Dan Patrick Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) I'm currently creating/modifying a full(?) set of platform clear logos. By creating I mean literally DRAWING FROM SCRATCH in Adobe Illustrator in vector! One logo can range from taking one hour and go up to FOUR HOURS to perfect! Of course many of the logos have great versions already available and I won't be drawing those from scratch but simply examining thoroughly and touching up those if necessary. I will release all of these in extreme quality as well as my original vector drawing files. I don't want to take full credit for my upcoming collection because a lot of them will be essentially the same vector svgs used by the emulation station community. I'm combing over all of them though trying to fix flaws and redrawing logos if necessary. All of the ones shown here are either heavily altered or brand new drawings! Thanks to Pit's Arts on the forums for the TeknoParrot PNG that I traced from. I also drew a new arcade classics logo just for fun. The goal of this upcoming platform clear logo collection is to make all of the logos we use for platforms simply more accurate and higher quality. This is not to knock others who have worked hard to create currently used versions in the past but simply to improve upon that hard work further. Hopefully I don't come off as pretentious! I just want to make our platform logos the best they can be! This whole process started because I am also making a theme which needs accurate logos for a collection of hand drawn icons. I was touching up so many logos along the way that I decided to actually focus on just the logos for a while and get them fixed up some. I have spent around 90 hours doing just the logos as of right now! I know that this is not something people care too much about but I hope you can get some enjoyment from my labor of love once I release the full logo set. As a sneak peek of my theme's art, I'm going to show off a couple of my Icon backgrounds here for the first time. The theme will be called "ICONIC". I've been working on it everyday for nearly 3 months . The reason it has taken so long is because I wanted to draw all of these icons very accurately. It will support only about 40 to 50 platforms because It's just not reasonable to do more than that for me. The backgrounds scroll and loop continually through the magic of the theme creators animations. Currently it has a Nintendo style look with greys, reds and white. I know it looks really red but In the theme it's not too overpowering the way I'm using it. I plan to make a more neutral version as well. You'll see more of the ICONIC theme later. I have made a few long Youtube videos that show my tedious logo creation process in action! Feel free to skip around them because they aren't the most exciting videos in the world. If you take a peek at the (rough/unedited) recordings you can feel the vibes I'm putting into these logos. The logo collection will release very soon. The ICONIC theme will release....not as soon but still soon. Edited November 22, 2020 by Dan Patrick 8 2 1 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetec-s-joe Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Stunning work, looking forward to the set 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Patrick Posted December 1, 2020 Author Share Posted December 1, 2020 Thanks! Still working hard on it. Getting closer to being done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeylohk Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 This is so awesome project, respected!!!? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Patrick Posted January 6, 2021 Author Share Posted January 6, 2021 (edited) This is almost done now! Hopefully within a week! I keep adding more logos and perfected others as much as I can. I also recently found archive.org has tons of great manual scans so I've been using that for logo references now too. Edited January 6, 2021 by Dan Patrick 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihilhem Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 On 1/6/2021 at 5:05 AM, Dan Patrick said: This is almost done now! Hopefully within a week! I keep adding more logos and perfected others as much as I can. I also recently found archive.org has tons of great manual scans so I've been using that for logo references now too. Hi! Any updates on the project? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Patrick Posted December 3, 2021 Author Share Posted December 3, 2021 (edited) Yup! I have done substantially more work on this than anticipated and have added many more platforms than originally planned. I have now spent hundreds of hours on this and it will very shortly be uploaded. Sorry to the small handful who have been waiting. The quality of the whole collection is on another level. One of the biggest boosts to the collection is that now many of the logos included will be official source vector art scraped from dozens of websites and vector pdfs. Also, as a fun surprise, I can confirm these will be the new default logos included in BigBox. Every platform includes multiple versions but the most sensible version will be used as the default and will have a white outline to be most visible in every theme. You will see the proof of these words very soon. Here's one example... Edited December 3, 2021 by Dan Patrick 3 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin_Flynn Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 I'm super excited for this. Absolutely stunning work and attention to detail. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihilhem Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 18 hours ago, Dan Patrick said: Yup! I have done substantially more work on this than anticipated and have added many more platforms than originally planned. I have now spent hundreds of hours on this and it will very shortly be uploaded. Sorry to the small handful who have been waiting. The quality of the whole collection is on another level. One of the biggest boosts to the collection is that now many of the logos included will be official source vector art scraped from dozens of websites and vector pdfs. Also, as a fun surprise, I can confirm these will be the new default logos included in BigBox. Every platform includes multiple versions but the most sensible version will be used as the default and will have a white outline to be most visible in every theme. You will see the proof of these words very soon. Here's one example... This is simply amazing. Thank you so much for all the hard work! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noetrejo1985@gmail.com Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I'm super excited for this. Absolutely stunning work and attention to detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauley Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Looking forward to the release of this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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