NEED SPUNKY CARTOON-LIKE CHICKENS FOR LOGO DESIGN

Status: Closed
Prize: $200
Entries Received: 82
Winner: momotaros

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Contest Brief

I am looking for someone who is creative and can draw showing emotion in their work.

We have a chicken farm and need to have 3 chickens (hens) in our logo. We want the chickens to look a bit spunky and with 'attitude' or 'sass'. You will need to include ' 3 Chicks and a Coop' in the logo. This could be done on a wooden sign within the logo but I am open for creativity. Naturally, as the words suggest, I also need to have a coop or barn type of image in the background.

You can look at backyardchickens dot com and see their logo although I don't like their chicken at all.

Attached, you will find part of a photo of 3 chickens. You can use this angle of chickens if you want, but am open for suggestions and creativity.

Also, attached you will find two photos of an animated chicken who has 'attitude and spunk' which we really like. We want our logo to look FUN and CREATIVE.

I'd like to see the logo with the white chicken as shown in the animated photos and a separate logo showing them in reddish-brown like the chickens actually are.

I will need the final work in full color and in jpeg, psd, png and .ai formats. You must give up all copyrights to the work and ALL of the work must be your original artwork. Anyone showing artwork that is not theirs will be eliminated from the contest and reported to freelancer.

We have posted many different contests and have chosen winners in the past however, we have also posted contests with terrible results. For that reason, we are not guaranteeing the contest which will require us to choose and pay for a winner even if there is no artwork that we like. We have been on freelancer and scriptlance for years with excellent feedback. We will definitely pay if we have a winner who can make this simple, creative logo jump out as the winner. We are eager and excited to see your results and will help guide you along the way!

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“We held a contest to create a very creative and spunky logo involving chickens. A lot of people submitted their entries but Momotaros\' work stood out from the beginning. He continually tweaked the logo until he got it perfect. The finished work has style, spunk, a great mix of colors and was exactly what we wanted - only better than what we imagined! He provided us all the finished files (we wanted layered files, too) and was prompt to do so. A truly talented artist with great qualities. We recommend him and will continue to work with him in the future. Awesome job!”

diasan10, United States.

