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New Headers Selected, Header Rotator Added
Published by Bart on August 9th, 2008 in Art, BlenderNation
After last week's call for a new header we received almost 30 submissions! I've picked the 10 best and added them to the site.
All of them? Yes! Several people have suggested rotating through the header images automatically, so I've added this function to the site. Instead of displaying a new image with each pageview though, I've chosen to display a new image every day. That should make browsing faster and I think it's a bit easier on the eyes.
To see the 'winners', see below! (Oh, and adding new images is a breeze, so keep 'em coming!)
Eradicor:
MP:
knekke:
Dion Moult:
Kubeczek77:
ROUBAL:
lile:
tatasoka:
deathblood:
Rigoberto Ortega:
Dalai Felinto:
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very nice choices! I like them alot.
I don't know if you caught mine since I just added it to the other post a few hour ago, so here it is in case you missed it. Feel free to ignore if you saw it already.
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_xracer.png
Congrats!
Although Im just curious if youll be rotating the old headers also?
@JSG: yeah, I saw it but found it a little bland with all the blue..
@Gustav: certainly! I'll do that later, first let's enjoy the new ones.
Thats some nice headers! Really like MP's and -lile.
It's good to know it won't load an image every page load because I get crazy of all those image rotators that display a new image every page load. Not because of the images I have to download but because of the chaos it creates. I've once seen a website with a very confusing image rotator.
And why is my gravatar no longer working?
"And why is my gravatar no longer working?"
We rotated it! Harhar :)
Lol.
I think I fixed it now. All I have to do is wait for it to pop up again.
It was rated X instead of G.
(like my 'A' avatar is adult content :P, yeah right)
@Jean-Sébastien Guillemette: i think yours is great as well!
Very nice headers:) Congratulations.
Nice harvest :D
Congratulation for the winners and hurray for the BlenderNation staff for the rotatiminator ! (rotator would have been to simple to write)
Sorry for double posting, but another suggestion…
Suppose a headhunter goes to Blendernation and is wowed by the header…
Maybe there should be a link with more details… an "about our header" link with contact info or portfolio/personal website (if not kept private) in case someone is looking for people to hire.
If potential employers just had to click on the header to have the info…
Don't know if it could or should be done ? :p
Very good idea.
Is the one from knekke Datura flowers?
@Bart you mistook JSG for JMS
PS: re-rendered in Orange I think JSG car could fit in the mosaic.
wow.. all pretty cool.. while some are just incredible.. I love the blimp and the dinosaurs
They are very beautiful!
the one by eradicor is amaizing.
yay! well done to all who got in the top 10
Great headers! I especially like Kubeczek77's entry.
Just remember folks, "alot" is NOT one word. The same goes for "noone." What is that, midday?
Sorry, my entry had an error. Here they are as hopefully readable imageshack links. Thanks for the consideration. The banners look great and I would count myself lucky to be shown with them.
http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/5339/kobleskybanner2bc4.jpg
http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/2274/kobleskybanner1pd6.jpg
Woohoo! I got in the top 10! Thanks a lot guys!
My header is there! ^^
Thanks a lot"
¡Woooooohhhooo! My header is there too, I feel very very happy for this… because I am new in the use of blender. really this is a great incentive for my to continue learning and improving in the use of this huge tool.
Thanks to all!
Nice stuff :) I especially like image no3 "knekke"….
Some of these look to good to have just been made for a banner. I want to see the full versions!
bah I seriously was spinning around on my desk chair wondering what to do to get me started on some project tonight, and I ended up on blendernation wondering if I had another render to bake into an header…so I had some fun, sorry to spam the comment section !
first off, I redid the xracer one with the original color in case,
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_xracer.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_xracer2.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_robot.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_path.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_lightbulb1.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_lightbulb2.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_lightbulb3.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_citylight.png
I love that MP's submission made it in. One of the best of the blender artists and his simplest work ever for the cube challenge made the cut. Pure awesome. Bunch of great submissions though definitely like Lile's the most. Those eyes are captivating.
