Chopper the Starsol

This logo is more of a personal project of mine. It was made to be a logo for a character I had created long ago to be used for basically anything that involved him. As this was something personal, a lot of care had to be put into this.

Trying to come up with a good logo for this was a bit of a challenge. But what I wanted to have the logo feature was a trail speeding behind the text and the text to flow along the trail.

​​​​​​​My biggest inspiration for this logo were based on these two. Since it was supposed to be a video game theme, I wanted to make the design more 3D. The text would be more like the Kirby logo to the left, while the right gave me the idea of the speeding trail behind.

For the color palette, I wanted to stick to the colors of this character, Chopper. Green is a major theme for the character, so I believe it should be a big one for the logo as well.

​​​​​​​After the sketching, I went into Illustrator and started designing. Originally I wanted "the Starsol" to be yellow with an orange outline, but it didn't seem to work as well as the purplish pink color that I ended up with afterward. I also tried to put some stars that the green trail went through, but with the opacity and the business of it, I decided not to go through with it. The biggest challenge for me was trying to get some of the text aligned with the trail.

After enough work and some experimentation with the 3D and the materials provided, I came up with a logo that I'm overall pleased with.