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but yeah, I also love how you cropped the crown off the logo and paired it with an appropriately selected font for the M. It looks really good and could easily be like a secondary logo for the team IMO. should send a png of just the crown/M to victor, no dropshadow/background (transparent).

I believe in you, Steve. Everybody's gotta start somewhere. In this case, you've utilized two graphic techniques. One of them is re-sizing an image, the other is adding text. Both are very very basic concepts, but you used them correctly here. However, this type of Graphic PT is considered very low effort (for someone new to graphics, it's alright to submit very graphics like this for awhile, but we don't want to see people simply blaming 'lack of experience/skill' as a way to achieve your 6 tpe every week for essentially doing a ~30 second graphic like this. One thing for re-sizing, this image looks to have had it's 'quality' degraded when it was scaled to the smaller size. To prevent this from happening, usually you want to convert the image to a 'SMART OBJECT' in your graphic editing software, before you down-size it, and the software processing of re-sizing the image in this way, will result in less of a loss of quality of the image itself. Usually 'SMART OBJECT' is only in more advanced graphic editing software like photoshop or gimp, but not available in MS Paint. with practice and consistency and a willingness to learn (youtube'ing 'forum signature tutorial' and watching 3-5 will give you some ideas and a place to start) you can use sim leagues to improve as a graphic designer! APPROVED

pretty flame tbh. I think the text is hard af to read (if there even is text, maybe it's just the grunge texture sort of looking like text). but I like the lighting, and colouring. The texture doesn't horribly run over the render's features/focal point, and I think the lighting situation isn't half bad. I like the exterior vignette/shading, and the focal point of the sig being lit. but yeah I can't read wtf that says in red, if anything. APPROVED

hate to say this since you are like the head of VHL graphics department, but I'm pretty sure graphic PTs need to be VHL-related, which this isn't. The graphic itself is pretty decent, I think the lighting and hue of the sig looks good, the renders look highish res. The text is fine and works with the graphic. Henrik Sedin's signature is absolutely horrible-looking though ? .... but yeah, it's gotta be VHL-related, so I'd normally approve it, but instead I'm tagging @DollarAndADream

I think on the design side of things, it's extremely basic and "flat" everywhere but the gif. The idea/creativity of masking the gif image like that is very cool, and I think is a great effect. The rest of the sig is a meh for me. The non-animated image looks LQ, I would've like filtered tf out of the goalie, added an external/more direct light source, lost the logo that's flying off on it's own world, and not used that super over-used font, and also positioned the font in a way that it didn't hide the biggest strength of this graphic (the gif clip masked to the goalie helmet). i also hate the dimensions of the graphic (too big) and hate that you color swapped the helsinki titans logo, to like ottawa senators colors, for some reason. probably a better sim league graphic tho. APPROVED

it's not the worst graphic ever submitted on a sim league, but I hate to tell you that I'm going to choose flaming you over giving you a fat heart (pause). The image size is way too big imo, and an image that size has no real use on a forum message board (it may re-size on mobile, but on desktop it's huge). Re-sizing your stock images is an essential part of graphic making. IMO you want to keep forum graphics to like 400x400 or smaller, especially when you're learning IMO.  I see you know how to use like a motion/lateral blur effect (on the background) and it doesn't look half bad. I also like that you isolated the COLOUR of the image to just the player, as this is a great technique to know/utilize to make sigs pop. I think the render itself could use some filtering (like a topaz adjust 5.5 dynamic pop or something) and also, I would've not used a STROKE on the render in this case, because of how jagged the cut is. If you want to stroke a render (pause), you usually want a render that has been "cut" or "cropped" with a PEN TOOL, to give it smooth lines, which results in a smooth looking stroke, which looks way better. I like your font (font choice, the stroke usage, and the tracking/kerning of the font), but it's absolutely massive, and IMO you never want to "corner lock" or "border lock" your font. I would've down-sized it by like 30-50% and not center-alligned it to the image, but maybe positioned it running with the players stick or something. not bad, but not good either. APPROVED

