yea thats one way. if i may add something ... the way it is shown with tullys isnt the optimum tho. it should be as whide as the content area to match the layout in a nicer way or use the space left to add other information or function.
peppi really brought it up to date i believe. since u made pc public in dom wars with thta logo and we all feel the recognizability of the old type case. loosing the "fillin" and addin the smiley there is just an elegant solution. i know his understating way and he made his suggestion there and wont enforce it himself. so im just sayin my 2 cents. dont need a better idea i think its there. combining each idea here was a way to create something bigger. dont change anything, is what i suggest.
i can i help myself doing some specific suggestions. somebody let me know.
Oh for sure, it'd take up 100% of the space of the forum. How we handle it for teh 100% browser width is another nut to crack, but I don't care cuz I like the idea so much.
Peppi's idea will likely get used mixed with this idea of Tully's.
I'll try to dig up some old vector art i had made when i made shirts a little bit ago. its a pure black and white, no grayscale... should be perfect for those looking for some fodder for experimentation.
btw... the old secondary font we had on polycount is:
not really suggesting thats the font to use, but who knows one of you non-logo designers will have a fit of inspiration. but you'll have to make it into a level first for credibility.
I would love the new logo, looove, if only the site were called Pixelcount
And also if the green wasn't so bright - th eold logo had a much darker and more pleasant shade of green. Bright green is my least favourite colour, while I quite liked the old green...
I quite miss the old polysmilies too, but other than that I rather like the new board style.
Hurm, apparently I was replying to like page 2 or something. Stupid
The new "solid" thicker take on the old logo is a win IMO, although the smiley should be closer to the same style (maybe smaller, I dunno).
btw anybody ever thought abuot building lightbox into the forum? so that image links are automaticly tagged as lightbox images and open above the forum. u even can do a caption for the whole thread maybe and click through just teh pictures of the thread not scrolling or clickin through the pages...
anybody knows what i mean?
which reminds me... where is the link gone that lead to "all pages" of one thread
Ok, here we go. i dug thru some old harddrives and found the original source for the original polycount tshirts from way back. Jeremy Cooke of Gearbox did this for me way way back when he was at Sunstorm.
its an illustrator file, but I'm going to assume most of you can deal with that at this point.
now if i can only find the art for the only banner ad i made for polycount... it was supposed to go into rotation in the gamespy network adds, but it... got pulled. they didn't approve. It was too risque. I'll see if i can find it and stop teasing about it.
Here are examplesof what it could look like with the idea Tully had given me. It would need, of course, a proper pass on the logo and everyone who'd like their art work to be used would have to submit it.
don´t move the logo.. mirror the banner-img or place it in a different way.. but DON´T MOVE THE LOGO .. nonononononononono
and i think your temp logo is the best logo atm in this thread.. i like it a lot (even if there is the logo-sign-text missing .. blabla video game resource usw.."
Perhaps you could add a blue rim light to the logo to go with the whole desaturated next gen flavour we've got going on the forum now. It might not go terribly well with the current shade of green you've got for the logo but its something to consider.
i dunno. just because you CAN add that custom background art function to the header, doesnt mean you have to.
usually that kind of stuff will stop being updated after half a year or so.
and most of the logos you came up with are pretty unexciting, adam. no offense but why not leave this job to the people who know their shit like peppi, hawken, qubism etc.
all these unneccessary gradients, bevels, glossiness just look very amateur (basically all attempts yet besides tullys and peppis mockups)
if done right, something simple and light can look far more intriguing than a very complex and overloaded logo.
the logos - assuming you mean the ones i did way back when on the white sheet - are old and not used for obvious reasons. those logos can be forgotten, i just thought it would be fun to show something that was done early on, before anyone knew we were updating the forum.
what ends up being used won't be done by me. we've professionals here who're capable and we've asked for their help. again guys, those were just examples of the idea. the bg's will be updated. i wouldn't want to do something like this that wouldn't be maintained.
thanks everyone for the input on the new idea. i'm really glad you guys like it. we're working on making it final, but you probably won't hear much about it anymore until the dominance war is over.
Too late at this point, but my perference for the logo.
Only because i dislike the banner idea. Perhaps for a new front page, but not the forums. Who determines what is shown, and how long does it stay there?
contrast of forum colors themself turned out a bit low.
i found that to happen when u define each color by hex or whatever.
touching up the colors in photoshop kicks it a bit more sometimes.
other thing i noticed unnessacary boxes.
i dunno what the limits of changing the look of the forum is.
but i made em just as whide as the main box so no extra border there.
1+1=3 ... u dont want that.
some said they dont want polycount to be so big?!?.
personally i notice the power of the smiley and
we could just go with that. think of a pirate flag there
sticky thread. instead decreasin the contrast of background
and text on it i encreased it by makin it black.
overall i believe black is nessacary. grey is fine but as a
somemore black goes good with the green.
the green
i toned it down a little too. i also inverted and toned down the "buttons".
the white text has not enuf contrast on the bright green to be readable..
