Preserved Topic: ^Jan Sig Contst^ - W h e e l s - 2nd Rotation

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time is running out! ~Vp~

Grumble: no, not a new paint job, just traded the old one in! No PS, just Illustrator, and a little spare time.

who decides the winner of a sig contest?

That would be the winner of last months competition....in this case, VP.

edit = got rid of my siggy to save on 56kers bandwidth.

[This message has been edited by el_Grande (edited 01-21-2002).]

hate to do this to the 56k'ers but....

[This message has been edited by mbridge (edited 01-23-2002).]

'the wheel with a single edge'

ahhh. that would be a 'moebius'-ring, right?

woo..nice...i like it....




[This message has been edited by bramer (edited 01-23-2002).]

well the mathematical name i am familiar with is umbilic torus nc, but the name mobius ring seems to fit well also.

edit: frickin fat fingers

[This message has been edited by mbridge (edited 01-23-2002).]

@bramer: *rofl*...nice speaking burger :-D

So I have to find another one in mc...

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to stupid for transparent sigs

uhm... nice sigs & all (if not a little big) but what would that have to do with wheels?

oh god i'm an idiot. sorry 'bout that.

and why do they say Hank? Is this another Conundrum???

that's the name i usually use. i registered here like a year ago before i used that name online.

No clue how this is going to look. Maybe later I'll animate it, but I'm sick of looking at the skins right now.

edit: Just as I thought. As soon as I get it up, I see where I can improve it. No matter how much local testing I do, it's just not the same as using it here.




[This message has been edited by warjournal (edited 01-24-2002).]


Better, but I'm still not quite sure. Anyways, take your pick.


[This message has been edited by warjournal (edited 01-24-2002).]

wj.....It`s really nice!! did you make all of it with photoshop?


I like man...

I used 3DS Max, just like my earlier sig. I grabbed the skeleton mesh from a friend's Poser 4, and chopped it up. Then I worked on the just the skull for a long time. (The nasal could use some more work.) By the time I got done fixing the mesh, I could have built my own. :sigh: Then I re-mapped it and skinned it (diffuse and bump). I don't want to look at those skins for awhile. The other objects were cake.

Do a bunch of renders and toss into PS.

I've got it set-up to be animated. All key-framed and ready to go. The bar moves and the eye rolls. It's kind of creepy looking. But I'm not in the mood animate it that small just yet. Besides, too many small things to fix and I'm tired of it right now. I might get to it before the month is over.

Wheels... Not to hard a word.
And it doesn't even look like the word orbit or rotation.

WJ => I think it would look even more creepy/evil if you added some redish/shiny colors to the pupil. Or maybe something like a shiny white eyeball with a "reptile" look.

The second one

Cheers

I'm pretty sure I'm done with this. Normally wouldn't post this many versions for a sig comp, but I'm in unexplored territory. Thanks for the patience and all that crap.

Fixed the nose. Woohoo for that. Tweaked the maps, but a lot of the subtle 3D stuff was lost when made into a sig. Because of that, I've learned more about 3D to PS transition. I even learned a few things about animation opitimization. For example, only the moving parts move; that is, there is a mask over the top, if you know what I mean. I also made it non-transparent, hence the cheesey outline in a feeble attempt to smooth out that bump. No transparency because file size jumps to 50k, and I want to keep it around the 20k mark. Few other things I don't want to talk about.

If I don't win this month, I'm still a winner because I learned a lot.


PS. My working folder for this sig is around 17 megs.

as you said in the other thread, this one could use a higher palette.
i think 64 colors arent enough for this one cause i can see the lines between the colors themselves.
especially the skin and the eye.

warjournal - very cool indeed..

just a thought though: how about making the pupil expand and shrink as the gear turns.. kind of like a lens focusing (or something..)? That would be even cooler IMO...

For me, part of the sig challenge is keeping file size reasonable. While a sig is a work art (or can be), it's still a sig. Consideration and balance. My personal cut-off mark is around 20k. So I made some sacrifices.

I don't plan on adding dilation for this one, but it did give me some ideas for future use.


[This message has been edited by warjournal (edited 01-26-2002).]

another wheel....



salut

ahem. you see, there are some white pixels around it. they are called aliasing effects or jaggies!

Well, I got here for the sole purpose to comment on WJ's sig..

I think it's absolutely amazing, but I'd like you to add one small detail.

(edit: ehh, right. Just like Sonicsnail said... damn I'm slow sometimes...)

Oh, since I'm just wishing here. Lose the vertical black line on the left and make the BG transparent



[This message has been edited by Nimraw (edited 01-30-2002).]

only one more day left!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, Nimraw, the transparency is not gonna happen. When I make it transparent, the file size jumps to 50k, even with 16 colours. I have no idea why that happens. I'm going to stand by my decision to keep it at the 20k mark. That could help me, or it could hurt me -- it's up to VP.

Well find out soon enough.

Nice work guys! I wish I would had the drive to finish mine! hehe...

i'm looking forward to see the winner!