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[quote name='Ozy Jones']Ok, working on a second banner.[/quote][color=#30415d]We don't need an update; simply post the banners whenever you're done. ~_^[/color]

[quote name='Semjaza Azazel']It's also important to note that cell phones are apparently cheaper to use in Japan than home phones, unlike the US (and I assume most other countries)[/quote][color=#30415d]I hadn't really though about it before, but I guess they would have to be cheaper, lol. All of that stuff in America would cost a fortune.[/color] [quote name='Deedlit][color=#009966']Why not? :p [/quote][/color] [color=#009966][color=#30415d]Well, you have your cell phone.. would you rather type in the number to make a call, or navigate through those little buttons to write an entire email? ;p I dunno, I guess I've never actually tried typing anything up, but I can imagine how hard it would be; there are 3 letters on one number, right? So do you have to use a directional pad to choose each letter, or what's the deal with that?

[color=#30415d]If you notice, there is a subforum in this one, at the top of the main forum page, called Art by Request. All banners and avatar requests should be posted there. Topic moved.[/color]

[color=#30415d]Please make all requests in the Art by Request forum. ^_^ The title also needed to be a little more specific, so that has been changed to fit in with the franchise. Topic moved.[/color]

[color=#30415d]And that's the game, ladies and gentlemen. Not what I expected, but it's over nonetheless. ~_^[/color]

[quote name='EternallyYoung']Yeah...about that...my comp is 3vil it wouldnt let me i tryed! sorry!!! :wigout:[/quote][color=#30145d]Er.. right. O_o Even a link to the direct picture would have sufficed, but oh well. I attached the image for you. =_=[/color]

[QUOTE=EternallyYoung]I WILL DO IT!!!!!!!!! ill do it! ive never entered in a contest before! where do i send the pics to ?! help me! whens the deadline?! help me! help me!!!![/QUOTE][color=#30415d]Read the entire thread before you post questions, as most of what you asked have already been answered thuroughly. To participate, you need a scanner to get the pictures on the computer, and then simply attach them to your post.[/color]

