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Post by Virothix on Oct 18, 2006 3:18:38 GMT -5
Ok I was lurking on the forum and saw Sosa's sig and I want mine alot like that and a kool avatar to match. So code up to making me one? ;D
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Post by _Code on Oct 18, 2006 7:13:40 GMT -5
Good News : Yes. Bad News : Alot of people have already asked (myself included >.>) Good News : No more animation, so it wont be a 3 month wait. Bad News : No more animation requests Good News : No more animations to slow the server.
Hope that helps. hehe I'll be on it ASAP.
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Post by Ruuk on Oct 18, 2006 14:50:37 GMT -5
If your imagination isn't tapped out yet, wanna add me to the list please? My artistic abilities are... wait... what artistic abilities? No rush here, Code.
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Post by _Code on Oct 18, 2006 15:01:35 GMT -5
NP, without worrying about Animaion mine are coming along quite quickly now. (2 down today, while at work!).
You want a WHM or SMN basis? SMN I assume?
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Sosa
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The sun is setting...
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Post by Sosa on Oct 18, 2006 15:15:50 GMT -5
Haha, thank you for the compliment. Both my signature and my avatar were put together using nothing but a model viewer and Adobe Photoshop 8. I used built-in filters onry. So... pretty much any of the linkshell "artists" can make something you're sure to be happy with, it depends on what style you want it in. By the way, now that you're working on a new sig, code... just wanted to let you know: I thought your previous one was awesome. The only bit of constructive criticism I can offer would be to try and obtain higher resolution screenshots for the background next time, or take the picture with windower and then selectively rescale it to fit. That would reduce the pixilation a little bit. Can't wait to see what you come out with...
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Post by _Code on Oct 18, 2006 15:25:51 GMT -5
TY sir. I was in love with my old one, but new places new things; (and hopefully NIN to 75 next >.>) So I need to come up with a new Avatar (tho my Kingdom Come Superman has become pretty identifiable by this point I think, kinda like its weird seeing Temp without Shrek Puss-in-Boots).
The background image on my old one; I purposely scaled down its quality, gave it a blurr and softened it, so that the characters would stand out. Not sure what I want to do with this next one.
Ideas?
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Sosa
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Post by Sosa on Oct 18, 2006 16:17:55 GMT -5
You can keep background resolution while still retaining focus. One major trick I learned when I worked as an understudy for the 80th ASG Morale and Welfare Marketing dep. was use and contrast of color. I tried that (with mixed success imo,) in my own signature recently. The original version's bastokan flag was blue, and all the jobs in the foreground were much brighter in color. This caused a lot of conflict in the image, it was hard to tell what you were looking for. I scaled down the background (completely greyscale, and subtly dulled the colors on all of the jobs except Red Mage. Two of the biggest focal factors when someone first looks at a piece of art are: uses of color, and asymmetry.
If you want a particular part to be catchy, try tweaking the colors or putting it off-center. Sometimes, you just have to play around with it to figure out what you want.
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Post by Ruuk on Oct 18, 2006 16:53:01 GMT -5
Yup, SMN basis.
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Post by Virothix on Oct 18, 2006 17:10:04 GMT -5
Oh and the jobs on my sign I would like them to be DRG, MNK, WHM and RNG whatever equip looks best. I think for DRG relic armor would look good or hecta armor but whatever you are the artist and I trust in you judgement.
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Post by Jonathan on Oct 19, 2006 12:11:21 GMT -5
Code quit whoring up all the General Board space, make one thread for the 4590470697 sigs you'll be making
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Sosa
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Post by Sosa on Oct 19, 2006 13:53:12 GMT -5
But then I... I mean... he can't get four times the post count!
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Post by _Code on Oct 19, 2006 13:56:16 GMT -5
he didn't say stop posting, he said new threads. :-P
And thank you for feeding my agenda, again!
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Post by tarick on Oct 19, 2006 13:58:39 GMT -5
my sig deserves its own post dammit.
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clue
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Post by clue on Oct 19, 2006 23:11:39 GMT -5
Im curious, any suggestions on how to do good backgrounds straight from photoshop. Im just an amateur at it.
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Post by Jonathan on Oct 20, 2006 2:35:34 GMT -5
pfft he can have as many posts as he wants, nobody is even worth considering his competition and it's only been a week, lol. but having them spread across 8 threads each with their own 1 line comments is going overboard What if.. something.. generally...interesting pops up!?
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