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A little over a month ago stosh came up with an idea to whip up an avatar contest to give our members a chance to show off their artistic skills, win some cool prizes and help us beef up our puny avatar collection on the site. Four weeks and 141 avatars later, we've finally tallied the votes and picked our winners. We had so many great entries that I decided to create an "honorable mention" category to reward those who didn't quite make the cut and still allow everyone on the site to use and enjoy their creations.

Congratulations to all of our winners and a huge thanks to everyone who took the time to submit an avatar!

  • 07.03.2004 12:20 PM PDT
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W00T to the winners!!!!

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  • 07.03.2004 12:32 PM PDT

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Those we're awesome! I think I liked the bad submissions as much as the good ones :)

  • 07.03.2004 12:33 PM PDT
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Are we going to be able to use the avatars soon?

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  • 07.03.2004 12:34 PM PDT
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i'm sad mine didn't make it. *sniff*

anyway, congrats to the winners!

Just one questions, that one avatar with teh troll juggling beer bottles, what's that have to do with bungie?
and also, the evil white wolf head, that one's scary and i might be scared off! Ahhh! wha's that got to do with it?

anyway, good job to the winners! I'm still sending mine in again to see if it could get posted.

Congrats!

  • 07.03.2004 12:36 PM PDT
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Yea those 2 do not follow the rules i think, they have nothing to do with bungie....i may be wrong it may have something to do with some old game bunige made.

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  • 07.03.2004 12:38 PM PDT
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still, that one avatar scares me. I'm scared...

  • 07.03.2004 12:41 PM PDT

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Nothing to do with Bungie? Maybe you should look around a little closer.

  • 07.03.2004 12:41 PM PDT
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look where?

  • 07.03.2004 12:42 PM PDT
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That ugly bunny remember me something.....hey that thing is the bunny in earth worm jim....i am sure its the evil bunny in earth worm jim....i saw that picture somewhere. Thats a very cool game :D

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  • 07.03.2004 12:44 PM PDT
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go to http://www.freewebs.com/humiliationnationland2e/ and scroll to the bottom. I created all those avatars. THe bottom was for another friend on another forum.

I sent in "The Evolution of the Chief"

  • 07.03.2004 12:55 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

that guy ElBastard made that ugly bunny thing. that was scary

  • 07.03.2004 1:20 PM PDT
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He did not make it.....He copied and pasted....

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  • 07.03.2004 1:22 PM PDT
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The juggling DWARF is clearly from Myth. The DOGS head (not a bunny) is Ling-Ling as depicted on a very old Bungie t-shirt way back in the day. Both of these are totally relevant.

I agree with Gruntsbane, the bad ones were very entertaining.... especailly the 30 second plasma grenade toss cartoon. Great stuff.



  • 07.03.2004 1:28 PM PDT
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yay!

I lost. but meh. were those posted in the "worst avatars" section not to be available for public use but simply shown for ridicule and scorn? I just missed if that's so. or just made it if you look at it that way. ... .. mwahah.

did you notice the nipples?! please say you noticed the nipples. I'd hate to think that you guys put me in the worst category simply because you missed the nipples. he had a belly button, too. I had originally drawn him green with superhardpokethroughthearmornipples. but eh. Oh well. I'm glad I was posted. yay bungie!

  • 07.03.2004 1:31 PM PDT

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Dude, that was my favorite worst one in there. BATHE!

  • 07.03.2004 1:45 PM PDT
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Just pimping my creation. ;)

  • 07.03.2004 1:53 PM PDT
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Woot! Best of the Worst... for those who didnt get the white bald guy, thats Frankie (Mr. Garrison fr. South Park) and thats Mister Chief on his hand (Mr. Hat fr. South Park ) are you making the connection....
Anyways thats sweet.. Congrats to all who won especially Nabuil who went all Hitman on Bungie (very sweet indeed).

Shifty

PS I meant no disrespect to Halo 2 and if I offended anyone I'm sorry... except for Frankie... lol jk man your cool... *shifty eyes*

PSS If you good folks at Bungie hate me so, for disrespecting your beloved game... please send flaming ninjas to my house to decapitate me... no I mean it... I deserve it...

  • 07.03.2004 2:45 PM PDT
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Mine didn't win the worst avatar position but it did get posted as a runner-up, so I'm happy.

  • 07.03.2004 3:08 PM PDT
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mine was taken as one of the best...now i can use it in the forums. i'm so proud! ;-)

  • 07.03.2004 3:13 PM PDT
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Very cool! I sincerely regret not creating an avatar for that contest. I love the juggling Dwarf.

  • 07.03.2004 3:36 PM PDT
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I wish mine was added to the avatar section cause I think its pretty funny, but certainly not the funniest.

  • 07.03.2004 3:41 PM PDT
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Congrats to the winners.

Too bad I just learned about the special effects I can use in photoshop. Maybe I'll submit non-contest avatars in the future.

Anywhay, congradulations, again, to the winners.

  • 07.03.2004 4:22 PM PDT
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Whoa!!!!!!!!! Major Congratz to the winners. I love the one by The Rip Saw

  • 07.03.2004 8:25 PM PDT
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To clarify...

I've mentioned in another thread already, but in case you didn't read it, I'll explain.

Flash back to July 2000. Macworld New York - the first fanfest. Bungiefen are out in force, Myth II is still being actively played, Jinn still hasn't shipped and there's a close-knit community.

Aside from the wonderful Marathon Story shirts being sold there, there's a wonderful bunch of door prizes and then a chance to win... 5 shirts. These shirts aren't ordinary shirts. These shirts are worn exclusively by Bungie folks to commemorate their "sale" to MS. The front has a great picture of Ling-Ling's head, some humorous text and the back outlines Bungie's 7 steps to World Domination.

There's a series of Q&A with fans fighting each other for the chance to answer first to win one of the 5 shirts. When the smoke clears, my happy ass got to sing (in child-like fashion) the end of the Flintstone's Kids jingle to win mine.

A month later, I decide that since I'm spending so much time in OS X on my Mac, I need some swank Bungie icons. Finding none, I choose to create my own. Looking down at the uberswank™ 7 steps shirt on my chest, I decide to include icons based on that shirt. Finding only the low-resolution Grayscale image, I decide that I'd be better off using my "mad sk1llz" in Photoshop to make the shirt's imagery into iconography. Lacking a scanner, I do it all by hand.

Pixel by pixel, I lovingly craft that image of Ling-Ling's head depicted in my avatar. I go on to make another 10 or so icons in the set and forget about it for a few years (aside from the fact that I still have a hard drive with the icon and name of Ling-Ling's Head on my desktop).

Flash forward to last month. The avatar contest is announced and I think to myself "damn, if nothing else, Ling-Ling needs to come back home to Bungie as an avatar". I find my psd (recovered years ago from my son's almost-successful-attemp-at-the-age-of-1-and-a-half to erase my hard drive), do a little bit of love and voila - instant submission of artwork that I made.

I honestly didn't expect to win anything and did it for the reasons stated above.

Am I going to enjoy my prizes? Damn straight - my old b.net T-shirt (long sleeve, white with Trow strangulation) is, well, old. Like my DMUKYA, Myth TFL and Myth SB shirts before it, it is in need of replacement after having been worn with pride for numerous years.

I'm happy for everyone who won, and think that there really needs to be a lot less sour-grapes. Sure, first place would've been nice, but as I said, I'm happy to even have gotten the artwork back to Bungie.

  • 07.03.2004 11:45 PM PDT

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