The Graphics Rating Thread [READ THE FIRST POST. D:<] Page 56

Started by Loki January 3rd, 2008 11:11 AM
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I should be doing homework right now. <_<

Anyway, Color Me Evil, I like it... if we're just going by aesthetics. What I really hate about it are those big blobs of light that seem really concentrated. Like, they don't spread out evenly, and it just doesn't look right. The light streams are also really over done, and so basically, the light just buries the render. She like, disappears in the background. :|

I like the text- I'm a fan of those 'barely readable' things, and the font is definitely my fave font. ;D But um.

In general... I'm surprised that you and El Capitano didn't turn out something better, I guess. It's not a bad tag; it's great, and has both of your tastes in it, but it's like... two styles are fighting for attention, and it's not... working...?

I'm not really here for a rate, but I'll be a piss-off anyway and throw something at the next poster. xD!




Yeah. Crapped out colors. Score one point for Loki. <_<
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Well... I had received the PSD from Capitano and when I opened it, CS2 gave me some error about the stock and trust me, I tried to get rid of that blob up top, but when I removed those layers, half of her head was missing. ._. So I had to keep it. I took out most of the stuff that was in the original and it was all one shade of yellow/orange. I tried so hard to salvage it. D':

As for your tag Loki, it's not so bad except for that the music notes and lines are blurry. And I don't like how you reduced the opacity of the light blobs, either. I'd bring those back out to 100%. Light blobs never look good or right when their opacity is decreased. The background just needs a bit of sharpening but other than that it's not bad at all. And I'm not a big fan of the blobby render in front of her. Some more light blobs would look nice there, I think.

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Also I can tell you just get stocks from somewhere and make them your background. You should try using brushes as your backgrounds for future work, just saying instead of stealing stocks from people that took their precious time to take a picture of that stock or whatever... ><
Actually, that's a sunrise photo I took myself from my house. Here's the original:
http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/di5U3My2BaCOaHFxGZRTdg%3D%3D1190601

Also, since I'd REALLY like a rate on this one (one of my fav's), here it is again:


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@Swampert - You know, if you want your stuff rated, you have to rate other people's stuff.

I'm not exactly sure what the stocks are, but the whole tag is monotone in that gray/brown scheme. I've noticed that with your tags, you seem to stick to a 1-2 color combination and it rarely ever works. I agree with Hazuki, you really need to stop using just regular old pictures as your background. Tags have a lot more personality and meaning when you make the background yourself. And you use the same font in a lot of your tags, so go to dafont.com and download some. And I don't really like how the "i" is brown, it's too distracting. I'd say by now it's time to go to dA and look up some tag tuts so you don't use the same style in every one, because it gets boring fast.

Now, here's mine:



It's not my favorite. But I made a tutorial too, in the thread for tutorials here.

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I agree with Hazuki, you really need to stop using just regular old pictures as your background. Tags have a lot more personality and meaning when you make the background yourself.
*sigh!* how many times must I say it: I didn't steal that! it's a photograph I took myself of a sunrise from my house. here it is on my blog!
http://oliverbunten-blog.blogspot.com/2008/08/another-glorious-sunrise.html


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How do you get any more original than a photo I took myself?


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I'M NOT!!! IT'S A PHOTO THAT I TOOK MYSELF!!!!!!!!!! How many times must I say it???


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Where do you keep managing to find me accusing you of stealing it? There's NO HINT of me saying that in what I just said. All I said was that you need to stop using stock pictures as your backgrounds. Do you KNOW what a stock photo is? Search anything on Flickr and that is a stock photo.

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And I am saying I DID NOT SEARCH FOR IT ON FLICKR!! I took it MYSELF! >=(


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OMG, I'm NOT SAYING YOU STOLE IT. What I'm trying to get through your thick skull is that you use regular pictures like the one you took in your tags. NOT JUST APPLYING TO THIS TAG.

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The you should have said that in the first place.
Anyway, now that that's settled, I've made something else:


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Not liking the text at all. Concept is nice, but the actual positioning of objects is messy. Needs more depth as well and defiantly a light source.

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I used a very different style and the inspiration came from mainly my new shoes.


Rock Howard, one of my favorite fighting characters ever. I tried a lot of different things with this one too.

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I used a very different style and the inspiration came from mainly my new shoes.


It pretty good. I can definitely see the shoes-like appearance in it. One thing- it needs some darkness somewhere. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at, since there's difference between the lighting at all =/
It may also look good with some cinematic boarders (I think... I'd have to see how that would look =)

And then here's mine. The graphics are a scan of a wrapping paper I drew for my brother's birthday gift (took me like, four hours!):


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@Conman - I can't even tell what the first tag is. The whole thing is too messy and you have a lot of different effects going on and there's no focal point. Looks and feels very flat; there's no depth. That purple is bothersome, too. The second tag isn't so bad, but it would look a lot better if you got rid of those circles and had a sense of flow. Everything is going all over the place in that one. The stock gets lost in there, as well.
@Swampert - Your monotoneness is killing me. ;_; http://www.colourlovers.com/ Go there, and love it. Use it. Abuse it. Just learn colors. The text is the focal point of the tag, which I assume you don't want. So make it blend in or something, but get rid of that outer glow. It hardly ever works on text. Not liking the green brush you dabbed over the sides and edges. If you want to give it a feeling of whatever, use black, not green.

Been working on some portfolio pieces as of late, so I've been straying away from tags and working on LPs. Here are the ones I've been working on:


Concert poster.


Uhh

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That's actually a green background with various burns, with the image semi-erased so the green shows through


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Love the first one, the colors, concept, effects, and the birdie :o Not to mention the nice subtle pattern in the BG.
Now the second is good to, but not as interesting as the first. Mainly the rainbow colored effects throw me off. Also personally not a fan of that font.

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Just a sprite tag I did because Iori is awesome, and is also one of my fav fighting chars ever, like Rock Howard. Now...CnC?

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PS: What does LP stand for? I know what it is...I know how to make one..but my brain wants to make sure I know what the exact term stands for.


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