Contest: Create your own TERA loading screen!

    Have you ever dreamed of affecting the world of Arborea in a way that EVERY player can see? Then this is your chance to partake in such an epic contest!


    Design an original piece of art (no screenshots will be allowed) with the dimensions 1920x1200, formatted either as a .BMP or .PSD with 24bit.




    “Flying with my blimp through the battlegrounds to destroy the enemy crystal!”


    We will choose the best three submissions for each language and these will then be introduced into the game with a patch. For a few weeks, players will be able to see your creation as a TERA loading screen!

    How to participate:


    • Picture with the dimensions 1920x1200, 24bit in either .BMP or .PSD format
    • Include the name and server of your character when submitting your image
    • You may add a message to be displayed beneath the image, with a maximum length of 160 characters (will be translated by us into DE/FR).
    • The submission has to be sent to contest_en@tera-europe.com by Sunday, 09th of June 2013 23:59 CEST.


    In addition to having your submission be displayed in-game, you will also get a 30-day version of the Snowdrift mount!


    By participating in this contest you accept our conditions of participation.

    I was thinking about trying, but with that reward? Nope.


    Seriously? People work hard and spend hours and hours to finish a perfect loading screen and the prize isn't even permanent?

    I don't see many serious entries for this contest since prize is just a 30 day mount, especially since snowdrift ain't the best looking one either.


    Had it been permanent ppl might have been interested.

    They are choosing 9. 9 winners, yet they can't give them perma mount.


    Serious?

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    I was thinking about trying, but with that reward? Nope.


    Seriously? People work hard and spend hours and hours to finish a perfect loading screen and the prize isn't even permanent?


    +1.
    I totally agree with you.
    Creating something like that is hard work and it takes a lot of time.
    And then you get nothing for it in return? (Yes I call a 30-day mount nothing cause it will disappear).
    Just wow.

    Hmmm I really wanted do some good work, spend a lot of time to make it good but...


    I DONT WANT TO


    I dont need 30-days mount. I can buy it in future for fev €. I can buy it without any problem and dont need be like poor Chinese child.


    Good luck, now u can get "great, proffessional" arts :D

    How funky it'd be if no one's even gonna bother with a loading screen now. But you know how it goes, there are always some people that will participate no matter the "reward"...

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    How funky it'd be if no one's even gonna bother with a loading screen now. But you know how it goes, there are always some people that will participate no matter the "reward"...


    Yeah, but the reward is worth a drawing like this:

    A temporary loading screen and a temporary reward. Logical, but somehow it still leaves a feeling that players are tricked.


    And... what is the theme, for example? Not a vague hint at least?

    Don't really want to repeat what everyone else already said, but the reward really is a giant letdown. I highly doubt you will even have 9 serious entries like this. Gameforge, please understand that artwork of this scale (and level, as it needs to be very professional to actually be worthy of being displayed in the game) is a massive amount of work, and will take days or weeks to complete. People who would actually agree to put such effort into this deserve a much better reward. If you're working as an artist, you would probably get paid a few hundred euros for a proper work of this scale... Anyone who actually possesses enough skill to pull this kind of work off, will laugh at this event and not bother.


    I'd love to take part if the reward was a bit better, but my drawing skills sadly aren't good enough. :P If screenshots or such would be allowed, I could whip something nice up digitally, though.

    I was hoping there would be a choice of a few more unusual prizes. Something one would really break one's back for. Maybe a Dragonette or a Maid's dress, or something else that is a bit hard to get one's hands on.


    Might still participate, but it feels like a bit of a let-down. I've actually been working on a picture that's practically done, but I feel disinclined to send it in.

    Well, this is just crap.


    I'd have loved to participate, but really, I'd have to work on it for 5 days at least in order to submit something I'd be properly satisfied with, and let me tell you guys that working almost a week on a concept art that is only gonna make me win a TEMPORARY 30 DAYS mount, is just sucky as hell, and an insult to my work.
    Don't get me wrong, I really, really LOVE this event. It's the perfect kind of event for me, as I happen to be an artist.
    But please, put up a proper prize, because no, the 30 days mount, or the overused scumbag excuse "But it's free publicity for you and your work" aren't gonna cut it.


