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ansharp wrote:Pretty cool. You've got a typo in "(as shown[n] below)". But does the "Alas, poor Yorik" approach grounds for rejection?

...that's funny. I reviewed the actual text from the play for typos, but didn't review the simple text.. that wuz teh funneh

mjwii wrote:Why? Its out of copyright.

Because it's just plain text added to the text that makes a design. That is to say, it does not make a picture of its own.

EDIT: I'm not accusing, I'm curious.

carpenter940 wrote:Here's something I whipped up. Is this OK? If so does anyone have suggestions to make it better? Thanks for any help.

I like the art, but I'm not so sure about the background color. Did you try any others?

ansharp wrote:Because it's just plain text added to the text that makes a design. That is to say, it does not make a picture of its own.

EDIT: I'm not accusing, I'm curious.

wootbot wrote:But there's a catch: the letters have to form an illustration of some kind. Whether you go the ASCII art route or imitate the lava-lamp lettering of the psychedelic Sixties, get your text into shape.

I believe this would be the ASCII route. If I am reading this right the words he is using are forming the illistration of a skull.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ncgg4eGYO0

Kinda reminds me of Beck's Video.

mjwii wrote:I believe this would be the ASCII route. If I am reading this right the words he is using are forming the illistration of a skull.

I think the better question is whether woot requires that the letters form the shape as is.. IE, no fading out of the letters to make smooth transitions. Do we need to have full letters at all ends of the design, or can we fade out or eliminate the left side of (example) an A to make an edge?

The other question is whether if we do any hatches, shading, etc, that the shading lines themselves need to be characters/text...

Oh, this will be an interesting time seeing what gets rejected and what doesn't.

BTW, I am a bit envious of the skull shakespeare. I take a look at the work I did on the shark, then the skull entry on the previous page, and I see a big difference in probable votes... dangit...

SkekTek wrote:
BTW, I am a bit envious of the skull shakespeare. I take a look at the work I did on the shark, then the skull entry on the previous page, and I see a big difference in probable votes... dangit...

I think they'd appeal to different people, though. I like both.

I was trying to make a beach scene using repeating words, but after seeing the sketches tossed up here already, I think I'll go back to voting rather than creating!

We're lacking in rated R entries. Come on people!

goldfishinapicklejar wrote:We're lacking in rated R entries. Come on people!

Oh trust me, that wouldn't be (wait for it.... wait for it.... ) hard, but Woot'd probably kick it to the curb.

quick question...do we submit our files as actual (for example) Illustrator documents, or PNG's/JPG's (things like that) what would u reccomend? lookin' forward to some amazing text art!

Is extended ascii char allowed? I helped do a few bbs game graphics using ascii in the early 90's. this could oped the design creativity a little..... back in the 2800 baud days

lanpartyz wrote:Is extended ascii char allowed?

It's my own belief (not official) that it has to be numbers and letters, maybe symbols. The extended blocks and shadings (like 176-178) probably would get booted. I'd say everything has to be instantly recognizable as text.

Can we have shading between text?

Mroczkowski wrote:Can we have shading between text?

If that shading is text, other wise no lines, fills, etc. Only text

namerae wrote:Carpenter940: I would go with a different color behind, like black, or a navy. Just not baby blue.

Otherwise I think this is exactly what they mean about text = art. Nice concept.

ansharp wrote:Agreed, baby blue isn't a popular choice.

tinxster wrote:I like the art, but I'm not so sure about the background color. Did you try any others?

Hi, thanks for the help fellow designers. Here is what I've come with.

carpenter940 wrote:Hi, thanks for the help fellow designers. Here is what I've come with.

I would buy it but you have to fix the color around the USA to match the color of the shirt... GMV if ya do that.

carpenter940 wrote:Hi, thanks for the help fellow designers. Here is what I've come with.

Very nice! It will have my vote.

Forgot to mention the fact that Stars are not text... you will have to turn the stars into text some how... Maybe with ASCII.

Caligumby wrote:Forgot to mention the fact that Stars are not text... you will have to turn the stars into text some how... Maybe with ASCII.

I could make then into "X"s or asterisks.

Caligumby wrote:I would buy it but you have to fix the color around the USA to match the color of the shirt... GMV if ya do that.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.

Basic design, I know, but any suggestions?

carpenter940 wrote:I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.

I think he may mean the white border around the U and part of the S. But without it they wouldn't exist!

hlink wrote:
Basic design, I know, but any suggestions?

Looks great! I can see this doing very well in the competition. Perhaps align the top "yummy" and "cheeseburger" better. The bottom "yummy" looks a bit too straight too. That's my two cents.

carpenter940 wrote:I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.

There is a darker shade of navy around the design...get rid of that part and it'll look much better.

Shigwarm wrote:Looks great! I can see this doing very well in the competition. Perhaps align the top "yummy" and "cheeseburger" better. The bottom "yummy" looks a bit too straight too. That's my two cents.

Thanks, glad you like it. I agree those words look out of place. I'm not sure if "yummy" and "yum" are the best to use there, but I thought the repetition made it funny enough in a stupid way.

What about "Freedom Fries?" I initially had "French Fries," then just "Fries," but I'm not sure it'll turn some people away.

artulo wrote:There is a darker shade of navy around the design...get rid of that part and it'll look much better.

I know exactly how that happened. I've gotta get this monitor calibrated. Once again the help here is invaluable.

hlink wrote:
Basic design, I know, but any suggestions?

love the "freedom fries"! ;)

I don't know if there's such a thing as chili bacon, but there should be... :P

SkekTek wrote:I don't know if there's such a thing as chili bacon, but there should be... :P

*giggles*, I don't think there's a "Corn Dog Funnel Cake" either, but there probably shouldn't be...


How's that?

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tell me what ya think...and ..i was wondering if there's a better way to get the "real tee shirt" design to look....well...real...cuz to me it looks kinda cheap and pasted on...if u get what i'm sayin..thx.

carpenter940 wrote:I know exactly how that happened. I've gotta get this monitor calibrated. Once again the help here is invaluable.

Well done! This'll get a good amount of votes.

ansharp wrote:So what about adding illustrations to text? Like if i turned an "L" into a skyscraper by giving it windows or just empty spots? That's where this gets gray for me.

Use other letters for windows and decorative elements. Vector drawing programs are great at stretching and mushing letters.

here is my rough sketch so far, not sure what I'll do as far as colors or if I'll try to add any kind of markings, the whiskers say "purrrrrrrr"

Here's what I got so far. Yay or Nay?



Detail

Sorry. Those pics are huger than I expected.

tinxster wrote:I like the art, but I'm not so sure about the background color. Did you try any others?

Yeah! Try (gag) olive!

Everyone's doing (gag) olive right now, it seems.

I think the Meow Cat is awesome. Good job. I like the whiskers. Can't wait to see the final product.

littlejetties wrote:Here's what I got so far. Yay or Nay?

It's cool, but I would take off the "D is for Dinosaur" part.

SkekTek wrote:Here's my first idea. The bottom shark is the LIVE TRACE version of the original sketch (I like it actually). The top is the pen tool traced version I haven't roughed up yet. The topmost part is the word Sea... it's going to go like a simulated wave over the shark.

Comments?



EDIT: Yes, I know there's a spelling mistake on the original sketch....

If you make some fish with the George B. Shaw spelling of "ghoti" I will buy it right now.