Preserved Topic: ~~AUGUST SIG CONTEST~~

OK, There may be some overlap here, but I want to leave plenty of open territory.

This month, the SIG CONTEST is all about machines. If you`re confused about what that means, see this .

NO recycles, new material only. Be mindful of file size, and remember this is a sig contest, so make it like you`re gonna use it.
A suggestion to the grumblers and late comers from last month, start early, and enter often.




Cell245

*Wow Bob looks like it means nothing! Must be a free for all folks!

*fine print: you're link doesn't work...

Maskkkk

[emp edit: no sigs except competition sigs - especially this big ugly one ]


- Face the Present

[This message has been edited by Maskkkk (edited 08-02-2002).]

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 08-07-2002).]

he was only trying to link to the definition of "machine" anyway, Mask.
SO just go to dictionary.com and punch it in, if there's any confusion.

sounds great, docilus, i think i'll give it a shot!

[emp edit: no sigs except competition sigs] CELL 557

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 08-07-2002).]

Just to make things clear, when is the last date and time you can send in your sig? I think you'll understand that it quite sucks if your entry can't compete since the competition closes a few days earlier.

yes, thanks mahjq.
i suggest its better to close comps later than earlier. so we catch the "worst case" too.

Oh for christ's sake.....the LAST day of the month isn't a few days early.

If you plan on entering, do it! If you're too late, oh well - you've got a cool new sig to use. (and like DB said, make like you're gonna use it.....).

[emp edit: no sigs except competition sigs]

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 08-07-2002).]

Or to put it another way (aka: my take on the situation):

1. The sig contest is run by the inmate who won the previous competition has so clearly has to be worked around their schedule (not everyone elses). Advanced warning would be nice but:

2. The person running the competition can do what they want within the general rules, i.e., decide when to judge the competition (and who they pick) and as long as it isn't outrageously early or late (like weeks).

If you do leave your sig until the very last days then sometimes you are going to get burned, however, I would imagine that sometimes you get a few extra days so I'm sure it balances out.

I wouldn't like it if we had to impose very strick rules on the start and finish dates (as a little flexibility is always good and people have benefitted from a few days extra) but if the forum admins think that would be the best idea to prevent misunderstanding and problems then that is their call - update the rules (there is a version in the FAQ) and make sure everyone knows.

Now can we get back to db's competition (it sounds like a great topic db!!)?

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Got a good one... nanananAAAnAAA

Ok, look. I wanted to keep this simple. I wanted to leave some room for you to work, and I wanted to save some space. For those who can`t leave a simple thing simple, for the brain dead, and the whiners, here it is.

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ma·chine [m shn ] noun (plural ma·chines)

1. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING mechanical device: a device with moving parts, often powered by electricity, used to perform a task, especially one that would otherwise be done by hand a washing machine

2. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING simple unpowered device: a simple device used to overcome resistance at one point by applying force at another point, for example, a lever, pulley, or an inclined plane

3. powered form of transportation: an engine-driven means of transportation, for example, an aircraft, car, or motorcycle

4. POLITICS group of people in control: an organized group of people that controls or directs something, especially a political group the party machine

5. complex system: a complex system structured so as to accomplish a specific goal the war machine

6. somebody who behaves mechanically: somebody who acts or works like a mechanical device, for example, somebody who is very efficient or who shows no emotion or initiative an editing machine

7. THEATER device to produce stage effects: a mechanical device used in the theater, especially in classical drama, to create special effects such as the entrance of a supernatural being

8. LITERATURE literary device: somebody or something introduced into a work of literature to produce an effect or to resolve the plot

verb (past ma·chined, past participle ma·chined, present participle ma·chin·ing, 3rd person present singular ma·chines)

1. transitive and intransitive verb work with power-driven tool: to cut, shape, or finish a piece of work using a power-driven tool such as a lathe or drilling device, or to be cut, shaped, or finished in this way

2. transitive verb use machine on something: to make or do something using a machine


[Mid-16th century. Via Old French from Latin machina , "device, engine, contrivance" from, ultimately, Greek mkhan (source of English mechanic), from Greek mkhos "contrivance, means."]