Not fond of just greenie up there, nor the fire-in-my-eyes brightness of your text on the background. The contrast of the board color is nice, but the text just hurts. Needs to be darker than that.
but about the design.. i think there is too much black.. i like the lil green one there but.. the background .. too much black .. i tend to think there is some img-bug, not showing the image
but i love the color and contrast editing on the rest! this green is a lot better!
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peppi really brought it up to date i believe. since u made pc public in dom wars with thta logo and we all feel the recognizability of the old type case. loosing the "fillin" and addin the smiley there is just an elegant solution. i know his understating way and he made his suggestion there and wont enforce it himself. so im just sayin my 2 cents. dont need a better idea i think its there. combining each idea here was a way to create something bigger. dont change anything, is what i suggest.
i can i help myself doing some specific suggestions. somebody let me know.
Peppi's idea will likely get used mixed with this idea of Tully's.
Here here!
totally agreed. I'm looking forward to this!
btw... the old secondary font we had on polycount is:
http://www.1001fonts.com/font_details.html?font_id=1138
not really suggesting thats the font to use, but who knows one of you non-logo designers will have a fit of inspiration. but you'll have to make it into a level first for credibility.
And also if the green wasn't so bright - th eold logo had a much darker and more pleasant shade of green. Bright green is my least favourite colour, while I quite liked the old green...
I quite miss the old polysmilies too, but other than that I rather like the new board style.
Hurm, apparently I was replying to like page 2 or something. Stupid
The new "solid" thicker take on the old logo is a win IMO, although the smiley should be closer to the same style (maybe smaller, I dunno).
played myself a lil some.
did this animation for no purpose but for fun...
anybody knows what i mean?
which reminds me... where is the link gone that lead to "all pages" of one thread
http://www.rogue13.com/originalpolycountlogo.rar
its an illustrator file, but I'm going to assume most of you can deal with that at this point.
now if i can only find the art for the only banner ad i made for polycount... it was supposed to go into rotation in the gamespy network adds, but it... got pulled. they didn't approve. It was too risque. I'll see if i can find it and stop teasing about it.
cheers
here's the one i made:
and here's the one that they made to replace it.
i really love the urban feel in the last two, i know it would be a cycle of images, but thats a damn good one by itself.
Is there a wee gradient in that logo too?
This isn't the final logo that'd be used. It's just a temp until a proper one is made.
either bottom left or right for the logo but I agree it should stay in place. I rather like the logo being used in the images as well.
Awesome stuff, bromenstein!
And I really like that logo. Seriously, tart that up and get it uploaded.
Still would like to be able to click on the polycount logo and have it go to the front of the forum.
and i think your temp logo is the best logo atm in this thread.. i like it a lot (even if there is the logo-sign-text missing .. blabla video game resource usw.."
damn 10 chars
cheers.
Perhaps slightly minimized with the Smiley a bit would help center attention.
That or an excessive amount of bloom lighting.
Quality stuff, Adam.
How would these work in widemode?
-caseyjones
usually that kind of stuff will stop being updated after half a year or so.
and most of the logos you came up with are pretty unexciting, adam. no offense but why not leave this job to the people who know their shit like peppi, hawken, qubism etc.
all these unneccessary gradients, bevels, glossiness just look very amateur (basically all attempts yet besides tullys and peppis mockups)
if done right, something simple and light can look far more intriguing than a very complex and overloaded logo.
just my 2 cents
and if the background thing is managed like the cg-society header, they will be updated
otherwise i would say.. choose ONE nice bg and use it "forever"
what ends up being used won't be done by me. we've professionals here who're capable and we've asked for their help. again guys, those were just examples of the idea. the bg's will be updated. i wouldn't want to do something like this that wouldn't be maintained.
thanks everyone for the input on the new idea. i'm really glad you guys like it. we're working on making it final, but you probably won't hear much about it anymore until the dominance war is over.
Only because i dislike the banner idea. Perhaps for a new front page, but not the forums. Who determines what is shown, and how long does it stay there?
been messin a bit. what i did :
contrast of forum colors themself turned out a bit low.
i found that to happen when u define each color by hex or whatever.
touching up the colors in photoshop kicks it a bit more sometimes.
other thing i noticed unnessacary boxes.
i dunno what the limits of changing the look of the forum is.
but i made em just as whide as the main box so no extra border there.
1+1=3 ... u dont want that.
some said they dont want polycount to be so big?!?.
personally i notice the power of the smiley and
we could just go with that. think of a pirate flag there
sticky thread. instead decreasin the contrast of background
and text on it i encreased it by makin it black.
overall i believe black is nessacary. grey is fine but as a
somemore black goes good with the green.
the green
i toned it down a little too. i also inverted and toned down the "buttons".
the white text has not enuf contrast on the bright green to be readable..
those are my thoughts... what are yours?
but about the design.. i think there is too much black.. i like the lil green one there but.. the background .. too much black .. i tend to think there is some img-bug, not showing the image
but i love the color and contrast editing on the rest! this green is a lot better!