votes are very scattered, and are leaving me wondering why some certain people are getting votes. I thought that SOTW was about showing skill and making something look good... o well, maybe im just in a bad mood...
how about.... halloween!
XboxScene tribute sounds like a good idea
how about a tribute to your favorite band?
how about a x-s tribute, wait for it...
without being able to use the X-S guy!
i really hope we don't do a X-S tribute, i think that we will have a lot of entries looking alike. i want to do a band tribute
Music tribute, that's a good one.
i dont think an XS tribute would be good because, as we have noticed from past sotw, (or atleast i have) constrictive topics like one render dont turn out very well. more broad topics like tech, abstract and freestyle seem to have better, more diverse entries. i looked at the sigs that cowbell has been making, and got the idea of media players. we should make a media player(still fallow the rules, 450x125 and no animation).
i don't want to do a media player thing, i don't like effectica stuff, mostly because im bad at it and have no desire to practice. I vote for music tribute.
Media Player SotW is not really a good idea because there are really only three people here that know how to make a good one. I'd rather keep XS Signature of the Week contests easy and user friendly.
lol who would those three be? i think we can start reusing themes by now right? abstract makes good sigs.
Some SotW themes have more replay values than others. I think we should do the music theme this week and revive an old theme next week.
music is fine with me.
I still think everyone should make their sigs in the paint program this week..

Just so you guys know this was more than a copy and paste job:
Original:


...I always heard bleed since isnt his lip bleed or something when he does say that?
QUOTE(Himura @ Feb 1 2006, 11:55 PM)

...I always heard bleed since isnt his lip bleed or something when he does say that?
You're correct. He says it on the porch before he calls Michelle (sp?) after he is grabbed by whatshername after he touches her and is slammed against the wall of her porch.
He then procedes to wipe his lip on his arm, look at it, and say, "Nobody makes me bleed my own blood!"
sotw 16 is sport well... would u qualify pimping as a sport
No, would you consider texas hold'em a sport?
Even if its on ESPN?
Hmmm, could "pimping" be a sport... You'd need competition to make it a sport... Hmm...
QUOTE(n00bFRAGGER @ Feb 2 2006, 10:48 PM)

Hmmm, could "pimping" be a sport... You'd need competition to make it a sport... Hmm...
Well, regardless, it ain't easy for most people (it is for some, ie. me).
QUOTE(CattyKid @ Feb 2 2006, 10:32 PM)

Well, regardless, it ain't easy for most people (it is for some, ie. me).
thats funny look what i just fineshed incase you cant read the bottom right text it says Yeah Im That Good.

Not pertaining to the SOTW perse, but I'm liking brokenglass's new sig.
oh, ok metal, i wasn't sure, if you were talking about me or not 
but yeah, sorry for posting in that thread, i just felt it was relevant to earlier posts...
thx for the vote
That's very interesting, Hazanko.....It is pretty cool. I like it! Is this done with "Flash"?
--w2kj
no, i did it PS, although i have gotten quite good with flash over the last few days
Nice work, buuuuuuuuut it is sliiiiightly over XS size restrictions... I don't think you'll have to worry though, it's only 46KB
And the poll thing, I don't think there will be a poll. It's too easy for people to send out requests for votes on other websites and then have the people just register vote, and then never see XS again. It's all about security.
i suppose, and yeah, about the sig size... i don't think it's much of a problem, but then again i'm on a 1280x1024 res, so i don't know exactly how it would turn out on a 800x600... either way, if it becomes too much of a problem, and clutters the space, i'll get rid of it.
and about the poll, i suppose you are right, that could happen... it's alright how it is now, i was just trying to help, i suppose i didn't spend too much thinking about it tho
QUOTE(Hazanko @ Feb 5 2006, 02:16 PM)

i suppose, and yeah, about the sig size... i don't think it's much of a problem, but then again i'm on a 1280x1024 res, so i don't know exactly how it would turn out on a 800x600... either way, if it becomes too much of a problem, and clutters the space, i'll get rid of it.
and about the poll, i suppose you are right, that could happen... it's alright how it is now, i was just trying to help, i suppose i didn't spend too much thinking about it tho

