Well since everyone else is doing it, and I've always been interested in typography.

 

 

 

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It's still not what I envisioned. The background is a quick run to see what it looks like on something other than black.

 

 

 

The profile shot is the best really, it gives the largest and flattest areas to work with. I tried isometric and other angles but the text just gets too distorted to read.

 

 

 

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OK I've spent a few hours working it, I took Nadril's idea of a photo background.

 

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Added in the filler text which was suggested. Think it looks pretty good.

 

 

 

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Awesome. I don't know what you would do for a background though, it's hard to do any cc without a final-ish background.

Looks great, very inventive, though some of the letters seem blurred.

The background is pretty dark -- if/when you touch it up, I'd use a light sky colour (like a blue-gray).

 

 

 

Creative idea. The font is consistent and the text is relevant. :thumbup:

I forgot to say earlier ; a very unique idea, how did you change the type so it made the same of the car?

Some of it, like the wheels and parts of the roof, I used the pen tool to create a path, then type the text along it.

 

 

 

For the crazier parts the only thing to do is rasterize the text and use the warp function to warp the text to the position you want. Then I use the sharpen filter to make it more readable, as warping it seriously degrades the quality.

I thought so :thumbup: Great use of paths

Thanks. :)

 

 

 

This is the image I used to map out the text.

 

You need more text in there, is it just me who thinks the car area is a bit empty?

 

Anyway, nice idea and execution nontheless.

Probably the best attempt at typography I've seen on this forum. All the one's i've seen, Like Littleboys for example, were terrible. It just had random text, vertical text for god knows whatever reason, and it wasn't funny/effective. This however actually is more creative and I love how it turned out. I agree with Thru a bit, I'd try to build more of the body, but not making it too busy. Also, some of the text is blurry as I'm sure has been mentioned.

I agree there needs to be more text, the problem is that the smaller text gets completely unreadable as it warps, not even sharpening makes a difference. Plus I'm running out of Veyron facts. :lol:

 

Perhaps a repeated phrase related to the car would do, as a sort of filler text for the gaps?

More density would be cool if you're up for it. For example:

 

 

(maybe not to that extent)

 

 

 

With smaller text, it would be easier to create curves and form and such without losing legibility. You could also colour each text differently, rather than using gradients to create shading.

 

 

 

You can use descriptive car-commercial-type words instead of repeating phrases. Most viewers won't read all of the text, anyways, so long as you emphasize certain points over others (like you've got now).

Probably the best attempt at typography I've seen on this forum. All the one's i've seen, Like Littleboys for example, were terrible.It just had random text, vertical text for god knows whatever reason, and it wasn't funny/effective. This however actually is more creative and I love how it turned out. I agree with Thru a bit, I'd try to build more of the body, but not making it too busy. Also, some of the text is blurry as I'm sure has been mentioned.

 

 

 

 

 

People seem to think they're nice. I don't really call my stuff typography anyway.

hey, this is quite inspirational. i feel like trying one of my own now :3

 

 

 

i like how you changed the shades of grey to match certain areas of the car.

Agreeing more density would be awesome.

 

 

 

For a background idea, what if you did the typography and put it into a "real" scene, like a road or something. Could look really cool.

Intersting. But the green kills it.

I don't really call my stuff typography anyway.

 

 

 

Lies

 

 

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=770996

 

 

 

 

Random typograpy piece.

 

 

 

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=767799

 

 

 

 

An order that Thru placed in my shop, the theme being himself & what I know about him. Wanted quit a hard to read, dark, street art sort of style to it.

 

 

 

 

And a quick one based on horror, find the handprint brush here

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newest version is up. ^

- Weird choice of background. It's a good idea, but it looks like it spun out or something. Go for a side view background. You can even give the tail and rims some blur if you want to make it look like it's moving fast.

 

- Not a fan of the white squares in the middle of the tires.

 

- I still think the gradient colouring can be improved (removed) by using more density throughout the body

 

 

 

Just my two cents. :)

Yeah I would go for a side view background too. Or, maybe make it look like it just kind of did a bit of a spin (like skid marks as typography).

 

 

 

 

 

Agreed with the rest of what Venomai said as well. It's really looking good though, although I still think smaller and more type would be awesome.

I like where you're going with the background but maybe try to find one where the car would be going the right way on the road?

 

 

 

Also, the center of the tires are huge attention attractors and they don't really fit at all.

WOW that's awesome! That must have taken ages to do.

 

 

 

I did that sort of thing in my art design class back in 3rd form when we had to do animals and silhouettes and stuff. I chose the black jaguar and put words describing it around the pupil of its eye, got an Excellence for it =D I like typography and it looks like you're a master at it! Great job! :thumbsup:

Where's that typography piece that won you POTM. pryo? I'll have to dig it up...

 

 

 

Edit: I suppose you'd have to repost it, it was lost to the rollback and I can't find your imageshack account.

This was the image:

 

 

 

 

I wouldn't say it's typography really, I started out with that intention, but in the end it just became a normal signature, lol.

 

 

 

Thanks for your comments, Triquos!

Looks really good, I agree about the density of the text though. If you could add some more small words I think that would greatly improve the quality of the piece, mainly because the whole shape of the car wasn't entirely clear to me at first glance.

 

 

 

But nice work.