As of posting, here is our current Art Challenge state-of-play:
It's that time of year again where we're all gearing up for the Holiday Season - Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year, etc - and as we all could do with a little extra cheer why not reflect that spirit in the TrekBBS Art Challenge. I've dug out last year's Holiday Themes from the archive, but there's room under the tree and we'd welcome more Festive ideas.
Theme Rule:
Also, to help generate as much participartion as possible you might want to consider whether your Theme idea could encompass a range of some of the following:
Once you've thought of something, please post your idea here and feel free to discuss, ask questions and suggest ideas for entries for any of the submitted themes. If we can get a conversation started about the challenge it'll help to get those creative juices flowing.
The themes in last month's THE NEUTRAL ZONE did not get enough votes and so have been LOST IN THE DELTA QUADRANT. And in the Spirit of the Season THE NEUTRAL ZONE will be taking a break so there'll be no more eliminations for a while.
The List of Holiday and Festive Themes:
[LOST IN THE DELTA QUADRANT]
Voting for December's Theme will commence ~17 November. Please post your ideas by then for inclusion in the poll.
Have Fun!
- Voting on October's Challenge, "Multiversal Mashup", will commence soon. Be sure to post your final entries in time.
- And November's Challenge Theme, chosen by vote, is "Sacred Texts".
It's that time of year again where we're all gearing up for the Holiday Season - Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year, etc - and as we all could do with a little extra cheer why not reflect that spirit in the TrekBBS Art Challenge. I've dug out last year's Holiday Themes from the archive, but there's room under the tree and we'd welcome more Festive ideas.
Theme Rule:
- Only ONE Theme suggestion per poster per contest is allowed (if you have more than one suggestion you could try combining your ideas into a super-Theme or save your other ideas for another month).
Also, to help generate as much participartion as possible you might want to consider whether your Theme idea could encompass a range of some of the following:
- Skill Level
- Time Commitent
- Media (Physical, Digital, Photochop, 3D...)
- Subjects (Characters, Tech, Starships...)
Once you've thought of something, please post your idea here and feel free to discuss, ask questions and suggest ideas for entries for any of the submitted themes. If we can get a conversation started about the challenge it'll help to get those creative juices flowing.
The themes in last month's THE NEUTRAL ZONE did not get enough votes and so have been LOST IN THE DELTA QUADRANT. And in the Spirit of the Season THE NEUTRAL ZONE will be taking a break so there'll be no more eliminations for a while.
The List of Holiday and Festive Themes:
- That Rings A (Jingle) Bell
"Hmmm...I remember this, but I can't quite put my finger on where I've seen it before." Place something that looks uncannily Trek in a place you'd never expect to find it. Bonus replicator credits if it's hiding in a holiday-themed setting.
- Every Problem Has A (Re)Solution
What New Year's resolutions are your favorite characters making for themselves and each other? Depict your favorite Trek characters facing their fears, learning a new skill, or quitting an old habit.
- Season's Greetings
Show us what you imagine our favourite Star Trek characters might send or receive in the way of gifts or greetings cards at the this time of year - a family picture of the Rikers, a Quark's Bar gift voucher, a personalised coffee mug?
- Christmas Crossover
Taking inspiration from your favourite festive stories, movies, music videos (?) show us how they might manifest if they played out in the Star Trek Universe. Which character would be your choice for Scrooge or what would happen if Wesley was left Home Alone?
- Make It Seasonal
Everything seems to sparkle a bit more at Christmas, doesn't it? Bedeck your Trek in tinsel, garland, red and green, mistletoe, holly and ivy, candy canes, popcorn chains, etc. Let your art shimmer like a star. Or create something wintery with snow and ice that will have us reaching for a cup of raktajino just looking at it (if your local climate refuses to obey orders, cotton balls, construction paper, bits of glass, tinsel, etc), Let's see your frosty Ferengis, snowy starships, and icy IDICs.
- If Wishes Were Horses
What do you wish to see in Star Trek? Or, what might your Trek character of choice wish for? Draw or make a Star Trek wish come true at this magical time of year!
- Sweater Weather
Nothing says Christmas like an ugly Christmas sweater. It'll never become a uniform variant (hopefully!) but it sure looks festive. So get out your pen, stylus, or even your knitting needles, if you've got a knack for it, and whip up something that'll keep your favorite characters warm and cozy on a snowbound holiday away mission.
- The Santa Claus Paradox
Santa Claus, not only does he deliver presents to every child across the world all in one night he also collects and stores masses of information about who wants what and also who is naughty or nice. It seems impossible, right, perhaps even paraxodical? Well, it does to us... but surely there's lots of technology and strange alien races in the Star Trek universe that could achieve these goals. Show us how you would solve the Santa Paradox from a Trek point of view: clones, robots, transporters, warp drive, god-like aliens, time-travel... what will you choose?
The Main List of Themes:
- Specific Show -- Prodigy
Dedicated to art inspired by one specific Star Trek show or era. Each month you have the opportunity to vote for a different era cycling through: TOS/TAS --> TNG --> DS9 --> VOY --> ENT --> MOVIES --> DSC --> PIC --> LDS --> PRO --> SNW --> TOS/TAS --> ...
- Tall Tales
Or, a funny thing happened on the way to Delta Vega. Dedicated to those adventures that are the most bizarre and unbelievable, the ones where if you described them to someone they'd reckon you'd done a little too much LDS - Abraham Lincoln floating in space, holograms taking over the Enterprise, being shrunk to the size of a toy, evolving into a lizard?! Or perhaps you can think of something even weirder than those we've seen on the show.
