Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Banner Contest Is Closed!


That slow clap is for you guys.

Disregarding the two that have already graced the top of the blog, I have our three winners! They're after the page break!





First, we have Sefling's Pony Noir banner! This was an early entry and I instantly loved it. Nice and clean, and I love the title bar. Good work!




Next is tdtwix's Scratch banner! Love the use of the graffiti styling and a font other than Celestia Medium! Also, Scratch is always awesome.




This last one, eponymous', was a close call between it and a last-minute entry (you know who you are!). I decided on this one simply for the sheer amount of work it must have taken to frame all those pictures. Also, it made me giggle.


Congratulations to you three! Your banners will be featured on the blog!


The rest of the entries were as follows. Because Seth thinks there are some amazing ones that didn't get picked, we will be having a poll  to pick three additional winners.  You can find the poll on the right side bar under the archive.


- A few break the rules on size requirements (16 and 39) and will not be included in the poll, everything else should be there! (- Seth)


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162 comments:

BagOfChips said...

Wait, there was a banner contest? I look here every day and didn't see it... either I'm blind or you guys were very subtle.

Cereal Velocity said...

It was at the top of the blog for, like, ever, dude.

Anonymous said...

"Scratch is always awesome."
God I love you Cereal.

~Scratch

PK said...

oh good.
the slow-clap processor made it into this blog.

so we have that.

Anonymous said...

EQUESTRIA NIGHTLY!

Obviously #29 will be one of the winners, Luna is best pony.

BagOfChips said...

@Cereal Velocity

In blue text on a blue background.

StreakTheFox said...

my top 3 of the non-top-3-already?

(in no specific order)
-Team Fortress Banner
-Equestria Nightly (first one)
-[welcome to] Equestria Daily (really colorful cartoony one)

Plaster said...

hmm, i'm glad you decided to have another 3 winners by public vote, there are some really good ones in this mix

Babadingldoo said...

Everypony vote for their own! 46 way tie mean they all go up! :D

papersketch said...

I didn't win? That's okay. At least I was featured for two days.

(PSSST, VOTE FOR MAH BANNER OR ELSE DERPY WILL DERP UP THE WEBSITE AGAIN AND SEND US BACK INTO SPAAAAAAAACCE)

Roger Smith said...

y'know, Bloomberg is one of the most underrated characters on the show. Even Madame le Flour, Ricky, Sir Lints-a-Lot and Mr. Turnip get more love...

...mmm'just sayin'

Anonymous said...

PINKINTERIOR CROCADILE ALLAGOTor, I DRIVE A CHEVERLAY MOVIE THEATOR!

Anonymous said...

Soooo many good ones.

Kit said...

I would like to point out that in the poll you missed 16 lol

Anonymous said...

I have more Rainbow Dash pics in my room than Scootaloo does.

Just so you know.

Anonymous said...

Somepony needs to fix the poll. There's no #39!
I wanna vote for Derpy!

Puppys said...

Do you see that banner there? #32? One of the only three Luna banners I can see?

That's totally mine. I made that banner. AND IT'S IN A RUNNER-UP POLL. ON AN AWESOME SITE.

I feel so happy right now. 8'D

Anonymous said...

Dashie's Razor - You blame the mare banging him.

Sethisto said...

39 and 16 broke the height rule! They were too tall!

Pinkius Piecus said...

39 is missing on the poll

Anonymous said...

source for 31 pls

Anonymous said...

Does the pony Noir banner have any connection to the PonyNoir Story?

Duskfly said...

Who made the animated clapping Octivia?

(not part of the contest)

Anonymous said...

@Duskfly
Some awesome brony who deserves all my love.


Sorry, i dunno.

AlterForm said...

@Sethisto

I don't think so, Sethisto; they're just proportioned differently. ~600x350 as opposed to ~900x350. Definitely still come in under the 900x350 limit.

Fluttershy said...
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Krys said...

Well it's nice to see my banner made it into the runner-ups. (28) =3

Congrats to all the winners and future grats to the runner-up winners!

krypqe said...

