(08-17-2017, 10:34 PM)enigmatic Wrote:Ever since I jumped in and helped with the Wraiths' logo, it seems I'm the official logo maker of the NSFL. There probably are people more qualified and more skilled than me on the forum but I guess because I work fast and for free, people like asking me.
First of all, I don't make logos. I adapt them. This is a sim league, we're all here for fun. I'm not trained to create logos and I'm self-taught in Photoshop, so I do what I can. Do I wish I could draw my own stuff in Illustator? Absolutely. But I can't. So I make do with what I can find.
As I mentioned, the first logo I worked on was the Wraiths'. Originally, they had a white walker from Game of Thrones as their logo and while it looked cool (at least I thought so), it was just weird.
I didn't do anything for the first couple of days because truth be told, I had no clue what a wraith was. I thought it was some kind of spirit, as I learned while playing The Witcher, and good luck finding a ghost logo that doesn't look like crap… Anyway, people started saying that a skeleton would do, so I picked one of the logos posted in the suggestion thread or whatever and started to play around with it.
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Some people can argue that you shouldn't use soft brushes on a logo but I seriously don't give a shit. It looks more like the skeleton is possessed with it so fuck that I stand by my choice.
Next, RFFO asked me to give him a hand with his LA Legion logo. My initial idea was to have multiple soldiers with the name of the franchise at the bottom. I'm still bummed I couldn't do it, simply because I lack the skills to.
I like simple logos, which is why I opted for the most simple soldier I could find. When you look up legion and spartans logo, they're always overly complicated. Requested main colour was yellow, which I thought was awkward at first but looking back, I think it looks great.
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I made other logos for expansion teams but they unfortunately were not chosen.
Someone asked me for the Portland Roses because he thought seeing football players playing in a pink uniform would be hilarious. I'm not even sure he submitted his idea but I tried to make the logo seem as "cool" as possible with such a name, while keeping it fully pink. I'm not going to lie, it's one of my favourites I made.
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Jiggly was unsurprisingly one of the people who applied to be a GM. He wanted his team to be called the Chicago Sting. He shared a couple of images with me that he would've liked to see incorporated in his logo and I did my best to include as many of them as possible, while keeping it coherent. His primary source of inspiration was the actual Chicago Sting so I kept the colours and the hat present on their original logo.
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Other elements he wanted were the Chicago Municipal Device logo and something to do with the Chicago city flag. I used the municipal device logo as the background for the rest of the logo and placed the four stars of the flag at the bottom.
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Next, Baller asked me to make two logos for the prospects games: The Flint Sun Tropics and the Pomona Mongoose.
Pomona went surprisingly well. I looked online to read about Pomona because I had no clue where it even was or if it had landmarks. I saw that the ferris wheel seemed important and that mountains were close to the city. Since there didn't seem to be important buildings, I thought this would be a good enough background. I tried to find the most menacing mongoose image I could and worked on making the logo look like a logo. The requested colours were brown and orange.
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Flint's logo was tougher for me. I didn't realize it was based on a team in a movie and just thought it was an awkward team name and location combo. My original idea was always to have a sun, palm trees and waves. Having them all fit together was the challenge. I sent a first version to Baller that I found average so I restarted it. The requested colours were purple, green and yellow.
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Finally, I helped with half of the DSFL teams.
First up were the Luchadores, who were originally the Mexico City Aztecs. The name got vetoed so the logo I made for them went down the shitter. I thought it was a pretty cool name so I was pissed off :rofl:
The main challenge with the logo for this franchise was to make it look… not too Christmasy? Because the colours I was asked to use were green, red and white, like the Mexican flag, which I like, but it could easily look like a Christmas logo.
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I'm really into original and fun names so when I was told the Aztecs were replaced by the Luchadores, I didn't mind wasting time on a logo that would never be used so much anymore because I loved the new name. The requests stayed the same and I had freedom to pretty much do what I liked. I thought of using only a Luchadore mask but when I saw the full fighter, I knew I needed to use him. I originally placed the name of the team behind him so we could fully see him but loco wanted to see the full name.
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I liked it the way it was but tried different ways with the name in front and realized his idea was pretty good and I quite like the look of the logo.
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Second team were the Blues, who didn't have a name at that time. Jiggly told me he liked the logo I made previously for the Sting but that the bee freaked him out. I removed it and he wished to keep the logo black and white, even if his team was called the Blues. I thought it looked pretty good in blue but he preferred black. I aim to please.
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Finally, the Portland Cobras... I mean Pythons.
I'm not an expert in snakes and tried to google pythons a bit and I figured some of them might have the hood. My b.
Anyway, the only request that came with this logo were the colours: purple and yellow/gold. So this logo, I'm not gonna lie, was a pain in my ass to make. Nothing I tried worked. I must've tried with 5 different snake images and it always looked like garbage. I finally found one that looked cool and it was a fucking cobra. I mean, fuck my life right?
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Anti-Hype was happy with it, which, honestly, is all I care about. But then I read the comments when he announced his team name and I just thought to myself, will you let him have to deal with people saying "this logo iz stupid its not even a python ur stupid" for the rest of his career as a GM?" I'm not that cruel. So I modified it as best I could and removed the hood. But then it looked empty and ugly, so I modified the size and shape of everything and added text in the front. I'm pretty happy with the result and I'm glad Anti-Hype and RainDelay like it too. And if it looks like a soccer logo, idk, sue me.
Oh and why is there a trident? Because I like iconography a lot. I look up symbols of cities for every logo I make and if I can, I include some. The trident is apparently a symbol of Portland so I thought it would be fun to include it.
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So there you have it! I hope with some background and perspective on every logo I worked on for the forum, you'll understand some choices better. My main goal is to make the GM of the team happy and when that's achieved, the rest is secondary. Here's to a bunch of successful expansions :cheers:
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You're a saint. :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:
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