THE Sig Contest V4.0 (finished.)

[Rhyfelwr]

Coxy - love that signature. Nicely done!

Rhy

[Coxy224]

Thanks, I wasn't sure if it was in on time or not, so fingers crossed!
I was first out last sig contest so I'm hoping to stay in a little longer this time! I'm not greatly experienced at making sigs, most people are better than me

[Alex™]

Do i still ahve time to make one? i completely forgot and now i have a bit of spare time =]

[LuckyShot]

ROUND 1 JUDGING TIME... kind of

GrahamLif3 - I like this one, makes the movie a part of the sig, gets the screen name in there very cleverly. It's way too big imho, but not going to hold that against it. Could use a border, but animation is a huge plus... especially when it's done well and tastefully like here.

TheCrestFallen - Man this one is cool. Very impressive font work - my only suggestion is you don't HAVE to fall in love with texture effects on every part of the sig. Make some layers crisp and clear with textured ones around them, and they will stand out more and you still have the sweet textured look at the same time.

MoleyNator - Great colors, simple and elegant border - something that was lacking in other sigs this round. Lots of credit for the manual render cutting... and not losing any definition when shrinking the photo. I would add layers to your sigs to make them more detailed... maybe even just some C4D's then go to layer options and make them really transparent, play with the colors, throw texture or blur effects in. Great job with the lighting effect too. My only real gripe is the text is boring... it should have a more imposing shadow or color or maybe even an effect on it. Still like this sig.

Rhyfelwr - Sweet 3d render, very high res and cool sig. This sig BEGS to be a pop out sig, which I know you are all over the transparency tricks with PNG's. Also it is lacking a border, which could be contrasted by having the render ignore the border and pop out but have the rest of the sig still in the confines of the border.

Zommy - Man this is an amazing concept. Love the old look, can't explain how PERFECT the text is. I mean PERFECT, I love it. I hate the border though. You should hilite (or mask if you will) around the gun, or around the focal point of any sig if you're making a fade or a darken style border like this. You still get the appearance of a clean and professional sig border, but you won't end up messing with the picture itself... like in this case it just goes RIGHT through the gun, which looks ok by his hand and maybe even his face, but the barrel should have definitely ignored the border and just been drawn as is. You get through because it's still sweet, and the text is the best placement and style I've seen in a long long time.

TheArmedReaper - This is instantly classic. High contrast, very eye popping... I would like to see your screen name is some cooler font, maybe surrounded by bullet holes to incorporate it instead of using start black and white simple text - which works, but think how cool it would be if it was kind of a mean text all shot up. Just a thought.

Coxy224 - Was this saved as a transparent pop out sig? If so, it has to be uploaded to another site like photobucket, lbpc somehow kills transparency effects when you upload here. I like the placement of the text, and overall just a nicely made sig. Color of the text matches the render which is cool, and you have the border in there ignoring the render on the top part where it pops out which I love! Pretty much what I was talking to Zommy and Rhy about, you did.

Maiden and Yarbone still have like 9 hours before the day is over... So no one is cut yet. I must say this is insanely hard to judge, these are really good sigs - and I can't think of any one reason to cut anyone yet. But I must, and I will... after the last two sigs are in.

[Coxy224]

Thanks for thecompliments Lucky
It was meant to be a pop-out sig, **** you LBPC servers!

[LuckyShot]

Ok I gotta start a 15 hour road trip now. I'll be back on when I find a hotel with internet somewhere tonight when I stop to finish. Great job again guys, this was the best showing in one of these things I've ever seen. High quality stuff.

[Rhyfelwr]

Thanks for the kind words Lucky.. Sorry you have to do so much travelling though!!

I felt your comments were constructive and fair!!

Your point about the border and the front layer ignoring it was very valid and I should have thought about that (I could also have put a shadow on the border and then a shadow on the front layer, which would have made it stand out even further). Shame I don't have anything bigger than 500x100 as it makes life very restricted. *goes away kicking himself*

I must admit, I'd hate to be in your shoes - there are some very cool sigs here.

