Hey folks, it's been a long time since we've run a contest. But we're back with a fun, new contest with some cool prizes!

Since Discord Boosting has launched, 25 awesome people have chosen to boost our Discord, which has given us some cool features! Among them is the ability to feature an animated Discord icon.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a fabulous animated Discord icon and potentially win these prizes:

1. The VIP role on Discord and MangaDex, which we only hand out to users who have contributed in a large way to MD.
2. @Lymus will be offering a AAA game from his game list, as usual!
3. A MD mousemat from our shop!

As always, we have a few rules to guide you:

1. All animated icons must be safe for work.
2. Your work must be original. Plagiarism is an instant disqualification.
3. The animated icon must obviously be related to MD. You can use our current logo, our mascot, our forum cats, and anything that someone can instantly look at and think, "Hey, that reminds me of MD!"
4. Discord recommends that the resolution of your icon be 512x512.
5. File size limit is 8MB.

Entrants will have until 12:00 AM, July 7th, Eastern Standard Time, to submit their work. Any entry after this time will be disqualified. We will then open voting to the public for 3 days in the form of a poll.

Please post your entry here: https://mangadex.threeproxy.net/thread/148721
Current icon for reference: https://i.imgur.com/9CZSK4D.png

Also, please ping me so I'm aware of your entry.

Have fun!

Too bad I have no artistic talent to speak of.... I'll just have fun voting XD

I'll try when I have time

I gotta get my ass to work

@Zephyrus what's the resolution ?

@DeathCards
Discord recommends a resolution of 512x512. I updated the OP to reflect this. Thanks for asking!

:O Exciting!

Can you update the first post and include some of the official mascot and other existing art assets for reference?

@Sock
An excellent idea. I wasn't thinking! We'll post the assets as soon as I can figure out where we stored them.

Still waiting for ze reference~~

Also what format should it be in? .gif? @Zephyrus

hmmmm nice

@Sock @DiMuRie

Added the current icon as reference, other such art references include our original mascot entry and things from our shirt contest or items from our shop.

8MB max size? Well, here goes my plan to export to lossless alpha. avi

Could you give us the image for the logo and mascot to work with?

Can't Draw nor Animate, but i think it'd be a cool idea to use the Cat from the Web Icon and make a moving tail or something along the lines of that, maybe some SFX for purring.

I want to try doing the mascot character with her glasses doing the anime glasses light reflecting things that the pans to the right to see the mascot cat with the same glasses thing going on

but im too lazy to do all that

Some excellent entries so far. Keep it up guys!

Very nice @as280093

@Plykiya
oh my god that thread with the mascots and stuff is so nostalgic. duuuuuude i know it was just a year but duuude.

@dicedmangoes I feel like I forgot everything that happened in the first year of the site :x

I miss Index profile pics