I just witched to 800*600, and it's pretty big. You might want to give it a quick check yourself and make a judgement call. Or ask Awal.
I don't know how you guys can use those resolutions. I HATE anything other than 1024*768. And I mean HATE. Maybe it's becasue I grew up with it, IDK. I would never use anything else, though.
i will await confirmation from the big guy...
i dunno, i used to use 1024x768, but ever since i got my new vid card, i use nothing but 1280x1024
ok, well, enought talk about my sig
this is the sotw convo thread, i apolagize for the irrelevant posts everybody
ok, thx. in that case...
no, just kidding 
well, i suppose i'm done for the day... i've had enough computer
QUOTE(CattyKid @ Feb 5 2006, 01:31 PM)

I just witched to 800*600, and it's pretty big. You might want to give it a quick check yourself and make a judgement call. Or ask Awal.
I don't know how you guys can use those resolutions. I HATE anything other than 1024*768. And I mean HATE. Maybe it's becasue I grew up with it, IDK. I would never use anything else, though.
I know what you mean, anything but 1024*768 pisses me off, anything higher is hard to read and anything smaller is way to big.
QUOTE(awal @ Feb 8 2006, 08:06 PM)

Ideas for next SOTW?
paintball?
what about random inanimate objects? ie a chair or desk
lol just throwing out ideas
Another freestyle?
QUOTE(soupy_31 @ Feb 8 2006, 09:36 PM)

Another freestyle?
sounds good to me
Videogame consoles i.e. Atari, 360, PSP, Neo Geo, etc..?
Animals
ASCII sigs. (text that forms an Image, or remaking the effect that looks like text making an image)
Have we done a food one yet?
Just some ideas
QUOTE(xbox_newbie @ Feb 9 2006, 02:39 AM)

what about random inanimate objects? ie a chair or desk
lol just throwing out ideas

QUOTE(Modderxtrordanare @ Feb 9 2006, 04:02 AM)

Videogame consoles i.e. Atari, 360, PSP, Neo Geo, etc..?
Animals
ASCII sigs. (text that forms an Image, or remaking the effect that looks like text making an image)
Have we done a food one yet?
Just some ideas
either inanimate objects or ASCII sounds good.
QUOTE(h34d5h0tz @ Feb 8 2006, 10:22 PM)

either inanimate objects or ASCII sounds good.
I REALLY like that too.
Can we use online generators for this stuff, or must it be done manually (if it is chosen). Manual would NOT be easy. It would kind of be honor system, though.
You would make your sig, then use some effects to make it seem as though a set of words appears dark where the shadows are, etc.
I saw a tut on how to do it with an image, and in B/w. Challenge would be to make it in color which would be hard, not some 2 minute job, and then to make it look good.
I thought it was a good idea.
Edit: i found the tutorial andhere it is.
cool tutorial
. We just need to decide if we will allow that and if we will have enough participants.
Assuming we use the ASCII art them.
what about fictional charecters ie peter pan robin hood ninja turtles idk just an idea cause my neighbor is like 6 and all he says is power rangers so that got me thinking lets do somthing new in the gfx area but i probaly cant enter my self im grounded for 2 weeks so ill try to sneak on and get something up
QUOTE(beastiekid @ Feb 10 2006, 08:04 AM)

....i probaly cant enter my self im grounded for 2 weeks so ill try to sneak on and get something up
...if you're grounded.....why are you on the computer?
I'm tellin' mom....."Mo-o-o-mmm! He's one the computer again!!"
--w2kj
SNAP!!!
there you go again w2kj, taking all the fun out of everything...
jk
lol, even though we just did sports, how bout the Olympic Games, since it is going on right now?
Edit: More specifically, Winter Olympics.
QUOTE(metaldevil @ Feb 17 2006, 05:39 AM)

How about you guys try an art theme? Choose a painting from one of the great masters (Caravaggio, David, Gentileschi, Michelangelo, etc.)
What about Hitler and Churchill? You said "Great Masters," but didn't say what they were masters OF!
other countries red
Awal, since it's art, do you have any objection to nudity or violence?
Here are some sample masterpieces:
Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii:

Rafael's School of Athens:

Peter Paul Rubens' The Elevation of the Cross:

Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait:

Edit: Here's a quick sig example I made using the School of Athens:
i would have to say that's the most promising idea yet... what i think tho, is that we should start doin G.O.T.W. additionally/instead of S.O.T.W.
QUOTE(metaldevil @ Feb 17 2006, 11:57 AM)

I see you're afflicted with short-term memory loss. I said painting. What did Churchill or Hitler ever paint?
Click here for Hitler's Art.
He wasn't that bad, in my mind. I like watercolors.
Article on Winston Churchill's Art
If you want me to find some of his works, I'll look but I'm short on time.
Great Masters of war, dabblers in art.
^ No problem. I'll keep it tasteful.
QUOTE(CattyKid @ Feb 17 2006, 05:36 PM)

Great Masters of war...
...but not painting like I said. 
Can we do modern art? like pop art etc?
QUOTE(h34d5h0tz @ Feb 18 2006, 09:09 PM)

metal, can you post the source picture that you used. i looked for it on google and there was a wide range of quality.
Sweeet!
you don't mind if i use one of your sample pictures do you metal?
whens voting going down?
also could we get the discussion thread pinned?
voting starts friday i think. this thread would be nice pinned.
Done
Excellent, thank you Awal.
so i guess im running 18, let me know how this works
and lets get some ideas coming
I was thinking that it could be no theme, and everyone could do whatever they wanted.
What do you guys think?
sick idea, either that or half life
i love that idea a no theme kindy theme
yeah lets start this thing quick, i was kicked out of the last one so i havent had one in a while
ne theme sounds good.
QUOTE(awal @ Mar 1 2006, 05:16 PM)

I was thinking that it could be no theme, and everyone could do whatever they wanted.
What do you guys think?
I'm straight with that.
Even animation?
QUOTE(awal @ Mar 1 2006, 04:16 PM)

I was thinking that it could be no theme, and everyone could do whatever they wanted.
What do you guys think?
Kinda like a Seinfeld episode?.....a theme about nothing.
QUOTE(w2kj @ Mar 2 2006, 12:04 PM)

Kinda like a Seinfeld episode?.....a theme about nothing.

Could we have people reading, in the sig?
QUOTE
GEORGE: Yeah, but nothing happens on the show. You see, it's just like life. You know, you eat, you go shopping, you read.. You eat, you read, You go shopping.
RUSSELL: You read? You read on the show?
JERRY: Well, I don't know about the reading.. We didn't discuss the reading.
RUSSELL: All right, tell me, tell me about the stories. What kind of stories?
GEORGE: Oh, no. No stories.
RUSSELL: No stories? So, what is it?
GEORGE: (Showing an example) What'd you do today?
RUSSELL: I got up and came to work.
GEORGE: There's a show. That's a show.
RUSSELL: (Confused) How is that a show?
JERRY: Well, uh, maybe something happens on the way to work.
GEORGE: No, no, no. Nothing happens.
JERRY: Well, something happens.
RUSSELL: Well, why am I watching it?
GEORGE: Because it's on TV.
RUSSELL: (Threatening) Not yet.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!!!
i'm sorry guys... i forgot about sotw17, i didn't take the duty :'( sorry....
i've been quite busy lately with stuff...
hopefully you made it without me
hey, i was wondering if we are able to use flash for the SOTWs... if not that's fine, just asking.
otherwise i'll just enter a normal jpg for the contest.
alrighty
Besides, there is no way to post flash besides linking it.
(Mind of Mencia joke)
hey i also said no dinner
sorry awal 
so about that sotw...
nice theme
the reason y i dont make them or that im not.. is b.c i dont like them.. im not interested in them.
yes i made the grunge brushes.. yes i cut the picture out.
i dont care wut u say.. lets stopp fighting b/c we dont deserve to fight.
lets just drop this and get on with the SOTW..
(..in other words of making the tech.. i cant.. b/c ive never tried)
im sorry for all this awal and im sorry that i got in this argument with u haz
yeah ok.. you're right dude, we shouldn't be fighting.. but that'd be killer if you could send me that nice grunge pack, i'd like to try some of those brushes out
QUOTE
lets stopp fighting b/c we dont deserve to fight.
lets just drop this and get on with the SOTW..
(..in other words of making the tech.. i cant.. b/c ive never tried)
im sorry for all this awal and im sorry that i got in this argument with u haz
QUOTE
you're right dude, we shouldn't be fighting..
Who wants dessert?
ME!
I demand pie and booze.
Just posted my first X-S SOTW sig, huray! I'm really proud of this one but as always would like some advice, criticism, or maybe a compliment
.
Well you did it in paint, so I can understand why it's not really with the "theme"
But yea. Thats what I noticed first, then I realized you use paint(.net)
[/quote]Grayscale, with one color
your entry's valid jake. Modderxtroma's just grumpy when he doesn't get his pie.
*get's out a pie fork*
haz, dragon i'm glad were all a happy family again.
yay!!
Family yes, Happy we are not Wahoo says.
go mow the lawn Poo

