[Photoshop] Terran Propaganda Posters!

Tenlar Scarflame · Post by **Tenlar Scarflame** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 06:29

Having an abundance of wall space and free time, I decided to make some Terran-themed propaganda style posters. They're for the ATF, USC, and general public service announcements. Tell me what you think!

Fly For the ATF
Never Trust a Machine
Be an Astronaut for the USC
The Sarastro Won't Fly Without Your Help
Earn Your Keep on an Orbital Refinery
Do Not Trust Them

silenced · Post by **silenced** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 07:21

I like the "Never Trust a Machine", it's so contradictory/ily (damn that).

Tenlar Scarflame · Post by **Tenlar Scarflame** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 07:24

*cough* Heretic Xeno scum bag...

Indeed so... the quote is, however, directly taken from one of the ATF propaganda ads that pops up on the advertisement satellite on the TC front-end.

Lord of Nothing · Post by **Lord of Nothing** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 09:55

Nice job!

Abscon · Post by **Abscon** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 11:19

very nice.

Somehow they remind me of star ship troopers and the insane amount of propaganda thrown at you about a fictitious world where bugs tried to rule.

....
its a good day to die.
When you know the reasons why
....

Good song..would it apply to this..maybe
Anyway good work...might do some myself now you've inspired me

Seathal · Post by **Seathal** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 13:15

Awesome, graphicly speaking they could use jsut a bit more contrast (between colours), maybe not so grey-ish to keep people's attention. Apart from that, excellent job!

It's time for people to take the fiction behind the game one step beyond and create something interesting like this!

Nice job.

Tenlar Scarflame · Post by **Tenlar Scarflame** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 17:44

Seathal is quite right actually, I printed these and the grays in the background came out quite dark. >.< Not unreadable, but a lighter gray or even straight white would have done well.

Thanks for the feedback!

Good to know I don't suck.

gsheriston · Post by **gsheriston** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 22:33

Abscon wrote:they remind me of star ship troopers and the insane amount of propaganda thrown at you

Absolutely, that's the first thing that came to mind when I saw them too.

"Do you want to know more?"

Tenlar - brilliant work, well done

BeidAmmikon · Post by **BeidAmmikon** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 22:37

I nearly fell off my chair, on the keyboard, following my chin

Awesome work!

Truckers from all times, unite!

PS Isn't the name "Xenon"?

Tenlar Scarflame · Post by **Tenlar Scarflame** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 23:06

I'm using Xeno as an umbrella term for any non-Terran. I believe the Terrans still call the Xenon "Terraformers" or just AGI.

mcflurey667 · Post by **mcflurey667** » Tue, 13. Oct 09, 23:39

very nice.

Somehow they remind me of star ship troopers and the insane amount of propaganda thrown at you about a fictitious world where bugs tried to rule.

....
its a good day to die.
When you know the reasons why
....

Good song..would it apply to this..maybe
Anyway good work...might do some myself now you've inspired me

yer reminded me of starship troopers aswell

Edwin looks strange in blue

Seathal · Post by **Seathal** » Wed, 14. Oct 09, 21:01

Tenlar Scarflame wrote:Thanks for the feedback! Good to know I don't suck.

You don't at all! Your work's awesome, like a breeze of fresh air. I love the intentions hidden behind the messages, fanatic, paranoic and very cold-war-ish, just like the game suggests.

enenra · Post by **enenra** » Wed, 14. Oct 09, 22:12

Really cool.

Great ideas there. But I think some could sound a tad more patriotistic.

A good idea might be to look at some real propaganda posters and try to convert them to the X-Universe.

Tenlar Scarflame · Post by **Tenlar Scarflame** » Wed, 14. Oct 09, 23:16

Point very much taken. I tried to find the Terran symbol (like all the X races have a symbol) somewhere but couldn't cook it up. And more vaguely phallic battleship cannons and soldiers with Texas-sized biceps would do them some good...

enenra · Post by **enenra** » Thu, 15. Oct 09, 13:19

The terrans - or at least their military, the USC, use DaVinci's human-study-picture (no idea what's its name) as their logo. It was one of the pictures that you could choose from in X2 and prior games as your logo.

Tenlar Scarflame · Post by **Tenlar Scarflame** » Thu, 15. Oct 09, 17:39

It is indeed the Vitruvian Man, but there's a vector-graphicified version that appears in the game as their logo. Couldn't find that one.

Seathal · Post by **Seathal** » Fri, 16. Oct 09, 16:11

Check my avatar, its that one, but I photoshoped it and changed the blank background with Earth, I can send you the lawyers and stuff, it might help you with that.

enenra · Post by **enenra** » Fri, 16. Oct 09, 23:11

Seathal wrote:Check my avatar, its that one, but I photoshoped it and changed the blank background with Earth, I can send you the lawyers and stuff, it might help you with that.

Nope, that's the logo the player ships have. The Terrans don't have an own logo in the game but I know from the books that it's the Vitruvian Man.

Seathal · Post by **Seathal** » Sat, 17. Oct 09, 00:01

enenra wrote:
Seathal wrote:Check my avatar, its that one, but I photoshoped it and changed the blank background with Earth, I can send you the lawyers and stuff, it might help you with that.
Nope, that's the logo the player ships have. The Terrans don't have an own logo in the game but I know from the books that it's the Vitruvian Man.

The book says it's a symplified and schematizied version of the Vitruvian man, and that's clearly the logo I have (the circumference and the man inscribed in it, it just lacks of the two positions; simplified).

Tenlar Scarflame · Post by **Tenlar Scarflame** » Sat, 17. Oct 09, 02:58

Ahh, yes it's that one! See, I have avatars disabled for whatever reason so I didn't see it...

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[Photoshop] Terran Propaganda Posters!

[Photoshop] Terran Propaganda Posters!