CaptainFoamerang
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Another quick one:
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Proud to unveil the design I worked on this weekend:
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Quote:Thanks for the feedback.Originally Posted by Blood Spectre
The second image is perfect, I would change nothing. It's money in the bank, IMO.
The first, I think it's too busy. I'd pull two or three of the characters off of it.
I'm definitely going to shoot for more simplistic/stylized designs in the future, but I have one more complicated design in mind. It was actually the first one I started working on but I shelved it in favor of less time-consuming designs.
Working on a sure-fire seller right now, though, and the things I learned on the Respawn FTW design are helping me get through it much faster. -
Quote:So long as its a different design I think you can, but if you just do something like desaturate it or something then I don't think they'll go for it.Originally Posted by Blood_Wolffe
Can you do multiple submissions? If so I would submit as many varieties as possible. Something's bound to stick.
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Quote:I considered that, but I was thinking of doing them all together first and if they like it I can do individual ones, kind of like how DVDs may only have the theatrical release at first then they come out with extended versions to get more money out of you, only sort of in reverse.Originally Posted by Blood_Wolffe
For the respawn shirt, I would do the faces individually and try to sell each one to that site. I'm not a hardcore fan of all of those characters, but I am of some. I think having all of them on there would keep people who love one but not another from buying it.
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Also just whipped this up:
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Quote:Thanks for that! There's plugins for some of the advanced features that I can get from the Paint.NET forums, but I'll definitely check that out.Originally Posted by Mindscythe
On a different note, there is an open-source equivalent to Photoshop that you might want to look into. Check out gIMP: http://www.gimp.org/
It's 100% free, and it can do probably 90% of what Photoshop can do. I turn all my web design students on to it, and it works for them, at least for web design stuff, so hopefully it'll help you as well.
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Quote:Thanks!Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
First and foremost you and your family have my best wishes that everything works out for you.
I think your design looks cool but I share the concerns others have voiced. Best of luck with it.
I've already started working on a couple other designs that probably a lot safer in terms of usage territory. -
Well I would have to have money to buy comics to review 'em.
I've even considered selling off my TPB collection but I dunno if fellow geeks are looking to make such big purchases right now. -
Well if the usage thing is the biggest issue, I'm going to go ahead and submit it, and if there's a problem with that aspect, they'll just reject it and I can move on. I've got plenty of other ideas to design. I'm just eager to get this one in the bag.
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Well I used referenced shots for them but I obviously made some modifications to make them more stylized and I was thinking I would be okay since it's like parody. I've seen designs of popular characters on the designs from that site of like Stormtroopers and Optimus Prime and such.
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Not sure if anyone noticed, but I haven't been posting that much lately, and it's because I've been working on some projects that I'm hoping can earn me some money. I might be needing the money because my family is on the verge of losing our home. My father worked at the same construction company for over 20 years before he was laid off last year. We've all been scrambling to find work but so far nothing steady has come up. We're waiting to hear on our approval/denial for the mortgage modification program, and, fortunately, my father will be getting his unemployment benefits restored soon.
So, I was trying to come up with ways to earn some money to help the family or at least enough to buy a basic laptop that could use at a library for WiFi and at home to finish up my online degree program. Growing up, people told me I had a lot of artistic talent, but that side of me kind of shriveled up and died when my little sister was killed in auto accident about 6 years ago. I've been trying to reawaken that part of me in hopes I could sell some designs to SplitReason.com, because apparently they give you $350 if they like your design and I figured I'm plugged in enough to geek culture to come up with some good ideas.
One of the hurdles I came across was, uh, only having Paint to work with. Being unable to afford a laptop, I was naturally unable to purchase Photoshop. I managed to find a freeware image editor called Paint.NET, so I've been using that to experiment and get a feel for what it's going to take. Today I finished my first design and I'd like to get some feedback from the center of geek culture in my life.
I'm looking to submit it to the site sometime this weekend, so overall I'm asking a few questions of anyone who comments:- Is this a design you would wear on your shirt?
- Do you know of anywhere else that would give me more for the design?
- Are there any notable improvements I could make on the design?
Here it is in the size and file format required by the site, but I have a higher resolution version as well:
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UPDATE
The following indie items were updated in various sections:
- Common Grounds
- Ex Machina
- Fables
- Invicible
- Preacher
- Sandman
- The Walking Dead
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UPDATE
- All DC items already existing on list were updated
- All Marvel items already existing on list were updated
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Quote:You mean in the comics lately? I don't know. Haven't had the money for comics recently.Originally Posted by NiVra
Wait, then what do you think is going to happen when the Guardians are discovering what John Stewart has been trying to do...?
That's part of what doesn't make it work for me and why I've brought up the losses of other heroes. If Hal is all about willpower, then how is it that his will was broken after Coast City when other heroes endured? I mean, should the Guardians have chosen Tim Drake instead?Quote:In regards to the Hal retcon, heroes do have their breaking points and at that level there is a valid reason to believe they can be the most dangerous. Its also why i don't buy everyone's "get on Batman's back because of Brother Eye" thing. He has the right idea of thinking of contigency plans in case one of them shifts to the other side.
