Update: 4/7/08 - All Winners Announced!
Check HERE for a full breakdown of the competition along with the winners and finalists. We added in some extra goodies for everyone :)
Congratulations
to everyone who participated. It was really difficult to choose only
3, as all of the designs were amazing. Make sure to get your car
requests to forzafb@microsoft.com and include your gamertag!
We
really enjoyed this contest and are thinking of hosting more in the
future. If anyone has some ideas just post up in this thread.
Great Work!
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Original Post
Here’s the deal. Everyone will get to submit a maximum of one design. This design can be any dimension and can include anything you can possibly imagine. You can use one picture or ten; the choice is yours. Now of course we are looking for something specific, so here it is.
We want you to do whatever it takes to make the most convincing, exciting and professional advertisement for the March Car Pack. You can use the design to promote the entire collection of cars, a specific set of cars, or even that one car you love.
The possibilities are endless and it’s up to you to decide how you want to structure your design; just remember that we want it to feel like a professional advertisement for the content that you have selected. Picture a high tech Forza themed advertisement for the brand new March Car Pack, or a sleek billboard featuring the new M3. You could even go back in time to re-create the old school advertising look of the 70’s, and create a poster for the new BMW Motorsport 3.0 CSL. All of these are generic ideas, but hopefully it gives you a sense of the things we will be looking for with your design.
We want you to take all of the cool techniques developed by the community (HDR Pictures, Panoramic Pictures etc…) and use them to make the sickest looking Forza 2 image that the world has ever seen. Get creative and try to think about cool ways to promote your selected product, whether it’s the March Car Pack, or the new Audi S5. It is important that your design has a clear message, and a definitive product that viewers will want to purchase. This is the main goal of the contest and we are really excited to see the results!
So what do you win? Well first of all, your design will be heavily promoted on FM.net (and beyond) and will be the cover image for the following Friday’s pitpass report. The winning submission will probably be passed around the offices here at Turn 10, end up on the wall or as someone’s desktop background and become the talk of the studio.
As if this isn’t enough we are going to be gifting 3 Unicorn cars to the winner along with 10 Million credits. The stakes are high, so if you have some graphical or creative skills get busy! Finally it is important to remember that even a very simply and creative ad can be just as effective (look at the Lambo one up above as an example), if not more effective as something super complex. We will be accepting submissions until Thursday April 3rd, and announcing winners on Friday, so make sure to get us your advertisement before then. Good luck and we hope to see everyone participating!
Che "No Game Info" Chou
Turn 10 Community Manager
http://forzamotorsport.net