Tech Icon makers challenge: January, 2007

I know I'm getting this off to a late start this month, sorry for the inconvenience. It's a new year and I hope we bring as many great new Icons to the game as last year!

We're going to start the new year off with a rule change so please see revised rule 1E. I am going to post a large and small preview of each Icon to expand the competition a little. It's harder to get the small Icon to look as good as the large and it affects the overall look of the tech tree quite a bit.

NOTE: I will be going on a cruise from the 25th to the 30th, So don't panic if I don't notify you of acceptance of your submission during this period. All entries posted to the thread before the deadline(31st) will make it in.

So here are the rules:

1. Everyone may enter a tech icon, as long as:
1A:The submitter is the creator of the Tech Icon
1B:The Tech Icon is the first working version and is therefore new, not posted before the month of the competition either on this website, nor on any other.
1C:The new Tech Icon must be available for download for the civ community.
1D:Cut ‘n pasters can also join.
1E:Upon submission of your entry a GIF,JPEG, or PNG preview of both the large and small Tech Icon must be provided! Two seperate images one 128x128 and one 32x32 please.
1F:Only one entry per person, per month please. You may change your entry at any time during the month before the Jury thread is launched.
2. There is no theme in this competition. Any tech icon can participate!

3. The tech icon maker can choose any tech icon he wants. For inspiration and ideas the first page of the call thread of that month may contain some request by other members.

4. A link to the tech icon together with a preview needs to be posted in this thread January 31, 2007. After that a jury thread will be launched in which the winner will be decided by a 1 week poll.
4a. The Tech Icon file must be posted in the graphics modpack sub-forum in either a new thread or in your library.Do not post the files directly in the competition thread,use a link to your thread.If you plan on doing a lot of graphics I would strongly suggest starting your own library thread.The main reason for this is that if you only post the files in the competition thread people wont be able to find them easily later on.
4b. The preview must be posted as an image not an attachment.This makes it easy for me to add it to the preview thread and jury thread with out having to download the file re-save it as a gif and upload it to image shack myself to make a proper preview.

5. This is supposed to be a friendly competition between gentlemen (m/f ). Please stay friendly to each other at all times...

Let the requesting begin...

reserved for previews...

LizardmenRule!:
Steam Engines

And the files

Partizanac:
BEER

And the files

utro43:
Ceremonial Burial

And the files

TopGun69:
Industrial Mining

And the files

d.highland:
Salt

And the files

Storm Grunt:
Bio-Tech

And a link to the files

Spacer One
Nature Lore

And a link to the files

Varlin Saliptor:
Bronze Working

And a link to the file

Keroro:
Bronze armour

And a link to the files

reserved for previews

I submit my Steam Engines icon


link

Amazing LMR!

I submit my damned! BEER! icon



link

Those are great guy's They're in. I do like the two separate images better than one image with both icons. That way I can move the icons apart a bit. (see)

@LizardmenRule! nananananaanaaaar!

Okay then. sorry bout that

Thanks, thats perfect. No need to apologize. I wasn't very clear in what I wanted LMR.

here's my entry for this month:

Ceremonial Burial (egyptian style )


and here are the files.

i know it's not the most fancy icon i've made,
but i really like it for some reason.

This month, I would like to honor the hardworking men who brought about the Industrial Revolution...



And here are the files.

utro43 yours is in and posted to the preview.
TopGun69, can you redo your previews as an inserted image instead of an attachment. I can't post them to the preview the way they are now. Thanks.

Here is my entry, something simple (NOTE: preview is one image, but separate)



The file:

Click Here

Topic Link:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=4996339#post4996339

Hmm, for some reason, the transparent background in my image went away... oh well.

Storm Grunt said:

TopGun69, can you redo your previews as an inserted image instead of an attachment. I can't post them to the preview the way they are now. Thanks.

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Yeah, I was going to do it last night but the forums were down. Will do it tonight when I get home.

d.highland- your Icon is in and posted to the preview.

TopGun69- Yeah, I couldn't get on last night for a while either. Make the large one 128x128 while your at it. Right now it's 100x100 and it will look funny compared to the others.

Storm Grunt said:

d.highland- your Icon is in and posted to the preview.

TopGun69- Yeah, I couldn't get on last night for a while either. Make the large one 128x128 while your at it. Right now it's 100x100 and it will look funny compared to the others.

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i think the forums automaticly re-size to 100 px when it's displaying an attachment. it probrably is 128x128.

I updated the pictures... they're now "imageshacked"....

Very good TopGun, the preview has been updated.

i'm really liking this month's entries!
i'm a fan of the beer one....i'm actually fitting it in my mod.

these are all really cool!
d.highland's Salt is really well done too!

i'm loving all of them!
voting is gonna be tough!