'KAY!
AFTER MANY TIME
Firstly, I want to tell the history of the sig, via images and some words!
First idea
Man, with a flamethrower. Pixel flaming.
Using this guy
Second idea
Came out of the "flamethrower" google search -- I found a lego flamethrower man, so, I was going to replace the man with a lego man.
Result
It was a somewhat good idea, imo, but there were too many spaces. I had many ideas, like having a pixel background, and increasing the flame -- increasing the flame had the problem that it would stretch the sig, right and up, creating more space. The background idea problem was that I hadn't a single idea for a background.
So I stopped goatman's sig dev, and made Laurie's (wow so much simple).
Then I found Goatman on IRC, and showed my project. He said that it was cool... but that he would prefer something with pinks and greens (I think he was referring to the pixel colors, grading from pink to green).
(INSTALLED WINDOWS 7 RC, FROM WINDOWS 7 BETA)
'KAY, then
Third idea
(line of thought) ->> Green -> Plants -> Awesome plants -> Carnivore plants -> Google ->
Result
Wanted to make pixels coming out of the..."mouth"
Then I realized it wouldn't be that good, as the mouth is really wide, and you don't see any actual hole from where the pixels would come.
Fourth idea
Take another carnivore plant, roll it sideways, and make pink pixels come out of the mouth.
So, it was all doing great, until... I wanted to gradually pixelate the image. I asked Izzy (that was the only imager available at the time) and he introduced me to the great wonder that is "Layer Mask". Okay, it's not thaaaaat great, but it was really, really useful to me. Anyway, he introduced me, but then he got away and I still didn't know what to do with it. I got tired and did nothing more in that day. Next day (yesterday, I think), I took it again, and understood how could layer masks would be useful to me to do what I want. So I took the image and did something. Now, I had pixels and a carnivore plant... but it didn't look thaaat cool. Next day, the ideas came, and I finally finished it, although...
FINAL PRODUCT
Codename:
CarbhixationCUBIGRa
I'm not sure if the pic itself is worth all that time.
The learning sure was.
If you want text, tell me, and I'll gladly make it into the sig (of course, nicely! :D)
]THANK IZZ'
