Trainer Card Contest XXII :: Thread Closed :: Please Use New One

This is the long standing trainer card contest of the general pokemon forum, here you may create cards based on a pre-set theme. These cards are to show a trainers key pokemon and their progress. At the end, your card will be shown with everyone else's and the best ones will win. So play along, improve your skills and above all have fun

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A card is made up of many different parts and in this section I hope to give you the tools you need to create your own. Below are the basic components of a card and a few tools which you can play around with, experiment and use to create your card. Remember you can change the colours of these templates to match the theme of your card so show us your creativity

Trainer Card Templates



Badges and Ribbons


User bar font


Helpful Links
Card Tutorial :: Background Tutorial :: Various Backgrounds :: Pokemon Sprites :: Spriters Resource :: Imageshack :: Trainer Card Gallery

Customs
You don't need to stick to what I've given you above, you can create your own templates or pokemon/ badge sprites if you wish. Regardless of the name of this thread, you don't even have to stick to regular trainer cards. You can use different variety of cards and formats such as contest cards, leader cards or even mystery dungeon cards! Below is a collection of popular custom template which work well including the name of the person who created them

Spoiler: Custom Templates

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GhostMember



TwilightAlchemist


XtremeZH


Charizardtrainer


ShinyMilotic


Silver Raikou/ Ripulse


Artirtico


Minirizzle

Final Tips
Here are just a few tips from me about how to create a great card. Keep everything in your card neat and tidy, make sure the pokemon, the trainer and the text are all aligned and centered where need be. Don't give your card an overpowering background which draws away attention, equally don't give it a one colour background that looks plain and flat. Try not to overcrowd your card, some cards are squished together or overfilled with effects so there is no space left, this will work against you if all the boxes and stuff are squished together so try to keep it simple (-ish). Best thing you can do is to make your own style of card. If you have a favorite template that works or a favorite font or anything, use to make your own style of cards. Also remember if you cant do special effects or custom templates, you can still make great cards. I never used custom template or fancy photoshop effects, all I used are the basic templates at the top and ms paint yet look at where I am now, you could do the same! Finally even though this is a contest between people do remember to have fun and enjoy playing along here!

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1. One card per round only
2. No stealing other peoples work, even if you ask them to make it for you
3. What ever card you first post up is the card you are going to enter
4: Do not post other sprites or cards here, please use the Sprite Gallery or the Trainer Card Gallery where appropriate
5: All other Neoseeker rules apply

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The regular rounds are the contests you are most familiar with and will see the most. This is when a theme is set for the round and your card must follow the requirements of that theme. When you make your card post it here and others may leave a comment about your card. Equally if you see someone else's card and there is something you wish to say about it, feel free to say but remember to keep to neoseekers rules (keep it kind and clean). At the end of the round, all the cards are collected together into 1 post by a judge and are graded so you can see how well you did compared to everyone else. The top 3 best cards are awarded a number of points depending on how what place they got. The points for each place are:

1st: 3 points
2nd: 2 points
3rd: 1 point

At the end, all the points are collected together and put onto the scoreboard. The more times you win, the more points you'll get and the more well known you might become so best start stacking them up! Each round is about a week long but the time can vary depending on how much activity there is in this contest

Current round: Anime Character
Create a card based upon a character from an anime. As a twist you may use any anime you want, can be someone from the pokemon show or from any other anime, whichever you want. Show us your creativity

Current C/R: 6
Average C/R: 5.60

Previous Rounds Winner

Isilwen:: Fire Round :: A+

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Tournaments are run slightly differently to the regular rounds but the basic principles are the same. You will begin with a set theme but only you and 1 other person will be entering in this theme, other people will be facing off in a similar manner but with different themes. People participating in tournaments will PM their card to the judge running it instead of posting it in this thread to avoid cheating. After all the entries have been PMed to the judge in command, he will grade your cards and state who out of the both of you has made the better card. This will then continue repeatedly using a specified system untill the best of the best is named, the tournament winner. Special prizes may be given out to people who play but that is up to the host judge to deside. Tournaments wont happen often and will only start when a host judge has created one. All relevent information will be posted below:

Status: None

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1. gamez expert -
2. FourthBeat -

We are the only currently acting judges in this fourms contest. We handle everything here such as judgings, admin work, organising events, dealing with disputes and questions and here for general advice if you need it. Our names appear purple (like the masterball) on the scoreboard to signify this. The person doing the judging will alternate each round unless one of us needs to fill in for the other. If you have any questions, suggestions, ideas or just fancy a friendly chat, feel free to PM me and I'll see what I can do

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As you compete more and more in these contests, you will gain more and more points on the scoreboard. As you reach higher numbers of points, you shall recieve a star next to your name showing your skill and rank in TC making. These are as follows:
:: Advanced TC Maker :: Earned at 25 points
:: Expert TC Maker :: Earned at 50 points
:: TC Master :: Earned at 75 points
:: Tournament Champion :: This extra star is awarded to the person who currently hold the title of the previous tournament winner

Those with purple names are the current judges of this contest

The inactive list is a list of people who in the past here has won some points but since then have become inactive or in some cases have left neoseeker. When a round has been judged, the inactive list will not show but will remain here on the first post, this is to save space. When a person on the inactive list becomes active again, i will simply move your name and score off the list and back onto the main scoreboard and you can carry on where you left off

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Wow, really surprised I got a point over FB. I personally thought his was far better.

For the theme, how about a 'Other Neo-member' theme? I remember doing this before a while back and being one of the more enjoyable rounds.

Ok then

New Theme: Other NeoMember
Base your card around another member on neoseeker

Goodie! If anyone wants to automatically win, just base your card around Arti since he's judging! xDD Jokes, jokes.

quote gamez expert

Few things which you might of missed though are the background coming through the top and pieces of the border showing on the left of the name box but not the right (dunno if thats intentional or not).

lol, bg showing through at the top was intentional, inconsistent border wasn't. I only realised that I forgot to make a similiar design on the right until it was too late.

The bg showing through on the top is likely to stay with most of my templates until someone convinces me that it doesn't look good. :<

Woo, one set of coursework outta the way - hopefully I can be at least a little bit more active now

Nice job with the judging GE and I'm liking the new theme I remember the last time there was a round like this, I found out that a friend of mine from a non-Pokemon forum had played the earlier games so I 'interviewed' him on everything 'Pokemon and Trainer Card' to make a card about him which was rather fun I'll look forward to seeing who people choose and what they come up with..... Pick Me, Pick Me! .....with there hopefully being some great results Good Luck!

As for a tournament, there aren't any plans for one here at current...with the new contest in SoulSilver having been set up, perhaps they might host the next one...I don't know at current

Here is my entry for the Neomember TC contest. Also when is the judging data???

I like how no one is showing how their cards are relevant to the theme.