The Sex Pixels

[Gallic Rush]

Good day ladies and gentlemens. I'm your pimp and you are my gang of luxiory dancing bitches. [peK's words not mine xD]

If you want to join post some information about yourself, mainly experience, as well as some of your work. I will tell you if you are accepted on to the team or not.
Don't PM me about joining the team, post here.
Don't post here if you're not on the team or trying to get on the team.

Member list:
1. Raziel
2. Gallic Rush
3. Lightning
4. Cava
5. Mr. Despair (the artist formerly known as Red)
6. pearl_master
7. MagXD

xxrokudaimexx removed due to mental short-comings
VZ.Kag removed due to inactivity
Raven removed due to inactivity
Haruko removed due to inactivity
bod removed once again for disappearing on us
ılı.frajosg.lıl. removed for ripping
[sephir] removed due to inactivity
KageMane removed due to inactivity
Archssor removed due to inactivity
Joshua-Sensei removed due to not posting ever
UchihaNaruto! removed due to a series of unfortunate events
Wings removed due to inactivity
Blacklite removed due to inactivity
NarutofanXD removed due to inactivity
Silent Reality removed due to inactivity
Chauronity removed due to inactivity
Moridin removed due to inactivity
Suzuhiko removed due to inactivity
Red removed due to inactivity
J c removed due to inactivity
TripstA removed due to inactivity
Countach removed due to inactivity
.seto. removed by request
Rendan removed by request
Pulp Fiction has been banned from NF
Gurbik has been moved to Oreos
Tonza has been moved to Oreos
jiBen has been moved to Oreos
Urahara Kisuke has been punished for two timing. (lol)

Resources:
Tutorials
Pixel2Life (http://www.pixel2life.com/)
Tutorial-Index (http://tutorial-index.com/)
Good Tutorials (http://www.good-tutorials.com/)
Tutorialzed (http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Photoshop/1)
Smuding (http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/17/tutorial5ew.jpg)
Yuurei's Smudging (http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9882/tut11xz4vu3.png)
Brushing (http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=66548)
Default Brushes (http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=91947)

Stocks
Stock Exchange (http://www.sxc.hu/)
Morgue File (http://www.morguefile.com/)
Photocase (http://www.photocase.com)
Photo Rack (http://www.photorack.net/)
Game Renders (gamrenders.com/forum)
David Byun Photography (http://www.davidbyun.com/) There is some nudity here but not much.
Deviant Art (http://deviantart.com)
Spriters Resource (http://sprites.fireball20xl.com/)
Cheat Happens (http://www.cheathappens.com/game_wallpapers.asp)
Use My Computer (http://usemycomputer.com/indeximages/women/)
Hyung Tae Kim (http://hyung-taekim.org/index.php)

Downloads
Fonts (www.dafont.com)
Scanlines (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/21963688/)
Textures 1 (http://www.mayang.com/textures/)
Textures 2 (http://www.textureking.com/)
Textures 3 (http://mxmgallery.maxwellrender.com/)
Textures 4 (http://amazingtextures.com/textures/index.php)
Textures 5 (http://textures.forrest.cz/)

Let's start with introducing each other and telling a bit about your gfx works etc.

[Gallic Rush]

ANNOUNCEMENTS
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~Closed for now~

[Raziel]

My devart: http://razielforzajuve.deviantart.com
It's kinda abandoned. I haven't made a LC in a long time and I see no point in posting tags on devart. I usually make tags now. If I have time or if needed I'll make an LC. Also, I can make website layouts and such. Don't have a photobucket, because I keep my sigs on my server. Recently, I've been combining photos in my tag, but I can always return to renders and smudging. That's about it.

btw, is the name going to remain Graphic Team or are we going to change it?

[mister. pek]

I see. Dunno, I just smacked up something because I couldnt come up with a good teamname, you could give suggestions.

I've been doing gfx for soon 1 1/2 year but it's gone up and down, during soome periods I haven't even bothered open PS for several months. I have no particular style, I like to experiment with my tags and most of them are done in very unique way even if they might look really simple. I put a lot of time behind most of my tags and almost always makes several 'backgrounds', ex. this tags psd:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/pekpekk/drifting.jpg

...have over 95 layers, but I only used 15 of them for the final version. I often go back to some of my older experiment tags and steal ideas and stuff from there.

LC is something I really like to do but as I have said many times, I dont have the computer to do anything nice with it. I mostly do renders whcih I never use, Vector is a nono and PS is a bitch. :/

Anyway, glad to have you here.

Dev acct(Dead): Deviant (http://pekpek.deviantart.com)
Photofuckit: Photobucket (http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/pekpekk/) <lots of very old stuff

edit: Oh, my own favorite tag & style would be:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/pekpekk/FF7copy.jpg

Can't even imagine how much I spend on it. Never done anything as experimental as this tag.

[Raziel]

Hmm, we could bring Flyeffect back to life, since I'm the one who suggested that name or we could try something else: KonnectGFX, BreakLimit(the name of a site I work at, dunno if I am allowed to use it, but I think I am), Cosmos, GraFix, ArtFirm, ArtFiles, Cerberus, 1337, ?, safebit, OxygenFX, <insert chemical element name here>FX, ArtInsight, Limitless, DigitalFX, IDesign, LaunchFX, Project1337, 4815162342, >:, LOSTfx :rofl, ArtDivision, YakuzaFX, IonicDesigns, IonFX, The ArtSociety, The GraphicSociety, etc. ah...they suck.

I love that blue tag, btw.

[Gallic Rush]

Hm, how about: We have God on our side so we can't possibly lose!

Or maybe that should be our motto >.>

Name... something with the word "Pixel?"

I dunno, I couldn't even come up with a decent username for this forum don't ask me! >____<

[Raziel]

PixelRage, PixelDivision, PixelArt, BreakPixel, PixelRain, PixelBrain, PixelStorm, Pixelizer, Pixelizers, Picksel, etc.

[Sayo]

*invades thread*
Pek & his pixlers.
*outvades thread*

[mister. pek]

Welcome welcome. Suggestion; You might try using color balance or gradient when you 'color' the background. At least for now, it's really hard to get a good color scheme by only using colors on the brushes. Use black and white brushes / tones of gray and then a color balance layer above them.

Oh, and lets get all behind one team name :O

[Silent Reality]

Hi
been using photoshop for alittle over a year now started janurary or feburary of last year. I like to expirement with most of my tags which is why they either suck or are very good. ANyways uh heres my photobucket

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/SilentReality/

buncha random stuff on their I didn't make all those tags some are tags people made for me and others are tags which I liked so I saved. This photobucket doesn't have all the tags I made when I first started

here's my first ever sig I still like it to this day >.>
http://webpost.net/ha/hachirokuking/dizzysig.jpg
for another forum *used the gimp*

http://webpost.net/ha/hachirokuking/kysig3.jpg
My first photoshop sig haha the typical downloaded brushes/ luminosity stock/colorbalance layer affair

yeah lately i've been gettning into traditional art and photography which i'm to lazy to upload. any questions ask

I dun care what the team name is.

[Raziel]

I love the Jimi Hendrix experience one. Looks amazing. You have to make a tutorial, have to! How do you make your renders? I can't make mine to look like that.

[funjat]

Welcome welcome. Suggestion; You might try using color balance or gradient when you 'color' the background. At least for now, it's really hard to get a good color scheme by only using colors on the brushes. Use black and white brushes / tones of gray and then a color balance layer above them.
Will do.

Just browsing through the albums: Goddamn you guys are good!

@SR: I cried.

[Silent Reality]

I love the Jimi Hendrix experience one. Looks amazing. You have to make a tutorial, have to! How do you make your renders? I can't make mine to look like that.
That tag was just me using a helluva lot of blackaddes bubble renders, I cant find the tut anywhere though but yeah it was using that tut for the effect.

[Gallic Rush]

We should be... the Sex Pixels! xD

Unless that strays over onto copyright infringement >.>

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/8730/dibcopy5vt.png
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f392/LemonNation/Hisagi1.png
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/1238/yamato1mk.png
http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/7098/lightsaber8uo.png
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2485/canvascopy2nw.png

I realize the blending on the first 4 are nub, but I was too lazy to ever fix that shit.

