My many signatures and avatars

[Carlos Winters]

These are signatures and avatars I've made this year. Kinda started seriously this year. As you can see, I got good quick. Yay!
And I made the ODST signatures for Halo3, not Halo3 ODST, lol..
These are from oldest to latest. I'll add more as I go, these are just the ones from my photobucket ^^;

Feel free to do some cnc, and don't be afraid of making signature/avatar/banner requests ^^;


ODST Meteora2: I was into ODST, made a few of these, this is the only ODST Meteora that I kept(it was the only decent one)


ODST Rain: Turned out awful..


ODST LD2: Also awful, but better than LD1.


Monster Sig: I was feeling monstrous, and decided to make this. It turned out beautiful.


Monster Sig2: Decided to remake it with more/better monsters, and better coloring


Raziel Sig: Any other Legacy of Kain fans?


Raziel Avatar: Matching avatar, yay!


Kain Sig: I like Legacy of Kain. Kain is smexy. I like Kain.


Kain Avatar: Matching avatar for my Kain sig. Sexy <3


Vergil Sig3: It was done on request. This was the only good one from the batch. I like it


Dark Lotus5: I made a lot of these.. Most turned out crappy. Even this one turned out bad, but not as bad as the others. <3 Dark Lotus


Raziel Sig2: Added text and used it for a sig in a Halo3 clan called DRO. My gamertag was DRO Pilot. Fun fact: Those are lyrics to Invincible by Static-X


Raziel Avatar2: Decided to remake the avatar. The first used an image of Raziel that was already in the sig(left one)


Kain Sig2: First one had googly eyes on Kain, decided to remake it and fix it up.


Villain Sig: Made for Collectively Known As "Villain" when I had the idea for it about a week ago.


Heatman: Took a shot in gif images. Made an avatar to promo Collectively Known As "Villain".


Villain Sig2: Screwin' around with gif more. Gif'd the old villain sig.


Rape: More Collectively Known As "Villain" promos.. lol.. I like this one


Stomp: I wanted to promote smoking, rape, and ball stompage. Capt. America's balls are shielded, unfortunately..


Shredding2: First one was too fast.. This is the slow one.. Still too fast..


Gyro vs Mario Bros Unfinished: lol, I never finished this.. Meant to add "Collectively Known As" to the end, never did..


Heatman Full: Evened it out, used all the intro and smoking frames. Much better than the last <3


Freezeman Full: Used the whole intro sequence, added a couple attacks, now it looks like he's dancing. Yay!

[mosama]

those monster sigs are like the best sigs ive ever seen <_<
really kick ass art work!

[Carlos Winters]

I thought so at first, too.. About a week of using them and I lost interest, though..

I lose interest in my sigs and avatars quick.. And I have to make new ones whenever I do ._.

The artwork I used for them, however, still looks beastly.

[Evil Agram]

Wow, a whole gallery filled with things you didn't draw, render, or sprite.

Think you could show us some of your work?

[Carlos Winters]

It is my work..

I took images and made them better, and animated sprites.
Even though I didn't make the original art used, I was the one who edited them and turned them into the art that they are now.
It is my work, and my art.

I've had this arguement too many times to count, I won't continue beyond that..

[Evil Agram]

So, can you make anything for yourself?

[Carlos Winters]

Yes, I can, as you've seen.

If you mean make art from scratch, then that's also a yes. I paint, sketch, and I can do tattoos, too, but that one is still a work in progress. Just started doing that this year.

[Evil Agram]

Yes, I can, as you've seen.

I'm not seeing anything you made in this thread.

If you mean make art from scratch, then that's also a yes. I paint, sketch, and I can do tattoos, too, but that one is still a work in progress. Just started doing that this year.

Then show us that. I'd like to see something you made, not some faceless corporation.

[Carlos Winters]

You don't seem to understand.. Editting an image is making it something else. What it is after edits is, actually, something I made.
I did make these, just not from scratch.


And the only thing I made from scratch that I have a picture of is the first tattoo I did.
You can see it if you'd like.

