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Title: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on June 06, 2008
The site retro-remakes.net is currently being re-coded with a custom built portal, It is being coded by Tetra and I can say without any hesitation at all that it really is a fabulous site, it will provide what the remakes really demanded from the start, and that is a nice portal where people can download quality win32 remakes and comment and vote on them.

The smf forum that is currently there is going to go, my thanks to Tetra for the hard work he is doing in building the site, but the site needs logos!

So far I managed to get some nice promises of artwork from some really cool scene artists, but a bird in the hand as they say...

I would really like to recieve nice qualitly logos (to the standard on pouet or intro inferno) in the following dimensions;

600px wide, 200px high background colour #000000

The more we get, the better it will be :)

Cheers!
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: hellfire on June 06, 2008
Quote
background colour #000000
please reconsider that.
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on June 06, 2008
Hehe, I am fabulously bad at selecting colours.

Well, the background is black at the moment.. I guess that the site will keep a dark background (maybe not pure black then, but surely almost black at least) because it needs to look really oldschool.

Any art could be in png format with a transparrent background and it will look fine on the site :) cheers!
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Ghost^BHT on September 15, 2008
Well dont know if this meets your quality standards or not.... anyway offerd up for consideration.
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on September 15, 2008
Smart :)

Can we use it please please please? :)

Thanks mate.

K+++++ !
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Ghost^BHT on September 15, 2008
Yes use it :)
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on September 15, 2008
Quality :)

I will give it to Tetra as soon as I see him online, I'll post here to let you know when it's added.

It's in perfect keeping with the site. Thanks once again :)
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Jim on September 16, 2008
Right up there!  K+ Ghost!

Jim
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on September 22, 2008
The logo looks wonderful on the site Ghost!
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on September 23, 2008
This is an early WIP. Hopefully it looks "retro" enough. I'll have to work in a background layer for the color you want. ;)

I wanted to include the staple effects- sinus scroller,plasma and vector cube. All wrapped in C64 flavor.

Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on September 23, 2008
Hmmm..

Well the background of the site is Black.. But I have an idea, it's up to you if you want to make it..

How about coding something and saving it as an animated GIF ?

Don't use too many colours because it should not be too big, the logo you have there so far unfortunately would not be usable, this really is one for the artists!

But like I said, you could code something to produce an animated gif? That would rock.
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on September 23, 2008
Hmmm..

Well the background of the site is Black.. But I have an idea, it's up to you if you want to make it..

How about coding something and saving it as an animated GIF ?

Don't use too many colours because it should not be too big, the logo you have there so far unfortunately would not be usable, this really is one for the artists!


Ahh so you are using .gif. I should have asked what kind of format you wanted. No worries about too many colors I usualy go oldschool.
My goal there was to do something retro looking as the site title would sugest. I don't mind scrapping it but what kind of logo are you looking for? Obveously anything retro enough will have a smaller color palette. I might just have to go back to hand pixeling something in paint, too many whistles and bells in Photoshop, not to mention it insists that everything have at least 300 colors in it. I guess I'm making assumptions though. Do you want something low color? I've made classic sprites for a long time now but I want to try logo making.

What sort of things are you looking for?
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on September 23, 2008
You mis-understand me mate, sorry.

With the greatest respect, coder art usually looks good to coders.

Unfortunately we have rejected several logos already because they were not up to the standard we wanted.

Usable formats are:

png, jpg, gif

If it was Gif then possibly you could code some kind of effect and save it as a Gif which of course could be animated?
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: hellfire on September 24, 2008
Started something:
(http://hellfire.untergrund.net/stuff/test.jpg)
But hasn't got style yet.
Might be continued - or trashed.

(using 3DS Max)
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: AnimalMother on September 24, 2008
Looks cool. Is it raytraced?
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on September 24, 2008
Oh my.

:o Looks wonderful already!

I do hope you finish it!
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Hezad on September 24, 2008
looks really cool :D  :clap:

It doesn't look really retro though, but it DOES look really cool :)
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: benny! on September 24, 2008
Looks amazing indeed, Hellfire.

