Design based on a fusion of Rubik's Cube and a Robot.

It is suposed to put the solved and the unsolved one against eachother.

Like the idea.



For me, it's screaming that the unsolved robot should have a very sad face and the solved one have a happy face, but I don't see any way of adding character/personality with the current design.



Other than that, possibly just making it a little smaller, or moving the "solved" under the second robot and moving them apart slightly.



Good work!

super cool i would work on size and placement maybe

i love the concept but move things around and maybe remove some elements.. i like the text in the cubes but you could probably make that a shirt of it own. try just the robots and see how you like it.

could be pushed. the composition is kinda weird—maybe there's too many elements going on. Like Boomshnak's idea of making the solved one happy and unsolved sad. What if they were posed? Good luck!

I like the idea! But it needs to go a bit further, now they are just standing there, maybe they could fight?



Your honest opinion on this?

2nd version:

New placement on the t-shirt

New robots

New poses/personality

Same old idea



Critiques are welcome :)

I think it's pretty cool, maybe I would put only one big robot from top to bottom and on one side, and then some little ones on the bottom next to the big one?

i like this.. i noticed the name had "VS" in it.. a battle of the bots maybe?? but like it very cool :)



feel free to check mine out again! its new!

It's a very good concept, but it's also a concept that is very hard to translate into a tidy, simple design. The new poses are much better, but the design needs to be a bit simpler, now it's a little messy. I don't think you need the unsolved/solved text anymore because the rest of the design delivers that message clearly. I'd also try placing the cubes in the solved robot in a cleaner pattern, that either all ten cubes face the same way or maybe the cubes of the body face one direction and the cubes of the hands and head face another, so that you make the design of that rubik robot cleaner. I'd also consider changing the colour of the shirt.

I am not a smart person and don't understand a lot of the concepts here on threadless. That being said I'm a throw back to the 'message' era t's and I'm just not sure what I'm looking at here. If it's purely decorative I don't think it works. If it's that the unsolved robot is more interesting than the solved one, color wise that is, then that's something I do understand but I still don't quite understand what I'm supposed to take away from this t. Sorry not that helpful I know.

Love the revisions. The emotion in the robots is clearly starting to come out.



I completely agree with fagerholt's suggestions above.



You're inches away from it going *BANG* with the message as soon as people see it.

I agree, white shirts are boring, plus they like to get stained when I eat yummy burgers with ketchup and mustard.

Agree about the white shirt.



To echo fager's comments, I didn't immediately pick up on the top guy being solved, face all the cubes the same way (or most, maybe keep the face a different color) to make it clearer. Also, I like the profile shots but I think the angle's just a little too harsh. Lessen it just a little bit for a better effect.

I think your concept is great. Have you thought about giving them more longer rotatable limbs, so you can pose them for battle? That would be sick. You could even give them facial expressions in the form of a simple black line for eyes and a mouth, if you know what i mean. Regardless, I would like to see them posed in a certain position instead of just standing there, I think that would take you concept to the next level.

I can see the concept you're going for here, but have to agree with all the former comments, especially fagerholt's.



It's a bit on the visually messy side, and drags my eyes every which way at once.



I also don't personally see a need for the mini cubes? They're just sort of, there, and distracting to me. At first I didn't even see the 'solved and unsolved' parts.

hmm, i would remove the text, maybe just have the two characters side by side like version one, but drawn like version two, and i'd have them a bit smaller.



very nice idea though

Thanks for all the comments, i'll try (maybe tomorrow, cause, right now, here, is 4:36 am) to rebuild my design taking on consideration every advice/tip you guys gave me.

When i got it done, i'll submit it :)

Thanks once again

needs something more rubix cuber

i like your idea. i like the perspective in v2. it'd be cool if you made them so that they were interacting more. maybe one robot throwing a rubiks cube at the other and showing the damage (just idea). so far i like what you have come up with. Check out my design:



http://www.threadless.com/critique/38918/Primary_Listening

^also agree with fagerholt.

If you want to stick to a white shirt try white lines too - the black is what is making it noisy.

Much prefer this angle for the robots than the previous one. Love all the elements here - the text is great, as are the two robots, but all together I think perhaps there are two many elements, the placements make it all a bit messy. Try experimenting with removing bits of it. Would it work with just one cool robot? It's a clever and original idea, just needs a bit of finishing.

I definitely agree about taking out the mini cubes.

And I think there needs to be more action in this...like maybe they are both solved, but one is punching the other, and the part that is getting punched is spinning around, causing the once-solved robot to become unsolved.



