January 1, 2014 - "Resolve"
Est. completion time: 55 minutes
Woo, first sig of the year~ If you noticed I'm making a lot of signatures lately, I am. I've been on the road with a little too much time on my hands, so I decided to brush up on my GIMP skills again. I haven't done a 'clashing' color scheme in a while, and I decided to give it a go. I also decided to give the C4Ds a rest, and decided to go 100% fractal light effects on this one, and I think it turned out really nice. Lighting still needs a bit of work, and I feel like I'm missing something important, but I'll get back to that later. Also need to work on keeping the render a bit more recognizable (I bet you can't even tell who that is without looking closely) across all of my signatures lately. But, the text in this one is definitely one of my favorite text effects; I had a little fractal smudge in just the right area and a little experimenting for a nice, subtle effect. But, I just can't find to seem a good render of her to work with; this one was alright, but the lighting was annoying to work with from the get go. Overall though, lighting aside, I like this image. Enjoy, or don't.
...And, the original image for those who were curious: