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A LOT of people have created T Minus accounts since the last time I did this, so I guess it's time for another round. If you would like a floating chat bubble icon like this one and like other people have, I can make one for you.

What I need from YOU is a relatively simple graphic symbol for your character in one or two colors that I can past into the template and animate. If you want to explore the depths of the character map and just put it in a comment rather than an image, feel free to do that, too. Just make sure I have the text color to go with it. If your character has a coat of arms or something, please simplify it into a single color outline-shape if you can--I would hate to cut out the most important detail because I don't know the canon well enough or something.

(There are also some generic T Minus icons in different colors here.)

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Ooh! I'd love one for Tommy, please. Here's the flame part of the FDNY logo. Let me know if it's useable. (The original image is here just in case.)

fdny-logo-flame

Awesome, thanks!

No problem!

I hope this'll work: Just the pyramid/stars part, the text is just because the damn thing was nearly impossible to crop.

Text color #003f87.

If you need a bigger version to work with we can crop again.

In the pink color of the original, or a particular hex color?

Claudia's trolltag color (003f87).

:D Thanks!

Ooooooh, this is so very cool! If I could have one for Natasha, that'd be fantastic :D

I went scouring google for her houseglass symbol - the best I found is the symbol on this wallpaper, but if that's too complicated, then the simplified version, solid red-on-black version is this one. Whichever is easier for you. :D

(You'd think it'd be easy to find two red triangles joined together, wouldn't you)

It's an awfully RED red, so let me know if you want it toned down a little.

Ooh, it's so pretty! Although, ahahahh, yeah, very red. If you could tone it down just a shade or two, that'd great.

But, eeee, thanks :DDDD

, maybe?

Yessss, works much better, thanks :D

Damn, now I think Jess needs one...

Is it canon appropriate to have a color back ground for the t-minus icon? Like red (not eye bleeding I swear) in this case.

It can be. Black and white is what you see most often, but sometimes other colors are used as a background for the symbol. Sometimes you get the same symbol on different backgrounds, but that is less relevant in this context.

You could also have your symbol *include* a background, like if the interior of the circle in Tommy's (above) was filled in some other color. Or if Tommy's symbol was on a black background, and the interior disc was still white.

What is the symbol you're thinking about?

What I am thinking is a red background with which ever yellow accent on Jess's costume here (here's a good look at her costume) looks best. At this point, I think I like the corset looking hourglass-ish shape on her torso, though I might just simplify and go with the triangle on her forehead.

Okay! If you have a less-distorted/perspective-y lineart version of either one, I'll see what I can do. I can get a triangle out of the character map, as well, but I don't think I can recreate the other symbol on my own.

That's ok, I'm working on it right now. = ]

I just wanted to make sure a red background fit the t-minus device.

And I just did it but it looks too vague. I did find this lego version of Spider-Woman which has a good flat look at her costume. If I went with the triangle, would a black line around it be OK for this? I'll give it a go after I eat if so.

Edited 2013-08-29 19:19 (UTC)

Sure thing.

Testing my work, hope you don't mind.

I must say the second one is cracking me up as it sort of looks like an all seeing eye.

I think the first one looks really good! It definitely says "spider" more than the other

If you do want to use the triangle i think it might be better if it were a little smaller?

The first does look like a web is you squint a bit. I think I'm at the point where I need to step back and look at it again later. Thanks for your help. = ]

Now for a name...

I don't know the character super well, so I'll just toss out a few $10 words that seem on topic...

Pivoting from her screenname, and what looks like a long and complicated history of mistaken identities--aposematism is coloration that warns other animals that you're venomous or toxic; Batesian mimicry is when a non-toxic animal makes itself look I similar venomous or toxic one. Crypsis is the opposite, protective coloration that makes an animal look invisible or harmless. All of them seem to be varying degrees of on-topic?

Also, mithridate is a remedy for any poison, linked to a ton of ancient kings and the god Mithras.

aposematicMithridate (hexcode 8B0000 so as to not be too obnoxious with the red) sounds damn cool. I was trying to spin venomous spy somehow but I like the take on her two big powers; i.e. her venom blasts and immunity to toxins and radiation.

I think I owe you a venomous sack or something. = ]

I like the combination/contradiction of the two! I feel like it conveys the idea of someone who is dangerous to their foes and protective of their friends, and also gets in some of the flamboyance of her costume.

I'll add it to the directory.

Golden!

Oh and I'm going for the first of the icons I posted, the web looking one, in case you track that as well.

Edited 2013-08-29 21:55 (UTC)

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