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[Hittokiri Zero]

Here's a new matching signature and avatar that I created from some of the few Samurai Champloo pictures that are floating out there around the net. For those of you who have not heard of this new anime series (where have you been, under a rock?) it's bascially the new product of mastermind Shinichiro Watanabe (creator of Cowboy Bebop) and so far has the potential and hype behind it to turn into one of the anime greats of all time. The character in both the sig and avatar is named Mugen and aside from the fact that his sword looks like a cross between that of a katana and knight's sword and that he fights with stellar break-dance esque maneuvers I can't tell you anymore (because I don't know anymore x_X).

The background for the signature was created with a variety of brushes and text overlayed with different blending modes the typo is something i'm still adjusting but I like that particular look (i'm really just changing the quote around and trying to find something that fits) it gives off. Now comment and critique my piece or you shall [color=red]b-|_|-r-|\|[/color].

*I also changed the spiffy colors of the text in my signature ^_^'*

[Dagger]

I'm on such a Champloo high right now, heh. ^_^; Anyway, the background looks nice and subtle, and as usual you've chosen excellent fonts. But because it's rather faint, the word "future" is a little difficult to read. The cropping on the avatar is particularly nice, and I love how the animation reminds me of light flashing across the blade of a sword (it works well, although I'm not sure if that's the effect you were going for).

~Dagger~

[Hittokiri Zero]

The sword flashing effect was actually what I was going for ^_^' I still have to find a way to perfect the animation and make it look more like light shining across a sword (i'm thinking if I gradually increase the opacity of the "shine layer" from a lower setting it might look better because the light would essentially look like it's getting brighter). As for the word "future" i guess it would make more sense to make the font darker so that's something i'm going to have to change, although then again I was thinking about changing the entire text from "samurai of the future" to "Hip-Hop Samurai" not really sure but I might do it, might not...

A couple other things to note if you didn't notice them already are that I faded the words "samurai champloo" into the background as well as "Shinichiro Watanabe " I also faded a text layer with my brithday on it into the signature but I think that particular layer of text is essentially invisible as I used a pure white font for it >_>'.

[Adora]

Hmm, I like the sig better than the avatar, but that's only because of the little fact that I think the lighting flare in the avatar (which I know is in the cap and all) overpowers it a little bit.

But apart from that, they're very good ^^