Adventure Game Studio

Creative Production => Critics' Lounge => Topic started by: Sean on Mon 15/01/2007 00:18:37

Title: WebBanner Like Thingy :)
Post by: Sean on Mon 15/01/2007 00:18:37
Hey Guys,

Was just trying a few new things out in photoshop...

Anybody got some C&C?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/Magic265/KZWIP.png)

The text is very sketchy, and I haven't had time to add a border... those problems I'm aware of...!
Title: Re: WebBanner Like Thingy :)
Post by: Mouth for war on Mon 15/01/2007 00:19:52
It looks really really good...very professional...I have no complaints :)
Title: Re: WebBanner Like Thingy :)
Post by: Andail on Mon 15/01/2007 00:51:50
You need to clarify what you have done here. Did you model the soldier? Did you draw the background?
Title: Re: WebBanner Like Thingy :)
Post by: hedgefield on Mon 15/01/2007 14:10:53
The soldier and the background art are from the game Killzone. That being clarified I think it looks pretty nice, I like the red tinting. Perhaps the Killzone font could be a little bit bigger.
Title: Re: WebBanner Like Thingy :)
Post by: Sean on Mon 15/01/2007 18:33:24
@ War - Thanks dude  ;D

@ Andail - Here's your clarification..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/Magic265/GIF.gif (2mb, start to finish .GIF)

@ Largo - Thanks for clearing up :) Yeh, the font could do with an enlargement!

I'll post up when I've got something more!
Title: Re: WebBanner Like Thingy :)
Post by: MrColossal on Mon 15/01/2007 19:28:54
there's a huge area of absolutely nothing in the upper left.

The killzone text is super tiny and red so it just disappears into the image and instead of being an advert for the game it's just a red image with a red soldier on it.

In my opinion it's also way too huge. 640x230 for a banner? Like for use as an advert for a website I guess it could work after a lot of work to actually show off more of the game  but if it's just a sig image, holy crap huge!
Title: Re: WebBanner Like Thingy :)
Post by: Ubel on Wed 17/01/2007 13:54:17
IF it's a signature banner, then I'd really prefer it like this:

(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7774/kzwippaintoverdt7.png)

Not only because of the size, but also now it doesn't look so empty. It looks cool though. Nice job! :)
Title: Re: WebBanner Like Thingy :)
Post by: Darth Mandarb on Sat 20/01/2007 15:04:54
Pablo's got the right idea ... there is nothing more annoying than a sig file that takes up a lot of room.

I have visited forums that don't restrict the sigs and you spend 90% of the time on a thread trying to sort out the actual posts from the cluttered/crap sig files.

Extremely annoying.
Title: Re: WebBanner Like Thingy :)
Post by: Sean on Sat 20/01/2007 15:56:15
Hey, I already knew that :P

I hate big "in your face" sigs, and stick to a pretty modest 400x80 for all of mine!

This doesn't serve any purpose, other than experimentation. That's why the dimensions are slightly off!

Also, It's good practice to make Sig Graphics larger than you need. That way, you can pick out super interesting parts of the image.. and fit them into your "sig border". That usually gives you a nifty image at the end of it!

Anyhoo, thanks for the comments guys!

I'll keep em in mind for the next one!