GYROBOWLS
ARE THE BEST

Anonymous said...

Gyro ball will BLOW YOUR MIND

Fluttershy said...

29 definitely!

moar Luna, always moar Luna

42 omigosh the Gyro Bowl. Why can I not vote for both?!?!?!?!?!

Chance said...

Woooo! I got 2 votes! :D
Much better then I expected.
Also, vote for 10 because Gummy is awesome.

Anonymous said...

@Sethisto

So you're sure we can't vote for number 39, even if it does seem to be 350px high? Pretty please!?

Alexstrazsa said...

You can really never have enough Scratch.

Tarvoc said...

I'd like to see #1, #7, #11, #18, #19, #22, #29 and #37 as banners. Hard to pick one of those for the poll though.

Tekaramity said...

@Puppys

Congratulations on finishing the banner *and* being posted as a result, Pups! You're on EqDaily now! Jubilation! =D

*always appreciates whenever his friends' artwork appears on EqDaily*

Anonymous said...

Would have Voted for the Equestria Who one if the phrase was right.

Its supposed to be "THE Doctor" not "A Doctor". Fail.

Alice Doll said...

31 and 39 were the best IMO :( Sad they didn't win.

JeanSplice said...

my vote would go to 16
lyra will allways be my favorite backround pony

Pinkie Pie said...

See number #30?
THAT WAS MINE.
I know, it's the worst it the lot.
It's strange, because I'm on blogger, but I can't seem to comment on this blog :'(

Don_East said...

@Anonymous
***FACEPALM***

Darnit, why didn't I notice that! I can change it and post it on Ponibooru.

Ben said...

W00T! I'm a runner up! (46)

BTW guys, great job on your banners!

Fluttershy said...

@Twilight Sparkle

Twilight there you are! I have word from the Major

[about the project :)]

The Dashing Brony said...

10! 10! Definitely 10!

Anonymous said...

I want to tell everybrony I know to vote for mine (number 17) but I honestly don't think it should be one of the winners looking at how good a lot of the other submissions are!

Good job fellow bronies! I know you put just as much (if not more) effort and love into your banners as I!

Twilight Sparkle said...

@Fluttershy
Like I told the major earlier.
I've been in my library all day.
He never replied.

Chance said...

@Pinkie Pie

I think its nice. Way better than mine IMO. (#7)

Fluttershy said...

@Twilight Sparkle

Oh why did i not think of that, sorry Twilight :)

[this is concerning turning the rp into a real fanfic. He wanted me to get ahold of you and another. I've been updating the google doc. I can send you his email and a link to the doc if you'd like.]

Vopogon said...

No love for Colgate?

:P

Anonymous said...

37, 37 and 37!

Bejoty said...

Awww there are so many great ones even to just limit it to 6! Could we perhaps feature the winners first and then have community spotlight banners every once in a while?

I'd gladly make more. This was fun! ^^

DJ Kat said...

Wait, there was a banner contest? Holy crap, these are awesome. Brb, downloading.

Twilight Sparkle said...

@Fluttershy
It's okay.You know how I am when I get engrossed in a book.

[Apologies but any help I could actually give on it would be minimal at best.
I'm kind of pressed for attention as I've got a few projects in the works that require my full attention.]

Fluttershy said...

[It's fine we've got about 4 - 5 to work on this. Well, he wanted me to get ahold of you. Not sure for what exactly. If you could 1 of 2 either send me an email and I can forward you the info or you could leave your email here. Mine is in my profile here. Any help is appreciated :) ]

SonicPants said...

woo! awesome contest even if my banner didn't win. gratz to all the winners, a lot of awesome banners out there!

Twilight Sparkle said...

@Fluttershy
[My email should be on my profile too.We'll see what happens.]

Anonymous said...

Ban 27 NOW!!!

Pinkie Pie said...

@Chance :") t-thank you. BUT YOURS IS STILL BETTER THAN MINE.

Fluttershy said...

@Twilight Sparkle

[sent, thank you. Hopefully he'll be able to explain more what he needs help with. I'm just a co-writer and message pony right now.]

you're a true friend Twilight, thank you

Anonymous said...

