SOTM 2009 - April (Triple Treat!) - Entry Thread

[K. Yamato]

I hope I have this correct, if not oh well I just wanted to say hey to you guys since I'm so rarely on .



Cheers~

[KiNA]

HOLY SHI-

Its K.Yamatosama joining

O_O!


v2 lol ..

Spoiler for v1 for comparison:

[K. Yamato]

LOL KiNA! How are you? Long time no see, yes I am going to give this a shot. I just submitted a new wallpaper at my thread and I decided to try doing a sig for this month as well. Btw I really like how amazing your sig is! Professional animated artist . It's going to be a challenge. Maybe I should of done the banner competition when it was still going but...oh well I'll try and do the next one if I can xD (Whenever that is haha)

[Cierra]

Originally Posted by Moonie

Why did I had a gut feeling that you're gonna use Pamela with teddy as stock image?

The c4d(?) on the left side is kinda distracting. Could use a different one IMO.

Because

Spoiler for MK:

Pamela is pretty when her mouth is shut!~Anna Lemouri

I'm not even sure,I keep postin random drafts till I manage to do smt with the animated siggy I'm trying to make.
Thanks for the tip boko,I'll try fixin it later

[ganbaru]

Originally Posted by Solace

That really depends on the context. It should be apparent to the viewer that food is the focus of the signature, and not feel like it was merely placed in the signature to meet the theme requirement.

Thank, probably than it wouldn't feel ike the focus after all:

Spoiler for A try:

I can always use back the idea for some wallpaper, so it's not a complete loss.
@KiNA, the icecream animation have a problem, it drop twice but the tonge move only once in the same time and of course the sudden showing of of the dropping icecream...
@K.Yamato Look very good, wouldn't know what to add/ change.
@Cierra Like Moonie said, the element of the background at he left feel strange compared to the rest of the background
@Urei the style is not really good
@Katocchi I would go with V2

Seriously this one should fit the tough guy/girl theme.

It the first draw, the text fit but I am not sure I will keep it ( too short ) C&C would be appreciated as usual.

[KiNA]

Should I removed the dropping all together then?

[Katocchi]

@ganbaru Choose Lighter Text and try to play with BG Creations to blend the render with it .. :3

[ganbaru]

@KiNA I think you should remouve only the first one, the one than is not licked

Originally Posted by Katocchi

@ganbaru Choose Lighter Text and try to play with BG Creations to blend the render with it .. :3

Something like that ?

[Katocchi]

better .. but the text on the right side disturb the render .. if you still want keep that text try to move/shift the render on the right one ..

[ganbaru]

V.3 I moved some elements. A question, I will keep their names, but should I still keep to say from what game/serie they came from ?
C&C are welcome.

[risingstar3110]

Originally Posted by KiNA

HOLY SHI-

Its K.Yamatosama joining

O_O!


v2 lol ..

Spoiler for v1 for comparison:

I have to agree that the tongue feels really unnatural... and (i means no offense)freaky in the same time...

I think the main reason is because: just try to lick something, and you will realise it's not normal to do it when only your eyes and tongue moves (unless you have a really long tounge)

[Arceon]

I have to agree. . .it's not really that natural looking to have the tongue sorta just. . .come out like that. Actually I think the sig would look better without the tongue, honestly.

Anyway, first draft. I really can't think of any text I can put on this one:



CnC?

[KiNA]

Long tongue >.<

That is the original tongue from the source pic..


But I get what you are trying to say.. But animating everything (head, hand) is something .. well.. I dont know..it sure is possible, but I dunno if its too taxing on the filesize to say the least... And unlike Rika.. I do value my hair count

[KholdStare]

There isn't a way to extend her wrist which would make the tongue shorter?

[LKK]

Version 2.
-- New text & a different placement.

Spoiler for version 1 for reference:

Comments?

[konstargirl]

Originally Posted by Arceon

Anyway, first draft. I really can't think of any text I can put on this one:



CnC?

Its a little empty on the right. Add some text to there and maybe try to blend as best as you can.

Originally Posted by KiNA

v2 lol ..

Spoiler for v1 for comparison:

Nice, but I think I go with the new version. The first one.. I don't like it because the text looks too poxel like to me....

Originally Posted by ganbaru

@KiNA I think you should remouve only the first one, the one than is not licked

Something like that ?

I think the text on the right looks a bit weird. I still like it because of SAKUYAA!!!

Now. Heres my first draft. I did a kirby one:


C.C???

@LKK: The quality of the image looks bad and you might want to change the font too. Otherwise it looks better than the first one.

[Arceon]

Added some text, right now I'm figuring out how to tweak the effects now. Although I'm not sure how well the text could fit this one. . .but hey.



CnC?

Ironically enough, this probably fits the SOTM: Military theme from a while back better. . .

[geki~]

Originally Posted by KiNA

Long tongue >.<

That is the original tongue from the source pic..


But I get what you are trying to say.. But animating everything (head, hand) is something .. well.. I dont know..it sure is possible, but I dunno if its too taxing on the filesize to say the least... And unlike Rika.. I do value my hair count

What my problem with your sig is, that even animated, it still feels stiff and static. It's probably because:

1) The rest of the icecream is not animated. It's just kinda stuck there.
2) The only thing moving is her tongue (the eyes don't count for now). Try to make that movement yourself. It's kinda unnatural when you only move the tongue without moving your jaws ( ) even a little. I think that's also why the people before me have said it looks unnatural. Shortly: there's movement missing. Maybe better would be to animate the icecream flying around instead of the tongue loop. It just looks like she never swallows. (Hey, nothing dirty here!)
It's just a bit weird of a loop that she keeps licking that one drop of icecream. It's kinda just out of the logic, if you see what I mean. It's better, really to animate some part that can be looked at a longer time, something more 'loopable'. Id it were icecream itself that she would be licking then it would be okay but that picture itself has too much movement in itself that you capture in your loop a very very short timespan and in the end making it look unnatural.

[Evil Rick]

Originally Posted by KiNA

v2 lol ..

Spoiler for v1 for comparison:

The combination between animated eyes and animated toung is really awesome, the text is a lot better also, I don't feel the toung unreal :3

Originally Posted by LKK

Version 2.
-- New text & a different placement.



Comments?

Still not that good, it's not only about the ubication of the text, is also about the style and how you can blend it with the bg

Originally Posted by ganbaru

V.3 I moved some elements. A question, I will keep their names, but should I still keep to say from what game/serie they came from ?
C&C are welcome.

Adding so many text in so many styles in so many diferent ubications make the sig distracting as well, a viewer will be always catched by the image before even noticing the text, try to take that in mind

Originally Posted by konstargirl

Now. Heres my first draft. I did a kirby one:


C.C???

Kawai Attack! O3O

"Ehem"

The stock looks good but still it looks a bit simple, some efects coould help maybe

Originally Posted by Arceon

Added some text, right now I'm figuring out how to tweak the effects now. Although I'm not sure how well the text could fit this one. . .but hey.



CnC?

The blend of the Render with the BG getas a 10 out of ten although, that border doesn't convince me at all. How about setting it as overlay or screen?

[Arceon]

Tweaked some effects and changed the border to Linear Burn. Pretty happy with the outcome myself.



CnC?