Idea: bsnes logo contest

D-- · Post by **D--** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:19 pm

FitzRoy wrote:I will say that the blue outline around everything in D--'s logo is a mistake. There should be two options, one with a transparent background and black text, and one with a dark background with white text. The sfc logo is currently shorter than the text, it needs to be the opposite, the text is quite dominating.

There are two options. There are infinite options. It's a fucking SVG. Just delete the tag that adds the border and poof it's gone.

For the record, I actually liked that smear logo that feathered and twisted the SNES colors. I wasn't being sarcastic. I think it would look fine beside my lettering. If byuu likes it, I may go through the trouble of vectorizing it.

FitzRoy · Post by **FitzRoy** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:40 pm

A program logo should not be a ball of colorful fuzz that resembles nothing. The effect was nifty, but it's too weird for our purposes.

nice ghost, but at least try and use a Big Boo or something.

I intentionally didn't want it to look exactly like a Boo. I'm pretty sure that's a copyrighted character.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:50 pm

FitzRoy wrote:
nice ghost, but at least try and use a Big Boo or something.
I intentionally didn't want it to look exactly like a Boo. I'm pretty sure that's a copyrighted character.

and by that logic, the Famicom logo is also copyrighted (even though it isn't copyrighted in the US, but still.)

FitzRoy · Post by **FitzRoy** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:53 pm

Don't ask me, it was byuu's request not to include copyrighted characters. Besides, what's wrong with being original? Boo is too circular, I don't like his form.

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:55 pm

gllt wrote:http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3917/bsnes2.png

different approach.

I like this one a lot, very simple, and the colors make it look very retro. Woot.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:58 pm

You're my fanboy.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3917/bsnes2.png one of the last I did anyways, still experimenting with it, might not be NEWEST but it was on my desktop and its different than ^ that one up there, hey you

bobthebuilder · Post by **bobthebuilder** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:19 am

I redid D's letters to look more like byuu's original concept and I turned "Fink" into a svg. You can now download the images HERE. They are in line art so they can be colorized easily and they are saved in their own separate file making layering them in gimp/photoshop simple.

Here is a quick example I did to inspire

Let your creative juices flow

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:28 am

blackmyst wrote:oh wait so, is this like the "the contest" thread already instead of just the "thinking about doing a contest" thread? Should I bother anymore? lol

Yes, it's officially on :P
Maybe I should make an actual submission thread. I don't intend to post all 214 variants by gllt though. Those are cool here for ideas, but it'd be like 1-3 entries per person or something for easier judging at the end.

FirebrandX · Post by **FirebrandX** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:01 am

I'm withdrawing my skittles entries

bobthebuilder · Post by **bobthebuilder** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:03 am

byuu if you want any alterations to the letters I could do it (If nobody wants to), but I suppose you could do it yourself (I have seen your drawing skills

). BTW people, if you haven't noticed I have uploaded the files.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:03 am

bobthebuilder wrote:I redid D's letters to look more like byuu's original concept and I turned "Fink" into an svg.

:O

blackmyst please please draw standaline Fink so bobthebuilder can finish him w/logo :O

Awesomeness!!

FirebrandX · Post by **FirebrandX** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:07 am

byuu check your PMs homey!

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:02 am

gllt wrote:You're my fanboy.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3917/bsnes2.png one of the last I did anyways, still experimenting with it, might not be NEWEST but it was on my desktop and its different than ^ that one up there, hey you

I like the one I liked better, the curves on the second version felt gratuitous (gllt? gratuitous? blasphemy!)

Also YAY GLLT *waves pom-poms*

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:04 am

Sorry for the double post... bobthebuilder did some nice work there! I'm excited to see blackmyst's work seeing some more attention.

EDIT: someone should merge my posts, sorry about that one.

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:54 am

bobthebuilder wrote:I redid D's letters to look more like byuu's original concept and I turned "Fink" into an svg. You can now download it HERE. They are in line art so they can be colorized easily and as their own file so they can be layered in gimp/photoshop into what ever your mind wishes. Here is a quick/crappy example (I suppose the b can be resized better to fit fink better).
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Let your creative juices flow

Perhaps the blue could be a bit more subtle? I liked blackmyst's original colors.

bobthebuilder · Post by **bobthebuilder** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:34 am

Gleasonator wrote: Perhaps the blue could be a bit more subtle? I liked blackmyst's original colors.

It is vectorized, so anything is possible. I do not know byuu's color preferences, so that is why it is colorless. I did apply a blue/white gradient to the letters when I was messing around and it looked awesome. Consider this an open souce image project (I did just grab other ppls work and modify it

). byuu can apply any color scheme/gradient or others can suggest/do some themselves. byuu had a Syaoran Li picture that I assume he did on his site, so he can probably easily tweak any image we did to fit his preference. I will gladly add a color scheme/gradient if byuu already has one in mind

.

P.S. I reworded my previous post to make it clearer that the posted image is just an example, It is not intended to be consider a finished work LOL.

P.P.S. If blackmyst has the full fink I can vectorize it and make it a more finished looking svg logo.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:40 am

I can't draw for shit on my own. And it's even harder for me to draw with a tablet.

The Shaoran pic was from a ~320x240 preview picture of a cel auction on Yahoo! Japan. I scaled it 4x or so, and then used Photoshop to trace the outline using the pen tool. Once I had the outline, I discarded the JPEG picture and colored and shaded the outline myself.

I did that to about a dozen or so pictures actually, but most of my earlier attempts sucked. Was really more of a Photoshop learning experience than anything else.

bobthebuilder · Post by **bobthebuilder** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:50 am

It is still a good looking Syaoran Li

. As I mentioned in my edit I can make a finished svg logo to your specifications with no problem.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:55 am

All the logo's here are copyrighted, technically...

Lazarus · Post by **Lazarus** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:23 am

Here is a quick example I did to inspire

Let your creative juices flow

I like it! But if you can, please also straighten the flaccid sword...

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:34 am

bobthebuilder wrote:I redid D's letters to look more like byuu's original concept and I turned "Fink" into a svg. You can now download the images HERE. They are in line art so they can be colorized easily and they are saved in their own separate file making layering them in gimp/photoshop simple.

Here is a quick example I did to inspire

Let your creative juices flow

whats the squiggle under his mouth?

kick · Post by **kick** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:09 am

kick · Post by **kick** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:11 am

Lazarus wrote: I like it,but If you can, please also straighten Fink's flaccid 'sword'...

Just buy him some Viagra

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:18 pm

Well if we have a contest I want to finalize three entries, none of which are currently here because I would be serious on them.

Two revamps on two old ones and a brand new one thats different from the others.

But if there isn't time that's cool

if the blackmyst svg is gonna win I'm cool with that, but all of the current ones still feel way unfinished

something is missing from them. please find it before its finalized.

FitzRoy · Post by **FitzRoy** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:21 pm

bobthebuilder wrote:Here is a quick example I did to inspire

Let your creative juices flow

Very nice. But the area the old b occupied still needs filled in. And the thin black outline around the text needs to go.