Rhy

[Alex™]

HOLD ON! i don't need to make one, i has ma gears of war sig, and there is a gears film being made, so i'm k ^_^

But yeah, i AM still making one right now even though i'm too late, i just wanna see what i come up with. But i have my reasons for not being able to make one tonight, so.... yeah =]

Congrats to everyone who made them, they are all great =]

Edit - I'll just post it here 'cos it's too late for it to be judged i think (anyone who wants to feel better about their sig look down now >_< lol)



It seems to busy, but mehh.... That was just a quick one for fun really lol....

[Yarbone]

wow... i'm such a n00b! :O

I thouht the deadline was the 7th


bye...

[TheCrestfallen]

Thanks for the comment, LuckyShot.

[Zommy]

lol is it good to be the person who had the most text for the comment xD and im amazed you like it! spent 5-10 mins on it

[LuckyShot]

Yeah Maiden, I'll take your entry because of the circumstances... so here is the feedback.

LOVE band of brothers, but you're right seems a bit busy. The render would have been much better in front. Then the picture of all the men which is iconic of the series should be stark contrasted, and behind the render of the one guy. I like this sig a lot, but unfortunately it seems rushed which it most likely was. I'm sorry but with the quality of the other sigs already - I have to cut you already.

Which sucks because I love your sig work. I hope your grandma is doing better.

I would come back and remake the Band of Brothers one - just because it's a great concept and is very close to being a spectacular sig. I would also look for a higher resolution render of the pic with all the men standing in line - OR just make it solid black, like a shadow. Again sorry, someone had to go

[Alex™]

Yeah Maiden, I'll take your entry because of the circumstances... so here is the feedback.

LOVE band of brothers, but you're right seems a bit busy. The render would have been much better in front. Then the picture of all the men which is iconic of the series should be stark contrasted, and behind the render of the one guy. I like this sig a lot, but unfortunately it seems rushed which it most likely was. I'm sorry but with the quality of the other sigs already - I have to cut you already.

Which sucks because I love your sig work. I hope your grandma is doing better.

I would come back and remake the Band of Brothers one - just because it's a great concept and is very close to being a spectacular sig. I would also look for a higher resolution render of the pic with all the men standing in line - OR just make it solid black, like a shadow. Again sorry, someone had to go

Yeah, i completely agree with all your points lol, but as i said it was rushed and the circumstances at the time i was making it were... not great =[

but yeah... lol Hopefully when sig contest v5 comes around i'll be in a better position to make one =]

edit: and i would ahve expected to go even if i had more time 'cos the others were pretty **** good! lol congrats to everyone else =]

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[LuckyShot]

Best sportsmanship ever right there.

[TheCrestfallen]

Artwork? We should get a bit more information about the details next time, for example; size ( 500 x 200 ). Artwork can be anything though.

[LuckyShot]

Well typical sig dimensions meaning they don't take up the majority of a post and they're wider than tall.

And I should be more specific on the artwork thing - Use pre existing artwork, like the mona lisa or statue of david for example, something some people would recognize and then go nuts. But honestly this one is basically a free for all so I can see how creative you guys can be, because I need something to separate you all out. The sigs last round were all really good and hard to judge, this just adds another aspect.

If you guys want to agree on a max dimension that's fine - but you all have to agree at the start of a round

Edit: My proposed pixel max would be 200 tall, 600 wide.

[TheCrestfallen]

Allright.

Deadline? Thanks

[LuckyShot]

Yeah I was going to post that - Judging every sunday from now on, results and next round info out on Monday. Does that work for everyone?

[TheCrestfallen]

meh, going to Greece about 2 days for a week. Won't be able to post after, i'll just create one before, don't worry. It will work for me.

[Alex™]

Can i just point out that (as far as i know) there is a size limit for sigs on here? So surely the max size should correspond with that?