[Rendan]

Well i think is my turn...my name is Rendan and i'm alcoholic...
*>.< not worng place*

funjat i have to say that you are not alone :) my PB is not something to be proud...

http://s82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/sigs/

Made it just for this, there are some sub-albums with some other kind of GFX stuff, userbars and avatars mostly, but haven't upload it yet.
My devArt:http://rendan86.deviantart.com/

Well dunno what more to say...maybe that i'm a bit scared...lol...

[Silent Reality]

We should be... the Sex Pixels! xD

Unless that strays over onto copyright infringement >.>


haha I love that name <3 I second that

[Gallic Rush]

Whooo Rendan! :whoo

But you need to give input on our team name! So far we have two votes for The Sex Pixels :amuse

[Rendan]

*votes for the sex pixels*

[Gallic Rush]

peK, can we be The Sex Pixels? :wtf

Pleeeeeeez?

[mister. pek]

Changed team name :OOO

[Gallic Rush]

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYES!

My first real contribution to the team :P

More to follow hopefully >.>

[Silent Reality]

I'm never gonna try to refry a hamburger with butter ever again...I feel like shit now.

[Raziel]

Refry it because it was cold?

I loled when I saw the team name! Sex Pixels! Brilliant!

[Silent Reality]

pretty much...I wasn't in the mood for microwaved stuff

[Rendan]

mmm...refried hamburger, sounds delicious....lol
sorry, i'm not used to that kind of food stuff

When we are going to be told to make the banner? is going to be difficult..how to make sexy a pixel in 10 steps,lol

[Raziel]

When everybody introduces itself, we should get our first asignement.

[Rendan]

it's finally Chauron be part of the team? that would be great :)

[Gallic Rush]

SR, you always use corn oil silly!

Why would you use butter? xD

And that's a good point, why the heck hasn't Chauron and a few others signed in yet?

[chauronity]

=O ok someone put my name there...

Ah well i guess i can join, BUT i must tell that i cant be really active at all, since i have a really superdense scedule for the next few months... entrance exams (applying to new school) and still need to finish the studies in my current one ... so atleast bigger assignments are almost impossible to be done. =/




And hi, I guess you know me by name since i've been around longer ^^'

Done GFX since last july, tags mostly, but some bigger pieces too. Hates cutting :D
Mostly experimental GFX'ing, but using some renders too... eventho the main idea is to create all with photoshop using it as widely as possible.
(Trying to cut dont the usage of the C4D for example and so on)



To styles ... i have no specific favourite and i try experiment as much as possible in order to obtain as much info as possible, and mix em with endless ways creating different-looking tags all the time.

Goals in gfx'ing ... well, becoming good in graphics and so on.
Aiming for career perhaps if everything goes really well; it's too early to talk about anything like that yet.

[Rendan]

:knk Chau is joining!!

I asked that before because you were the one that selected the poll's option to not remake the GFX teams, and i was surprise when i saw your name on the team. Is awesome to have you with us!!

Well, i think i should say somthing similar to what you say, this few weeks a have been so active becauser here in Spain there are lots of holidays during April and May, but since next week finishes *my last holidays until summer* i will be really really bussy. I pass almost all day at uni, and i'm here at home only the time to get a shower, have dinner and go to sleep, so not too much free time for making great pieces :(

Anyway i'll try my best :) during this weeks. And i think in middle may and june the teams should have a break in order to us be free for studying...


It lasts Moridin and Dark Project to introduce themselves? who are they? and the most important, are they alive?

[Silent Reality]

SR, you always use corn oil silly!

Why would you use butter? xD


I know but their was already bread on the burger so instead of taking off the bread I just decided to put butter on the bread an slap it on top of the frying pan..>.< In the end the bread got soggy with butter and all gross...I still ate it though

Hi to all the people who just introduced themselves ^__^

[Gallic Rush]

I know but their was already bread on the burger so instead of taking off the bread I just decided to put butter on the bread an slap it on top of the frying pan..>.< In the end the bread got soggy with butter and all gross...I still ate it though


Lmao, you remind me of Cartman from South Park right now.

Chauronity, just be like peK, act more as an advisorary capacity if you need to, but the important thing is that you support us :nod

[Rendan]

but we will need the helo of both on the battles, i think our teams is where ended all the GFX n00bs, including myself. and except of SR and raziel

[Gallic Rush]

I think we'll be fine as long as we have Raziel and SR... Of course, I'm assuming the other members on the team can carry their own weight as long as they get the necessary advice from our senior GFXers >.>

In any event the teams seem to be weighted quite fairly. I don't think we're at all at a loss to the other two teams.

[EE]

yes I'm late so what

good luck with your team peeps :)

[Gallic Rush]

You don't belong here EE! Grawr! :smack

My tiny deviant art (http://lemon-nation.deviantart.com/) account (1 image in it xD)

[Raziel]

Nice to see you have a devart account. These 2 days I won't be active, I'll post, but please don't make an assignement, because I have a site to make for someone and it take all my time. And I'm getting paid for it (:cool)

[Silent Reality]

^cool should turn out great...i'm gonna make a site for the hell of it now >.<

edit:matter of fact nvm i'm to lazy

[funjat]

Excuse my blatant bias but out of all the teams I rate the Sex Pixels as the best.

As was noted there are some pretty heavy hitters here which should speed up my GFX development.

Assignments? Definitely.

[Gallic Rush]

i'm gonna make a site for the hell of it now >.<

edit:matter of fact nvm i'm to lazy

Lmao, you crack me up, SR.

funjat, beware the hubris :amazed

Lunar and Mura are both putting out some really nice stuff these past few days which makes me think they're going into GFX overdrive and it's scaring me >.<

Still, as long as we work diligently we should be fine :woo

[Rendan]

at least we make page 3
man we are the less talkative team :(

[chauronity]

lmao @ sr's hamburger

That's cos you are never online when i am :[

But but, yeah i can be an advisor of some level atleast since i know the PS and the blending stuff fairly well, so if you got something to ask, go forth and ask. Suggestions and stuff, regarding to styles or just ... get opinions ^^


====================

+RESOURCES+

These are from my fav render/stock site, planet renders.
3D-renders are those what Rendan has been asking from me - there you can get em, so go and get a few :P

http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/index.php

3D-renders made with Maya or C4D - credit when using

- http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=1
- http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=10

VERY usable for backgrounds and such pieces ^^

Anime renders:

- http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=3

Game renders:

- http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=2
- http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=11


Plus the deviantart ofcourse;
http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/

[Raziel]

Those are nice, but I usually make my own. Lately, I can't render a decent abstract in C4d *cries*

[Rendan]

lmao @ sr's hamburger

That's cos you are never online when i am :[

But but, yeah i can be an advisor of some level atleast since i know the PS and the blending stuff fairly well, so if you got something to ask, go forth and ask. Suggestions and stuff, regarding to styles or just ... get opinions ^^


====================

+RESOURCES+

These are from my fav render/stock site, planet renders.
3D-renders are those what Rendan has been asking from me - there you can get em, so go and get a few :P

http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/index.php

3D-renders made with Maya or C4D - credit when using

- http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=1
- http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=10

VERY usable for backgrounds and such pieces ^^

Anime renders:

- http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=3

Game renders:

- http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=2
- http://www.planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=11


Plus the deviantart ofcourse;
http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/

:wtf
<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

*starts :plot on a cool way to use all that material*

[Ammanas]

ahhh I suck I can;t remember signing up for this :P (although maybe i didn;t :/)

Anyways Mikko pmed me so I thought I'd pop over, can;'t miss being in a team with such great artists and an awesome name ^^

So I'm Mori or Moridin or Tom, I've been using photoshop for quite a while now in various ways. Its been a while since I've made tags or other graphic thingamebobs, digital painting kind of filled in for a while but I think I should start back up trying to improve my graphical skills.

If ya wanna know who's work I admire it'd probably be peKstar and mikko for their consistantly beautiful use of colour and text and gallic rush because he's always original with what he does.

