We have the next all new Psdtuts+ Design Contest. This contest is about creating a movie poster for a fictitious Sci-fi movie. Up for grabs is a Wacom tablet, a Logitech G9 laser mouse, subscriptions to ‘Wired’ magazine, loads of marketplaces credit and 1-year memberships to Psdtuts+. This is going to be a lot of fun! Learn all about the contest and how to enter at the jump!
About the Contest
Imagine a new blockbuster thriller set in the near future where some kind of mysterious force threatens the world. In this movie the setting is a post-apocalyptic cityscape.
For the purposes of this contest the movie is called ‘New Dawn‘ and the tagline is “Extinction is not an option.” Pick your own rock-star cast of Hollywood celebrities and design your futuristic poster design. What is this mysterious force? What does this dystopian setting look like? Will it be a gritty cyberpunk fight-fest or set so far in the future that the world is unrecognizable? Is it animated or live action? You call the shots.
Read on to find out more about How to Enter, Prizes, Terms & Conditions, and learn about our Sponsors. You may want to stop by Tomasz Opasinski’s site here for some poster inspiration. He wrote the Psdtuts+ PLUS tutorial Demolition Made Easy in Photoshop, which covers techniques he used in creating the “I Am Legend” posters.
Entries are open between now and the end of December. So, get your entries in before December 31st. We’ll be announcing the winners shortly after the New Year. Get creative with this contest and have fun!
How to Enter
To enter the competition, contestants must submit any number of exciting movie poster design(s) into the Psdtuts+ Flickr Group. Be sure to utilize the following directions:
- Submit your poster design via the Psdtuts+ Flickr Group, tagged with “pstnewdawn.”
- Submit a JPG image that is 600 pixels wide by 911 pixels tall. Now you can submit bigger, but base it on a standard 1-Sheet Movie poster, which is 27 inches wide by 41 inches tall. You may want to design at that full size, and then shrink it down to a size that will fit on our website, which is 600 pixels wide.
- Include in the description a brief interpretation of your poster design.
- Include in the description of your Flickr entry any stock or source images you have used including URLs to those images.
Prizes
- First Place Prizes:
- Wacom Intuos3 4 x 6 Wide Format Graphics Tablet or USD $200 (cash only if outside shipping area)
- 5 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
- 1-year Subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
- 1 year Psdtuts+ Plus membership (valued at $117)
- $100 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest
- Second Place Prizes:
- Logitech G9 Laser Mouse or USD $50 (cash only if outside shipping area)
- 3 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
- 1-year Subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
- 1 year Psdtuts+ Plus membership (valued at $117)
- $75 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest
- Third Place Prizes:
- 1-year subscription to ‘Wired’ Magazine or equivalent cash value if outside U.S.
- 1 year Psdtuts+ Plus membership (valued at $117)
- 2 T-shirts of your choice from TenBills.com
- ‘Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature‘ by Matt Kloskowski or USD $25 (cash only if outside shipping area)
- $50 to spend on AudioJungle, Flashden, VideoHive or ThemeForest
Terms & Conditions
- Entries into the competition must be entirely your work. If you use stock images in the composition, you must have an appropriate license to use the image and place a link to the image used in the description of your item.
- Entries must be submitted to the Psdtuts+ Flickr Group pool before midnight December 31st Eastern Standard Time.
- Plus memberships will be issued from the date of notification of the winners. They are not redeemable for cash.
- AudioJungle/FlashDen/ThemeForest credit will be issued to a username provided by the winners. This prize is not redeemable for cash and can only be spent on those sites.
- Judging of the winners will be done by the editor and writing staff of Psdtuts+ in conjunction with the TUTS Manager. Our decision is final.
- Staff or regular writers of Psdtuts+ are not eligible to enter. Occasional contributors (i.e. people who have had less than 2 tutorials published on the site) are eligible to enter.
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wow this is a nice contest.
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This sounds like it’s going to be fun!
can’t wait to see what sort of things people come up with!
This sounds great! I can’t wait to see the posters
im excited…can’t wait to see what people come up with…and I can’t wait to get started myself
competition sounds good, not sure if i’m into sci-fi its a bit geeky.
woa…such a good news for all
I’m so excited rite now ^^
Exiting and inspiring! I have never competed in a contest before, but I think I will give this one a try. Great prizes too!
hmmmmm im sure i cant win. lol
Fantastic. We will see lots of sci-fi posters.
can we change things like the tagline?