[color=#30415d]My mom recently showed me an article in the Washington Post that discussed the role of cell phones in Japan today. In it, it described how cell phones have nearly taken the place of computers, whereas users seem to be doing just about anything [i]but[/i] talking. Such capabilities that this article outlined include: an alarm clock, sending email, linking with your PC, downloading music, reading newspapers, reading [i]novels[/i], looking at interactive maps with built-in GPS systems and voices giving you particular directions (i.e. turn right, turn left), watching television, surfing the web, taking and transmiting home movies, scaning bar-code information, getting coupons on food and entertainment, paying bills, quote, "play[ing] Final Fantasy," programing karaoke machines, and much much more. The full article is below.[/color] [quote][url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52950-2004Feb18.html"]Washington Post - In Japan, a Wireless Vision of Future for U.S.[/url] TOKYO -- In search of a chic cafe hidden in the neon alleys of a teeming Tokyo business district, Hiroki Wai activated the global positioning system on his cell phone and punched in the cafe's phone number. Instantly, a detailed map appeared and a perky female computer voice was navigating Wai toward a hot date with a $9 latte. "Now turn left; now turn right, walk straight ahead. . . . Hurray, you're here!" the voice chirped from his receiver. A satellite in Earth orbit charted his progress on a full-color street grid displayed on the screen of his cell phone. "The cell phone is way past being just a phone in Japan," said Wai, 32, a systems engineer who wakes up with his phone alarm at 6:30 a.m. and then uses the phone almost every waking hour to send and receive dozens of e-mails, link remotely to his home-office PC, download music and read newspapers, even novels, during his daily commutes. "For us," he said, "the cell phone is now a way of life." The cell phone market in the United States is set for a major shake-up after the announcement this week of a $41 billion buyout of AT&T Wireless by Atlanta-based Cingular Wireless, with the merged juggernaut poised to quicken the rollout of such advanced services as access to the mobile Internet and other third-generation, or 3G, technologies. Behind the rush to boost cell phone uses in the United States lies a less flattering truth: In recent years, America has lumbered forward like a John Deere tractor on the mobile information superhighway, while Japan has zoomed ahead like a Z-car. Technologies considered experimental or novel in the United States have already gone mainstream here, giving rise to an unparalleled cell phone culture. Today, Japan offers a fascinating glimpse into a possible future for Americans: life in a wireless world through the cell phone. About 70 million Japanese -- 55 percent of the population -- have signed up for Internet access from their cellular phones, a threefold increase from 2000. Cell phones, or [i]keitai[/i] in Japanese, are closing in on computers as the device of choice for surfing the Internet. While the Japanese are using their cell phones in the same way many Americans use their laptop computers or personal digital assistants, they also are pulling out their phones to watch TV, navigate labyrinthine city streets with built-in GPS systems, download music, take and transmit home movies, scan bar-coded information, get e-coupons for discounts on food and entertainment, pay bills, play Final Fantasy, even program karaoke machines. While at least some of these uses are expected to become commonplace in the United States, Japan's penchant for the cutting edge, the cute and the compact has given rise to a particular, occasionally peculiar, keitai culture. Many young people today even describe their cell phones as extensions of themselves. On subways and trains throughout Japan, keitai addicts, oblivious to the world around them, their hyperactive thumbs furiously typing e-mails on cell phones, have become ubiquitous, even stereotypical sights. One Tokyo TV station recently broadcast a reality show featuring a teenage girl whose cell phone was taken away for one week. She was reduced to tears when she finally got it back. "I get separation anxiety when I am away from my cell phone. It is part of my identity now," confessed Yoshihisa Amano, 26, who works for a software company in central Tokyo. When he makes or receives a call, Amano creates an identity for himself by projecting an animated character onto the other party's phone screen. Amano controls his alter ego's emotions -- showing sadness, rage or glee -- by pressing different phone keys, and can change characters to suit his mood or caller. "My keitai is also a video phone, so my callers can actually see me, and I can see them, if we choose," Amano said. He showed a reporter I-chan, a sexy Japanese anime girl in a tight pink sweater and cow-patterned miniskirt who he is now planning to display to friends as his alter ego. "I might not always be looking my best when they call, so I like the characters instead," he said. On train platforms and highway billboards, cell phone ads dominate the cityscape. The ads underscore the idea that hot new laptops no longer impress the affluent young Japanese; only the latest-model cell phones are turning heads or winning status among peers. "Cell phones have created extensions of personal space in Japan," said Yuichi Kogure, who teaches a class on keitai culture at Tokyo's Toita Women's College. "You take your world with you when you have your keitai in your hand. In the keitai world, people forget where they are, and women [with cell phones], for instance, can be seen putting on makeup or brushing their hair in the subway, something considered highly rude in Japan in the past. But now, people are walled inside their own little world with their keitai and aren't even aware of what they're doing in public." In Kyoto, the cell phone culture has generated a new type of university class. Students in more than 52 courses ranging from math to welfare studies at the city's Bukkyo University almost never speak aloud. Rather, they e-mail questions and comments from their cell phones to their professors while in class, and professors answer orally. "Students can be very shy, and the anonymousness of the system helped them to overcome their shyness," said Kiyoharu Hara, assistant professor of sociology and a mastermind of the university's unusual class communication. "Keitai mail matched the Japanese culture of silently conveying meaning." Cell phones also have dramatically improved efficiency in marketing. Restaurants advertise immediate discounts on Web sites when they have a slow night, offering price cuts of as much as 15 percent to fill seats with keitai bargain hunters. But some people complain that so much messaging and surfing with cell phones has resulted in people communicating more, but talking less. Mutsumi Mukaigawa, 26, an apartment concierge nursing a coffee at Starbucks with one hand, holding her cell phone, decorated with a silver-plated dangling bauble, in the other, has been sending more keitai mails and making fewer calls to her parents, who live four hours north of Tokyo. "My mother just last weekend said my father was sad because I call less and less," she said. "But keitai mail is just so much easier." Japanese have grown so skilled at writing e-mails on cell phones that many now find it simpler than using computer keyboards. Some have argued that the mobile Internet has taken off in Japan -- as well as nearby South Korea -- because Asian thumbs are smaller and more nimble, and thus more suited to typing on tiny cell phone keys. But the Japanese who launched the service here say size doesn't matter. Takeshi Natsuno, considered the father of I-mode -- the landmark service of communications giant NTT DoCoMo that granted Japanese easy access to the Internet via cell phones in 1999 -- argues that U.S. cellular phone companies have simply mishandled the concept by employing different signal "standards," or cellular languages, which make it difficult for cell phones to communicate with the Internet. At the same time, NTT DoCoMo, still the market leader here, encouraged Internet content providers to produce Web sites viewable on cell phone screens by offering them more than 90 percent of the revenue generated from user fees. DoCoMo reaped the benefits as these sites boomed, more subscribers signed up and content providers paid charges for their expanded use of DoCoMo's wireless network. "Everyone wants to say, 'Oh, the Japanese are strange. They love tiny and miniature things and that's why cell phone services have taken off here,' " Natsuno said. "But the truth is that we are normal, and it's the other guys who are something odd. It's not about being Japanese. It's about knowing what people want and how to sell it the right way."[/quote][color=#30415d]According to this article, this seems to have changed the entire purpose of cell [i]phones[/i], originally used to [i]talk[/i]. I don't know about everyone else, but some of these capabilities that they speak of just seem so.. bizzare to me. I mean, prefferring to send emails rather than calling on a CELL PHONE? Emailing questions to college professors so that they can be answered orally? And I thought some people over in this country (America) were addicted to their cell phones, and based their life around them, heh. So what does everyone else think about this cell phone advancement in Japan?[/color]