[chauronity]

Thanks man! :hi5
And yesh, indeed .. welcome to the team =3

And no problem rendan =)

[Ammanas]

also having sneakily taken a peek at the other teams, we definately have the best name!

[Gallic Rush]

gallic rush because he's always original with what he does.

:wtf I feel so loved.

Well, I in reality I just do random crap until something comes out that doesn't look like it had random crap going into it. That's why I don't know how to remake most of my tags xD

[Rendan]

^lol, that's called beginers lucky =)
i dun know where i left mine =(

[Gallic Rush]

I'm not a beginner Rendan! :shakefist

I've graduated to "novice" at least :nod

[Ammanas]

^ I'd place you at more than apprentice XD

hrm so I'm tempted to do something now but I don;t know what :P

[chauronity]

Hmm a quick userbar perhaps?
Those that they wear in the fc's , 150x50px minibanner ^^

wtf I feel so loved.

Well, I in reality I just do random crap until something comes out that doesn't look like it had random crap going into it. That's why I don't know how to remake most of my tags xD

xD lol
I used to be the same back then :O

[Silent Reality]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/SilentReality/shadyrequest.png
was a request on another forum =0

[chauronity]

Commented, and loving it like the max. Really really nice ^^
How'd you made the tones, with a gradientfilled color layer (by checking the colors with eyeswapper), or ? Cos theyre uber-blendy and all.



+ Some simple experimental stuff by me, just playing at PS. No brushing at all, the background is made with making ellipses and abstract shapes with the lasso tool and then filling it with the gradient and playing with the blending modes and all.

http://i3.tinypic.com/vysl6e.png

http://i3.tinypic.com/vysgzk.png

PSD file (you cant get much out of it xD)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ka3r6w

^^ Still very incomplete style i'd say ...
and i also used my crappy (blurry) 2nd monitor for this. (excuses lol XD)

[Gallic Rush]

I like the colors more in V1 Chauron :nod but the dust/noise is not to my liking :mad

Here's something from my photobucket account (or as I like to call it, the nub bucket)

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f392/LemonNation/Sherazard.png

I want as much comments from you guys as possible so I can refine it and get this done with. I had a really hard time getting the stock to work with the background and I have the sneaking suspicion that I am fighting a losing battle on this one.

[chauronity]

It's meant to be like snow but yeah, fail innit? XD
(flattened for the millionth time and "filter gallery -> spatter" to it)
But .. thanks for the comments ^^;

And to your sig, i think it's pretty cool, apart the typo, i'm not liking stroked texts that much really, i'll rather use dublicated text layer and nudge it 1-2px to up and 1-2px to side. Works, esp if youre using sig colored at bottom (blending mode @ luminosity)

Colors and brushing are ok to me i think ^^
Borders, well not my style perhaps but goes .

[Gallic Rush]

Hm, I will take that into consideration. I have no idea why some of the brushing turned out like gritty crap and some of it looks like cool metal foil xD

That's bad isn't it >.>

Anywho, the main concern seems to be the text. I had an outer-glow effect put on both of them. Are you saying what needs to be changed is the black outline or the colored part? Or both?

[chauronity]

Well, it's not necessarily bad if it looks good :P
( and i think it's an issue with saturation, the hue is too monochrome)

And hmm, the smaller one most definately, it could be there with some other color, with the violet perhaps, and then the main text could be that white - it'd bring the main typo more to out or something - in theory atleast.


OR, just mimic anyones that looks good.
From magazine or some other persons style if theres' one good-looking already :D

p.s. yesh, with this better monitor the white stuff in my sig looks far more bad than with the other one, looks like i could use a new display :/

[Raziel]

@SR: Don't really like the colours, but I love the bg.

@Gallic: The bg is good, but I don't think the stock works. Also change the typo as Chau suggested.

http://www.finanteolt.ro/latestsprite.jpg

New tag.cnc plz.

[chauronity]

Really minimalistic but really cool as well, teh flares work in and the colors are really nice i think. But, i'd bring the background out a tad more, with sharpening it perhaps, eventho that indeed aint that necessary at all.

And as for idea, i think that the firy blurry "motion effect" could continue over the stock a bit, like dublicating it and putting it to "lighten" (when only the lighter tones than below shows up) and perhaps smudgin a bit with really scattyry small brush would give some life to it, as it'd look he'd go really fast or something. Or not, lol XD


But yesh, very nice job with that tag ^^
And it doesnt really need a typo, but if youre gonna enter one, perhaps something really tiny would be nice.

[Rendan]

Why the hell is everybody posting new tags?? :amazed


http://i3.tinypic.com/vysl6e.png

http://i3.tinypic.com/vysgzk.png

:faint
dunno how the hell you get those awesome bg only with shapes and blending modes, i'm still too inexperinced =C

I love v1, the snow effect work well for me, color awesome, blending awesome...maybe the text is not enough clear, white is not too visible on that bg...but overall is a 200/1o

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f392/LemonNation/Sherazard.png

Still envy you to death and increasing, i'm losing hope on my GFX skills, i dun have too much time, and everytime i start i new tag, always end like the rest... =(
Anyway, this one is way cool, nice bg, blending is good, but i agree with Chauri, text sucks a bit, try changing the text mode to sharp, smooth or the one that make it more readable (= Nice work

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/SilentReality/shadyrequest.png

Cool one! but for my liking colors are not too much attractive, and the bg it's a bit sharpened. i specially love the text. But is a great sig anyway. =D

@Raz: i saw that tag on the Rate the shit....sig above thread first, so if you want to read again that i think is a cool sig go there 8B

[chauronity]

Cos we want to hear comments and critique about em ...
and ... since we do tags :P

[Gallic Rush]

http://www.finanteolt.ro/latestsprite.jpg

New tag.cnc plz.

I really liked the effects but the gradient color seemed to simple to me. I dunno what to do about it, add some darkness maybe? That seems to work with other sprite tags at any rate >.>

[Rendan]

Cos we want to hear comments and critique about em ...
and ... since we do tags :P

Oh what a funny guy! [/irony]

lol, just joking, i know we are GFXers, but since you started to post somany i thought we already had the first work to do:amuse

this afternoon i will post my last work, i have to do the final details i hope, i used your multy-coloring tut, but i think that kind of sig is not the best to try that technique...you will see this afternoon :P

i downloaded the psd file, you have a huge amount of layers, but in the end most are not visible:huh

[Gallic Rush]

^I have a theory about that. When creating detailed signatures, more layers=better. :nod

Further reason why I have no clue what I'm doing in PS >.>

[chauronity]

XD well there are FEW (3-5) accidential ones, that are empty thanks to the flattening but other than that, theyre all in use. But not like clicking em will do anything, since the flattening kinda makes it impossible to preview the changes and so on ^^;

[Gallic Rush]

Hm, that reminds me (I don't know why), has peK been around lately?

[chauronity]

I think peK's busy with his personal stuff or something similar ^^

+edit+

He's online, now go and ask :P

[Rendan]

Chau are you always online? lol, you always answer my post in a few minutes, but since you are in invisible mode, i never know if you are online :P

[Gallic Rush]

Chauronity, master of the forum :ninja

[Rendan]

I think is my turn to get commented my new shit *literally* :(
v1.
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/v1.png
v2.
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/v2.png
v3.
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/v3.png
v4.
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/v3text.png

i know the normal thing is to get 2 versions, but i was not satisfied

[Gallic Rush]

V3 and 4 don't work at all in my opinion. They completely lose the swirling feel.

V2 seems empty, but the... sad attempts at sparkly brushing really hurt V1.

If you can get a sparkling effect to work in the first sig I think it will be pretty solid.

[Freakness]

http://i3.tinypic.com/vysl6e.png

http://i3.tinypic.com/vysgzk.png

PSD file (you cant get much out of it xD)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ka3r6w



:faints
Wow .. Great colours, awesome blending, amazing stock ..
About the noise, I still didn't decide if I like it with it or without . It's not bad, but I might like the clean version more .

