There's a 60ish opacity layer of solid black between the text and everything under it, which is responsible for some of the blur. Part of it is also that the brush I used for the Matrix-style stuff had to be significantly resized, and some more comes from the fact that the original background was a 1900x1200 red nebula. The hue modifications took a lot of precision from it. There's some loss in the lightning too, but that was intentional since I picked the spread ones rather than the focused bolts.
Blurred is probably the best word for the background:P
Looking at your stuff, that second one is veeeeery nice. Love the picture of the guy, and the shapes move well. Though I was expecting to see "IND" on the side rather than "Gaians".
Can't say I'm sure what the first one is for... that a whale in there?