FFArt Info Thread

Have you ever wondered how you could help influence FFR: The Game?

Have you ever wanted to see your own work in a game played tens of thousands of times, every day?

Do you have no musical talent, but plenty of artistic talent?

FLASH FLASH REVOLUTION WANTS YOU!

Here's how it works. We think it's finally time that we stepped up and added backgrounds to all the songs that don't have them for 3rd Style.

But we have over 100 songs in FFR, and we thought it would be only right to let other people in on the fun. Thus, We're starting a new project called "FFArt" in search of people to design backgrounds for FFR!

This is how we roll:
-Every Sunday, I will post the name of the three songs we're looking for backgrounds for this week for on our mainpage, right here.
-You have until Friday to let your creative juices run wild and come up with an awesome-looking background for the song. You can enter one song, two, or three! Take your pick! You can even enter multiple backgrounds for each song if you want - but please submit only your best work.
-Then, you email it to art@flashflashrevolution.com. In the subject line, you put the name of the song your art is for. You attach your image, and you give us your FFR username in the body of the message. You also give your real name. Any images submitted become our property, though we will give you full credit for the work.
-If a song has a current background (like Delirium, or Domani, or Pondering Stuff, or FF7 Battle) the current background is judged along with all the other backgrounds.
-On Saturday, we meet clandestinely in secret council under cover of night. After putting our hands on an ancient tome of unspeakable horror and swearing dark oaths never to reveal anything spoken there, under pain of slow torture, we decide what the coolest-looking image is to go in our fun flash game for each song.
-If we don't like any of the images very much, we'll put that song "on hold." We'll ask for images for that song again later on.
-If your image wins, hooray for you! You not only get your image put in 3rd Style, but also your username goes in the song loading screen as the graphic maker, and your real name goes in the game's end credits!

Now, here are some requirements for the image itself.
-Do not use images from Google Images, please. You can use these sparingly, and as source images (if you later make them unrecognizable somehow), but your work should be 95% original.
-No copyrighted characters for no good reason. This means if you're doing a background for Abtrusity, Naruto does not belong here, no matter how much you may like Naruto. EXCEPTION: Arcade songs may feature artwork/references to the games that they reference.
-We have a couple remixes that have been from other music games. Don't reference those music games. They wouldn't be happy.
-Backgrounds should contain the name of the song but not the artist.
-Try to keep a reasonably low level of contrast in your image to make reading the arrows easy.
-The feel of the background should mimic the feel of the song. Secret Zombie Room should not have a bright pink background with hearts and flowers.
-PNG format, 550x400. Keep in mind that the very top and very bottom of your image will be cut off by interface elements.

Very Important: If all you have is MS Paint, please do not enter. We are looking for professional-quality images, and MS Paint is not a program for professional quality. If you are looking for a free Photoshop-like program, try The GIMP. It can do about 2/3 of what Photoshop can do, and it's free. Go to gimp.org to get it. It's available for Linux, Windows, and Macs.

Questions can go here. Otherwise, keep checking the main page for updates!