Design a business card for BRL-CAD. These will be cards that community members who got selected in GSOC or in GCI or even for core contributors can give out to others at conferences, meetings, interviews, etc. The design will get filled in with personal information like name, title, phone number, email, maybe a mailing address too.
Submit a one-sided or two-sided design that can be filled in with personal information and sent to a business card printer (or even printed at home).
Designing of BRL-CAD membership cards can be done in LaTeX, GIMP, Photoshop or any other editing software. Please submit your raw working files (e.g., a PSD or XCF with layers) as well as a "preview" example png.
Search the web or other GCI tasks for inspiration, but make sure you only incorporate artwork that we'd have the ability to redistribute without any restriction (look for CC-BY or BSD/MIT license or public domain content), or keep it simple and fully design the card yourself.
Please DO use any of our formal (the three rings) or informal (the moose antlers) logos, include a link to our website in your design, and be sure to put a "dash" in BRL-CAD. Please do NOT create a military-looking theme, use our old eagle logo, or simply copy someone else's design.
Be awesome, be creative, be inspired, be original. ;)
| File name/URL | File size | Date submitted | |
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| BusinessCard BRL-CAD.zip | 18.6 MB | December 14 2013 16:38 UTC | |
| BusinessCard.zip | 3.1 MB | December 15 2013 11:28 UTC |
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The business card has got a 3d look to it, I chose to design it this way becuse as BRL-CAD is software for 3d modeling so a 3d look will justify it's purpose.
Thank you.
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Luke, the design is simple enough and interesting, but has several projection and shading errors. You're sort of pretending to have a 3D scene, but nothing lines up with that background geometry. Even the central project title doesn't look like it's on that cubish looking shape.
Consider this diagram, for example: http://www.watercolorpainting.com/perspective/single_point_perspective.jpg
If you're going to draw text "on" the background shapes you've created, then those fonts need to exactly match the "lines of perspective" which (surprisingly) not a single bit of the text you added does so even by coincidence.
Alas, I suggest trying a completely different approach. Even if the above is clear to you, I notice that the "slant" of the backgroundmost surface is really steep. Making the text slant that much would be rather awkward on a business card, but is what would be necessary to make that face correctly. I don't think you can make this look good and realistic without changing the design signficantly.
Finally, think of what your design is trying to say. What's the point of the background and foreground cubes? Kind of looks like we're promoting Pez candies. ;) If "we do 3D modeling" is the goal, I suggest rendering some images in BRL-CAD (see our intro to mged tutorial) and using those instead.
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This is a better design, nicely done Luke. The only problem I see is that the dimensions on the cup aren't right. If the stem is 78mm, there's no way that base is 105mm.. Obviously you just made the numbers up, but we'll create a follow-on task for someone to make it be more accurate numbers and also real BRL-CAD geometry (with annotations and effects still added in Photoshop).
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A follow-on to this task has been posted: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2013/5257831183810560
I really want to help but I only know the basics of MGED, so figuring out how to make it will take me more than 2 days.
Thank you.
Now that a model is complete, another follow-on task has been posted: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2013/5598858029563904
Basically, to update this design with an actual model, stylizing the graphics and annotations to suit.