Random Contest: Diorama-Rama!

The Yurble Janitor · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:05 am

Diorama-Rama!

Info and Rules:
Neopets shoebox dioramas! You knew it was coming.

For those that don't know, here is a short guide to making a shoebox diorama:

1) Choose a scene. Your shoebox diorama will display this scene for all to witness so make it a good one. Some fine examples are:
- Tyrannian Grarrl Destroys Small Village
- Food Fight at Grundo's Cafe
- Pant Devil Steals Your SoS and You Enter A Fit of RAGE
2) Get a shoebox. Durp. (Although, any box will do really... but shoeboxes are the niftiest.) Remove the top and one of the long sides so you have a nice little stage.
3) Find stuff you have lying around the house with which to contruct your scene. Make sure it's stuff that won't get you in trouble if you cut it into little pieces.
4) Stuff + Shoebox = DIORAMA!

If all else fails, Mr. Google can help you out.

Take a picture of your Neopets diorama and send it in. Bigger pictures are better so we can see all the detail. Also be sure to explain your scene in the text box! That way we know what's going on and don't have to guess why the villagers are running from that very nice Grarrl over in the corner.
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MUST DESTROY TYRANNIAN VILLAGE!!!

Please don't eat me, Mr. Grarrl. I taste like rotten neggs.

Lawyerbot puts on a Hairy Tash and says:
- Make sure to have adult supervision when doing arts and crafts!

iamthelastunicorn · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:09 am

I might enter this one, dioramas are really fun to make. *goes off to brainstorm*

everconfused · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:28 am

bleh, another random contest I'll not be doing. I haven't made a diorama in *counts fingers, counts toes, starts counting fingers again* oh at least 30 years?!

I cannot believe what the lawyerbot said! That is just :oops:

(at least where I live)

stampsyne · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:31 am

Talk about FOREVER to find out! I just got this!!

Quote:

Congratulations! You are a Random Contest Winner! (The Petpet Reverberation contest to be exact.) You have been awarded a trophy, the Random Contest avatar, and 2,000 Neopoints!

Fishblade_Bluestream · **Posts:** 502 **Joined:** Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:40 am

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/520/freezeray3mi.jpg

The problem is, I can't upload the thing. I get an error message:

Quote:

ERROR : File must be a JPG or GIF type image. (ie. have the '.jpg' or '.gif' extension at the end of the file name in LOWERCASE letters). You submitted filetype: image/pjpeg.

But it ends in '.jpg'. When I enter the ImageShack URL, I get something else. Can anyone help?

Crystaldream · **Posts:** 69 **Joined:** Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:24 pm

fishblade I LOVE your diodrama :evil:

Sterl · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:27 am

Fishblade_Bluestream wrote:

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/520/freezeray3mi.jpg

The problem is, I can't upload the thing. I get an error message:

Quote:

ERROR : File must be a JPG or GIF type image. (ie. have the '.jpg' or '.gif' extension at the end of the file name in LOWERCASE letters). You submitted filetype: image/pjpeg.

But it ends in '.jpg'. When I enter the ImageShack URL, I get something else. Can anyone help?

That's too awesome! I hope you win!

I'm thinking about entering this one .. I already have the third place trophy and av, but a better trophy would definitely be nice. Not sure what
scene I'd do yet though, hmm.

everconfused · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:39 am

fishblade, I think you're using the wrong url for your diorama, which is actually easy to do cause there's so many on the upload page. All the imageshack things I've used all have the server name (echo?) in there somewhere, usually it's something like

http://img73.echo.cx/img73/2690/nameofimage.gif

Fishblade_Bluestream · **Posts:** 502 **Joined:** Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:40 am

Fair enough, but how can I upload it from my computer without the error?

stampsyne · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:57 pm

I got a blank screen whenever I tried to submit this to TNT on Friday.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/lo ... marama.jpg

everconfused · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:47 pm

stampsyne wrote:

I got a blank screen whenever I tried to submit this to TNT on Friday.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/lo ... marama.jpg

Stampsyne, I can see the picture. It's there. But some people are having problems with .jpg using photobucket. They're not sure why, but they're trying to find out. I suggest contacting them using the contact us button, give them your email, album name, the picture name, the browser you're using, firewall, etc. and the problem.

Butterflyhornet · **Posts:** 801 **Joined:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:15 pm

If your trying to submit any images Friday after the beauty contest started, wait until the image server on neo is fixed.

Last night anything using the content.neopets.com server was gone. This included all beauty contest images, art gallery images, and possibly your random contest.

The blank page problem happened to me when I tried to enter the beauty contest. It also happened to someone trying to upload to the art gallery. I doubt anyone last night was able to enter in any of those contests without being directed to either a blank page or a cannot connect to database error.

I suspect that's what is going on with your entry and that those are all related to the server crash.

This makes me highy suspect it is the server. I got this when trying to view one of the new ixi gallery pictures:

Quote:

Could not locate remote server

You tried to access the address http://2005-07-01_633_0694842001120261352.jpg/, which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.

Not that I really know for sure, but a server crash is an extrememly likely guess

Your image is fine. It's neo that's messed up.

DM was on fire! · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:48 pm

Fishblade_Bluestream wrote:

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/520/freezeray3mi.jpg

The problem is, I can't upload the thing. I get an error message:

Quote:

ERROR : File must be a JPG or GIF type image. (ie. have the '.jpg' or '.gif' extension at the end of the file name in LOWERCASE letters). You submitted filetype: image/pjpeg.

But it ends in '.jpg'. When I enter the ImageShack URL, I get something else. Can anyone help?

I hope you win something.

I may make one. I have a old shoebox in my room. Hope they don't mind Faded Glory boxes.

EDIT - On second thought, wait...I'm MOVING. That means there are plenty of boxes for the taking around here.

stampsyne · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:47 am

I saved it as a .png and uploaded it. Photobucket autmoatically resized it.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/lo ... marama.png

Fishblade_Bluestream · **Posts:** 502 **Joined:** Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:40 am

The image server looks to be fixed, but I'm still getting the error:

Quote:

ERROR : File must be a JPG or GIF type image. (ie. have the '.jpg' or '.gif' extension at the end of the file name in LOWERCASE letters). You submitted filetype: image/pjpeg.

The image ends in .jpg, though. Help?

EDIT: And through ImageShack:

Quote:

ERROR : File must be a JPG or GIF type image. (ie. have the '.jpg' or '.gif' extension at the end of the file name in LOWERCASE letters). You submitted filetype: application/octet-stream.

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