Skin Design Competition

Kricketot·Apr 4, 2015·5 votes·1,016 views

We all see the awesome skins people draw as fanarts. Why not make a little challenge to it? I propose a Skin Design Challenge. Limit is two skin submissions per Summoner. Riot will pick three winners. The reward? All three will receive the winning skins upon release for free. Like the idea? Let me know with feedback. Maybe we can make this a thing!

5 Comments

SgtAwesomenessApr 4, 20151 votes

too bad i need stuff to upload any drawings digitally

ForPortalApr 4, 20151 votes

While I'd like to see it happen, it's harder to implement than an art contest. For example, at least three different people have proposed a Vandal Sejuani skin at different times - once on the new boards and twice on the old boards. At least two people have proposed a Zac skin with fish swimming about inside. With art you either drew it or you didn't, but it's much harder to declare who deserves credit for a concept.

KricketotApr 4, 20151 votes

You make a valid point. Do you have any ideas on how to make it legit? Maybe a forfeit for any duplicate ideas? (I hate the idea of shunning someone for someone else copying their idea, but that's the best idea I would have.)

ForPortalApr 4, 20152 votes

You could split the contest up into three stages...

(1) Registration. Anyone who wants to compete has to send in a brief explanation of 1-3 skin concepts. That explanation must have:

Champion
Working Title
A brief, ~1 sentence description
IF you choose to allow concepts that have already been made public, a link to the first time you made it public (it has to be somewhere that would have a timestamp).

(2) Disclosure. After registration ends, post a list of all the attempted registrations. All duplicates are marked as disqualified (but still listed) unless one person has posted a link proving they were first. For the next 48 hours or so, anyone who has seen any of these concepts before can post a link to a timestamped thread or online portfolio proving prior art, in which case these concepts are also disqualified.

(3) Presentation. Now the contest starts. People pick one or more of their concepts that were not rejected and start writing up proper descriptions and/or drawing artwork to convince the judges that their concept deserves to win. You could technically start earlier, but it's not until stage 3 starts that you know your concept isn't going to be disqualified for duplication or prior art.