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The first version of the 'Blueprint' 3D Logo, inspired by the video 'How I Convinced 800'000 People To Build A Digital City With Me' by Battery Tea. This was initially supposed to be for a Discord banner that had more assets the the left and right of it and was used alongside this Avatar on Discord for a couple months, but I liked the 3D logo alone so much that I continued to use it even after changing the banner.

References:

• YouTube Video

In April 2024 it rained so much that I wanted to have a fitting Avatar. The result includes a small simulation with water/rain interaction. I also created a banner to go along with this where I just removed the q from the scene. I was never really happy with the 'wet' texture so I ended up replacing it after only a couple weeks. I only made half of the 'wetness' material myself, I forgot where I got the texture from.

Pretty much unchanged from the original Blueprint logo but with Pride/Rainbow/LGBTQ colors instead for Pride month.

For Halloween, I wanted to add more details and assets to the logo. I knew that the avatar would only be displayed at a small size so I could not add too much detail. I probably spend an hour trying to find the perfect candle model and in that time I could have made them myself.

References:

• Candle Model
• Aging Effects Addon

I already created a icy/winter-themed 3D logo in 2022, however it still have a front-facing camera and did not match the new orthographic/isometric design. I imported the old shader but forgot to turn off the outline from the original Blueprint file which shifted the normals resulting deep black cracks. I ended up liking it so much that I used it through the entirety of winter even though I wanted to change it again for Christmas. A static version is still in use on GitHub to this day. The animation was added a couple days later since I wanted it animated on Discord.

I tried reusing the cracks from the Winter avatar but for the opposite, lava/magma, instead. The results were rather underwhelming and I stopped adding more details once I realized that. This version was never used anywhere and scrapped pretty much immediately. I may look at this approach again in the future.

I got inspired by a black and white animation by OFFSCRIPT on TikTok and wanted to use it as a banner. This was the first time where I used the banner as a reference for the avatar and not the other way round. This was very simple to do in Blender. I actually got feedback after I already changed it to something new, the still frame (first frame of the gif) didn't look like the usual q because not all of it was seen at once and only revealed during the animation. I ended up using it for one month.

References:

• OFFSCRIPT TikTok
• Banner Source

I saw this video by Levi Magony where he created a magical 3D shader in Blender. I basically followed the tutorial step by step. Animation and the sparks around the logo were added a bit later. I also created a Beat Saber environment of this version so that I could look at it in the game as well.

References:

• Blender Shader Tutorial

I just wanted to incorporate the Spezi colors and make an avatar for a couple Discord servers out of it. I reused the vector graphic I made years ago for AntiLink's Beat Saber Discord Bot.

References:

• Paulaner

Another Tutorial that I took inspiration from, this time from Ducky3D.

References:

• Ducky3D Tutorial

In honor of Beru's introduction to the Solo Leveling Anime, I used his few frames at the end of the episode as a banner, but the Computer avatar did not really fit, so I tried making a red version of the Blueprint avatar. The static one looked a bit boring so I tried adding an animation using Mosh. I didn't really like it so I got rid of it after the next episode aired.

References:

• Mosh-Pro App

I saw this guys Soundcloud profile and liked the 'raw' Photoshop elements they added to their avatar plus the fitting banner so I thought I could use this as inspiration for my logo.

References:

• aiden* Soundcloud

The very first version of my current 'q' Logo. It was made in After Effects using the popular Saber Plugin. The original q was from a font called 'Mekanek', but modern versions are created using ten squares for 2D and ten cubes for 3D avatars.

References:

• Saber
• Mekanek Font

A refined version of the q where I changed the color to my favourite tone of green and added glitch and VHS effects. The conversion to GIF introduced some additional artifacts due to the compression down to 10MB as that was the limit of Discords animated avatars. This version or a still frame is still being used on all online platforms where I was never bothered to change it to the 3D version (aka most platforms).

References:

• Glitch Effects

A never seen inverted version, where I played around with the colors. Similar static versions where only used at a later point.

Rainbow / Pride / LGBTQ version, originally for Pride month but also currently in use on BeatLeader.

References:

• BeatLeader

In Fall 2022 I saw that BSCC also had seasonal server avatars, this one took inspiration for the one that they used at that time. I used a new method of animating with paths in After Effects to create the outline and added a couple leaves and particles to add to this effect. I really liked it and used it again the next year.

This was the start of the 3D era, where I tried creating an ice shader in Blender and wanted to apply it to my logo. Later I also made an animated version but because of how I was looping the animation, it was very long and too large to be used anywhere.

Anyone who has seen the end of Loki Season 2 knows what this is about. I don't think there is much to say about this other than that I had fun creating it.

References:

• Loki

The animated version of the Winter one from 2022, where I redid the ice shader and animation. I used it for a short amount of time but didn't really like it that much.