Done.
QUOTE(Modderxtroma @ Jun 19 2006, 02:24 PM)

No, I get grumpy when you refer to me as that guy. That's not my name.
i was just being a jerk. I know what you went through with that.
must have been aggravating and i can understand how you would get upset when people call you that.
just jokes.
Yea, h5 you got two colours in there. b/w+1
ocelot you've got like three maybe four colours in there. red car, yellow blinker, blue reflection of the sky on the front bumper and on the rims.
yea maybe next time we can do a partial desat contest, as it seems thats what most people are doing instead and by most i mean 2/3
ill get mine in soon enough
is anyone else going to enter? come on people, i hope your all just waiting till the last min. to post them or something.
hmm. didnt notice that i did i sloppy job of getting the eyes to be blue. on my monitor that i used when i did that sig, it wasnt colored; it was just black.
hmm...colors on my sig were a little duller in the psd version...ah well
QUOTE(Areohbe @ Jun 26 2006, 07:33 AM)

did ModderX change his pic to a orangish girl...I think I go to college with her (Jessica?)
And errr...are you talking about Briana Banks...?
DUR da DURRR!
QUOTE(metaldevil @ Jun 26 2006, 03:28 PM)

I agree with Mx. This "ModderXtroma" bullshit has surpassed stupidity now. It wasn't even funny in the beginning. Anyone using "ModderXtroma" to refer to Modderxtrordanare is just posting flamebait. We don't need a war in this little corner of x-s.
guess no ones diggin the duke
did i start that?
For the next sotw how about something with soft tones and kinda beach surfer style stuff... umm... I dont really know how to explain it so i'll post some pics:


this is what gave me the idea
I cant find any good pics right now but if anyone knows what im talking about and can describe it better than me or maybe someone has some pics. idk im tired
*sniffle*
my modem got fried and i couldnt enter in the sotw
^^ that sucks.
and about SOTW 22: Thanks for your votes guys! i though i had lost my touch after the last sotw.
*confidence rises*
I hope i don't get cocky, again.
^ ya but i'll post it after a winner has been named.
mmm, i would like to see it now if its not too much trouble.
^^no dice.
oo, you just got served
must be a really big deal then. ten bucks says just cropped an image.
do you remember the lostboyz fiasco?

SOTW is about the best looking sig. Nothing else.
I have the pics so just be patient. I'll post them thursday after a winner has been named.
sweet i have a fiasco named after me
i respect the want to wait, but had anyone asked i wouldve posted mine right away, not that big of deal
QUOTE
SOTW is about the best looking sig. Nothing else.
you are exactly right. and that is why i stopped trying in my sotw entries. i dont like the idea of myself spending 1-2 hours working on a sig with 100 layers, and having a 2 minute, crop and slap a text on sig win. around sotw 7, to be exact.
but thats just me...
what works works, im not going to bring this up again, but just move to a larger scale. no 450x140 pixel piece is ever really going to be worth 2 hours IMO. But for each his own
hah, alright 2 hours is an exaggeration but these type of sigs take really long:

im not going to make an even bigger deal out of this anymore, its how the voting goes, and you cant change it; exept maybe getting new voters...
QUOTE(juanman @ Jun 28 2006, 03:36 AM)

oo, you just got served
and btw juanman, shut the fuck up
Tech sigs on avereage take me about 2 or 3 days, but then againt im a SLOW worker.
hence pyretica taking so long.
come down man, no need to get your panties in a bunch. cant take a joke?
i didnt know joking around on the forums is taboo now...
does it look like im laughing?
So wheres soupy when you need him, I wan't my pie.
no, it doesnt look like your laughing, you look like you need to learn how to take a joke and not be such a bitch about it. i wasnt trying to piss you off, i was just joking.
hey....does anyone else remember a time when we all used to get along at the GFX forums?
I demand pie.
what kind of pie? lemon? lime? cherry? apple? or my personally favorite, chocolate pudding?
You skipped pumpking...
as promised...


