David Candland, our UI artiste extraordinaire, asked, “Wouldn’t it be fun to have a Bnet reader design an emblem and include it in the shipping game?” Well wouldn’t it? Of course it would. So we’re going to give one lucky Bnet reader the chance to design an emblem to be emblazoned forever in Halo 3. Below is a template of a typical emblem. The rules are simple:
- Your emblem must consist of only two colors.
- Your emblem must be able be identified if the secondary portion is toggled off. See below for examples.
- Your emblem must look good when it’s tiny.
- Your emblem must be original art. Do NOT copy anything. All entries that look remotely like other logos or corporate images will be ejected.
- Same goes for National flags.
- Nothing offensive. Nothing rude, racist, -secks-ual!- or otherwise stupid in nature.
Remember, we’re looking for something cool and original. Maybe your Halo clan has a cool original logo, but this will be used by folks outside of your clan too, so don’t send us something you don’t want others to use. And obvious as this sounds – don’t send us one you made in Halo 2 please. We have those already…
The winner will have their emblem design featured in Halo 3, and we will pick the winner based on purely aesthetic considerations. We will pick the one we deem best suited to appear in the game and if we don’t get one we like, we won’t use one.
Make sure that your examples are 128x128 pixels and in either gif or Jpeg format. Don’t worry if you’re not an artist – we will redraw the winning image anyway, so if it’s not pixel-perfect don’t sweat it.
Send jpegs or gifs,
with file sizes NOT to exceed 128k to:
7themes@bungie.com
And if you’re not au fait with Photoshop, Paint or whatever, then simply draw your entry on a piece of paper and send it to:
Emblem Assembly
Bungie Studios
One Microsoft Way
Redmond
WA
98052
Unfortunately, this contest is not open to everyone (US and Canada only, for starters). Make sure to read the full list of official rules and regulations
HERE.
