Thanks for the welcome, this place looks fun... i think i'm going to like this. Some of your tuts just make me think that it would take me hours to ever figure out some of those things on my own. Though i might post 1 or 2 tuts of my own, if you don't mind.. right now i'm working on a really cool signature with a checkered background, an orb, and 4 metallic wires streaming off of the wire, 2 going into the border and 2 going into 2 chambers with lightning... i think, i may take the 2 chambers of lightning out, depending on the quality of the lightning... i just started using lightning

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i thought that energy beam tut looked amazing though. i'm definately going to use it in a sig soon. i'm thinking about maybe using a samus (metroid) render, and have the energy beam flipped horizontally so that it looks like its spraying out've her gun thing... whatever it is.... prosthetic arm.
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