Johnny

Oh Snapple! It's the Fro man! We have a new (good) designer around here then. :DWelcome to my haven.

Frozen...oh my gee! It's big Fro!Hey. That's cool, glad to have you on. **Added over 200 more smileys to the chatroom to keep you guys occupied. **

I will have that game. I MUST have that game. PSO/U is like, my favorite game series, EVER.I'm gonna need to pick up a PS2 first though...

Brutally honest? I sure hope you can take tough criticism then, unlike some other people I know. :(K...the background's too flat. It doesn't have very much depth at all. The color is monotone, aside from the render. You read my multicolor tutorial, right? The blending isn't bad, but could be improved (but that's to be expected, so don't worry.) The render could lose that glow thing it has going on...it's kinda ugly. And last, but not least, that font. Kill that font and go visit dafont.com. :(So, sorry buddy, but this one just isn't that great. You're on the right track though...you've gotten half-decent pretty quickly.

Alrighty, will do. Thanks. URGENT NEWS: There's now a chatroom on my site for the gfx crew...right now it can be used for planning ideas, but later on maybe we can use it to organize projects and have those "study sessions" I was talking about. Here's the link: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ And I'll post a link on my site: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ if you somehow magically forget. So everybody go visit, and chat it up. (If I don't respond, I'm probably still finishing these Street Fighter episodes...I should be back in every 20 minutes or so though, so just be patient. )

Ninjas hang. I'll be a ninja. ZOMGSHURIKEN! Yeah, so anyway, just wanted to point out to Luki that there IS a battle request section, so post a request there, and not in the middle of someone else's battle. X.x

Nah...we don't really need admin help for much...we can start it all up ourselves... And about the requests stuffs...I'll work on something later today. ^-^

Do you ALWAYS percieve stuff as COMPLETELY different than what it really is?

Haha, that'd be interesting, but I dunno how easy it would be...and I'm not sure how many people would be into doing a whole skin. I guess we'll wait and see. But anyway, I take it most people are generally in agreement...how should we go about getting it off the ground?

Ah. I see. I don't really mind my pageviews anymore...I still don't have a lot, but meh...if people see my stuff, awesome, and if they don't, oh well.

Thanks SarC. Now get some sleep. That's a lot of exclamation points...try not to do that so much. Anyway, they're all fractal renders, other than the minor details and the sun on the last one...the lava stuff thats coming off of it is the fractal on that one. Thanks.

Wow, talk about a comeback. The battle almost got forfeited, and now Phyre's leading.

W00t. You're still alive. I was telling Mike earlier that if you visited and did sigs more often you'd probably be top dog around here. Anyway, it's not really an "elite" team, as you put it...it's more of an honorary thing...I mean, we're just as much members of the general community, and they're as much a part of us, it's just that the crew gives an added sense of responsibility, and would probably give some of these other guys incentive to get better. And the official thing's sort of an honorary thing too...just like a public...thing. I dunno. Basically, the crew will just be a set of good designers helping out the newer guys. At least, that's what I'm hoping for.

YAY! It's Freaker! And thanks for the comments, and yeah, it was Apop. ^-^

UNO! -- Ah... right. Guess we'll just have to stick with the minibanner and/or avatar thing, unless Opa decides to reinstall custom titles... DOS! -- Hm...you do have a point.

Haha, I understand. Well, actually, I don't. but it's okay.

Haha, that's awesome! You're the chosen one.

[1] Thanks. [2] Nah, if the gfx crew is as good as it should be, avatars should be easy stuff, and therefore we wouldn't need to collab. But you just gave me another idea. Maybe when we get the crew assembled, we can have everybody pitch in for a "GraFX Crew" sig. Then maybe one of us could do an avatar to match. Of course, it wouldn't be a required type thing...I'm not sure if all the crew members would want to wear it. [3] I was thinking of setting up a request guideline form thingy, but I wouldn't know how to start on an automated one. Any of you scripter types wanna try? [4] We can already edit member title's, can't we? And I don't really wanna bother the admins too much...I think I can edit user's titles, if we decide to go with that. And policing people's sigs wouldn't be that hard, really. I doubt anyone would even try. [5] Not a bad phrase, but I'll still use GFX. Thanks for the input BH. I would like to keep this a pretty open discussion, so let me know if I'm sounding too bossy.

[1] You should try it. It's fun. Unless you're doing it with Mike. [2] You should do that too. I was as well...have a few already, just haven't released them. [3] *nod* I already have a topic in the staff section about adding a "Requests" section. [4] Do it here. [5] Yeah, Mike suggested that as well, but I dunno how well that'd work out...I guess we could add it to custom titles, but not all members can do that. I suppose as a mod, I could do it for them though.

Okay guys, I just had this crazy idea, that I think just might work.So, I was thinking...what if Xisto had it's own graphics crew? Unofficial of course, unless the admins would want to make it official. Making graphics a bigger part of the forum might bring in some new members and more activity, maybe.Anyway, I doubt most of you know what a graphics crew does, so here's some examples:-- Collaboration projects.-- Releasing downloadable resources. (Free sig PSDs, renders, brushes, or whatever.)-- Accepting graphics requests.-- Teach graphics through tutorials, or "study sessions", to help the other members advance in graphics.And I'm sure other stuff will come later on.So anyway, this is just something I was jumbling around in my head and discussing with Saint Mike, so it's still all a rough sketch, but here's some ideas I/we had.-- To get in the graphics crew, a member posts an application (the details for which will come later) that includes basic info, how they can contribute the the crew, and some examples of their work. And EVERYONE has to submit an application if they plan on getting in. Even me. There's no free rides.-- Then I take the application, and make a new topic with all your information, plus a poll asking members if they think that person should be on the crew. Maybe like 5 votes will get you in, but if your voting topic is open for more than a week or two, it'll be denied. Now remember, the graphics crew will represent the top designers on T17, so don't just vote for someone because you like one or two of their pieces of art. They should get a "yes" only if you believe that they can really take on the challenges.-- Then, when a member gets accepted, maybe we can have a new forum for the graphics crew for portfolios, where they can post up whatever artwork they like.-- Then there would be a list for all the current gfx crew designers, and their areas of expertise (sigs, templates, flash, vector, 3d, etc.)-- The accepted crew members would then take on requests and release resources for download, and do collaboration projects with other crew members, or maybe just members in general.-- The crew members could maybe have a minibanner in their sig to show that they are part of the crew, so members know who to talk to about different stuff. Of course, I'd have to ask any non-crew members wearing the tag to remove it and such. And I do have mod powers, so don't test me. Mods can just remove it. -- And maybe if the admins approve it, we could have a download section for the gfx crew members to post their resources.So, those are the basic ideas we've outlined so far...if you have any thoughts or suggestions, please post them up. This is just very tentative at the moment, but I'd like to see it come through.If we get some solid plans, I'm sure we could get this thing going nicely.EDIT: Forgot to add one thing. We also might host a sig of the week (SOTW) contest and various tournaments.

[1] It's a fractal render. [2] That's because I made Nguyen's sig. [1] Hence the name electro. [2] Hence the name psynapse. [3] Hence the name supernova [4] Hence the---Aw... Heh, thankies guys. I love your comments.

Okay guys, I grabbed a bunch of my newest fractal renders and made them into sigs. These are the results: I know, they're awesome, aren't they? Rate/comment/criticize. (I can already tell what Nguyen's gonna say about one of them. )

You do it. I never use paint.

I knew that. I was just joking. *sprint*

Haha, by 10%. He ONLY has 70% left now.