[Rendan]

V3 and 4 don't work at all in my opinion. They completely lose the swirling feel.

V2 seems empty, but the... sad attempts at sparkly brushing really hurt V1.

If you can get a sparkling effect to work in the first sig I think it will be pretty solid.
my problem is that i dunno how the hell make decent sparkles

[Gallic Rush]

^Brushes abound... if you don't want to use downloaded brushes... then I can't help you :P

Chauronity, where does "Death be not proud" come from? I feel like I should know that... >.> (Cool avatar btw)

[chauronity]

@ gr:

It's a classic sonnet as far as i know ^^;
Suits him....

@ rendan: v1 cos it's more detailed,
but those stars could be done better. I'll take a better look later

@ freakness: thanks :amuse

[Raziel]

Hey Rendan, I know how to make sparkles with default brushing. Let me make a mini-tut. I think I'll have it up today. ^_^

[chauronity]

Hey if you just can, hook me up with the tut too ^^
I wanna know what's your method to it ..

[Silent Reality]

Someone gimme a theme I fell like making something but i'm not inspired.

[Raziel]

Hmm....make something music related. *cough* A Perfect Circle *cough*

Anyways, CONGRATULATIONS for winning the Tagmonkey sprite battle. You won against some mind-blowing sigs there.

[chauronity]

Congrats ^^

Someone gimme a theme I fell like making something but i'm not inspired.

Real people are always nice for practice

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/1707/jessicaalbascan1qa.th.jpg (http://img160.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jessicaalbascan1qa.jpg)

^As HQ as it gets =3
and she's so hawt :D

[Silent Reality]

I was gonna do APC but cant find a stock I can work with, Jessica ALba it is...such a huge stock to XD....i'm gonna have fun with this

Commented, and loving it like the max. Really really nice ^^
How'd you made the tones, with a gradientfilled color layer (by checking the colors with eyeswapper), or ? Cos theyre uber-blendy and all.
I use alot of color layers if I want a certain area green *like you see in the tag that somewhat green area* I make a color balance layer of that color and then layer mask out the parts I do not want....or I just brush with the colors I want.

the tag looks good Chauronity the color go well but for the speckles they should be more concentrated toward the stock and not all over the place, also the bg can use some more details.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f392/LemonNation/Sherazard.png
Nice typo but bg is to contrasted and messy for me >.< clean it up abit

http://www.finanteolt.ro/latestsprite.jpg
tell me thats a wip cause its got so much potential, add some more but dont over work it

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/v2.png
Its messy and you kinda hid the stock with all that brushing. Bring the stock out some more and work on giving it a solid focal point

haha lmao @ Silent God XP <3

[chauronity]

Cool, lemme see the finished thingy if you feel like showing it
and it comes out good ^^ ( like that earlier piece w/ based on that blonde )


And as to the methods, yesh .. that's what i use a lot .. that directly brushing the colors to background, color balances are always better for minimalistic changes and stuff like that - tweaking. (=

( i'm always using the photofilters too for adjusting the final colors, or when multicoloring the background if there's a need for it)

[Rendan]

Hey Rendan, I know how to make sparkles with default brushing. Let me make a mini-tut. I think I'll have it up today. ^_^
That would be great, thanks! :hi5

one question, how could i give more deep to the bg, without making it too darker? i usually used a layer adjustment of contrast/brigtness but it didn'e work too well, cos the edges or the bg became too dark

i think the smallers versions didn't work xD

thanks for the comments anyway, i will see rght now what i can do:nod

+edit+

OH MY GAWD!!:wtf

Silent God, you have reafirmed that nick name!! dunno if you have posted this here @ NF and hope you don't mind that i have posted it here:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/SilentReality/makatoibuki.png
but that tag is superv! i was so intrgued about Raziel's post and did a quick googled, i almost faint when i saw it.

Can i wear it??:cry

[chauronity]

^ i do it like this

- make a new layer
- merge all the layers expect borders
- CUT the flattened image ... (and in history go back "new layer" part)
- Paste
- Change the blending mode to "overlay" or "soft light" .. add some gaussian blur if needed (makes it more flowy). Lower the fill to 80-90 if it's too dark

( i know, it's so weird technique )

OR just adjust it and remember cancel the effects @ layer mask with gray tones.

[Rendan]

ok, thanks Chaury i will try it, i would like to give a more 3d effect on the bg

Another question *how can i be such a bastard n00b*:notrust

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a128/EzApollo/Tags/friezareq.png
^sig not made by me, only taked for example
hoe is done that blurred or smudged that seems to break the stock i a million small pieces?

[chauronity]

I bet it's smudged ...

- dublicate the stock once (or twice, if you want to do the smudgin) more
- put the blending mode to "lighten"
- smudge with that leaf-ish smudge brush (or w/ any brush you wanna use) using 10px size innit or something that looks good (i just took a random small value)

Technically, like that i think ^^

Shining effects might be done otherwise, by blending it with gaussian blur and putting it to overlay or other lighting modes... or some of the dodges (cant say surely)


Hint/guideline:
- remember .. if the effect is too drastic, just lower the values for the FILL and it'll look good :amuse

[Ammanas]

I bet it's smudged ...

- dublicate the stock once (or twice, if you want to do the smudgin) more
- put the blending mode to "lighten"
- smudge with that leaf-ish smudge brush (or w/ any brush you wanna use) using 10px size innit or something that looks good (i just took a random small value)

I'd add that the brush is probably set up with some scattering as well

I think I need to re-start my tag brain, I just can;t make anything click at the moment

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Derij_/timetostartagain.jpg

:/

[chauronity]

You did that with the smudgin tutorial? Well, not bad indeed for the very 1st result if that's made after that ... just do more of those, and you'll get better ahold of the technique, etc.

As for advancing or improving the tut ...

- use "color dodge" instead of "overlay" innit OR both
- use the color balance/hue&saturation tools in between the layers
- use the charcoil smudge brushfor background .. with muchos of scatter is better i think ^^

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1303/brushset1vc.jpg


And ... download that CS2 ^^'

[Ammanas]

^ I shall try get it before monday XD

and yeh, it was mostly smudging but played around with a few filters as well

cheers for the suggestions :)

[Gallic Rush]

Crazy shit SR... those butter burgers must be doing their job :)

I revised the tag I showed recently and put it in my sig... I didn't see Silent Reality's comments though so I just left it messy and contrasted xD

The border went funky too...

[Raziel]

I think it's definately better, especially the blending.

[chauronity]

Hmm i think i could say a word about those filters - use em!

Liquidify:

- Basically a smudge tool but it allows your to do as much to it as much as you want, and create anything from anything.

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/9056/liquidify2zh.th.png (http://img391.imageshack.us/my.php?image=liquidify2zh.png)

Spatter:

Makes grunge out of ANYTHING. Use and you wont need any grunge brushes to make grunge stuff.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7751/spatter8tq.th.png (http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spatter8tq.png)

Paint Daubs:

- "Painted" looks for background, great for blending or just making simplistic backgrounds. I use this a lot in my simplistic pieces ...

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/3046/paintdaubs3qu.th.png (http://img391.imageshack.us/my.php?image=paintdaubs3qu.png)

Glass Ripple -effect:

- Using this gives some nice variety to the image itself, but you can create really complexial patterns and such things too with this.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8443/glassripple7vj.th.png (http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=glassripple7vj.png)

Glowy Edges:

- Use this blending mode @ lighten , and you'll get some stylistic colorful sparkles in the sig. Ignore the blackness, it wont show .. just the colorful stripes.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1151/glowyedges0oc.th.png (http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=glowyedges0oc.png)

^ when watching those, keep in mind that those are demonstrated with unfinished piece,
it'll be adjusted to look better and all :p

[Ammanas]

^ neat

hrm when peK has some free time I'll have to bug him about what he did when made the tag I'm wearing

[chauronity]

peK's out of the game for a while, for personal reasons me thinks :)
Just as his custom title says ...