I like the premise that with increased power, there is increased temptation to abuse it, no matter to the intention. I believe the writing could have been better, but it wasn't too far-fetched a story. Like someone said before, this guy is all about willpower! If anyone had the will to go against his bosses,friends and foes over a desperate grab at sanity, he would. -
So's your face!
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Quote:Firstly, they aren't folks who decide who lives and who dies. Otherwise, they might have wanted their guys to live and the other guys to die during the Sinestro Corps War. For all their power, they aren't gods.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
And the Guardians, who also self-appointed themselves as arbiters of life and death? What are they known as?
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Quote:You don't prepare for certain things because you can't. Nobody is going to be able to tell you how you are going to react because they aren't you, but as a Green Lantern and superhero, the possibility of those tragedies always exist. It comes with the job.Originally Posted by Nemo_Utopian
er,you do not prepare for crap that a person could never reasonably be expected to deal with rationally,but if it happens you just do not go crazy?
If you get depressed or get hammered, fine. But tragedy doesn't give someone the right to inflict tragedy on others.
And that's why the Guardians determined him unfit for duty at the time. Or are we supposed to be okay with the unstable man remaking the universe as he sees fit?Quote:and in reality we have terms like psychotic break due to extreme emotional distress. -
Quote:What comes with the job as a Green Lantern is life and death on a galactic scale. You don't really prepare for it. You just don't flip out and try to set yourself up as god if you fail.Originally Posted by Nemo_Utopian
well again,my first statement was regarding the storyline of emerald twilight and not the storyline of zero hour.being lumped together in continuity does lump them together as a single story.
and i am sorry,but "he is a cop,he should know what comes with the job" is crap.what,like signing up for a job means you are prepared for any emotional catastrophe that could come with it?utter nonsense.if a cop had his family killed in front of him by a vengeful criminal,would you just tell him to suck it up?"hey.you should have known this sort of thing might happen"?how the hell do you prepare for losing your hometown and protectorate?
In comics, we have a term for those who use personal tragedy as justification to become arbiters of life and death. It's "villains."Quote:as for the "tons of heroes",even if true,so what?some fictional characters were written differently by different writers,who cares? -
Quote:There have been multiple occasions when the Waynes were brought back or the possibility came up, and it always ends up showing the world being a better place for their deaths, because it would be worse without Batman.Originally Posted by Starsman
I said if HE was able to do it. We know he would not let, specially a villain, do it.
Not really, because there's the question of where to stop. Who gets to say whose tragedy is more deserving of rectifying? And what gives that person more of a right than anyone else to say so?Quote:How did he die? Makes a world of difference. -
Quote:Welp, just off the top of my head, he could have let Ra's al Ghul resurrect them in the Tower of Babel arc, but he didn't, probably because he knew he'd be doing a further disservice to their memory by compromising himself.Originally Posted by Starsman
Now, notice that the only reason he is doing this is not to go conquer the world, it's just to resurrect the city with the power he knows he can have but is not allowed to use. You can be sure, if Batman thought he had the power to resurrect his parents and make that gun not fire in the past, he would stop at nothing to do it. Hal thought he could make them exists again even if only an illusion.
Superman's dad just died. You don't see him trying to set himself up as god and damn everyone else.Quote:Oh and contrary to your previous statement, among the dead was his own father.
Hal never got much chance to be much of a villain because after this he was jumped by every hero that found about what he did. Had the guardians left him just use the power and be alone in solitude on a faked up Coast City, its very likely he would ha come to his senses after a while.
Again, you compare him to other heroes that have lost more, but few had the power to do anything about it or simply never grew any real attachment to their loss (superman, growing in earth, identifies more with Humans than with Kryptonians.) -
Quote:Considering the success of Rebirth, the Sinestro Corps War, and Blackest Night, it actually does lead to profit!Originally Posted by Starsman
If you dislike the slightest trait of a storyline, it's easy to simplify it in a very absurd way. Like this:
- Resurrect dead hero!
- Give everyone multi-color rings!
- Create the Multi-Color-Ring Rangers!!!
- Taste The rainbow, sell skittles, and profit!
But yeah, it's ok to admit that past stories were silly or poorly conceived and let the new generation of writers give their take on it. That's part of the industry. And if someone wants to try to do the same with Johns' work in a couple decades they can. I don't really give a **** so long as it's well-written, and so far Johns and Gibbons and Tomasi haven't disappointed me with their work on the Green Lantern books. -
There's still that step between Coast City getting destroyed and Hal supposedly creating a perfect new universe where he has to destroy everything.
Hal was a cop that was supposed to know what came with the job. Only instead of redoubling his efforts to make sure the tragedy doesn't happen to anyone else, he sets out to make sure it happens to everyone else.
Going back to what I said earlier in the thread, there are tons of heroes who have lost far more and reacted far less rashly. -
Quote:So, it didn't go:Originally Posted by Nemo_Utopian
yes,then again that was not the story in emerald twilight
1. Coast City is destroyed
2. Go crazy
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I shall write a counter magic event for DC in which Zatanna and Wonder Woman make out for six issues.