Sho's Showcase

[shomazta]

note : Recent signatures are in the next post. thread update : 2007-10-23
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The "Deal" with Requests
I watch (and love) a wide variety of anime series so I'd be more then happy to make signatures/avatars for you! Yet, I'm really busy as it is with running to fairly large communities and I'm in the process of moving (as of 2007-10-21). So if you have a request and your not in any rush to get the signature or avatar, feel free to "drop me a line" and I'll try to do it when I have the free time

Note: I can do anim gif avatars but I'm slow when it comes to doing them So don't be suprised (and upset) when it takes me a week to make it xD

The "Deal" with Tutorials
I've made tutorials for pretty everything you can think of... okay that's a complete lie... but a while back when I started up SiMPGFX I used to make at least two tutorials a day for like 2 weeks straight... and nowadays I just make tutorials when I think they might benefit others.

Anyways, you'll notice that theres a "Tutorial Field" below each signature. If it says "Available" then that means you can PM me for the tutorial...

I will accept "tutorial requests". However if I've already made a tutorial that covers "The Basics of Blending", I'd appreciate it that you refrain from asking me to make a "basic blend tut" ... haha make sure to read what I already have before asking me to make more

Suki graphics artists I admire so far : Klash, Deathie, Sephie, more?

I stole Klashikari's format for organizing this thread Feel free to leave neg/pos input on my works

THIS THREAD IS BEING EDITED

[shomazta]

RECENT SIGNATURES

2007-09-09

• Subject : Logo Concept (from Bleach)
• Themes : Bleach
• Status : Strictly for ShoMazta
• Tutorial : None

Spoiler:

Comments : not sure why I ended up making this, but the fact is I had to make this myself, its not some font or something and it's definitely not unique. It was a pain in the a** to make tho.
Time : 9 hours.

2007-09-10

• Subject : Ayumu Nishizawa (from Hayate no Gotoku!)
• Themes : Very much perverted xD
• Status : Available
• Tutorial : None

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Comments : I'm so messed up mentally eh , I saw the quick scene in episode 23 and decided to loop the joint :P Obviously its not a straight loop, I mixed up the screens a bit because... (click)
Time : 10 minutes.

2007-09-18

• Subject : Elite Victor
• Themes : Abstract, Vector, Dark
• Request for victor
• Tutorial : None

Spoiler:

Comments : just a sig request... wanted something similar to this (click) but I came out with this (click). I think it's pretty decent considering I don't have a mouse :P
Time : 30 minutes.

2007-10-18

• Subject : Yagami Light (from Death Note)
• Themes : Evil, Wicked, Dark
• Request for jimmy19
• Tutorial : None

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Comments : jimmy/james asked me to make a signature of Light looking up with a grin on his face, and he requested that there be a dark forest in the background with either a dark bluish or purplish tone/hue/color scheme. I simply got a screen cap of him, rendered him out, added a forest scene to the bg, messed with some photo-filters, did some basic smudging/blurring to blend him in better, added some text, a gradient overlay, and altered the curves. Sure it's simple but I like it and he's satisfied.
Time : 5 minutes.

2007-10-19

• Subject : Abarai Renji (from Bleach)
• Themes : Horror, Death, Fear
• Status : Available
• Tutorial : None

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Comments : I was trying to go for a dark "horror" feel, and if you can't tell this is Renji from Bleach. I took a screen cap of him towards the end of his fight with Byakuya. Rendered him, did some easy "photo-manip" added a forest-like background (from Claymore) and messed around with some photo-filters, gradient maps, and curves.
Time : 5 minutes tops.

2007-10-22

• Subject : Characters (from Shugo Chara)
• Themes : Cutesy, Colorful
• Request for FateNagisa
• Tutorial : None

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Comments : woohoo more random requests for the.... loss wow I'm really sucking with this latest pieces haha... back to anime for me :P
Time : 5 minutes.

