FFR Create-a-Token-Image Contest!
 

Create a Token Image Contest

Hey everyone! So as you know, every week we have a few songs being released into the game. Sometimes, these songs are released as tokens (mainly skill tokens). However, as they are tokens they need token images to go with them! Currently, as you may be aware, quite a few of the newer tokens do not have images for them. Well guess what: You are all invited to try your hand at making some stellar token graphics for the new songs! (Just in time, I saw a lot of 'where are the token images :'<' posts)


Judges:
Netjet!
Silvuh
jimerax
Spenner
Nick Skyline

The winners of the contest will be determined by both the judges and the community. The judge team will narrow down the entries to the best (in our opinion), and the community will be able to vote on which of the selected images would best suit the song as its' token image.

Signups

As this contest is an open invitation for all users, signup is not required. However, make sure to follow the submission process carefully so we can list you as one of the entrants of the contest.


Start and End Time

The contest will begin on December 24th, and will run for TWO WEEKS, until January 7th. As token graphics are not too complicated to create, we feel that two weeks will be an ample amount of time to complete them. You should have no problem with completing and refining your entry or entries!


PRIZES

As is obvious, the winning token image entry for each song will be the permanent token image. Also, you will be mentioned in a front page post about the contest! :D

In addition to this, the top 3 images for each song will be rewarded with the following:

1st Place - 25,000 Credits (winner's image will be used)
2nd Place - 10,000 Credits
3rd Place - 5,000 Credits

So, that's a total credit pot of 40,000 per song!


The Template!

Here's the token template you can use to create your tokens:



Silvuh asked me to post the psd file he uses when making token images:

http://www.2shared.com/photo/H52t7WAo/template3.html

Might be useful to some of you guys. Good luck!

"The thing is 4x the actual size, so resize to 25% before saving ... Merging the layers before resizing results in a sharper image than resizing without merging."


The Songs

The songs that need tokens, which are listed on the Skill Token Info and Token Info pages, are:

Ball of Malt v2
S
R176 v2
My Little Pony Medley [Heavy]
Nothing's Gonna Stop Me v2
Kirlian Shores
The earth blew up v2
World End's Yama Xanadu
White Walls, Part 2
The Games We Played (Full Edition)

All of these songs are IN GAME, so if you would like to play the song to get a better grasp about what it's all about and how the song flows, go for it!


Contest Rules

* You can have five entries per token, no more than that!
* Token graphics may not include any NSFW (not safe for work) or gross material
* You may only use the token template we provide!
* Do not attempt to plagiarize other peoples' work, only provide that which is your own


SUBMITTING YOUR IMAGES!

**VERY IMPORTANT**

* You may submit your token(s) here, or via PM to myself (if you want to keep it a secret). In the PM, make sure to title it "Token Image Contest - [user] Entry" with [user] as your username. If you are submitting via PM, you must submit all tokens in one PM so my inbox isn't flooded!
* If you submit your token(s) in this thread, you can do so in multiple posts. :)


Judging

As was said before, the judging team will carefully look at all of the submitted images, and narrow down each song's entry list and will have the community vote for each one. Each song will potentially have 3-5 images to vote on for the winner.

In the event of a TIE, the judging team will make the decision of which is the winner.



If you have any questions, feel free to ask here!

Good luck everyone!

Re: FFR Create-a-Token-Image Contest!
 

Very excited to see what people come up with and if I'm feelin' creative and jolly I'll do some myself.

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nice nice

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Do we have to include the hand in the graphic ?

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Let me see..what I can do.

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This seems like a great time to try and find the 50+ tokens I created years ago. The only problem is that all of mine are based off of the original tokens template which are probably not as good (clear/clean/etc) as the current template. If I find them, and find the time to upload them, I'll add them here.

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This rule is dumb if there's going to be voting. Why limit to one design? Not sure if community voting is a good idea either..
Also, sup thought I was asked as judge? lmao

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Some of the tokens I've seen don't have that hand in there. You can, but it isn't mandatory.

EDIT: I would say yes, even though it's not mandatory.

Being a judge for this contest, I don't know if the "one design per person" rule is a good idea, either. I'd put it to seven just to be safe, because there are some people that can come up with a lot of very good designs for a design competition; not just here, but all around the internet. Also, two weeks to come up with just one design to submit here means that you have to be a little bit too brutal with your designs. If you make, say, around 30, them the narrowing-down-to-submit process becomes a little too brutal for some. Speaking of being a judge, I don't recall you ever receiving one of these e-mails from Netjet...but I think he could hire you if you ask him very nicely.

In summation, you have a good point here.

