Topic awaiting preservation: ***JUNE 2003 SIG CONTEST *** Wildlife

Welcome to the animal kingdom!

Werewolfs, kangaroos, lions, monkeys, bats and vultures and any other wild animals/birds are welcome ( some have been domesticated over the years but hell, this time we are going jungle ~roooaaar~ on and lets explore the deep jungles.

Oh and by the way usual rules apply...no recycles and like Master Suho so wisely put it...

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... there is no need to post here just to say that you're going to be participating. If you are going to participate, then do so and submit a sig. We don't need to hear about your intention to join. We also don't need to hear about how cool you think the idea is. If it is such a cool idea, make a sig!

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[Emp edit: Perhaps some people might benefit from being pointed to the rules:

:FAQ:

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The judge for the month posts his/her rules, and makes his/her judgement on the sig comp winner. Respect this. They have determined their judgement criteria, and that's the end of the story. If they say 'no animations', then feel free to make an animation, but don't be suprised when you don't win.

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If kaboi said sigs can bee 800x600 and 250kb then I could see people raising objections but whether or not a name should be on the sig is:

1. Very minor.

2. Something we have discussed before and decided it was up to the judge.

Now back to the competition...........]


Good luck!

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[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 06-17-2003).]

i'm seeing wolfen recycling

OK, I have very little time at the moment, with exams and the like, but this is such a good topic I felt like experimenting a bit. I might do some more work on the animation when I have more time, but for a first go at painting without the gooey stuff, I'm quite pleased. Not any specific sort of cat. End of preamble.


[This message has been edited by quisja (edited 06-03-2003).]

the cat looks a bit like a dog.

Damn... can't recycle something like this...



The programmer's national anthem is 'AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH''

Wolfen's Sig Site

Hmm...I think this pertains to the subject. If not, oh well, I made myself a new sig . It's called the Xebra.

Testing other background...



Heh...at least now we know what lurks behind the Asylum boards :P

[This message has been edited by Xenon (edited 06-04-2003).]

OK, time for version two...I guess you could count this as a second entry, but it's really just a modified version of my first entry.

this is a cut from a pencil drawing i did - reduced and colorized (sigagized?)

is that what you call it outcyder?

Here's my entry for this one...

Yannha and your entry is where?

I found it hard to keep the file size down. If I reduced the colours any further it looked blurred, perhaps I could reduce the image size a little more, and loose some detail?


[edit2]The Chameleon has Changed and slightly smaller size.

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Taobaybee, I love your sig idea! But if you?re looking for a way to reduce the file size, I would make the chameleon?s tongue less detailed. I used to work at a pet store where we sold chameleons, and when they eat, they zap that tongue out there really fast. I?m sure you could find a web site that explains this, but I don?t think that the tongue is curled that much, either; whenever I saw them eat, it looked like it was stretching, not unfolding. So my suggestion (if you want it!) is to decrease the file size by making the tongue faster and more realistic, and therefore use fewer frames. You might even try to find a video of a chameleon eating online and use it for reference. It?s a really cool sig and, if this matters to our judge this month, it would be terrible if you lost points for file size.

well here is my try

sorry about the white, i was just doodling one day.

Came across this today:
Animal Pictures Archive
About Permission

Read and Inwardly Digested. Thank you warjournal

A very Nice and Handy link, Warjournal . It should spruce things up for some of us who did not pay enough attention in biology/nature classes

Keep the entries coming.

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Hey... Where is Jung ?

Jung is in sig-rehab.

here is my submittion


As long as The Matrix exists, the human race will never be free. -Morpheus

and now testing the other bg

I sent Jung an email about a week ago, but have not heard from him yet.

Silver Dragon: That looks more like a parrot to me...

it is a parrot

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...birds are welcome...

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Yeah, but with a name like silver dragon...

yeah i got the same problem. can i make one for someone else and enter it?

While the final judgement is in the hands of Kaboi, I personally don't think it matters whether the animal actually pertains to your name. For example, what has a chameleon got to do with Taobaybee? And does it matter? I won a sig contest a few months ago with a tongue ring image, and my name has nothing to do with jewelry or piercings; it just looked cool.

