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[Mankut]

If you read up on KH:BBS, you'll see that Roxas and Ven look exactly alike, but are different people.

[Mankut]

Here's another image:

[Mankut]

Another Image:

[Mankut]

My Mother's Day Card:

[Fire Blazer]

The text is kinda hard to see, what is that weird line in the middle, and it needs a border.

The heart looks great though, 3D is win.

[Mankut]

Seeing as my gallery has been dead, I'm posting all requests I have done( I never used to post them). Here's one with no border:

[Mankut]

I put this together in like...15 minutes so it's not very good:

[Oblivion Knight]

[Ryrumeli]

That up there is the glare which shows Kratos oppinion on the average noob. XD


You do have quite a style, dude. Simple and classy. Like I said in the shoutbox, I really think that a greater diversity of fonts might do you good. Also, using effects to improve the font's visibility, like a border around the font for example. The backgrounds are well choosen if you ask me.

Even though you don't seem to use advanced photoshop effects, those not always are a good choice, and some times even can make a sig worse. So less is more in this kind of thing. ...oh, and I see you are not a man of borders, hm? Quite a stylistical thing if you ask me.

[Shu]

Yup, borders GREATLY enhance an image. Your style is definately different, but your backgrounds are awesome. Good work on rendering Yuffie and Tifa, if you did that yourself.

I reccomend getting a C4D or Fractal render from Planetrenders and try and wrap it around a render. You can do this by copying the C4D/Fractal and placing one on top of the render, and one below. Select the top one and erase parts you don't want, and smudge anything that makes it obvious you erased some parts. But don't make your smudgeing obvious either, so you have to be careful.

Mess around with that.

Another trick is to merge the entire thing after done with a sig, copy it, and hide the lower layer. Do a gaussian blur on the upper layer and set it to...3.0...yeah. and then make the lower layer visible again and set the upper layer to "Overlay". It usually makes the sig "shine" a little. It looks good.

[Mankut]

I tried what you said Shu, and here's the result.

[Ryrumeli]

Oh! Stylish! Really, that Tifa there is so photorealistical now in the first one I seriously am considering to hit on her. >.>


The border did do wonders, it is simple, yet gives the image dynamics. And no text there or other atribute giving it a non-pro appearance.


Seriously, people could pay for things this good. Congratulations.

[Shu]

That definately looks good. You should mess around with the thing I said about the C4D's/Fractals a bit more.

I used both of the methods I told you in my current sig, although I did brush a little.

Another trick is to take out a Grunge brush and brush your blank sig with Grey and Black, then clone your render a few times, spread them out so they're covering most of the sig, and merge all of the copies (Not including the original render, which should be hidden) and do a motion blur on it, preferebly at a diagonal angle. Set the layer to overlay, and it colors the grunge brushes behind you a bit, and makes for a cool background. I also used that in my current sig.

How do YOU like your sig you just made, Mankut?

[Oblivion Knight]

[Mankut]

I was playing with motion blur, and I made a small mistake. This is the result:

[Ryrumeli]

Heh, what can I say? Do mistakes more oftenly, man. XD


It is really good. Tifa seems more defined in this one. The effect is simpler, obviously unplanned, but it actually gives her a greater focus. And the light color also makes her stand out.


It is like she was further zoomed up just by that effect! Thumbs up, dude.

[Shu]

Nice work, your stuff is improving alot.

Be sure to give me a PM if you need some help on something particular, I'll try to do my best to help.

[Mankut]

Thanks Everyone.

I'm playing with motion blur and the various attributes, so I made this:

[Shu]

It looks nice, but maybe a bit bland. It could also use a border, but otherwise good.

The quality of that render is quite good, BTW.

[boney]

Any GFX with that girl's gotta be good. Nice job.