action man's new design

[action]

Ahh, just the man I was hoping to hear from. Thanks for the input.
It may be off topic, but I absolutely love your work. Those typography pieces you put in the spoiler were awesome. It's dissapointing I don't get to see your work more though... Your site is limited to what you put on a few months ago or so. You should get a sketch folder to put some misc stuff like that so I can drool at it.

But back on topic. I actually wasnt' sure about the first avatar. After looking at it for a while, I thought it was too boring. But I guess not you should check out the guys at Aisleone.net. That's where I got the inspiration for that avatar.

The christmas avatar I suppose was kind of scrambled. Just some random stuff put into it. The stuff in the background is actually called Bokeh - I'm sure you've heard it. It's the effect you get from unfocusing the lens on a camera ALOT and then looking at a string of lights or something. It's mildly over used ^^;

As for the larger piece, I actually did mess around with it for a bit after. Couldn't do anything with it I liked. I think I'm going to try something with the text, find a better font. I have four good fonts - Frutiger, Helvetica, Futura, and Avenir. :\ Not sure if you noticed, but I stole your pallette (almost) from the multividual grid. Love those colours. Also the 3d wraparound thing is a cool idea, but my skills are limited to the stock images on deviantart, the fonts I have, and the layer styles in photoshop. I've never actually done any hard stuff like that (the stuff with real things like taking a splash of water and liquefying it into a word, or like the paint from the first image of your second spoiler) I'll have to learn how.

My question to you is fonts. How? Do you make each individual letter as a svg file and then copy and paste them where you need them? Or do you actually have a software to make fonts with? I need to know. It'd be cool to use my own fonts (if I could even make good ones.)


Again thanks for your input.
Sorry for the essay of a message,
-action man

EDIT: Added three FIVE new things to the main post... Got really bored and just kept making stuff.
Think I'm getting better...

Spoiler: NEW STUFF

 

[Toams]

Fonts.

Well the most common way, (i guess) people build a font, is first designing it in illustrator. I don't know a lot of things about making fonts, although i will in a short while. I just finished designing a test font (see above). I'll attempt to make that into a 'real' font, in fontlab. Not sure how it'll work out, but we'll see.

Anyway, I make them in illustrator, and then, if i want to edit them, or make something cool with them, import them in to another program (3d modelling, or photoshop, or whatever). The stuff like water letters are all modelled in 3d programs, like cinema4D or 3DS max (and possibly (most definetly) using a plugin like realflow) OR made by using stock photos of water/paint, and edited (but that's a hassle).

also, i see that you've turned your size up a notch, and you're practising color use and composition. this is good, really good. But what'll get you somewhere is when you start practising different ways of blending graphics together. you can learn more about all photoshop tools through sites like psdtuts which, coincidentally, just did a tutorial on shiny typograpy:
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text- ... photoshop/

by the way, i like your new works, but the latest (green and red one) seems really jagged, although that might be the font. Did you turn off aliasing?

edit:
i made something really quick (in an hour or so)
i used cinema4d to render a composition of some of my characters (see previous post)
and blended it with some stock pictures

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1320443
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1272009
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1289343

added some typography too
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sky

Spoiler: sky

and, with some typography:

wallpaper sizes:
http://www.tomasknipscheer.nl/stuff/sky/SKYsans.jpg
http://www.tomasknipscheer.nl/stuff/sky/SKY.jpg

btw that 'stuff' directory is my sketch folder, there's just not a lot in it. ;D
http://www.tomasknipscheer.nl/stuff/sky/
here's the c4d file too, and the .tif i made out of it
;D

 

[action]

Oh, never really thought it was made in a 3D program.
I don't own any, but I do have Photoshop CS5 Extended, which has 3d features (although limited)

I have Illustrator, so that sounds like a good way to go with fonts... Just gotta figure out how to use vectors. These paths and anchors are chinese to me.

What do you mean about the green and red one's font being edgy? I can't see it... it is a free font though, so it might be that.

Also the sky thing is cool.
You seem to like to use definitions


But I'm trying to blend some images to make something atm.
We'll see how this works out

 

[action]

An idea for a font I've been sketching in my notebooks for a while...

 

[Toams]

man that v
it is
diagonal

i like the idea, but that v
that v

good start though

what program did you use?

 

[action]

Oh the v actually is just a filler because I couldn't come up with one. No worries.

I used illustrator to make this