This is actually kind of dope tbh. I think you could lose the grey fuzzy drop shadow, or reduce it's opacity by like 60%, and the whole image would look a lot better/cleaner. Also, do you know when you go to the URL that you posted, you can right-click (or maybe LONG PRESS if you're on mobile/tablet) on the image there, and choose an option like 'open image in new tab'.... Then a new website/webpage will open and in your address bar, you'll see a link that ends in .jpg or .png. This is the actual IMAGE URL/WEB LINK. Notice it ends in .jpg or .png, which is the image file type/extension. If you copy THIS link (that ends in the file type extension aka .jpg or .png or .gif, etc.) and paste it into your VHL post, it will auto-embed the image, and allow it to just display the image in your post. So, for this URL (web link) that you posted, the IMAGE URL/WEBLINK is https://i.imgur.com/LNuH4YY.png (notice how it ends in .png? Because it's a .png file.). If you were to copy THIS link and paste it into your post, your graphic would display. APPROVED

it's not the worst graphic ever submitted on a sim league, but I hate to tell you that I'm going to choose flaming you over giving you a fat heart (pause). The image size is way too big imo, and an image that size has no real use on a forum message board (it may re-size on mobile, but on desktop it's huge). Re-sizing your stock images is an essential part of graphic making. IMO you want to keep forum graphics to like 400x400 or smaller, especially when you're learning IMO. I see you know how to use like a motion/lateral blur effect, and you applied it liberally to the player image. What you want to do, is duplicate the layer with the player image, apply the motion blur effect to the TOP layer, and then use a LAYER MASK (with black brush) to MASK/ERASE the effect, revealing the hd/clear "normal" image below. You can mask key parts like the face/jersey, so it doesn't look like the entire image is effected by the motion/lateral blur effect, which looks more professional. anyways this is garbage-tier but half way sufficient to a sim graphic. Keep practicing and good luck with your fat hearts. APPROVED

#1 S67 Goalie Prospect right here. @GMs

ya'll hating on chillzone tbh

best 2nd line in the VHL tbh Jaguar + Volosenkov is the new dynamic duo of the league.

Well, on the bright side for Moscow, Malmo won't have Odinsson for much longer. :cig:

Moscow's 2nd line ran a train on Draper. (pause)

I thought I was good at gfx when I made this sig like 2 months ago... It's funny how things change.

1. If you had the opportunity to change positions from/to F,D or G, Would you? I think the obvious answer is switch to goalie. I've never made a goalie in any of my sim careers, but probably should tbh. 2. Moscow Menace want to create a mascot! How would you design our mascot? What would its name be? I always like a tongue-in-cheek mascot, so I think we should go with a comically old man who looks sort of like actor Tommy Lee Jones, and name him VICTOR. 3. Since Moscow will not sniff the playoffs, is there a team you're supporting on their quest for the cup? I'd say HC Davos because a few of my friends arrived there this season, but I'm not so sure they'll be making the playoffs either. They need to play Codrick Past more. 4. We are 8 points from hated rival Malmo! DO YOU HATE MALMO ENOUGH TO WIN OUT OF SPITE?! In reality what are you doing to win and get motivated? Malmo is hot garbage besides their GM. Not sure why them and their fans are so obsessed with cucumbers that they'd model their logo after one. I think we won the last game against Malmo, hopefully we surpass them permanently very soon. 5. For those who have just been reading the box score, Moscow has taken a lot of penalties this season. What are some penalties you've seen the team taking and what do you like to do in the penalty box? Can't say I've paid attention tbh, and I do look at box scores, but only look at the goals/assists. Colour me a hater. 6. Why do you think Moscow is such a bi polar team, leading in both goals for and against? Probably because we have a care free, no fucks given attitude. Soon enough we will be contenders and get serious about things, but for now, we simply don't care and let it all hang out, out there. 7. Does Owen May suck? No I think he's the best young goaltender in the league.

Wow this Podrick Cast guy is a real playmaker, huh?

Jet Jaguar is a plug.

noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

get innnnnnnnn I will be sad to see Eden Hazard move on. IMO he's a club icon at this point.

Codrick Past needs more minutes imo

Oh baby

agreed w/ BOOM's post above. However, I think from my experience, making tpe re-rolling easy/affordable to do kind of taints the "structure" of a player sim league. Like, it deters from scouting out specific positions/roles/player because you can just draft your friend and have him re-roll to whatever type of build you want for whatever need your team has... and then theoretically you end up having everybody on your team re-roll stats to fit your team strategy. Then, the league might as well just be reduced to the ~10 GMs and have them roll their players stat categories however they want to, every season. Obviously the money aspect prevents this from happening on a league-wide scale, but I just think tpe re-rolling is a bit counter-intuitive to "player leagues". I also think that introducing your specific 3rd option suggestion isn't going to immediately/drastically implement the scenarios I've described above, and probably would only be used a handful of times per season, if that, and not really change anything... but I've always just assumed tpe re-rolling isn't common/popular in player sim leagues, because of what I described in the previous paragraph. Plus, in my 3 VHL careers / other sim careers, I've never paid to re-roll tpe. I just try to learn as I go and apply what I learn on my future players. Seems to have worked out alright that way, for me at least.

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