Nice, I love the concept! Some rendering suggestions:
* The color on the center of the Skype logo is much more green than the rim; it feels like they are two slightly different materials and it looks "off". It's much better to keep your colors consistent throughout a material.
* In parts you're relying on this hue contrast to make the shape intelligible-desaturate it, and the readability disappears. That makes the shape difficult to parse at a glance. Value contrast always comes first.
* You've shaded the inside portion of the S at a lighter value than the rim [because of the color difference]. This is confusing; people instinctively see a lighter, more saturated value as "higher" or closer, so the raised bit should be lighter.
* Your drop shadow layers aren't blended together enough; you have the shadows correct [large drop shadow and a dark thin AO shadow near the edges] but they look like two different shadows rather than one smooth one.
@Ollin We appreciate your time writing all these comments, however we have achieved our goal and don't think that this icon requires any further improvements.
Thanks for suggesting anyway.
Shouldn't there be a pin or some other mechanism holding the three pieces together at the back where it swivels? Maybe it's a magical Skype icon and defies physics :)
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Ollin
Nice, I love the concept! Some rendering suggestions:
* The color on the center of the Skype logo is much more green than the rim; it feels like they are two slightly different materials and it looks "off". It's much better to keep your colors consistent throughout a material.
* In parts you're relying on this hue contrast to make the shape intelligible-desaturate it, and the readability disappears. That makes the shape difficult to parse at a glance. Value contrast always comes first.
* You've shaded the inside portion of the S at a lighter value than the rim [because of the color difference]. This is confusing; people instinctively see a lighter, more saturated value as "higher" or closer, so the raised bit should be lighter.
* Your drop shadow layers aren't blended together enough; you have the shadows correct [large drop shadow and a dark thin AO shadow near the edges] but they look like two different shadows rather than one smooth one.
Here's an edit to show what I mean. I'm away from home and have to use PS instead of GIMP so pardon the sloppiness ;)
5 months ago
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Terry Dee
This is wonderfully thoughtful and unique. Great work @Artua
5 months ago
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Liu Yuan
Super shot!
5 months ago
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Mario Ciambelli
Really amazing work!
5 months ago
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Artua
@Ollin We appreciate your time writing all these comments, however we have achieved our goal and don't think that this icon requires any further improvements.
Thanks for suggesting anyway.
5 months ago
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Tim
Nice idea, but isn't too much for the dock icon? Or it has some other proposes?
5 months ago
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Artua
@Tim Yes, it has other purpose rather than dock icon, thanks.
5 months ago
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Artua
@Eddie Lobanovskiy Thanks :)
5 months ago
Beautiful.
5 months ago
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Underbelly (via Anthony La...
Great work mr.!
5 months ago
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jonathan olsen
I wanna taste it
5 months ago
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Sean Tremaine
Really nice. I like the angle of it. It seems unique/refreshing.
5 months ago
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Angelos Arnis
Drooling over this design!
5 months ago
I love this...very cool idea.
5 months ago
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Tobia Crivellari
STUNNING! @Artua
5 months ago
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D-alex
Awesome icon ***
5 months ago
Shouldn't there be a pin or some other mechanism holding the three pieces together at the back where it swivels? Maybe it's a magical Skype icon and defies physics :)
5 months ago
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harwen
Awesome!
5 months ago
Woah! That's lovely candy style, m-m-m, delicious :)
5 months ago
cool
5 months ago
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golhoon
hahaha !~funny!~
5 months ago
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Leon Gao
Like this idea, and good implementation :D
5 months ago
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krishnachaitanya
awesome :)
5 months ago
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krishnachaitanya
awesome :)
5 months ago
Thats some cool idea! :)
5 months ago