Some stuff I've done in the past (most of these are quite old) for various different people in various different games. Hope you enjoy.

*EDIT* These are a collection of some of my favorite images (that are appropriate for this forum). Most I added here not for the artistic quality but because they are special to me because they marked a point where I first tried something or learned something while I was making the signature. So even though the final product is not "amazing" to some, they are important to me when I think about the progress I've made in design. I've now added captions to each image to show why I've added the image to this collection...

*EDIT #2* I've had to remove some images from this post due to the extreme loading time. I've moved my recent work to page #2...
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Aaedias - Learned a 3 layer border that I've used many times since.


Bludysky - First time I used an animated lightning strike. I used this type of effect in many images afterwards.


Claus - One of my first signature images. First image where I used a "ghost" effect with the text. Also began to play with rasterizing text layers and manipulating them.


Garet - The flash effect in this image is what later led me to the lightning strike effect that I'd later use.


Jester - First time I was able to really successfully able to make the text appear to be between the character and the *original* background.


Jexibella - First true textured signature that I used as a final draft.


Kimer - First Poser model I created specifically for a friend's character (wood elf - druid)


Origin - Mainly included this image because of the difficulty in smoothing the features of the character on the left (which started out at 50px x 50px) after resizing it so much larger.


Predator - First hand drawn animation effect (blood, not the light).


Rowen - Learned both snow, and rain effects while creating this image.


Scaliwag - First image I used a fade effect in.


Slayer1 - First image I used a dripping blood animation.


Snakebyte8 - First time I ever used a "drawing/writing" animation.


Sorny - Learned how to hand draw hair to match original image.


Syldra - Another very early sig. Learned a great deal about glow effects from creating this sig.


Thog - First time I did multiple drips. Would later use this for tears, water effects, and of course, more blood!


Uchiha - Combined fades and movement for the first time.


Ulquiorra - Animated glow effect for first time,

Not bad. I like most of them. What game did you did that for?

Looks very cool.
Can you make some sigs without blood?

Thanks.

The Triune and Synergy sigs were from Everquest. The others came from a variety of other browser games mostly.

Looks very cool.
Can you make some sigs without blood?

Lol, actually, funny enough, almost all the sigs with blood in them all were requested during a 2 month period of time while I was playing a browser RPG game that had a pretty big community of players that all wanted sigs but a very small group of people that could/would make them. Once I made one with blood, all of the sudden everyone and their mother wanted something "bloody."

(...)

Lol, actually, funny enough, almost all the sigs with blood in them all were requested during a 2 month period of time while I was playing a browser RPG game that had a pretty big community of players that all wanted sigs but a very small group of people that could/would make them. Once I made one with blood, all of the sudden everyone and their mother wanted something "bloody."

also, bloody is a gooood thing in my opinion (heck, I even made a clan about blood xD)

but I very much love these works :3 They fit my style haha

Thanks Kabuto!

Love the title. LoL

I thought this was some kind of retribution...
I like most of the works.
9/10
Although good, I feel they are somewhat plain. xD A case of stock blending with render perhaps. x.x
Or.. could be that you really know what you are doing. Good job! ^^

Edit: Oh and, what did you use to animate the sigs?

A fair number of them are quite plain. These range over a number of years and are arranged alphabetically rather than chronologically. So yeah there are a fair number that are just blending some base/stock img and adding a few effects. Thats how I learned ;)

There are also a few where I created the models myself in Poser (such as my current sig) and used them instead of any stock models. On the other hand there are a number of images in there where there was a great deal of manipulation involved. With Sorney's sig for example, the hair was actually hand drawn in over the top of the model image (who is actually wearing a hooded robe). With Predator's sig, I was actually practicing free handing animation effects (the blood, not the light).

This is basically just a collection of some of my favorite signatures that I've created over the years. Some are my favs because I think they turned out really well, others made it into the list because its where I tried/learned something new while creating it. Maybe I'll go through and add in little captions as to why I added each sig...

Oh, and as for the animations. A fair number of them are actually done with just Photoshop. Although I'm fairly sure a few of those may have been done in AfterEffects. I played around with some stuff with Premier but I've yet to share any of those aborted projects.

I gotta warn you though, don't double post. There is an edit button next to your post. Use that if you feel you have left out something. You double-posted twice.

On topic: You can really do a better job with some of those sigs where you have used borders.

Edit: I gave a 9 because some of them are really fine. Like the one with that long white haired character.

Cool, thanks for the heads up... can't find a delete button though. Haha.

Borders are my least favorite thing to do. Although sometimes I do come up with something I like, most of the time I just end up tossing some random thing into the image at the end to serve as some sort of border.

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Also, I should mention that at least half of these were commissioned for in-game currency of some sort or another, and so were actually designed to the specs I was given. (Thog's for example I had not a great deal of creative control over and went through about 5 different drafts, while Slayer1's had a lot more room for play)

You say you hate bordering, yet most of your work contains some form of it.
I personally dislike using 3D renders in my sigs. In my opinion, it ruins any work like this.

You say you hate bordering, yet most of your work contains some form of it.
I personally dislike using 3D renders in my sigs. In my opinion, it ruins any work like this.

You are quite right, I do generally end up using some sort of border one way or another, and most of these sigs were designed for a black background forum which changes the look of quite a few of the images and borders. I'm really trying to get out of the habbit of putting borders into my images just to have one, but its a hard habbit to break.

As for 3d renders... Personally, I think 3D renders have their place if done well (not that I personally do them well, but it can be done). They can also look really tacky if done badly. I intentionally didn't post sigs that I made out of screen shots from inside any games for just that reason.

That being said, I personally feel that 2D anime/cartoon'ish cutouts are over used too often and can begin to feel a bit too "flat." But again, a lot of that is just personal taste.

I hear you. On a forum who's theme is black, I guess your sigs might look cool.