The GT Sport Livery Editor Competition 17 - CLOSED

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I’m just going to make a design using only the shape tool built in the game.

I may do NaCl racing too with all the salt in this thread. The guidelines are pretty simple to me.
And if you’re really thinking you have to design your own font; um wut? Nobody is gonna fact check that. Do your livery or sit out. Leave the salt on the table.
 
Being fair, I do see what @baldgye 's trying to get at. If this were purely a logo designing comp, then designing your own typeface would be a big factor, but considering most major brands start out with readily available fonts it would be silly to request that people create their own typefaces for the sake of this particular competition. Moreover, since most people will be judging the livery rather than the logo design, it would be overkill to spend hours making a typeface from scratch.

The way I see it, the theme seeks to get people to think outside the box and try and create their own decals rather than dipping into the Discover section and using somebody else's work, even if you did an all white car with random text logos in Times New Roman it's more creative than taking 30 decals from Discover and plastering them all over.

teensonacid
Here we go again. The nitpicking and gatekeeping on finer details when it really isnt necessary. There were enough guidlines in the brief to be able to create something original using the tools available and our own initiative. When does it end? I swear if the theme was 'orange liveries only' there would be complaints about there not being enough information about what pantone swatches and cmyk/rgb values are allowed. Is it going to be like this from now on? Because if it is, I'm out.
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Sadly these comps are starting to take a dark turn down that road, but so is today's society, you provide a set of rules and there's always somebody looking to argue against them or twist them towards their own agenda, doesn't matter if it's sporting regs, the law or even religion.
 
Here's an example of one of my logos.

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I obviously didn't draw the bus, but I made the logo. Is this OK?
 
Here's another suggestion for those who may be struggling with ideas:

A few years ago Rob Austin was struggling for get sponsorship in the BTCC, so he plastered his car with made up logos (such as the R Tech and RAR logos) along with logos advertising the opportunity to sponsor the team, sort of a 'Your name here' kind of thing. It made the car a lot less boring to look at than just plain white and not that hard to do, even with in-game text decals if you can't make your own SVG's.

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I have 3 days of computer time, and will have 3 nights of livery time, but hope to have it completed tonight. I have a couple elements that I completely redrew by hand, but now concerned I won't be able to use them. Guess we'll see tomorrow.
 
In agreement with @JKcreativeworks , here is a slight update of the rules which hopefully will clarify some points. The deadline will also be extended with an extra week.

Original sponsors :
At least the main sponsors (1,2,3) must be original and in-house designed.
- Using existing logos : Not allowed
- Inspiration from an image : Allowed as long at it is not already related to an existing brand
- Using existing fonts : Allowed
- Using existing names : Allowed as long as the graphics are originals (and the brand not so well-known)

Real sponsors allowed :
Only as secondary and/or series sponsors
- Tyres
- Springs
- Oil
- Rims
- Brakes
- Car Manufacturer
 
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Cytoria
In agreement with @JKcreativeworks , here is a slight update of the rules which hopefully will clarify some points. The deadline will also be extended with an extra week.

Original sponsors :
At least the main sponsors (1,2,3) must be original and in-house designed.
- Using existing logos : Not allowed
- Inspiration from an image : Allowed as long at it is not already related to an existing brand
- Using existing fonts : Allowed
- Using existing names : Allowed as long as the graphics are originals (and the brand not so well-known)

Real sponsors allowed :
Only as secondary and/or series sponsors
- Tyres
- Springs
- Oil
- Rims
- Brakes
- Car Manufacturer
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Hope no more argument for rules again after this one is pretty clean crystal
 
Noisy
To help those who have said they would have trouble or not enough time to make logos, I'm going to go through what I did to create my logos. Most of my logos only took a few minutes to create and didn't use any complex methods.