Spoiler! :

And I'm not so sure I understand what you mean by "faceless corporation".. Please explain..

[Evil Agram]

You don't seem to understand.. Editting an image is making it something else. What it is after edits is, actually, something I made.
I did make these, just not from scratch.

Editing an image means conforming to the limits set before you. It's a crutch. It means showing us the same thing everyone has seen so many dozens, hundreds of times in yet another color palette.

I'm a tremendous fan of pixel work, but these edits are so friggen dull and lifeless. It's not making something else, so much as taking the same thing everyone has done before and making yet another iteration on it.

And I'm not so sure I understand what you mean by "faceless corporation".. Please explain..

You're a person. You're not some corporation who we can only see the face of through what they release and the services they provide and the legal/corporate actions they take. You're a human who we can interact and talk to. And I for one want to see what you are capable of doing, not what you've altered of what others are capable of doing. I want to see your skills, your talents, your progress.

By editing, you're showing me someone else's finished product. That someone else is hidden behind a faceless corporation. I can't talk to them. I can't see who they are. All you're saying by showing me edits is that you don't want to show your own talent or progress. You're showing me other people's talent and progress and the very slight impressions you've made on their talent and progress.

And frankly, you can do so much more.


Nice Tattoo. Design is a tad simplistic, but the lines are clean and the composition looks good.

[Carlos Winters]

It's not that I don't want to show my own talent or progress, I have no problem showing off my sketches and such, but as I said, the only thing I actually have a picture of is the first tattoo I did.

And it's more than simply a change in color palette. It's actually a rather difficult process. I had the same mindset that you have now until I actually gave it a try for myself.
It's really not as simple as it may seem.

[Evil Agram]

And it's more than simply a change in color palette. It's actually a rather difficult process. I had the same mindset that you have now until I actually gave it a try for myself.
It's really not as simple as it may seem.

It's nothing I haven't done before, and more intensively.

Do you know what Rotoscoping is? I'm an animator. Rotoscoping is an animation technique, where animators trace over an existing sequence of frames and draw a different character on top of them. It's like what you do except it's ten times as many frames, and requires ten times as much drawing.

You know what's harder than rotoscoping? Doing it without the original video to trace. Making it all up.

Worse, I used to edit all of a decade ago. Before I became an animator.

There is no ideology that I criticize without having experienced it fully. Except Twilight fandom, and I mostly just make snide jokes.

[Carlos Winters]

If you're only drawing over existing frames, wouldn't it be just twice as many, not ten times as many?

And since there is a lack of drawing to begin with, wouldn't drawing to begin with be an infinite amount more instead of simply ten times more?
Since you can't multiply nothing into something, it would litterally be an infinite amount more than to begin with.

And also, you win. I give up on this arguement, you're right. Though there was work involved, the tools used were images already made instead of images I made myself.

You've turned my life around. I'm going to give a shot to making sprites myself for my next batch of .gif images instead of using pre-existing sprites.
Would you be so kind as to link me to the nearest tut?

And eventually, I'll get around to uploading some of my sketches and I'll show those off and completely rename this thread.

[Evil Agram]

If you're only drawing over existing frames, wouldn't it be just twice as many, not ten times as many?

And since there is a lack of drawing to begin with, wouldn't drawing to begin with be an infinite amount more instead of simply ten times more?
Since you can't multiply nothing into something, it would litterally be an infinite amount more than to begin with.

Both statistics are completely made up.

The first one about the number of frames is partially based on truth. In the rotoscope jobs I've done, it involved a hell of a lot more frames than the average sprite sheet contains.


Completely changed your life around? Wow, I honestly can't help but feel a tinge of sarcasm there.

As for tutorials, I posted a GIGANTIC list over in the tutorial section: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2229

Largest list of pixel tutorials ever. Third revision. If your gif of making something from scratch is good, send it to me. I'll host it on imageshack and add it to the list.

[Carlos Winters]

Yes, I was being sarcastic with the "turned my life around" comment

But I'm definitely going to check out the tutorials and make the worlds most beastly supervillain sprite sheets.