2007-10-23

• Subject : Characters (from ???)
• Themes : Cutesy, Colorful, Happy
• Request for FateNagisa
• Tutorial : None

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Comments : o, ho ho... this was not as easy as it may look :P ... "but all you did is crop an image" is what you're probably thinking... but your wrong. "wrong?!?" yup your WRONG biatch xD ... I had to render the characters first and as you'll notice by looking at the stock (click) I used... there happens to be two missing characters :P so yeah this one wasn't hard but it was time consuming
Time : 25 minutes.

2007-10-223

• Subject : ?? (from Gundam)
• Themes : Motion, ??, AhNiMotion.. mation? Motion
• Request for wingdarkness
• Tutorial : None

Spoiler:

Comments : well he wasn't feeling the sig as it was and wanted it to have some sort of "animat[ion...] in the sig that looked cool" (click). So I went ahead and did this simple animation... and yeah the animation doesn't look very smooth... but meh I'm lazy right now and it looks "cool" in my opinion.
Time : 10 minutes.

Spoiler for Original:

2007-10-22

• Subject : ?? (from Gundam)
• Themes : Motion, ??
• Request for wingdarkness
• Tutorial : None

Spoiler:

Comments : I was feeling pretty bored... probably should have watched some anime, but instead decided to take up someones request (and I'm not a designer ). Anyways theres not really any theme, the guy just wanted someone to make this (click) into a signature that'd suit his avatar. Not too sure what I was doing other then being half asleep and just doing random stuff in photoshop... so yeah it sucks T_T but hey its 5 a.m. you can't really expect much out of me at this time... or can you
Time : 35 minutes. <- hey I have a valid excuse (*passes out*)

OLDER SIGNATURES

Spoiler for 2007-06:

2007-06-27

• Subject : Rin (from Fate / Stay Night)
• Themes : Cute, Unique, (radom :P)
• Status : Available
• Tutorial : Available

Spoiler:

Comments : hmm... I really don't know what this is haha, I just
Time : 1 minute.

2007-06-27

• Subject : Ayame (from InuYasha)
• Themes : Sexy(?), Shocked, Funny
• Status : Available(ask)
• Tutorial : None

Spoiler:

Comments : now this was just me being bored and I thought it was hilarious, not really much more to say then that :P If you want this sig tho just ask and I can even modify it to have your name
Time : 1 minute.

2007-06-29

• Subject : ?? (from DOA)
• Themes : Sexy(?), Cute, Colorful, Provocative
• Status : Available(ask)
• Tutorial : Available

Spoiler:

Comments : when I made this, it was like 2 a.m. and I was just doing a ton of random stuff haha... I ended up making a tutorial for this (while I was making the sig simultaneously) and apparently some people actually liked it haha...
Time : 30 minutes.

2007-06-29

• Subject : Hitsugaya (from Bleach)
• Themes : Flow, Motion, Life
• Status : Available(ask)
• Tutorial : None

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Comments : based off of a simple "smudge tut" that someone posted on my site a while back... I liked the border back when I made it but don't hate haha. hmm... this was around the time that I was actually getting into Bleach I guess so I decided to use Captain Taicho :P
Time : 10 minutes.

2007-06-30

• Subject : ?? (from Gundam)
• Themes : Flow, Motion, Simplicity
• Status : Available(ask)
• Tutorial : Available

Spoiler:

Comments : I had this cool render and just felt like I had to use it. so wahlah, haha... nothing really special but when I made it, I thought I was the s***! sike, I did like it tho...
Time : 10 minutes.
Update : wasn't feeling my original "outcome" (click)

Spoiler for 2007-07:

2007-07-16

• Subject : ?? (from ??), Clare (from Claymore)
• Themes : N/A
• Status : Available(ask)
• Tutorial : None

Spoiler:

Comments : someone on my site posted freaking images in their sig instead of signatures so I converted them into sigs.

Sig One stock: http://i12.tinypic.com/5y9hzpw.jpg
Sig Two stock: http://mj.shueisha.co.jp/claymore/img/main.jpg

Time : 5 minutes each.

