HEIDIGRRR
This is a cute sig that turned out pretty well! I really like the rolling chicken egg, but even
though I added some tilt (forward and back) to the big chicken as it walks in from the
left, it's hard to see. The simple background helps accentuate the chickens, and keep the
file size down.
AFR0PUFF
This sig, my first attempt at a motion video sig, almost killed me. I don't
think I'll be making too many of these! I don't know what kind of software
other sig-makers use for this kind of thing, but I had to do it manually.
The effect is pretty good, but at 148K, this sig is maxed out!
RELICENIGMA
For this gig, I had a request for Star Ocean characters and background, but
I don't know anything about Star Ocean, so I had to rely on Google searches
to try to figure it out. The fade effect is pretty simple, but I think it
works well, fading from a complex logo background to a simple screen name
background and back.
YDNA303
I think this one turned out pretty well, and the inclusion of a bit of
dramatic text really spiced it up. I also think that the ocean background
looks really nice, too. YDNA303 did a good job of directing the choice of
background. This sig also turned out to be really big, much bigger than I
though it would be, and alarmingly close to the 150K limit! But, it
squeaked by, although a final transition or two had to be sacrificed!
DUFFMANKIXBUTT
One of my most complex sigs to date, DUFFMANKIXBUTT had a great sig idea
and clear specifications, so putting it all together was pretty
straightforward! Most of the graphics were easy to find, and because of the
simple background, the file size is remarkably small, even though there are
dozens of frames!
BOUNTYHUNTERSUPREME
This sig turned out to be a lot more difficult than I thought it would be
for several reasons: (1) BOUNTRYHUNTERSUPREME's screen name was so long,
there wasn't a lot of room for graphics that wouldn't be overlapped, (2)
There are almost no pictures of Boba Fett out there that aren't fan art,
action figures, or Halloween costumes! In the end, with the two requested
bounty hunters' helmets and personal logos, the sig turned out pretty
well!
MPRUNTY
AFR0PUFF's Matrix background was hot! Right after I finished it, I
immediately got a request for the same background, in yellow, with
different foreground characters. It rocks too!
AFR0PUFF
AFR0PUFF already had a great sig, he just wanted the background to scroll.
After looking around all over the internet, I found a tiny animated GIF
that was pretty close, but had to pull all of the frames out, resize, and
reconstruct a 500x48 version. I had to stagger the frames, or else there
was a sudden and unpleasant "jerk" to the left when the sequence looped. In
the end, I think it turned out to be fantastic!
GOFRY2002
What originally started as a request for a sprite sig turned a little more
"artsy" when I found some really nice graphics of the requested characters
on a big gaming site. I really liked the way it turned out, and
fortunately, so did GOFRY2002.
FERRETFREAK
Created by request, this one was tough because I'm not that familiar with
"Zoids", although I have seen a few episodes on cartoon Network. In the
end, I went for the best pictures that I could find, and got lucky -
FERRETFREAK knew and liked those zoids!
__TWINROVA__
Another sig contest, which are always just clever ways to solicit sigs,
right? It wasn't until the post from __TWINROVA__ that I realized exactly
what a Twinrova was, even though I had played and complete LoZ: OOT. This
sig was challenging for two reasons: (1) The graphic of the two
broom-riding sisters had the blue (ice) sister's hair obscured by the red
(flame) haired sister, so she had to be partially reconstructed once they
were separated, and (2) it nearly didn't fit under 150K, so I had to fade
out the combined TwinRova as she ascended at the end of the animation.
BUTTONMASHER
Ah, BUTTONMASHER. After being given a cameo in one of his stories, how
could I resist creating a sig for him? It was a little challenging to keep
this sig under 150K, but I made it, and got a whole buncha buttons in there
too!
BLUEKIRBYSAMUS
This user is or was running a sig contest from their bio page. The
specifications given were very clear, and the artwork was pretty easy to
find, so I created and entered this sig. My favorite part of this sig is
the pink-to-yellow fade - the user had wanted either a pink or yellow
background, so I gave them both!
MASTERSWORD05
This was a tough sig, only because I could not find a complete graphic of a
master sword anywhere! I ended up taking the standard one (from the video
game title graphic) and reconstructing the masked parts by touching up
mirror images of the visible side.
SHARPEDO22
This was a pretty straightforward sig, and I like all of the shades of blue
in it! The shadowing of the sharpedos and the lettering added a nice touch,
I thought!
