the emerald toad

killingpeople

i made a symbol to represent the good people in this industry. the creative people that make our industry, in my opinion, the greatest there is. the creators of games. i'd like to intentionally create a meme, to see if i can - it's up to you. i ask my friends to join me by hiding this symbol in their art and see if this frog can't quietly find its way into every game being made, just for the fun of it.

Emil Mujanovic

Done and done.
I've already started doing this with greentooth as well, but this new symbol is even easier to hide.

-caseyjones

Slum

bounchfx

solid

Wells

I would have followed you to the ends of the earth, cory.

to the ends of the earth


edit: wherez my vector version. cannot be using this low rez sheet in mah gamez0rs

Joseph Silverman

Awesome idea, would definitely be on this if i was a real artist and actually worked anywhere.

EarthQuake

And here, i've just been drawing dicks on everything this whole time....

konstruct

damn, I stared at that sucker for like an hour and FINAlly saw what I think could maybe be a frog- then I realized thats probably what you were really trying to do, and I fell right into it.

...jerk
On a side note- thats pretty dope slum, what did you make that in?

Steve Schulze

So why would I be represented by a toad as opposed to say a rhesus monkey or turkey wearing an amusing hat? I'm not opposed to toads as such, or any amphibians for that matter (except for the caecilians. Screw those guys) but what exactly is your phillosophy on the toad as artist metaphor?

killingpeople

it's all very spontaneous.

my intention was to create a meme and i thought polycount would help me. i'd create a symbol, then ask my friends at polycount to spread it around, since they have the means. it seemed fairly plausible, so i wanted to try it. hopefully i'll get to see one unexpectedly in a game some day.

i needed a good meaning for the symbol. i decided the symbol should represent admired qualities in the game developers i know. the toad wouldn't represent you yourself, but the traits you respect in the field, found in others.

we have greentooth, and i love him. he's pretty loud though. i made a symbol i thought would be very easy to hide and would go unnoticed to someone that was unaware of it, so not to cause any trouble. this makes causing a movement like this much easier. when it comes down to it, awesome humans in this industry, prompted me to create it.

after i made it, i wanted it name it. i'd ask the polycount community to spread it as a sort of viral propaganda for our community so: "emerald". i saw a frog in it, i like frogs, hence: "toad".

8===D

i'll get a vector version up sometime tomorrow.

Tumerboy

nice. I'll try and toss it in here and there. Nice thing about working on a city, there's always need for grafitti!

bounchfx

I can see this easily being thrown into games in many different ways. maybe a texture has it in a corner, or maybe so vague as to have some geometry form a rough shape of it. I'm not sure what your initial idea was but it certainly is giving us the opportunity to be creative with how we implement it.

Justin Meisse

that's alot easier to sneak in than a dopefish....

Neox

hmkay now i have to put a ninjamonkey and this into every game i work on

PeterK

Eq, you've been drawing your face on everything? poot.

Jeremy Lindstrom

are you shitting me? It's a line drawing of goatse!!

ElysiumGX

me agrees with Dekard

also +1 vote for Slum's new mascot

Illusions

ElysiumGX wrote: »

also +1 vote for Slum's new mascot

It looks like the offspring of Greentooth and Domo Kun...

Japhir

OH MY GOD! i just googled goatse because i didn't know what it was aaaaarhggh! *me sits in a corner shaking and crying* ... shivers.

nice idea, and i really like slum's interpretation.

ElysiumGX

welcome to the internet

Emil Mujanovic

Japhir wrote: »

OH MY GOD! i just googled goatse because i didn't know what it was aaaaarhggh! *me sits in a corner shaking and crying* ... shivers.

nice idea, and i really like slum's interpretation.

HAHA, OWNED!

-caseyjones

Slum

LOL. Wow.

Ever heard of tubgirl?

John Warner

hah. i didn't think there was anybody left.

killingpeople

Sectaurs wrote: »

wherez my vector version. cannot be using this low rez sheet in mah gamez0rs

vector vector vector

bounchfx

Slum wrote: »

LOL. Wow.

Ever heard of tubgirl?

ok let's not go there or encourage any of this

arrangemonk

i dont get it, isnt it better to hide things that are almost unhidable for the sake of beeing cool ?

JohnnySix

Tried searching, found this thread as the 2nd hit for Emerald Toad on google.



I don't understand the origin, but think it makes an awesome gang tag.

greuh

I have been hiding some dopefish here and there for a while

Justin_Meisse wrote: »

that's alot easier to sneak in than a dopefish....

Asherr

This thread was almost a year dead.

Thegodzero

ohhhh now i can work it in... I know just how to use it....

kwakkie

Meh... id rather do a dopefish somewhere. Its easy to hide that simple icon somewhere in a texture or whatever... Dopefish is a challenge and asks for creativity!

adam

emerald toad may or may not be in Dawn of War 2.

Muzzoid

that makes me tempted to go back and play through dowII again..

JohnnySix

Wow, I didn't intentionally dig this up - can't remember how I found it now!

Sorry, didn't mean to engage in necromancy.

Muzzoid

Its in killingpeoples signature... thats how you found it.

JohnnySix

Whoops, sorry, curiosity exhumed the grave of the long deceased cat.