SOTM 2009 - November (Versus!) - Entry Thread

[ganbaru]

AtomicoX I don't see any more problem tha what you have already found
Drake it's not as bad as you seem to think. Maybe the colors are too '' one kind of bluie and one kind of red''

[PreSage]

@Drake: Darn, you're way too quick...I was about to use that render.

[.Envy]

did not kno.. ^final ..

[Soul-Stealer]

o.o @ rick the gow was not going with anything lol so just changed the whole thing hope this is better

[ganbaru]

Soul-Stealer I see only one fighter, where's the other ?


After all the comments, I choose to use something more conventional for the SOTM.

Edit: sorry I forgot to post on what I am working now. C&C would be welcome.

[JRendell]

Soul Stealer very nice effects, but I have to agree with ganbaru. I can only just make out two fighters in it. Plus, I think you've got too much empty space in it, specifically to the left. Sticking your username there doesn't seem to fulfill that fact Otherwise, it's looking great.

[JRendell]

Changed mine completely. Havn't got very much time the next couple of weeks, so I think this will have to do.

Final Entry

[ganbaru]

The more I think about it , I"m really not sure than my ''oval'' idea is good as the transparency need bmp 8 file which might kill color quality.
C&C would be really welcome.

[Evil Rick]

Originally Posted by AtomicoX

Problems noticed: Text reflection (or the whole text + lines) might be redundant. High contrast. Hard to see what's going on.

Well AX, for me thge main problem is that the image is a bit hard to notice, perhaps the grayscale wasn't the best idea for a theme in which you can expect intense color of explosions and metal clashing.

Originally Posted by Drake

Some nice entrys so far for in my opinion quite a challanging theme this month.

Anyway I attempted, failed miserably then gave up on my entry.

Highly doubt i'll get time to finish it so it'll probably not get a final entry =[

Edit: Might aswell show what I had so far...

I really like the combination of Red and Blue in this sig, thhey bringh together an awesome balance with a very cool style of a sig.

Originally Posted by Soul-Stealer

o.o @ rick the gow was not going with anything lol so just changed the whole thing hope this is better

I can notice Afro Samurai but the other characet is totally unable to see or recognise. I'm not sure about the placement of the pink dots, they could be more near the "clas" area to gave a filliung of impact between the two characters. Also, perhaps the siggy is a bit too dark.

I think you should try to work out the God of War sig, it looked really cool in v1.

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Soul-Stealer I see only one fighter, where's the other ?


After all the comments, I choose to use something more conventional for the SOTM.

Edit: sorry I forgot to post on what I am working now. C&C would be welcome.

Without doubt, a LOT better than your previous atemp. I like the original style you're giving to it but try to decrease a bit the lighness of the center.

[sayinterry]

O.o..........
I dont think i should even submit this compared to everyone else...............

I feel so lame
but i guess i can feel that way since this is my very first anime siggy, and forst sotm contest. O.o

Can i get C&C please?

V1 (i guess)


Plain and Simple ftw??????

EDIT: Version 2 is a little brighter and i moved the texts.

[Mr.Raw]

Originally Posted by sayinterry

O.o..........
I dont think i should even submit this compared to everyone else...............

I feel so lame
but i guess i can feel that way since this is my very first anime siggy, and forst sotm contest. O.o

Can i get C&C please?

V1 (i guess)


Plain and Simple ftw??????

EDIT: Version 2 is a little brighter and i moved the texts.

You're doing your best, you can't do more than that ...keep up the good work

[Chaho-Chi]

Ok I made the sig more visable



@sayinterry Not that bad but you might want to use brushes and render you image better.
@ganbaru I prefer the first one out of the two but it looks a lot more nicer the the batch before.
@Soul-Stealer Its a little hard to tell apart your render.
@AtomicoX I find the sig to be a little off but it might just be me =/
@Risa chan As Evil Rick-san said the render is confusing.

[JRendell]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

I must say that I prefer this one alot more than the oval one. The oval one's colour seems to have faded,
and I don't like the look of it in that shape.

On this one, I would work on bringing down the brightness in the middle, and making the colours a bit more vibrant.

Originally Posted by sayinterry

V1 (i guess)


Plain and Simple ftw??????

EDIT: Version 2 is a little brighter and i moved the texts.