Who's the second in command ... SR? Raziel? They atleast has skills for it - to be the representive :D
Nevermind

++++

OMFG that's hot the tag SR made, the vector/wtf-it-is.
One of the best sprites i've seen
*absords inspiration*

[Silent Reality]

Can i wear it??:cry
Yeah sure you can wear it, I think I showed it here before

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a128/EzApollo/Tags/friezareq.png
looks smudged with the maple leaf brush set on scatter and a like 90 something strength

moridin- I really like the effect you have going on the right side but the direction of the left side*how its moving up and to the right* kinda clashes with that

Crazy shit SR... those butter burgers must be doing their job
ugh thinking about those makes me sick

That daubs thing Chauronity mentions is really good for give the pic some texture, but dont over do it

[Raziel]

Ok. Rendan, this is what I do to get sparkles using default brushes. I use this default pshop cs2 brush (it's #100) http://www.finanteolt.ro/brushtut.jpg. In the brush settings I use these:

Shape Dynamics
Size Jitter - 100%
Minimum Diameter - 0%
Angle - 100%
Roundness - 100%
Scattering
Scatter - 1000%
Count - 1
Count Jitter - 100 %
Texture
First rock texture on color burn
Scale - 100 %
Depth - 100%
Other Dynamics
Opacity - 26%
Flow - 21 %
Smoothing

Choose the size you want and brush with white over a black bg. Then add a simple outer glow through layer styles and you're done.

METHOD II

This when you want bigger and fewer sparkles.
Make a black layer over everything
Set it on color dodge.
Add a lens flare with minimum size.
Duplicate and merge the layer till you get your desired sparkles.

Sorry if there are grammar errors. Possibly my biggest post ever. lol

[mister. pek]

Fucking sweet tag SR.

Moridin: I used textures / brush / smudge / render, just another experiment tag :/

Can't really remember exactly how I did, but erase and smudge, add brush+texture, erase, add render etc.

[Rendan]

You did that with the smudgin tutorial? Well, not bad indeed for the very 1st result if that's made after that ... just do more of those, and you'll get better ahold of the technique, etc.

As for advancing or improving the tut ...

- use "color dodge" instead of "overlay" innit OR both
- use the color balance/hue&saturation tools in between the layers
- use the charcoil smudge brushfor background .. with muchos of scatter is better i think ^^

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1303/brushset1vc.jpg


And ... download that CS2 ^^'

lmao i didn't know you knew spanish:amuse

MAny thanks Raziel for the quick tut, i will try it assap =)

Thanks chau and SG*Sgod* for the explanations. And espcially love to SG for let me wear that piece of heaven's art


Pek's here!! :glomp

+edit+

Chau, in regard for your constant teaching...maybe could be usefull to you click aqui =P (http://penpen.se/tagmonkeynew/viewtopic.php?id=7794)

[chauronity]

It is 8D, really really nice "guide"
And roflmao, i just threw it there, i cant espagnol at all :D

[mister. pek]

1 - The Void Copy - Brush & Texture & Smudge & Filter
2 - The Void Original - ^ Same
3 - Nameless (Tropical swamp?) - Textures(pic) & Brush & Filter
4 - Nebula(?) - Render & Texture & brush
CnC appreciated

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8505/wipi29ef.jpg

[chauronity]

Tropical swamp for the win - just add a few more details in by adding a few color balances, and you'll have have an uberly hawt tag in there.
Perhaps some other color coming thru from the back @ there?
Ahh and the typo must go, doesnt look even decent to me, too dull ^^'

Nebulas' look really nice too, colors are lovely =3

[Raziel]

http://www.finanteolt.ro/renderalba.jpg

What I managed to do with the Jessica Alba stock. Still out of shape when it comes to renders...damn.

Btw, peK, the 4'th sig is hawt!

[Ammanas]

^ thats a nice alba tag raz, I like the blending with the render and the type is cool though I'm not to keen on the little rectangle behind it (to make it stand out a bit more?)

Pek - those all look nice to me, I'd take void 1 over the second version, I think I prefer the colours in it. Tropical swamp is great as well though maybe a little more colour variation? Nebula's is hawt, not really much else to add about it

[mister. pek]

Oh, yeah. Thanks for the comments guys (:

Nice solid tag, Raziel. The only thing I 'dislike' is that her hair just fades away, I do understand that it is a bitch hard work to erase the background or w/e that is around it but still.

[Azrael]

I hope its not too late to join, but umm I haven't been GFXing for that long, but have come a long way since I started. Here's my photobucket,http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c332/Azraelgfx/

[chauronity]

Hmm tried something in boredom;

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b131/chauronity/experimentsmudge2.png


Only the round brush and smudged the background of that the image had, with solid round(!) brush w/ thick edges, tried if it can bring out any results. ^^
Dublicated the stock a few times so i got the background kinda multipled too, and then darkened to bring out the details out more.
Then adjusted the colors to fresh green and yellow ...

Pretty ok as a basic tag i think. Left the overbrushing out on purpose,
cos i kinda wanted to try teh background alone.

[Ammanas]

very nice work as always! I envy you =p

I went to my dads so now have ps6 and a laptop touchpad to work with

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Derij_/ps6.jpg

I need practice :/

[chauronity]

Youre getting much better already ^^
Esp if you did that with touchpad that aint that easy to work with :/

Ahh and thanks ^^

[Gallic Rush]

@Azrael, I dunno. The battle teams haven't done anything yet so they don't really know how even they are. You'll have to ask peK anyways, but it might have to wait until the teams actually compete with each other.

Raziel, it feels cut up... kind of mirror like you know? I don't like that with renders really... or any type of sig >___<

peK, Nebula is hot shit.

[Gallic Rush]

@Chauronity

The stock's face is colored too yellow...

@Moridin

The grunge comes in a little too far in on the left. I like the general color/light scheme.

[Rendan]

+Raz: nice one, maybe kinda basic for your skillz, but it's nice i like it :)

+Mikko: nice too, i'm loving those fress colors, tho the transitions are too clear, dunno if you know what i mean.

+Moridin: nice one, tho the brushing over the stock is not too appealing to me

Dudes, you are 24H making sigs or what? =P

tried some things, since i thought my last try doesn't have any solution, at least for the moment. i'm starting to think on a new one, and was messing around with a tut i found this morning.

Cnc please, they are only attempts to bg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/1.png

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/2.png

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/3copy.png

pretty the same, with different effects

[Gallic Rush]

The second and third ones are better. The second is slightly better because the red would probably work with a greater number of stocks than the green.

[Raziel]

Yup, second and third are good. Add a sprite and some brushing to them and you have some good sprite tags.

[chauronity]

@ rendan:

Yeah, as they said ... just add a nice stock and you'll have a nice tag in there.
Remember to use the "lighten" around the sprite to get it stand out better from the background and to remove the too abstractic patterns IF they doesnt match with the stock ^^

v3

-----

Ah well, see my current sig for my latest experiment. ^^

[Rendan]

your latest experiment came out like Mura's style, don't you think so? with the differece of the icons, because you used brushes.

is nice, the lighting reminds me of a disco xD

[Raziel]

Very celes-chan'ish. Looks very very good. I like the right side.

[Rendan]

Yup, second and third are good. Add a sprite and some brushing to them and you have some good sprite tags.

^^; sorry i forgot, thanks for the comments, that's the idea i had in mind, so now i will work on what you said raz :amuse what kind of extra brushing you think it could go well?

--------------

dunno if you had seen this:
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/totallymessed.png
Is the shitz i made last night between 1am & 3.30 am *yawns* mura as said that the colors don't match too well, any sugerences?

[chauronity]

Yesh, i aimed for celes-ish looks since i adore that style beyond comprehension :P

Glowy Edges:

- Use this blending mode @ lighten , and you'll get some stylistic colorful sparkles in the sig. Ignore the blackness, it wont show .. just the colorful stripes.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1151/glowyedges0oc.th.png (http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=glowyedges0oc.png)


Used this for the hand in the guitar and in some parts of the background.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/totallymessed.png
Is the shitz i made last night between 1am & 3.30 am *yawns* mura as said that the colors don't match too well, any sugerences?

