the new logo/title screen from my shoot em up.
still heavy WIP.

will update this thread as it progresses.
feedback welcome!
EDIT1:

more progress on the metal


Edited by Squirrelsquid - 19 October 2007 at 7:51pm

I like the font but I think it seems a bit odd. I'd put the "zone" below havoc. Unless you're gonna put something on the left side, otherwise it seems unbalanced.

This is awesome!!
The H is better now, the Z is more readable but its not as cool as the old one.. maybe there is another good shape for it? I cant think of one.. :(

The animation is great!

Fleshy! :) though some additional flashy parts couldn't hurt either.

I kinda agree with you on the letters... I think the flow was better in the older version.

and the lighting is a good idea! I'll work on that.

Thanks Larwick!

I went back to the old lettering, and finished the metal.

I'll add some organic stuff next.

I may be too late to join this convo. This last mockup looks fantastic with an exception. The letter V is all wrong. In typographical terms the Mspace is all wrong. Even if using artistic license the serifs are far too long for the down strokes. The 'whitespace' left between the A and O make the otherwise most important letter by virtue of it being center to the eye as a smaller to the brain 'read'.

Now in English, lol...
The V sucks ass. Either raise it so that the 'wings' on it go over the A and O. Maybe even all the way over the H to the C. Ditch the wings otherwise and spread the V out.

On another note. Being familiar with all the sprites in this project. May be more work. But if the 'glass' letters were somehow more organically blended INTO the metal. Like some metal bracing going over the reds here and there it would tie in better. As with all these things MORE GUEY GOO, pleeez :D

Letter C should be one single Curved trace instead of two, like the rest of the letters.

I quite like that the C is two slashes..

OMG THIS IS AN AMAZING UPDATE. Jesus it just looks fantastic.

You need to get that web stuff to look more involved in the rest of the piece somehow. I think it may be the single hue that makes it not match the rest as much.

KUTGW.

 You know what would look great below that? a concept art of the game's ship in a dynamic view... or a demo play of the game...

NAH... instead of that, put the metal plate empty, then a big flash and so the carved letters appears, reducing their glowing to the first animation, but a bit slowered and more constant.

I liked the slashed C better.

Hey Hello SquirrelSquid,

Looking great.
How brave of you to work with
different characters. The latest ones are
much better readable!

Here are my comments:

- Yes: Slashed C
- That planet doesn't really
  match with the nebula that comes behind it.
  If you want the planet, try removing the
  flare above it. (And the little hearts )


Looking forward to updates!!!

Best regards from

M.E.

Truly wonderful updates. I imagine you'll be smoothening out the 'moon' glow thing later. Keeeep it up man.

The right side of the planet looks a bit too steep, methinks. Elsewise this is damn spiffy.

Bingo! Planets are NOT perfect circles.

Oh, that is way awesome! The planet glare is great now*. Eyeball rules.



*AA a little the area right above the second S in 'press' its jaggy

Now make the sky pink and the ship made out of wood and you're done.

well, I certainly won't make it barbie pink, but I could use the same glowing colors as in the regular omnivore palette. also I decided to display a ship again:

currently there's just my reference dummy. the cool thing about this size and the perspective is, that I can also display the other ships that will be playable in later versions of the game. so, eventualy you'll have a fleet of 4 ships at some point :)


Edited by Squirrelsquid - 22 September 2007 at 7:25pm

you are kinda right I guess. so I won't do it, because I also still wasn't realy sure

still one question remains: I'm also doing a new mainmenu, and I'm unsure if I should do that on another screen, or I should place it on the titlescreen, presenting it kinda in Streetfighter II style menu.

Edited by Squirrelsquid - 22 September 2007 at 7:52pm

RISE FROM THE GRAVE OH GREAT ZOMBIE TOPIC!

I don't know if the layer method is a good idea, since you'll go through variouse selections like Difficulty, Pilot, Ship and weapons. I need big fullscreen menus for that, but I will have a minimalistic main-menu :)
here's the weapon select, the first selection type on the list.
obviously missing quite a bit in the lower area...
the upper left thingy will display the weapons fire range and so on.


EDIT: more progress:

EDIT2:some slight changes:



Edited by Squirrelsquid - 19 October 2007 at 8:59pm

It looks great! but, I wunder, why would there be a cobweb in space? :S

Well, that's good. I didn't want you to take it away anyways, it really adds to it.