The SIG Factory (Opening In December)

[End Boss]

::THE SIG FACTORY::

::INTRODUCTION::

I've given this a little bit of thought.. we have somewhat of a small army of photoshop artists (ranging from amateur to advanced, but predominantly intermediate), it occured to me that you could (NAY MUST!) do some pretty cool shit with 20 odd artists.. or atleast make things alot easier for each other..

Although I could come up with some pretty crazy ideas (very tempted to pull a group of you together train you in cartoon animation and make an animated comedy series.. maybe another time), I think that the latter of the two previously mentioned possibilities (making our lives as artists here easier) is probably preferable for the moment..

So that got me to thinking,

what is it that most of us do here as artists?

We make signatures and wallpapers that predominantly involve nba players

How do we usually go about that?

We find a picture of a desired player, if it's not already masked/cut we do that, then we come up with a design, find an appropriate font and finally wrap it up by making a few adjustments.

How can we make this easier so that as artists we can spend more time developing skills we want to improve?

Use this thread as a resource for people to "publish" either masked/cut players or background designs to be used in signature and wallpaper creation.

It seems like alot of us spend time reinventing the wheel which, although for a period of time gives us genuinely useful experience, eventually deprives us of time where we're using our creativity to create unique and original art.

There are several things that need to be considered in terms of standardisation and possibly hosting that need to be addressed but first I'd like to see what people think, answer any questions people have, etc

::HOW IT WORKS::

Gatherers
purpose: To feed the cutmen.
example: "Gatherer" is just a novel term for anyone who posts a link to a picture of an nba player to be masked/cut. The higher detail the better. Basically this can be anyone, they don't necessarily need any PS talent, but without having people providing the resources to be used the whole thing kinda falls flat.

Cut Men
purpose: To mask images of players
example:After a Gatherer has posted an image a "Cut Man" would say, I'm cutting that image, they cut it and then they post it.

Designers
purpose: To create artistic content to be used in backgrouns of sigs

Consumers
purpose: Our audience
example: In the sig request thread someone might say I want a T-Mac sig with design x, that says "I smell cookies"

Finishers
purpose: Bring together requirements, designs, and cut images to form finished sigs

These roles aren't mutually exclusive, any one person can be all of these or one of them.

::FACTORY WORKERS::

Gatherers

Cut Men

Designers

Finishers

::CUT PLAYERS::

::DESIGNS::

::FINISHED SIGS::

[Mikki]

(Y) Great Idea Birdman. It would be easier for some of us to get fonts/background that fits the sig/wall.

[Philantropical]

I'm in.

[Mentally Hilarious]

I'm not sure what you're going for. But a group that would ultimatly help be become better sounds brilliant.

If you care to lay it out more in-depth, that would be great.

But I could almost for certain say right now that I'm intrested.

[J@3]

Yeah I'd be interested. Out of everyone here I probably know the least about Photoshop/PSP but I make some ok stuff sometimes.

[$Chris Bosh$]

yea im new at photoshop so im in

[Mikki]

Maybe you should Sticky this Jae.

[End Boss]

okay.. I'll give a rough breakdown of how this would work and peoples roles..

Gatherers
purpose: To feed the cutmen.
example: "Gatherer" is just a novel term for anyone who posts a link to a picture of an nba player to be masked/cut. The higher detail the better. Basically this can be anyone, they don't necessarily need any PS talent, but without having people providing the resources to be used the whole thing kinda falls flat.

Cut Men
purpose: To mask images of players
example:After a Gatherer has posted an image a "Cut Man" would say, I'm cutting that image, they cut it and then they post it.

Designers
purpose: To create artistic content to be used in backgrouns of sigs

Consumers
purpose: Our audience
example: In the sig request thread someone might say I want a T-Mac sig with design x, that says "I smell cookies"

Finishers
purpose: Bring together requirements, designs, and cut images to form finished sigs

These roles aren't mutually exclusive, any one person can be all of these or one of them.

Okay "so how would this work?" I hear you ask.
The first post in the thread would be sorted into the following sections

1. Introduction/Explanation (basically there already)
2. List of Acknowledged Contributors (with maybe a few stats to inspire the stat whores amongst us)
3. Cut Players (sorted by player)
4. Designs (sorted by artist)
5. Finished Sigs (sorted by artist, paying credit to the cut men and designers)

there are a couple of other considerations but I'll leave them for the moment because I have some uni work to do

[Jackal]

This sounds like a great idea. Seems quite organised too.

I won't join given I'm a lazy bum.

[FendeR`]

Sounds like a nice idea. If I can get my Photoshop working I'll try to help out.

[Jackal]

Another little question I had, because of this project, my avatar & sig won't be cancelled, right? (Yes, I am a selfish prick. )

[Null17]

Cut Men

for a minute there, I thought you wrote "cute men".

[End Boss]

Another little question I had, because of this project, my avatar & sig won't be cancelled, right? (Yes, I am a selfish prick. )

No, I'll get that done soon enough. Just juggling a few things at the moment.

I'm delaying the opening of The SIG Factory till after this university semester. I think it's a great idea and I want to pick it up later, but right now I have enough on my plate. Expect a massive bump 4 months from now.

[zmac]

If you want me...by want, i mean like any of my stuff(zmacs Photoshop Shit thread), which you prob dont....then i'll be apart of it