GFX isn't my responsibility for the time being so suit yourselves and use whatever makes you folks comfortable. Despite if they wanna use it or not i'll point out the GFX and how can it be improved, if it's going to use it for DA you can't use it in it's current form
- Here we go
You use brushes over the render to add those nion-like stuff which doesn't give a good impression frankly, it's not smooth. Open the banner to fullscreen and take a decent look at every corner, every spot and every single detail, the thing is a total mess there. I realize it was a co-op between you and baku which is cool to see, however, each one of you wanted to add his own touch to the logo.. (no idea why i was refering to it as "banner") which made it full of effects, useless effects. With the current effects it's even hard to comprehend the background which i suppose are supposed to be buildings but with everything used all i see is white boxes. Now look at the C4D used there, the right side of the signature has a swift-look C4Ds used, while the left side has a circle-look C4D while not a single part of the render is matching with it which is creating an odd atmosphere. I have no clue what are those red and blue dots which are everywhere no matter where I'm looking, but i spent a decent 5 minutes trying to catch the flow, but i couldn't, perhaps because there is non.
I don't know if you have noticed that but the logo itself has that grey-ish-washed-out-look as there is no clear shadows nor clear lights. I can't sense the depth of the render, it feels like if everything was used on one single layer. For us, Artistis, we know that when someone learns how to make a logo or a signature he do 3 steps: Make 3 different layers; add BG to layer 1; add render to layer 3; add C4Ds to layer 2, then after that we goes in and put few adjustment layers and filters here and there. However, at the advanced level the two of you should be at by now, you should be aware that using the simple steps to make a logo for DA isn't quite enough to satisfy people who have a decent taste of GFX. Maybe some people who hasn't seen something better than that logo will like it, but this is Duel Academy, It's not DAD, it's not WTA, and it's no one of those academies who can be satisfied with such level of graphics.
Text and font aren't bad; however, the number of times I've seen a similar combinations of main text and secondary text is over nine thousands, It's not new, It's not unique.
Again, don't take my critics to the heart, I'm only tending to be nice here and point out the mistakes of your logo before we use it and others who will come in the future point it our for you. It can be improved so get your asses on that PS, you and Baku, and come out with something professional, something good doesn't cut it.
I'll say this again, since I wasn't trolling - prolly the only post where i'm not trolling nor interested in trolling - I won't be around in DA much which is why i took a break from my duties and entrusted the admins to make the correct decision regarding skin and graphics and i have no intention of interfering with their decisions as they're welcomed to do as they wish with DA, so this critics isn't an attempt to keep the current skin or logo, cause i have no such interest, not for the time being that is.
