image for nightcore channel

[Zurd]

We have to decide on a new image for the nightcore channel, pick one.

I choose number 2

1
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illust ... st=a415ab2

2
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illust ... st=a415ab2

3
http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-images- ... ge23798254


[edit 1]

would have like something more cute and anime tho, anyone's good in drawing?


[edit 2]

I'd prefer something more like:
http://konachan.com/post/show/167364/bl ... -long_hair
http://konachan.com/post/show/178365/br ... avel-nidy-

any other sites we could be checking? We need to contact the author and ask for his price for the permission to use it.

[rsslayersr]

I don't quite understand this topic. What is the 'nightcore channel'?

Anyway, I don't believe there aren't any creators of original content (imagery wise) on this site, so 'drawing' would be out of the question.
Photoshopping an image would be sufficient enough, I believe. You're not using it to make money, I persume. If so, the fair use defence can still be used.. given you give the proper credits.

As for any sites.. Konachan and Yande.re seem to be great sources for japanese art; I am not sure what image sizes you are looking for.

[Fernandez]

I like image 3 since it has a nighttime feel to it, and it looks the best out of the three in the OP.

I think image 2 doesn't have enough variation in color, and the brown/orange color is too dull and bland for me. I think image 1 is too grim and violent for a style/genre about "happier sounds."

[Cthulhu]

Thinking between 2 and 3, But if I had to pick it would be number 2.

[Zurd]

rsslayer : it's for the radio nightcore channel, it's launching this week

we're short on time so 2 it is, I'll see if we can change it later on tho, I'm not all that pleased with it

[HKO2006]

Are we limited to these three choices only?

rsslayer: thread about the radio http://nightcoreuniverse.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4085

[Zurd]

yeah unfortunately, but I asked if we can change it later, it's just an image after all

[HKO2006]

People suggested 1 must think angel with a shotgun is nightcore.
2 is ok but a bit generic but consider half of the channel images on di fm seems generic, so it is ok I think.
3 has a nighttime feel but the cold colour and the facial expression don't make me feel uplifting

2 for me, definitely need to be changed in the future tho but I am not optimistic about that tbh.

[Zurd]

We have the green to find another one or make one ourselves, so find something that we can use, it's for a commercial business, post it here and let's vote on it!

[HKO2006]

Maybe edit the colour in 2 to be like the epic trance image?


Any one thought of this?


Calm one, maybe edit out the bro fist


Official ones
https://www.facebook.com/nightcore/photos_stream





Official cafepress
http://www.cafepress.com/mf/58372177/ni ... =560228841
This is ok with some background added (and some editing)

[Zurd]

that last one is really interesting, created by the original Nightcore group, it would be best not to use any of their design since the radio don't just has their songs but other ppl remixes.

my real vote goes to this one:
http://konachan.com/post/show/170183/bl ... iku-headph

other good choice:
http://konachan.com/post/show/93553/blu ... hotoshop-p
http://konachan.com/post/show/167364/bl ... -long_hair
http://konachan.com/post/show/146966/2g ... dphones-mi
http://konachan.com/post/show/176148/bl ... ones-hyp-l

[HKO2006]

Lets have a look at other channel images

Guess what channels are the following?
A CPU?

Bumping real hard and some dancing, hardcore?

Must be UK, but UK what?

Example of bad channel image, I honestly have no idea what channel is this one

Answers

1. Chiptune
2. Hard dance
3. UK Garage
4. House

So a channel image should
1. For new listener, let them have the brief idea of what they are going to be listening, like Chinese letters 一 means one and 二 means two, you know it when you see it
2. Be representative, representing the music genre

For zurd's choices, sry :P

This is a bit explict and copyrighted by exit trance.


Too generic, no brief info given about the music except female voice (?)




Still looking for more.

Cheerful, and nightclub (nighttime), serves point 1 and a bit of 2

Colourful(potentially cheerful and meaning variety in genre (techno/eurodance/eurotrance), also refering the original nightcore like the quote, black backgroud meaning nighttime feeling, serves a bit of point 1 and 2, of course need some editing tho



VERDICT
Just a decent image is ok, consider there are too many mediocre channel images on di.fm, like this one

Deep techno, but at least its dark colours somehow represents deep (?)

[Zurd]

lol @ the house image, definitely doesn't represent anything ahah

yeah my choice are generic except the female voice but... she's cute ^.^

I don't like much the "Cheerful, and nightclub (nighttime)", looks like an old image but if everyone vote on it I'll agree.

The image with the angel from Nightcore is really not bad, would just need approval from the Nightcore group. I'd vote on this one.

[HKO2006]

But more importantly, can we pick what ever image we like (except explict ofc)? Can di.fm reject our choice?

[Zurd]

of course they can reject it, they own the website

[HKO2006]

I wonder how much freedom we have, should the image art style be like other channels?
Cheerful nightclub anime dj girl must not be the same art style lol and the nightcore cafepress one.
Also the anime girl images you suggested.

[Zurd]

lets pick one and ask 'em

[Cthulhu]

Now there are to many that I like =(
haha stop making harder to pick one :P

[rsslayersr]

Enough with my selfpromotion~

Miku has been quite the frontrunner of nightcore representative, if I go by the ideals of the biggest active channel out there.

We need headphones
We need anime/manga characters
We need bright colors

I doubt we need text.

[Zurd]

I really like that one rsslayersr, can we use it? Doesn't look like hatsune miku to me

[rsslayersr]

It's not Hatsune Miku, indeed. It's Hanyuu from the Higurashi franchise. You're very free to use it; you can credit me if you want, but it's not a priority of mine to promote my artwork.

At least this one has headphones, to kinda fit into the music trend :D

[Zurd]

seems derivative work to me and I sure vote for it, I think it's the best we have up to now

[Fernandez]

I like this as well. It's better than the three images suggested in the OP, and even better than many of the icons used on other di.fm channels in fact.

[Cthulhu]

^ Use this I like :)

[HKO2006]

xDDDDDDDD
Sry my taste is a bit different, I still prefer

and

[Cthulhu]

actually the first one you recommended is better :3

[Zurd]

original work or legal stock photo only is accepted

that leaves only the nightcore original work if we ask them permission

[rsslayersr]

If we have permission of http://cutenotpedo.deviantart.com/, you have at least the option to use my image suggestion. Everything else in that image is original work.

[Zurd]

If we have permission of http://cutenotpedo.deviantart.com/, you have at least the option to use my image suggestion. Everything else in that image is original work.

are you sure that it was this user who created this artwork? how can you confirm it?

[rsslayersr]

are you sure that it was this user who created this artwork? how can you confirm it?

https://yande.re/post/show/47770/hanyuu ... _ni-transp
This is mostly my only lead.
It seems like she released it on Deviant Art, but also on a external website. This means she had means to spread it for free, otherwise she would've kept in on her Deviant Art page.