Make the colors more calm, those infra-violet etc are hard to watch, too bitter for the eyes.
Perhaps you could make a v2 using this colorizing tut?
http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=93524

[Rendan]

Hey mates! look @ what i have done!!

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/firstrender.png

For the moment it has no effects, and it's so simple. Any sugerences on what to do next with it??

If someone guess what i'm using to do this, i will give you a spezial prize =]

[Silent Reality]

http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=94726

=0

Rendan-thats cool what is that pentool?

Raziel-WOrk on the colors and its golden

Chauronity-Really nice blend the stock abit more though

Moridin- Real nice I like that minus the text and border ecverything else flows pretty well

Pek-the nebula one is really hot

[Rendan]

guees what it could be =*

lol that post is like *well i have been out for a while, lets see...chau good, raz ok, make somethin....* stress life is not good :P

[Gallic Rush]

Sinedot tool. I'll be amazed if it isn't.

[funjat]

I love you guys. Maintain education.

I'll be posting up a tag that has been the bane of my existence ever since I started PS. Never managed to get it right but I have incorporated some of your ideas so hopefully it would be fit to be called a tag.

[Gallic Rush]

^That's cool.

Rendan, I'm right, aren't I?

[Rendan]

new attempt to tag xD

i want to be knonw as the sprites guru in NF, tho SilentGod is further before me...
CnC

the good(?) one:
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/sigs/ken_v1.png

the funny(?) one:
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/scrap/ken_v2.png

[chauronity]

@ Rendan:

Haha the v2 is cool :D
i like that pose it has, and the effects are pretty ok and all.
Eventho if it's a tad jagged.

Lacks something tho, perhaps some motion blurring or something to give it something. ^^

@ SR

Veryvery nice piece again, but i'm not feeling for the rings innit .. and it's a tad mono in the overbrushed parts, but other than that it's hawt job as usual. Could be a base for a wallpaper or either a transper tag ( which wouldnt be downgrading it in this case ) ....

[Rendan]

@Chau, i think the main problem is that i shoud focus the attention on the energy ball in his hand, but dunno how without making all the sig too dark. any sugerences?

[Raziel]

http://www.finanteolt.ro/katieholmesdepth.jpg

http://www.finanteolt.ro/katieholmesnodepth.jpg

cnc

[Gallic Rush]

@Raziel, I like the first one better as it is a little smoother. I'm not liking the horizontal bar at the bottom :doh

@Rendan, the advantage of the sprite is that you can give it a lot of energy and action. I wouldn't worry to much about the background at this point, more important are the effects you place around the hand. As a less important note, the font you chose for "Ken" sucks for this tag. It's not really a sprite font anyways.

*Goes off to work on shizzle*

[Raziel]

http://www.finanteolt.ro/katieholmeshdri.jpg

WARNING! This is an experiment with HDRI materials used on abstract renders. This is the base point for the style that I am going to use from now on. I'm not satisfied with the result of the experiment, but I'll keep working with this style, hoping I'll get better.

[chauronity]

Raziel, that still looks hawt as usual, really nice rendering again, patterns just works for me =3.

I'd be adding some contrast perhaps and a few more color balances, they'd be good and bring more details out of it ^^

Also... there might be something in the blending esp @ hair, it's pretty sudden (the contrast) .. but that's not buggin' me that much, just had to point out.

[Gallic Rush]

^Going of what Chauronity said, the stock in general seems too contrasted for that background. One or the other should be adjusted accordingly.

The lens flare or whatever that is on the hair was not very good either.

I wish I had C4D now though... :(

[chauronity]

Well there are some premade renders too if you have no c4d,
check the 2nd page of this thingy to get the urs ...

[Ammanas]

I am happy, should have CS (2) at some point tomorrow ^^

[Rendan]

congrats! you will enjoy CS2 is so cool!

Raz, that new style is awesome, but as you sad you have to perfectinate(?) it
nice tag anyway, and where do you get those hot Katie Holmes' stocks?

[Gallic Rush]

A WIP:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4349/sexyrocker7147gm.png

I dunno... I think I need a lot of help with this one xD

[Rendan]

the lighting effect is good, i think you need to work the bg, and a lil' the blending.

dunno whay, but that sig kinda scares me :s

[Gallic Rush]

^The blending where?

And saying I need to work on the background doesn't help me at all xD

I've been through 30 or so layers which ended up getting deleted. The fact that it needs work is something I get, but what kind escapes me. So if someone has some inspirational shiznit, now would be a very good time to post it :nod

Oh, and if it scares you (it's probably the eye), that sort of gives me an idea for the text which I don't want to add until the background actually looks decent...

[Ammanas]

gallic: first up I think the lighting on that tag is perfect, it works really well with the image. The background is pretty nice, I don't really know what to suggest but it seems as though it might benefit from having a smaller height (but then that means cropping the girls face as well :/)

anyway it looks nice, am interested to see what sort of text you use :)

[Raziel]

Yes!!!!!!!!!! I managed to get my Speedtouch USB modem working in Linux!!! Yes! Yeah...uhm....hey, who watches LOST from our team?

[Ammanas]

^ I don;t

please excuse me whilst I rant

DAMN IT I HATE WIN 98 AND I NEED A NEW COMPUTER, CAN'T RUN CS ON ANYTHING LESS THAN 2000 GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[Rendan]

lolorz, you own a computer like the Flinstones one, with a monkey inside making the operations in a stone xD

I watched Lost, the 1st. season, here in Spain , tho it seems that in some months the 2nd. will come :knk

I loved that serie, tho all of my friends thought it was a lose of time

[Gallic Rush]

@Raziel & anyone who hasn't said anything on my WIP yet:

Any advice? PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ?

Rendan and Moridin, thanks for the comments.

And no, I don't watch lost. I don't really watch much TV at all.

[Rendan]

GR, how old are you?
i'm soo intrigued since you have never said a word about yourself.

[Gallic Rush]

Hm... 62 years old? Or was that months? I forget. I dunno a lot about myself :shifty

[mister. pek]

A WIP:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4349/sexyrocker7147gm.png

I dunno... I think I need a lot of help with this one xD
- Unbalanced - Right side is very dark the left is very bright.
- Colorscheme doesn't seem to fit. Try usig the brighter colors. Nice tag nonetheless.

[chauronity]

^ agree. Nice job tho, looking promising and all. A *small* text between her nose and the light sparkle in background would make it even better i think ^^

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5092/random5km.png
Arial Black , 8px .. the typo indeed doesnt need to be big really ^^



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http://img432.imageshack.us/img432/4769/chirusai20ev.png http://img432.imageshack.us/img432/7946/chirusai36rc.png

Two avas based on naruto ch304 ^^
Requested by "chiru"

[Raziel]

@Chau: Nice avys!
@GR: Good lighting, but like peK said, it's unbalanced. Could use a nifty typo too.

[Cut Thru Me]

Oy peKpeK, do you have a free spot on your team? =)

[Gallic Rush]

Yeah, I didn't want to commit to a typo unless I had the background sorted out (I was considering scrapping the whole damned thing). Though, I have to admit, Chauronity's touches were probably more appropriate than what I would have come up with.

Nice avas btw Chauron. Those will surely make someone a very happy camper :nod

[Rendan]

Good CTM is our now!!:knk

Welcome *i supose Pek is going to say ''yes, of course'' another God for our celestial team*

[mister. pek]

Hm, I think so. Dark Project is kicked out because of inactiviness and I'm not doing anything useful here. Need to talk with the other teamleaders.

[Rendan]

you are the leaders, most leaders aren't supossed to do anything useful xD
they only stay and say what's good or not, and are always helping us to improve...:hug

[Gallic Rush]

Yesh, leaders should be heard and not seen doing things :nod

[Gallic Rush]

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9769/sexyrocker7145oa.png

I'm not sure if this turned out any better...
I probably shouldn't have spent so much time on it but... yeah.

[Raziel]

Typo is nice. But now there's no source of light for the light on her face.

[Ammanas]

that looks nice to me GR, Raz I have to disagree on the lighting really, I think there's a definate light source on the right and you can see it in the bg as well.

(on another note loon unit caught us up and are as active as us now :()

[Benny]

peK, you may have CTM.

