Aman 13 & Co. sig shop! Closed forever!

[A_man13]

The focus should be the render and the text together and the background should be blured. Look at your sig and tell me where your eyes go first...

 

[AzSvFeZ]

Yea, all you have to do is check the thread octa.

 

[AzSvFeZ]

to the words honestly, then to ness, but hey, I fixed it a little. and got this cool little background. sorry for the double post.

 

[A_man13]

...And thats where the focus should be.

Better. Now try to make MK part of the BG. Try going to colors-> Color balance and play with the bars till the background matches the render.

In my opinion, this is how a sig should be made:

-Pasting and resizing the render
-Make the BG. I usually start one of two ways: taking two main colors of the render and making a BG of them or Repasting the render enough times to cover a transparant layer and give it a motion blur or gausian blur. Then add brushes, C4Ds, and what not for texture.
-BLENDING. Even the experts strugle with this. This can be done by adding stuff in front of the sig, setting a the render to overlay or multiply (as well as duplicating that layer, setting it to normal, and lowering the opalcity), or using filters to get the same feel.
-Lighting and extra effects. Just add a white to transparant gradient for lighting. Repeat the Make the BG step for texture.
-Coloring/ extra blending. Copy visable -> Paste -> New layer (instead of anchor layer). Then choose a gradient that goes with the render and Color -> Map -> Gradient map. Set to overlay and play with opalcity. Repeat pasting till it looks good.
-Focus: Copy->Paste-> New layer and duplicate the resulting layer. Gausian blur the top (by 2) and Sharpen the bottom (by 15-20) and erase the blured layer over the render (select the black space using color select, press Ctrl+I, and delete). Lower the blured layer so it looks good.
-Add text and your good.

If you want more tips, talk to me in PM.

 

[AzSvFeZ]

wow, thanks Idk if i'll need more for a while lol... but let me give this a shot

 

[A_man13]

This is what I do. It just takes practice. Oh, and check out sugarpultries sig school a few pages back. It has some great links to fonts, C4D's, brushes, and tuts.

 

[Roller]

hey guys. Any body up for a brawl? I'm bored...

 

[ThatGuyYouMightKnow]

I will, if you don't mind Brawling someone you don't know. XD BTW, did you take note of my post earlier?

 

[Lone Shadow]

Hey guys, wow this thread is getting huge...rollerking I'll brawl but I have to tell you that I have been playing offline for like a month, so the lag is gona kill me. Reply if your still interested.

 

[A_man13]

@LoneShadow: I'm working on your edits now. I'm going to give you two versions and see which you prefer, K?

 

[Lone Shadow]

@LoneShadow: I'm working on your edits now. I'm going to give you two versions and see which you prefer, K?

Oh ok cool =)

 

[A_man13]

One version that is just like the Santi one, one that is the same as the first, just with the FG effects of the original.

 

[Lone Shadow]

One version that is just like the Santi one, one that is the same as the first, just with the FG effects of the original.

Sounds awesome cant wait to see them...in the mean time I downloaded gimp to play around with (I used Photoshop at school) and I'll post if I make something decent

Thanks

-LS-

 

[A_man13]

@Lone Shadow: Here ya go!
V1:

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7618/loneshadow2kd6.png

V2:

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7280/loneshadowv2rx0.png

@IC3R: I know he is probably not going to view this, but thanks for the sig. I'm too attached to my current sig to change it. Thanks again.

 

[Lone Shadow]

@Lone Shadow: Here ya go!
V1:

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7618/loneshadow2kd6.png

V2:

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7280/loneshadowv2rx0.png

@IC3R: I know he is probably not going to view this, but thanks for the sig. I'm too attached to my current sig to change it. Thanks again.

Oh man I love it! Thanks a lot!

 

[A_man13]

Now the question is which version is better?

 

[Lone Shadow]

Now the question is which version is better?

Personally the first is better IMO. Thanks again Aman

 

[Roller]

Sorry guys. I started working on a new animation instead. Pika vs DDD. It is gonna be shorter than PiSToLZ's is but MUCH better quality. Too bad I am gonna be leaving for the weekend in an hour... I might finish it sunday night. If not I'll show you on monday for sure.

A_man: I don't need my sig immediately because i will be away for the weekend, so feel free to bump me below people who request today.

 

[A_man13]

My list is huge. You'd be lucky if you got it by Monday.

 

[AzSvFeZ]

A_Man, how big is the list?

 

[A_man13]

I think I have two or three reqiests (you've seen how I do sigs, it wasn't that long till recently; 30 Minutes is no longer the waiting time, but an hour at average). Then I have a few more edits.

 

[AzSvFeZ]

Yea, I hope you don't take offense if I spend like the next 3 days working on a sig, and use that one instead of this next one, I'll only do that if it looks better though...

 

[A_man13]

Not at all. Quite a few people do that, anyways (say, the same day). If nothing else, you can use the sig rotator.

 

[AzSvFeZ]

How do you use the sig rotator?

 

[A_man13]

It's just an animation done in GIMP. I decided to take it off since it lowers the overal sig quality.

 

[AzSvFeZ]

Lol, I've spent the last hour and a half or so on this, its looks pretty good.

What do you think, I followed your steps.

 

[A_man13]

It looks good. It needs a bit more texture in my opinion and the flipping looks odd. Keep at it.

 

[Roller]

Ok, I'm leaving for the weekend now. My animation is almost done and looks great imho. I'll post it sunday. See you guys later.

 

[AzSvFeZ]

Yea, lol self accomplishment! the flipping I made pop out a little more I brought it to the front, underneath it I blurred it, and flipped it so it rotates to the top. It looks pretty tight, I was just experimenting though, but I really like it, I can go back and add texture.

 

[A_man13]

Try googling some tutorials for GIMP and try them out. Check out Cobra's (AKA marthmaster's) tutorials on Guildinn and GIMP Talk.

 

[AzSvFeZ]

I'm pretty bad at following tutorials, I'll just experiment.

 

[A_man13]

You don't have to follow them step by step. They aren't supposed to be followed exactly; the point is to learn new skills.

 

[Grandeza]

My first animation

 

[AzSvFeZ]

NICE lol love it grandeza

 

[A_man13]

Nice, but shouldn't he be moving forward?

 

[Grandeza]

Uhhhhhhh he's......moonwalking?

 

[A_man13]

Now I feel like a moron...

 

[Grandeza]

lol I just made it up as an excuse. I forgot to think about his direction. I felt like a moron when you pointed that out.

 

[A_man13]

We all feel like morons...

SMASHtyke:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3424/tykeih9.png

 

[A_man13]

Anyways, anyone up for a brawl or something?