#27

BURN IT. BURN IT WITH FIRE.

Sunset Sky said...

Everyone else go home. 29 wins. It just does.

Twilight Sparkle said...

@Fluttershy
[front page here we come?]

No problem Fluttershy.Give the major my regards.

Fluttershy said...

[we're very hopeful it will. Once it gets some detail and some condensing]

I certainly will Twilight

Starty! said...

@Anonymous

Yeah, everypone vote for that one! :D

Twilight Sparkle said...

@Fluttershy
[Well it certainly should be interesting.Maybe Seth or Cereal were following our bizzare antics.]

Anonymous said...

If only we can devote for a picture, I'd totally lower 19 and ESPECIALLY 27. BLEH!

Anonymous said...

16 WHY U NO SHOW UP

Fluttershy said...

@Twilight Sparkle

[Most definitely, keeps getting better by the day. It certainly wouldn't surprise me. Upon further investigation I believe one of the Luna's from Saturday was Seth.]

BronyMike said...

Ahaha, love the translucent Trollestia in the G3 one.

Equestria Melee really impressed me, as did the first Equestria Nightly (second one was a good concept, but to put the owl on her horn made it too abnormally long) and the Equestria Fortress 2.

Also, SOMEONE MADE A PINKTERIOR CROCODILE ALLIGATOR REFERENCE WHAAAAT? I hope that was related to my vids and not just dumb luck or something. LINKWHORE AWAY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkcU54BO6Q4

Anonymous said...

Yeaa 3 G Whooooooo 27!¡!¡!¡!

Beat the rage :D

Twilight Sparkle said...

@Fluttershy
[Oh the double Luna thing.He must have been surprised.I would've given anything to see his face.]

Cereal Velocity said...

Twilight? Fluttershy? Can you please exchange emails instead of clogging the comments with this stuff?

Bejoty said...

@BronyMike

Nope, that's definitely where I got it from! It was heavily suggested in Filly's Synchtube channel when I asked what the subheader should be.

GUMMY FOREVER!!

Sethisto said...

@Twilight Sparkle

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/05/twilight-and-fluttershys-rp-post.html

There you go! RP away!

Fluttershy said...

@Sethisto

omigosh Seth I love you so much right now!

I'll tell the others. yay!

Calico said...

I love the Equestria Creepy banner! Sheer brilliance.

Crazy Jezus said...

@Anonymous

Brohoof!

Anonymous said...

--Right Click > Save Image As...--ing most of these

Eponymous said...

Oh my gosh, I made it O_O
Thanks!
Also putting my vote on #29, Luna just can't get enough lovin' =)

ZMorris said...

Wow, I was competing with a LOT of fantastic stuff.

Still, it was fun. Congrats to all the winners!

Simbaro said...

Aw come ON. Equestria Waifus was the clear winner. Seth i am disappoint

Anonymous said...

There is no #39 on the poll.

Babadingldoo said...

Ha, Equestria Creepy actually paid money for Generation B.

Anonymous said...

So confused as to why some of the image file names are different than their entry numbers.

Sethisto said...

@Simbaro

Cereal picked them, I didn't!

If it was up to me, 30 of them would be picked! Which is why he took over ;p I'm bad at narrowing things down, and easily excited.

Anonymous said...

#39
Y U NO ON POLL?

Anonymous said...

6
10
24

Killsteal_Wolf said...

49 entries, and only ONE of them featured Trixie, AND it didn't win. Well would ya look at that...

(I entered with the second Equestria Lazy banner, number 21. Guess I wasn't the only one to think it up, huh?

Luna said...

@Sethisto
Silly Seth, Lyra's always breaking the rules, of PONY PHYSICS!

Anonymous said...

My votes are for #29 (because that Equestria Nightly is just gorgeous), and #18. And then either #1 or #28. And #26 and #39 are cute...

Why do we have to choose? Can't we just run them all?

Anonymous said...

7 10 29 please.

Anonymous said...

