Ok, as much as I hate to say it a lot of you can't set out a simple request thread so I've decided to make some sort of guidelines.
Titles: - fairly simple example, also when making a request thread make sure you use the request subsection.
NOT PAYING: Team Chocolate LF GFX
PAYING: Team Chocolate LF GFX $$
Requesting:
A lot of "anything that looks cool" or "try anything, not sure what we want" has been seen lately - this IS NOT how it should be written up - A designer won't bother even bother opening up Photoshop if all you've written up asking for something that looks cool because in all honesty we all have different ideas on what's cool and what isn't.
What we do look for is:
- Team name / Name
- Preferred colours
- Ideal logos in which you like or a theme or maybe 1-2 sentences about the design your picturing. Even doing a rough sketch and scanning it onto your computer and posting it in the thread can give us an idea as to what you want.
- What your actually looking for like Sigs, Logo, Banner, Wallpaper etc etc
Heres an example if your still not quite sure:
Quote from Team Chocolate LF GFX $$$:
Hey designers of CG, Team Chocolate is looking for new graphics. We are looking for something that can represent us as a team, something that is simple yet professional.
What we are looking for:
Avatar
PRM and Non-PRM Sigs
1x Transparent Logo
1x Logo with background
1x Team Banner
CODE:
Text: Your name
Subtext: Myclan
Colors: Blues, greys, dark themed
Render/Stock: (URL)
Size: (Premium or the pixel size)
The Logo:
- Must have a sort of chocolate emblem or theme to it.
- Simple but effective and professional.
- Colours: We want it stay within the chocolate theme, so keep it brown.
- Our clan tag is CHOC, so you can use that if you want
We understand that graphics requires a fair bit of effort and time and we've decided to pay for your work. The team has decided on a minimum of $35 to pay and if we all think its worth more we will be happy to sort something out. If you have any questions please feel free to post in the thread or PM me or one of the members.
Cheers,
Team Choc.
Now that the guidelines are here it should be fairly easy to get the layout correct - It will help you and your team get what your looking for faster and you'll get respect from designers. If you'd like to add anything on, post it below.
Edited twice, last edited 3/8/11 - 11:12pm by ZSpider.
Posted on Wednesday, 30th March 2011