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OK? Get it now ? If you still need clarification, go ask your Mommy.
On dates, If it`s the last of the month ( this one has 31), and your entry is 50% done, you`re probably NOT going to make it. My suggestion is not to wait until the last minute to post you entry. I`m a flakey kind of guy. At 11:37 pm, July 31 ( give or take a day, CST ) I may just decide to judge what`s been put up. I may wait til Sept 3.Wouldn`t THAT be total chaos ?
We try to keep things flexible because that`s the way life is. Deal with it. Or don`t.
In recent months, this has turned into a clusterfuck. This one will not. I`ll shut it down first.

This is a simple, easy, non-world-shattering, supposed to be fun,thing. If you want to play, get it up. If you don`t shut it up.

~Vp~

hohoho!

vp is startin' great
uhhhh hard opponents this time

Let's see if this not-so-family-friendly baby works!

so...in other words...you're a dildo?

heh.

well i guess that Sex-Machine is taken!

I think its a bullet...

VP wins hands down.

*bzzzzzzzzzzz......... whummmm.... whummmmmmm*

~hopes the transparency works~

Of course he wins, mine's really a quick job of being silly.

Btw, if you make the internal balls move just a bit, as well as having the swingers pass behind the bars (currently your strings are defying the physics you try so hard to emulate) it'll be much more realistic. That, and set the Matte color to 40,4,4, so you don't have all that scary white stuff.



[This message has been edited by Lucid Iguana (edited 08-04-2002).]

I fixed the transparency, my only problem is file size ,

OH! So it is a dildo? eeeew

is it just me or does the frame flinch after the 'I' ball swings down? Another note....shouldn't the two swinging letters rotate with the ball?

Looks good though.....nice idea.


Too bad there is no recycles allowed.....i got a good one. I want post it because the filesize is huge but the link is here.

EG

[This message has been edited by el_Grande (edited 08-04-2002).]

EG: Yes on both counts - nice sig though InSiDeR.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Thanks guys, but I wanna hear from DB if it qualifies because really its physics not mechanics.

Yes it flinches, why I do not know, and yes the letters should rotate with the ball but that would be incredibly hard for the way I made that sig, took me 3 hours .

well technically it is a machine....energy is put in and an action occurs and energy is released.

and rotating two letters over a few frames? c'mon its not that tough.

bleh, ill send u the psd and then ull see why

el grande, i like yours
itz just the idea.............i know that microsoft has got some of these machines

ok, ~shit~ I thought I was fairly clear about this before.
The rules ( such as they are ) are posted above. If you still don`t understand them, go ask your Mommy.

If someone can explain to me what part of that is difficult to absorb, maybe I can be more clear. Maybe I shouldn`t try. It doesn`t seem to be making much difference.

In short ( and to re-iterate, yet again) If you have a sig to enter, put it up.
If you don`t, shut up.
I`ll judge them when I`m damn good and ready.
I will not qualify/dis-qualify every sig that gets posted.
If you still don`t understand, maybe you should be watching cartoons instead..
Let`s just not try to over think this...just play the game, or don`t., Sheesh. they`re just sigs, fer cryin out loud.
This is not supposed tp be complex.
~sigh~

What part is hard to absorb you ask?

My question was "Does it qualify?" Thanks for giving me a direct yes or no answer.

<font color="#2b0404">Asshole</font>

He did answer... if it doesn't qualify, it wont win. Simple. Why does it matter right now if it qualifies or not? You've already made it, you can't unmake it and get your time back if it doesn't work.

Its not like you're physically unable to go and make some more that certainly *do* qualify.

Well, here's my first ever Sig Contest entry. . .
<img src="http://strike9.com/file.aspx/path=/Nathan/fullsize/cloud.gif"></img>



[This message has been edited by Cloudman (edited 08-05-2002).]

nevermind

[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 08-05-2002).]

