New Headers Selected, Header Rotator Added

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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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    • http://www.montagestudio.org Jean-Sébastien Guillemette

      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

    • http://gustavthemushroom.deviantart.com GustavTheMushroom

      Congrats!

      Although Im just curious if youll be rotating the old headers also?

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @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.

    • Lasphere

      Thats some nice headers! Really like MP’s and -lile.

    • http://www.anicator.com AniCator

      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.

    • http://www.anicator.com AniCator

      And why is my gravatar no longer working?

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      “And why is my gravatar no longer working?”

      We rotated it! Harhar :)

    • http://www.anicator.com AniCator

      Lol.

    • http://www.anicator.com AniCator

      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)

    • http://www.FreezingMoon.org Dread Knight

      @Jean-Sébastien Guillemette: i think yours is great as well!

    • http://ja.gram.pl/Kubeczek77 Jakub Batóg

      Very nice headers:) Congratulations.

    • aws357

      Nice harvest :D
      Congratulation for the winners and hurray for the BlenderNation staff for the rotatiminator ! (rotator would have been to simple to write)

    • aws357

      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

    • ray

      Very good idea.
      Is the one from knekke Datura flowers?
      @Bart you mistook JSG for JMS

    • ray

      PS: re-rendered in Orange I think JSG car could fit in the mosaic.

    • Kirado

      wow.. all pretty cool.. while some are just incredible.. I love the blimp and the dinosaurs

    • MrNoodle

      They are very beautiful!

    • Benjamin

      the one by eradicor is amaizing.

    • dusty

      yay! well done to all who got in the top 10

    • Folsk

      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?

    • http://www.geocities.com/koblesky koblesky

      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

    • http://thinkmoult.com Dion Moult

      Woohoo! I got in the top 10! Thanks a lot guys!

    • http://blendertotal.wordpress.com/ tatasoka

      My header is there! ^^

      Thanks a lot”

    • http://www.vlomkidspanama.com Rigoberto Ortega

      ¡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!

    • http://www.soulvector.com soulvector

      Nice stuff :) I especially like image no3 “knekke”….

    • J

      Some of these look to good to have just been made for a banner. I want to see the full versions!

    • http://www.montagestudio.org Jean-Sébastien Guillemette
    • Midian

      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.

    • knekke

      @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…. ;)

    • http://home.deds.nl/~mp/ ysvry
    • Faquin

      Woh…Bart, you have to take at least one banner made by Ecks !

      JS, they’re wonderful.

    • Adrian Parkinson

      Nice ones. Can we include photo backgrounds?

    • Durden

      is there any chance to rotate them all?

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @Adrian: rather not.. only Blender work, please!

    • http://home.broadpark.no/~thonords Evander
    • Tony

      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.

    • http://www.digitalbitedesign.com Jacek Brzezowski

      The new header is nice but why the name of the author is so deep dark?!? Make it eye friendly, please.

    • knekke

      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*

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @knekke: it’ll get back in a while. It’s a rotator, you know ;-)

    • http://blog.sina.com.cn/congcong009 congcong009

      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

    • rstralberg

      Wonder why almost everyone has a Microsoft Desktop Blue background :)

      Nice pictures

    • http://www.creamsurfer.de manuel
    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @rstralberg: because we asked them to ;-)

    • http://www.qso.com/carlautta/colin/Beta/ Tynach

      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.

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @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)

    • http://melting.perso.orange.fr meltingman

      génial.
      it’s a really good idea :-)

      ++

    • http://blenderecia.orgfree.com Dalai Felinto

      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.

    • http://amoose.psoplayer.com/blog amoose136

      Could we add a Favicon to the site please?

    • http://ja.gram.pl/Kubeczek77 Kubeczek77

      Why my work wasn’t on the site? Lile Hansen’s work is second time on the site…

    • http://blenderecia.orgfree.com Dalai Felinto

      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?

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @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.

    • http://shakenfrogs.com blendedarmyfrog

      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

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart
    • http://blendertotal.wordpress.com/ Otávio tatasoka

      Bart,

      My image is not appearing in the header…

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @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!

    • http://blendertotal.wordpress.com/ Otávio tatasoka

      Ok Bart. I fixed the header.

      Thanks!

    • http://4chron.home.comcast.net Jim C

      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