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The competitors: Darkcrawler vs Aurora

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Deadline: 72 hours from the start of this thread

Render: http://planetrenders.net/renders/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=3

Any sort of text or colors are permitted, have fun with it.

Hmm. The render says "No Image to Display" to me.

Same here......

crap... hold on...

EDIT:
Here we go, uploaded to photobucket instead.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/artemis1860/cloud-render.png

Hummm I was able to see a render, but it was of Venom and Carnage instead of the one on photoshop. Oh well, good thing I didn't start on it already. LOL

rofl. ya, good thing. It is supposed to be of Cloud Strife from Kingdom Hearts. idk why the original link didn't work...

So here's my effort:

http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/4781/cloudsigani2gi.gif

Real nice....

Thanks.

DC's in a duel?!

He's real good too........

Originally posted by S.S
He's real good too........

Well, nur!

But it was like HS6....he refused to duel for a long time, and anyone with as much talent as either of them should be pwning left and right in this forum. Mostly I just like looking at pretty new sigs, so it's partly selfish too.

nice dc. But I'll withhold any further comments until aurora's is up.

Damn nice sig! I can't wait until my sigs finally get that big.

And no one told me you were this good before I signed on to this duel??? Great sig!

I've been busy today, so I am about to get started on mine now.

Originally posted by DarkCrawler
So here's my effort:

http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/4781/cloudsigani2gi.gif

jawdrop

My response exaclty.

The animation would look better if it were smoother, and if it didn't repeat so fast (as in if it got to the end, then there was no animation for a second or two, then it repeated), but pretty good

Originally posted by Lana
The animation would look better if it were smoother, and if it didn't repeat so fast (as in if it got to the end, then there was no animation for a second or two, then it repeated), but pretty good

Although the fast animation works because the sig is of Cloud. That sword is massive that he carries it but he weilds it so fast you'd think it was a katana, it kinda works.



But I honestly can't wait to see what Aurora comes up with.

I have to agree with DIV on this one, Lana. DC captured the character well, I must say.

DC, nice job bro. Now for what Aurora can come up with.

Thanks for the kind words.

I have been really busy, but I am putting the final touches on right now.

I tried animation in mine as well, but I think that it overshadowed the rest of the sig.

Entry:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/Aurora8387/cloud.jpg

My goodness...this would be hell to judge. Nice answer to DC Aurora.

Originally posted by Aurora
I tried animation in mine as well, but I think that it overshadowed the rest of the sig.

Entry:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/Aurora8387/cloud.jpg

What? No Trailer????

Originally posted by Aurora
I tried animation in mine as well, but I think that it overshadowed the rest of the sig.

Entry:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/Aurora8387/cloud.jpg

Niccceee...

Very different from mine...this is a good duel.

Originally posted by A.D. Skinner
What? No Trailer????

Originally posted by DarkCrawler
Niccceee...

Very different from mine...this is a good duel.

I agree, no matter the outcome, thanks for the duel. It made me step out of my box to create something different.



Originally posted by A.D. Skinner
What? No Trailer????

innocent

This is really hard to judge…. At the moment I don’t know myself…


Originally posted by Aurora
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/Aurora8387/cloud.jpg

Nice background, and you played with the render and made it all fit together beautifully. Every detail is very evident in the render. I like the little squares that you managed to put, very Advent Children-ish (movie that Cloud was in, if no one knows what I mean by that). I also like the little pic of cloud up in the corner.

However. Off to the right there seems to be a piece of the sword looming there in the corner of our vision, it was the first thing I noticed and just seems randomly put there. The text is very hard to read, I almost had to squint to see it. One last thing, pasteling this render of Cloud, a very strong man’s man wielding a gigantic sword, doesn’t quite work. A different tone of the colors may’ve worked better, because this just seems slightly off.

Originally posted by DarkCrawler
http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/4781/cloudsigani2gi.gif

Good font for the render and I like the background. The animation was also well done, even though Lana says it needs to be smoother, I disagree. The quickness of it works for the character if you know anything about Cloud, even if you didn’t, it still works. It makes it seem as if he can weild that sword with ease, or even that the sword has a life of its own. All in all an amazing sig.

Now for the Bad things. The render seems too dark, certain details are not quite as evident as they should be. For example, his one hand, that is a golden clawed-glove, but here it almost looks like his hand is bone, colored gold or something.





And so my decision…. DarkCrawler.

Great duel guys, it was very hard to judge, but I’m glad that you let me judge it. Great Job Guys!

It was a great match.

Really got my creative juices to flow.

I hoped it would, i purposely picked a render that I wasn't sure either of you would know quite what to do with, and so challenge you. lol

both of you rose to the challenge beautifully, and like I said, it was really hard to judge.

Thanks for the duel DC! It was good one! And Congrats!!

Thanks for judging DIV!

It was a great duel...