Sparkle - SOTW 7 Entry

[Alterego101]

Sooo, I entered this into a SOTW on a GFX Forum.

 

What do you think?

 

Also this one I made for a customer:

 

Edited August 12, 2013 by Alterego101

[Alterego101]

I see.

[Alterego101]

Can someone give me some feedback?

[Anne]

First one is pretty decent. Second one at the right there's like too much C4D. At the left it really fits the render well but at the right it's not that good. Keep going!

[spec4k0]

i like both of them

[Antonio Montana]

The first one i'm not too sure about it looks kind of too blurry, the second one although it might have more going on it really just looks like a C4D made to fit the render. Nevertheless I love your text and placement!

[Jordan]

Not bad. Try messing around with the lighting a bit more and see what happens.

[Basic]

I can't even load them. 

Image must be broken >.> Loads hella slow, and never actually looks like the original quality.YAY PIXELS

[King Ryan123]

Really pixelated for me

Edited August 16, 2013 by King Ryan

[Alterego101]

First one is pretty decent. Second one at the right there's like too much C4D. At the left it really fits the render well but at the right it's not that good. Keep going!

I know you don't like C4D based signatures, so I'll just ignore what you said.

 

i like both of them

Thanks!

 

The first one i'm not too sure about it looks kind of too blurry, the second one although it might have more going on it really just looks like a C4D made to fit the render. Nevertheless I love your text and placement!

The background is meant to be blurry.

The second one is a LOT more than just a C4D.

This is what I did:

New signature, with a blue gradient background.

Put the C4D in, changed the colour overlay to black and put them where I wanted.

Then I layered different C4Ds over the background ones, changing opacities etc.

Then once I'd fitted the render and blended it with the C4D, I took a white brush and set the layer to soft light/overlay and then brushed over the parts which I thought would look better lit.

Then I blurred over the signature and rubbed out the bits on/around the render and on the lit parts.

I can't remember much else about what I'd done. I could let you know once I get home, if you want.

 

And thanks! It's not often people recognise my knack for text. I have a good eye for text and placement.

Not bad. Try messing around with the lighting a bit more and see what happens.

I have, this is what I thought looked best. I'm quite an amateur though. I only have 2 years experience.

 

I can't even load them. 

Image must be broken >.> Loads hella slow, and never actually looks like the original quality.YAY PIXELS

Images aren't broken, must be something on your end.

 

Really pixelated for me

They shouldn't be. Again, must be something on your end. The images are fine for everyone else.

Edited August 16, 2013 by Alterego101

[Solution]

loads fine for me, i like the second one most but that's probably because its fits my personal prefered colour sceme :P

[Sex]

2nd one looks better.

[Basic]

I'm just going to talk about the first one.

You have lighting on the render for no reason, it was too bright. I would say this about all of your signature, but that's just too much text. 

Basically, you have no light source. So everything looks 100% fake.

[Salty as fuck]

I don't really see much flow on either picture.

First one is kinda just.. a render layered ontop of a background, the second one is just way too much c4d and like another user said, you don't really have any lighting at all.

 

Your first picture also looks really LQ.

 

Goodluck though.

[lolmanden]

They look very sexy!