First sig on gfxvoid (need views and critism)

Im not good at sigs and never will be, ive read a few tutorials and failed this is my first attempt at smudging and c4d's. My attempt was inspired by superman returns sig posted by XaiXo which is friken awesome :). I really need your critism and links to tuts that will help me out.

anyways here is the sig.
http://i41.tinypic.com/iftuyo.png

v5
http://i42.tinypic.com/2dhv69y.png

I think it's not bad for your first attempt with these techniques.... While I am still new to to this style as well, I'm becoming more and more comfortable with it everyday. I feel taht I can give you some CnC on it, so here are my views of it...

Text is a little big, small text, basic text is the way to go (from what I hear)
the left side of the sig is way empty... Maybe add another C4D, or move your render (or maybe stock??) more towards the center...

You have nice color though! Keep it up man, you'll get the hang of it...

Thanks for the advice, the sig was alot more empty at one point I know what you mean though I will carry on looking for some nice c4s i can use. For the text im not sure what to do there i will havea look at that text tut on here and see if i can come up with anything.

also + rep

Move render towards the center and the text to.

The text is really good. Neds a light source.

Then you've got a nice sign man ^u^

http://i44.tinypic.com/2ajz692.png

updated version, I cenered it i sharpened it but im not sure how to achieve the light source for the text if you can help with that i would appriciate it :).

No didn't mean light source on the text. Move text towards the render and then ad a light source to the whole image with a soft white brush.

i can see a red line in his face, probably from the sharpen thing. Try to remove that. And the gray thing on his throat.

A border should look really nice to ;)

http://i43.tinypic.com/htfeag.jpg
v4
you not talking to the brightest person on the forums lol.

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Originally Posted by rhydian

Im not good at sigs and never will be, ive read a few tutorials and failed this is my first attempt at smudging and c4d's. My attempt was inspired by superman returns sig posted by XaiXo which is friken awesome :). I really need your critism and links to tuts that will help me out.

anyways here is the sig.
http://i41.tinypic.com/iftuyo.png

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Cheers for the complement. :D

It's a nice first attempt, the colouring is quite good, and the style has an interesting, plain style to it.

The light source: Use a 200 or 300px soft round brush set to white, and click once OFF the edge of the signature, which will give a soft light source. Then switch to an 80px or so soft brush and do the same juuuust on the edge, in the middle of the previous light circle. You've got the right place with your latest version, just the technique was done a little wrong. :)

Get C4Ds from PlanetRenders.net or the deviantArt.com resources section.

thats how it should look, nice light too. But this time to Sharp :)

Fix the sharp and then yore all done ;)

Here's what I think you should do, try moving "WELLING" up and closer to "TOM", and perhaps "rhydian" to that space next to "TOM". You would wanna lower the opacity of "rhydian" if you do that though. That's what I would do anyway. I wouldn't want people to read my text as "TOM rhydian WELLING". It's not a must anyway, because the fact that you sign off your sig in lower case, use a different font, and leave the primary text in CAPS already makes the text look good. I just don't like that empty space next to "TOM".

Render looks a little LQ and I'm guessing that you sharpened your C4D over your render. It sort of distorts the guy's face and that doesn't look good. So, maybe you should erase the part of that C4D that overlaps his face?

This is pretty good for a first attempt. Read up on more tuts and you'll be making some really cool sigs in no time at all!