Argh, sorry for the late reply. Been having problems. Where are you exactly in the US, btw? I have quite a bunch of friends living there, but I keep mistaking their locations, haha. Ah, each to their own, I guess. During my freshman year, I was like forced to digest all the lessons there were, and was quite stressed. I ended up doing most subjects poorly. When I got to being a sophomore, I got into social programme, and had since left most science subjects except math (though ever since I got into literature for bachelor I stopped studying math as well, lol).
Of course, a great product will most likely come with satisfaction, haha. And yup, I'm in the US. Really? I hate my sophomore year right now. I really loved my freshman year and I cherished almost every moment haha
Hehe, have fun then. Yup, for me, that's the essence. Well, if I end up making something nice, then it will of course be satisfying. Though otherwise, it won't feel nice, lol. Intending to get back to PS myself as well someday. Thanksgiving, eh? Are you in the US? Oh, I see. My sophomore year of highschool was the most relaxing lol.
I'll have to take a look on those BlazBlue renders then, haha. Yeah, I agree. Messing with the tools in signature making is fun especially when you almost accidentally make something close to decent/amazing. Maybe during Thanksgiving break, I'll mess with Photoshop here and there. Nope, sophomore now.
Thing is, they do render often, but rarely per my request, lol. Would be nice if I could have my own renderers I could bother anytime, too. Yep, I used many of those renders, especially the BlazBlue ones (particularly Rachel and Noel). Haha, yeah, and the bunch of skilled artists around me ain't helping either in gaining confidence. I sometimes requested GFX pieces from them, though I also often thought like, hey, most of the fun related to signatures lies in making them, and simply using pieces made by other people isn't so fun (for me at least). Same here, I did have pride in some of my signatures, but yeah, they were like seasonally good. Senior year of high school? I take it you're a freshman now?
Oh, I see. Well, I wish I had some friends to do some quick and nice rendering for me haha. That way, I'll have some nice renders in store for me when or if I get back into making signatures. And yeah, I do agree that most of the renders are very nice on moe.imouto. That too, lol. Making signatures, for me, took some time, but in the end they all looked the same. Sure, I had those moments where some of my signatures looked way better than others, but eh. It wasn't consistent. Monotonic, indeed. Maybe when I get back into signature making, maybe my senior year of high school, I'll try to find my own style.
At least that's how it is for me, though I have some friends who seem to be very eager in rendering, and they do the job fast. Apparently, the tag is transparent_png (I think it was changed again recently). Almost all the renders there are very nicely done. In my case, I guess the becoming lazy part was because I got a little discouraged as well since I felt that I couldn't really improve. Same with you, I felt that my signatures were monotonic and getting boring over time, despite the many signature makers that kept surrounding me. I just couldn't seem to find my own style and way to do it :| Then I had connection and computer problems, and pretty much stopped using MSN since ~_~
Hmm.. Yeah, after hearing that, it really does sound you require a lot of patience. Something I don't have a lot of, too. Transparent tag on moe.imouto, huh? I'll check that out later, surely they'll have a number of renders to my liking. Yes, I may be wrong in saying this, but I believe it's talent that's gone to waste. It's only my opinion, though. I never really got taught to do anything and as a result, most of my signature looked similar too each other lol. And MSN is where I got to chat about GFX as well as the online game we met on. Indeed, this is sort of a pity.
I don't think it's exactly cool, lol. Yeah, I do, and it's not really hard, but it does require lots of patience and time, which I somewhat lack. Particularly when rendering pics with lots of hair strands or the likes that require extra attention. Hence why I often get too lazy to render on my own. I often surf through pics in moe.imouto when bored too, but if you search for "transparent" tag (I think that's it, since it was "extraction" before but got phased out), you'll get renders. Ah, I see, they indeed are very similar. I used to chat a lot about GFX stuff on MSN; got asked to give comments, and share my pieces to be commented on as well. I still remember how I used to be lectured a lot about my pieces and all. But yeah, since I don't use MSN anymore and am hardly interested in siggies anymore, so yeah~ It's kinda a pity if I think about it though.
Oh, you know how to render? That's pretty cool, or is it? I never really tried and I always thought it was a pain to do something like that. Oh, I've never thought of using moe.imouto for renders. I've always gone it to surf through pictures when I'm bored. Our situations are actually really similar, especially with the avatars. It's the same with my signature, as well. I've also loved gaining feedback, be it good or bad because they tell me how much I've improved, but now, eh.. It's nothing now. I don't even have contact with my old buddies back in some forum who made signatures so I can't have something flashy for this forum.
