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Welcome! You have just entered a small graphics collection known as Tomorrow's Deception, which is maintained by Rinku. You are currently viewing layout version 9, Queen of Spades. The layout features Sakura and Syaoran from the manga and anime Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. Version 9 was tested in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Sarfari. It is best viewed in a 1024x768 or higher screen resolution. To see the proper credits for the site and layout, click here.

Inspired by Literature - A Graphics Contest!

THIS CONTEST IS OVER, ENTRIES ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.

Welcome everyone, It's that time of year again, for T-D's annual contest! This year's contest is going to be just as fun and competitive as last year. The idea for the contest is to draw inspiration from a piece of literature. What that means is you must create a graphic based on a quote, poem, piece of prose, short story, novel, article, etc. Song lyrics are also acceptable forms of writing since most lyrics have meaning like poetry. As you can see the theme is pretty broad. If you're wondering exactly how graphics could be inspired by literature, think of it this way:

You can use a quote or figurative language used in a story as the title or filler text on your layout, or you can do something more abstract, try to re-create a scene from a certain passage in your graphics, or even try to uncover a the meaning and convey it through graphics.

The last day to submit entries will be Tuesday March 9th, entries received any later than 12:00 AM US Pacific time will not be considered in the judging. Also March 9th, a voting poll will be put up on the site to determine the voter's favorite award. The results of this poll will not affect the results of the contest, but the person who gets the most votes on the poll will win a popular vote award. The poll and judging will close on March 14th (to celebrate the second year of T-D's existence). If you have any further questions, please feel free to e-mail me directly, and I will reply to the best of my ability.

To view the current entries, click here.

Rules

1. You can enter up to three graphics of any kind, less is acceptable, but no more than three.
2. Graphics can feature absolutely anything, anime characters, photography, or even plain textures so long as the content is appropriate. (Shonen-ai, shoujo-ai, and slight ecchi, etc. is accepted but nothing with blatant nudity).
3. Graphics can be any type: buttons, icons, avatars, banners, wallpapers, layouts, etc. but remember variety is your friend!
4. To enter the contest you should have a valid e-mail, and if you have a site, please display the contest banner somewhere on your site.
5. You must be able to host your own graphics whether it be on your personal server space or using a free host like Photobucket or Tinypic.
6. With your entry you must state what piece of literature you used for inspiration, (which you should have picked before making your graphics).
7. If you like, you can use the same piece of writing as inspiration for all your graphics, or you can use a different one for each.
8. You can use literature written by absolutely anyone, They don't have to be well-known so long as you cite author.
9. None of your graphics should contain stolen content, they should be made by you, and gives credit where credit is due.
10. You are not allowed to vote for yourself multiple times on the voter's poll.

Judging

Similar to last year's contest, this year we are having three separate judges. This year we have two returning judges, Rinku (myself) and my older sister Lily. Also this year our third guest judge will be the awesome and wonderful Pup. Judging will be unbiased to the piece you used for inspiration, and will only focus on the quality of the graphics. When the results have been finalized you will be sent your official scores, which will be broken up as the following:

• Color Scheme/Color Combination: (ten possible points)
• Graphical Technique: (ten possible points) This section includes the fluidity of all the elements of your designs, including brush, texture, vector, pattern, etc technique and quality.
• Overall Appearance: (twenty possible points)
• Judge's Comments: Our direct thoughts on your entry.
• Total: (forty possible points)

To determine the winner, the total scores you received from each judge will be averaged, and whoever has the highest score will be the winner!

Prizes

First Place: First Place Award, 1 Custom Designed and fully coded Layout, Two custom graphics, Advertisement on T-D for three months, One subdomain under Spiderwalls.net (if wanted), Option to affiliate or link exchange with Tomorrow's Deception.

Second Place: Second Place Award, Five custom graphics, Advertisement on T-D for two months, One subdomain under Spiderwalls.net (if wanted), Option to link exchange with Tomorrow's Deception.

Third Place: Third Place Award, Three custom graphics, Advertisement on T-D for one month, One subdomain under Spiderwalls.net (if wanted), Option to link exchange with Tomorrow's Deception.

Highest Number of Votes: Voter's choice Award.

Everyone Who Joins: Participation Award.

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Special thanks to X-Tenshi and BloodToDeath for advertising this contest!