Or just play around with the design of the robots more. I don't think it needs to be a robot made of of perfect rubiks cubes to get your idea across. I'd try playing with the dimensions a bit and come up with a more compelling robot design.



Good concept, though. I'm looking forward to your next version.

I think you should take out the "solved" and "unsolved" text/cubes and put the robots next to each other facing forward. (The unsolved robot on the left) Right now it's kind of hard to figure out what you're looking at at first with the perspective the way you have them. (At least for me, haha.)



I think it's a really good idea though, and I do agree it is hard to translate into a clean simple design. But I hope I could help out!

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i think just having the solved robot with a bunch of mixed up rubix cubes would look better. but i love the concept :)

v2 is a much improvement. I think there's a little too many rubix cubes. Maybe a row on the back of the shirt would be cool?

what up with your obsession with rubiks cubes?

I think this is a cool idea. How about looking at some street fighter or Mortal combat game play for usage of vs type. Also have the two robots in a fighting stance looking at each other. I think this would look great. This is to push the elements to its fullest potential.



Also said I do like the small cubes way more then the robots. How about only having them on a shirt?

great idea and looks good as it is! maybe see what i fight scene would look like with the completed one winin. but looks cool as it is

Since this name doesn't match the new version, i'd posted a new critique, so, if anyone is following this one, please critique in here!

hey, i did a rubik robot t-shirt once!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23006896@N04/3082383430/

cheers soul mate :)

I did a rubik robot too! that was like 2 years ago. we're soul mates! :)

sorry for the double..

also you should recolor it the way the original is colored, you'll be surprised on how it's more rubik-like!



these are the opposite sides of the cube, that NEVER meet on the same edge:



White vs. Yellow

Red vs. Orange

Blue vs. Green



(notice it's always the yellow component making a difference!)

umm that's not the problem. use deeper and more saturate colors. just like on the cube. this one looks like a chinese fake :)

i agree that the colors need to be more saturate, and i think the position needs to reflect the "vs" a bit more. Right now they appear very independent of one another. Also, i don't think you need to the text anymore, it just becomes distracting. Almost there dude!



check out mine please

I would place the unsolved to the top left, the solved at the bottom right.



Could you check my first shirt?

Keep on working on this, it's really tedious to do something like this. The idea is already fun and colorful, I like it.



How about a little rubic cube city, in the background, faded out a little bit? It might help unify the right and left sides. Skyline, or diagonally... or, something to do with lines, that is also very technical. Like a subway map.

sorry for posting again, link to my little disaster at Mind Trips

Sorry for my absence, i'm back with a new version!

Critiques are welcome :)

maybe add some shadows :)



Please Critique mine if you have time :)

Great idea! I agree with iamabeast, though. Try some shading. I'm not sure how I like the white shirt either. Play around with other colors.



If you get a chance, check out mine: http://www.threadless.com/critique/37167/Music_of_the_Mundane

this v3 i am likin a lot. glad that you toned down the black lines for the cubes. i agree with the above need some shading throughout. def like where this is going though, the one guy crumbling in defeat. thanks for checking out my design.

much much better.

I'd agree about putting it on a different color shirt.



I still think that I'd like to see the winning robot in a more dynamic, less blocky pose, with some curved lines and maybe some kind of grin on his face... but that pretty much gets rid of your even, square design, so if you like it like this, then keep it as is and maybe some shadows on the floor to ground the illustration. The one on the left kinda looks like he's floating.

Maybe try the design on black. You'd have to change some of the black based cubes but maybe it would pop more and you wouldn't need shadows to ground it. Cheers!

this is awesome, i agree with adding shadows but i think it'd be ready to submit after that! :)

I agree with trying it on a black t..

Dark grey tee and shadows

looks good... maybe a little higher and to the right.

Also try to compose it with a real tee image... it will look better.

Find some cool pics here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/lessthread/pool/





I'm about to submit this one, any comments?

I agree with Santo. Maybe move the design up a bit and to the right and lose the one black cube lying furthest right on the floor. I still think black without shadows might work best. Cheers!

Totally agree with Soanto and quister.

New position - Up + Right

:)

Critiques are welcome

thats actually really cool, I wasn't expecting this after starting from the first version, this is really good.

Wow this just proves that its worth believing in your ideas and sticking to it ! nice job.



