Draklor's Graphics

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My brother wanted me to make him something since he's been watching this anime called "Legend of Galactic Heroes". It's a space opera which explains the stars. I rendered it terribly and was pretty much too lazy to render it well because I've had to pee for the past 30 minutes it took me to make it with him sitting next to me saying it looked alright.
 
I recommend that you don't brush over the render and focal point so much. Like I said suggested a lot of times, try using a gradient mapping over your render after everything is put down. Then you can adjust by duplicating the layer and setting it to Overlay.
 
I do use gradient maps :gasp: But over the whole thing. Also, I rushed that one and my brother liked it as is (he's not a total graphics critic but knows when something is utter shit) so I didn't bother to touch it up and fix it. That and the render is crap and I didn't like trying to work with it lol.
 
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Before I give my comment, I don't want you to think that I'm being rude. ;)

Okay, so I like the whole idea behind this, but if I were to be honest, I feel this is a huge step down. I mean, I like the whole idea of the compo and all that good stuff, but it's just lacking contrast or even some lightness. Maybe if you were to throw and black and white Gmap on Lumo a couple of times, it might bring the contrast and depth to a point where it would be pretty solid. I'm not digging that style of border, but meh. Font also doesn't work IMO. Or at least, it doesn't work as is. Maybe throw in some kind of blending method with it. :hmmm:

Anywhoo, don't take this as me being rude, just trying to help ya improve and such. :)
 
I honestly don't like it either and don't feel like fixing it at all :gasp:
 
I didn't care for the render and I didn't know what to do with it, but my brother liked it and that's all that really mattered to me :P No point fixing it if the person who I made it for likes it I guess.
 
Took into account what Seiji said in the rate your sig and avatar thread and decided to erase some parts in other layers on my current sig. The white is a bit much now that I think about it (although it wasn't my intention to make it like so :wacky:). It was supposed to be the light source, but it looks more like an empty space. So now it's fixed a bit. Might make it less bright.

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Draklor said:
Took into account what Seiji said in the rate your sig and avatar thread and decided to erase some parts in other layers on my current sig. The white is a bit much now that I think about it (although it wasn't my intention to make it like so :wacky:). It was supposed to be the light source, but it looks more like an empty space. So now it's fixed a bit. Might make it less bright.

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Redfry :gasp: I love this :gasp: It's awesome :gasp:
The starry background really makes the dude stand out. Too bad I don't know who the dude is :lew:
 
Thanks :yay: I like the stars too :ryan:
 
Only things I've made lately are for the clan challenge so I couldn't post them here :gasp: Made this in my 2 hour break before going back to school for a 30 minute class I couldn't miss:

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Working on blending in my renders better. I may or may not change the text because I think it suits it. Oh, and yes, it is very shiny and pink. May adjust the brightness as well.

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Okay a bit darker so it doesn't blind anybody. Hm. Looks darker in PS :hmmm: Oh well.
 
From the very first sigs in your thread, up to where you are now you can definitely see the huge step you made with improvement. :gonk: I wonder how you pick up on it so fast, when I first started it took me ages, but then again, I didn't have the patience for tutorials. :gonk: I wonder if you ever looked at them.

The only advice I can give is for the text on your signatures. I wrote up this tutorial requested by Jay, it might help you out with text placement and complimentive text. :ryan:

Overall, it's very inspiring to see you grow so fast. :ryan:
 
Yes, text is my weak point :gonk: I almost always have a different font and/or placement by the time I have a final product. And I actually didn't have the patience for very long tutorials, but my friend threw me at a website that he used for his and I learned some quick techniques that I've put to use in a few of my more recent ones :P The one that Ken and I did I think was what I learned more from, because I do that sort of thing in a lot of mine now (filtered layers upon filtered layers over and over :gasp:) I'm still learning with C4Ds and I rarely achieve something I like in most and eventually ditch them all when I don't like how it looks. But thank you :D

Also, something new I made. First time working with stocks, and haven't gotten any feedback on it yet. Text is bad (obviously :gasp:) and I'm not really sure how I feel about it as a whole :hmmm: It's missing something, and I don't know what.

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That, and I just set the scanlines layer of my current sig to soft light. I just keep looking at it and wanted to make them lighter without removing them entirely.
 
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As I said before, this is quite an improvement. I think you managed to blend him in quite well. Though it's a bit on the bright side, as you said, nothing really wrong with that. It's good to try out variety.

Draklor said:
I'm still learning with C4Ds and I rarely achieve something I like in most and eventually ditch them all when I don't like how it looks.
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I'm kinda the same with C4Ds. Though I do use them often, most of the time I can't pull off a striking and bold look. Either that or it's just not my taste, so I tend to find other uses for them, whether it be a subtle lighting or simple effects in the background.


As for this one:

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Not sure what the black patch is...I'm thinking some sort of shadow? Kinda hard to tell, but that's the only thing I'm not too sure about with this tag. Other than that, the sig reminds me of a watercolor style, almost (due to the stained-looking effects). It's interesting, though I am not certain if that's the look you were trying to achieve. :lew:


Keep it up though, looking forward to seeing more from you.
 
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Current set. First avatar (that I've completed) that isn't just a cutout of the sig :reptar:
 
Draklor said:
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Current set. First avatar (that I've completed) that isn't just a cutout of the sig :reptar:
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how did you get that awesome border.. unless it my eyes XD
 
I actually do it on all of mine :P It's just a two pixel white border set on overlay :lew: It's extremely simple yet it looks really awesome :gasp:
 
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been a bit since I've updated
 
Draklor said:
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been a bit since I've updated
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updates ftw :ryan:

like i said... it a great sig it blended in really well and the background is looking good :grin:

my only comment is that it needs more of a light source.. maybe a white soft brush with the layer set to overlay over his head.. just an idea

apart from that i'm proper digging that sig :yay:
 
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