Ozzy_Patrick

I'm pretty sure I saw Michel Gondry talking about the white stripes one (might have been on his DVD) where he said not all the white stripes one was done manually (though a lot more of it would have been done manually than this one).

For me it's all a bit too busy and it looks as if you've over-sharpened some parts of it. and yea, because of the nature of the stock you've used, it's slightly hard to make sense of everything initially. I also think that you should maybe change the text, that font just seems a bit too cheesy and unprofessional for that sig.

I like it overall. There are a couple of things that don't work for me. Firstly some of those small cut outs on the background. I've circled the ones that just seem a bit out of place to me. Also that white streak at the right I think would look better looking more like a steak of light than a random white line. lighting and text are good in my opinion, background flows well with stock. Nice Job :)

Heh, I love that show. The one where Rimmer goes mad, dresses up in some sort of goldielocks costume and has a glove puppet called Mr Fibbles that shoots lasers out his eyes is one of my favourites :P

Well aside from being rather poorly executed, which is understandable as she is not working in digital art regularly, it seems to be lacking a concept in my opinion. What feeling/idea is it trying to get across? What is the picture of the weird skeleton thing? is it a band symbol or just an image she chose By the way, what band/artist is it for?

I don't think so... I do :-s Vlad or Mil don't have any points on the board and yet they came in top three. And I only have the two from the stock manip one

I'll enter the one in my sig, not sure anyone will like it though. I might enter another if I get time to make one. By the way Runemetsa, I think you forgot to add points to the winners of SOTW 9 :-w

I was gonna mention that but I didn't know if it would be considered an opening scene or an opening sequence. anyway, here's the video

The only things I would crit are that it looks a bit too busy and you shouldn't use a pixel font at a large size like that in my opinion. Other than that pretty good.

The render isn't cut out very well and the background could do with a little more depth in my opinion. Oh and the border seems to disappear in certain parts of the sig. Other than that it seems quite good.

Ah ok, if that's what you're trying to do. I guess I look at sigs differently, I don't tend to focus on a specific part of most sigs which means apart from the stock, It's a little boring.

Ya not as good as your last one. I think it would look better if at least part of the background was in focus

The text is very hard too read on the first and I kind of dislike the scanlines on the splodges you've put in there. Other than that quite a nice job, although I don't know how much you followed tutorials for this. If you pretty much followed the tutorials step by step I think you should stop doing that and just take inspiration from them. Don't really like that style of duplicating the sig on the right but I guess that's just me, as a lot of others seem to like it.

wow, very macabre :shock: I quite like the ideas but I think they could have been executed better. The edges on the first one are either too sharp or too blurred and the text effects are a bit too obvious. Second one's good although it's easy to tell the stitches have been added on. The obvious effects on the third don't matter as it's got a cartoon theme to it.

Thanks, I've been meaning to try out what you suggested but haven't got around to it because of college work. By a smoother, flatter text do you mean one without any warping effects on it?

Erm just wondering where did you get that banner and do you have permission to use it?

Needs more depth and a choice of colours that flow better in my opinion.

Thanks for the comments. I've made a version with those sharper lines blurred, though I think it makes it look a little too wishy-washy... And most of the factors make it pretty unrealistic, the wierd waves comming from the sun, the fact that the sky is dark while the sun is out, etc.

Just did this, first I have done in quite a bit because of a lot of college work. Original photo by Jovialimp - http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/54214915/ comments, C/C, etc. appreciated.

I agree with the idea of isolating yourself from all entertainment that will distract you. I am supposed to be doing some work right now but I've got the TV on and I'm posting on Tip.it :wall:

Seeing as I didn't enter this one I'll vote. 1: Runemetsa 2: Tj 3: 4be2jue

Well personally I can't stand debating most of the time. It's the whole way many people look at it. This is typified by a lot of politicians who debate for ages when clearly they're not going to get anywhere because if one of them backs down from their side of the argument to consider for a second that the other person could have a good point they'll look weak. Not saying this happens in all debates but many of the ones that I have seen have included people with a fixed idea and won't let it be swayed. But finding the truth doesn't have to be about debating. anyway, if finding the truth is what you really want to do then it's worth it I guess. To be honest, with a lot of things (such as science and religion) I'm rather happy just letting them be and don't really need to know the details of why the theory of evolution is more likely to be right or wrong.

I think a lot of people have found themselves in a similar situation, where the others in the group are either incompetent or lazy. If you want to do well I suggest you try to do as much of the work yourself as possible. luckily for you, they're not eager as well as incompetent, which can often be the worst combination as they often do the work but do it badly (then you have to put up with it unless you have the heart to tell them it's not very good).

Ya that's better :)

I prefer the other examples you've got in the art bazaar. The thing is with the 300 one, it's quite hard to do anything to that will add to it, as the original has already been manipulated quite a bit to look pretty darn cool. with the penguins, adding the sun in the middle there kinda makes the lighting on the penguins look weird (as they're being lit from the left).