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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009Big tattoos, big billboards, big ornaments - we are happy to announce that high resolution mode is back to MakeSweet and better than ever!
Big tattoos, big billboards, big ornaments - we are happy to announce that high resolution mode is back to MakeSweet and better than ever!
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Another bundle of user generated generators, nice work you guys!
The Kansas City Royals design is a regal-looking screen at a ball game.
The Yokohama Cafe design by user nobirdnolife is a sheet on a restaurant or cafe table, outdoors, with a drink in the foreground.
The Netbook at Meeting design by user nobirdnolife is a small netbook computer on a fine office table with an owner talking to someone off-screen.
The Glowing Movie design by user elporta is a bright screen in a dark movie theater.
The Blue Sky Big Board design by user nobirdnolife is a busy street with a big billboard set against a mall.
The Scenic Frame design is a framed message on a white-washed wall.
The Cluttered Office design is a guy at his desk talking on a phone while gazing vacantly into space. There is a cute little piggy on his monitor.
The A Learning Child design by user michisjourdi is a child learning from a book.
The Swivel Screen design is a laptop with a tilted screen.
The Sold Sign design by user Josh is a sign showing a sold property.
The Art on Easel design is a work of art on display on an easel beside other paintings.
The Old Book design is a stylized black and white book, with a custom cover.
The Brick Wall Billboard design is a billboard on a brick wall beside a red door.
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More generators made by users with the Generator Generator:
The Movie Board design is a board above a movie theater.
The Caution Sign design is a sign advising caution, for a reason you specify. In small print, there is a less significant warning.
The The Mirage design is a sign for a hotel or restaurant called the mirage.
The Blue Bus Stop design is a bus stop with a blue bus pulled up alongside it.
The Branded Bag design is a paper bag with your brand on the side.
The Tilted Flat Screen design is a big flat screen TV, tilted a little to the side.
The Yet Another TV design by user udagawa is another old-style television. Ah, cathode ray tubes. I miss the warm glow of cathode rays on my face.
The Sketch Pad design is a drawing pad ready to hold your message.
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Here’s the latest round-up of public user-created generators:
The London Bus design is a red bus on route to the delightfully-named Hackney Wick.
The Big Tent design is a message on the side of a big tent in a park.
The New York Taxi design is an ad on a taxi in heavy New York traffic.
The Child Reading design is a toddler reading a book - is it upside-down?.
The Bus Stop Palms design is a bus stop in a city with palm trees.
The Baby Blocks design by user michisjourdi is a baby playing with blocks.
The Start Your Engine design is a billboard looming over a nice looking car.
The Tree Restaurant design is a restaurant in Okinawa embedded in a tree.
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Another round-up of user-generated generators. As always, you can make your own with the Billboard Generator Generator. Or if you know Blender, you could try the Blender Generator Wizard.
The Orange Smiley design by user clydev is a winking orange with an attitude and a message.
The Cloudy Billboard design is a billboard set against a gloomy sky.
The Easter Basket design is an Easter basket full of eggs, one of which is laid by you.
The Bus Stop Side design by user clydev is a poster on the side of a bus stop, with pedestrians passing by.
The Lady with Painting design by user clydev is a woman examining a painting closely.
The Professor Dog design by user clydev is a bespectacled dog giving a presentation on his laptop.
The Painting Exhibit design by user clydev is a painting on a wall, with a guide pointing to it and explaining.
The Living Room design by user clydev is a picture over a modern fireplace in a stylishly uncomfortable living area.
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This week we hit a milestone: the site now has 100 public generators and growing. Thanks to all who’ve been making generators, and especially clydev who’s the first user to have over 10 published generators. Here’s this week’s round-up; thanks to the anonymous creators and to clydev, udagawa, alebur, and techi18.
The Sign City design is another billboard in a panoramic shot of Times Square.
The Control Signal design is a traffic signal under your command.
The Old style TV design by user udagawa is a classic old-school television with cathode-ray tubes and knobs and dials and all the works.
The Wall Painting design by user clydev is a painting being installed by two gloved men. Handle with care!
The Dark Tower design is a billboard on a looming tower at night.
The 34th and Seventh design by user techi18 is a billboard behind a lamppost at an intersection.
The Museum Art design by user clydev is a painting inside a museum room flanked by imposing statues.
The Park Billboard design is an imposing billboard beside a leafy park, somewhere oriental.
The Happy Fans design by user clydev is a bunch of guys cheering at a screen.
The Simple Keyboard design is a very low-resolution picture of a very low-complexity user interface. Assuming you know binary machine code of course.
The Glowing Screen design by user alebur is a woman looking at a glowing desktop computer in a dim room.
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The user-created generators keep on coming. Thanks this week to techi18, clydev, and udagawa!
By the way, there’s a new slideshow function in the works for combining lots of generated pictures into a single presentation. You can see a hint of what is to come by clicking the “slides” action link now showing on any generator page. As always, we’d really appreciate you letting us know if you come across any glitches, or have any suggestions.
The Racecar computer design by user techi18 is a bizarre race-car/PDA hybrid that looks like it would be neither very useful as a computer or as a car.
The Family Viewing design by user clydev is a flatscreen TV in front of a family paying full attention.
The Window World design is a set of computers demonstrating some strange operating system.
The Picture Frame design is a picture frame, tilted in perspective, for your photo.
The Girl With Laptop design by user clydev is a girl reaching over to a laptop on a counter.
The Oriental Fast Food design is a billboard over a fast food establishment somewhere in the orient.
The Look Up design is a billboard looming over the heads of pedestrians on a busy street.
The Flatscreen TV design by user udagawa is a flatscreen TV on an electronics-filled cabinet, beside a stack of household debris.
The Japanese Subway design by user techi18 is an advertisement in a Japanese subway train.
The German Office design is a billboard on a German office building.
The Billboard Buildings design by user techi18 is a street that is more billboard than buildings.
The Cat Meets Laptop design by user clydev is a cat cosies up to a laptop. It is probably nice and warm.
The Man Holding Sign design by user clydev is a man wearing a business suit holding up a sign. He looks determined and resolute.
The Van Screen design by user techi18 is a van with screens on the sides for advertisements.
The Wrist Computer design by user techi18 is an unusual looking wrist-based device with a stylus interface.
The Dog Meets Laptop design by user clydev is a dog sniffs around a laptop, maybe looking for browser cookies.
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Another round-up of new user-created generators. Some are classic billboards in big cities, some are less conventional (Bear Picnic, I’m looking at you). Enjoy! By the way, if you want to make your own generator, the power user page is a good place to start.
The Tokyo Lights design is a cascade of billboards in a Japanese city.
The Times Square Night design is a bright billboard on the side of Times Square, in the dark of night.
The Mobile Billboard design is an ad on a mobile billboard truck.
The Funny Poster design by user clydev is a woman looking at a poster (or the mirror) and smiling.
The TV on Fridge design by user udagawa is a TV sitting on a fridge, beside a PC. All the necessities of life.
The Silver TV design by user udagawa is a TV screen with a remote on a wooden counter.
The Open Air Cinema design by user clydev is an outdoors movie screening.
The Pronged Sculpture design is a piece of art with an overlay.
The Road of no return design by user clydev is a billboard by a side of a windy, twisty road.
The Couch Portrait design is a comfy couch with space for a portrait-oriented picture behind it.
The Bear Picnic design is a bear at a picnic table, with his hairy paws on whatever you want.
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We’ve made a nice and cheesy pot-of-gold animation for Saint Patrick’s day, coming up on March 17. Put a photo or text on the gold coins in a leprechaun’s stash at the end of the rainbow:

We’ve had a bit of internal disagreement about what the treasure in the pot should look like. Noemi thinks the rotating-glowing-globe looks silly. However, she admits that the number of leprechauns she’s met in her lifetime is in the single digits, so I don’t see how come she’s this big expert on pots of gold all of a sudden.
However, if you also think the coin-ball is daft, you can instead float a picture on the surface of the Chicago River, dyed green for Paddy’s day every year:

Enjoy!
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User-created generators are showing up in a steady stream now, we’re happy to report. Some of our favorites:
You can browse more on the complete generator list. So as not to be lazy and leave everything to users, I made a generator too - a green-dyed river as a practice run for St. Patrick’s day. I would like to talk just a little bit about how I did it. The generator looks like this:

It is made exactly like a billboard with the Billboard GOG, with two important differences to the regular rectangular billboards most people are making:
The mask I used looked like this:

Preparing the mask took some time, but people who do photo editing regularly could probably do it much faster than I did. After the mask was uploaded, all I had to do was lay out a 3D rectangle that approximated the surface of the river. I did the geometrically correct thing, and it looked terrible. Photos of people would show with shrunken heads and vastly expanded necks, which is not very attractive. So I chose a more aesthetically pleasing (if less geometrically accurate) angle, and that worked out a lot better. It is funny how often taste and physics diverge in computer graphics…
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