SOTM 2010 - May (Seifuku!) - Entry Thread

[LKK]

My first attempt. I'm intentionally going with simple this month.



Comments?

[Haladflire65]

Originally Posted by LKK

My first attempt. I'm intentionally going with simple this month.



Comments?

Hm, not bad, but I think you can add more to the background, and those arrows seem to detract too much from the render. Jut my opinion, though

Final Entry:


If Solace doesn't approve of that one then this instead.

[Kuniko]

Originally Posted by Namiey

other entry, if you like this more, i will make this my final entry, my 1st draft is rukia,

v1.

v.2



C&C appreciated.

I really like it.. It looks so mysterious and modern at the same time..


Im kinda new with making sigs.. I would really like to know what you all think of my entry


ps. Sorry for my english

[Evil Rick]

Originally Posted by White Manju Bun

My tries

Non animated


Animated


Im gonna fix the smoke (if I can) to make it look better, this was a very rough draft. But C&C on either? Im half tempted to go with the non-animated vers just cuz the quality on the other is better.

The animation at the animated one is almost unable to apreciate since the viewer must look very carefully to notice it. I would go with the static one but without the yellow sparks wich look a bit out of place since that yellow don't mix very well with the red of the background.

Originally Posted by Larthak

I had LS craze again about a month ago, so that's why I was so happy about this theme. Yeah, you guessed it, my entry is...




C&C appreciated!

Charming, it looks really good. Hmmm... you added the "spark" on her eye? If you did, try a version without it, to see how does it looks, if you don't and the render is like that, then it's okay.

Originally Posted by abet17

2nd draft



ill change the text and rearrange the sparkle effect.......

The text was improved, definetly, and the re-arrange of the sparks don't look bad at all, I like how does it looks.

Originally Posted by Namiey

other entry, if you like this more, i will make this my final entry, my 1st draft is rukia,

v1.

I would stick with V1. The green of the C4D at V2 didn't looked very well. I like how does the sig mix the realistic bg with the colorfull rende, and it ends looking good.

Originally Posted by LKK

My first attempt. I'm intentionally going with simple this month.



Comments?

Hmmm... more than simple, I would say "rushed", it's not bad but... those blue arrows to be honest, look terrible. The whole sig is in reds, so the blue of them jump out of the context, the red of the border and text don't help either and the font isn't the ideal one.

Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh

Originally Posted by Kuniko

Im kinda new with making sigs.. I would really like to know what you all think of my entry


ps. Sorry for my english

For a firstimer, the sig looks really good, good chose of colors, a great placement and work on the text and nice efects. I do like this sig.

[Namiey]

Originally Posted by Kuniko

I really like it.. It looks so mysterious and modern at the same time..


Im kinda new with making sigs.. I would really like to know what you all think of my entry


ps. Sorry for my english

it's really nice sig for your first one
btw, it's not an AS safe..
Final Entry:

[ganbaru]

@ LKK those blue arrows don't seem to serve any purpose exept to use space. I am sure than you can make somethi ng grrat reusing this render.
@ kuniko nice one for a beginer ( my firsts one where worse than that...)

[LKK]

I started over, keeping the render but changing pretty much everything else. Based on a suggestion to change the color scheme, I made 2 versions. A red-based one to coordinate with her hair and a blue-based one to coordinate with her uniform. The idea behind the sig is that this is a banner advertising the school. Or something along those lines.





Comments? Color preferences?

[kamo]

^I like the red, and I think it works better for the theme since the uniform stands out more.

Originally Posted by LKK

At the very least, I think it needs a border of some type.

Originally Posted by ganbaru

@ kamoI would suggest to add more lightning differences, add a border and to use JPEG insted of PNG24.

Originally Posted by Evil Rick

It's a nice choose of colors for text and bg, perhaps... a border would look nice.

Thanks! ^^

v1 with border:


or v2 (darker):
?

[ganbaru]

@LKK I do prefer the blue one
@kamo I do prefer v1 but I would make some area even more pale.

[Haladflire65]

Originally Posted by LKK

I started over, keeping the render but changing pretty much everything else. Based on a suggestion to change the color scheme, I made 2 versions. A red-based one to coordinate with her hair and a blue-based one to coordinate with her uniform. The idea behind the sig is that this is a banner advertising the school. Or something along those lines.





Comments? Color preferences?

I also like the blue one

On another note, the text can be reworked and the edges of the render look a little rough.

[Evil Rick]

Originally Posted by LKK

I started over, keeping the render but changing pretty much everything else. Based on a suggestion to change the color scheme, I made 2 versions. A red-based one to coordinate with her hair and a blue-based one to coordinate with her uniform. The idea behind the sig is that this is a banner advertising the school. Or something along those lines.





Comments? Color preferences?

I like the blue color at the second since it feels better along with the render... hmm, we could work a bit on the text, perhaps making it smaller, getting rid of the glowing efect and giving it a bit more of style, like this, it feels that it's there because it must be there.

Originally Posted by kamo

^I like the red, and I think it works better for the theme since the uniform stands out more.







Thanks! ^^

v1 with border:


or v2 (darker):
?

I like more the darker, since the whole sig is bright, a sark text & border gives a nice feeling of balance on the sig.

[NorthernFallout]

@kamo: I'd go with the darker version, as it feels more even. Though, you could emulate the softer text on it like you have on the light version, because it makes the text not so much "on top" and it merges better.

[Marcus H.]

Version Three. Added text.

[NorthernFallout]

^ Take a look at the SOTM May 2010 text and think of what could be changed. It differs from the other text used (which fits to a degree) but the light behind hides it by quite a bit, creating a distraction. I'm not sure if fits well either. Maybe one without SOTM May 2010 would work better. Aditionally, you could complain of the quality of the pic, since it's slightly pixelly, but I think it works... border might be a bit too far in though, but that's just me. The entirety of it is fine IMO.

[JRendell]

Lacking time this month so; Final Entry

[White Manju Bun]

2nd vers, ditched the animation. I kept the yellow dots but just put them to the background a bit more and used another texture over them.



C&C?

Spoiler for Vers 1 for comparison:

[Evil Rick]

Originally Posted by Marcus H.

Version Three. Added text.

The lights behindn the "SOTM" makes itr hard to read and gives a feeling of forced placement of the text in the sig.

Originally Posted by White Manju Bun

2nd vers, ditched the animation. I kept the yellow dots but just put them to the background a bit more and used another texture over them.



C&C?

Spoiler for Vers 1 for comparison:

The yellow dots still fill out of place.

[Evil Rick]

Oh yes... first try.



C&C?

[LKK]

@ Rick: The dark lower right seems a little at odds with rest of the lighter background color. Maybe another patch of dark somewhere on the left to balance it off? (And that's the weirdest set of eyes I've ever seen on Haruhi. No criticism or anything. Just an observation.)

[White Manju Bun]

Originally Posted by Evil Rick

Oh yes... first try.



C&C?

Surprised you didnt go with the gender bending vers The border around Haruhi seems a little thick.