[Entry 1] Tech/Grunge theme (Updated 4/04)

enjoikr3w · March 20, 2010, 03:35:12 PM

Hey everyone, been lurking this website for a while now and this contest has tempted me to finally register

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If I am lucky enough to be picked, I can supply all the necessary files to implement the banner (and edit them to fit if necessary).

I wanted to capture the 3 different universes of Blizzard in this piece while still maintaining the overall color coding of the website. I felt it was fitting to move towards a "Tech/Grunge" theme for the banner.
Along with the banner I decided to slightly edit the coloring of the actual website, making the dark gray more of a black (you can see what I mean in the preview image). I felt this color gave the website a more dominant presence as well as better fitting the "Dark"Blizz.

Here is my banner submission.

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2887/logint.png

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2216/loggedin.png

Preview with rest of website

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7029/previewi.png

Updated logo made from scratch

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/1217/darkblizz.png

Parabola · March 20, 2010, 03:40:08 PM

Not bad. :thumbsup:

ringlas · March 20, 2010, 03:41:43 PM

I think it's quite good! I really enjoy it and I think it's a great competitor!

Parabola · March 20, 2010, 04:12:49 PM

Oh motto is "Making Battle.net Magic!"

enjoikr3w · March 20, 2010, 06:44:00 PM

Thank you for the compliments! I have updated the banner with the new motto and also updated the navigation bar to better match the new banner.

Nova · March 20, 2010, 06:50:34 PM

Looks great. Definitely top three, if not the best.

erulabs · March 20, 2010, 07:50:22 PM

I really like this one... Great job! My only comment concerns the zerg character. The Protoss and Terran images are clearly direct profiles of a face... For the Zerg image I kind of have to stare at it for a second to see it.

Other than that, I love the colors for each race, love the overall design.

Edit: After looking at all the others, yours is one of the only ones with well designed buttons. For that alone I gotta say this is my favorite.

Nova · March 21, 2010, 12:11:30 AM

Er, erulabs, the banner isn't representing the three Starcraft races, it's representing the three universes of blizzard; Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo.

Parabola · March 21, 2010, 12:28:49 AM

Lich King = Protoss?

darkshark · March 21, 2010, 12:35:26 AM

Quote from: Parabola on March 21, 2010, 12:28:49 AM
Lich King = Protoss?

I would think the lich king is more of a zerg type with that whole scourge undead army thing...

erulabs · March 21, 2010, 01:04:17 AM

I don't know how I missed that. I don't really know WoW so much, don't know why I thought that was a protoss.

Zexon · March 21, 2010, 06:46:46 AM

Impresive, but a tad of the subject... but it would really be cool if the leech king would be a protons unit.

Ti.sTou- · March 21, 2010, 10:15:51 AM

I think the choice of the 3 different universe is very good, and the portrait are very well choosen

+1

Ribose · March 21, 2010, 01:22:24 PM

Looks like that's supposed to be Protoss\Zerg\Terran (but instead became Scourge\Zerg\Terran), though I would personally love it if it was StarCraft\Diablo\WarCraft for the three big universes of Blizzard.

Hero_Lief · March 21, 2010, 02:16:33 PM

Quote from: Ribose on March 21, 2010, 01:22:24 PM
Looks like that's supposed to be Protoss\Zerg\Terran (but instead became Scourge\Zerg\Terran), though I would personally love it if it was StarCraft\Diablo\WarCraft for the three big universes of Blizzard.

Fail much?
It's Arthas (Warcraft), Diablo (Diablo), and a Marine (StarCraft). Those are all taken from the newest games... WoW:WotLK, Diablo III, and StarCraft II. The second one is NOT a random zerg.