GR SigSwap 2008

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PostGR SigSwap 2008
by Garth » Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:12 pm

Mockmaster wrote:Good evening.


Welcome to GR SigSwap 2008


Original Thread here:

http://forum.gamesradar.com/viewtopic.php?t=116112


But this thread is all you need, now. This is the big one. The one you've been waiting for.

To the contestants: As participants you have already agreed to wear the sigs you will find below, for a minimum period of 2 weeks, whether or not you like them. I do hope, however, that you do like the sigs that have been made for you.

To people who didn't take part: I hope you enjoy the fine selection or artistic interpretations that have been provided for your delectation. I encourage you to comment in this thread about favourites, those which you think are silly, etc. I will use this as a consensus to decide which sigs win these awards:

"BEST SIG"

and

"WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING WHEN THEY MADE THIS SIG?"



Cheers.


What you will find below is each pairing, randomly determined. Each person has made a sig for their partner, and then written a little blurb describing it and the thought processes behind it.


Without further ado, let's get this party started with the first pair. I think you'll find we're going to start off with a bang.














JV and St Nick


JV's sig for St Nick:

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JV wrote:This sig tells a story, one of men entering the depths of hell of Coventry, conquering the evil and returning home. Normally the story would end here, the hero triumphant. BUT OH NO IT DOESN'T. The evil we name Coventonians thought up a counter attack, this time on our heroes own turf. We put up a fight - one better than theirs at their home, it must be said - but our men were torn. Led by the evil spitting genius known only as 'Dowie', the dark forces of the sky blues rained over our heaven.

In their power mad lust the Coventonians overthrew their master. What better moment to pounce again into the land where mere mortals do not exist?

SOCCER!


St Nick's sig for JV:

St Nick was so generous that he offered JV a choice between these two sigs. It is up to JV which he wants to proudly adorn:

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St Nick wrote:I chose these for JV because they are sh*t sigs....just like HIS FACE!



Sevenfisher and Lesbians Are Great

Seven's sig for Lesbians:

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Sevenfisher wrote:The reason I chose this way because I wanted it to make it match his current username, so here is it :Wink:

That and I have no idea how to make a sig based on his likings, so..lesbians for him. Ahem.



Lesbians sig for Seven:

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Lesbians Are Great wrote:Because he's deaf. HA! HA!






TragicM and Goat


Tragic's sig for Goat. A choice of two and a description for each! Goat must choose which he'd prefer to wear.

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Tragic wrote:I got the idea of the above because of the recent War On Terrier topic in which Goat made a funny about a dog being thrown off a cliff. I found his post funny but others were really angry. So I made this sig as a "stick it to the man" kinda thing.


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The above sig is self explanatory. Goat is always winding people up on GR and causing arguments and that's why I love him. So you see, he's like GR's monster as he often causing uproar.


Goat's sig for TragicM:

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Goat wrote:Reasons: He lieks the Joker. Plus he sort of looks like that picture of the joker.

I put his catchphrase in after because it was looking a little bland.







Clarkman and Garth

Clarkman's sig for Garth:

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Clarkman wrote:I actually felt rather guilty on seeing I had Garth. Once upon a time I promised I'd make him an award winners sig and completely forgot. Hopefully this will make up for it, on to the description:

Garth makes serious posts. I was thinking about getting the serious thread LOLCat, but though it would be a bit stale, so instead I've written what's really inside Garth's mind. A twisted sinister place. He gets a kick out of being King of GR. All hail, I say.

NB: Garth also has to be the least romantic name to play with ever.

I catches your eye.




Garth's sig for Clarkman:

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(smaller version available on request)

Garth wrote:Well let's see...
I wanted to make use of Clarkman's avatar in the sig, and I get a superhero vibe from his name (Clark Kent, Superman), so I thought it would look pretty awesome if I stuck Beaker's head onto Superman.
I then photoshopped out the 'S' and replaced it with a 'C' for obvious reasons.
After much searching on Google I couldn't find a decent Superman font to use for his name, so I replicated the look as best I could which took quite a bit of time.
Lastly, having read his blogs I added a short description of the great man himself under his name - writer, philosopher and still not a paedo.
His current sig makes the 'no paedo' claim, so I felt it was particularly important to re-emphasise his distaste of kiddy-lovin' in the new sig. If I'd removed it, people may have started to wonder if that meant he had dabbled lately.