Good News…. cant wait to submit my entry !!
I also going to try some more !!
cool, i’m in for some destruction
@Sean Wouldn’t it be easier to make a “new dawn” group on flikcr, so it would be easier to see new entries?
Great idea for a contest, can’t wait to see the posters ; )
Awesome! Will get to this at the weekend!
Great contest. Good luck to all contestants!
Sounds fun! Now, let I’m going to need some time alone with my pen…
I might enter in this one. It could be fun. Good luck!
Considering about entering, but not sure if my normal minimalistic style would cut through the competition. I’ll see what I could do…
I just may
I can’t wait to see what people come up with and it’s great to see the enthusiasm.
@Esben Thomsen – No, instead we have the entries placed in the PSDTUTS Flickr group with the tag “pstnewdawn.” Then all we have to do to see all those entries is search for that term within the group. It works well and we’ve done this successfully with other contests. Thx.
Mmm.. where can we get copyrights to use celebrity photos though?
@Javier – You should avoid using celebrity photos and stick to stock photos. Thx.
Thats okay Sean it was just a suggestion
But its a interesting competition, Ill join for the fun
I can’t win….. but lemme try
Sounds fun.
Sounds cool! I think I will definitely give it a shot!
all eager to see the posters, and yeah will try a few entries
IN !
This is a great contest. I enjoy the criteria limitations very much. Lovely!
Hi
I tried to submit my work on the pst flicker group with the pstnewdawn tag, but i can’t see it in the gallery!!
can someone help me?
Same thing happened to me. It seems that if you flickr account is new and has less than 5 photos. It hasn’t been reviewed yet. So won’t show up in the group. This sux, because ive read that sometimes it can take a long time to get your account reviewed, and I’m very interested in getting feedback on my poster.
Anything we can do about this PSDTUTS?
Thanks
Is there a limit to the number of entries we can submit?
Sean, i don’t think it is any limit.
Do we have to buy the images or can we use stuff we find on Google or something like that? i know if we do we have to submit the URL to that site.
“Hi
I tried to submit my work on the pst flicker group with the pstnewdawn tag, but i can’t see it in the gallery!!
can someone help me?”
the same (dummie) problem……
I’m also looking for an answer as to how long it will take to review my account. As long as it’s before the deadline it’s fine my me though
Great contest, I had a blast making my first poster!
hi there
I still have the same problem. My entry for the contest doesn’t appear in the gallery. I don’t understand why because i have 6 pictures on a psdtut account. Just hope other people can see it…
Great contest by the way. Some of the propositions submitted are really interesting!!
These are the first movie poster designs I have actually done and I have rather enjoyed it – thanks PSDTUTS!
For anyone who hasn’t seen my latest design I have posted it on my blog, link below.
http://simoncpage.co.uk/blog/2008/12/21/another-creative-movie-posters-design/
Must all entries have to consist of a “cityscape” or can we do whatever we want? Like, can we create a poster without any buildings at all?
It is a great contest! I have in my imagination when I read your article..I am so excited about it..I’ll try to think this film..the problem is I am not so familiar in making movie..
Updated post about my designs here. There are some really nice designs be sure to check out the tag gallery from Flickr
http://simoncpage.co.uk/blog/2008/12/26/more-movie-poster-creative-designs/
My entry is in, but does not show up when I’m not logged in.
i have just finished the poster and upload it this is my first time that i designe a movie poster but i think that it will work, it’s a good competition and i like it thx
Hi all,
Anyone who’s image isn’t showing up in the Flickr contest group under the tag “pstnewdawn,” just leave a comment on this post with a link to your entry. We’ll check here before picking winners as well.
Keep in mind that when leaving the link your comment will need to be moderated, so it might take a few hours to show up.
Thx.
this is my entry:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32704945@N06/3149569167/in/pool-psdtuts
hi,
this is my entry :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33437422@N03/3146995649/sizes/o/in/pool-613394@N22/
An entry from Pier Paolo http://www.flickr.com/photos/33813097@N04/3148305781/
* Possibly some technical issues with this one posting, so I’ve dropped it in here to the comments myself. Thx.