2007-07-18

• Subject : InuYasha (from InuYasha)
• Themes : Funny, Simple, Attractive(?)
• Status : Available(ask)
• Tutorial : In Progress

Spoiler:

Comments : based off of a simple "smudge tut" that someone posted on my site a while back... I liked the border back when I made it but don't hate haha. hmm... this was around the time that I was actually getting into Bleach I guess so I decided to use Captain Taicho :P
Time : 2 hours. <- hey moving that little dude around the screen for 200 or so frames isn't as easy as it looks >.<

2007-07-19

• Subject : Rangiku (from Bleach)
• Themes : Sexy, Attractive, Provocative
• Status : Available(ask)
• Tutorial : None

Spoiler:

Comments : after rendering Rangiku (and making a tutorial on how to render) I decided to turn it into an avatar...
Time : 2 minutes.

2007-07-27

• Subject : Ichigo (from Bleach)
• Themes : Motion, Life, Energy
• Status : Strictly for SiMPGFX/MoeOtaku Forums
• Tutorial : In Progress

Spoiler:

Comments : this is a promo sig version (view large piece), sort of, for a graphics site I run. in short I rendered Ichigo, added a screen cap of my site, made him "pop-out" (i'll make a tut for this later), and did all the effects (slicing through the air).

Yes I know the reflection is weak, haha. Like it says up top this is an older peice.
Time : 5+ hours for LP. -10 for sig version.

[Pendevous]

-> You pretty much got the feel in this sig! I like it a lot. It has depth, and the background goes with it. Great job!

And congratz on opening your own thread!

[Shana]

Opening thread cookie ^.^

You're really good at this, I'll be waiting for more stuff of yours. ^_^

[shomazta]

thanks guys I'll make alot today and post them up by tonight hopefully

[shomazta]

updates woohoo

[konstargirl]

This siggy is great but kinda empty to the right though. fill it up with some text or something.

[shomazta]

thanks for input. neq space on that piece was intentional tho also it been a good minute since I last worked on that file...

[The Chaos]

hay I like your sig is very good

do you have new sig about the anime in this fall

[shomazta]

do I make sigs for new anime series you mean? if so yes I'll try and take requests but I am often busy running my own site... and I get distracted by watching anime so easily :P

[shomazta]

upersdaterstated I'll post alot more new siggys tomorrow when I get some free time...

[Rhyel]

You improvement in signatures creations is very good. Keep it up.

You death note is great;

[shomazta]

thanks alot i'm making a tutorial for it...

[Ice Climbers]

Opening thread greetings!!! Maybe I'm too late but oh well

Some great sigs here, i especially like the light-hearted ones (just my stupid preference) but overall nice =]

Haha I would admire those 3 names you named above too =]

Anyways, cookies!!!

[shomazta]

what happened to deathie ... thanks for the greets

[Ice Climbers]

Deathie is on a sea-shell collecting trip (or so he says) but i have no idea why he is banned =/

[shomazta]

ahh... make sure to check out my older sigs... some of my newer ones are just phail xD i really need to go ahead and make some new ones...

[KasumiGirl]

You have some nice stuffs here.
It looks like you could work a bit on your text. But hey, practice makes perfect.
Hmm, in your older signatures bunch, looks like you like to use the filter tools. Some of them are well used. Good job.
I hope to see more of your works, i will, yes? Nyeh~ Nyeh~
Cookie for you~

@Icy: For some reason I do not think that Deathie is banned, I think it was just a random thing he did, he probably just changed his user banner thing, because usually when people are banned you can't see their avatar.

[shomazta]

thanks for the "cookie" and input :S ... I plan on adding some new updates later today hopefully

[shomazta]

woah its been a good minute since I've updated this thread... anywho heres a ton of new ava's for the upcoming series True Tears











and here's yet another static Aiko...


all the 100px ones are AS friendly I'm working on a bunch of sigs and the rest of the characters later today...