Logo And Icon

[Renzatic]

I've always thought we should have an icon and updated logo for the mod, and today I took it upon myself to goof around and do one.

 

It still needs alot of work, but this is what I've come up with so far.

 

 

and the Icon by itself

 

 

What do you think?

 

Edit: Logo with icon to the left and beveled text.

 

[Ishtvan]

I'm no artist, but I like the layout and concept a lot. As to the face on the gear.. who is that supposed to be? The Grand Architect?

[Renzatic]

It's still not finished yet, but I want it to be a mix of all the factions into one little logo. Right now it's the Bulders (the old guy in the center) and the Mechanists (gear). Pretty soon I wanna add some vines around it for the Pagans and maybe some odd symbols for the mages eventually.

[Springheel]

Might it not look a little too close to the T2 icon when shrunk?

[Renzatic]

Actually it looks like crap when it's shrunk. It's good for spicing up our logo a bit and will look good on splash screens, but we'll have to come up with another design for the icon.

 

Edit: Here you go. As you can see, it's not well fitted to be shrunk down to 64x64

[Springheel]

I had the same problem when I tried to make one based on our main character. It's really hard to do anything other than fairly obvious shapes or contrasting colours.

 

Problem I had was coming up with a symbol that seemed to suit the mod. We don't have glyphs, and none of the factions are important enough to be the focal point of an icon (except perhaps the Founders, but what do you do, make a hat icon?)

 

Something involving the Thief seemed the way to go, but I didn't like anything I came up with so far.

 

And as far as the cog with vines goes, are we worried about looking too much like this?

 

http://www.thief2x.com/

[Renzatic]

For the founders you could make something really esoteric and weird. I was thinking about using something like a bald headed facial profile with an oversized eye staring directly outwards.

 

And no, my vine cogs would be a bit more vague and artistic in design..more like looping strands without leaves circling the gear rather than actual vines like that.

[New Horizon]

Why not just a gold coin?

[oDDity]

How about just a black square? It can represent the DARK mod, the shadows, the night, the fact we coudn't think of anything better..

 

Anyone who's seen 'This is Spinal Tap' will appreciate it's rapier like subtety.

[Subjective Effect]

I like that image Renz but with vines it will end up looking like the gear from T2X.

 

And should you have the face of a God anywhere? I don't know what the Hammer symbol is in TDM mind.

[BlackThief]

I actually like it, some suggestions though: I'd make the gear look more "metalish" - it looks to me like a stone gear (maybe it's even supposed to be a stone gear )

and maybe another symbol in the middle, which fits to the campaign - mascen can you think of anything really characteristic of your story that'd fit into that gear ?

[Springheel]

I like the idea of a gold coin too. Nice and generically thiefy, and hasn't been done already. This will be the icon for running all different FMs, so it probably shouldn't be specific to our campaign.

[Macsen]

mascen can you think of anything really characteristic of your story that'd fit into that gear ?

Not the face of the Builder god I don't think, since they wouldn't want to humanise him.

 

There's the Raven Harp from the campaign, but I don't think that would be any good.

 

Just something simple that sums it all up - I'd just go for a diagonal blackjack personally.