Computer Science Canada

Compsci.Ca Mascot

Author:  Martin [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:51 am ]
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Alright, for some extra advertising, we need two people to dress up, one as the number 1, another as the number 0. They then have to go to the river and dance. Any volunteers?


Hah, actually, CompSci.Ca needs a mascot. Anyone have any ideas/submissions under the offer of bits?

It doesn't have to be complex.

Author:  shorthair [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:11 am ]
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when you say mascot , do you mean the real type like high school mascot or the good ol logo mascot ,like Mac , and Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux

Author:  poly [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:23 am ]
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Alright, for some extra advertising, we need two people to dress up, one as the number 1, another as the number 0. They then have to go to the river and dance. Any volunteers?

Well I think he wants a real mascot...lol
you know, if you could wait a week (maybe next weekend) I would actually be willing to do that just for compsci.ca! I just gotta find a #1 and 0 custom.

Anyway back to a mascot logo, what would a computer science mascot look like...pc with arms and legs?

Author:  Cervantes [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:26 am ]
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I would guess logo mascot.
can't really have somebody dressed up dancing around where no one can see him.

that's actually a really hard question to answer.
here's a start, though somebody will likely add to this idea:
a computer with 'Sci" written on the side.

cheesy yes, hope someone can add to it Confused

Author:  PaddyLong [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:11 pm ]
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just pick an animal, draw a cartoonish or otherwise unique character of it sitting there and make that the mascot

Author:  naoki [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:55 pm ]
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PaddyLong wrote:
just pick an animal, draw a cartoonish or otherwise unique character of it sitting there and make that the mascot


Oh god no. Absolutely no furries. That'll make all the REAL programmers leave and tonnes of creepy grade 10's sign up. Also, no anime hackers trying to look cool.

I was thinking of a hand palming the Earth, with electronic circuits in bright blue running from the fingertips all across the surface of the globe. Sorta like showing the power of programming, y'know?

Author:  Martin [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:22 pm ]
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I meant logo...I couldn't think of the word lol.

Author:  Martin [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:23 pm ]
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That's brilliant Naoki...now for someone to draw it Wink

Author:  Andy [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:42 pm ]
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y dont we just use our old swat logo? and replace it with compsci.ca

Author:  Cervantes [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:44 pm ]
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naoki. I like your idea but, unfortunately, you said gr 10's are creepy.
Clarification: I am in gr 10.

Now you must die!! Twisted Evil

Author:  shorthair [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 9:33 pm ]
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Here is my first logo i made , it was done in 30 minutes with lighting and texture , it dosent have an s cause i got lazy and thought it wasnt worth finishing if no one liked it , the colors are not definite , there jsut there for fun , just look at hte idea

EDIT : Make Your Browser Full Screen

Author:  Martin [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:12 pm ]
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It's not that we need a new logo, I just think it would be easier to identify our site if we had something. Like when you see a penguin, you think Linux, and when you see a dead bird, you think Mac.

I like the blue C thing...it looks too real though in my opinion...sfx it up :p

Author:  shorthair [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:31 pm ]
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as i said , if you guys give me some drawings or as scetch , il build here as well as i can, that was a 30 minutes , little play around , i can make some hard core motextures and models , just throw some ideas at me or catalyst , if he is around

Author:  Martin [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:50 pm ]
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Well, here are my ideas.

I like the hand touching the earth idea, but I think it would be cooler if it was wires sprouting up from the bottom of the earth kinda like a tree of life idea. Then the continants could be shaded with a bunch of green binary, and the oceans blue binary, with a similar colour scheme to the banners that we already have

Second idea was to think of an animal to make a mascot out of. Anyone?

Author:  .hack [ Sat Feb 07, 2004 11:53 pm ]
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I say we use whatbitcolours fishy

Author:  Martin [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:06 am ]
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A fish would be cool...jumping into a sea of code Wink

That or maybe a dolphin/whale.

Author:  TheXploder [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:07 am ]
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well I think a 2D artist should draw a side view image and a front view image, and I could model it easily in 3d...

