Post by LancerZero on May 7, 2009 2:04:51 GMT
With the RoER2 restart, I've been working on some new sigs and avatars. When I made the old ones awhile ago, I made a thread on RoER1 for them. I've got 'em posted all throughout those pages...about a dozen or so. Most are still in use, too.
Anyway, onwards to the new batch! First one I did was Vix's, since she'd had hers for a couple of years. Also, she'd changed a fair bit as a character. And since she and Valedec are together now, I wanted theirs to match. So!
Vix's avatar came from: Summer Fox by Orange04 on DA. I changed the background color, and hand-selected her hair to change it as well, and mirrored it.
Vix's sig came from: The Oath as part of an art trade between Golden Wolfen and the awesome Dark Natasha (http://www.darknatasha.com) and a picture of a specific type of two-handed sword, with a second grip at the base of the blade for close-in fighting. Lots of selective gaussian blur to the former, a bit of regular gaussian blur to the latter, some gradients and text, and bam! Except the fur color didn't match, so I had to make the fur in the sig look darker and richer, and smoother.
Valedec's avatar came from: 100th Watcher by the very talented Echostar of DA. For the avatar, I recolorized his face and ears, his hair, his shirt, redrew his mouth, and drew that rune on his cheek (healing or protection, forget which). Probably should've applied a selective blur to smooth it out, but I didn't.
Took Val's sig from the same pic his avatar came from; same process as Vix's, except I had to recolor his pantaloons and use a pic of a one-handed sword.
The results:
Next I decided to tackle Serylis. Thanks to an old commission by our own dear Smauggie, she had an awesome avatar already. Hers actually came together very quickly and easily. The bloodied arcanite reaper from WoW suits her quite well, and I found a picture of flames in the shape of a dragon head. Some more gradients, put her name in, dotted the "i"s with light sources and put a lens flare by the axe blade.
For Hellena's, I simply recolored the old sig I made for Harmon out of Dame Freya's awesome "street fighter Freya" pic.
Next project: Tristan, Eudemic's character. Poor guy's had the same avatar/sig for about three and a half years.
EDIT: And Kali. I love her sig, but it's three years old now, and her avatar is nearly as old.
Anyway, onwards to the new batch! First one I did was Vix's, since she'd had hers for a couple of years. Also, she'd changed a fair bit as a character. And since she and Valedec are together now, I wanted theirs to match. So!
Vix's avatar came from: Summer Fox by Orange04 on DA. I changed the background color, and hand-selected her hair to change it as well, and mirrored it.
Vix's sig came from: The Oath as part of an art trade between Golden Wolfen and the awesome Dark Natasha (http://www.darknatasha.com) and a picture of a specific type of two-handed sword, with a second grip at the base of the blade for close-in fighting. Lots of selective gaussian blur to the former, a bit of regular gaussian blur to the latter, some gradients and text, and bam! Except the fur color didn't match, so I had to make the fur in the sig look darker and richer, and smoother.
Valedec's avatar came from: 100th Watcher by the very talented Echostar of DA. For the avatar, I recolorized his face and ears, his hair, his shirt, redrew his mouth, and drew that rune on his cheek (healing or protection, forget which). Probably should've applied a selective blur to smooth it out, but I didn't.
Took Val's sig from the same pic his avatar came from; same process as Vix's, except I had to recolor his pantaloons and use a pic of a one-handed sword.
The results:
Next I decided to tackle Serylis. Thanks to an old commission by our own dear Smauggie, she had an awesome avatar already. Hers actually came together very quickly and easily. The bloodied arcanite reaper from WoW suits her quite well, and I found a picture of flames in the shape of a dragon head. Some more gradients, put her name in, dotted the "i"s with light sources and put a lens flare by the axe blade.
For Hellena's, I simply recolored the old sig I made for Harmon out of Dame Freya's awesome "street fighter Freya" pic.
Next project: Tristan, Eudemic's character. Poor guy's had the same avatar/sig for about three and a half years.
EDIT: And Kali. I love her sig, but it's three years old now, and her avatar is nearly as old.