SOTM 2008 - October (Music Related Objects!) - Entry Phase

[Arceon]

I'll probably tweak this for a bit but here may be a little preview of my sig:



C&C?
Fancier edits will come with time :V

[Frailty]

Originally Posted by Arceon

I'll probably tweak this for a bit but here may be a little preview of my sig:



C&C?
Fancier edits will come with time :V

nice background but
the hair of the render is kinda out of place???

[Drake]

Arg never realized i saved my sig format as jpeg instead of png.

Had to take out the transparency as it made the file size just too large and i had no luck optimizing it enough.

Pity =/ i liked the curved corners...

[Marina]

Originally Posted by SweetHoney

^ It should do I think,

Well this is just a rough draft I'm still making it different since the text is hard to read etc. so here is 1st plus another version

Version 1

Spoiler for Version 2 Darker:

Overall, I think it's actually too dark (so I prefer the first version). It could do with some contrast and I agree with Rick that I'd like to see more focus on the violin. I love that you used purple though, I'm digging that color lately. I would also venture to say that the dimensions of the sig are too big for what's currently there, either work on the background or shrink it a bit. The text is also a bit hard to read.

Originally Posted by Drake

Woow nice theme.

I really like what you've started here, but the major thing that bothered me is the mismatch of the render and background. The colors are great, but the styles are different. The render seems hand-drawn/painted and the background is sharp.

Originally Posted by Frailty

very cool theme XD

hmmm this was the one I came up with

CC would be appreciated

EDIT:
the text can't be seen, changed color

Great idea! As of now the sig is flat, very flat. I like all the different action going on in it, but I don't really see any depth. The lighting also seems very muted - intentional probably?

Originally Posted by zSolaris

Hmm...I don't like this one as much as I did last months submission so I'll probably revamp a lot of it before I submit but here is a temporary submission. C&C please?

Again here, I don't think the render and background really jive well together. I also wince at the font used, it draws my attention away from where the focal point should be. Like the sig done by Sweetie, it'd be fun to see a bit more contrast, ie more colors than just strictly purple.

Originally Posted by Evil Rick

PD:

First atempt



C & C would be really apreciated

As stated before, it'd be good if you befriended the splice tool! The animation is too fast and I'll echo again, the render needs to blend in better with the rest of the piece. I'd start with first cleaning up the render a bit (it looks a little pixelated) and then complementing it with a suitable background/theme. It'd also be nice to see what other text you could substitute instead of your name that would represent the theme nicely.

Originally Posted by Arceon

I'll probably tweak this for a bit but here may be a little preview of my sig:



C&C?
Fancier edits will come with time :V

Very pretty colors and the sig has a nice calm feel. One question I have is: What's up with the blurry whiteness smack-dab in the middle of the sig and to the left of the render? It creates a feeling that there's something lacking. I look forward to seeing what revisions you come up with!

[Ichigo-Sora]

There are some nice entries so far ^^

Here's my first attempt:

[Evil Rick]

Wow!

Is the first time I recive so many coments!

Okay, I took the advices, I slowed the animation, fixed the render and sliced the sig as sugested

Second Atemp



The only advice I didn't take was the one of the text, I want to have an electronic so I personally thiunk that the text I used is okay

@The Artist: Yes, I think that the animation is worthy, she's holding an electric gutar, I wanted to recreate the electronic feeling on my sig, thanks

[Solace]

Originally Posted by The_Artist

Was that directed towards me? cause i don't get it :x

Was echoing your thoughts and offering my opinion in a subtle way.

The animation is fine, if a little fast. But the splice tool would greatly enhance the quality of the signature. Right now the signature is a little empty and washed out, and the entire image being a gif hurts that.

[Evil Rick]

Originally Posted by Arceon

I'll probably tweak this for a bit but here may be a little preview of my sig:



C&C?
Fancier edits will come with time :V

Maybe a bit to bright? :?

Originally Posted by Drake

Arg never realized i saved my sig format as jpeg instead of png.

Had to take out the transparency as it made the file size just too large and i had no luck optimizing it enough.

Pity =/ i liked the curved corners...

I personally liked it more with the rounded curves, you can try making the sig smaller

Originally Posted by Ichigo-Sora

There are some nice entries so far ^^

Here's my first attempt:

Heh, very good placing the guitar on her hand Still, the text is a bit hard to see

[Frailty]

@Marina
what do you mean by flat?
I can still edit it :]

[LustfulEnvy]

Originally Posted by Evil Rick

Wow!

Is the first time I recive so many coments!

Okay, I took the advices, I slowed the animation, fixed the render and sliced the sig as sugested

Second Atemp



The only advice I didn't take was the one of the text, I want to have an electronic so I personally thiunk that the text I used is okay

@The Artist: Yes, I think that the animation is worthy, she's holding an electric gutar, I wanted to recreate the electronic feeling on my sig, thanks

Yeah the animation is better and quality is too. I bet 10 other people will use volume bar animation too. =P I was about to do that too

[Marina]

Originally Posted by Frailty

@Marina
what do you mean by flat?
I can still edit it :]

When I say flat, I mean that it doesn't have any depth: foreground, background. Aka sharper front (him), blurrier further away (like the piano?)
Just a suggestion, you don't have to take the tip if you don't want

[KholdStare]

Yup, I can see that this month's theme is above my level.

[SweetHoney]

Made some changes to it, draft number 3
::Moved render, changed colour slightly::



Uguu, still looks rather dark >.<

Draft 4


*I seriously do NOT know why it ends up being dark, in photoshop and windows image viewer it doesn't look that dark ><!!*

[ryuukazi]

you could lightning it up

[Kana Futayo]

Originally Posted by Arceon

I'll probably tweak this for a bit but here may be a little preview of my sig:



C&C?
Fancier edits will come with time :V

A bit bright and file size is over the limits. 75 KB (76,057 bytes)

[SweetHoney]

Originally Posted by AFFiX

you could lightning it up

That's the thing I have lighten it up heaps yet there is no difference >.<

Anymore brighting it up it'll be to bright =/

[ryuukazi]

Originally Posted by SweetHoney

That's the thing I have lighten it up heaps yet there is no difference >.<

Anymore brighting it up it'll be to bright =/

have to tried new layer fill it with white then lower the opacity? might help

anyway... music related objects

[SweetHoney]

Originally Posted by AFFiX

have to tried new layer fill it with white then lower the opacity? might help

anyway... music related objects

I dunno if it's different so I'll leave it to you =/

Draft 5

[Evil Rick]

Originally Posted by SweetHoney

I dunno if it's different so I'll leave it to you =/

Draft 5

I personally, like it dark

[Frailty]

edited mine:


sharpened a bit and removed the light on the left side

C&C plz :]