Board 8 > Zen Talks About the Match Pics Part 2: Spirit of Vengeance

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ZenOfThunder posted...
From: CrimsonOcean | #295
Hey Zen (or anyone), is there a way in Photoshop to kind of gradually make an image sort of piecey. Or streaky? Sort of like the Speedway logo?


Only with an image, not a letter.
This would have to be a manual thing that you'd do with the lasso and stuff. It'd take a while :(

Augh, I was afraid of that.

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ocean kinda grew on me like a flesh eating ...fungus. -BIGPUN9999

ha ha oh man look at dat outer glow

well played, Ulti

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Pic 3


Bowser looks fine but the other three look kinda blurry. What happened there? Anyway, this is a pretty cool pic. I like the heavy shadows, it makes it pretty stylized; you usually don't see much drop shadow on sprites. I like the multicolored boxes behind the portraits (ALSO BOWER'S PORTRAIT BORDER LOOKS DIFFERENT AND IT BOTHERS ME) and the layout is nice and the pics in the center are dynamic. It looks like there's a spot for names but it was abandoned, which is fine. Also using a white color overlay to fade the middle backgrounds is pretty classic; KP and I used to do that all the time. Good times, man.

Overall: 8/10

I was planning to get some better artwork but then I didn't have time.... meh..

I don't know what happened to Bowser's border but it wouldn't go away, it was really odd.

I abuse transparent backgrounds almost as much as outer glow, but it usually helps to contrast with the main artwork.

I thought Mario's background was biased because it's instantly recognizable, whereas the other background is a center square image on the level select in Mega Man X :/

I'll take an 8 though, I basically improvise everything with no technical skill whatsoever!

Ok I need help again.

Alucard seems to have quite a bit of art from games other than SotN. Is any of this fair game? For some reason he has black hair in these, I don't know the storyline so yeah....

For example, is this useable?

Yep, that's from Aria of Sorrow.

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MENJI http://i.imgur.com/a8MU1.png
by Lisel: http://img.imgcake.com/Menjipngmy.png

Ok cool. Dracula must have to be restricted to games where he fights Alucard (why else would the same pic be literally used over and over....)?

I think most of us would rather keep to SotN art just because we know people will recognize it. That, and speaking for myself, I don't have that much knowledge about the rest of the series and that may be the case with some of the other picsmiths.

But this is the match to experiment with anyway, because the Vampires are getting demolished regardless of the match pic.

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This line reserved for Rivalry Guru winner.

I try to use pictures that haven't been used before. Hence me trying to use Pyramid Head Ridley. But that picture there is technically a spoiler for those games, I don't know how that will factor in.

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Well this is all official art so should be fine - I kind of recycled the style here just because it was generally well received.

The small mug shots are kind of random and don't match too well.... might change some of them if I have time.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/85/linkdorfdraculalucard.png/

That's a cool concept, but in some my eyes are drawn to the background and some they're drawn to the bubbles. I think you need some more consistency but I do like the ideas.

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ugh why do the trainers have no art, they're worse than the vampires.

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Menji~
Shotgun, BANG. What's up with that thang?

will do ELEVEN MEGA WRITEUPS sometime tonight

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~Zen

Anti-aliasing around Alucard and Dracula makes me sad :(

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http://img.imgcake.com/crimjpgpe.jpg Mo' buildings mo' problems
ocean kinda grew on me like a flesh eating ...fungus. -BIGPUN9999

what is anti-aliasing?

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Menji+ http://backloggery.com/menji/sig.gif
http://www.yourgamercards.net/trophy/24/nb-menji.png

white fuzz around a character that appears when there's a poor render

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~Zen

yes??

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Surskit
.-#Elements of Water#-.

needs more smiling

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Menji+ http://backloggery.com/menji/sig.gif
http://www.yourgamercards.net/trophy/24/nb-menji.png

I LOVE IT

brood vs glee

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From: ZenOfThunder | #314

Who keeps doing this? Eleventy billion sprites for the top and four for the bottom >>

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Ulti.

