New quickshape

[joroho]

I gotta' tell ya', I really love playing with Quickshapes. Maybe it's just the accountant mindset in me that loves the symmetrical drawings, but I find it lots of fun.

I'm considering submitting the attached as a potential logo for our church's website. Do y'all think it's too busy? Can you make out the cross in the middle? I'm open to any/all suggestions.

joroho

[gwpriester]

The cool thing about your logo is if your church doesn't like it you can sell it (or donate it) to someone else. It's so generic it can be anything or everything [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Gary

Gary Priester

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[RTK]

That is a quick shape!?

How did you that?

Risto

[Ross Macintosh]

Risto - I'll jump in and tell ya! Not a real tutorial by any means but perhaps enough to help you discover this technique for having fun: Go to your QuickShape tool and make a QuickStar. Now apply the rounded edge property and then dynamically (and dramatically) drag the little handles around and watch the results. That's called QuickFun!

Joroho - The kind of thing you've created can be made into a really interesting animation easily. I hope you'll try that and share the results with us.

Regards, Ross

<a href=http://www.designstop.com/>DesignStop.Com</a>

[joroho]

Risto - In this case, I started with a four-sided quickshape, i.e. a square. I then played with dragging the sides around at a point very close to one of the four nodes. I did this for about 5 minutes before ending up with this shape and I have not been able to recreate it (frustrating!). Applied a bevel and a multicolor linear fill to the bevel, and that's how I got it.

Ross - Not sure in what way(s) you think this design lends itself to animation, as I'm not a graphics artist. Found the easiest way to create an animation for it is in Xara3D4. Gave it a try and you can see it attached below. Sorry for the large file size.

joroho

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[Ross Macintosh]

I like your animation. The kind I was thinking about is as per the example attached...

Regards, Ross

<a href=http://www.designstop.com/>DesignStop.Com</a>

[RTK]

Each day you find something new in Xara!

I am going to have SOO much fun with this and my kids are going to love it.

My 10 minute creation!

Risto

[RTK]

It's a fun tool [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Risto

[RTK]

That tool really gets my mind going!

How about this one? - A hopping mad baby elephant?

Risto

[AjIsCoool]

Hi joroho , Looking at your church logo, i could not understand what does it mean? so really i can't give you my opinion. can you explain what it is stand for or what does it mean? so i can judge it.