Where Things Are Going

[Xyngynkynyn]

Thanks to everyone who has replied so far. From the feedback I've read, it seems that most concentrated on the second image instead of the first. The second image is merely a proof-of-concept showcase that with a good simple logo, we can pretty much adapt it to whatever style/genre is desired by applying the proper filters and effects one can get from Photoshop to it.

Thus it's more important at this point that we have this basic logo first before we talk about applying it to shields, banners, tattoos, etc. So I was looking for more feedback on the first image. Is the eye a good representation for the Lounge? Would a sword, shield, or some animal be better (Remember; we're going with simple shapes here first)? If the eye is good, which one do you like? As I said previously, I'm not completely satisfied with any of them but maybe I'm “too close”. Is there any particular change in a specific logo you'd like to see changed?

Should something of mine be selected, I plan on giving Bolty the logo in a WMF (Windows Metafile) file. I'm using Illustrator to design the logo in case anyone's wondering. Once imported to Photoshop as a path, he should be able to scale it as necessary and apply whatever effects he wants upon it (as the second image demonstrates) to suit whatever it is he needs. Once, the logo has been settled, the other stuff like colors, texture, effects, and applications should be a snap.

You keep using that term, I don't think it means what you think it means...

(Translation: Hell, those are better than anything I could produce in 10 years :lol: ).
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Heh. Well the truth of the matter is Photoshop does most of the grunt work. Once I've set up the filters/effects and procedures necessary to produce those images, it's simply a matter of plugging in the logo to apply those effects to.

Can I call you Xyn?  :)
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I've always thought of “Xyngyn” (pronounced sinjin; not singin') as this name's nick but sure, go ahead. It'll save you three keystrokes in the middle of a fight. ;)

Here are some more sketches and another showcase:

That Guild Wars version would be a neato logo for the whole site, I like it a LOT!  Running with that, what would a full-text "The Lurker Lounge" look like with those color themes?
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Actually, only downside I can see with that logo is that it would be hard to use against any background that's not black, due to the fade effect of the red dot.  That's always challenging to incorporate into a transparent .gif (at least for one of my limited skills).
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What you want to use is a .PNG file. It stores info on an image's alpha channels. Here's the logo in PNG format.



Note: If you can't see the image above in your web browser, you're probably using MSIE. If you want to see it your options are to Google for a PNG plug-in for MSIE or switch to a more modern browser (I recommend Firefox).

The downside is the filesize is huge for this 640x480 image. There are some web-sites that distribute programs that try to compress PNG files but the ones I've tried didn't compress this one by much (6% off). Well the dimensions are large so a smaller one would reduce it but by how much I can't tell. It should be a simple matter for you try it out yourself. :)

And, extra challenge: animate the logo so it spins around in a circle horizontally, whilst still keeping a sane file size.
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Ahhh... animation. My technical skills there are severely limited although I have been procrastinating about changing that situation for quite some time now. No promises but before I could even begin to do that, we should settle on what the logo would be first.