@Cyz , she is Yukari Yakumo
@ Mr.ghost a unrelated comment: you might have some problem with the way you used that text on your signature.

I tried a different lighting scheme. Which looks better?

ver. 1
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...il1002copy.jpg
ver. 2
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...2ver02copy.jpg
edit: ver. 3
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...2ver03copy.jpg

The bright area looks a bit unmatching with the rest of the sig wich is dark.

I like overall the style of the sig, it's really good, my only problem would be that pink border wich looks a bit of.

I don't know, the gary scale doesn't look to atractive with the type of render and background.

I really like it, can't think in anything it needs.

Love the colors and the style, the font is a bit of, probably a more "artistic2 or 2gamour" one would do. ;)

It's a good style, I think it may need a border isnce the bg is a bit bright.

I like V2 more, but I'm not sure about the text, the font and color don't seem to the the proper ones. :/

My Dear Alice :love:

Final Entry
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6808/alice0011.jpg

First draft.

http://escimobsbbs.pp.fi/misc/SotM0410_01.jpghttp://escimobsbbs.pp.fi/misc/SotM0410_02.gif
http://escimobsbbs.pp.fi/misc/SotM0410_03.jpg

Edit: Almost forgot.
I'm guessing the character is Kazami Yuuka.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/2631/29070055.jpg

1st attempt using Patchouli Knowledge

@ escimo: The animation speed seems too fast to me.

Haladflire65 I would go with the 2nd version
escimo is she supposed to be on a train? I think th the darkest spot ( on the animation) might be too dark compared to the rest of the animation.
Endrance where's the rest of the tree's shadow?
In fact, the original picture was gray scale, otherwise I would have kept at least the eyes's color.
My second try, C&C are always welcome:
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/4365/try11a1.png
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7330/try11b1.pnghttp://img532.imageshack.us/img532/5640/try11b2.jpghttp://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5306/try11b3.png
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2394/try11c1.png
( Previous version)
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/8725/try1a.jpg

^ I like the rectangular version.

Version 1. I'll probably find something to change before final submissions.
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/7...tiled1ver2.jpg
Reimu Hakurei.

Oh, nice as always escimo. I like the anim,ation a lot, mix very well with the text and the general style of the sig. ;)

Hmmm... looks way to simple, like a mere crop image, but I could be wrong. Well the colors and contrast are okay,. the text is a bit lost among the sky tough.

Also, Endrance makes a non-animated sig! Spooky... O_O

In that case, I think you could work something here very cool, since in photoshop it's really easy to add color to a grayscale image, you could work a really cool efect and style with this sig, I sugest to stick with the square sig. ;)

Overall I like it, can't think in anyhing it needs... maybe a border.

I have no idea what the name of the charactes are, but... here are my attempts :heh:

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...wtouhousig.png


http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...otwfractal.png

...yeah, file sizes are a bit too big, but I'll fix that :heh:

The second one is better by far periwinkle. Nice color choice.

@evil rick - i don't like borders on bright sigs. I personally try to avoid borders as much as possible actually. :p

I tried reworking the text, a totally different style. Should I stay with it or just choose a simpler font?

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...2ver04copy.jpg

I like the font, but perhaps making it a little bit more readable (maybe more gray then black) will work out. :D

Thanks for the suggestion :) I also got feedback saying that the style of the font didn't fit the sig so I tried another combo.

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...2ver06copy.jpg

I liked that font! :nod:

The new choice doesn't excite me, though... See if any fonts here tickle your fancy. :smile:

The shiny bubbles on the bottom make the background too distracting. Try to bring the focus towards your render using contrast, etc. Also, it seems a bit muted. Are you intentionally keeping stronger blacks and whites out of your signature? You could try to use some differentiation between the values on the render and the background. Right now, the contrast is stronger on the sides than in the center, which usually isn't what you want.

I'm just throwing out random ideas, since I can't test them right now.