Official Snapshot Contest Ideas

[Linden Lab]

Hi everyone!

The last few years, as you  may know, we have run a snapshot contest on the theme of New Year/ New You at the end of the year for people to show off their avatars updated looks and for a chance to win some lindens.

We're thinking of doing the same again this year but also wanted to see if anyone had some other ideas for a theme that would be appropriate to the time of year and season - we may decide to switch things up some and adopt a new theme for this contest.

Please share your thoughts in this thread!

Thanks and best regards,

 

[Jandid Harcourt]

Should make it party themed. Show everybodys little SL get together they are having to celebrate the new years!

[Pussycat Catnap]

Old to New?

Two image set - one of your old last year or older self. And one to be an imagining of a new year makeover.

- But shoot theme based around no use of advanced lighting/materials in the old, and require advanced lighting/materials in the new - as this was the feature that went 'SL mainstream' in 2014.

 

Or... a holiday images with something very particular to SL culture. Like yourself as the gift in a gatcha, or holiday elves on camping chairs, 'MM slap boards instead of christmas stockings', etc...

A nativity set featuring popular avatar types as the cast... The three furries visit the child avatar manger, with 'Tiny's for the animals in the barn, and etc...

[Ohjiro Watanabe]

My new year's resolution.

 

Also liked Pussycat's idea of nativity but maybe broaden it to any traditional Christmas scene, carol singers at the door, opening presents round the Christmas tree, that sort of thing.

 

 

[LlazarusLlong]

How about a competition to find the best image of the two-faced Roman god Janus, after whom January is named?

No Lindens should enter of course, as they would have a head start.

And anybody who submitted an avatar with a massive posterior with a supposed first name of Hugh would be disqualified for obscenity.

[Marigold Devin]

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Linden Lab wrote:

Hi everyone!

The last few years, as you  may know, we have run a snapshot contest on the theme of New Year/ New You at the end of the year for people to show off their avatars updated looks and for a chance to win some lindens.

We're thinking of doing the same again this year but also wanted to see if anyone had some other ideas for a theme that would be appropriate to the time of year and season - we may decide to switch things up some and adopt a new theme for this contest.

Please share your thoughts in this thread!

Thanks and best regards,

 

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Is it compulsory - to have a different looking avatar from year to the next I mean?

Just like in real life, I am surely not in the minority to find a skin/shape/set of ears I like and pretty much stick with them?

The snapshot competitions are fun - to a point. But I personally find a vanity-themed one too alienating.  Best theme for me might be New Years Resolutions, or What I Did Over the Holidays, or New Year, What New Year (Worst Hangover photos) - although the latter can be ruled out, because LL shouldn't be promoting drunkenness :matte-motes-wink-tongue:

What about a contest for people to emulate their heroes, or a point in history? 

Just ideas, to get you off the vanity rhubarb theme.

[LlazarusLlong]

How about a competition, in line with the Hogmanay theme, entitled "What's worn under the kilt?"

My answer is nothing . . .

. . . as it's all in perfect working order.

[Gandy Kidd]

Well, we got the invitation to the snapshot contest now, with a looooong list of rules. Let me grab two lines from them.

This one:

          1. DURATION. The Contest begins at 10:00am PST December 22, 2014 (the “Start Date”)
              and ends on 10:00am PST January 10, 2015 (the “Deadline”).

and this one in paragraph 2. ENTRY:

          Log on to your Second Life® account between 10:00am PDT October 15, 2014
          and 5:00pm November 8th PST, 2014.
          Take a snapshot of a Fa-BOO-lous Theme.

Now ... as I am incapable of time travelling, may I suggest you LL guys rething the dates given in paragraph 2?