Logo Request

[Bill Gates]

While I'm still working on my main site. My friend and I have decided to create another site for a video podcast. I was hoping someone could create the logo for it . it would basiclly be a burnt/cracked computer being zapped by lightning. And the site name would be ZapTV or zapTV or Zap Tv or Zap TV whatever looks better.

[machine]

Yo Bill ! How you doing? About this logo -- I don't wish to monopolise this graphics business here . So let's give the folks at zymic an opportunity to do it this time, huh? I'm quite certain they'll do a very cool job... If you look around, you'll see that there's no dearth of talent here...

[BigBCC]

LOL Machine.... I'm not entirely sure what he wants in this... do you want like a realistic one??? Or like computer animated??

[machine]

I think Bill wants a static logo, not an animated one, BCC. And welcome back... hope your computer's feeling better ...

[Jacob]

I think machine should as he is the pro at this sort of thing.

Jacob.

[machine]

Yo Bill , I had intentions of doing a Pink Floyd-type surreal wallpaper/poster with a TV in it.

Your post reminded me of this concept and helped me develop it further. I did it today. It's called "God hates TV" [no offence to anyone ] and it looks something like this [this is a rough/first draft version of the concept]:



So dude, you have my thanks . By the way, "God Hates TV" sounds like a band name, doesn't it ? Although I don't know if a band with such a name would get much TV coverage, eh ?

Well, if you think this image can be modified in any way to suit your need, let me know, okay? But keep in mind that this is a 3D render and not a vector drawing... I can replace the old-fashioned TV model with a computer monitor.

Cheers!

[Bill Gates]

Hey machine. Glad to see you doing it! You're the pro here lol. Anyways once i get home I will check it out, although i already know it'll be great lol. For some reason these computers don't allow pictures to be shown.

[machine]

As I wrote above, this is 3D render, not a vector drawing. So make sure it is suitable for what you have in mind, okay?

[BigBCC]

LOL... That was something i had thought about trying to do for him... But I don't have 3D Studio MAX, and I am still learning blender...

[Bill Gates]

It would be great if it was a computer . Also i don't think I'd be able to incorporate my site name without messing up the photo since i Don't have original. Thanks again!

[machine]

@ Bill: Buddy, see if this is okay:



This is a PNG image [with transparency]. Like the Mister Cracker pics, you can copy-paste this over any background you choose.

And this is just the graphic [again, a PNG transparency] which you can use with/over your own text.



@ BigBCC: That's okay -- we were all noobs once [still are, in some area or another!]. Keep doing Blender .

Cheers !

[BigBCC]

Machine thanks for your support...

I'm thinking about switch to 4D cinema or what ever it's called.... I've seen the interface, and it looks easier to me

[machine]

It's Cinema 4D [C4D] and a lot of folks at zymic use it. I think the interface is similar to that of Max, although I haven't seen it in detail or fully -- I noticed the similarity when I saw the screenshots from the C4D tutorials @ Zymic...

[BigBCC]

LOL, well it looks a lot easier than blender...

[Andrew]

LOL, well it looks a lot easier than blender...

hate to hijack the thread, but I just wanted to say, I took 3 years of engineering in highschool, and we used 3d studio max alot in that class. Sadly I never really put any work into it, so my 3d skills are very much lacking, but I can follow tutorials, and mess around and make some pretty crappy stuff. But at least it looks like it's supposed to. But my point is, after learning 3dsmax I wasn't able to even use any of the other 3d programs, like maya, cinema4d, lightwave, bryce. They all felt akward to me. So I think it's all personal preference, as to what you start on and get used to. All I can say is try them all out if you can!

And to get back on topic, I really Like the image you made, though for me personally I think it's kind of huge for a logo. But thats just my opinion.

[machine]

@ bill & trippin: Thank you for raising this point. I make them big so that the user can later scale them down to a smaller size as per his/her needs . This was also why the mister cracker images were large in size.

As you know, if you do the reverse -- scale a smaller image up, it suffers from the 'resolution loss syndrome' and looks pixelated, particularly when it's a bitmap [like jpg, gif, png] and not size-independant vector artwork.

Read more about this issue here.

Maybe a user would need a larger version of his/her logo sometime and if it were small to begin with, enlarging it [like I mentioned above] will not produce an acceptable copy... Particularly in Bill's case, since he usually doesn't specify the size, I assume that he intends to use it in several sizes or try various sizes before he chooses one.

Cheers!

[machine]

By the way Bill, here's a second version of the logo that's more 'horizontal' . As usual, it's a PNG image [with transparency].



[Sorry for making this a separate post.]

[Valency]

Machine.. I'm loving it again.. the one above is amazing.
You never stop amazing me with your talent.
Good Job buddy!

[Paradoks]

Wow machine, your 3d skills are AMAZING, Can you refrence me to anything that you learned from

[machine]

Thanks Valency and Paradoks, for your appreciation. Learning 3D is a bit like this joke I once heard:

A tourist in London looks around and asks a violinist who's passing by: "Excuse me, but how do you get to Albert Hall?"

The violinist looks back at him and says, "With practice..."

Plus there are many books and tutorial sites that'll explain what each and every element of a 3D app's UI does. Go through these carefully, and try them out on your computer as you read. Look around for simple everyday objects that you can model. And practise a lot. That's all that I can say -- since I did those things myself ... Best of luck!