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And yeah, another possible way -- either creating a makeshift or destroying an original (although who in their right mind would do that), screen, by removing everything inside except the frame, and then just taping on a transparent plastic sheet with the nessecary drawings (like icons). In some other pictures I saw a MIRRORED, rather than transparent screen. That one is much easier to do -- can be done with a simple webcam and the nessecary software, or just glue on the screen a very reflexive coating.

I have seen transparent panels for non-LCD clock-like interfaces, where simple lines are carved through a near-transparent panel, and electricity then just goes through the nessecary lines, highlighting them. It wouldn't work for an LCD though -- the liquid, as well as LOTS of transistors, microchips and other pieces of equipment would need to be behind the screen, and they can't be transparent. 3 ways how this photo may have been made: 1. Taking a photo of the place behind the display, uploading it on the computer, setting it as desktop wallpaper. Very hard to take photo of exact angle, with proper lighting etc, but possible. 2. Having one or more videocameras behind the computer screen that record whatever is behind it and then follow step 1 in real time or with some framerate. Extremely unlikely (for an image of this quality) due to technical task, but possible nontheless. 3. Overwhelmingly likely: photomanip. The easiest thing -- set up a stationary camera, close the laptop, take a photo; open the laptop, take a photo; then just combine the two pictures, keeping the outer frame of the open laptop, but replacing everything within the screen range with the picture of the closed laptop.

More and more I see replies to people's work, criticizing them for daring to use any pre-made tools, or (heaven forbid) actually tracing. WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL GUYS?? Come on, if someone wants to use a pre-made tool, trace over, or whatever, let them FFS! I can understand the dislike of obvious plagiarism, or claiming to draw from scratch if using premades, but just because someone is using a pre-made tool does NOT make him a noob or a lamer. According to some of you, anyone who uses anything except the dot brush would be a noob... Pre-mades are there for a reason, they were developed to help artists make works of art by USING them, not by looking at them and saying "yeah that's a premade but i'm 1337 so I'm gonna invent the wheel again and do everything from scratch". While it's true that many people use nothing but pre-mades and make boring or cliched images, it's just as possible for someone to use pre-mades and create an interesting, original, and most importantly well-done work of art. If you want to draw from scratch, good for you. But stop this whole anti-premade campaign, it's just pathetic. It's like saying that every single FPS developer should make their own engine, and using an open-source engine would make you use pre-mades, and therefore your game sucks (*cough* Counterstrike *cough*). Now give honest artists a break, OK?

Just for historical reference, the insignia is incorrect. There was no (and still isn't) such rank as two very large stars on the shoulder-board. There can be either two slighly smaller stars, meaning a lieutenant-general, or one very large star, meaning field-marshall or generalissimo (which Stalin was). The correct insignia for that rank is one large star (as large as the second-from-the-edge star on your picture), followed by an almost as big logo of the Soviet Union. Secondly, Stalin (or anyone else for that matter) never had shoulder insignia with red background. The collar-insignia was red (which you drew correctly), but the shoulders cannot be red. It should be golden for a dress/parade uniform, or green for an everyday-uniform. Overall, this and this pictures will tell you exactly what the shoulder-boards should be like on good old Uncle Joe. The leftmost insignia on the first picture would be Stalin's parade insignia, and the leftmost on the secound would be his everyday insignia. You are probably trying to replicate this image, so I see how it's easy to make the mistakes you did. On that picture, the shoulderboards are indeed golden, although they seem reddish, and they do indeed display properly a star followed by the Soviet logo. Finally, to be really accurate, the buttons on Stalin's shirt must have the soviet hammer-and-sickle on them, the outer edges of the collar red patches must have a golden embroidery and the outer edges of the collar itself must have a red embroidery. All that is properly shown in the picture I linked to. BTW: Although technically it's not required, I never saw a picture of Stalin in parade uniform without his golden star, Hero of Socialist Labor. This a good picture of it. Should NOT be confused with a similar golden star, Hero of the Soviet Union, which, while having, Stalin did not usually wear.