Voted #5

Anonymous said...

Hey, where did 16 go on the poll? I DEMAND RETRIBUTION!

Anonymous said...

:( can't even see the lightning in 34. curse .pngs, white on a white background is not as good as on blue.

Firleycat said...

Equestria Nightly: Because only half the world goes asleep when the sun goes down.

Alice-Human-Sacrifice said...

I made number 11

ZAquanimus said...

NOT FAIR!!!

I want the tf2 banner and the Luna nightly banner!!! D:

Eponymous said...

Suddenly in transpires someone else has at last started using my name.

Certainly gave me quite a shock winning a contest I never applied for.

I wonder what to do..

ZAquanimus said...

Yay!!!!

Her majesty, queen of the night, #29 is winning !!! :D <3

Anonymous said...

10 17 22 and 39 are the best!

Anonymous said...

@Duskfly source of the gif is http://mihaaaa.deviantart.com/

Cottonmouth said...

"Equestria Spike"

Thank you whoever made this, since I know Cereal nor Seth ever would.

Anonymous said...

#29 is the best.

I dislike #27.

Anonymous said...

29 Is good because it has an actual background, +the unyque art for Luna which isn't even Copy-Pasted or badly drawn, it's actually better than the Flash version
Check the votes for 29

Anonymous said...

Equestria Girls

Should have come out 1 day earlier

Number Six said...

It's really too bad that 16 doesn't qualify; it looks slick as hell.

Anonymous said...

Why hasn't anyone noticed Trollestia in #27?? That thing is genius!

Anonymous said...

#10, #1, and #5 in that order. Colgate needs more love!!!!!

Anonymous said...

I demand the GyroBowl to be featured.

Aaron said...

what bad karma. my computer crashed and won't start up anymore. I'm a computer expert, and even I have no clue what went wrong.

my banner never got to be submitted D:

Mattsie said...

>mfw mine isn't there :C then again 10 is much better than mine was

Mattsie said...

Oh man and I did an L.Neigh Noire thing too http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_rh3CUMta5Fw/Td0e4sCa0zI/AAAAAAAAARA/C3pLus7sDHA/s640/Untitled.jpg :c got to learn to vector I guess - Congrats to the winners c:

AlterForm said...

Still not sure how I'm breaking the height rule on 16, but thanks to those of you who do seem to have enjoyed it. Glad to see the time spent wasn't entirely wasted.

Putuk said...

Obviously #42.
I mean, COME ON! IT'S A GYROBOWL! AND 42 IS THE ANSWER TO LIVE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING ELSE!

Alexstrazsa said...

What is this, I can't vote for my own banner because it's not a choice? Argh!

I'm kidding, I freaking love the other two Scratch ones that were posted. tdtwix did a fine job.

Eponymous2 said...

@Babadingldoo
Actually I remade the font with a free font maker I grabbed on the Net from a .png of the 26 chars someone had posted in the contest comments. Heh, I hope nobody from that site reads this >.>
@Eponymous
I really didn't know you already used that name m8, I'm sorry :s
I'll now be forever known as Eponymous2 :D

Terrible Fanart Brony said...

Aw, nobody's going for 22. I figured everyone would go for that!

Kapten-N said...

My favourites are 20, 28 and 45.
It's hard to decide.
Pony Addicts Anonymous is very fitting, because well... Anyway, it also keeps the name "Equestria daily".
Equestria nightly is fitting because this site have severely screwed up my sleep schedule. :P
And I just love how Derpy screwed up the banner in the last one. (I also translated the binary code in the background.)
Hmm... I'll have to think about this some more.

BTW, I can't see what's in the framed picture in number 4. Is it relevant to the joke?

Nova25 said...

Hey, Sephisto ?

For the Poll you forgot the Number 39 ! (I was gonna vote for that one...)

It's the Derpy-Muffin banner.

Anonymous said...

@Terrible Fanart Brony

I do like the idea of #22, but the contrasting neon colors hurt my brain! I don't know if I could handle it at full size on the top of the page for a full day @_@

Purplefoxtail said...

