When I first saw it, I thought you had me wandering around on a pogo stick! But either that or a cane is fine.
I also love how you worked in "HWW". Very clever.
Thanks, Ex.
You know those negative space pics where you at first see a vase, then two faces, and afterward you just can't unsee the second image?
When I was doing this one, it had sort of a somber feel to me - this solitary guy wandering across the land with his staff... but, now, I totally keep seeing the pogo stick thing.
Too funny! I should have tried to angle the path backward more but, clearly, diminishing perspective isn't my strong suit.
Really glad you like it, though!
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A couple quick updates as our cinematic duo prepares to take the LMB story to the silver screen. We have Actor Lad and Director Lad:
Next up: A couple of detectives track down the "Case of the LMB Enigma"
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Before the next round, I think we've had enough updates to warrant another group shot:
Looking pretty good... though I do need something to break up the similar shapes of Mystery Lad and Nighty. Where is "My Whee Fem" when I need her?
42 down... 90 something to go! And, as yet, there's no Sharky or Sarky or Peebs... oh my! We've got a whole clan worth of Quanks... and I don't know about you, but I've yet to see a sign of a certain nelly cap. Jillikers!
Should be a fun couple of weeks.
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how about adding the "BamF" to Nightcrawler? just a black cloud Bamf! ? thats more fit to the Night's character. whenever I have some conversation with friends, I tend to say "that NC Bamf then Bamf then Bamf" (I am speaking in ASL, , which signifies NC's teleportation power.) How about that? That would set both NC and Mystery Lad apart.
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Yeah, I'm thinking you're right (Set had mentioned something like that earlier as well). I think the tail works well, but perhaps a cloud at the bottom of it.
Seeing them all lined up, there are actually a few revisions I'll probably make later:
-The Interlac logos for myself and Varalent, although actually scaled the same as any other, still look overly huge when seen side by side because of their blockiness. I think I'll make them smaller.
-Rhino should be smaller as well. It is a good logo, but he is " lil' " Rhino, after all.
-The borders on Saturn Girl and Shady are actually messed up - I accidentally added them when viewing it at 150% as opposed to 100 and misjudged.
-Novelty is canted slightly counter-clockwise and should be straightened (it's probably not that noticable, but I can totally see it).
-And the center of Lash's whip really bothers me.
Ah... OCD.
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If you're revising some anyway, it may be easier to work with this streamlined rockhopper logo that Sketch Lad made.
This is absolutely one of the coolest threads I've seen here in a long while! Great job, Ex!
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quote:Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad: If you're revising some anyway, it may be easier to work with this streamlined rockhopper logo that Sketch Lad made.
That is sleek! Sketchy is really the man. The next time I do a group shot, Rocky, I'll convert that into this format for you.
For now though, we take a look at a mysterious LMBer and the two most likely to be able to track him down. We have C J Taylor (AKA Enigma), Legion Tracker, and Matlock:
I'll be honest, I don't really know CJ (but as his LMB name is Enigma, I suppose that's appropriate), so the approach I was going to take was to just try to tie his symbol into the Enigma encryption machine from WWII. That turned out to be not very graphic friendly, so I then tried a different approach, playing around with different arrangements of question marks. In doing so I noticed that if you turn a question mark upside down and then reflect it back on itself it seems to suggest the letters... C and J! Coincidence?!?! Somehow... I don't think so.
For Legion Tracker I used a compass rose pointing to... well... Legion. Looking at it now, it looks a lot like Dawnstar's headband symbol, so, hey... doubly appropriate for a tracker.
For Matlock I was going to use the logo for the Andy Griffith version of the character, but that was a bit boring, so I added a sort of Carmen Sandiego magnifying glass. A little bit hokey... yeah... but I think it looks nice.
Rocky's link above put me in this mindset, so up next: We take a look at some of the sketchier LMB members.
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... wait... are you saying the "horn" he's talking about is actually...
<slowly dawning awareness>
Ohhhhhhhhh!
OK, up next, three of Legion Worlds best artists, Drake B 3004, Monkey-Eater Lad, and Sketch Lad:
Drake and M-E each use logos of their own design. Drake's is obviously a modified Wildfire logo used in his avatar, and M-E's is a combo of Pacman going after Paul Frank's Julius the Monkey character.
For Sketchy I really wanted to use the M.C. Escher drawing hands, but based on previous attempts to do this style using more than three layers, I didn't have much hope. It shouldn't have worked... I don't know why it worked... but, damn... I'm so glad it worked!
Next up: It's about time.
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hey I just got a new avatar!!! and hey Ex - those are great!!!! Love that Sketch Lad symbol!
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Just a note - These symbols are just my take on your characters, based only upon what I know of you here. If anyone likes this style, but would like to see something other than what I came up with, just shoot me a note and I'll gladly give it a second shot (or heck, a third even). I just like messing around in PhotoShop.
So, tonight's update travels even farther ahead as we get two similarly named LMBers, Future and Future King:
I debated on how best to represent Future, until I found a pretty cool piece of clip art, modified here (and with a more appropriate time for Legion fans added as an Easter Egg).
Since I didn't want Future and Future King to be too similar, the latter is just me being incredibly cheeky.
Next up: I'm actually out of pocket tomorrow night for a concert (U2!) so I'm only going to post one new symbol tomorrow, but it is appropriately themed.
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As mentioned above, today will be a light day for updates as I give the computer a rest.
Don't worry, though, I'll:
Reboot it again tomorrow.
Up next: The LMB - Swimsuit edition
(I've gotta get this one out there before Comicon, or a certain selachimorphic fellow might just tear me to shreds. )
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