Author:  .hack [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:08 am ]
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Darkneses Avatar scares me =/

w00t for fishy. But u gotta use that one that whatbitcolor has, its so cooool!

Author:  naoki [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:08 pm ]
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Sorry Cervantes, you're one of the few new joiners that doesn't suck. Want examples? Ask Azn_S for some "outstanding posters" in Turing Help.

Darkness wrote:
Well, here are my ideas.

I like the hand touching the earth idea, but I think it would be cooler if it was wires sprouting up from the bottom of the earth kinda like a tree of life idea. Then the continants could be shaded with a bunch of green binary, and the oceans blue binary, with a similar colour scheme to the banners that we already have
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The Earth has no bottom. So if they did come from the bottom of a sphere it wouldn't make much sense, like everything came from Antartica.

Okay, I've thought about a combination of ours Darkness. The wires could be sprouting from the centre of the earth (perhaps that's what you meant) and the wires stretch all across the globes. The 5 really thick wires will connect to the fingers, sorta like those science balls that had electricity coming out of the centre. The continents and oceans could stay with your binary color scheme.

I think that seriously sounds pretty good. A lot better than going back to the old SWAT logo, where it was just 3 cartoon people lying around. Makes us all look like lazy bastards

Author:  Andy [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 4:24 pm ]
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what is this? do i smell naoki sucking up? cervantes, the nxt thing u noe, he's gonna ask u to bear his children Laughing

Author:  PaddyLong [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:12 pm ]
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naoki man you're taking this way too seriously/literally ... a logo doesn't have to be anything related to the product... just something that is unique and identifiable to the product Rolling Eyes

Author:  recneps [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:36 pm ]
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naoki wrote:
creepy grade 10's

I resent that comment. And i Think anything including electronics stuff is good for a logo Smile even just a C and S superimposed kinda thing. ( like my SpenSoft logo for those who have seen my FP)

Author:  Andy [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:53 pm ]
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naoki, as i can recall, u were the creepy gr 10 last yr

Author:  shorthair [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:55 pm ]
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the best is a earth right , with one side on an agnle that is covered with the green and blue , and some detail , and hte other sid ( like 60 % - 40 % ) is wireframe that just shows what the earht is based on , so like untextured to textured , it loks cool i made one before

Author:  the_short1 [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:05 pm ]
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i like shorthairs comment on making a wireframe and a normal texture... having the Blue and Green binary would also rock, somehow incorporate a C and a S, i dont know about the hand thing.... just have a Globe signifying that programing is the Earth's Core and stuff....having continets conected by like Fiber Optic cables (all colors) would be cool....anyhow this is a wicked logo brewing up.... also the one that was just made... forgot now.. was pretty good for 30 min... what program????mind u i didn;t take no Com tech in high school so i Graphics Eliterate.... i do all mine in MS Word (WordArt)... god i only gr.10...but i can see what that person meant about creepy.... lots of them are and/or are retarded....
or act like 2yos...

p.s. http://yoga.at.infoseek.co.jp/flash/kikkomaso.swf

Kikkoman Soy Sauce ad is WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!! where do u get this stuff??

god... i would hate to see that on TV if i was Japaness or Chinese.. taht soy sauce is good tho... ive tried it......

Author:  shorthair [ Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:11 pm ]
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i could put hte globe on the inside of a C * How would that look do you think )

Author:  the_short1 [ Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:08 pm ]
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i dont know what u mean shorthair..... can u draw a quick 1 min sketch...??

Author:  shorthair [ Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:46 pm ]
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This is a 35 second sketch in rhino to reinforce my idea , the proportion is wrong but its the concept im tryinf to get accross , dos that help you short ?

Author:  the_short1 [ Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:27 pm ]
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Yea,.,, helps lots////

if the globe still has the Green binary for Land and the blue for water...
and ad some color to C..

and acually have the earth's land acurate kinda...

then that is one GOOD picturte...

Author:  Cervantes [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:49 am ]
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Have an S on the other side of the earth? the bottom circle of the S could envelope the earth like the C does. Only the S would be really big Eh
Computer Science is all around the earth, as well as the foundations of earth Smile

Whos' gunna make it?