Equestria nightly is good, but man, reminds me of equestria after dark xD

Anonymous said...

its so hard to choose... why must there be so many... confound these ponies they drive me to indecision

TDTwix said...

Wait, what? I WON?
Wow... I can't believe it, thanks :3

Yonin777 said...

Good job everypony there wasn't one that I disliked.

Anonymous said...

My top three are 6, 36 & 12.
It was hard to pick, though, since I really like the mane 6 colts, I just felt like the text on the others meshed better.

Anonymous said...

I like the Iron Maiden font on 22.

Craig T. said...

Wish I made one, but it probably wouldn't be as good as these shown here.

Nova25 said...

Did anyone saw that the #39 didn't have a ''Voting Option'' ?

Anonymous said...

36, 5 and 43

TDTwix said...

Oh, I almost forgot. #3, #24, and #42.

Sef said...

yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes! Win :D Feel bad though because there are such a great amount of entries. Voted for #29 Equestria Nightly, very fitting.

Leandrea said...

@Cottonmouth

I made that one. I had never seen a spike banner (and looking at what everyone else did it looks like no one else was going to make one.)

Glad you like it.

Anonymous said...

I'm hoping E.D. has this contest again. With only a scant four days notice, not everypony had enough time to get a decent banner up.
I'm also sad I didn't get to submit mine, as I lost power right before the deadline.

Anonymous said...

22

Because Iron Maiden.

Anonymous said...

Haha no voting for #16 :)

frith said...

I wanted to choose three: 21, 27 and 29. #29 won. Go Luna!

Heireau said...

Yay 29~ Luna love! :L

Anonymous said...

Y U NO VOTE FOR #3?????

spikefan101 said...

My votes:

1. 10 and 30

Kujiiro said...

#26 I see what you did there. Nice.

Anonymous said...

I want to play Equestria Melee now.

I will, however, settle for background wallpaper. :-)

Anonymous said...

Voting for 1 because I have faith that 29 doesn't need my help to win... Luna <3

James said...

What do you know, I was around the middle! Well, better than being dead last.

Dave said...

Why can I not vote for 47?

ALL PONY FOR THE HYPNO OWL

Sukotto said...

I'll just take this space for everypony who voted on #29 (thanks!)

also, In my opinion #31 is deargod awesome.

Starty! said...

hahahahaha I know is off-topic but the Twilight/Fluttershy conversation later was hilarious, this happens a lot?

Fluttershy said...

@Starty!

[oh you mean us? It has since this weekend. I've seen ones doing something like this before. Well not the full on RP like we had but....]

Anonymous said...

#28. Twilight Sparkle. Gentlemen. I see what you did there...

Anonymous said...

Oh, 27... I see what you did there.

Narwhals' Bend said...

@AnonymousTrollestia strokes again!

Yaro Kasear said...

I vote for anything that has Derpy in it! Specifically I vote for: 25, 5, 4, 30, and 31.

One of those is actually Pinkie, but she's got her crazy-face on it.

Anonymous said...

Yay for the winning banner which will drive us into insomnia xD

Anonymous said...

lol you can't vote on #s 16 39 or 47 but they were all three background or side ponies / owl anyway so too bad 4 those entries but really they weren't going to get that many votes anyways :D

Starty! said...

Thanks for all the bronies who vote for banner 31! that is mine! I'm 4th place right now, so keep on voting! Thank you all!

James said...

Glad to see my baby (22) is getting some love.

Funny story about the Iron Maiden font, I was originally going to do a Cute Mark Crusaders inspired banner (Explaining the neon colors) but I couldn't find any good pictures of the fillies in their outfits (any good ones were a rubbish size) so Pinkamena won as a last resort. Thank Celestia for my splatter brushes.

Moogie said...

37
8
31

neigh

Anonymous said...

was very happy to see a couple for my favorite philly, Vynal Scratch aka DJ PON-3. Also the gyro bowl made me cry laughing

Anonymous said...

EWW G3 SUCKS!!!!!!!! BURN IT!

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