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Zelda/Vampures QUICK FIRE


Look at that anti-aliasing! The font is bad, the pictures don't really match up top, Ganondorf is looking creepy, and the most generic Castlevania art possible. Overall: 4/10


What is with this image quality? Google images > filter bigger than 2MP. Overall: 3/10


Good approach here! I like seeing something different. I think that it needs to be more consistent on what you focus on; the bubble or the background. Good choice of pics, good execution. Overall: 8.5/10


uh you should understand what's wrong with this one by now. Overall: 2/10


yeeeeah ALUCADRACULA. Someone finally did it. EXCELLENT choice of pics for the vampires. Vincent Price Dracula LIKE A BOSS. (he needs some level adjustments, though). Good backgrounds, too. I don't really like Skyward Sword Link paired with anything because he's got such an odd artstyle but I think that's the best Ganondorf pic you could choose to pair him with. Cool borders, too. Overall: 9/10

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You can't get too mad at 1, it looks like someone's first/early attempt at make a match pic so even if it's technically the worst looking one it's not that bad. 3 and 5 are definitely the best ones there.

Seifer art sucks ya know

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

oh jeeze

how could you not mention stonedracula for pic 2

pic 2 is just hilarious for that alone

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WOW he does look kinda stoned there. no idea how I didn't pick up on that

bump that up to 3.5/10

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~Zen

3.5 my best yet!!! YESSS!!!

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NIO BUNNY - http://img.imgcake.com/nio/76ayvpngam.png

Seifer smiley pic if anyone wants to use it.



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NIO BUNNY - http://img.imgcake.com/nio/76ayvpngam.png

Actually bump it up to like a 5, it's not that bad

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~Zen

Good approach here! I like seeing something different. I think that it needs to be more consistent on what you focus on; the bubble or the background. Good choice of pics, good execution. Overall: 8.5/10

It sounds silly, but I think the picture looked weird when I covered up the background faces with the bubbles. I wanted both visible, but I know what you mean about the bubbles being too off centre.

Anyways, this next picture took more work than the others so far. Cloud and Seifer look kind of crappy but I needed those poses to get the right effect here.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/855/ff7ff8.png/

I like it. It's good seeing someone use some good old FFVII to represent Cloud/Seph, rather than the AC and KH stuff that gets thrown around so much.

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I like it too. The characters in the middle aren't of the greatest-looking quality there, but for this I think it works. It makes everyone look even instead of Cloud/Seifer looking just plain bad in comparison.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

I like it! Really nice.

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http://img.imgcake.com/crimjpgpe.jpg Mo' buildings mo' problems
ocean kinda grew on me like a flesh eating ...fungus. -BIGPUN9999

Agree with what GANON said. If the characters in the middle were cleaned up a bit it would be great.

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I wish I could wear skirts and dresses :( -GMUN

GANON1025 posted...
Seifer art sucks ya know

Wow!!! This looks really good!

But uh... What's with Sephy's eyelashes there? Are they really that long?

Ganon, where did you get that Sephiroth picture? I spent a while looking for a happy/goofy Seph face but couldn't find a thing. I could really use that.

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I searched "Sephiroth Crisis Core". I figured the best way find an uncommonly used pictures for him would be through that game. There's actually a couple pictures like that, it's very strange seeing Sephiroth showing anything resembling happy.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

Looks like it's from Crisis Core.

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http://i52.tinypic.com/2zfiu09.gif
http://i54.tinypic.com/10729w2.gif

Also, did you mess with Seifer's mouth or something?

Looks weird.

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It does look a little weird. I don't think picture is very good, purely due to the poor quality and integration of Seifer.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

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"I can set you free, mate."
"My freedom was forfeit long ago!"

that first one

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Menji~
Shotgun, BANG. What's up with that thang?

Looks like yoblazer's handiwork, if I had to guess.

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http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/8718/leonflowchart.png

first one is so so so so so so so good

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60-2: Why CoM Cloud? Be consistent damn it! And KH2 Seifer is awkward since he's like 12.

60-5: Amazing

60-7: Lol shirtless Seph. Are those all incredibly rare images or did someone fanart get snuck in?

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-Merc

All of the pics (except Seifer, naturally) in pic 7 are Dissidia 012 alternate costumes.

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http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/8/22/2094c2de-bae8-4f5b-9f27-67eaff0aaeaf.jpg

In #6 is that an action figure Seifer.

Also, Pokemon Trainer Blue has almost nothing for artwork. Even Alucard has way more than this.

Submitted a few variants but this is my favorite.



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I like the idea, the text is a little hard to read (even though it's supposed to be that way).

It's biased towards Mario/Bowser with the castle theme, and Mario/Bowser probably have to be switched to be in the right order.

I'm no good with joke or themed pics, so I whipped up some standard fare like I usually do...

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/580/semifinal1.png/