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I'll be editing this post with my entries as they are "finished" :)

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The only Skill Token that doesn't have the hand is Otaku Speedvibe [Oni].

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Thought I was asked be a judge too... rip

no big deal though you seem to have more than enough capable ones for the job

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The point of this is to have a choice of designs, and limiting the amount of designs someone can submit to one will limit the amount of creative designs that might pop up as well. A limit is fine but one is harsh.

I received a message along with spenner btw

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only one?!?! Aw.... :(

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Jake that token for white walls is epic. :P

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That makes sense. The limit was just put there so there wouldn't be a gigantic overflow of submissions, but since they're very simple I think you guys are right.

I changed the limit to 5 per person, I think that should be good.


I did ask you, yeah, but you said you were a little busy at the moment and afterwards enough people signed on. If you want to help judge still, you can if you'd like though :D



Also, as for the hand it's preferred that you use it because it's how every other token has been done (except for Oni).

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First token entry :3

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I love that!! XD

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have some stuff o.o

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Yeah that's better, like Spitfire said, a variety of solutions for a design is always something to encourage.

Best of luck to everyone, and remember to pay attention to detail and keep in mind the size of the final image (i.e. tiny details will not scale down as well).

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Silvuh asked me to post the psd file he uses when making token images:

http://www.2shared.com/photo/H52t7WAo/template3.html

Might be useful to some of you guys. Good luck!

"The thing is 4x the actual size, so resize to 25% before saving ... Merging the layers before resizing results in a sharper image than resizing without merging."

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not gonna do all of these because i would encourage others to get creative but here is one for The earth blew up v2 (plus mine suck l o l )


and one for s

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not sure what you can do with this :). is it possible for you to turn that into a token shape?

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hey how do you make these?

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Yes. This is awesome.

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hate ponies but looks cool

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this is the best i can do at the moment, kinda new to photo shop

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Ball of Malt v2

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had a couple of ideas, but i have no clue where to start with making one

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I'd start with getting a background for the image then move to trying to place the ffr guy, hand or such on top of it.

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yeah, lots of people aren't using the hand or ffr guy...
we're gonna be keeping the status quo, right?

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so something like this? used paint, like i said, have no clue where to begin. and i know its not exactly what its supposed to be

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Fucking yes. This is the Kirlian Shore's token!

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^_^ TGWP lol

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I'm not sure if this counts as plagiarizing but for the song "The Games We Played (Full Edition)" I would think it appropriate if it was if you wanted to have the hand in it i'd recommend having all five fingers out, for "the games we played part" 1-5

(Btw If anyone wants to take the image and add the fingers feel free to submit it. I currently don't have the knowhow to do it justice, and as a result I won't be submitting it or screaming "THAT WAS MY IDEA YOU SNEAK")

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Nevermind about editing my last post, whatever.
My Little Pony Medley [Heavy]:

Edit: Nothing's Gonna Stop Me v2:

R176 v2:

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Nice mlp

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Tokens look so pixelated D: D:

ima try one

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More of a token request because i don't make tokens, but I think it'd be really cool if someone made a TGWP token with the NES controller tilted diagonally, don't know if it should have depth or not I dunno what'd look better but I think having that in the foreground would be so amazing and appropriate for that token.

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That seems to be the main problem with a lot of the tokens I've seen so far.

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There should be a white glove in that token so it's like Master Hand.

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That would be sick. I'd say it'd look awesome as it resembles the FFR hand.


Good entries so far, guys! Some of them are a bit pixelated, so make sure you don't save in a compressed image format like JPEG as it messes up your final product! Remember I posted the image Silvuh uses for many of the tokens he has made, so follow his instructions and you should have a sharp image to enter.

There are a lot of tokens, so it would be be awesome to see multiple entries for every one. :)

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I'm not sure if this was addressed at any point, but there are two regular tokens on this list. None of the regular tokens have the hand inside of them, so anything with a hand inside of TGWP/Yama Xanadu probably should be removed (for the sake of consistency).

Re: FFR Create-a-Token-Image Contest!
 

I'd say I did something similar, heh.

Also, I'm not exactly sure if you got my submission Netjet... I'm very forgetful, haha.

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I thought about drawing a powerglove, but it's a normal token, so that doesn't work. ^^

Also KrazyKitsune, if you made a hand, it will probably get rejected since the hand is only for Skill Tokens.

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Hm, I wasn't aware at the time, so oh well. It's a bad token graphic anyway, so I doubt it would've passed either way, lmao.

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Krazy, I did receive your entries as well as one other via PM.