1. Think of a company name and find a font that suits it. This is probably the longest part of the process. If your struggling for ideas, find a place where this company could be. I needed and oil company, where is there oil? North sea. Where is a place near the north sea? Caithness and now Caithness Oil sponsor my car. If that doesn't work, find an existing company and change their name using a thesaurus. I used Duracell, which is like durable and cells. What are similar words? Super and Power and boom, we now have Superpower Batteries sponsoring my car. And now to find the font, dafont.com is a great place to download free, creative fonts. I went for the Sans Serif and Fixed Width sections to get clean, bold fonts but it really is up to you how you want your logos to look. You can also type your company name into the preview bar and it will show it in the fonts. View media item 45077
2. Type the company name in Inkscape. If you don't have Inkscape you can get it here - https://inkscape.org/ Its a free, open source program to make vector graphics and is available on Windows, mac and Linux. Type your company name using the text icon on the left of the screen. Then select the font and size from the top left. You can also click and drag parts of the name to change to different sizes and colours as you would in MS Word etc. View media item 45078
2B. Let's add some outlines. Outlines aren't as hard as you may think. On the right of the screen you will see Fill and Stroke. Fill is the block of colour that make up the letter while stroke is the edge of the letter. Highlight the text you want to alter, then click the Stroke Paint tab and change the X to Flat Colour next to it. You can also change it to gradients and patterns but I haven't tried those yet. If you fancy trying them, remember Ctrl+Z is your friend. You can also click the Stroke Style tab to change the width and pattern of the outline. You can also change the fill to X and only have the outline of the text. View media item 45079
3.Preparing the text. Once your happy with the look of your text, click the mouse icon in the top left and then drag over to select all the text. Then go to Path > Object to Path. This will turn the text into shapes that will be shown in GT sport. Here in now the time to re-position parts of the text if you want. Double click to ungroup the text and then click and drag to select the text. You can also adjust the scale here as well. View media item 45080
4. Saving as a .svg . Assuming your are now finished with your logo, click and drag over your whole logo and then go to File > Document Properties. A box will pop up and them click Resize page to content and then Resize page to drawing or selection. You should see the canvas retract to the size of your logo. Then close this box. Then go to File > Save As and save as a plain SVG. We are now done with Inkscape. View media item 45081
5. Optimising and uploading to GTS. Now to get the logo under the 15kb limit. Go to https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ and upload your file. At the bottom right it will tell you how big your file is and how much it can be optimised. Adjust the precision slider to get it under 15kb and then click the blue arrow to download the optimised logo. If your logo is already under 15kb then just close the page. Now to upload to Gt Sport. Go to https://www.gran-turismo.com/gb/gtsport/user/decal-uploader and open the file browser to upload your logo. View media item 45082
6. We're done! Let's get painting! Go onto GT Sport and your logo should be in the My decals section of the livery editor. This may seem like a long process but once you get used to the process and Inkscape it will only take a few minutes. Now to finish that car and enter this fortnight's contest!!!View media item 45084[/SPOILER]
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Thank you so much for this guide @Noisy.
I was not too familiar with Inkscape (nor how to upload vectors to GTS at all in fact).

@JKcreativeworks, loved the challenge in LEC17! Actually learned alot, although my own design is not something that I'm super proud of.

Keep up the good work everyone!
/Z
 
FINAL ENTRY​

I was think of making a logo, which would like or create. I came up with making a tribute to my Grandfather who race in in the past with Alfa Romeo's. I thought this competition would be appropriate to do this.

My grandfather last name was De Sonnaville and was a doctor and a car enthusiast. Fueling me the passion of cars at an early age. I got all his car magazines and giving ‘lectures’ about new technology in cars. He drove Rally's in the past with Alfa Romeo Guila GTA and 1600 GT I thought I would use a classic Alfa Romeo, with a classic type of livery.

In our family heritage we have some outstanding Agricultural geniuses which were able to create a new type of Apple which was called Karmijn de Sonnaville. I used the family name and combine it with our family heritage of creating this Apple. I tried to blend this together in a logo and create a car around it.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to use a FIA Historic Hill Climb Championship logo (which I saw and for which I created a .svg for GTS).





 
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