*Revised 09/14/06*

Dear all,

Since our first MCN shield contest was such a great hit one year ago, MCN is proud to announce the 2nd MCN Shield Design Contest, which begins today!

The rules are as straightforward as last time around. Basically, all you have to do is to come up with a flat 2D design for the new Knights Shield (available here) by using this template. We are looking for designs that best epitomize originality while at the same time retaining a certain mercurial Lego-esque feel, with the eventual winner being determined by a panel or MCN mods. Grand prizes will be awarded!

Here are the rules:

1. Each person is allowed a maximum of 3 entries, each of which must be submitted via this form. (failure to observe this rule can result in disqualification in this contest).

2. The design must be applicable to the Knights Shield. Template can be found here.

3. The following entries are accepted: hand-painted, computer program-aided or hand-drawn and scanned.

4. Contest deadline is 15 October, 2006. Winners will be announced at the end of the month.

Prizes:

The Grand Winner will receive a special custom-made minifig, either designed by the winner himself/herself or by Redbean at the winner's request. This fig will be an absolutely unique sig-fig that will not available anywhere else (just like MicBean from the previous contest).

Two runner-ups will receive an actual Knights Shield printed (by water-slide decals) with their own winning designs. This is also a collector item that is not available anywhere else.

If you have any other questions regarding the details of the contest, please post them in this thread.

RB

Can I  please get a template for the blank shield for  the draw plus format, I tried makeing it myself but I can't use the curve tool and my attempts were coming ot really crapy. I would really apreciate it because i would love to enter the contest and i dont want to make it in MS paint. If you can mke it in draw plus, or if someone else could do it, please send the file to my Email:

marhar@eskimobob.com

Thanks

On our design, should we just leave the background blank for waterslide printing, or is it up to us to decide if we want a background?

*EDIT*

Can we comment on designs in the entries forum as well?

marhar: I don't have the software drawplus so can't help you with this. But what you may want to consider doing is to simply download the template in jpg format and retrace the outline in drawplus. This task should not be too difficult.

vidgamer838: You can do whatever you like with the background, and yes, you may provide a comment on your design if you wish.

RB

Actually I meant can we comment on other people's designs in that forum?

Polish~ Originality will be part of the judging process, but that doesn't mean you can't use existing Lego designs. It's up to you, and remember, you get three entires so do what you feel.

VG~ I don't make the rules but my inclination would be no. The link is for posting of entries only and I think it would inappropriate to comment on other's designs.

Pac~ Ultimately I'll defer to RB about this, but the idea of swapping out designs seems to run contrary to the three-per-member rule. The solution would be to only post a design if your 100% sure it is finished.

CB~ Nope. Hence the idea to inject fresh blood in to our design pool.

Marhar/Redbean; concerning the shield for Draw Plus, from what I can see "Heroshield.JPeG"  [from above] would have to be converted to be able to be imported. As such, Marhar (and anyone else wanting to use Draw Plus), try this pic of the shield: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/PeterNix/Miscellaneous/heroshield.jpg. And unless I'm wrong for a change, you shouldn't have to retrace the shield (unless you want to, or the file I converted looks bad)- just start designing.

-Alan

I just want to say cool contest and I will probably enter. I hope I never have the lamebrains to become a mod  ;  ). No offence. I didn't mean it, you guys are awesome. We need a contest that you can enter, though.

P.S. I agree with Pac. I think you should be able to switch it up right until the judging begins. Why not?

Guys, sorry for the late reply.

To clarify the rules: I agree with Pharazon and others that one should not be able to alter a design once it has been posted. Sorry but it would just cause too much problem to keep track of who has entered what.

DD: thanks for offering to make a template for drawplus.

In addition to what Phar and Red have already stated, I'll remind you guys (just because it's pertinent, not because I think anyone will try it) not to pull any funny business and try to change out your designs hoping no one will notice. I'm online quite a bit and I'm keeping tabs on what's been posted. If you edit a post to change an entry of yours to something else, you'll be violating the rules of the contest and I imagine that would result in a disqualification.

I'll also remind everyone that this contest goes until mid-October! Calm down. Many of you are posting designs way too quickly. Take your time. You don't need to post any designs until closer to the deadline. Make sure you're happy with your finished designs before posting any of them. Don't just post up the first three things that you throw together in 6 minutes. There's no rush, and there are no awards for who gets their designs posted the fastest.

Take your time.


(After all, you wouldn't -need- to go back and change your entries if you waited to make sure your entries were your best work.)

• All submitted entries are NOT visible to the public until after Oct 15th.  (the deadline for all submissions)
• Once you submit an entry you CAN NOT edit it.  
• The time of which you submit an entry (now or later) has no bearing on judging
• Maximum entries per user is still 3

• a link to the (let's say bricklink) image url or
  
• a picture of the shield or
  
• a link  AND a picture?

do we have to download the image or do we just copy and paste?