On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:28:34AM +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: >> On 02/01/2010 07:28 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: >> > >> > I spent some time this weekend working on another iteration of the >> > Fedora rocket lines idea [1]. Tatica put together a 3D rocket in Blender >> > [2], so I used this rocket to make a new composition roughly based on >> > the rocket lines sketch: >> > >> > Do you have any ideas for improvement or how to work this more? I think >> > it may be too literal, and by default maybe we should take the rockets >> > and stars out or something and just work with the trails only for an >> > abstract pattern. Not sure though. What do you think? Critique >> > please! :) >> >> I see two problems with the design, probably both are solvable: >> - to me the rockets look pretty much like some big white blobs. I >> understand you had to make them white, since the 3D model looked pretty >> much like a rocket *toy*, but I think it should be also be simplified. >> Space rockets are not that big compared with their trails and their >> wings are definitely not that big. >> - the sky/space is a bit too dark and too plain and the white mist at >> the bottom is somewhat unrealistic. Maybe we can add some colors and >> make it not that dark. > > I don't want to pile too many ideas into one piece of art. But > there's something I really like about the "flying forward in space" > picture here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Fedorasky.jpg > > (Yes, the logo is unwanted, understood!) :-) > > I do like the idea of the stars providing that element of light that > we've used in other backgrounds. And it seems dynamic with all that > motion, although I worry that maybe it's *too* much motion. > > Could this be combined in any meaningful way with rocket trails? > ("No" is an acceptable answer, you guys are the artists.) :-) > Actually I was thinking the following.. multiple rockets on that background.. each one getting more 'advanced' to star ship.. sort of evolution of spaceships mirroring evolution of fedora. Of course I am on a lot of pain medication so that could be that talking too :) -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