HenkeSCO and Huw Jazz


Henke's sig for Huw:

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Henke wrote:Huw Jazz is a a bit of a spastic. A nice guy, but dim as f**k sometimes. He also looks like Napoleon Dynamite, so I combined the two. Also Huws likes pizza, but I forgot to put any pizza in so it doesn't really matter, much like the fact that he's Welsh.


Huw's sig for Henke:

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Huw wrote:Right I know Henke loves rabbit's so i have stuck two rabbits in there.
I also know he is scottish so thats why the Braveheart thing is there. And i'm hoping that is Henke's picture i have stuck on it's head!






Rasputin and Akai XIII

Rasputin's sig for Akai:

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Rasputin wrote:Uh.

One of his posts mentioned Queens of the Stone Age.

Seriously, that's all I got.



Akai's sig for Rasputin:

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Akai wrote:Oh well, it's not that good and I couldn't really think of anything else to base it on.






Johnny K and andrej


Johnny's sig for andrej:

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JohnnyK wrote:Michaelangelo. Rembrandt. Picasso. Hirst. All these artists and more would be rolling in their graves (or falling off their mantelpieces and covering the carpet in pottery and soot, depending on individual death preferences) if they could see (or, as the ashes of a cremated body do not necessarily have eyes per se, were somehow physically aware of) this particular sig. Lovingly crafted using the finest computer-based art package that comes bundled with my computer, this is a collection of pixels that will, surely, stand the test of time.

I have attempted to incorporate every single fact (or, more accurately, every half-remembered piece of information) I know (or, dimly recall) about andrej^ into this signature, and I feel I have succeeded in including both. Firstly, his love of recreation drugs, represented here by a vomit-inducing background of coloured swirls; and secondly, his living in Malta. On this second count I have cleverly used the current logo for the Visit Malta campaign you may have seen on the television (to my ultimate chagrin I could not accurately incorporate the wonderful jingle that goes with said advert).

And I've only gone and put his av in there as well, ain't I?!

PLEASE NOTE: This version of the signature is not (repeat: NOT) the original - it is merely an inferior facsimile of the original masterpiece, dimensionally altered to fit in with the draconian laws of our 'fair' forum. You wouldn't catch Banksy being all conformist like this, y'know.


andrej's sig for Johnny:

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andrej wrote:This is my effort. I was lost for ideas because I always noticed him for his jokes which makes it a bit hard to put a "topic" to the signature, but I remember once he did a topic about the US forums which was quite funny.





MCN and smurphyUK

MCN's sig for smurphy:

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MCN wrote:I chose this because I read in the Firefly thread that SmurphyUK loves it. That's about it, really. It took me literally minutes to make. I hope he appreciates that.



smurphy's sig for MCN:

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smurphy UK wrote:I originally had something a little more complex drafted up, involving the army and pillaging black people, but I couldn't find a picture of MCN that fitted in with the nude soldier I had picked out's pose, so had to go with this less offensive and perhaps, or perhaps not, more obvious piece. Overall I like it though. The garish colour scheme used to contrast with... mmrr... MCNs... mhh...

Oh look, is that a kingfisher!?





Dan. and Matt.


Dan's sig for Matt. A big version is provided also so that you can see the loving detail:

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And the small version:

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Dan. wrote:Well, the lumberjack bit is obvious. Basically I thought of a way I could make a good sig that didn't have too be too tall but could be quite wide, so I went for the comic strip angle and exploited it a bit. I decided to go for a movie promo theme because that way I could get the word 'Matt' in large letters at the end, as if it were a movie poster - every good sig is all about the nametag, making it 'belong' to the person in question. The rest is just stuff I thought would be fun. Man, I feel like I'm on Blue Peter! :P


Matt's sig for Dan:

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Matt. wrote:Explanation: He's a ginger Liverpool supporter. And I'm very well informed that people in Liverpool have perms and moustaches. This perm-tash combo and Dan.'s gingerness factor, along with photo of Liverpool FC and Dan.'s current avatar come together to make one hell of a signature.






