WinCustomize Christmas/Holiday Skinning Contest 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
We are approaching the holiday season and this has always been a popular skinning holiday as decorating a desktop is almost as fun as decorating your house for Christmas. We already have a great gallery full of holiday themed skins, but lets reinforce that with some fresh new designs. This time we are just going for a free-for-all casual contest where any skin type is welcome as long as it’s available at WC for download.
The rules:
- Contest runs from November 11th to Friday, December 16th, 2011.
- Any skin type accepted, as long as it’s one available on WinCustomize.
- No limit on skin submissions, but remember quality over quantity.
- WC moderation is still in effect.
- Judges are the WC admins/mods. Skins will be judged on quality and creativity.
- Skins/images must be original content.
- In skin description, please put “WC Holiday Contest 2011”.
Remember, this is a fun contest to create and share holiday skins. We are looking for creative holiday ideas and how they are turned into a function skin or usable wallpaper. As mentioned this is open to all skin types on WC, but of course I’d recommend popular categories like WindowBlinds, Wallpapers, CursorFX, DeskScapes, etc.
The prizes:
- 1st place:
- $25 gift card
- Object Desktop subscription
- WinCustomize subscription
- Featured in the new upcoming WinCustomize Magazine
- Paragon Backup & Recovery 11 Home
- Runner-up: Object Desktop subscription, $10 iTunes gift card
- 3rd place: WinCustomize subscription
I’m still working on getting some more prizes, but all skins will be featured on the front page of WinCustomize and it’s various social outlets which is great exposure for the artist.
Can’t wait to see what’s submitted!
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Great!
Reply #3 Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:47 AM
I will be looking forward to seeing all the submissions from the community. Great idea Island Dog. 
Reply #6 Thursday, November 10, 2011 7:02 PM
hell yeah, ill enter!! ill do a sysmetrix this time 
Reply #7 Friday, November 11, 2011 12:13 AM
Ahh I like that my christmas icon is used 
. Good that wc has new contest. Good luck to everybody.
Reply #9 Friday, November 11, 2011 9:12 AM
That's one of my favorite WC icons. 
Reply #12 Sunday, November 13, 2011 10:59 AM
Looking forward to seeing the resulting efforts of our community the Skinners! 
Reply #13 Sunday, November 13, 2011 2:01 PM
I'm already working on a Windowblind for the season. 
Reply #15 Monday, November 14, 2011 12:46 PM
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY ......... as soon as I get sanity subdued I'll be in there with something. Could be smx or docks or rainy or.............
Reply #16 Monday, November 14, 2011 12:56 PM
Good to see you back and wanting to get back into skinning Uvah, you have been missed, even if it has been only for a short time.
Reply #17 Thursday, November 17, 2011 1:04 PM
I'm ready with my Holidays Dock entry on the Dockbackgrounds Library !
What about other skins by other skinners ? 
Reply #18 Thursday, November 17, 2011 1:39 PM
What about other skins by other skinners ?
This reply isn't official but I think it's as good as you will get.
From what I understand there is a starting and ending date. Also seperate categories for each skin type and all are permitted. I would say if you are ready to upload then go ahead as the starting date is in effect. I see no advantage to wait till near the ending date because if things are uploaded early more people will have more time to use everyones graphics. When the winners are picked it will have no effect on when something was uploaded.
My thinking is this. There are already some very nice Christmas stuff available but much of it is older. I feel this contest was introduced to bring some new Christmas things available for all categories. I would never be making a Christmas WB if I didn't see this listed. Do I expect to win with some of the great things I expect to see, no. I do know some will use what I'm making and that is what I care about along with just being a part of the community is enough for me and my WB will brighten up some desktops. So upload my friend and I'm looking forward to seeing your docks and the rest of the stuff.
Reply #19 Thursday, November 17, 2011 1:46 PM
Can someone please help me; I'm trying to install Vampothika's "RockGod" but I'm doing something wrong. I know this is completely off subject for this discussion but I'm at wits end and need advice from someone familiar with this software. Thank you
Reply #20 Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:11 PM
Many thanks for the feedback Dave !
my first intention was to bump this post ...
but I'm also curious about the other skinners entries ! 
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Reply #1 Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:35 AM