Yeah, it's almost cyberpunk.

That's what I was thinking

Just had a thought. Maybe it's because it has to be reduced to 256 colours for saving as GIF.

I'm late - but this is awesome. As is your signature

Thank you very much Cyrilshark.

speaking of you siggy...care to share the font and the method, or did I miss it somewhere?

The font is Angelic War and it's free from DaFont. The method is half metal (see Drac's tutes) and half wood (a brown layer and a desaturated plasma overlay layer with motion blur.) I also used alpha to selection, selection to path and stroke path)

what is the difference between ttf and otf fonts? Anyway, thanks for the info....I love your siggy!

*love this font...hard to figure out, though. There seem to be no caps but two slightly different lower cases.

i just watched this youtube tutorial by monsoonami (Chrome Beveled Text Effect), and hes smoothing the jagged lines he has with a G'Mic filter called 'Anisotropic smoothing' (under Enhancement), maybe thats something worth trying ?

2-Ton - TTF are true type fonts and when printed come out exactly the same as on your screen. OTF I know very little about but in graphics, as with Gimp, it doesn't matter because a graphic will always come out as on screen. If there's a choice, I always use TTF in case I want to use it in type.

Esper - I think the conversion to 256 colour is responsible and I never do that until I've finished the animation. That makes a lot of layers to smooth. That is a good filter though as is thin brush smoothing (which I use more often)