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What else can I say? I tried to give this one a dreamy athmosphere...

Edit; I updated the sig so some older comments aren't making sense anymore... this is the final version.



[This message has been edited by mahjqa (edited 03-18-2003).]

And I can't spell. *points at above post*

I like the concept, and as you are aware i am a great fan of your work, but i am not liking the shape of it, are you able to perhaps blend the egdes a bit more into the background ? they just seem a little harsh to me, but nontheless, another great peice, but i think you have done better.

Beautiful... dreamy indeed.

That's a rough call on the edges, though. If the background was consistent you could just make it transparent, but I think that would be difficult with the background colors here. Or maybe not. Anyway, it would indeed look nicer if the transition were a bit more subtle. The animation itself, though, is superb.

It doesn't work, really. I thought about it, but the color difference's too big.

Whatever...

Be happy you spoke to me on Q when you did, it looks a lot better the way I suggested it.

Animators.....


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This version is halfway decent. It's also 80 Kb.

So, which one do you prefer? Anyone?

(there's also the option of cutting half of the frames away, but that looks so awful...)

I told you it would look good. Despite filesize.


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Ok, we get it insider - you gave mahjqa advice. Now shut the fuck up and let the rest of us have a look.

=)

Personally, I like the 'edged' version. The non-edged version looks great on the dark background, but not so hot on the light background...the transparency just doesn't hold like it should.

Either way, it's very nice.

You crushed my moment of pride!

~*grabs fish and runs away sobbing*~

YOU WON'T HEAR THE LAST OF THIS! SO SAYETH THE CARP!

I'm liking the non-edged one on the darker background.

(Maybe you could try and give it the dark background, and fade it out (feather?) so that someone looking at it can't tell that it is on that background.)

Nice work. Very atmospheric. I like the edged ones. The asylum colors don't work well in place of the black. Black equals drama. Maybe frame it like you're looking out a window if you don't like the edge?

last one...just maybe stick a name somewhere...maybe sort of like forming from the dust or something

by the way you rule!

Another nice one Mahjqa.
I like the edged version, too. Maybe a small brick border, and it could be the view from one of the cells in the South Wing..

Hmm, yes... after seeing several versions, the edged one does look cleaner.

I also really like db's idea--that would be a great way to put in a solid border without ruining the theme!

Thats a really beautiful piece Mahqa.

I also second the out-of-the-window sort of border, will take care of the transparency issues.

Updated it, overwritten the old one. I'm keeping this'un. Moth, thanks for the suggestion

Oh, now that is very nice...good job.

Very nice.
I was going to say that you should put your name into it - then I saw it

Oh... yes, yes, YES!

Sorry about that... didn't mean to get carried away.

Once again you have created something that makes me want to weep and curse the heavens for their cruelty.

Yup, much better taht way =) Nice work.

oh that is NICE! Your work is simply great.

I have a question though. When you make these sigs like this (small I mean) that are animated, do you design the whole thing as the actual size or start larger and scale it down?

I have tried to work at the actual size and it is sometime quite difficult because of the way the pixels "bleed" over for lack of a better term. Everything is so distorted.

Great work there though!

Later,

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Moth, thanks for the suggestion

You're welcome!

Nice work, Mahjqa. Now I can't decide which of your sigs is my favorite. This one, the moon over water, or the butterfly. Guess you'll just have to get one of those sig rotators

Beautiful.

heheheh when I stumbled upon this thread and saw the pic (as it appears now with the window) you came up with Mahjqa it made me think of that bar in the movie "From Dusk to Dawn" y'all know what I'm talkin' bout!

I can hear Cheech out front of the bar right now....LOL

yeah, dude, i like the borderless best.
btw is this your first sig that doesn't include your name?

nope dude! his gun doesnt have a name too

hahaha

Damn. At a 1600x1200 resolution, you can barely even see the zoomed in name.

nice sig, as always, mahjqa

This question always seems to be asked by someone, and I don't want to poop out and not have someone ask it.

How did you go about the creation process.

Did you push each pixel, with the pencil tool, which would seem like a whole tone of extra work, or did you start with a large image using a paint brush, and then reduce the size, and then go back in an push the pixels that were nessesary.

Did you start with scanned line art? What was the process of making this at the basic level?


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I can't go into explaining the clouds just yet, haven't got the time. I re-used some of the buildings I made for this image . (sorry for the blue matte, have no time to fix it) as you can see I've originally made the buildings quite a lot bigger. After resizing I manually cleaned some stuff up with the pencil tool. Also, you might want to know that all this starts out in pure grayscale, and I only add colors in the end, using hue/saturation adjustment layers and gradient maps.

I still had to answer CPrompt's question; You'll find using selections very useful when working on pixel level. When you make a selection the drawing tools you use will only affect the pixels in the selection, so you have to worry less about bleeding. The best example of the results is still this little gadget:

[clicky]

My God that's beautiful...

There, now you've gone and made me cry again...

so. . . it's kind of 1/2 and 1/2? hmmm. . . that's interesting. You certainly know your stuff when it comes to PS (and graphics I'm sure)

So you do EVERYTHING in greyscale and THEN add color? Man! Now that's a trip! Sheesh!

Thanks for taking the time explaining that.

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

[This message has been edited by CPrompt (edited 03-20-2003).]

These are the things that make me regret that I didn't get wrapped up in computers 15 years ago...

I am SO far behind!

Bodhi - Cell 617

mahjqa, not much more to be said really, your work never ceases to both inspire and amaze me. On top of that you share your knoweledge and expertise, and often even throw in a finished sig for someone having problems.. (*remembering my xmas sig amongst others* ).

You have a real talent.

thanks for sharing it with us again.


oh yeah that final version is probably my favourit of your followed closely by that butterfly of yours

edit:why isnt this guy a mad sci? his work is the best, his help is astounding

edit2:drops hint to doc and the real crazies around



[This message has been edited by tomeaglescz (edited 03-20-2003).]