Your name doesn't have to be related to the animal. That would be impossible for some people. Just make whatever you want.

Actually, while I think common sense would indicate that GN is right, only the judge of a contest can decide what goes and what doesn't go...

Yea. I'm just tired.

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Actually, while I think common sense would indicate that GN is right, only the judge of a contest can decide what goes and what doesn't go...

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True. But if Kaboi decides that the animal has to be related to your name, that would give some an unfair advantage.

Me, for example.



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I was only joking anyway... what's my name got to do with the cat sig I did? I just wasn't expecting a parrot from SD. Anways, sorry for the extraneous banter in the thread Suho.

Make whatever you like, This is an animal kingdom sig contest, it doesn't have anything with your handle.

***JUNE 2003 SIG CONTEST *** kind of speak for it self.

Odd Cat is right

Or else it would be ***JUNE 2003 IMAGE CONTEST ***

[This message has been edited by kay-dee (edited 06-16-2003).]

mhm nice...try making the font a bit better to read

the type is pretty much impossable to read

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99: Hate to butt in like this again, but Odd Cat is not right--kaboi is right, because he's the judge, and the judge decides what is acceptable.

Great, now I've done so much butting in this month that I'm going to have to go a make a sig to redeem myself...

[Edit: To avoid another non-sig post, this edit is in reply to the post below...

Odd Cat: No offense meant, of course... It just seemed that some people were having difficulty understanding the idea of the judge having the last word...]

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 06-17-2003).]

Even I agree that I am not right.
Wait...

OK. kaboi is the judge on this image contest.

'Judge' doesn't mean having the right to break down all the rules.
It means upholder of the rules.

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Let's wait for the next SIG contest.
Well, have fun

OK, if you've got a problem with what I said, you can e-mail me. I would have e-mailed you, but your address is not in your profile.

You really think that kaboi deciding that the animal you choose doesn't have to be directly related to your nick is "breaking down the rules"? Aren't we overreacting here just a bit? I believe it is well within the bounds of what a judge should be able to do, and nothing to get our panties in a twist over.

Now I think it is time for both you and I to stop blabbering and get to work, don't you?

(No need to post "Amen"s or "Right on"s, people--we can hear you from here.)

[Edit: And here's my entry... it's an idea I had from the beginning, but I'm not sure how well it turned out.]



[Edit2: And for those who may not have understood it the first time, the "Amen"s and "Right on"s would be in response to my call for an end to the blabbering... and on that note, I think I've said more than enough.]

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Is there a size restriction?
(I mean height/width, not file size)

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Oscar Wilde

Size/Width requirments are fairly subjective, but try and keep the file size under 50k.

But I am a Chameleon!
Sorry, could not resist that.
"I am a Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature".

Pretentious are we, Suho1004?
For the record, the hysterical and blabbering overreaction stays on your part.
Email me? What's that about?

I just made a point about what I belive - that this is a SIG thread! - and now you're expecting an 'amen' or a 'Right on!' for defending that it ISN'T?

To clear it up for you: the signature have had its evolution from the time when the illiterate signed with an 'X'. Not including your name is placing yourself in the X-level. And looking att your 'sig' I have no problem detecting where you find yourself.

Sorry kaboi but yo wrote, quote:

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Oh and by the way usual rules apply...no recycles and like Master Suho so wisely put it...
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...and in these rules you can read, quote:

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The judge for the month posts his/her rules, and makes his/her judgement on the sig comp winner. Respect this. They have determined their judgement criteria, and that's the end of the story.
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So I know that! - Do what ever you like!


I'm just want to emphasize the 'sig comp winner'-part. Sig. Nothing else.
That's the challenge.
To make your name go with anything the Judge suggest.
At least, that is what I have in mind.
That's maybe why all the best sig-masters does just that.
They all put their names on their sigs.
By coincidence?
Wow, I never saw that coming!

The solution may be having two different competitions:

***JUNE 2003 SIG CONTEST ***
***JUNE 2003 SIG with no names CONTEST ***

Then where whould you put your rules?


Still... have fun making YOUR sigs!

Ok, you done?

Can we get over your pointless ego trip now, bud?