Author:  the_short1 [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:51 pm ]
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yea cervants would loook kinda messed...

see picture i did in word.. (5 sec)

i think other one with just the C might work... or amybe put the S on the globe or on the side.......meh i dont know... i not a graphic designer

take a peak at crapy pics tho... ideas..

since this is comp sci CANADA.... maybe put only canada on the globe picture... i dont know here i got this off google...

Author:  Amailer [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:47 pm ]
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Compsci logo's eh?

hehe simple.

Author:  the_short1 [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:20 pm ]
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yea its missing all of what this forum has talked about,,...

..weird tho... this was a mascot.. now a new logo....


Green and blue Binary... on the Globe of te Earth..

nice tho,,, What program are you using to makle that???

Author:  Dan [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:06 pm ]
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Amailer wrote:
Compsci logo's eh?

hehe simple.


wow thos are not bad, may be i could find a plcae to put them.

Author:  the_short1 [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:28 pm ]
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I was hoping someone could finish me and shorthairs idea...
and put in on paper... or disk in this case....

Also... Dans new avatar... haha...nice

What is the current logo spawned from.????

i cant realy read it... and are those waves or blue????

i think its code.,.,., but... meh..

Author:  Tony [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:43 pm ]
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well Amailer drew our current logo Confused

And now that he started 3DSMAX, maybe he can finish the idea Very Happy

Author:  Amailer [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:34 pm ]
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Im still learning 3DSMAX, it's not like maya.. hmm maya had already ready stuff you can auto use.

Except, when you render in maya, it lags your computer Shocked

Author:  the_short1 [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:43 pm ]
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never heard of either of those programs...

Maya..... hmm who makes it??

i want to see if i can get a demo of it or something...

or 3dmax.. who makes that???

Author:  Mazer [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:48 pm ]
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Maya is made by Alias Wavefront if I remember correctly. They're supposed to have a Maya learning edition for free that you can order on CD, but I'm not sure if it's available to download yet.

3DS Max is made by Discreet. I seriously doubt there's a demo for that but I could be wrong.

And Blender is made by NaN (Not a Number)... you can probably find a demo of it somewhere on the net, but it would be a stupid idea to look for it because it's already free!

Author:  Amailer [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:51 pm ]
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you can dl the learning edition for maya (but you will not be able to render your images well because they hadd a huge text MAYA LEARNING EDITION and bla bla bla)...

You can also DL the demo for 3DSMAX...(google)

Author:  Mazer [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:53 pm ]
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3DS Max demo? For seriously? Heh, I guess I never bothered checking for it because I already had the full... uh... a demo you say? Interesting...

Author:  Amailer [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:55 pm ]
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http://www.discreet.com/3dsmax/try.html -- how else do you get the full ver Rolling Eyes

http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/maya/maya_ple/get_maya_ple.shtml

hmm didn't get the full ver off that, look how much it costs Shocked
$2,215.45

Author:  Cervantes [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:56 pm ]
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wasn't maya originally made by 2 university students? Well, that's what I heard Neutral

Author:  Andy [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:06 pm ]
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i have to learn that in the summer... o tony, change ur avatar into the cool one with the glasses and tie

Author:  the_short1 [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:10 pm ]
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Thanks a lot mazer... will llook into it...

Also.. any program is available to download... you just need all the right connections... Wink

Author:  shorthair [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:18 pm ]
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the globe within hte C , is a rockin way to go , i like the ones that have been submitted ,but wwe should agree on what to do so someone can acually start doing somthing

Author:  Amailer [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:26 pm ]
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i was looking at devianart's mascot and i made 1 like it (well looks the same except for the eyes)

Why doesn't tony make 1 ???

Author:  Maverick [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:29 pm ]
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Hey that looks pretty cool. Tony culd probly make a sweet one, but probly doesnt have the time.

Author:  Mazer [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:36 pm ]
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Amailer, I like the style of that one. I was gonna use a style like that for the characters in a fighting game I'm planning on making. Could you colour that so I can try making it in 3D?

