ManiC through the ages

[[ManiC]]

These are a selection of some of the sigs/banners/GFX/etc. I've done down the line, from my first attempts to my most recent.












This is probably the stupidest character I've made...







































I've made many more in between, but for the majority I just used tinypic due to the lessened character space so have lost the links for those :(

[Delikado]

I'd totally support Oreo Man for Champ.

[Michael Callahan]

I know there's some missing from your portfolio, is that the time period of graphics you made between your Oreo Man and your Joker Sig? It seems like you go from making fairly crap, tacked together graphics into amazing looking banners in the space of one banner. As if like overnight you were just like "HUAHUA, I CAN MAKE GOOD GRAPHICS NOW! I HAVE DISCOVERED THE SECRET" and just became really good at it.

Everything from The Joker downwards is really impressive and good stuff. I definitely approve.

[[ManiC]]

Funnily enough, whilst looking over the thread I thought pretty much the same thing. If I recall correctly, I went to tinypic just after Oreo Man, then went back to Photobucket for Joker, then returned to Tinypic and only used Photobucket for .GIF files as I couldn't find a decent host that supported them at the time.

Any after Steve Storme are ones that I saved on a separate site and managed to recover after swapping laptops, I just recently uploaded them. I really wish I saved some of the tutorials I made so I could remember/find more of the styles I could do before though... :(

[The Soul Of Philly]

I love the first Tyler black one and the jimmy jacobs one that is 4th from the bottom. I have always loved that style but never got the hang of how to pull it off. The Cameron Wolves one is great too. I personally love when someone takes so many pictures and make them work. I've never been able to pull off more than 4 pics at one time without it looking like shit.

[Jason Cashe]

I LOVE the Steve Storme and Phillip Lynott, those are amazing man. Makes me want a new GFX.

[[ManiC]]

May 27, 2012 1:04:41 GMT -4 The Soul Of Philly said:

I love the first Tyler black one and the jimmy jacobs one that is 4th from the bottom. I have always loved that style but never got the hang of how to pull it off. The Cameron Wolves one is great too. I personally love when someone takes so many pictures and make them work. I've never been able to pull off more than 4 pics at one time without it looking like shit.

Learning Light Sources and making focal points helps so much with the simpler ones such as the Tyler Black and Jimmy Jacobs ones. After that, it's just messing around with filters 'til you find something you like (I pretty much used to go through every Photoshop filter until I found ones I could actually use :P).
Multi pictures depends entirely on blending, get that down and you can make some decent graphics using as many pics as you want.

May 27, 2012 3:30:21 GMT -4 Jason Cashe said:

I LOVE the Steve Storme and Phillip Lynott, those are amazing man. Makes me want a new GFX.

The Phillip Lynott one is my favourite GFX I've done, I've never been able to recapture it though. :'(

[Kevin Dahlia]

MAYBE I'm just conceited, but my favorites are my Josh Majesty & Cameron Wolves sigs. Aha. How did you add the scrolling text to the Phillip Lynott one? Is it the same operations as adding a GIF? But... how?! :s

[Jason Cashe]

That sucks, I wanted to pick your brain. Yes I would travel through the nose with my finger and pick up from there...

[[ManiC]]

Brett: Open the animation window. Post the entire text (In this case the lyrics to Rosin Dubh). Make two animation frames (One with the text above the GFX, one with it below). Then click the button with the four fading circles and fill in how many frames you want. After experimenting a bit you get the scrolling effect.

Kash: I wanna pick my brain too. Studying philosophy has messed it up something foul.

[Jason Cashe]

Well if you remember how to do the lyrics rolling thing, I'd like to either know in a dumbed down detail (I use GIMP) or maybe I could promise friendship and smiles to get you to hook me up? Not a Kash one but something I would detail to you in a PM. Let me know man, either way. Very good shit.

[[ManiC]]

I haven't got a clue how to use GIMP, if I'm honest I tried once and could barely manage to open a picture up.
I'd be happy enough to attempt one for you though.