Retro-Logo needed!

Shockwave · 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!

hellfire · June 06, 2008

Quotebackground colour #000000

please reconsider that.

Shockwave · 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!

Ghost^BHT · September 15, 2008

Well dont know if this meets your quality standards or not.... anyway offerd up for consideration.

Shockwave · September 15, 2008

Smart

Can we use it please please please?

Thanks mate.

K+++++ !

Ghost^BHT · September 15, 2008

Yes use it

Shockwave · 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

Jim · September 16, 2008

Right up there! K+ Ghost!

Jim

Shockwave · September 22, 2008

The logo looks wonderful on the site Ghost!

Pixel_Outlaw · 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.

Shockwave · 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.

Pixel_Outlaw · September 23, 2008

Quote from: 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!

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?

Shockwave · 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?

hellfire · September 24, 2008

Started something:

But hasn't got style yet.
Might be continued - or trashed.

(using 3DS Max)

AnimalMother · September 24, 2008

Looks cool. Is it raytraced?

Shockwave · September 24, 2008

Oh my.

Looks wonderful already!

I do hope you finish it!

Hezad · September 24, 2008

looks really cool

It doesn't look really retro though, but it DOES look really cool

benny! · 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!

Pixel_Outlaw · September 24, 2008

Quote from: hellfire on September 24, 2008
Started something:

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.

hellfire · September 25, 2008

Quote from: Pixel_Outlaw on September 24, 2008You might consider some hints of orange in places to offset the blue.

Quote from: benny! on September 24, 2008Maybe a bit more centered and lower - and then simply add the missing word "REMAKES" in simple font style beneath it.

Like this?

Not really happy with it, though...