Plz comment and vote if you have time =)

i like it, i'm just not too crazy about the super bright colors....that's just me though



Check out my two latest please! This one and This one

This is ready to go. Thanks for looking at my cat design!

good, though personally if i was having bright colours in the design i'd use one of those colours (or something close to it) as the background colour, so the design kind of glues to the shirt

doesn't quite sit on the t right. try a little smaller and further up.

i agree with mr deps. i think the design is ready, but you should try some other shirt colors. might look amazing on yellow. good luck!

i agree with erv and fallinghorse, but thats all i have to say :) almost ready for submitting!

this has come a long way! Not sure about placement. good luck!

i love it!

HAHAH much much better! The only thing I could suggest is making the placement smaller and choosing a shirt colour that is not oriented towards black or white (something with colour). The reason why I say that is so that the "robots" will blend more with the shirt, cause right now it looks like it stands out too much. The art is good the way it is I think.





Its up for scoring!

Black looks better. Also, like that you did a diagonal placement.



This is a new design that I want to developComments are appreciated!

i like it!!! i love the bright colors, there's something about the placement that is throwing me off as well though. that blank space on the upper left kinda needs something.

Nice, works better on black with the shadow.



You could just work on these shadows to make them look more like... shadows ^^. If you look at the white cube on the right, it looks like there is another black square under it, but it's not a drop shadow...



Bye !

It's really cool to see your progress on this design. I like it a lot, I'm just not so sure I like the shirt color for it.



Please check out mine if you can.

CUBE is my inspiration! =)



http://www.threadless.com/critique/39771/Sweet_Monsters_TAKE_A_LOOK

thicker lines? Aniway, cooool.

Hahaha. This has come along nicely.

Small point: The robot's shadow is very dark and bold, but it only lies on the floor, not on the unsolved robot. The "dark" sides of the unsolved robot aren't very dark. I'd make the shadow less obvious, like your light source isn't so bright and close.

New shadow position to fill the blank space and new colored tee backgrounds.



Critiques and tips are welcome! :)

The position of the solved robot still seems odd to mean. Doesn't quite look like they're on the same plain. Try moving it higher up, or in a generally higher area. You might have to scale the whole design a bit smaller (just a bit) if you do so. Maybe it's the shadows pointing so high that gives this effect? Experiment with both.



This is an awesome idea though.



Still working on mine, check it out if you've got the time!

I like alot about this, especially the unsolved robot in its pieces lying there. However the perspective is off, it looks as if the solved robot is standing on rather flat ground, but the unsolved robot is lying on a sharp decline. It makes them feel a bit disconnected. I like the blue shirt and all the progress you have made!

haha this is funny i would go with the royal blue t-shirt though..but other than that cool beans

this has a potential of being very emotional and clever - you should pick a horizon line and draw both robots to the same perspective. I'd choose to keep the unsolved one and redraw the standing robot - but have it stand in a way that suggest hit is morning and crying over it's fallen friend

I think the shadow looks a little bit weird, like on a wrong angle. It seams to me that the shadow is not following the ground surface at the same angle of the feet of the robot.

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looks good, except the shadow looks alittle 3D when it should look flat. almost there though :)

i really like it, but i agree about the perspective but its a minor problem in my opinion

I agree about the perspective, and the shadows create an odd "sunken" look instead of the intended effect.

The shadows are kind of off.

Maybe I just have a thing against shadows.

the perspective isn't that minor...you'll have to redo the look of one robot...i say stick with the perspective of the solved one.

work on the perspective...same as everybody :P

I think it's ok!

Get rid of the top left robot, and this would be a really cool T-shirt.

I like it best on maroon- also I think it could be smllaer on the shirt.

cool design dude!I don't really have anything else to say though, so...

please score my slogans Thanks

hehe, i like it. My only suggestion is that on most of the rubiks i've seen the black lines are thicker. but either way i think it's a job well done!



Designs of mine: Hey, I'll Trade You and Paint Me a World Crit me please!

all the colors feel off like go look at a real rubix cube and try and fix it

eh...

better

As others have said....the perspective needs a bit of work...the way you have it set up, you are going to have to redraw one of the robots, and use the same vanishing point as the other. The angles on the lines in one robot should be similar to the other :)



Keep it up!! :)

I prefer the colours in ver2

That's great! Much better than before.

I would make the top shadow smaller and maybe on the other direction, to have a clean image. Now it does not have the same angle than the other one and it's too much in the middle.

And, if one robot has an angle of 45ş with the floor, the other must have the same, you can fake making the right leg longer, but turning it a bit to the right (left on the image) would be also helpful.

I like it, especially with the blue shirt.



