Stories, Poems, and Artwork Needed for a House of Fëanor Compilation

[dawn_felagund]

Next month will bring the seventh day of the seventh month of the year '07 ... is it any surprise that this has gotten some of us thinking of Fëanor and his seven sons?

Few are the characters in The Silmarillion that have inspired such a vast and diverse wealth of creative material as the Fëanorians. Next month, we'd like to honor that on SWG, and one of the ways we hope to do so is by illustrating each character's personal history with our own creative work.

We are putting together a compilation of short fiction, poetry, artwork, and excerpts of longer works about each character in the House of Fëanor. SWG is home to many talented writers and artists, and we hope that you'll help us with this project!

Full details on the Seven in '07 project are available on our website. As usual, questions may be directed to our moderators at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org or leave a comment on this post.

Comments

Technical question

[sirielle.livejournal.com]

A good question from a fellow artist: "Is there any particular specification (such as size, etc) for artwork?" It would be good to state it, so people will send you more or less exact images.

Re: Technical question

[dawn_felagund]

Shucks. I don't know. Is there something that is "standard"? I was figuring that each artwork would be small on the page itself with the stories and clicking it would take to a full-screen size.

One thing I can do in Photoshop is resize images. I guess I just didn't consider people doing this for me. :^/

Re: Technical question

[sirielle.livejournal.com]

Then state the max. image size, so at least this part will be done for you. Or maybe you're using a ready made gallery script which will resize all images itself? I'm looking for such, have found at least 3 free variants, but I don't know if it would work with SWG (probably would, it's just java script).
On the other hand sometimes it's better to get too large image and resize t to a desired size and quality than get poorly resized image if someone has got only a scan, but no graphic software to save it for web properly.

*sorry for the double, I posted it in the other thread*

Re: Technical question

[sirielle.livejournal.com]

"Is there something that is "standard"?"

Usually on art boards images should not exclude 700pixelsin width (I would also say in height), for wider pieces stretch the boards and reading is not comfortable. Also still the most of people use 800x600 or maybe now 1024x728 screen resolutions. Yet it is nice to look a character into a face if an image is larger.
CoE has got a rule that a an image for their gallery can't be larger than 700 pixels in any dimension. I guess that would be the standard till all of us buy ''21screens and use very high resolutions ;)

But as I said you can decide of it depending on the script you use and place you've got for pictures on server. If the images will be smaller on SWG viewer can always surf to artists gallery and see the full view there.

Re: Technical question

[dawn_felagund]

That sounds good to me: 700px max on any side. It makes sense to see the whole image on the screen. I'll add that to the Seven in '07 page on SWG.