[QUOTE=MarkM]Very cool. I opened it and was trying to read it. Then I went back and read your post, lol. It is a pretty nifty peice. -Mark[/QUOTE][color=#30415d]We ask that you please include constructive criticism in your post, as James has outlined in the stick at the top of the forum. ~_^ In other words, a further explanation of your likes and dislikes about a particular piece are appreciated.[/color] [quote name='Psychotik']Its nice, simple yet effective, maybe a little to simple though[/quote][color=#30415d]As was the first quoted post, you need to expand on a few things, such as why you think it may be too simple. Your banner is also too large for these forums; 500 x 100 is the max, and your height exceeds 100 pixels.[/color]

[color=#30415d]It would probably be a lot easier if you uploaded the picture here, or linked to it directly. It's really a hassle to have to search for something.[/color]

[color=#30415d]This is Art Studio. I believe you're looking for Art by Request, the subforum for this one. ~_^ Topic moved.[/color]

[QUOTE=Godelsensei][color=gray][size=2][font=Courier New]Dude. I'm not one. The banner simply is refusing to show. If I posted twice as a reply, it was entirely by accident. I keep screwing up the browser Going ness. Did that make sense? Anyhoo, if you want to see it: [url="http://www.freewebz.com/godel/boardsbanner.jpg"]http://www.freewebz.com/godel/boardsbanner.jpg[/url] [/font][/size][/color][/QUOTE][color=#30415d]That still doesn't work, heh. Even when pasting the URL in the address bar. Why not simply upload it?[/color]

[color=#30415d]Usually, when you post up a new drawing, the scores that you recieve at first may generally be higher, making a larger difference to the rating than if you had a lot of votes already, and will in turn bring up your total score. Just imagine for a second -- someone posts their first 5 pictures, and then they rate themselves as a Yes. Their total score will be 100%. So you can't really go by score unless it's been voted for quite a few times. It's true that some will come by and rate you as a No just for the sake of bringing down your score, but that's inevitable with something like this. You just can't stop it, and those people with no life will make it their mission to rate every other drawing as a No, which will get other people upset and vote random pictures as No because they think that person did it, and we have a never-ending loop. It's unfortunate, but not uncommon. Topic closed.[/color]

[quote name='SaiyanPrincessX']Anyhow, Its quite good, but could use some improvment. The glass is too flat, it needs more dimension and the shadow leaving the glass and the salt/pepper shaker should be a little longer. Nice job overall Syker, I can't wait to see more of your art. ^_^[/quote][color=#30415d]Yeah, I see what you mean about the glass. I don't know what I was thinking, lol; the bottom sides need to be a lot more round. I don't worry too much about shadows, usually, so you'll notice that they are pretty short in my drawings.[/color] [quote name='Kinetic][size=2][color=#708090]The glass, as I said, is a little too light but it still looks great.[/color'][/size][/quote][color=#30415d]>_< Yeah, that's deffinitly a problem from the scanner. It didn't catch all of the lighter values, and made others even lighter. Ah well. I'm going to post up two more sketches now. This first one is of my watch before its tragic accident. RIP :( You'll also notice that I do my drawings rather late at night, heh. Dated 9/10/03 The second piece is of my computer moniter. Dated 10/3/03[/color]

