PantherLotus said:Thanks Ani.
@Android, others, all: I'm starting to realize how important artwork and quality photos matter. Clever text and text effects can only do so much.
Computer effects are generally useless too, unless you are really clever with them. It took a while, but I've learned that hand-done stuff (or even simple photography) looks a ton better. There's also a lot of "effects" you can accomplish outside of the computer... you can distort the images in different ways by the different chemicals you apply to the paper, which paper you use, what you do to the paper, or maybe even what type of photograph you took to begin with. And you can repeat the process over and over. Maybe you just use a Xerox machine repeatedly to create some random stuff that can't be done on a computer (I still have to try this one out).
...Anyway, it just reminded me of some of my favorite ads in this thread, and how they were just photographs of real life things, like that Mega Man 9 one on the sketchbook.