I would like to play with the camera angle though. Maybe a
bit more centered and lower - and then simply add the
missing word "REMAKES" in simple font style beneath it.

Looking forward to see final version!
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on September 24, 2008
Started something:
(http://hellfire.untergrund.net/stuff/test.jpg)
But hasn't got style yet.
Might be continued - or trashed.

(using 3DS Max)

It looks very nice. You might consider some hints of orange in places to offset the blue. Maybe some ambiant reflections with some small hints of orange. Then again it might not work at all just some color theroy.
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: hellfire on September 25, 2008
You might consider some hints of orange in places to offset the blue.

Maybe a bit more centered and lower - and then simply add the missing word "REMAKES" in simple font style beneath it.

Like this?
(http://img2.abload.de/img/retrop9s.jpg)
Not really happy with it, though...
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Hezad on September 26, 2008
wow cool ! the Orange color really adds a lot of "color depth" to the final image !

 :clap:
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Dr.Death on September 26, 2008
Jesus hellfire i love it m8  :goodpost:

I can't believe 3dsmax is this good :clap:

My stuff never looks like this  :(
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Ghost^BHT on September 26, 2008
in my opinion lose the reflection of the chessboard and reduce transparency a bit maybe  :goodpost:ade the glass shader with some color
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on September 26, 2008
I too think that the orange really makes those letters feel more 3d the key is the color contrast between orange and blue. Would the program let you sort of map some transparent environmental textures on top of the letters while keeping them glassy? You might use the orange there rather than a direct shadow. Overall *very* nice.
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: benny! on September 26, 2008

Maybe a bit more centered and lower - and then simply add the missing word "REMAKES" in simple font style beneath it.

Like this?
(http://img2.abload.de/img/retrop9s.jpg)
Not really happy with it, though...

Yup - that's how I thought it could look like. Maybe you could
darken out the chessfield at the border - so it fades to black.
Like putting another big light/spot in the center ... but don't know
if this looks good.

Anyway, I think now it looks more like a logo that can be used at
the top of a page.

Like my 2cts. I like it!
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on September 26, 2008
Blue/Orange kind of reminds me of the colour scheme h2o uses in most of his stuff, I prefered the blue cold look myself. It looks damned nice anyway :)
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on October 12, 2008
Well, we have 6 logos so far :)

Thanks to Jizzy, Ghost and Dicab for them, it means a lot!

There's plenty of space for more :)

Here they are;

Jizzy;
(http://www.retro-remakes.net/logos/jizzy.png)
Ghost;
(http://www.retro-remakes.net/logos/ghost.png)
Dicab;
(http://www.retro-remakes.net/logos/goldrr_dic4b.jpg)
(http://www.retro-remakes.net/logos/dicabribbon.jpg)
(http://www.retro-remakes.net/logos/dicabbubbles.jpg)
(http://www.retro-remakes.net/logos/dicab.png)
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Hezad on October 13, 2008
All those logos are totally astounding, Awesome work  :clap: :clap: :clap:
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: benny! on October 13, 2008
All those logos are totally astounding, Awesome work  :clap: :clap: :clap:

What Hezad says
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Hotshot on October 13, 2008
Amazing work   
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Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Clyde on October 13, 2008
Congrats to all the artists hardwork involved in creating those stunning RR logos.

Cool And Cheers,
Clyde.
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: gooner on October 13, 2008
Awesome work i might use them for my own wallpaper.
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Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Hotshot on October 14, 2008
should it have voting which one to pick?  :)
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Clyde on October 14, 2008
MR The Punishers, I believe they are logos that are allready submitted and are used at the site Retro Remakes.
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on October 14, 2008
Clyde is right, they are all in use :)
Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: spitfire on October 15, 2008
I also wanted to make one just for fun, I doubt its good enough for the site.

Title: Re: Retro-Logo needed!
Post by: Shockwave on October 16, 2008
Nevertheless, it's not that bad. Thanks for having a try Spitfire :) Have some good karma.