Author:  Amailer [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 9:58 pm ]
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people people, i looked at something and drew it -.-!
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38062/
http://s.deviantart.com/static/fella-wrench.jpg -- 3D ISH
Hmm sure why not?

Author:  Maverick [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:01 pm ]
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Man that 2nd one looks sweeet

Author:  Mazer [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:01 pm ]
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Well, never mind then... Razz

Author:  shorthair [ Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:39 pm ]
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Just an awsome model you got there , he is a pretty cool guy i like the wrench , if you could make that wrench a laptop youd be set

Author:  PaddyLong [ Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:57 am ]
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uhh it's still pretty much the same as the deviantart one

Author:  Hotaru [ Sun Feb 15, 2004 3:30 pm ]
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~i would like to make one~but only on one condition~held a CompSci.Ca Mascot Making Contest~and whoever is winner will get some kind of award~

Author:  Maverick [ Sun Feb 15, 2004 4:07 pm ]
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Hey how bout that... Or you make a good one and u will probly get a reward 4 it anyway.

Author:  Amailer [ Sun Feb 15, 2004 4:19 pm ]
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Hotaru wrote:
~i would like to make one~but only on one condition~held a CompSci.Ca Mascot Making Contest~and whoever is winner will get some kind of award~


cheap Laughing

Author:  shorthair [ Sun Feb 15, 2004 4:27 pm ]
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whoever makes one will obviously get credit , but if you jsut wanna do it for bits fine , if you make one then post a picture of it name your price , and if i like it il give you bits , but i mean we dont even know how good you are ??

Author:  Martin [ Sun Feb 15, 2004 7:02 pm ]
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Credit, plus I already said I'd give ya bits. Bits schmitz.

Author:  AsianSensation [ Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:42 pm ]
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making it a contest would be ok too, we'll give out special trophies and bits as prizes. I'm sure tony or amailer could make a trophy for this in no time.

Author:  the_short1 [ Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:10 pm ]
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Yea w/e hapened to globe and CS???

Anotehr thing.... we shouldn;t make ours similiar to devient arts.....

KEEP IT ORIGINAL!!!!

Also a contest would be nice.....

and wow... someone from a week ago being active in discusions., NICE to know new people are not comming just because,,,,

they are acualy TALKING... YAY!!!!

After downloading the software Mazer talked about.... i will give it a shot....

(hopefully if i have time)
mind you i should have plenty now that PacMan Beta 3.5 is out, so i dont need to worry about ppl complaining about SWIFT DEATH! (bug in ver 3)
www.members.shaw.ca/rfolz/pacman_attemp_3.5.zip

Can someone draw up what Green And Blue binary should look like.... (stupid question) but yea... i want to try at making a GLobe with Canada on it with land being Green binary and Oceans being Blue Binary...

One of those 3d progs can wrap a pic around a globe right???

Then in word slip a nice C and S around it and have a nice backround ...viola... Finito..

Author:  the_short1 [ Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:35 pm ]
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O here is what i want to take outline of:(canada outline) and fill in with green and blue.... then wrap around a globe...(TGFG)Thank God For GOOGLE

EDIT: Picture i am acually going to use is at school.. and there fore this is just similiar//

Author:  Cervantes [ Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:02 pm ]
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wouldn't it be easier to just find a pic of a globe with Canada facing the viewer?

Author:  Tony [ Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:28 pm ]
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i dont think that even matters... logo will be rendered in 3D, you just need the world map from which to create the texture then just rotate the globe Laughing

Author:  Amailer [ Mon Feb 16, 2004 10:39 pm ]
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hmm not a bad idea... i need a map!

Author:  the_short1 [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:15 pm ]
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i looked on first 5 pages of results from GOOGLE>CA pictures

under search of Globe Canada ( best ones i already posted...) in my opinion

..... so yea... i can take the outline of canada and fill with the Green Binary.... but then i need it to be wraped around a Blue globe of Binary so oceans blue and lands Green...

but ya see i dont got no 3d prog yet....too busy...

Author:  the_short1 [ Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:35 pm ]
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ok... i have a CRAPPY computer... Maya WHOA way too much... 3dsmax too much,.,. Blender... Too confusing.,...

