GreatGold Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 (edited) Hey - Just wondering if one of the 2D graphics gurus could whip up a Xenocide Developers signature banner, to go in the signature. Perhaps using the X-Corp logo, or whatever strikes your fancy. Anyone want to do it? And maybe just a Xenocide one for people who just realize how damn cool this project is :wink: ... It would be nice to go to other forums, and have some publicity... :aliencool: Gold Edited July 17, 2003 by GreatGold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miceless Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 Good idea. Lets poke someone in the Art team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 here is a quick test before I run to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 Perhaps we could stick the website in the bottome right corner as well? And could you also post the photoshop save? Very nice.. Thanks,Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 19, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 Sooooo, are there no other takers? I find this hard to believe... Last call, before I scare you all and attempt to make my own !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 19, 2003 Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 I'll do another version after dinner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miceless Posted July 19, 2003 Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 (edited) Quick, dont let him do that! There must be some clever arty people out there... EDIT: This was RE GGs post not Vaaishs Edited July 20, 2003 by miceless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 19, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 Quick, dont let him do that!The man's got a point.... :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 19, 2003 Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 ok new versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 19, 2003 Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 (edited) and the second Edited July 19, 2003 by Vaaish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 19, 2003 Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 and an all text version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miceless Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 I like the Xenocide one you have in your sig GG. I think the long flat ones work well in this kind of setting. Great job Vaaish. You think you could incorporate the alien eyes in there somewhere? Gotta have them alien eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 Thanks, I don't want to annoy people with slower connections, so I took the "compassionate" route and made it small . Also, nice work Vaaish. The competition is still open though... Lets see if someone can create on worthy of the whole team using... Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 (edited) I like the Xenocide one you have in your sig GG. I think the long flat ones work well in this kind of setting. Great job Vaaish. You think you could incorporate the alien eyes in there somewhere? Gotta have them alien eyes. I probably could in fact the original logo I created for the top one had the sectoid in the background with the "I" in xenocide making the pupil of his eye. However while that works well for a logo for Xenocide itself I think it makes a simple banner intended to designate developers a little muddled and complex. In this instance I chose to do a simpleified version and the later varients have been simplified as far down as possible w/o losing their intent. edit: I wasn't too happy with the xenodev one so I put in the full xenocide Edited July 20, 2003 by Vaaish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miceless Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 Bah, they look good anyway. Where does that sectoid pic come from? Did someone make it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 Usually there are more important things to be considering but I've seen a glaring oversight on these logos. Wheres the web address? Whoever sees this isn't going to have a clue what or who a xenocide developer is so it might be a good idea to let them know how to find out. Good job it only took 2 seconds. P.S. GG why are you insisting on having .psd's of everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Usually there are more important things to be considering but I've seen a glaring oversight on these logos. Wheres the web address? Whoever sees this isn't going to have a clue what or who a xenocide developer is so it might be a good idea to let them know how to find out. Good job it only took 2 seconds. P.S. GG why are you insisting on having .psd's of everything?ah I thought they were for use here and well if they are on these forusm they probably know the address now if they are for use elsewhere then yes we do need the web address Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 P.S. GG why are you insisting on having .psd's of everything?Mostly, because I'm like an infant with graphics, and I cant for the life of me do things without layers. For instance, I want to brighten the letters in my sig, and perhaps make the eyes blue. But I don't know how to do that with .jpg, only if I have the layers of a .psd to play with. So thats about the whole answer... Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Hehe most people do it the other way round They laern to draw in non layered progs and are then lost when it comes to all that layers can provide. Tis a good learning practice to use layers from the start However if you havent got a layered image and want to change one part of it, the marquee tools are your friend. Especially the polygon marquee tool if you have it on your prog. That way you'll only be changing the part you hve the 'crawling ants' march around. A couple of shortcuts as well are CTRL-Shift-I which inverses the selection. Very useful if you want to change other areas outside the selection and leave the selected area alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordT Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 I absoloutely *HATE* that tool that allows you to draw your selections! My hand aint stable enough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted July 22, 2003 Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 Heh, that's what graphics tablets are for (along with a myriad of other uses like playing xcom with ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 that's what graphics tablets are forI dont even know what that is.... -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miceless Posted July 22, 2003 Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 They are like electronic versions of pens I think, you can draw with them (on a special pad) and the stuff comes up on the screen. Something like that anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikker Posted July 22, 2003 Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 (edited) i manged to remove the xenocide text on the alien face (all copyright to the unknown creator of it ) Edited July 22, 2003 by mikker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikker Posted July 22, 2003 Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 (edited) if anyone wants it without the xenocide text: Edited July 22, 2003 by mikker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[mindstormmaster] Posted July 22, 2003 Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 I still like GreatGold's signature banner, small, sleek, cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 Awwww, you make me blush :alienlol: ! Also, thanks Mikker for the Alien Eyes. Now I can actually make the text readable... Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miceless Posted July 22, 2003 Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 I still like GreatGold's signature banner, small, sleek, coolI agree. You should release a version GG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[stewart] Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 Hows mine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 that's what graphics tablets are forI dont even know what that is.... -_- http://www.wacom.com/index2.cfm for the UShttp://www.wacom-europe.com/uk/index.asp UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 Hey - I'll make some adjustments and post the file here. Of course, anyone is welcome to just grab the pic from my sig and change it.... Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 (edited) Hey - As promised, some more varients. I'm just learning my way though, so please feel free to take one and change it to your liking. I've also included two templates, just to save you time should you wish to make your own (the last two). Photoshop saves are available upon request. So, please make them better. I'll probably switch to it then also .Gold EDITi manged to remove the xenocide text on the alien face (all copyright to the unknown creator of it )How did you remove the text? That's something that I've tried, and never had satisfactory results. Is there a special tool for that? Edited July 23, 2003 by GreatGold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 (edited) Hmm, didn't came out exactly the way I planned... but too lazy to keep looking for the correct solution Edit: what happened to the size!!?? :o Better make it smaller Edited July 23, 2003 by j'ordos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 (edited) Gold: drop the opacity of the alien eye layer to about 50 or 75, then take the text from your last version. That should help balance it out. all of the previous version have your eye bouncing back and forth with no one point acting as a center of intrest and leading your eye to the next. J' ordos: kill the bevel I have found that stuff like that rarly turns out professionally when linked with text. same for gradients on text. It is more of something I would expect to find from a quake clan than a game dev firm. Edited July 23, 2003 by Vaaish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 Ok, let's try that again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 I like what you did to the Alien Eyes. How did you do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 Ok, let's try that again...better, make the type for Xencide a bit heavier and fade the blurred text a bit more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 decided to play around a bit more with the long styles as well as those alien eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 and number2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 and the third Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 (edited) I like what you did to the Alien Eyes. How did you do that?I listened to Vaaish and made the layer with the alien eyes 75% opacity Well, here goes number three... even though Vaaish gave plenty of good ones... Edited July 23, 2003 by j'ordos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikker Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 (edited) wooh Vaaich! Edited July 23, 2003 by mikker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikker Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 (edited) I would like to see the face a little less dominated by green. I'll use yours vaaich. Edited July 23, 2003 by mikker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 (edited) like this? Edited July 23, 2003 by Vaaish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 (edited) I like what you did to the Alien Eyes. How did you do that?I listened to Vaaish and made the layer with the alien eyes 75% opacity Well, here goes number three... even though Vaaish gave plenty of good ones... getting better, you still need to fade that blurred text down to about 50% on the edges to keep with the ghosted look.Try making the ghosted text a light blue to diferentiate it from the face., needs to be visable but not interfereing with either the alien or the main text. Oh and to help put a black fill layer behind all of the other layers... should fix the grey background. Edited July 23, 2003 by Vaaish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 (edited) Hmmm, iteration number 4. At least improvement over number 1 is VERY clear I've duplicated the alien face, and changed the color of the bottom one, while the top one is transparant. That way I could keep the blurred text gray, and it came out okay I think. Edit: oops, wrong file... Edited July 23, 2003 by j'ordos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted July 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 Hey - Well, I think I'm calling it a day on my sig. I like the one I'm currently using, should anyone like one with your name on it, just ask. It only takes a few seconds to do. Or if you want the psd, you can have that too. Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 24, 2003 Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 (edited) Hmmm, iteration number 4. At least improvement over number 1 is VERY clear I've duplicated the alien face, and changed the color of the bottom one, while the top one is transparant. That way I could keep the blurred text gray, and it came out okay I think. Edit: oops, wrong file...much better. only suggestions I have not is lessen the opacity of edges of that blurred text layer so it blends a bit better with the background on the left and right and use a color that contrasts more on "greatgold" Edited July 24, 2003 by Vaaish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted July 24, 2003 Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 (edited) OK, done. And since GG doesn't need it anymore... I might as well use it myself Edited August 1, 2003 by j'ordos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted July 24, 2003 Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 OK, done. And since GG doesn't need it anymore... I might as well use it myself there ya go... much better now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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