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Design a BRL-CAD splash screen #9BRL-CAD
Status: ClosedTime to complete: 100 hrs Mentors: Jacob B, IshwerdasTags: image, GUI, 2D, design, graphics, logo, splash screenBeginner

BRL-CAD's new modeling interface, archer, displays a splash screen when you start the program.  This is what it currently looks like:

http://svn.code.sf.net/p/brlcad/code/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/archer/images/aboutArcher.png

There are several problems with that image.  It uses our old logo.  It references the wrong website.  It has a massive pointless ""icon"".  It proclaim's archer being trademarked (distracting).

Your task is to design a completely new splash screen that has none of those problems, is visually interesting, optionally incorporates our new logo, and optionally references our main website (brlcad.org).

Check out some of the other design tasks for inspiration.  Make yours look even more impressive, artistically interesting. ;)

Submit your image in whatever raw working format you use (e.g., psd), preferably something with layers in case we need to change anything, but also submit a final png image as well.

 

Uploaded Work
File name/URLFile sizeDate submitted
BRL_CAD SPLASH SCREEN #9.zip298.3 KBDecember 03 2014 15:45 UTC
BrlCadLogo.png94.9 KBDecember 03 2014 15:46 UTC
BRL-CAD splash.png1.5 MBDecember 03 2014 15:47 UTC
BRL-CAD splash.psd472.1 KBDecember 03 2014 15:47 UTC
Comments
Chris Bogaardson December 1 2014 18:01 UTCTask Claimed

I would like to work on this task.

Ishwerdas on December 1 2014 18:02 UTCTask Assigned

This task has been assigned to Chris Bogaards. You have 100 hours to complete this task, good luck!

Chris Bogaardson December 3 2014 19:35 UTCReady for review

The work on this task is ready to be reviewed.

Jacob B on December 4 2014 06:35 UTCCreative

I really like the creativity here, even if it is a bit cheesy-it makes me think of "Archer" a bit differently.  I would try to make the design look a bit more professional/polished:



  • Make the man look less like a jumble of shapes and more like one outline

  • Do something more interesting with the background (or move the man and text)

    • Be more creative with the font choice-most of our current design work is sans-serif, so I would see about using a good looking sans-serif font.

(By the way, that link in the task description is mixed up-what is points to now is actually a pretty good design; the old, not so good one looked like http://svn.code.sf.net/p/brlcad/code/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/archer/images/aboutArcher.png?p=50000)

Jacob B on December 4 2014 06:35 UTCTask Closed

Congratulations, this task has been completed successfully.