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Fan-frigging-tastic. I agree, we could use some help with the animation one. Love your work Ren.

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How about a bio-hazzard logo on the viral one, and a few leaves on the nature?

cool designs ren! nice work.

perhaps,some pencils /pens sitting out the top of the animation logo?

or maybe, legs and arms ,very cartoon style, drawn onto the body?

<scratches chin and ponders>

I might split the art sifter with half Mondrian and half Warhol soup. Also nature needs more, like a vine on the handle or maybe some grass at the bottom.

They look great though.

I like a hand drawn / mspaint looking sifter for animation. Like thick lines with blue crank coming out the side of it. That might look good.

hehe a crayon version? that sounds interesting
I'll give the Mondrian tex a few goes but it needs to be instantly recognisable by the masses not just the joe "art connoisseur" dirts

i like the pencils out the top, and the vines/greenery shouldn't be too hard.

thanks peoples

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How about a Sifter as done by Miyazaki or Disney? Not sure what that would like.

i like leaves on the nature one, a twig with some leaves on either side, and think that the animation one should have arms and legs, think spider bot crossed with sifter.

Leaves and biohazard, yes!

Animation... well you probably will get sued for putting Mouse Ears on the sifter.. unless they're like, different. Scratch that idea - just 'thinking out loud'.

A "flip book" idea can't really translate well to a sifter either... can it? Hmm... that'd be an AWESOME animation though - make the sifter "flip book" whatever the final image is every X seconds...

I wish there was more recent artwork to use for the “art” channel. It’s too bad that recent artists are not household names like Mondrian or Warhol. Works by Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst or Matthew Barney would probably just stir things up around here. Mixing two art styles would at least suggest postmodernism, 1980’s to the present.

Murakami
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=Takashi+Murakami&btnG=Search

Hirst
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=Damien+Hirst+&btnG=Search

Barney
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=Matthew+Barney&btnG=Search


As for the cartoon channel, maybe show the little hand crank as a blur in motion? Or maybe add eyes and a mouth? Big animé eyes?

The green for “viral” makes me think “soylent green.”

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Nice links DD - how about a Jackson Pollock sifter? Of course it would be just a bunch of blue squiggles.

The only thing about Pollock is too often folks will say "my kid can do that" or my "dog can do that." However, I remember reading something from the science community about what Pollock did with his technique.

This made me think of these two books. Each one treats the animals as living artists and discusses their works.

http://www.artybees.co.nz/bizarre-book-images/burton-silver-is-a-genius/why-cats-paint.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1580082440.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

By the way, there is a sea lion artist named Sushi at the Audubon Zoo. Her abstract paintings are sold.

agree with the text chosen....too hard to read at first glance...
green on the coconut, perhaps a frog zappin a fly with its tongue, perched on the edge..

Viral needs the Bio-Haz symbol!

The Warhol reference reminds me of soup, not his pop-art trip...
A sift with paint splotch action, or Dali jugglin' the kitties, standing inside...

Animation, with the WB logo with Videosift across it.....DANGER! How bout a buncha celluloid hanging from the top, with one frame enlarged and colorized, with a cartoon mallet hitting a head with stars....etc.....?

My idea for animation icon:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4421/titlesize3vi.jpg

goddammIT sIFTBOT™, GET YER SHIT STRAIGHT, LAST TIME i LOOKED THIS HERE SPOT HAD OVER 70 POSTS!!!.....
sorry ...

that's not half bad snaremop, where are my arms and legs though... i want iron giant sifter

lol
thanks James
I will try to put on some arms and legs later...

okay here is my icon with limbs:

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2895/siftanimlogo0ea.jpg

It might be too big for what you're looking for, so if you want I will make it smaller.

jackson pollock sifter:

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/127/jacksonpollocksifter4ep.jpg


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>>jackson pollock sifter:

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/127/jacksonpollocksifter4ep.jpg


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snaremop:

Victor Vasarely was into circles and optical illusions:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=vasar
ely&spell=1

what about sticking the mona lisa on the sift can!?!?

and i think for nature .... there should be a small ladybug somewhere on the sift ... they're good luck!

I have problems with the fonts. They're hard to read.

As for that nature can, I like it. Can we add ants, fireflies, and ladybugs on it too? [grin]

I like snaremop's animated sifty, maybe his left arm (our right) can be on his hip (like I'm a Little Teapot) to be the old handle. And the blue crank looks like... well... sifty's crank...

ant, the fonts are just for you to tell, I think all the "names" of categories are done in VS2.0 font. ren is just submitting graphics for sift icon.

Question about Campbell graphic. Are we allowed to use that image without copyright violations? Maybe we should change it to pretend it.

I hate the world we live in where intelligent people are now afraid of DMCA and copyright. First of all it can only be trademark violation, (did you copy a song, words, video, music, photo, etc)

Secondly, clearly this is derivative work (an image wrapped 3-d around a photoshop graphic). Thirdly, it is based on Warhol work. Fourthly, are you selling soup? Then how can this infringe on any campbells rights? Fifthly, it is representing art and referring to art.

At any rate, I do think a split can with two images is better to convey the concept, cause it looks too much like a can. Or at least a picture frame around it or in background helps convey "art" much better.

I think some pens and markers coming out of the Warhol can would make the art sifter more instantly recognizeable. Can I get some more feedback on my animation sifter please?

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2895/siftanimlogo0ea.jpg

It may not be wise, but some of the postmodern artists thumb their noses at copyrights.

Wikipedia on postmodernism - It might not make things clearer, but you might have a better sense of what is going on in art now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

like it snaremop. as you said the legs and arms can be made smaller. how about some eyeballs? also, have you tried keeping the arms and legs metalic colour with boots and gloves ( say black for the boots and the same blue colour as the handle for the glove colour).

like the idea of mona lisas head popping out the top of the art logo.

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