the permissions: if imagery in the banner is created by photographing our own fully-painted models or dioramas and filtering them in photoshop, would that be acceptable?

 

 

[Brother Tyler]

 

Regarding the permissions: if imagery in the banner is created by photographing our own fully-painted models or dioramas and filtering them in photoshop, would that be acceptable?

 

 

Absolutely!

[Rusted Boltgun]

What a great idea.

I'd been toying with the idea of a banner / background image for my profile and maybe using it for a blog in the B&C.

It is outside 'my wheelhouse' to use current parlance but I might be able to cobble something together with some time and access to my laptop.

[Brother Tyler]

Just reminding everyone that November is fast approaching, just in case anyone wants to submit a banner. 

[Ioldanach]

https://bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/monthly_2024_10/large.Banner01Ioldanach.jpg.3fe25809fa7546cfc85f389177717055.jpg

I had a grandiose idea, but then I got really busy with work and didn't have time to make it happen. I probably didn't have the talent, either.  While I'm still working on the fancy idea, I figured I'd submit something simple this time around.

 

 

https://bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/monthly_2024_10/large.Banner01Ioldanach.jpg.3fe25809fa7546cfc85f389177717055.jpg

 

I was going for something gothic, but with a slightly different color palette than we're used to seeing at the top of the page. It's not my greatest work, but it might do if nobody submits anything else.

[Magos Takatus]

I've got a clarification I'd like to make, mainly for myself but it might help other users. A while back I made a photoshoot of my Imperial Knights walking through some GW ruin terrain against a printed backdrop. The backdrop was A.I. generated but it doesn't appear egregiously so. Would that be acceptable or would the background need to be repainted in order to be considered for qualification? I'll post an example photo for your consideration.

 

 

I suppose in future I could try airbrushing backdrops and finishing the details with my miniature brushes but my first backdrop was printed, sent to me as a poster and then I mounted it to a board.

 

I'm just asking this really because it's not a blatantly obvious A.I. generated image but I would feel uncomfortable trying to "cheat" because my backdrop wasn't personally painted by me if that wasn't acceptable. Hopefully this might help a few other people as well but I expect I'm a bit of an outlier here. 

Edited October 30, 2024 by Magos Takatus

[apologist]

Popped up a couple of banners – hope they prove useful. My blog is +Death of a Rubricist+, which can be found here: https://apologentsia.blogspot.com/

 

 

Edited October 30, 2024 by apologist

[Brother Tyler]

2 hours ago, Magos Takatus said:

I've got a clarification I'd like to make, mainly for myself but it might help other users. A while back I made a photoshoot of my Imperial Knights walking through some GW ruin terrain against a printed backdrop. The backdrop was A.I. generated but it doesn't appear egregiously so. Would that be acceptable or would the background need to be repainted in order to be considered for qualification? I'll post an example photo for your consideration.

 

 

I suppose in future I could try airbrushing backdrops and finishing the details with my miniature brushes but my first backdrop was printed, sent to me as a poster and then I mounted it to a board.

 

I'm just asking this really because it's not a blatantly obvious A.I. generated image but I would feel uncomfortable trying to "cheat" because my backdrop wasn't personally painted by me if that wasn't acceptable. Hopefully this might help a few other people as well but I expect I'm a bit of an outlier here. 

 AI-generated background should be acceptable in most cases. The example shown is fine.

[Magos Takatus]

Thank you for the clarification. I don't think I will be able to start work on anything until most of the way through January but it's something I can think about if this is an ongoing project.

[Brother Tyler]

We have three entries (so far). Since I failed to identify a deadline for submission (five minutes in the pain glove for me) and we need time to pick our winner, the deadline this time around is anything you can submit before I log in tomorrow morning (Thursday, 31 October). Once I log in, I'll identify that the deadline has passed here, and will create our poll. This time around, we'll go with a public poll that will remain open until I log in Friday morning (Friday, 1 November) and see who wins.

 

So for those of you that like to wait until the last minute, there's still time to get a banner submitted for November.

 

Keep in mind that anything submitted will remain eligible in perpetuity (depending upon any special criteria we might have from month to month). So any entries that don't win this month will be eligible for subsequent months.

[Brother Tyler]

The poll for November, 2024 can be seen here.

[Brother Tyler]

There have been 3 additional submissions in the gallery.

 

The deadline for this month will be Thursday, 21 November (whenever I first log in that day). I'll post the poll either that day or on Friday, 22 November. The poll will last through 1 or 2 December (whenever I get back from my trip), at which point the winning submission will join the rotation.

[Brother Tyler]

The poll for December, 2024 can be seen here.

[Brother Tyler]

The deadline for new submissions will be 23 January, 2025 (i.e., anything in before I log in on the morning of 24 January, 2025). All eligible submissions will be included in the poll that will go out to the community on 24 January, 2025, the winning submission being added to the rotation on 1 February, 2025.