Articulated Sky

So, that time has some again. My wallet is a little fatter and I have some new graphics to post.

This time the request came from a French speaking corporation called the BoBo corporation.

The request seemed clear enough; they wanted a corporation header* and a logo for their website. Unfortunately, with the client’s English lacking, there were some details that were lost in translation. The problems being all with the logo.

From the start I gathered that they wanted the new logo to be based on the original corporation logo, so I set about making a simple greyscale version of the logo that I could fit into the design of the header.

An hour or so later, I emailed the client back, showing him the following two files.

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Click to see full size version.

Minutes later, I received a reply asking for a logo with all of the details that the original had and with realistic colouring. Having no problem with making the revisions, I agreed and went on my merry way.

Two hours later (the first hour consisting of scratching my head and wishing that I had never gotten rid of my Wacom tablet), I emailed back showing the following revisions.

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Click to see full size version.

Unfortunately for me, I had just wasted over an hour of my life as it seemed that me and the client had different ideas of what realistic meant. I took it to mean that the sword should be the colours of a real sword, etc. while he meant that the colours should be true to the original logo (i.e. red, blue and white).

After some complaining and wishing that I had known this to begin with, I got on with re-colouring the logo. I was quite disappointed that this part of the job turned out to essentially be a logo re-sizing as I was looking forward to creating my own logo designs from scratch. Maybe next time an alliance will approach me for a logo design. A man can dream, eh?

Anyway, after changing the colours of version 2 of the logo, I sent off the final revisions of the graphics.

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Click for full size version.

Luckily for me, the guys at BoBo were happy with my creations and minutes later, my wallet got all flashy and it had put on a couple pounds in the form of 210 million ISK.

If you would like a custom EVE Online graphic of some sort created by me, feel free to send me an email using the Contact page or send an me EVE Mail in-game to Godlesswanderer. You can find my prices, along with a link to my gallery on my Custom Graphics page.

* For some reason people insist on calling them banners which is somewhat annoying. Banners = advertisement banners, not headers!