The tv was straight forward but i had to extend the rightside of the orange dude pic so i could resize it in a 450x140 ratio.
I only had sunday to work on it, and the idea came to me really quickly so it really wasn't much work at all.
If your curious, my succubus sig from SOTW 19 took the longest to do. Second to SOTW 18 (bike with dust spelling iffy). SOTW 21 (tech sig) - i had absolutly no idea what to do. I just through some crap together just so i could enter.
My skill is currently limited, so if i don't get inspiration for a great idea, my work suffers.
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MX here's your pie.
pumpkin pie sucks...
chocolate is wheres it at, im telling you.
well that and mixed berry pie (raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries, yay!)
see.. it's not just a crop.. he did a little PM also..
but yeah guys.. this gfx forum used to be crazy fun.. now people get pissed over the smallest things(yeah ino.. i've done it too)... i think.. we should start from scratch... and we can all get to know eachother again, no assumptions, no hate, nothin'...
and as for some of the better gfx guys on here picking on the people who have just started.. that's just plain mean... becuase i've seen alot of instances, where some of the newer members here get thier work picked apart be people who are clearly better then them.. let's HELP newcomes, and not make them feel like they'll never get better...
and yes.. i was there once too.. who wants to see my first sig??!??!?!?

yep.. time to make fun of haz now
YES.. that is a crop, and a mix of 2 images! M$ paint.. proud of it!
QUOTE(juanman @ Jun 28 2006, 06:43 PM)

pumpkin pie sucks...
chocolate is wheres it at, im telling you.
well that and mixed berry pie (raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries, yay!)
watch your damn mouth, hail to thee pumpkin pie
no
hail away from thee pumpkin pie
DOWN WITH THE PUMPKIN PIE!
I dont like pie
(long live strawberry shortcake)
@HAZ: Ha, it's good to know I'm not the only person who started out using M$ Paint
QUOTE(h34d5h0tz @ Jun 28 2006, 05:21 PM)

does it look like im laughing?
i seriosuly doubt it..
seriously dude... everything's FINE.. no need for any of this..
wow haz, that sig, is um, special...
is that the spray can i see being used?
QUOTE(awal @ Jun 29 2006, 03:39 AM)

what happened to this thread?

constructive criticism/ constructive insults?
trust me, it is for the good of graphics
cheers for the x-s graphic team and the graphic subforum
hip hip hoorah!
Aren't we all happier once we got pie?
yes yes, too bad the pumpkin pie was crap...you still arent getting the chocolate message huh?
I'm so happy I got bored and stumbled upon this sub-forum. I don't think I would have ever started getting into graphics if I hadnt. You guys rock, sure ya'll fight every now and then, but then again who doesnt?
This is gay, were fighting over pictures made with backed up versions of a 600$ program, get over it guys
art isn't judged on skill, its judged on creativity.
so calm the hell down and make some ART, dont bitch about some stupid SOTW.
[/rant]
its all good. i dont even care anymore. you guys have fun with your sotw, i might decide to enter if there is a theme that im really feelin.
QUOTE(h34d5h0tz @ Jun 29 2006, 01:29 AM)

its all good. i dont even care anymore. you guys have fun with your sotw, i might decide to enter if there is a theme that im really feelin.
word
and just FYI i payed for my photoshop
QUOTE(llwahooll @ Jun 29 2006, 02:12 AM)

This is gay, were fighting over pictures made with backed up versions of a 600$ program, get over it
don't know about you man.. but i paid for mine..
It's too bad it had to end like this
If SOTW is going to continue, we need a better way.