Need forum icons! Thread

Sup all - it be awesome if someone can tackle this challenge and that is creating a unique icon for each of the forums instead of the default

• General Banter
• Site Feedback
• Contests & Giveaways
• Cosmos
• Staff Discussion

• Development Banter
• Ideas & Concepts
• Pimpage & Posing
• Recruiting & Resumes
• Coding & Scripting
• 2D Graphics
• 3D Modeling & Animating
• Level Design
• Audio / Visual

• PC Gaming
• Console Gaming
• Handheld Gaming
• Tech Support

So yeah just submit any icons you can make for any of these categories and i'll use the best. I'm looking for 20x20 icons which are preferably simple and just greys / blacks (consistent style)

I'm on it! ... I think. I'll post them tommorow GMT+1

Some ideas:

• General Banter
  • A Pacman-style talking head
• Site Feedback
  • A 'tick' mark
• Contests & Giveaways
  • A box wrapped in a ribbon with a bow (i.e. a prezzie)
• Cosmos
  • Have no freakin idea what this forum is!
• Staff Discussion
  • "VIP" in pixel font

• Development Banter
  • Two Pacman-style talking heads in opposite corners, facing eachother
• Ideas & Concepts
  • An exclamation mark (!) in pixel font
• Pimpage & Posing
  • A pixel stickman with hands on hips and head facing to the side (i.e. proud guy)
• Recruiting & Resumes
  • A resume (i.e. white page with lines on it)
• Coding & Scripting
  • 1s and 0s in pixel font
• 2D Graphics
  • A paintbrush
• 3D Modeling & Animating
  • A triangle-based pyramid
• Level Design
  • A hammer
• Audio / Visual
  • An ear / eye

• PC Gaming
  • A PC monitor on top of an oldskool desktop case
• Console Gaming
  • A box with a cart sticking out of the top and controller ports at the front (i.e. oldskool cartridge console like the SNES or Megadrive)
• Handheld Gaming
  • A GBA-style handheld icon (i.e. sideways)
• Tech Support
  • A question mark (?) in pixel font

cool as, it'll make the forums much sexier, well at least easier to find stuff with visual aid to identify things.

Crispy, my original concepts I drew awhile ago, before this post, I actually had a pac man looking head for general banter. =P

Edited by: Spector

I like Crispy's ideas except for Pimpage & Posing I'd rather have something else. I don't exactly know what but I'll think about it.

And as for Cosmos how about a swerly star vortex thing. (i.e. Tutorialdog.com )

Edited by: Jyffeh

You mean like this: ?
I made these for a try and I also suggest this: as 3DM&A than pyramid suggested by Crispy.

Edited by: Whizzard

The 3D one is awesome, more icons themed like that would kick ass.... anyone having a crack?

Well i bothered myself to make a few more before going to sleep, but here they are:
General Banter:
Site feedback: It's really hard to make tick pixel by pixel
Contests & Giveaways: Incomplete. I almost had an headache wondering how to add an proper ribbon to this. Man it's really hard. But I have an complete version of 2d one:

PS: these have an white backround, they need transparent backround to properly fit, but that an be done later or never.

Edited by: Whizzard

<-2D Graphics
<- Coding & Scripting
<- Contests & Giveaways
<- Cosmos
<- Ideas & Concepts
<- Recruiting & Resumes
<- Site Feedback
<- Staff Discussion
<- Tech Support

They still have to be polished

Edited by: raxiv

raxiv that looks great but make the cake more cake like, if it is a cake... it looks like one anyways...

I think it's a present, you dork.

What happened to the icons I've sent you some time ago Scott? I even made one for Spam & Flaming

Cheap you only made 3 icons, hardly enough. Try and make all the icons this size if possible, so we have a consistent design

Whizzard wrote: You mean like this: ?
I made these for a try and I also suggest this: as 3DM&A than pyramid suggested by Crispy.

Yeah this is a big improvement. I originally was gonna have a hammer for 3D art (sculpture), but 'hammer' is more associated with 'building' (in English a verb and a noun that both fit into level design). I couldn't come up with a good icon for modelling, the 3D box is perfect imo.

I think a 2D version of the present one is best: try making the ribbon on the box a "+" instead of a "I". At the moment it looks like a French flag with a bow on it. The bow looks good though.

I think using pixel art based on the size of the pixels in this example would help make all of the icons more coherent.

Ideas and concepts should really be a lightbulb

Duh! Yeah I was saying to myself: ideas...eureka moments... lightning bolt? No... something abrupt, surprising even?
Lightbulb is definitely the way to go.

Henley wrote: raxiv that looks great but make the cake more cake like, if it is a cake... it looks like one anyways...

Yup, needs polishing

I finished the 3D present box and did that little change to 2d one.


And I have an new offer on cosmos... though it does not seem so deep...

I promise more later when I bother myself again.

Edited by: Whizzard

Whizzard wrote: I finished the 3D present box and did that little change to 2d one.


And I have an new offer on cosmos... though it does not seem so deep...

I promise more later when I bother myself again.

The 3D box and cosmos are really good.

Since i had an bad day yesterday I didn't make even one. So to compensate that I made many today.

Let's start with Ideas & Concepts, I have 3 versions of it suggested by you:

Classic:
More modern:

Now level design:

Audio/visual, which does not look so good:

PC gaming has 3 versions,
1.Normal:
2:DOS:
3.Blue Screen of Death!!!:(oh no!)

Console gaming:
Handheld 1: and handheld 2:

Tech support:

Edited by: Whizzard

Whizzard wrote: Tech support:

is that an old macintosh?

Umm, maybe...

I like them. I think my fav is the bluse screen of death. I got one yesterday. It killed my game of CoD4.

looking good, i'll be collecting these up this week and making whatever we are missing. get the front page looking a little prettier