    Any artist with any bit of self-respect wouldn't participate in this insulting joke of an event.


    Gameforge, realize that if I do this work, I would sell it for hundreds of euros to companies that would have requested it.
    Why would I waste 4/5 days to do it for basically nothing at all?

    I'm also considering of entering this contest but main major problem is the prize which everyone keep saying. And that prize it self is the one telling me not to join this contest.


    The prize isn't good enough for us to actually spend LOTS of our time or weeks/days to create a good loading screen for the game. If you guys considering changing the prize of the event, then maybe lots of people might consider joining this event seriously.


    Having a 30day temporary mount as a prize feels like you got rip off by someone.



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    I know the -main- prize is supposed to be the display of your art within the game, but even that is only a temporary thing. A free bit of advertising. I have a few artist friends who make money from commissioned work, and the amount of hours they put into a piece that they're -happy- with is staggering. The deadline for this competition is really soon, and that means any artist wanting to enter is going to have to work flat out unless they happen to have something suitable already lying around.


    And... well. 30 day temporary mount. I'm not normally one to whine on free stuff, but the community has said TIME AND AGAIN that the prizes offered in Gameforge's events are substandard and often insulting. To us, as a consumer, it appears that there is literally zero difference in giving a permanent item to giving a temporary one in terms of effort and complexity from Gameforge - it's a single item delivered to a character. There are so few winners that it seems so strange to give a 30 day thing. Is the intention that the winners will then spend more money in the cash shop buying a permanent version of something they won and got attached to?


    I'm no artist, and I can't enter this competition. But I urge you, Gameforge - LISTEN to your community on this one. Temporary prizes for competitions that require creativity and effort are INSULTING to your playerbase. Change the prize to permanent. Please. Our artists deserve better.


    EDIT - And in addition, there are already good artists in this thread saying that the Temporary nature of this prize is making them not enter. If that's the case, what will we end up with as winning results? Will you be forced to give us pictures done in 2 minutes in MS Paint because noone else entered anything, forcing the ENTIRE playerbase to look at them constantly? The winners of this competition will be seen by every single Tera EU player. It really behooves Gameforge to do everything they can to ensure that the best artists in the community ALL enter, so we get nine awesome login screens to look at.

    Quote from Sapphidia;2645399

    EDIT - And in addition, there are already good artists in this thread saying that the Temporary nature of this prize is making them not enter. If that's the case, what will we end up with as winning results? Will you be forced to give us pictures done in 2 minutes in MS Paint because noone else entered anything, forcing the ENTIRE playerbase to look at them constantly? The winners of this competition will be seen by every single Tera EU player. It really behooves Gameforge to do everything they can to ensure that the best artists in the community ALL enter, so we get nine awesome login screens to look at.


    The amount of troll in having 5min MS Paint pictures as loading screens would be pretty epic. Everybody playing the game would see them, and laugh at them and at Gameforge altogether.
    After all, if you keep on treating your community like crap, it's obviously going to backfire at some point or another.
    It would be a very hilarious payback after all, for sure.

    Gameforge, this is a bit of an embarassing situation to be in. To echo the thoughts of everyone else, that 'prize' if one could call it that is rather poor and somewhat insulting. There are a high calibre of artists out there who can create work that is of a much higher quality than our existing screens - their motivation to create a loading screen is a temporary mount? Alarm bells are ringing.

    Sometimes I feel bad for gameforge for having such ungrateful playerbase. We don't know the situation so why bashing them for having such prizes? If I was talented I would enter anyway because having my artwork in game that everyone can see is a big prize already. But unfortunately people are too greedy these days.
    Hopefully some real talented artist will submit their work here, the ones that draws because they love it, not because they want to win free stuff.

    1000 Extensive Alkahests would do for the price.


    or spellbinds for that matter.