Vortigaunt T-Shirt

[zombieturtle01]

So I am working on a design for a Vortigaunt T-Shirt, I've been playing around in photoshop, and this is my first and general idea.
The back will have either the quote "There was a time when they cared nothing of Ms. Vance, when their only experience of humanity was a crowbar coming at them down a steel corridor", or simply-"when their only experience of humanity was a crowbar coming at them down a steel corridor"... which one should I use? Shorter or longer version?

Anyways, here is the first idea I made for the front, honest opinions, Critiques and ideas please, thanks :)
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6797/vortsplatwhitezc2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Obviously the actual print with be much, much larger. Does it need more splatter?

[KineticAesthetic]

I don't like it. It's washed out, and the proportions are strange. It doesn't really resemble a Vort, and the crowbar is the wrong way around. I'm sorry.

I still love you.

[zombieturtle01]

eh, i didnt really want it to be from first person perspective, but I guess that doesn't make much sense. But I definately appreciate the honest opinion, I just want the vort/blood to look graphic and almost comic like rather than perfect indepth detail. I was just playing around in Gmod and photoshop to get an idea, I'll probably get around to actually drawing my own.

[Naph]

I'd buy one, suggesting that the vort was a cartoony :P

[zombieturtle01]

is the idea good though? with the quote and all? or is it just a lame idea honestly?

[Pesmerga]

I think if you made a cartoony Vorty on the front of a green shirt, I'd buy it.

But the vort had to be small. Like 5% of the shirt.

[ktimekiller]

yea, pic is too large, make it smaller imo

[zombieturtle01]

Making it smaller doesn't work though, because then I would have to have Gordon in the picture, which I'd rather not have.

[Pesmerga]

I didn't really mean keep your original design.

I don't really like it that much. Shirts should be ... catchy, cartoony things.

[.Wolf.]

Chuck Norris is on his way to buy one, so be warned.
A high tide means Chuck Norris is flying over your coast. The tide is caused by God pissing his pants.

[dekstar]

I think the shorter quote works best. However I also think the design should go for a simpler, more eye-catching idea (No idea what I'm afraid).

I think you should do a mock up of what you want the final design to look like on a T-shirt. You can get loads of blank T-shirt pics off google, and just photoshop it on how you think. Then you can mess with proportions and stuff.

The only reason I have a problem with the initial design is that the vort is cropped off the edge of the picture -- this doesn't translate well onto a T-shirt because it'd look like an obvious box. I would suggest you perhaps find a way to get the whole vort in the frame, or fade round the edges, though I don't really think that's a good idea.
Have a play around anyway. The quote would work well on a T-shirt if you found the right way to pull the front image off.

FAKE-EDIT: Another idea might be to have the quote on the front, and the image on the back. This way, people walking towards you would read the quote, think "huh?", and as you walk past they might turn their heads to see the image. It may not work that way, but it's something to think about.

[Jintor]

Do us a mock-up, but i really don't think it should take up the whole of the shirt... should be smaller, anyways.

[Pinkle]

The quote should just be, "Their only experience of humanity was a crowbar coming at them down a steel corridor..." Leave out the "when". I like the idea, can't wait to see a different idea on the pic. :)

[zombieturtle01]

FAKE-EDIT: Another idea might be to have the quote on the front, and the image on the back. This way, people walking towards you would read the quote, think "huh?", and as you walk past they might turn their heads to see the image. It may not work that way, but it's something to think about.

The quote should just be, "Their only experience of humanity was a crowbar coming at them down a steel corridor..." Leave out the "when". I like the idea, can't wait to see a different idea on the pic. :)

Thanks for the helpful imput, both good ideas :)

Will try my best.

[Connor]

It just doesn't feel Half-Lifeian. The crowbar is just coming out of no where and its backwards which just doesn't feel right. The green blood is easily recognized as an added detail. Maybe you could have a dead vort with it's head smashed in on the ground in a hallway, with Gordon walking away down the hallway holding the crowbar. Or better yet, nix the hallway and just have no scenery (like if the shirt was white and had that picture but with out the hallway, just the vort and Gordon, that would be awsome) Just and idea. I don't know about the quote though. An improved picture would really speak for itself. But maybe the Lambda, or just a slanted crowbar as like a symbol/insomnia. It's a good quote, but it's too long and people would take awhile to read it and those of them that no nothing of Half-Life might sort of get it but still, people would probably aften say "hey, lemme read your T-shirt" and then you stretch it out so it is flat and easier to read and stand there uncomfortably while they take ages to read and comprehend it.

[chimpmunk]

Cool concept, but it seems to me there is a photoshop "artistic effect" filter, am I right?

anyways, I'd buy such a shirt.

[zombieturtle01]

Cool concept, but it seems to me there is a photoshop "artistic effect" filter, am I right?

anyways, I'd buy such a shirt.

Ah yes, well thats why it was just a rough draft, trying to come up with an idea sort of thing. If I do finalize the idea, it would be completely done by hand.

[Krynn72]

I think it would be cooler to have the vort dead on the ground, with an abandoned crowbar lodged in its skull.

You could have it laying flat on its back, and it could be drawn from the point of view of someone standing over him.

[zombieturtle01]

good call, thats a pretty good idea. although i am not sure the view you are speaking of would work, might look confusing, i'll play around with it.

[Xendance]

Yeah, and make sure you get the quote right.

Its actually, "they cared nothing for Miss Vance."

not

"they cared nothing of Miss Vance"

[Druckles]

I think it would be cooler to have the vort dead on the ground, with an abandoned crowbar lodged in its skull.

You could have it laying flat on its back, and it could be drawn from the point of view of someone standing over him.

This, but the point of view from the side:


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Would be awesome.

[zombieturtle01]

what side is that? horizontally laying?

[Druckles]

It's lying with it's head, arms and legs in the air, I would have illustrated a crowbar, but basically it's sticking out of him.

[zombieturtle01]

alright guys, I am going to do a bunch of refference shots in Gmod and post them, tell me which angle/shot looks the best, and I'll work from there. Danke

[Iron Kat]

I think it would be better if the picture was on a black background (then again, I like all my T-shirts to be black! I don't think I have a single coloured T-shirt!) or green, like Pesmerga suggested. I also agree that the Vort should be more cartoony.

[zombieturtle01]

like i said i will be drawing the final product

[Iron Kat]

I know. I actually posted without completely reading all the other posts! My bad!! :p

[Connor]

I think it should look something like this

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6081/deadvortgp2.png

[zombieturtle01]

I know. I actually posted without completely reading all the other posts! My bad!! :p

It's cool.

I think it should look something like this

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6081/deadvortgp2.png

I thought about something like that, but I really would rather not incorporate Gordon into it. I am going for simplicity.

[Connor]

a vortagaunt is anything but simple. but if it were a cartoon like they mentioned before, i think it would work well. depending on how you style it.