I am at a loss as to what your point is exactly, but that aside, it's a moot one. This is a sig contest. The topic is wildlife. If Kaboi feels like imposing rules, he may. If he doesn't feel like it, he may not. A sig is a subjective thing, and if you want your name on it, or if you want it to reflect your name, that's up to you.

End of story.

'Tis, the third generation chameleon. May not look like he has changed much but I followed Odd Cat's advice and did some "jiggery pokery" with the tongue and some other stuff and got the lil'ol' critter down to a more reasonable size.
Suho, man,, those eyes follow me round the room, I can only hope 'tis not a predator lest some (1) gonna get bitten "ahop ahop"? ;¬
I did a quick search on this page and the only person I can find who has used the word *Pretentious* has not bothered to submit a sig for consideration.


"I am a Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature".

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Taobaybee, your chameleon has evolved quite nicely. I really like the way its skin looks now. I love his little binky eyes. However, I'm seeing some kind of white blip at the bottom of the image when the tongue retracts back to the mouth. Is anyone else getting that?

Huh. Well now it's gone. Oh well; such are the effects of running Kazaa and trying to look at Sigs at the same time.

Thank you Odd Cat. Your suggestion (earlier) helped me get the size down. I am stuck with a 56K Dialup myself so I know what its like to have to wait for ages for a page to load its images. I usually have time to put the kettle on and make a "cuppa" tea, before the page has loaded


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Yeah, it's come a logn way tao, looking pretty good at this point.

I just wish you could see the whole thing - the tail is cut off at the bottom....



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Especially for you DL-44
Thanks for pointing that out, I don't really know how I missed it.
I even managed to get the file size down a bit more, I hope I haven't lost too much definition in the process. I don't think I will be doing much more tho' for the next few days or so. Moon Shadow and myself have decided to have a little game of PS Pong, the first time for both of us! So I'll need to focus all my attention on that. I'm really looking forward to it, with just a little trepidation!


"I am a Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature".

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ed: oops

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99 could you please re-read this line again...

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Make whatever you like, This is an animal kingdom sig contest, it doesn't have anything with your handle.

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...then make your point if you have one, you're making the thread a tired one

I quoted Suho to keep the thread clean and on topic...unfortunately that only invited more gibberish than sig contribution.

Hey people, I need to see more sig entries

when does this contest end? at the end of june?

Yup. So if you're asking if you still have time to make another sig, the answer is yes.

Oh boy ... my very first sig guess I have to start somewhere with this.

Hello all,

Evidently I upset some of the "boys" with last month's contributions. I felt that all the "quality Vs. quantity" debate was aimed directly at me... So, here is my ONE submission for this month. Tried my best but file size seems to still be a problem with me. Sorry if I upset some again...

Peace all,

Jung please don't let Michael's comments prevent you from submitting more entries. Many of us enjoy your work very much. It's a pleasure to see an artist on a roll.

Here's a slight re-working of my entry. I added more color to the wings and dropped the anttenae. I was afraid they came out looking like rabbit ears in my first entry

Jung, I have to second Moth on that, I dont think anyone was offended by your contributions, infact some ^^ people kind of missed them this month round...feel free to make as many as you can

Yo, Jung I missed you Dood! Did you get my email?
I'm going to try to get another one in before the end. Nice work Jung and Moth. I know what you mean about file size, my first effort here was huge as well
I, for one, did not think the "comments" were directed towards you Jung, I can only hope it was nothing I said.
See "Red Mists" Did you see the sig I did for you?
LAter
tao

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Talk about wildlife... hehehehee

Its 10 hours and ticking(depending on which part of the world you're @) to the close of the contest.

Any last submission better be made soon...

And just to clarify (before anyone starts bitching...), the judge decides when the contest is over.



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[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 07-01-2003).]

better late than never!



In case anyone's curious, it's a Tibetan Snow Lion. You could tell, right?

edit - no other sigs in here!

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oh well, I haven't had much time on my hands these days, so this one's not quite finished, but I like it

So here's my "Yawning Tiger....Roaring Cat" sig :



A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Oscar Wilde

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The Contest is officially over, could a mod please lock this thread.