Batman / Logo / Help.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:56 pm

Or maybe it's called insigna?
Anyways... I need a nice, clean picture of The Batmans logo/insignia/whatever - and not the one with yellow background from the Burton-movies.
I'm talking about this one.
My first priority is the one used in 'The Dark Knight Returns'. It's never seen in a clean shot, but I think its 'ears/head' are smaller?
If that's impossible - the one that's pictured in the... picture above will do just fine.
Can someone help me?

And; who designed the logo for Batman Begins?
Is it an existing design - or did Nolan make it up?

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:44 pm

I've seen it before. Or similar. I even if it is new, I doubt Nolan designed it himself

I can scan in Dark knight stuff. But it's late and I'm out tomorrow. Wait for friday, if nothing turns up I'll scan in at thr wweek end.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:47 pm

You could always use a line program to trace the logo and make a clean one for your use. I did that with some TF faction logos and CorelDraw - it has great curve tools. And you only have to make one half, duplicate it, mirror it and stick the two halves together. It's a great way of making clean line drawings.

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:53 pm

whatss a lien program?

apollo · Post by **apollo** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:54 pm

The TAS insignia was one of the originals, the one Kane used and then eventually Burton.
These are all I can think of that maybe meet your criterea..

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Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:29 pm

Jetfire wrote:whatss a lien program?

Well, it's really a node edit tool. I just use it to add nodes to a line and pull on little node handles to create custom curves in the line. It's like laying a piece of string along a line or curve to trace it. I just trace the thing I want on a separate layer to the picture I'm tracing.
I'm making it sound more sophisticated than it really is.

Jazz · Post by **Jazz** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:38 am

i always liked the old style bat logo with the head. but i like like the Keaton bat man he was the best next to adam west.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:47 am

Jetfire wrote:I can scan in Dark knight stuff. But it's late and I'm out tomorrow. Wait for friday, if nothing turns up I'll scan in at thr wweek end.

Oh, I own the Dark Knight Returns myself - the problem is; there's no clean shot of it.
Batmans always busy beating the crap out of some mutant, or hiding in the shadows

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:21 am

The DK logo is a bit of a bugger as IIRC it's appearance is not entirely uniform in the strip. And when you do get a decent shot of it it mostly resembles a rectangular black wodge with pointy bits; that was the version that made it onto the action figure
http://www.ringofcollectors.com/images/ ... ancard.jpg

The closest decent thing to it that I can think of is probably the logo for the original series, blacked out.
http://www.junkscience.com/images/batlogo.gif
Manipulating that to make it broader and flatter would make it go Dark Knighty.

The bat-signal logo is fairly prominent in DKR, dunno if that will do. For example:
http://www.thecomicshop.com.au/cgc/cove ... ight-3.jpg

If you can find a copy of Batman/Planetary, I think there's a clear shot of the DKR logo in that, by the superb Mr. Cassaday.
This is the best example of what I'm talking about if you haven't read that book
http://www.albertmoy.com/GalleryPiece.a ... FPlanetary+
There's a page missing from the sale, the first page with DKR Bats...I guess that one wasn't for sale. I haven't got my copy handy so I can't say for certain if it'll have a clear logo on it, but it might be worth a shot if you can get a look at it,

...does the suit in Batman:Dead End use the DKR logo?
Might be worth trying to get a freze-frame or a pic from that
http://www.scottmanning.com/archives/000592.php

Or you could just draw one.

Good luck.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:29 am

KingMob! <3

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

The 'Batman: Dead End' idea was brilliant. That's just what I'm looking for.

Thanks a million dude