If i send you the outline of canada filled with Green binary can u wraop around a globe of Blue binary amailer???

Please ANd Thank You...

i got a decent outline of canada at school... i will start to erase interior.. then add binary..

Author:  the_short1 [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:12 am ]
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hey everyone....

Progress is good... and i though i would share with you..,,,

im not done as you can see in picture, of cropping out lakes,and cropping main outline...

but i put over blue backround just so ppl can uuu and ahhhh

after im done Amailer is going to wrap around a globe for me...
then i will be doing some Funky C and S work... and maybe a wuick ponder back at hand idea...

Enjoy...!!!

Author:  Amailer [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:20 am ]
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ya Shocked i got it how to 'warp' it around an object Confused *took some search, iv got no help files Shocked*

Author:  Catalyst [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:42 am ]
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Idea

Author:  jonos [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:48 am ]
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nice!!!! i say yes to catalyst's. its 3d, it has lightning bolt things, and it just looks awesome!

Author:  Amailer [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:09 am ]
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just use Catalyst's Shocked

Author:  Maverick [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:24 am ]
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Thats pretty cool. GJ

Author:  the_short1 [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:26 pm ]
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wow... catalisk... good job that lookz sweet....
better then mine that i just finished croping...

its a canada outline placed over green binary.. then i croped .. then placed over blue binary...

anyways... mines not even wraped around a globe...!

.....wow that lookz good

Author:  the_short1 [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:29 pm ]
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i wish i knew catalyst was making such a kickass one... or i wouldn't have spent the 2hrs cropping out excess green, with 800% zoom...

also wut progr you used?? maya ?? blender?? 3dsmax?

Author:  PaddyLong [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:22 pm ]
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nice catalyst. I think the lightning bolt jobbies need more transparency or some sort of effect on them though...

Author:  shorthair [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:27 pm ]
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Well in 10 minutes i got this , i wrapped his binary earth , this is very very rough , has no comparison to catalysts , making letters 3d is jsut so darn hard , the curves wont look right for an S shape

Author:  Maverick [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:03 pm ]
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Thats actually not too bad. GJ

Author:  Paul [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:06 pm ]
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Whats wrong with the current logo? I like it...

Author:  shorthair [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:08 pm ]
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Dude have you missed 6 pages of the thread, its for the MASCOT , , you see window , you thikn windows , you see penguine you think linux , you see apple you think apple

Author:  Paul [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:15 pm ]
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Wtf? a mascot ain't an inanimate thing, the pictures I've seen so far are all logos, the windows window thingy ain't a mascot, its a logo.

Author:  Maverick [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:19 pm ]
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Ya youve gotta point. A mascot hasto be an animal or suthing like that.

ie. Comp Sci CornHole

Author:  the_short1 [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 3:03 pm ]
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thanks shorthair .. one thing tho... u put Canada upside down...

the islands for Northwest territories sposed to be at top aren't they? ....lol...

Author:  the_short1 [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 6:46 pm ]
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YAY finnaly compsci.ca is back up.,... waht was with that... for 2 hours it was down...

HERE is what to do about the s problem...

make the S inside the C and add the globe *right side up*

Ps: this was done with MS word.... (gota luv the wordart) cuz u can fill words wiht a picture..!!! so i filld both letters wiith bianry... its fuzzy as hell for some stupid reason but we

Author:  Catalyst [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 7:01 pm ]
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i used photoshop for mine

Author:  Amailer [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 7:03 pm ]
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Ya looks like Filter-Shperize (with the sides air burshed out ;D)

Author:  the_short1 [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 7:16 pm ]
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yea i use irfanview (picture viewer / converter),word, and paint... sad eh!
mind u i never took no com tech..... Here shorthair i added more ocean so u see more on globe of canada

Author:  shorthair [ Sun Feb 22, 2004 7:19 pm ]
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okay il redo it tomorow for you all ,with the s inside the c

Author:  the_short1 [ Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:36 pm ]
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hopefully shoirthair can make the letters in 3d without too much dificulty...


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