[color=#30415d]In order to keep us practicing, my art teacher requires us to keep a sketchbook, where we turn it in every Friday with a new drawing, provided that we have at least 4 days of school that week. We can draw pretty much anything we want to, dealing primarily with 3-dimensional objects around the house, that should take us at least/around a half hour or so. What we [i]can't[/i] do, however, is draw copyrighted material, especially anime, which he dispises. Right now, I'm in the middle of drawing a GameCube controller, but there are plenty of other drawings from the beginning of the year up until now that I'd like to get out of the way first. Eleven, to be exact. Constructive criticism is appreciated with each drawing as it's posted. Hopefully I'm already off on a good start, though, because I've gotten an "A+" on all so far. ^_^ If you can't tell, this first one is a drawing of a salt/pepper shaker behind a glass. Dated: 9/4/03 I apoligize for scan distoriation. :/[/color]

[color=#30415d]In case you are using the Geisha skin, it appears as a light grey box. Either way, it's the box with the exclamation point above your avatar, next to the number which corresponds to the [i]x[/i]st/nd/rd/th post in the thread.[/color]

[color=#30415d]The Art by Request forum is used to ask for banners and avatars. :) Topic moved.[/color]

[color=#30415d]The banner in your signature? Because it's showing up as a red x for me.[/color]

[color=#30415d]Yes, the picture has to first be uploaded onto the internet in order for it to show up. To do this, you can upload it to a free web hosting site such as 250free.com and hotlink using [*img][*/img], or simply attach it to one of your posts. But remember, random attachments are not allowed, so we ask that you post somewhere such as Art Studio, where you may recieve constructive criticism in the process. Topic closed.[/color]

[color=#30415d]Unfortunately, this forum pertains strictly to custom art and design, so requesting screenshots in inacceptable. I'll try to help you out, in any case, but I'll do it through PM. :) Topic closed.[/color]

[color=#30415d]If you are having trouble loading the picture, simply copy the URL and paste it in the address bar. Maybe you can expand on what you want done here. You say EITHER a resize OR redo the picture? Should the redo be resized as well? Also, maybe you could explain what "blue things" you want on his eyes, and how you want him to look half Saiyan. Lastly, if anyone wants to do this, or has anymore questions, feel free to post here, rather than PMing.[/color]

[QUOTE=Boba Fett][color=green]Hope this is what you were looking for... If you do decide to use it, I'd appreciate it if you'd host it yourself. I'm short on bandwidth as it is. [img]http://jedgarnieta.250free.com/MatrixBanner.jpg[/img][/color][/QUOTE][color=#30415d]Don't forget, Boba, you can always upload images onto the forum, if you don't want to host them off your site. :)[/color]

[color=#30415d]So.. you made an anime music video? Maybe you could explain what you did in a little more detail. ^_^; It would also be good to get some direct links to the songs so that members won't have to go searching. :)[/color]

[quote name='Hataki Vash][size=1']This is kind of both a question and a problem that I am having so here it goes... well the first thing is, is there a spot where you can make permanent changes to your font, font size, color etc.. and the problem I am having is, when I go into my OB sig, I tried making my old sig back as close as possible, but then, whenever I hit "Save Changes" the page loads again but nothing happens. What should I do.[/size][/quote][color=#30415d]I think I might be able to answer your questions. First off, we were not able to impliment the feature that allows you to have a permanent color and font and such. From what I understand, it's very complicated coding, but as you can see in the announcement, we have a fantastic middle ground -- the WYSIWYG editor. This is a similar program to something like MS Word, where you can highlight and change your text at the click of a button. Onto the next question, this could be because the character limits are currently set at 150. This is considerably less than the old signatures, so it makes sense if yours doesn't fit. In the coming days, the number will raise to 500, and you'll be able to fit more stuff, but perhaps not quite as much as you had in your old signature.[/color]

[color=#30415d]Heh, you've improved greatly over the last year or two, Kinetic. You've gone from character design, to abstract, and gotten much better at it. Forgive me for remanicing for a moment, but you have come a long way, and your abstract work is much better than a year ago, in my opinion. :) I suppose that I am doomed to just perfect this character design way, however. lol In any case, I like this new piece. The color is great, mainly because it's orange and orange is my favorite color, but also because it stands out nicely, I think. The color of the border is good, as well, since it fits in with the rest of the banner, and I like how you made the text sort of integrate into the banner too. You did a nice job. ^_^ EDIT: Oh yes, if you would like your name changed, consult Charles, though that would probably be best once things start settling down.[/color]