Johnny

Bloody oath, all the entries this week look awesome! The bar has definitely been raised.

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Ditto. Seems the n00bs dropped out and more good people came.

Pretty good indeed.

*ahem* I think I spot some of my sparkle brushes. :DAnyway, looks great Biskie.@Elven -- Sorry bro. I'm out on this one....struggling to spare time as it is, and I've already got a couple commissions lined up. But Biskie's is great, and more entries couldn't hurt.

Well, fractals can be so different every time, so you can't really have a bad fractal (well, you can, but it's not too often.) but anyway, so those are really great. I love the second one. Maybe do some post-processing in photoshop to make them a little cleaner (cut out the midtones), or zoom out a little from apophysis to get more of the fractal in. Other than that, no problems at all. Great job.

Well, they pretty much said it. It's great for a first try. The pixel text is slightly blurry, maybe remove anti-aliasing on it, but other than that, nothing at all wrong with it.

Yes, Avalon's is very good for a first.@Biskie -- Hey, if you can make the final product look good, I don't care how you do it.

Ralphie -- 5Johnny -- 3Frozen -- 2Biscuitrat -- 1Blaquemajik -- 1Now if only we could have as many people PARTICIPATE. :)And I swear if Mike doesn't come back soon I'm kicking him out...O.o

@Johnny - Lol, that does look like a thumb, but it's actually his cloak. That white part below it is actually his shoulder. This all from SM's anime render pack.

 

@True- I'm trying to follow you guys with the brushing - it's just like painting, only I can't do anything like this in real life. I can make a fishie!

 

@Phyre - It's because I have no idea what I'm doing half the time

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@Johnny -- I always thought that was his THUMB!

 

@True -- Pfft. Dude, a fishie? You're pro.

 

@Phyre -- I'm sure that's not true...

Phyre -- Talking to you at the moment on AIM about that. :)Biskie -- Yes, that one's very nice. Love the bg. Only thing I don't quite like is the outline on his thumb. XD

Ralphie -- 3Johnny -- 3Frozen -- 2That's the score so far. Nobody else has votes. Keep it up guys.

I'll enter this one:

 

My vote goes to Frozen. It seems to flow best of them all. My only thing is that the 3d text effect would look better if it didn't have a stroke, but I guess that's minor.

Okay guys, this is really really really simple. Just tell which sig you like best, and WHY you're voting for them. Voting ends Friday Aug. 26th.

Johnny:


Blaquemajik:


Biscuitrat:


DJLuki:


Ralphie:


Frozen:

Have fun, and please, nothing but votes here.

This will be a seperate topic for discussing the week's entries. Remember, do not post anything but entries in the entry topic. This avoids clutter and makes it easier to set up voting. No flaming or whining in either topic.
So, get posting. Talk about your entry or others...whatever you want. Just keep it nice and clean. Don't wanna go banning people over graphics, right?

Okay, as described in the pinned topic, here are the rules for the SOTW contest:

Problems:If someones entree has a mistake or breaks the rules, pm him/her, post in the discussion thread, or pm me. Pm me also if you have questions or concerns.

Winnings:
The winner will recieve prizes to be determined after SOTW ends.

Rules:
1. The entry must be your creation. You may use outside brushes or renders, but no ripping sigs, and no collab sigs.
2. One entry per person.
3. You cannot change your entry.
4. Animation optional.
5. Flash sigs (.swf) not allowed. Use only jpg, gif, bmp, or png.
6. Keep the size reasonable. No wallpaper-sized entries.
7. Your name must be on the sig somewhere.
8. Nothing but entries in the entry thread. Discussion is for the discussion topic. Any other posts will be hidden, and your entry may be disqualified.

When entries are finished, a new poll will be created where you may vote on your favorite sig. There will be no replies allowed, just votes. The people with the top 3 votes at the end of the week each get recognition, and the person with the most gets a prize.

There will be one week of entries, and one week of voting. While the voting week is
underway, the entries for next week will also be going on.

THIS WEEK'S RULES:

Sig size min: 200x75
max: 450x250
Brushing: Any
Text: Must have at least your name.
Render: OPTIONAL
Theme: Any
Entry due date: Entries will be closed for voting on Friday Aug. 26th.

So have fun, and remember, entries only here. Any other posts will be deleted and you will lose credits.

Alright, grats to Phyre on the win for week 1 SOTW contest.

 

Here are his prizes:

30 credits -- Already sent

 

Prize sig --

 

Prize tag --

 

So grats on the win. I think I'll be lowering the prizes for the rest of the SOTWs...I don't have the time and credits to be doing the same thing every week.

 

Feel free to congratulate him here guys.

Damann, he accidentally double posted, and left the sig off the second one. Rate his before you get yours rated plz.

Third try looks great. And the text effects look just fine to me, I just would've taken a different font. But yeah, very nice job for a first sig. You should do it more often. @Nguyen -- The sig size is currently being reworked, so no need to worry about it just yet.

it's too much of a screenshot and not enough of a creative art piece

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That, and it's frickin HUGE. If I see a sig that big in someone's sig spot you're going DOWN. Admin style.

National Sig League? How goofy!

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Yes...very goofy. Since people there come from tons of different nations, and IMHO, the whole place is filled with stuck up n00by jerkwads...but eh...I digress.

Wow....heres a site that could help you with your font disabilities. http://www.dafont.com/de/ [1] After you get a font from there [2] go read every tutorial at http://www.good-tutorials.com/

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[1] Some fonts. Not just one.

 

[2] That would take forever. And most of that "forever" would be just wasting time. A lot of the tutorials are bad. Or repeats. Or broken links. But there's a few nice little goodies in there.

Well its pretty good, i like the little pieces of him you chopped of of him >_> The brushing on the background is awesome. This is definetaly one of your best so far.

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Chopped off?

Let's just say "highlighted"

 

Thanks for the comments.

Did you tell him you'd ban him if he didn't make it blue

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Yes. No, of course not.

 

Nice sig, i love FLCL. The brushing is awesome, as is the render belnding. But why does it say "offline"? Awesome sig 9/10

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It says Offline because the render seems like it's about to shut down or whatever...and it's a computer...so it's going offline. O.O

 

Thanks for the comments.

WINNER: PHYREVOTING CLOSED.The announcement and prizes will be done in a while. Bear with me...sorting things out.

well my suggestion to all will be that when ever you rate any sig then please rate it as well

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The real input should be coming through words...ratings are just numbers, and don't actually make you a better designer. That's why I've been leaving all my number ratings out lately.

 

My suggestions on it would be to drastically fix up the text (Better placement, size, effects, colors, blending...), and some minor touchups on the bg and render blending.