The OFFICIAL Unofficial Achewood Message Board
Trivial Pursuits => People & Places => Topic started by: jough on August 01, 2003, 09:27:38 am
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Well, it took me four hours, but I made a logo for this beeeotch. See above.
I know it's a little crowded, but as I kept adding layers, adding more characters, I realised that I left out one of my favourites. So I had to add another.
Then I realised that I needed Todd and Blister. And then I thought Ray MUST have a martini (and even though it's very tiny I actually put a green olive and a little tiny red pimento dot in there too - plus a little cocktail sword - you can tell I'm really fuck*ng proud of my martini glass - and the fact that I erased the part where Ray's hand is so that it looks like he's holding it).
You have to understand, kids, that my graphical talents are near zip. But I tried to rise to the occasion. I hope I didn't make it too ugly. I pretty much found poses that I liked in old strips and then copied them. I made the characters mostly whole and really big, and then made them small and erased the parts that would work. I thought I'd be clever by having Lyle's arm, Ray's elbow and glass, phillipe's hands (only hand now because I accidentally moved his layer *behind* beef, and I'm not going back to change it now) and of course Beef's monitor, which everyone is crowded around, go over the black line there.
Anyway, I'm awfully proud of my logo as you can tell. You can flame all you want but you CANNOT TAKE AWAY my sense of satisfaction at a job done.
and the words "The OFFICIAL Unofficial" use the same font that Onstad uses for the dialogue (and obviously the achewood logo font is in there too).
The hardest part, of course, was figuring out who would stand behind whom.
LET THE FLAMING BEGIN
-- Jough
Edited to make this un-sticky.
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You have to understand, kids, that my graphical talents are near zip.
Stop telling lies! You are obviously very talented because that logo is basically perfect.
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Once again, you rock. That must be twice, three times in one 24 hour period. Are you going for a record or something.
What next, are you gonna start a web comic?
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Once again, you rock. That must be twice, three times in one 24 hour period. Are you going for a record or something.
What next, are you gonna start a web comic?
For his next trick he'll be sending us all $100 savings bonds
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Dude, that logo kicks.
Nice one.
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Word up. Excellent work. As someone who pretends to know something about graphics (but secretly sucks ass at Illustrator and the like), you did an awesome job.
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You rock, Jough. The logo rocks the casbah. Once I play with the color scheme for the board and hook up some custom smilies, we're gonna have a pretty hott lookin' board up in this piece.
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Is Lie-Bot's hand holding up Blister?
Super duper rockin'-uper logo.
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Where the F*** is the AIDS Sock Monkey? You suck!
Ha ha, no, just kidding. It is the best comic-related forum logo ever. Nice work.
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hook up some custom smilies,
I would like to help with this, if you want. Post or PM me the parameters.
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Where the F*** is the AIDS Sock Monkey? You suck!
Yeah man. What gives?
I couldn't resist.
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It's funny you should say that, because I was GOING To include the beatnik AIDS monkey but room was already pretty tight. I guess I could've made it a *little* wider, now that I'm looking at it.
And I still can, of course. That's why Jesus invented the PSD file, and Photoshop.
And no, blister is just floating there, but yeah, maybe I'll ERASE THE *****'S HANDS!!!
And if I do change anything I'm totally going to move Philippe back up to the front so you can see his left hand.
With 19 layers those things tend to get lost in the shuffle.
I tried to make everyone look surprised by moving the eyebrows like that, but I'm not sure if it worked. They all look kinda stoned to me.
-- Jough
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Yes, it is a great logo. Nice work, and quick too. But I admit mostly I am making this post to double check that my avatar works.
Edit: Sorry, tried to delete this but don't know how on this board ye.
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Last checkbox under the "edit" window. But don't worry about deleting "test" posts at this point. There will be plenty of them.
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and here's another!
hope i didn't piss off anybody who's cool enough to come here back when i was allowed to type on the old board.
how's that avatar looking? huh? huh?
congrats and thanks, jld and jough!
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how's that avatar looking? huh? huh?
Proper, Choop.
PROPER.
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Edit: Sorry, tried to delete this but don't know how on this board ye.
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That logo really is quite something. Something good.
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Edit: Sorry, tried to delete this but don't know how on this board ye.
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Oh. I'll take a look at that, then.
Thanks for posting these kinds of things. Do me a favor, though, and PM me or put them in "community." I'm more likely to see and respond promptly.
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I've changed the permissions for this forum only. Can somebody check to see if they can delete posts now? Hopefully you can delete only your own?
I can't tell because I have full access to everything anyway.
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Delete Successful!
(I'm only posting it here so nobody else has to bother trying)
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Neat. Can you delete others' posts as well? Because I can, but I don't trust you guys with that kind of power.
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Nice logo! Can we start arguing about what they're all looking at on Beef's PC? The Bash a Bum web site? A streaming video of the new Lara Croft movie trailer? :wink:
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Neat. Can you delete others' posts as well? Because I can, but I don't trust you guys with that kind of power.
No, I'm unable to delete other's posts. So that looks ok.
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Nice logo! Can we start arguing about what they're all looking at on Beef's PC?
There is no debate:
http://www.fao.com/
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Nice logo! Can we start arguing about what they're all looking at on Beef's PC?
I just assumed that like all sane people they were spending their days here.
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Nice logo! Can we start arguing about what they're all looking at on Beef's PC? The Bash a Bum web site? A streaming video of the new Lara Croft movie trailer? :wink:
I thought it was obvious: they're all reading the Official Unofficial Achewood Message Board.
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Nice logo! Can we start arguing about what they're all looking at on Beef's PC? The Bash a Bum web site? A streaming video of the new Lara Croft movie trailer? :wink:
I thought it was obvious: they're all reading the Official Unofficial Achewood Message Board.
See there, logic shines through again! I like this forum better already. The colors are nice and cool, and you can't beat that logo.. well you could but it might scratch yer monitor
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I changed the logo a little, moving Philippe to the front where he belongs, I moved vlad in front of the logo title (slightly) saved it as a gif instead of a jpeg which made the file size smaller...
oh yeah, and there's another character in there now. ;)
Complain away.
-- Jough
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No complaints from me. Took me a moment, after a moderate yelp of shock once I saw the green outline had changed to red, but apart from that...
The realigment of the characters works well though.
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Took me a moment, after a moderate yelp of shock once I saw the green outline had changed to red.
It was a blue-green when the board colours were blue-green, but now that it's all grey I figured I'd reduce the number of colours needed for the .gif file to keep the file-size down.
Plus, I like the red.
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We've got two logo threads, so one of them's got to go.
Wish I could merge them. Sorry.