[Usul]

Hi guys,

As you may know the staff have asked for volunteers to help with different things for the website (here). So, here is an image thread for all the things related to SC2SEA visuals/graphics.

If you are talented or just like to play around with Photoshop/Illustrator or any other software that can be used to create visuals for this website: this is your thread! Post your creations. Even a rough sketch will do as others can build on your idea! It's also a good way to have some feedback from people, so...

GOGOGO!!!


Note for the staff/admin:
Let us know what you need and what you want: logo, headers/footers for specific threads, posters, flyers... Also, whenever possible, give us details such as dimensions, resolution (for web or printing), color theme and whatnot.

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Done

- A new banner for the website by Clammy
- Basic logo by DFM
- Favicon by derpy
- Header for HuT's Newletter by Usul


Needed

- A visual for a SC2 SEA T-shirt => Design competition?

- Eye candies for the Newsletter


Other things

- Footer for the website
- Images for the sub-forum titles (General, Strategy...)
- Splash screens for the streams
- Anything else you can think of to make the site look nice


Guidelines

- Resolution:

- 72dpi for the web
- 300dpi for printing

It's always better to work with higher file size/resolution even if it's only for the web. But make sure it still looks good when you resize it to the final size.

- mezza suggested to work in a 16:9 format for the streams' splash screens.


Resources

Font: SC2 font
Font library
Devil Breeze font: Link
SC2 logo tutorials: [1] [2]


I'll update this post regularly with new resources/what's been done/what's needed.

[Usul]

So, I'll start with my contributions. Let me know what you guys think.

Favicon

Header for SC2SEA Weekly (the sub-text is here mainly as a filler, no idea what to write haha)

[Apth]

Sexy.

I did a trial run on http://www.zazzle.com/screenprinting for the shirts. When I resized the image I was using it became all pixellated, so it would be good to have a decent sized image to work with.

As for the actual design... I'm about as creative as a pointy stick. Go nuts guys

[Torniquet]

I dont mind the style of the Newsletter header. The only thing i personally would like changed is the colour. Something a little more bright and vibrant, eye catching. But yeah its good none the less thats just a personal thing.

[Mezza]

for screen printing you'd need the image at around 300 dpi and a relatively large image size, like say an A4 thereabouts. just so you guys know what we're talking about when printing stuff from images, most web images are at 75dpi, so you'll need to get the raw file from the person and bump it up a huge amount.

i'll contribute more images as and when i can work on stuff, but here's the new sc2sea splash screen i've worked on, i have the raw so people can change their stream site/favicon as and when we change streamers, and its ustream friendly, there's no text up there on the top right hand side to interfere with ustream's watermark

bart and the dollar bill are gonna be kept to honor the guy who started it in the first place



btw click on the image itself to link to my imgur location to download the 1920x1080 version

[Mezza]

one more thing i just remembered, if you're making gfx for events, like COTH and stuff, it'll be good if the image was made in 16:9 format because the streamers now broadcast in 16:9 formats so they can port the image and put it on as a splash screen in between matches, at least for me, that's what i do, and basically resizing it down to message board proportions isn't too hard, imgur does it for you instantly, and still keeps the original while its at it.

[Torniquet]

Well i still have all the COTH psds so let me know if you want them for streaming or whatever and you can fix it up heh.

[Usul]

Yup, 300dpi for printing and 72dpi for web.

I've updated the first post with a guideline section.

[Darkblade]

Thought of making this for the SEA countries

Quick Comments

Stallion:

this is sick cool

[nirvAnA]

darkblade i love that
great idea

[Usul]

I've done some colour testing on the Weekly banner, let me know what you think. I can easily change the sub-text if you don't like it.

Also, any feedback on the favicon? ==>

[nirvAnA]

Hey Usul, love your thread and all and i guess im just gonna be honest, personally not a big fan of the font, dunno how the rest feel.

Maybe pick a color to go along with the sites theme too,same goes for the favicon!

I really like dreamhacks banner and if we have something similar like that its gonna be awesome.

[Apth]

I think we need a logo of some sort. Dreamhack has the funny squares, GOM has the weird orange paw, sc2sea should have something.

[Torniquet]

Seahorse. TL has the horse, we are a SC site just like the but we are SEA based. Seahorse. I tried working on it but im to tied down with all the Clan stuff =/

Have to agree with Nirvana as well. I was hoping adding more colour would change it for me but yeah not a fan of the STarcraft Font. This is more personal as well but i like a lot of noise, like it busy per say. Rather than just text. Maybe make a banner sort of thing like COTH and s2scl style. Bu yeha as i said, personal. Really do appreciate this thread though i dont know why we didnt start something like this sooner. I dont mind the FAvicon thing though more than happy with that.

[Usul]

No problem at all nirvAnA, any feedback is a hundred times better than no feedback.
The font ( basic sc2 font) is editable in the psd file, so changing it is not a problem. As for the colour matching the site's colour theme, it might be difficult since viewers can choose between blue, green and red... But I don't mind experimenting.
In my opinion, it would be a good idea to have a logo for the site that could be used for the favicon and maybe the T-shirt...

Edit: mmm, 2 new posts while writing my reply to nirvAnA... GSL is more distracting than I thought

@Apth: yup, a competition would be perfect for that, with a vote by the members or just the staff

@Torniquet: for the weekly banner I thought I could go for something simple at first. I'll try something busier then

[Apth]

Originally Posted by Torniquet

Seahorse. TL has the horse, we are a SC site just like the but we are SEA based. Seahorse.

Freakin genius.
I think we should start with a logo, a font and a couple of base colours to use with everything, and we can make it as simple or as complex as we need to depending on whether it's a banner or for shirts or a poster etc.

[Usul]

Originally Posted by Apth

Freakin genius.
I think we should start with a logo, a font and a couple of base colours to use with everything, and we can make it as simple or as complex as we need to depending on whether it's a banner or for shirts or a poster etc.

I couldn't agree more, having a logo and using a single font really helps to identify a site quickly. Identity and homogeneity are really important and those are the first things potential sponsors will see...


Talking about sponsors, they may not approve the use of the image of Bart Simpson on the stream splash screen. Just a thought though, no offense meant to mezza or the person who started it.

[nirvAnA]

lmao thats a brillant idea jarrad hahahaha
or SEA some animal but i cant think of any and yea, seahorse is super amazing

i think favicon would look good with just a pic of a seahorse. idk.

i also really l ike darkblades logo. where can we put that?

[Mezza]

its awesome! i'd go for no trails and just a clean sc2sea seahorse thing, its awesome!

[Apth]

Yeah that last seahorse without the trails is badass. Stick that on a shirt and I'll wear the crap out of it.