If this is your first attempt at a sig, then this is the perfect place to post up what you can do/have done,
as everyone will tell you the areas you've done well as well as the areas you need to improve.

Aside from that, you need to work on getting renders in without having crutial parts cut off.
Also, think about a colour scheme for the sig, from there you can work on what colour and style the text is going to be.

I prefer V1 btw

Originally Posted by ayu-smepai

Much better. Try to add in some extra brushes to give it a little more colour. I can make out the fight/renders alot more now,
but overall, the sig still seems a little grey to me.

Getting there though.

[sayinterry]

Ok... I made some edits and i drew in the rest of akane's head and natsuru's head and im not sure about what rendering is that much since im new to this so i basiclly looked at the renders filter and used lighting effects. (haha....)

V3



I made a v4 after what JR said and i moved the texts and edited the colors a little bit but my main color scheme is blue for natsuru and red for akane and orange yellow for texts



Can i get a little more C&C please?
This is really helping me in making future sigs.

[Evil Rick]

Originally Posted by ayu-smepai

Ok I made the sig more visable

Looks better, the bg suits and matchs with the blue and green for the girls's eyes.

Originally Posted by sayinterry

Ok... I made some edits and i drew in the rest of akane's head and natsuru's head and im not sure about what rendering is that much since im new to this so i basiclly looked at the renders filter and used lighting effects. (haha....)

V3



I made a v4 after what JR said and i moved the texts and edited the colors a little bit but my main color scheme is blue for natsuru and red for akane and orange yellow for texts



Can i get a little more C&C please?
This is really helping me in making future sigs.

First, welcome to the SOTM.

Okay, I know you're new in all this matter of making sigs, so I'll put aside the "Designer" critique I normally give to tell you some basics of how you can make this sig better.

1) Too much text is not always that good, you're treying to "buy" votes so the sig must look tractive at first sig, too much text may make it look boring and drag away interest.

2) I can see 4 renders, too many renders doesn't work either, makes the sig distracting. I sugest you to serach on a site named Safebooru.com using thge tag "fight" and find a suitable image for the theme. Use only that image for your sig and it bwill work a lot better.

3) Try to focus your sig and keep the balance. This is the reason for why too much text and too much renders don't work, your sig must drag atention to one point of it. Once you get the image you want, make sure that the sig is focused on the image and only on the image.

I know that a t some point is a bit hard, but hey, when I joined AS forums I didn't knew how to make graphics but through practice and patiente you can see I had improved.

[Soul-Stealer]

hmm ok @_@

then rick i will work on that GOW but man dunno how to full the space @_@ will try!

[Evil Rick]

Originally Posted by Soul-Stealer

hmm ok @_@

then rick i will work on that GOW but man dunno how to full the space @_@ will try!

Why not you juts put the render in the middle of the sig?

[JRendell]

Originally Posted by sayinterry

im not sure about what rendering is that much since im new to this so i basiclly looked at the renders filter and used lighting effects.

Seeing as you have just said that, and Rick has posted this;

Originally Posted by Evil Rick

2) I can see 4 renders, too many renders doesn't work either, makes the sig distracting. I sugest you to serach on a site named Safebooru.com using thge tag "fight" and find a suitable image for the theme. Use only that image for your sig and it bwill work a lot better.

I can see that I am going to have to explain what renders are Renders are the images that you put into a signature, therefore, in your case they are the images of Natsuru and Akane.

I can see how you got a bit muddled up with Render in the 'Filter' tab of Photoshop, but that is a good place to explore in your sig making, as you can create some great effects there.

[sayinterry]

Ahhhh i see what you mean. Ill try to make a different one then. So subtract the text and some renders???? I think for sotm i dont really need to put my name and i feel as though S.O.T.M on the sig would make it more impactful.

So ill figure some way to maybe get a different fight scene or just meld it together.

[ganbaru]

@sayinterry With as little experience as I have, I am probably not the best suited to teach thing to a newby but I can suggest you at least one thing: put the 2 ''fighters'' on the same picture it'S better if they fight agains each others.
@ Ayu-smepai it'S way more clear but still a bit too gray: adding some blue and green brush at low oppacity over the mass of gray might help.

For me I made V3 and V4: plaayed a bit with the color and reduced the brightness of at center ( but given the renders, I have to keep some bright light or it would look wrong) C&C would be welcome.
V3

V4