I attempted using c4d's for the first time and i believe i got utter fail here.I've looked at a few different tut's and they are confusing to me. I'm really wanting to greatly improve my skills here guys, so I want the best CnC you got. And here is another sig that i also made, i was wondering if you could give me CnC on it too, along with the two other ones in my other thread that i made. Please and Thank you!
I'm not that good at giving critique/advice (it's been a while since I have) but I'll try my best. You did okay for your first time using a C4D render. I suggest that next time you use a C4D render in a sig, make sure it fits in with the rest of the colour scheme (or somehow change the hue of it to match) because the green looks out of place. The renders you used stand out a bit too much for my liking as well, try blending them into the sig a little more next time with some smudging or overlay it with some brushes so they don't stand out as much. Another thing I noticed in both tags is that the text placement is off as well, it's not always a good idea to put the text into the corners of a tag because it usually distracts people from the focal point.
The first thing you should learn about using c4d's is how to blend them into your normal work. Don't look at any fancy c4d tutorials first. Use them for minor lighting effects or for little details(Like in the bg of the first tag, the metallic c4d in the back was a good choice). But before you do that, just try to work on your overall design. The text in these look to have very little thought put into them. They look like an after thought thing to me(text is hard and the only way to improve is to fail over and over. Even I am still horribad at typography). Blending is also fairly important. It helps your stock look like it's meant to be in your tag. Now blending does not mean to cover it up with effects, it's much more than that. Your stocks are not blended at all(The second is more blended because of the color choice, the first is not at all). See, Altair sticks out way too much. He is in a very dark environment, yet he's very bright, and pretty much on top of everything you have going on. He is essentially the whole foreground which makes for a very unbalanced tag. The last thing i'll talk about is your stock quality. In both tags, the cuts are bad. The first has a silhouette around it which wouldn't be so bad if the tag was designed differently. Here, though, it doesn't look to hot. The second has a very bad cut, and the quality is very blurry. Having a good cut as well as a HQ stock is important for a good tag (just as important as having the pr0 h0t signezzz of c4d spam effects ;P). Please don't be discouraged by this, I only mean to help <3
Oh please don't stop, keep it coming. This is what I've been wanting. I've posted several different threads with all these sigs that i've been making trying to improve on and I haven't been getting any post in it, which gets me thinking that there not even worth CnCing. But yeah, i'm wanting people to tell me what i'm doing wrong and tell me what i can do to improve and to help me. I really like doing graphic design and i wanna get better at it. I've made a couple more, and there's one that i think i did real good on and then one that's like the rest. The one i thought i did good on: The one that's like the rest:
