8-Bit Invaders: phase 2

 

And here we are:
digital versions of the hand-drawn sketches are now ready... and do not want to stay into a pc all the time!
Some fresh air is required and so...
I suspect you have already guessed what is going to happen as next step!

Creating a brand

 

Now is time to explain who is this strange guy!
It is the product of the process of creating a brand for a new, hypothetical company.
This was a project for a graphic course: we have to create a new company and its main product, no limit to the imagination, requirement was to be coherent and convincing.
I imagined a start-up that was going to develop an A.I. capable of replacing its owner in all the aspects of the social/web life: gaming, chatting, posting comments and so on.
Obviously the A.I. was configurable and reporting to the owner on a schedule defined by the owner itself.
Starting from this idea there was the task of choosing a proper name, and the right font for it.
The next step was creating a graphic logo for the company.
I ended this phase with the horizontal log:

And also the compact version:

The next phase in the project was creating something special for the company and there, as you already guessed, the compact version of the name became central, with just some simple transformations a small robot character could be created:

So the small robot became the friendly interface of the A.I., especially for humans not much knowing about computers. And it was also a key graphical/emotional element for the possible applications:

It won the benevolence of the course members, and also a 3D render for the final page of the  Brand Development Guide.
As said in a previous post: all the elements of the character have a real meaning! :)

Firenze Logo

 

This is a study for a possible logo for a branding process that was started some years ago started in Firenze.
I stayed on a classic approach but the result was interesting... at least for me!
I liked the idea of something easily recognizable, also if being of little size, and something that recalled the actual artistic heritage of the city, where real masters of the Renaissance created their masterpieces.

CUOYO Logo

 
Here is a logo for a company that works leather and leather shoes.
Not only it has to be printed on paper and shoppers, also has to be impressed directly on leather goods.
So a compact shape, easy to recognize, high contrast and few details.
The font was already registered for the company identity, so a graphical layout was needed, possibly displaying also one tool used i this kind of activities.
In the end the customer was satisfied, and that is the most important aspect!

Pluto and its bike

A short animation made in Flash. Alex liked the character and said: "it is Pluto on a motor bike" ... so ... that's good and I'm going for it: it will be Pluto! :)

Plastic Team

Here is the Plastic Team, a group of strange SuperHeroes devoted to...who knows?

Designed for one project developed by the company, and guess what? Tightly connected to animating through smooth deformations...more to follow (just if I have the chance of animating this strange people ;) ). 

2D StopMotion Wolf

Here is an elaboration of the company's mascotte for becoming part of the graphic and logo of a new software we are developing. And, have you guessed?, is something about StopMotion productions. So, if the mascotte is a wolf, why not doing a 'stopmotion' wolf for this product?