@ray: I guess you are right. Seems to be a Datura… I modeled it after a picture a friend gave me, thinking it was some sort of lily…. I didn't mean to do a drug commercial, would have done some fungies instead…. ;)
ill quickly made some banners too.
http://home.deds.nl/~mp/banner/mpic001.gif
http://home.deds.nl/~mp/banner/mpic002.gif
http://home.deds.nl/~mp/banner/mpic008.jpg
have a good sunday all
Woh…Bart, you have to take at least one banner made by Ecks !
JS, they're wonderful.
Nice ones. Can we include photo backgrounds?
is there any chance to rotate them all?
@Adrian: rather not.. only Blender work, please!
Here is mine suggestions:
http://home.broadpark.no/~thonords/pb2-b1.jpg
http://home.broadpark.no/~thonords/helius_logo.jpg
This is nice. Keeping the quality and also having some variety. Love Deathblood's characters!
I do have to say that I dig Ecks' lightbulb2.
The new header is nice but why the name of the author is so deep dark?!? Make it eye friendly, please.
My header has been picked for a Sunday.. how am i supposed to boast about it in front of my collegues?? At least i took a screenshot *sigh*
@knekke: it'll get back in a while. It's a rotator, you know ;-)
Is that a deadline now? Can I update some now? I want to share some banners too~~:) Sorry I'm late~~:(
Have a good time~~~
http://photos2.pix.ie/25/D1/25D1D84270834E43AFA54D86BC7ED437.jpg
http://photos5.pix.ie/9B/97/9B973BC4F16E4FC4955F82AC6EC76A1A.jpg
http://photos2.pix.ie/13/E7/13E7DA5147444603A6EE169C038817E8.jpg
Wonder why almost everyone has a Microsoft Desktop Blue background :)
Nice pictures
here's mine
http://www.creamsurfer.de/header_manuel2.png
http://www.creamsurfer.de/header_manuel2.jpg (jpg version)
@rstralberg: because we asked them to ;-)
Today's picture looks like they made the gradient too light a blue, as it clashes with the darker blue used with the header background.
@Tynach: indeed! I'm pulling it for now.
@Eradicador: can you please re-check the background color of your banner and email it to me? (bart @ this site)
génial.
it's a really good idea :-)
++
Today is my kodak moment :)
I think this is the first work in BGE to compose a blendernation header, right?
This is a screen direct from the game, no post-production on it.
I didn't put my name because there are other people in the team that also have a part in this job.
Some of then: Mike Pan, Pinuja (modeler), and all the team from the first phase of the project.
Could we add a Favicon to the site please?
Why my work wasn't on the site? Lile Hansen's work is second time on the site…
Interesting how the rotator is working …
Today is the third time my work is displayed.
Is the rotator taking less then one day per image?
@Dalai: yeah, the script is still a work in progress. I had to make a few minor changes to it which caused it to restart. I'm still figuring out how to add new headers to it without screwing up the existing order, so you may see another few hickups :) To answer your question: it's supposed to show only one image per day.
Hey Bart, I missed a couple months of posts but, I was just reading the header stuff and did up two if you want to use them
http://www.shakenfrogs.com/zenphoto/albums/blender-headers/BlendedM1114F5.png
http://www.shakenfrogs.com/zenphoto/albums/blender-headers/BlendedMoon.png
New headers added to the rotator:
- http://www.creamsurfer.de/header_manuel2.jpg
- http://photos2.pix.ie/13/E7/13E7DA5147444603A6EE169C038817E8.jpg
- http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_lightbulb2.png
- http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_path.png
Thanks!
Bart,
My image is not appearing in the header…
@Otávio: I took it offline because the background color was wrong. If you fix it and mail it to me (bart @ this site), I'll put it back online!
Ok Bart. I fixed the header.
Thanks!
OK. Thought I'd try submitting one for the first time! Here's a link to my attempt:
http://4chron.home.comcast.net/~4chron/BNHeader1.jpg