As for the normal tokens, the trend up until now has been not to use the FFR hand (as skill tokens use them). Therefore, if you do use it for one of the two normal tokens the judges will take this into account - this isn't to say that you'll be outright rejected, because if your image ends up being the "best" entry for that song, you won't necessarily be rejected (at this point, but it might change).

The master hand wouldn't be the same as using the FFR hand, by the way.

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KK sent me the image of his skill token -- it uses a hand, but it's not the FFR ST hand, it's completely different. With that being said, I hope the judges don't take off for it, because it's not even close to the same.

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Ehh, I think it's pretty similar. It's up to the judges though.

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Edit: Whoo! All of mine are done!

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Here's mine for White Wall part 2.



I'm working on a few more.

Re: FFR Create-a-Token-Image Contest!
 

Definitely isn't too similar, so it won't be something that we will automatically DQ for or anything.

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Oh my god, that is awesome. ^^

Hmm. Well, I can't tell if that's a good thing or not, but thanks for telling me that, hehe.

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Oh. Problem. People maaaay not have photopshop. So your original image is...well yeah. FORCED to be small, and not scaled down.

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The image you can see in the OP (not linked) is full-sized and is user-friendly for non-photoshop photo editors, so you should be fine I think. The template that is linked under can be used to get a sharper image, however the one just mentioned is absolutely fine to use and will probably let you achieve the same result.

(Hopefully I read your post right)

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Due to the image uploader, all of these turned to JPEGs. To find the same exact files as a PNG please visit the link provided after all the images.

Token 1: for file S

Token 2: for file My Little Pony Melody [Heavy]

Token 3: for file World's End Yama Xanadu

Token 4: for file The earth blew up v2

Token 5: for file Nothing's Gonna Stop Me v2

Token 6: for file R176. This is a collab between myself and Zephei. If this wins, I am requesting to split the prize evenly.

Token 7: for file The Games We Played. Something that actually has the guy on it.

Token 8: for file Kirlian Shores. Whoo! I like this one!

Token 9: for My Little Pony Melody. That the pony ones can stay FAR behind.


Here is the website with the PNGs, and have less don't have the bottoms flat cut off: http://projct.webs.com/index.htm

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white walls 2 is epic i like world's end as well!

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Those are sick Xeno! :o


The contest ends on January 7th, which is MONDAY! To give everyone a little more time, it will end at 7PM EST.

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Went ahead and did a few as well just now:

Ball of Malt v2
Kirlian Shores 1 (Not really that well readable, should probably make the edge of the hand lighter but what I did was use a kirlian photograph cause kirlian hehu)
Kirlian Shores 2
MLP Melody 1
MLP Melody 2
S (pianers cause classical remix)
TGWP (I read a smash bros idea somewhere in the thread and I really liked that idea so I went ahead and tried that)
When The Earth Blew Up v2
World's End Yama Xanadu

Re: FFR Create-a-Token-Image Contest!
 

... Well, damn. So much for my one single token I submitted, haha. Really nice tokens Spitfire. o.o

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those MLPs are heaps better imo than w/ a pony

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Damnit Spitfire, give other's a chance! XD You probably just won ALL of them.

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I really like this one. This is perfect for the song in my opinion as both the song and the game represent franchises mixing to each other.

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Criticism/judging time for me!

Ball of Malt v2 - (Neo?)Classical Country music aside, this song surprised me the first time I heard it after looking at this token. They seem to match very well; although when I listen to it, I imagine an old-fasioned drinking party in a saloon for some reason. And you would find cowboys like the one in this token in saloons every once in a while.

Kirlian Shores - The kirlian photograph in the red one doesn't seem to fit the...calm tone this song carries, so I think that a cool color would fit better for this song (that's what you're doing for the second token, though); but I'm sure the edge of the hand on that token is fine. Okay token IMO. The second one just seems to stand out a lot better, but I can't really figure out why...maybe a historical painting of the coastline of an ocean just seems to scream out "Kirlian Shores" to me.

MLP Melody - I agree with popsicle on this one; those tokens are miles better without ponies than with. The rainbow outline on the second token is kinda what steals the competition away for me for this song; regardless, both tokens match the show (or, at least, represent one of the characters) perfectly.

S - Remix of classical piano song, meet Spitfire's piano GFX. The positioning of the black keys is almost completely uniform in relation to the finger. And had it not been for that black outline on the hand, it could have been regarded as invisible, or blending in with the white keys. I personally found it to be unfortunately generic for my tastes, the overhead piano keys just don't seem to work for me. Worst token out of the bunch IMO.

The Games we Played - Aside from FFR's trademark Skill Token hand being replaced by Crazy Hand from Melee, this one just kicked my fuckin' ass. That's all I will say for this one.