Although, I feel the standing robot is a little boring looking, being perfectly solved. I think it would look better with a few off-squares here and there. Although, if that is contrary to your artistic vision, ignore me :D.

Alot of useful tips here, so maybe I`ll just wait for the next version before I comment. I think it has improved greatly.



Forest friends, unite!

I Like your design.

take a look

You know I'm still unsure what point you are trying to make here. This may sound harsh but after six revisions it's time to move on. Sometimes a good idea can be revised to become a great idea, but if an idea doesn't work after one or two revisions then it just becomes over worked, over thought and over edited. If it were me I would just chalk it up to a learning experience and move on to the next idea. Not trying to be harsh just realistic.

the blue is the better color i think. shows off the rubik cubes better.

i like it.

I agree that the blue is the best choice, but the perspective needs some work. I just uploaded my first submission if anyone cares to give me some feedback.



http://www.threadless.com/critique/40036/outdoors_billiards

the perspective is off men.. why don't you try using some real blocks as reference in your house to make this look better, right now they look like two completely different robots just pasted on the same design

i really think this is almost ready for submission, im not sure what to say what needs fixed though, but you are definitely almost there :)







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After a long time without working on this, today i decided to correct the perspective and the shadows.

Tips, critiques, sugestions and comments are welcome.

I actually like this, reminds me a rubic cubes...which I'm awful at.



Oh wait....are they rubic cubes? haha opps. Idk about you, but the empty coner of the right is bugging me....but it could just be me, lol

No, it's not you, i have a friend saying the same, and even me, i think that's something missing, but i can't find out what!?

this looks cool, like that white stripes video. you should deff go with the blue shirt.

halftoning the shadows.... maybe...

fix the shadow of the down robot. I think it need some works.

Maybe a small speech bubble from the winning robot may help balance the right corner? Like the blue tee too..

It could just say "!"

the only thing that bugs me is that the top robot is a little too close to the corner of the sleeve and might look weird when worn. Also, and this is just personal, I think with these vivid color, it would look the coolest on a black tee, the colors would pop. But I'd have to see it to say for sure, because the blue looks really good too. Other wise, this is the shizznat, let me know when it's up for voting!

well done. looks much better. I think a smaller placement will solve the empty spaces problem. this is just too big on the shirt. also, lose the shadows or make them sharp edged. the way you've done it now has photoshop brushes written all over it. If you added some cube like fingers or palms you could get a more human gesture out of the standing bot. maybe make him grieve his fallen bro. great job!

nope

=)



Please, check out:

http://www.threadless.com/critique/41017/Ghost_LOVE

Why you don't upload it???

I find this version great. I think you achieved it. Submit this tee! XD

yeah just shrink it a bit and its good i think

i didn't notice the shadowing faults until I read some of the other critiques, but that is the only thing I would change. It still looks great and I dont think it'll really matter. I say submit.

It's definitely missing something. it's a little too boxy, not smoother enough to make a design. ya know?



Could you help me again?

rough

it looks starky..

New shadows and new placement

Opinions?

oh, i think perhaps the robots are a little too big, what do you guys think?

much better, and yeah the robots are kinda big for my liking, but I'm werid so it could just be me, haha

yes, I like the shadows being crisp, much better!

better shadows. make it all smaller on the shirt. dont worry! people will see your pretty illu.

Same as last, but with a smaller drawing.

Opinions?

awesomeness, I think you're ready

maybe a l i t t l e tiny bit smaller but this is way better. I just realized he knocked him out. am I a moron? maybe I would'nt be confused if the were in a boxing ring

definitely tighter. maybe think about moving the one the punched the other one to the left a bit to create more of a "space" on the shirt.

and the knocked out guy a bit to the right.

I think its ready!



Forest friends, unite!

Pretty cool design, not crazy about the black parts of the squares, but I guess they work.. looks good in the ones being turned, but don't like the black otherwise... mainly on that big white one that's solitary. The monster is pretty cool, but I wish his colors varied a little more. I gues it's supposed to be that way, all the yellows on the same side.. to give him a kind of form. I see this design has come quite a way, looking good. Not sure what suggestion to give towards the black part, but, that's the part that bugs me.

i think i liked the positioning of version 7 better, but everything else looks great. i think the black is fine because that is the color of the inside of a rubiks cube and the sizing is a lot nicer. Great job.

and i just put up my new version of the abdominal snowman.

I think it looks really cool, except for maybe the black. Also I think it'd be way better if you bolded the lineart a little.

