Logo

What's your favorite logo? Think about it for a second and choose one. Now, I'm going to read your mind, and guess something about it? Ready? It's blue. Or at least, it's mostly blue. Am I psychic? Yes.

No, actually, its just that most logos are blue, or have a lot of blue in them. Someone made a single pic of the top one million logos on the internet, scaled by web traffic. It looks like the sea, with bits of other colors floating like flotsam and jetsam on the cool blue waters. Must be something deep in our psyches.

Am learning in Blender about Bezier Curves. You can basically trace any flat shape you like as a series of curves. A series of points actually, and controlling the points lets you control the curves. So the lesson today was to recreate a random logo they found on a piece of flotsam somewhere, washed up on the beach of internet culture.

The yellow bit I made with a Bezier curve, and added a little thickness to it. The red bit i made as a cylinder with 20 segments, then joined a couple from one side with a couple from the other to form the slash in the middle. Had to raise it up in the middle to go over the yellow bit, which is why it has some unusual highlights on it.

Not really happy with this one. The bezier curve is not smooth enough, you can still see the straight edges to it in places. And the slash doesn't quite look right.

And worst of all? It's not blue.