Advertise 2000AD!

[Mike Carroll]

Galactic Greetings, chums!

Anyone interested in participating in a wee competition, in which you could win one of a small number of not-very-good prizes?

The idea is that you should create an advert for 2000AD or the Megazine. The advert can be a text piece, a drawing, or even a short audio or video-clip (for the sake of everyone's bandwidth, videos should be not more than a minute long, certainly no bigger than five megabytes).

The competition's judges (i.e., me and my wife) will be looking for quality of ideas rather than quality of execution. In other words, if you have a great idea but your drawing skills are pants, don't be shy about joining in!

The competition deadline is March 31st - that should be enough time for you all to get your entries done!

Text and image ads can be posted here; videos are a different matter, though. If you can put them on-line yourself, then great, otherwise get in touch with me and I'll try to find space to host them.

Prizes: The winner(s) will receive some old tat that I happen to find lying around, to be decided later!

(Of course, if not enough people are interested in participating, then I reserve the right to call the whole thing off and have a sulk).

Lotsa luck,
Mike

P.S. Below you'll find a link to a short video-type advert I've put together as a sample. It's in WMV format (Windows media video, or something), and it's just over four megabytes.

Link: http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/advert001.wmv" target="_blank">Mike's 2000AD advert

[Richmond Clements]

Oh, that's great!

[ukdane]

"Game over man!"

[Bad Andy]

Wow. I think you might have just scared off all the entrants.

[Noisybast]

Nice!

[Tanky]

Ooh! Tanky like!

[James]

That's brilliant!

Nice work.

[Mike Carroll]

Thanks for the compliments, guys! Glad you like it.

For anyone interested in creating 2000AD-related 3D stuff, I've added a wee page to my website from where you can download my implementation of the original Judge Dredd font, plus 3DS versions of the current 2000 AD logo and the Judge Dredd badge; they might come in handy!

Just click on the link below and go to "2000 AD Stuff" on the menu. Feel free to use any of this stuff for your own home-made 2000 AD adverts! You never know; you might just win!

Cheers,
Mike

P.S. While you're there, have a look at my Graphics page... Scroll right down to the end and check out the Judge Dredd image! I'd love to know everyone's comments on how it looks!

Link: http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/" target="_blank">Michael Carroll's Website

[Noisybast]

"Scroll right down to the end and check out the Judge Dredd image! I'd love to know everyone's comments on how it looks! "

It look slike it should have looked in the first place! Nice work, Mike!

[Devons Daddy]

bloody show off.

whats the prize for second then?

[Devons Daddy]

its a thought though.
if rebellion made a simple but decent file we could offer it to people the viral marketing method i think they call it dont they?

it cannot be that hard to put something together from the D V D or rogue trooper stuff they have can it?
with a link to the subs dept and web site. get a lot of lapsed squaxx minds cast back perhaps?

[Mike Carroll]

Good idea, Devon's Daddy!

They could give away a CD-Rom with lots of little clips (audio and video), wallpaper images, the Dredd vs Death demo, and so forth.

Plus, of course, the winning entries for this fine competition!

-- Mike

[Mike Carroll]

Ba-dump!

[Mike Carroll]

C'mon, guys...! Is no one interested in participating? Is this perhaps because I said that the prizes won't be much good? Okay, then... I promise to find some really good prizes if enough people take part!

Love and cuddles,
Mike

[Noisybast]

Patience, padawan.
These things take time, Mike...