- Deep Space Dine
Fancy yourself a chef? Create your version of a classic Star Trek food (include your recipe, if applicable) and plate it with perfection in a photograph or invent something brand new. Alternately, if you're a kitchen nightmare, draw us the perfect mouthwatering (or gag-inducing, depending on who you ask) meal.
- Warp Signatures
Everybody puts a little of themselves into their art. For this challenge, your artwork must contain a self-reference, whether it's your face somewhere in the crowd, your name plastered on a ship, or something a little more subtle, such as color choice, artistic style, or favorite medium. It shouldn't take a complete sensor scan to figure out who's responsible for your work this time around.
- See You In The Funny Papers
Shine up those speech bubbles and splash panels! Prove your comic genius by illustrating a Trek situation so bizarre it could only happen in a comic book; turn a memorable movie/TV moment into a full-page spread; create a strip for the Sunday paper. Emulate one of the masters or showcase your own style.
- The Road Not Taken
What if Kirk had never cheated while taking the Kobayashi Maru test? Or if Reed had never joined Section 31? Create a piece of art that shows a Star Trek character who made a different choice at a pivotal moment in their life, depicting how that decision transformed their life and the galaxy around them.
- The Final Font-ier
One of the many things Star Trek is known for is its fabulous fonts. Write a love letter to the letters we love by incorporating them into your artwork - starship names on hulls, alien languages on artifacts, display graphics, etc.
- Not Your Daddy's Star Trek
In recent years there's been an attempt to create new Star Trek shows to expanded the fan base by appealing to different age ranges: Prodigy for children, Scouts for pre-schoolers and Starfleet Academy for young adults. Now, it's your turn. Take an existing Trek show, episode or movie and put a new twist on it so that it would entice a distinct demographic, or fans of a different genre, to watch. Alternatively, create your own Trek show or spin-off geared towards an, as yet, untapped potential fan group.
[LOST IN THE DELTA QUADRANT]
- Extreme Magnification
It's amazing how much we can miss if we're not looking closely. What little details stand out to you? The texture of a uniform? The subtle expression on a character's face? The sleek lines of a starship? The intricate crafting of technology? Zoom in and give us a good look at something we may not have noticed before, whether it's a feature which is barely visible in a screenshot, or purely a product of your imagination.
- Design an Episode Poster
Often the promotion of TV episodes is limited to video advertisements. For this challenge take a favourite episode (or one with the most potential) and give it the movie hall lobby treatment by designing a poster to promote it.
Voting for December's Theme will commence ~17 November. Please post your ideas by then for inclusion in the poll.
Have Fun!
CHRISTMASTIME THEMES:
VALENTINE'S DAY THEMES
- That Rings A (Jingle) Bell
"Hmmm...I remember this, but I can't quite put my finger on where I've seen it before." Place something that looks uncannily Trek in a place you'd never expect to find it. Bonus replicator credits if it's hiding in a holiday-themed setting.
- Every Problem Has A (Re)Solution
What New Year's resolutions are your favorite characters making for themselves and each other? Depict your favorite Trek characters facing their fears, learning a new skill, or quitting an old habit.
- Season's Greetings
Show us what you imagine our favourite Star Trek characters might send or receive in the way of gifts or greetings cards at the this time of year - a family picture of the Rikers, a Quark's Bar gift voucher, a personalised coffee mug?
- Christmas Crossover
Taking inspiration from your favourite festive stories, movies, music videos (?) show us how they might manifest if they played out in the Star Trek Universe. Which character would be your choice for Scrooge or what would happen if Wesley was left Home Alone?
- Make It Seasonal
Everything seems to sparkle a bit more at Christmas, doesn't it? Bedeck your Trek in tinsel, garland, red and green, mistletoe, holly and ivy, candy canes, popcorn chains, etc. Let your art shimmer like a star. Or create something wintery with snow and ice that will have us reaching for a cup of raktajino just looking at it (if your local climate refuses to obey orders, cotton balls, construction paper, bits of glass, tinsel, etc), Let's see your frosty Ferengis, snowy starships, and icy IDICs.
- If Wishes Were Horses
What do you wish to see in Star Trek? Or, what might your Trek character of choice wish for? Draw or make a Star Trek wish come true at this magical time of year!
- Sweater Weather
Nothing says Christmas like an ugly Christmas sweater. It'll never become a uniform variant (hopefully!) but it sure looks festive. So get out your pen, stylus, or even your knitting needles, if you've got a knack for it, and whip up something that'll keep your favorite characters warm and cozy on a snowbound holiday away mission.
- The Santa Claus Paradox
Santa Claus, not only does he deliver presents to every child across the world all in one night he also collects and stores masses of information about who wants what and also who is naughty or nice. It seems impossible, right, perhaps even paraxodical? Well, it does to us... but surely there's lots of technology and strange alien races in the Star Trek universe that could achieve these goals. Show us how you would solve the Santa Paradox from a Trek point of view: clones, robots, transporters, warp drive, god-like aliens, time-travel... what will you choose?
VALENTINE'S DAY THEMES
- Where My Heart Is, Beyond Antares
How do characters/species show their love for each other? Friends, parents and kids, true loves...anything you want.
- Hearts and Flowers
Happy Valentine's Day! Incorporate imagery of hearts and flowers into any Trek-themed project you choose. (Doesn't necessarily have to be directly related to Valentine's Day)
- Be Mine, Space-Time Valentine
What kind of Valentine cards and candy would Trek species dole out? Design a card or gift, alien/Starfleet style.