New placement, cause i think in the last one the robots don't seem to interact with eachother.

I think perhaps now its ready to go.

Last opinions before submission?

I like this one better, however, the robot looks less like a robot now, it's a little harder to tell what it is. And that one single white block on the top right with the black on the bottom still bothers me :c Maybe make one of the sides black and one of the sides... blue?

its black cause its the block that's missing in his body.. and the inside part of the blocks in the rubik cube is black. :P

I like this newer placement more :)



My only suggestion would be to make some of the broken off cubes at different angles (they're facing the same way) and maybe spread them out a little, like one cube on the back of the shirt or something.

Sorry that's not really a last minute suggestion haha I think it looks great right now though!

i think that the new placement works much better, but otherwise looks very nice.



Please crit!!

Yeah I know why it's black, that's why I said maybe make one side not black. There's color on the other side that we can't see.. just wish it were turned so we could see it ;P

Great idea and design! From seeing the changes from the other versions, this one is definitely the best one! Great Job!

Great idea and design! From seeing the changes from the other versions, this one is definitely the best one! Great Job!

Great idea and design! From seeing the changes from the other versions, this one is definitely the best one! Great Job!

I agree with BlueHippo the fallen robot doesn't look much like a robot anymore, Nice idea though

i didn't know that the fallen robot was a robot, but i don't think it matters. I like the design overall.

but i hadn't change anything in the fallen robot since v3

i don't get how come he lost his robot looks! :(

I still think some kind of little "!" (with or without a bubble) next to standing/victorious robot would be funny...to show more like they were interacting with each other too.

I like the new set up. the two bigger blocks on the defeated robot might be too symmetrical to his head. but other than that. looks good to go

(i couldn't tell the original was a robot either, but i still liked it.)

p.s. thanks for the advice on a second version as a close-up. probably should have been able to figure that out myself but clearly... i didn't. :)

sweet dude this looks great!

I think maybe bolder outlines around the robot would help this

This is definitely the best version. Good one!

I like the placement of the bot. I agree with previous post about the bolder line weight. Looking good!

nice, try submit.

please, click on my sheep:)

(submit?/work?/dont?)

this is a cool idea but it is kind of hard to tell that the one on the ground is a robot because he's all broken up

I would also suggest faces with expressions for both robots

that would help portray the idea

the legs should be the same on the one on the top right, i think.

that would help him look more like a robot too.

but i think the underlying idea is very funny

Ah, this placement is definitely better! Great use of space. Well done :)



Crit me back thanks

For me, V7 and V9, maybe v9 the best. I find the shadow here a bit weird. But you could submit any of the last ones, because they are all great! Best luck with it!!

everyone has said exactly what i'm thinkg but i'll reiterate anyway. the idea to change the angle of a couple of the cubes is worth a look and i think the idea to put a random cube on the back is awesome! also think it would benefit from bolder line work both around the robots and on the blockls on the cubes (although make it less bold than the outside work maybe)

great concept though, i just think without the knowledge of the title it would be a bit hard to tell what's going on

Gret job!!!

I love it!!! I think this is the best version.

:D

up for voting, waiting for approval.

I'll let you know when it will be ready for you guys to vote!

Thanks for all the help you gave me on this :D

no prob! Good luck with the voting :)



Check mine out sometime :)

looks pretty good :)

YES! I think now is the best version ever!!! Upload!







http://www.threadless.com/critique/41169/COWZY

previous version's standing robot was better

def this version...looks good

i like the new placement of the robots..i think this one works more now. in my opionion i wouldnt change a thing. 5$

Great job!

Looking forward to voting! ;-)



Mine is already up, any comment? Pollution

you could also switch orange and white on the standing robot...

Any furtcher comments on mine?

the shadow should start from the edge of the robot. Check the down robot. I think it's a bit miss

So I've taken your suggestions into consideration, what do you think of it now?



Special Delivery

i agree with one of the comments above, make the broken off pieces more scattered. they look perfectly aligned with everything else.

I think the Robot Itself needs to have shadows, It doesn't blend in well enough and just looks really flat without them, It needs more pop I guess you'd say.

I haven't given up on the rawr design, actually I just submited a new version, check it out [RAWR]



I like the idea on your design but the robots can't completely convince me.. What about you make the robots out of a lot of cubes of the same size instead of having big cubes to represent bigger areas?

This is the frst time I have seen this desing and version . I hace to confess that It took me some time ( until I read some comments) to realize what was that pieces spread out on the floor so I think you should work a just a little more on this .