Hmm. . .well HTML is on so I used it. Thanks tho.

any time

btw nice sig!

InSiDeR, what is mechanics but the practical application of physics, so I guess the answer is yes after all.

lets hope

*comes in naked and all-body shaved*
Sorry, I couldn't help it: this is a literal traslation from spanish





*Runs away naked to see how the transparency looks*

*comes back*
*uses the 'export gif98a' for transparency*

Too stoopid tu use the 'save for web' PS option.

Ok! now transparency works!

*Keeps shaving with a lady's razor machine*

Now, where the hell is that 'save for web' learn-how-to-use page??


[This message has been edited by Wakkos (edited 08-05-2002).]

n1, wakkos

~imagines the whole asylum being naked~..................................waaaaahhhhhh

*sees hairs littering the floor..* Im outta here guys.

                                                            [emp edit: no sigs except competition sigs]

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 08-07-2002).]

Bob, take all those equal signs out of that def'n post. It's taking up a lot of horizontal space >.< *note to self: make pc work; enter in sig contest*

[emp edit: no sigs except competition sigs] Shine and shine.

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 08-07-2002).]

Wow, I had a neat idea when I read the subject, but then I saw the nifty sigs that have already been posted... I would most certainly be blown out of the water. I may give it a shot anyway, though. Just for fun.

InSiDeR: I think it is safe to say that your sig qualifies. Could use a bit of cleaning up, but I like it.

please don't rage against the(this) machine

again

(just for the transparacy)

edit:
worked

[This message has been edited by massacre (edited 08-07-2002).]

cool one mas like it

so hope this will work
<img src="http://www.blackbrain.net/maschinesig.gif">

Woohoo!
Having funny sigs!!!!

*keeps shaving naked*

Mass I like yours a lot! Thats genius! Beer, Human Machines, it has it all! Good job .

thx, insider, big thx

Well, this is turning out to be another one of those months (and I mean that in a good way). I guess I'd better get cracking...

A brief history of the travelling machine...

wagon to car to plane right? Its cool but the colors are... hmmm....

edit: by the way ur leaving out boats and trains,

[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 08-08-2002).]

As well as your name. . .

Sheesh! - I thought this was just for fun.

Um, it is. But it's still a sig contest, no? Burn your name into the side of that wagon and you're good to go.

Then again, it is all up to db to judge these. We're just talking about sigs in general here.

Awwww... i Love flicing through the sig content's just to see the amasing orignal stuff you guys come up ..
it makes me want to get better and better at photoshop.. more and more and more .. you guys are my inspiration
*wips tear from his eye*

there's some top quailty sig's coming out here.. im sure this is going to be a hard one for db


Thanks
Trigger



[This message has been edited by Trigger (edited 08-09-2002).]

Grrr.. Animating is such a headache....

Drac, you are such a badass, it hurts =p

Dangit Drac, you just made the only idea I had. With the moving gears behind the name. Oh well, back to dreamland to come up with something. . . well something.

That's beautiful, Dracusis - looks brilliant.

I get a lil' red X when for Dracs sig...

?
no, insider it works

What the shit! It's a lil red X for me .

Maybe your connection is fuzzy... works fine for me.

Where's max hmmmm.....

First sig contest entry. Hope it's up to par.


[This message has been edited by Kine (edited 08-16-2002).]

Dang wish I had time this month....
(college)

Maskkkk

(DB edit)..remove non-machine red x(/edit)

- Face the Present



[This message has been edited by docilebob (edited 08-18-2002).]

damnit! i cant see dracs sig, its at http://www.whatever.net.au/~cameron/ozone/sigGear2.gif right? damnit!

yes, it's there and it still works just fine!

Yes, insider, Dracs` sig is fine. Always has been.
Apparently, whatever your affliction is, it`s beginning to infect your computer, as well. Bummer.

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