The Earth Blew Up - Fires of Hell, engulf the planet and burn it to ashes (insert evil laughter)! It's hard to find an image of a nuclear explosion from space, but this image still seems to represent the token very well (I tried looking for one myself a couple times, couldn't find one). Also, am I the only one that convinced myself that looks a little bit like a dragon? Just saying. Regardless, I really like this token; the image of Earth being swallowed by fire just puts a smile on my face when I look at this.

World End's Yama Xanadu - You know every movie that starts in a post-apocalyptic future at sunrise? This seems like it could be from one of those movies. I know, it's considered to be a bit of a cliché, but it fits here. I'm not even going to question the possibility of several F5 tornadoes striking North America within the next year.

Great job on all of these tokens, Spitfire. I appreciate any responses you have.

also zephei that token for white walls pt2 is boss...That crack in the wall makes the hand stand out perfectly. Even the black outline is really good, like it contrasts the wall.

EDIT: Thanks, noname for clearing that.

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I thought it was 5 entries per token, not total...?

EDIT : Yep

EDIT2 :
Haha, it had to be done, nice execution. I like the perspective of the hand, it gives a lot of dynamism to the composition. I don't understand the background, not being a huge Smash Bros player, it reminds me of the Danish flag. ^^

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Thanks!

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Yes! Not mine, obviously.
I wasn't sure how to "quote" the picture.

Just one question: How do they decide whether they want it to be a skill token or a regular token?

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What? What? And I don't get any sort of critic? D:

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All are skill tokens except for World's End Yama Xanadu and The Games We Played 1-5 which are "normal" tokens.

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These are my final designs. Disregard any previous posts including these.

White Walls, Part 2

Kirlian Shores

The earth blew up v2
I generated the explosion in the background using an image of dirt.

World End's Yama Xanadu

R176 v2 (with Xenorosth)
Use the design from this post, not his. We ironed out a few errors.

Ball of Malt v2

My Little Pony Medley [Heavy]
Thought I might as well make a design, couldn't come up with many good ideas.

Feedback appreciated.

And that's a wrap! Good luck to everyone.

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Yeah, I know. I'm just wondering how they decided that The Games We Played would be a regular token. I just know that regular tokens I usually have to find or do something weird to earn. Whereas for skill tokens I need to play the game to earn. The Games We Played requires an FC of parts 1-5. So, I'm wondering why they made it a regular token instead of a skill token. :???:

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It's generally a rather arbitrary decision. However, when it comes to v2 songs and files of multiple difficulties, those ones will almost certainly be a skill token as opposed to a regular token.

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I felt the same way before, but there are other tokens that involve skills and are classified as normal tokens. (Dendrite v2, Tell v3, You Gotta B-E-E-R, Here We Go, etc.) Those are more "accomplishement tokens" and TGWP (Full Edition) is exactly this type of token. (accomplishment tokens = tokens that doesn't need one sitting to unlock them.) Problem is, Token Whore is in the Skill Token section and fits more in the Normal Section. It was probably put there because the requirement is directly related to the Skill Token section.

There was a thread back in 2012 that talked a little bit about moving the tokens into new categories : http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ghlight=tokens.
I feel it could make more sense to create new categories for tokens since the list has increased a lot and we have more complex and new token requirements. I don't think it's a necessity right now because it doesn't affect how we can unlock them, but it could be a nice feature to improve the site.

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world's end and MLP ftw!!!

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Well, you're asking for it. Are you not?

I'll soon edit this post to criticize your tokens.

Re: FFR Create-a-Token-Image Contest!
 

no edit, do a new post so we can read it :)

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Indeed. And yes, I did want critique. I worked hard on these 9 tokens!

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Just so everyone's aware again, the contest closes today at 7PM EST (so in just under 17 hours). Goooood luck ;D

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So, since I don't have any time to finish these, not to mention the programs or available computer, I'll post these here. Granted these are all pretty old, and are using a lower quality template, as alluded to in my earlier post. Feel free to use/modify as needed, I'd rather not have this work go to waste. To be honest, I was just happy to find these after losing most of my files from this time period. Unfortunately, I no longer have the backup photoshop files which would make updating these much easier.

Since there is a limit to what I can submit, I figure if you're willing to use one without any hand/danceguy feel free to use one of these 5, no preference:



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Free to use "Blank Token" Templates
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WEYX dunno just messin around

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You're just 2 over the limit psycho lol

But I do feel they're just "randomly" selected graphics, without any attention to the theme or feel of a particular song. Decision's not up to me though :J