[Meta] New Community Icon / Banner "Contest"
[Meta] New Community Icon / Banner "Contest"
Looking to update the community icon and banner and want to see what you all come up with. As far as graphic arts go, I'm the worst so I want to crowdsource it out for best results. When the community was first set up I just kind of threw the current ones on there.
Best I can tell, the optimal sizes are 256x256 for the icon and 1320x240 for the banner. I've tried and failed to find a consistent answer on banner-sizing, but every answer has been different. Different apps also seem to display them differently, so I just picked a few that displayed well on different apps and averaged their sizes. 🤷🏻♀️ If you have a better suggestion, I'm all ears.
Animated icons/banners are fine, but they should be in the animated webp format. webm doesn't work well everywhere and GIFs are too large and also inconsistently supported. While webp doesn't animate in all apps, it still looks good as a static image unlike GIFs.
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Some non-animated icons
Wow, those are all pretty great. May save them all and rotate through them?
The epic eye roll one should definitely be animated, though 😅
I'm gonna leave this up for a few days, but as of now I think I have decided on using the banner you posted with Tracy in the middle. Still cycling through the icons, but so far my favorites are:
Honorable Mention because I like the simplicity of it:
I started to animate the epic eyeroll, but the problem is that it's not continuous in the episode. She gets maybe halfway through the eyeroll, then the camera cuts to Criss, then it cuts back to Liz as she finishes it. So the animation would either be interrupted by Criss, or I could cut out Criss and her eyeroll would have a weird jump in the middle.
Ah, yeah that works for a reaction gif but not an icon.