Rog and Boo Radley

Rog's sig for Boo:

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Rog wrote:After Henke told me to do an emo sig I decided that I wouldn't be doing anything emo in the sig. After looking at his post history I found that he likes anime, plays guitar, worries about student loans, wonders why the heart is connected to love and and has an unhealthy obsession with Elisha Cuthbert. He's pure, black emo. This was going to be hard. So I gave in and decided to do something simple with a tiny bit of emo. His emo side is reflected (or not) in the transparent background. It symbolises his empty void of a soul. He'd better appreciate that I didn't go all out on the emo.
Now the rest. I only had space to fit in Boo and I wanted the sig to show his full name, Boo Radley. I couldn't do his direct namesake from To Kill A Mockingbird as after a quick googling I found out he was a "symbol of tortured innocence" which sounds unbelievably emo. I didn't want to do the band the Boo Radleys because they're too bollocks for me to even google. So after seconds of tense thought I decided to go with B-radley from S-Club 7. Fits in the name and is as far from emo as possible. After all this hardwork I got bored so the O's are the obvious cuthbert crush and his pikachu fetish.
Looking back it could've been improved with some anti-aliasing but I've deleted the psd now so that will have to do.


Boo's sig for Rog:

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Boo Radley wrote:Not knowing Rog very well I had to spend a lot of time researching him in order to make a sig that fully brings out his character. And research I did. I found out that he looked a bit like Michelin Star Chef Heston Blumenthal so I inclued an image of him. I also found out that Rog is similar to the word Red and cleverly combined the two into one, that's where "ROG" written in red writing comes from. I feel that the sig encompasses Rog as a forumite and upon first seeing it you instantly know who it was designed for and I hope Rog feels proud when he wears it.






Lewis and Hexx


Lewis' sig for Hexx:

Now, Lewis actually sent two Hexx sigs. Sadly, one of them might be banworthy. It is up to Hexx which he wants to wear. If Hexx or anyone else wants to see the banworthy sig, please PM Lewis.

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Screw it. Here is a sneak preview at the risque one:

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If you want the full version, PM Lewis! Now, onto the description:

Lewis wrote:"Well, Hexx is a woofter, so I made him a sig that shows this.

In the event that Mocky has posted the "risky" one:
Nothing says "Gay man" that having a picture of a cock ejaculating on your face, so why make any other sig for Hexx, it's perfect for him!

In the event of Mocky using the "safe" one:
Hexx is gay, so I chose to use the Symbol of Gay - the rainbow - to feature heavily in this sig. Along with a girly gay font to finish it off. MWAH! PERFECTO!

Love you Hexx... you damn gay

-Lewis
xxxxxx



Hexx's sig for Lewis:

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Hexx wrote:I opened up the paint programme at got scared.

I'd orginally planned to something with Charlie and an Ape (face half split comparion thing), but couldn't find anything.

So I went for simple that combined Lewis's loves - Britain, Japan and GH.

I tried to work Aaron in too...didn't work.

Be gentle it's my first work!






And last....but by no means least:


aaronayl1 and Albear

aaronayl1's sig for Albear:

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aaronayl1 wrote:There are several reasons for why my sig is why it is.

I know Albear has a passion for Air conditioning. He hates being too hot, so I believe it was fate that when I put "Albear" into a google image search it came up with an "Albear's Air conditioning van". This just HAD to go in the sig.

ALF is nearly "AL" which are the first two letters of Albears name. Albear LOVES Alf, so this made it into the sig.

"Bear" is the second part of Albears name. This is why there is bear on the sig.

Albear's favourite colour is white. This is the same colour of the background of the signature in question. Coincidence? Perhaps.

Albear loves poetry. So I wrote a poem in 30 seconds.

Albear also really likes crappy sigs that get made in about 3 minutes because the organiser of the sigswap only gave 3 days to create them, without considering that most people tend to be busy in the week. So I made a crappy sig for him.

I hope you're strawberry floating happy, Mockmaster. You see what you made me do? You've ruined Christmas.

And thus ends the explanation of the signature.



Albear's sig for aaronayl1:



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Mockmaster wrote:I'm not going to lie to you all. Albear has been unavoidably detained with other business. Once he returns, he will knock up a sig for aaron. So in the meantime, I decided to take matters into my own hands at short notice. I have created this sig for aaron. It basically takes all aspects of the personality that we all know and love.

I call it the 5 Sides of Aaron Ayling:


Aaron Eckhart, Aaron Spelling, Aaron Sorkin (creator of the West Wing), Aaron Allston (creator of the stars wars books) and Aaron Tippin (country and Western singer).

As we all know, aaron shares attributes with all these other Aarons, and since we all know how, I won't need to go into specifics about why that is. Thanks.


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Thank you all for your participation, and I hope you all enjoy your sigs!!

Farewell.

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