Topic awaiting preservation: **January 2005 Sig Contest** - (Egyptian) - Discussion and chatter

All discussion, comments, and potential entries go in here.

All right, I am gonna give this one a try...

Nifty topic, and I might see if I can actually whip something up for this one... it's been a long while since I've entered a sig contest.

I had to chuckle at your list of possible subjects, in particular goatees and eyeliner. Drag was the first thing that popped into my head.

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Ens, I checked out your pyramid sig in ImageReady and you have too many frames. That's why your filesize is too big. If you cut out every even numbered frame, since your keyframes fall on odd numbers (1 and 29), you can cut down the size to only 21kb.

Also, the animation will still look smooth as long as you tweak your frame delays.



(Edited by silence on 01-08-2005 14:00)

damn! cant find a recyclable sig for this topic.

looks as if i have to make one.

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Drag was the first thing that popped into my head.

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He he... somehow they did it with so much class though. Cool sig Ensellitis!

Thanks silence! Will do that tonight.

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Suho1004 said:

I had to chuckle at your list of possible subjects, in particular
goatees and eyeliner. Drag was the first thing that popped into my
head.

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Now why doesn't that suprise me?

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if I went 'round saying I was an Emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Ok, Silence... I removed the even frames, and with that xtra comfort room for size, I was able to add detail to it... Thanks alot! Now it's only 28.7 =)



(Edited by Ensellitis on 01-09-2005 04:42)

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Now why doesn't that suprise me?

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Guess I've been spending too much time around you...

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when i started this, i was thinking i would try that animated water-reflection d-map thingy but, i got tired. maybe i'll try it later.

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Suho1004 said:

quote:Now why doesn't that suprise me?

Guess I've been spending too much time around you...

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As I've said many a time - they are robes not dresses.

What you chose to get up to in your own time has nothing to do with me - you were like this before I ever met you

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if I went 'round saying I was an Emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

I tell you Emps, if you lost the mascara and panty hose, I might buy that line about them being robes...

And I'll have you know I was up for sainthood before I met you. Now look at me!

I think you've both been hooked up to the shock therapy probes ten too many times.

^That is a distinct possibility.

Nice sig, by the way. Maybe I should work on mine....

slinks away

quite nice, outcyder. I would like to see it a bit shorter and wider though - get more of a feel for the scene.

I'm still working on this, but thought I'd post it up anyway. The symbols (arm, semi-circle, etc) are straight from a site that you can write some text in a box and it "translates" it into hieroglyphs for you, so not my work at all. Whoops, I thought I had the link here but I can't find it atm, I'll post it later when I find it.
Oh Emps, btw, I picked up your chiffon robe from the cleaners.

*Tao zooms in with his zimmerframe* Found it, Write Like an Egyptian
Is the site. Plenty more here too.
This is the eye on its own, which is still just up from an idea but may lead to something.
We're just in the playing stage atm

I'm also working on a hieroglyph sig, and I've noticed that there is not complete agreement on how "suho" should be spelled. There seem to be two schools of thought, basically, and they assign different sounds to the hieroglyphs. Not that it matters, I suppose, but it's a bit frustrating for a linguistic nut like me...

only slightly related - an old GN logo from years ago:

I didn't realise that they had assigned any sounds to the hieroglyphs yet. How about the hieroglyph for "Shockko" there might be some agreement there. Just goes to show I hardly read the explaination at all, just the purdy pictures
aThis one's a bit more burn, burn, burn!!!

[edit] Just caught your post DL. That's a great effect, I remember I used to sit and reload the page just to look at all the groovy Guru's Logos. Are they stored anywhere to view nowadays? I'm sure they are it's just the old memory playing wotsits. [/edit]

(Edited by Tao on 01-11-2005 03:44)

thanks DL-44, i'll keep that in mind

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(Edited by outcydr on 01-12-2005 12:22)

Fabulous!

I really like your sig outcydr, as well as Tao's (relic.gif). Well done !

This topic actually gives me many ideas... Hmmm I'll try to jump in before the end of the month.

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Trying to mix a little present-past-future and still stay within topic...



Grumble should be able to read the third set of glyphs without needing any translation...

Comments?

[edit]fix URL[/edit]

(Edited by Jung on 01-16-2005 17:15)

Jim Loy has an awesome resource for this topic here

(Edited by EzRa-D on 01-19-2005 18:41)

I like what you have done Jung, but I'm not too sure about the dark area underneath, is that a shadow?

Well, I used an actual photo of the original Rosetta Stone for reference and tried to make my sig look like the actual tablet itself. So the dark area underneath is actually the bottom of the tablet which I sort of rotated forwards to de-emphasize the "Jung" part the most leaving it the smallest and have the Egyptian and Alien glyphs more prominant.

Maybe I can lighten this area up more or add some more texture or something as I guess it does look a little like a poorly done shadow or something...

outcyder - you've forgotten to enter your sigs in this month's contest thread! and tao? aren't you entering your other efforts too?

Whoops missed it heh. I knew I had something else to do. Ah well, there y'are.