GFXL: TC2: Andrew vs. Lewbrication vs. John McHenry

[Andy]

John McHenry's Submission

Lewbrication's Submission

Andrew's Submission

Vote, list the positives and negatives if you wish to do so, and please, no flaming.​

 

[Chris]

I'm not voting since they all look amazing to me because I struggle with paint, but John McHenry's lights up :O. 3 of the best I've seen, great job guys.

 

[The New F'n Show]

Some great stuff but I'll go with Andrew.

 

[John McHenry]

I vote John McHenry?

Lewb
+ Loved that you used the Batman from the game and the classic font.
- The background overlay doesn't work for me isn't rocks were you going for the bat cave? Cause when it gets to Batmans head it starts to look like your outside and their's a huge building? It gets a little to bright on that side compared to the other for me.

Andrew
+ Love that in the flag you have a classic D.C. style building. The textured flag was a good choice too.
- Not sure if it's something you did or just the style of Cap but the main pic his shield looks too bluish. Not a fan of the Shadow Cap so close to the main one both facing the same direction dunno. Just too close for me.

 

[Defiant]

Good job to all 3 of you, probably everyone's best effort.

John McHenry - The most unique entry in this tourney so far. I think the composition is as good as you could do, and while I do like it overall there are three things I don't like: The canvas size is a bit akward, there's too much black empty space (its a bit too dark to notice the background design), and the text isn't very good looking. The light animation is interesting, but should've been bigger or at least faster.

Lewb - I think this a big improvement on your last entry, the size works perfectly and there is little wasted space. I find it hard to pinpoint exactly what isn't working, but this sig doesn't quite grab me in the same way. If you're going to do smaller sigs, try to avoid darker colours or heavy lighting because it leaves us with very little to look at.

Andrew - This is a solid effort. The render and text build a consistent theme, the background was an appropriate choice and the grunge/lighting combination makes for a great texture.

My vote goes to Andrew

 

[The_King]

John: The right side of the banner is great. The render flows well with the overall look. Love the background, and the light is a nice touch. Text is effective. My only gripe with it is that left render. Too bright, especially the chest area, and that interrupts the flow.
Lewb: Love the render and the logo/text. Not a fan of the background choice. The rocks/bricks (or whatever they are haha) are too dark compared to the blue, icy feel of the banner.
Andrew: Nice work. The effects on the background are minimal but appealing. The main render is awesome. I'd suggest lowering the opacity on the text, but it works as it is. Personally, not a fan of the second, smaller render, but it still works. I think this would be amazing if you shrunk it down and dumped that second render.

My vote goes to Andrew.

 

[John McHenry]

Good job to all 3 of you, probably everyone's best effort.

John McHenry - The most unique entry in this tourney so far. I think the composition is as good as you could do, and while I do like it overall there are three things I don't like: The canvas size is a bit akward, there's too much black empty space (its a bit too dark to notice the background design), and the text isn't very good looking. The light animation is interesting, but should've been bigger or at least faster.

I actually slowed down the center piece. I was originally just going to have it light up and stop but felt it would be to awkward when it started over. The text looked much better until I tranfered it from where I made it to this Graphic. I think Copy Merged is what I needed to do. Their was originally more of the golden outline. I do now wish I had made the center piece bigger, by the time I'd figured out how it all worked I was spent and I didn't save it correctly. I just gave up to early. Canvas size was an accident I'd been working on another project, oops. Turned out much better than the Jericho one though that's for sure and I'm slowly remembering things.

John: The right side of the banner is great. The render flows well with the overall look. Love the background, and the light is a nice touch. Text is effective. My only gripe with it is that left render. Too bright, especially the chest area, and that interrupts the flow.

I really wish I had found a different render or maybe switched it up one Movie one Comic graphic, maybe not. But yeah the light source on that render is too much. Do you recommend any free PSD sites.



I'm actually looking forward to the next round.

 

[Andrew]

I vote John McHenry?

Lewb
+ Loved that you used the Batman from the game and the classic font.
- The background overlay doesn't work for me isn't rocks were you going for the bat cave? Cause when it gets to Batmans head it starts to look like your outside and their's a huge building? It gets a little to bright on that side compared to the other for me.

Andrew
+ Love that in the flag you have a classic D.C. style building. The textured flag was a good choice too.
- Not sure if it's something you did or just the style of Cap but the main pic his shield looks too bluish. Not a fan of the Shadow Cap so close to the main one both facing the same direction dunno. Just too close for me.

I used a high pass on the main render so it would stand out a bit more, trying to experiment with a few things.

Thanks for the comments guys!

Must say both my opponents did extremely well with this.

 

[Edgeomatic]

lol, didnt notice John had an animated ark reactor in his sig.

Pretty Flashy. But the rest of the sig is pretty standard.

Lewb went with Batman and I'm a sucker for batman.

Andrew went patriotic on this one and it looks pretty sleek.



Buuuutttt It doesnt have Batman. So Lewb gets my vote.

 

[BDC]

AMAZING effort on all grapics, guys! I applaud you.

Going with John for the bit of blinking bling...sorry...shiney objects and all

 

[Chriss]

Going with Lewb in this one.

 

[Deuce]

John McHenry, that blinking effect is amazing and fits the sig perfectly.

 

[John McHenry]

This match is ridiculous close.

Andrew has 3

I've got 3 (counting Dejay or 2 not counting)

Lewb is at 2

 

[Lewb]

Just happy to be close to the mark me haha

 

[John McHenry]

I agree my Jericho sig was really awful. I'm proud of this one and glad that it's so close.