[Rendan]

^CTM is already in our team :knk

[Raziel]

Yeah, CTM has godly skillz, just like SR...
When are the team battles coming? ;-)

[Rendan]

i'm not sure if i want those battles to come...:S
*runs*

[Ammanas]

w00t ctm officially :P

maybe we should do something in the team before the battles get under way

[chauronity]

Welcome to the team, CutThruMe ^^

[Gallic Rush]

Typo is nice. But now there's no source of light for the light on her face.

Well, peK advised me to balance it out as for as the darkness went and I didn't want to brighten the left side too much >___<

[Ammanas]

made something new, trying some new things (for me at any rate)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Derij_/hinatasig.jpg

[Rendan]

what's that new technique you used? i like the result, could you explain it to teh rest of the students? :amuse

[chauronity]

^

Getting so much better, blending works and the colors are pretty solid, nice blue theme background and the brushing looks good and all.
Text is fine. ^^
I'm not too sure about the dot banners but they go - could be a little more dim tho i think.

And just add some more colors and the style will be perfected into nice one :thumbs
Good work most definately.

[Rendan]

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/24/homer3wu.th.jpg (http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=homer3wu.jpg)
wich kind of bg, or style you think could suit this stock the best?

[Toiletnojutsu]

I have to congratulate you guys with the best gfx team name ever.

[Ammanas]

what's that new technique you used?

the background was a mix of some rough brushing and paint daubing (that got tweaked around a bit). Used a neat circle brush for the sparkley bits around her and some lines with the wave filter used to give some more interesting bits. Stock was messed around with on different blending modes/opacities and had the edges taken off with the soft eraser. Added some extra colour into it with a couple of gradient maps. Text was Arial and Arial Black, Border was 1 px solid and then one px dotted (3 x 1 size spacing).

Thats the general gist of things at any rate

^

Getting so much better, blending works and the colors are pretty solid, nice blue theme background and the brushing looks good and all.
Text is fine. ^^
I'm not too sure about the dot banners but they go - could be a little more dim tho i think.

And just add some more colors and the style will be perfected into nice one
Good work most definately.

thanks Mikko XD, I might try bring a bit more colour into it but I think I'll probably just keep that in mind for my next sig ^^

wich kind of bg, or style you think could suit this stock the best?

I'd try something vectorish with it I think.

I have to congratulate you guys with the best gfx team name ever.

whoever came up with it (Gallic?) was a genius

mass quotage o_O

[chauronity]

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/24/homer3wu.th.jpg (http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=homer3wu.jpg)
wich kind of bg, or style you think could suit this stock the best?

Vector background most definately. :3
You decide what shapes and what other stuff you want to add to it ...

[Rendan]

Noooo! that's the idea that i had in mind, but i hoped you guys could offer a differnt solution, since i suck at vectors....:S i thought it could be a funny sig

*sigh* i will search for another stock...

[chauronity]

Well, Use symbol(?) fonts in sizes like .. 150-500px or something?
They're funny when doing vector stuff...

[Ammanas]

heh the age old addage of 'you won;t get better unless you practice' comes to mind :P that said i suck at vectors as well and avoid them ^^

hrm I was thinking of trying some kind of sprite tag as I've not done one, but i don;t have a clue what to look for in a decent sprite for tag use :/

[Rendan]

^moridin you mean dunno a good site to get sprites?
if that's the case i have the solution :)

[Ammanas]

that and the fact that having not paid much attention to them; I don't really know what sort of sprite works well in a tag (in terms of pose/dynamics or whatever)

[Rendan]

almost any sprtite works well, you only have to find the pose you like the best.

Sites!:knk
http://www.gsarchives.net/index2.php
http://www.newwavemugen.com/~zweifuss/
http://ggxlol.highervoltage.net/
http://www.fightersgeneration.com/main.htm <- some sprites on characters

For the animted ones, open them first on image ready, and copy the pose you like, then paste it on photosop.

http://penpen.se/tagmonkeynew/search.php?search_id=730974001 <-take a look there, there are some awesome sprite tags

And if you need more sites, simply tell me, or google sprite

[Ammanas]

ty ^^

I'm having a play around now, pretty happy with the stock and extras but i can;t seem to match the bg i'd originally started on to it :(

edit: changed a few things and have a WiP to show before i get some sleep

sprites are hard, there's so much empty space I don;t really know what I'm doing :P

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/2797/spritewip0xx.jpg

anyway some suggestions/critique would be cool so I can finish it tomorrow

[Silent Reality]

http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=95389

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btw Gallic did the name Sex Pixels derive from the Sex Pistols?

[Rendan]

ty ^^

I'm having a play around now, pretty happy with the stock and extras but i can;t seem to match the bg i'd originally started on to it :(

edit: changed a few things and have a WiP to show before i get some sleep

sprites are hard, there's so much empty space I don;t really know what I'm doing :P

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/2797/spritewip0xx.jpg

anyway some suggestions/critique would be cool so I can finish it tomorrow

Mate i thinks it's quite good!! just add more contrats to the bg, it's seem too plain, just like mines:P

But overall i think is really nice

[Silent Reality]

btw welcome to the team CTM ^_^

[Gallic Rush]

Yes. I suggested we have the word "pixel" on our team name and then it hit me, "Sex Pistols"---> Sex Pixels. You'll notice that when I first mentioned it I also mentioned copyright infringement as a joke. It apparently went unnoticed >.>

[Raziel]

SR, i commented on DA and in the thread.
Moridin, bg looks a bit washed up. Add more contrast and you'll jave a good sprite tag.

[Ammanas]

thanks for the feedback guys :) will try finish it off later on

SR thats so prettyful!

[Cut Thru Me]

Oy, so I am officially a sex pixel! Thanks :) Let us commence some battles.

[Ammanas]

upped the contrast on it and tweaked a few things

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/Derij_/spritetag.jpg

[chauronity]

Definately a better one that ^^ , better contrast and better colors => better looks. Looks a bit "vignette" effected (google if you dont know), either likes or not.

Looks pretty solid but add sharpness a bit, it's a tad blurry ^^
It'll bring out the details more

1st larger canvas ever, earlier ones were all manga colorings.
PSCS2 + effects + brushing + typo

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2236/kibawip25cz.th.png (http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2236/kibawip25cz.png) http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/899/kibawip30tq.th.png (http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/899/kibawip30tq.png)

^ some larger stuff for the 1st time i think.

[mister. pek]

That is some godly hawt shit SR.

Chauronity: Looks very nice, would work very good as a splash for a Kiba fansite.

Moridin: Definately an improvement.

Anyway, thought I should start doing renders again, a bit rusty I know.
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/5646/58bq.th.png (http://img188.imageshack.us/my.php?image=58bq.png)

No touchups made yet, dunno if my PS will be able to handle a file of this size. Took me 30 min+ to render it or something, was supposed to be a heart in the middle but I totally lost the will to do so with the long rendertime. Feel free to use it, if you find any uses for it.

[Rendan]

î think is a really good first time piece, really cool, i think i can't find any weak points on it. Good job

*trembles thinking that he will have to make a large canvas someday for a battle*

@Moridin, definately better, and i agree with Mikko about the ''vignette''*how the hell do you learn words like that mikko?*

[Raziel]

Nice render peK, I might use it.

My SOTW entry:
http://www.finanteolt.ro/darthmaul.jpg

cnc

[chauronity]

@peK;

- looks really nice ... permission to use the render sometimes? ( = now :P )

@raziel;

- pretty solid job, one-sided tho .. i'd add the typo to left side which is lighter ... right is already full of stuff so .. i doesnt kinda need it anymore - typo @ left would balance the whole sig properly and everything.
Good job never the less ^^

[Cut Thru Me]

@peK;
@raziel;

- pretty solid job, one-sided tho .. i'd add the typo to left side which is lighter ... right is already full of stuff so .. i doesnt kinda need it anymore - typo @ left would balance the whole sig properly and everything.
Good job never the less ^^

I disagree with the typo issue, I think it helps to build up the focal point, I do think however, that you should lower the opacity on the box, or perhaps play with the colours to make it fit better.

