New Gentoo banners and graphics for websites.

quag7 · Last edited by quag7 on Wed May 09, 2007 9:27 pm; edited 2 times in total

http://www.frostwarning.com/~quagseven/gentoographics.php

(Fixed URL 4.5 years later because people still link to these, which has been 404 for a long time. Back up now though - note, these banners were made when I had, a few hours with The GIMP and were a learning exercise, so don't expect much! Also, I think I was a little...intoxicated when I made them, hence the silliness - 2007-May-09).

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I am *not* a graphic artist, and most of these were a result of experimenting with (and learning to use) Blender and The GIMP. Some of them turned out alright, though. Some of them are silly.

Some of them can be resized smaller and still look okay; at any rate the PSD source is included with most of them (you can edit these, with all layers intact, with The GIMP).

Don't know if anyone will like them, but I figured I'd put a pointer since there don't seem to be many banners for Gentoo. Some of them are rather large.

All are free for unrestricted use, if you want to pull parts of them out and use them for other things.

Thanks to mksoft for the Blender model of the Gentoo logo (that's how I rotated it a bit to the side for the 3-D look on some of them).

Hopefully they will be of some use to someone...
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AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

Nice work!
I really like the grey logo on the starry background.
"emerge the future" Kewl

bpkri · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 2:11 pm Post subject:

Wow! Great work.

My favourite? Oh - that's nice asking that.

The best one for me is in the black background in the 2nd line, left side. This is so... cute.

So retro. I love that.

Emerge the future is the best slogan, though.

progster · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 271

[img:680f0a2c19]http://www.frostwarning.com/~quag7/gentoo-banner9.png[/img:680f0a2c19]

that's my favorite one!

~Progster[/img]

taskara · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 11:07 am Post subject:

quag7 · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 12:28 pm Post subject:

Glad they weren't universally hated! I added 2 more - one for transparent/light backgrounds, and one for black with "Emerge the Future."

As for Blender - I stumbled around with it myself and I'm still a total newbie. Still I was able to move the light around a little bit, and change the basic texture (reflectance and specularity, both of which give a more metallic or plastic look depending on how they are set).

Best thing to do is to load a pre-created scene, and just mess around with it. A good way to start. Still, it's a lot less intuitive than, say, Truespace is (a Windows raytracer). It could just be old habits on my part though.

Thanks for the comments!

-Quag7
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masseya · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 6:10 pm Post subject:

Very cool! It's really neat to see everyone's take on how to proclaim gentoo.

Thanks for the images.
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mooman · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 9:37 pm Post subject:

What? No Larry The Cow?

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sordid · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 3:14 pm Post subject:

my little powered by gentoo logo..

[img:1ef49bef5a]http://everest.fit.qut.edu.au/~n4363094/poweredby.gif[/img:1ef49bef5a]

revil · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 68 Location: Japan

simcop2387 · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 10:01 pm Post subject:

if you did these in the gimp and blender why are there psd (photoshop i believe) sources to them, just wondering

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

It's either PSD or XCF, guess which is more popular...

pilla · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 3:17 am Post subject:

What's the license you are using, if you don't mind me asking?

EDIT sorry, I guess it is " Feel free to modify them, re-distribute them, whatever."

quag7 · Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 11:11 pm Post subject:

Haven't considered a license for something so trivial - they're free to do with as anyone pleases.

I only used PSD because it was the first format I found in the The Gimp that preserved the layers and so forth. However, they were all created in The Gimp and Blender, and saved in The Gimp.

Is there another format which will preserve all this that's more open-sourceish?
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jonemi · Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 11:47 pm Post subject:

XCF, Gimp native format.

quag7 · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 12:25 am Post subject:

Stand back while I smack my forehead. Now see, I've got all of this lame all over my represent.

Ah well :-)

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