I heard there is a signature script that has several links to the same image, then it pre-loads the first image that works (and displays it in what you see in sig). If it gets an error and can't download the file, it chooses an alternate image link to display. So you can have your sig hosted at several different image hosters, and even if any one of them goes down temporarily, your sig will practically almost always be displayed. I beleive this script may be a mod of an image-rotator (just have two pictures in the database which are really the same, but from multiple sources). The key difference here is that the script needs to be able to tell a dead link from an alive one, and skip the dead one to the next.

I say get rid of the sword, put instead a sextant or a watch (RS style) and you'll have an excellent treasure-seeking sig. I don't just say it because the sword looks worse then the rest of the sig, lowering it's whole value (although that's important too). Remember, for a sig to sell well, it not only has to look good, but to relate to RS in a specific way and context, and focus well on a subject (in this case treasure hunting).

Such sigs are cool in contests "use the least colors to paint this sig, without having two adjasent (touching each other) shapes have the same color. I managed with 4 colors :D

Looks really nice except that the white glow on the right seems really out of place.

Some suggestions (not flames): - Make the RSID logo more resemble something from RuneScape, right now it has absolutely nothing to do with any RS symbolics. - Make cards more customizable (various colors of the card, of the text, of the borders) - Add alternatives without this background, it looks too wierd and IMO ruins the card originality. Or add alternative backgrounds with various RS scenery and such.

Dirt: Polished Wood: Swamp Water: Runite Rock: Rough Wood: All textures done from scratch. Also, if any artists need a texturer (of this level, I can't do much more complex) I'm open for partnerships.

The water needs an upgrade in that last sig. Just use a waterdrop or whirlwind filter on it, and make the shark the epicenter.

The water needs an upgrade in that last sig. Just use a waterdrop or whirlwind filter on it, and make the shark the epicenter.

Different then your standard PKer. Sig made completely by me from scratch, although I did use the pre-made leaf brush in Photoshop. :oops: Post bids if you want to buy it.

How much for a thieving avatar (lockpick and highwayman mask)?

I really don't like the thick red border. I think a border like the one in my sig would look a lot better. Kicks wagon otherwise. :D P.S. Although the perspective looks wierd. From the angle the picture is positioned, the mime should be further away then the crowd, yet it's almost twice the size of the people in the crowd. Are you using a 2-point or 3-point perspective?

I'm online now.

Pos, get in RS and/or add me.

Contest over! Winner announced on front post.

How long is the contest?

Bump.

Yes, you need a cannonball mould (looks like any other crafting mould, except mithril-blue in color rather then white, and has three engraved circles (half-spheres) on it, as in spaces for cannonballs. You use the mould on a furnance (must have steel bars in inventory), and you get either 4 or 6 cannonballs I think.

Yep, this looks good. If there are any minor tweaks, there's nothing I wouldn't be able to change myself later (with the source file of course). I think we'll talk on October 1st. :wink:

Yes, I was joking in my last post. Seriously, I didn't want a comic sig, but a serious one. I'm afraid a thieving monkey really isn't what I wish to portray myself as. :wink: A nice idea though, definitely original. :)

Looks really good! I'd like the fog back on though, because it did a good job at focusing at me and the hero, rather then blend us in the background. Especially since I'm in black, and right now the hero is noticable, and I'm almost not. But make the fog less strong then in the earlier sig, plus don't focus it more on the right side, but evenly throughout the background. I guess this would averagely amount to leaving the previous fog strength of the left side, and weakening it on the castle side to match the left side. The rune on the hero looks kinda wierd, more like a crumbled shirt then armor. I wonder if you could make it a bit more profilic - like adding shoulderboards and other armor segments - but don't overdo it like on most other sigs - because I'm not the one in it. :) I also wonder if you could make the sword a bit more straight - right now it looks like it saw one fight too much. :) Perhaps also modify the lighting on the sword - the way it is now it looks like the sword is thinner at the bottom then at the top, which looks wierd. Overall the sig is getting better and better, it's a solid 420K now, you could raise it to 450K with the comments above (shouldn't be too much work). I'd also like to remind everyone that the deadline is due in 2 days. Poseidon obviously has the strongest lead, but I keep true to my word so the timeline stays.