[Rendan]

pek, i had used your render just now :)


http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/sotw741-Paniccopy.png

2h. i think is nothin special...some suggests are welcome =]



@Raz: pretty tag, i really like the bipolar aspect, tho i think a darker scheme could suit Darth maul best :P anyway is great, and i would change the text to sharp or none

[Gallic Rush]

^:laugh:lmao
I especially like the direction his eyes are pointed xD

Raziel, the motion blur or whatever that is looked kinda not so good. The stock is sweet but I think you should make this a darker tag with just one light source shining down (for the face obviously).

[Rendan]

^thanks for the suggestion GR




:P

[Ammanas]

wow some really nice work from everyone!!

can;t think of much to say right now, just read death note 107, my mind was blown by the artwork in that chapter

[Gallic Rush]

Wait, what? I didn't really give any advice Rendan >___<

Though, if you want it, here it is:
There's too much pink. There also needs to be some effects rather than a reliance on the render.

We need to get a battle or an assignment now :whoo

[Ammanas]

we should do something as a team, everyone try a big piece or work out some collabs, something like that

[Rendan]

Wait, what? I didn't really give any advice Rendan >___<

search irony somewhere

[Gallic Rush]

I'm so confused >___<

Anywho-diddle~

It seems to me that even though we've had the teams formed for a while now there hasn't been much actual production. I was just wondering when we're gonna get to it.

[Rendan]

GR you study or work?
because i'm university student and don't have too much time to dedicate to GFX, i think we should organize the battles between teams in the the summer, in holidays. and for now, assignements or battles inside the team, where time is not too restricted

[Gallic Rush]

^Work... but I see what you mean. Still, we can't have the battle teams be a seasonal thing... they are supposed to be year-round (right?).

Though, I like idea of battles within the team. We can establish a hierarchy :nod

[Ammanas]

if we don't do battles we could always just make gifts for someone else on the team.

I should try enter sotw this week or something

[Rendan]

^i like the idea of the gifts ^^
how is gonna make mine? :P

[Gallic Rush]

There's nothing wrong with gifts but it doesn't encourage improvement as much as battling IMO. It's kind of hard to accept something but say it looks not so good at the same time. :O

[Ammanas]

I guess thats true, need battle practice for battling other teams as well

[chauronity]

Haha, anyone wanna battle? No C4D, all-PS , for fun.

[Ammanas]

count me in,

any prefs on size/stock etc or just a general tag battle?

[Cut Thru Me]

Haha, anyone wanna battle? No C4D, all-PS , for fun.

I'm in, ALL-ps, I hope you know what that excludes =P

On another note, new sig, preview of a big version:
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3695/signew26it.png

[Gallic Rush]

Count me in, but is this stockless then? Or are we still allowed to use them?

[chauronity]

@cmt

haha, i think yes. No downloadable renders and as little downloadable stuff in general, as much of the basic stuff as possible.

@gallic

Well, if you want =)


And as for topic, well .. freestyle sounds ok to me, no restrictions except those mentioned above. And it's 4-way team battle then :P // gotta do the thread for it asap ..

[Ammanas]

damn ctm, that new piece is hawt

how long do we have to get something made up then :)

[Cut Thru Me]

damn ctm, that new piece is hawt

how long do we have to get something made up then :)

Thanks. I have my piece ready, already.

[chauronity]

Neat :P

You can post it to here; - made a thread for the battle
http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=95687

[Ammanas]

w00t

no patterns either huh

[chauronity]

Well scanlines and such are ok, but that excludes murasaki's style -kinda stuff out. Cos, theyre' pretty much the same thing than renders... just the another edge of readified stuff

[Ammanas]

okie kokie, it was no biggy anyway, not used scanlines for ages o_O

better open ps then

[Raziel]

zomg ctm, that looks amazing. How do you make those? Just brushing? Or you combine brushing with photos?

[Ammanas]

ahh why is it that i can never think of anything nice to make for a battle >.<

[Cut Thru Me]

zomg ctm, that looks amazing. How do you make those? Just brushing? Or you combine brushing with photos?

Pjoor BruZhing shizzle. :nuts

[mister. pek]

Is there a spot left in the battle? I'm most likely to get pwned but fuck it.

[Ammanas]

I don't think there was gunna be a limit, if you can edit the poll I doubt anyone would have a problem with it

need to finish my entry up

[Gallic Rush]

My entry was made with almost pure filters :nuts

I have no idea how the orb was made... it just sort of happened xD

In fact, this was made a while ago so I have no idea how a lot of it was made. I just cropped it and adjusted the brightness and darkness of it.

[Ammanas]

where did mikko's entry go o_O

[Gallic Rush]

What? Who is mikko?

[Ammanas]

chauronity (unless someones misled me for ages o_O)

well, tag posted up. too sleepy, tried messing around with a few new ideas

[chauronity]

^ Yeah that's my name :P

where did mikko's entry go o_O

I'll do a better entry later, without any stock or render or anything.
Tomorrow tho

[Gallic Rush]

That doesn't sound like a guy's name >.>

[mister. pek]

Who said that Chau is a guy? He/she is an it. 0:

[Silent Reality]

Wait so theres a battle going on whens the due date I wanna be in it. >.<

[Ammanas]

due date, as soon as you can make it ^^

chaur hasn't put his new one up yet so there's still time :p

[Gallic Rush]

Nyuuuuuu!

My chances of success are dwindling by the day :doh

[Rendan]

lolorz, i would like to enter the battle but i hav jus woke up (3.00 pm) and i think i'm too alcoholized to make anything decent, if i had time i may enter :amuse, if not, i will organize the next battle.

[Gallic Rush]

I need to get my SOTW entry done... so much to do so little time >__<

[Ammanas]

I gave up on my sotw entry, just couldn;t find a stock I wanted to use

[mister. pek]

I think we should just create another thread without a polloption, pollvoting tend to become unfair & biased.
Silent Reality
CTM
Moridin
peK
Chauronity
GR
Right?

[Rendan]

Hey Silent, how i can download the .psd archives from fff?

[Ammanas]

I think we should just create another thread without a polloption, pollvoting tend to become unfair & biased.

knock one up when everyone's got an entry sorted, I agree that its better without a poll

[Cut Thru Me]

Yeah go right ahead Pek.

[chauronity]

Pek, yeah go forth if you wanna .. sounds good to me ^^

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/9205/clouds2ep.jpg

New stuff, made this for wildfire just a few hours ago.

[mister. pek]

Hawt shit. Ain't we going to wait for SR?

[Rendan]

awesome! too bright to me, but hawt!:thumbs

pekpek, i have heard that mods can upload 150x150 px avatars for normal users, you think you could do me a favour, since you are mood:wtf

Made some editing...better now?
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/sotw743-Panic.png

beforehttp://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/Rendan_GFX/sotw741-Paniccopy.png

[Gallic Rush]

Rendan, the new one is definitely improved and I'm liking the color choice much more. I still don't really get what the appeal is other than the obvious >.>

[itachi7]

can i join this fc i like the name it tight

[chauronity]

@ pek: lets' make another thread if there's a need ... no-one loose innit ^^

awesome! too bright to me, but hawt!:thumbs

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7055/wildfiresdarket3wt.jpg

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6223/wildfiresdarket26ys.jpg

Two darker versions

[Ammanas]

darker versions are nicer, looks hawt ^^

I tried some new things today but they failed horribly >.<

[Gallic Rush]

itachi7, this isn't a fanclub... though I'm glad you like the name (I came up with it :amuse).

[Rendan]

loled at itachi...poor newbie...grow some GFX skills and come back some day :amuse

thanks GR, what you mean with the appealing? i don't get it :s


Chauron, darker versions much better imo
what you think about my latest version?

[Gallic Rush]

Rendan... he thought it was a fanclub. I don't think he'll be coming back >.>

Plus, he has "shardingun eyes are the best" in his signature making me think the wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.

As for the tag... the appeal is just the fact that there's a buck-naked sprite :omg Since there isn't really any correlation between the stock and the background.