Public Clarification Board

Othello1
- 10 years ago
It was a good experience, congrats to momotaros and well done to all of us.
- 10 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 10 years ago
  Thanks for that. I appreciate your kind words and good sportsmanship-like attitude. Thanks for all of your efforts. You had a lot of nice features to your logos. Best regards - D
  - 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
CONGRATULATIONS MOMOTAROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have done an absolutely beautiful job on this logo!!!!!!!!
- 10 years ago
1. momotaros
  - 10 years ago
  THANK YOUY VERY MUCH !!! It was a lot of fun doing this! and i loved the effort of the other guys seriously i jst keep doing and doing to complete and im very happywith the final result, with this i've learned more!
  - 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Thanks again to EVERYONE - for every single moment you spent on this logo making it come alive. We appreciate all that you did and all the creativity you put into it. We hope it was fun and educational for you and that you learned a lot and grew more as an artist. We are truly grateful for everyone. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
THAT is what we wanted to capture in this logo. The personal connection and experience one felt when the saw the logo. This wasn't careful, exact or perfect, but hand-made, creative, almost spontaneous looking, very informal and fun. Fun, fun, fun. And for all of these reasons, we NAME MOMOTAROS AS THE WINNER OF THIS COMPETITION!!!!!!!!!
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
He also brought great use of color into his logo using different shades of red, the green in the straw which pops out at you, the black, fun letters, different shades of cream, white and light grey, tan and orange. He also brought extra creativity by making black marks on the sign making it look hand-painted or even chicken painted! The added, Farm Fresh Eggs was a clever way to add this optional sign and he used a different font for that as well, dressing it up to keep with the overall character of the logo. This logo showed EVERYTHING we wanted. It had style. It showed fun and laughter. It showed feminine hens and not masculine roosters. It had a great use of color and the chickens themselves showed such laughter and emotion that you couldn't help but smile when you saw them.
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
We think they definitely looked like hens!! While they may have larger combs and wattles and to some, this may be the only distinction between hens and roosters, many breeds of chickens have hens that have larger combs and wattles like the white or grey leghorn chicken. Also, he added feminine characteristics to these hens with small feathers, tufted bottoms, feminine curves of the feathers along with the arms looking feminine folded together on the middle chicken who is definitely laughing and having a good time - which is just what we wanted!
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Then, there was Momotaros continually tweaking and changing his logo from an illustration to a logo design. His logo really took on shape and his fonts, the style of the coop and chickens all showed creativity and fun emotions. But, did his chickens look like hens or did they look like roosters???????????
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Then, MyPrints kept improving his design by submitting 116. The words stood out and we loved the eggs in Coop but we didn't like the brown wood as it made the overall design seem dark and heavy instead of light and bright. The chickens still looked like roosters with large, heavy beaks and massive hands holding the eggs. We gave him suggestions on that but he didn't change this part of the design. Overall, the logo shape was good. The Farm Fresh Eggs sign was inserted but you wouldn't be able to see that if the logo was enlarged or if it was smaller. A lot of nice ideas and features went into this logo and we appreciate all the time it took to draw these renditions.
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Momotaros and Tjayart kept going back and forth, improving on each design. Momtaros further shaped up his design from a longer illustration into a logo form. Tjayart went from the outline of a coop to a full coop design in 104. He picked up on the chickens having legs and included the 'Farm Fresh Eggs' into the design as an optional feature. He added eyelashes, the chickens eyes were pretty and they looked happy. But, did the formal, perfectly straight edged coop match the overall feel of the fun, happy logo? Did the coop need to be any different? Did the chickens look like hens or ducks with a duck bill? The words definitely stood out and complimented each other with 3 Chicks and a Coop being more fun and the Farm Fresh Eggs being a bit more serious. They didn't have to be the same font. It's a great logo and we gave it a 5 star.
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
The chickens needed to look like hens - which are female chickens, not roosters which are male chickens. Color scheme and size in addition to the mentioned style were also important aspects. How would this logo look enlarged and from 30 feet away? Would people be able to read the entire logo? How would it look when reduced very small and put on letterhead? Again, very important features. A great design but words not legible would not be a winner. What would be the point?
- 10 years ago
1. MyPrints
  - 10 years ago
  Yes you are correct, "The chickens needed to look like hens - which are female chickens, not roosters which are male chickens"
  - 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Then, Othello came along and further improved his design making the logo take on shape. We loved the eggs in the cOOp words, the style of the 3 Chicks and a Coop in #85 and the style of his coop matched the overall style of the logo. But, his chickens, although were a bit animated, didn't have nice eyes. Were they really happy chickens? We wondered. Do coops really have that many 'window' openings and off-centered as they were? But, this could add into the frolic of the overall design. Overall, a very nice job. The words and the chickens definitely stood out with a nice overall, logo shape.
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
This was momotaros. He drew design after design, constantly tweaking it and making it come alive. Along with the pack came Othello1, MyPrints, tjayart, newbeginings, radicalzinc, pixell, chezgiordano and others. Many had some cool features to the logo. Momotaros drew some cool chickens showing lots of fun emotion.but it was more like a large illustration rather than a logo. Tjayart initially drew the outline of a coop giving a hint of it rather than the entire rendition. He had funky fonts, too. Both went hand in hand. But, do his chickens look like hens? They definitely have style.
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
We had a talented artist come out of the gates who started working on it. This was Cjjuk. He drew several renditions improving on each one as he made them. He became frustrated and the competition was not guaranteed at that point because we have had poor results in past competitions and didn't guarantee this one until we felt we truly had some artists who cared, were talented and would do what it took to have the logo we wanted. Unfortunately, Cjjuk withdrew from the competition and took his designs with him. Another talented artist was entering into the picture...
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
I guided and gave comments back to nearly every artist as the contest evolved, appreciating every moment of time everyone spent on making this logo come alive. Gradually, we were able to hone in on different aspects and not only produce some amazing results but hopefully, improve the artists skills as comments and suggestions were given.
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Next, we wanted the whole, overall logo to have aspects that blended together. The fun, happy chickens needed to match the style of the coop - or even hint of a coop - the fonts chosen and the overall design of the entire logo. So, there really were 4 key components to this logo: the happy chickens, the coop, the font and the overall logo design itself.
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
This contest was submitted almost 11 days ago looking for a talented artist who could create for us a cool looking logo of 3 Chicks and a Coop. We wanted something fun and exciting that showed a lot of character. We wanted happy chickens that emitted lots of emotion. This was key.
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Well, the time has come to judge this competition. Thanks to all of you for your patience. Let's get started! :)
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Thank you for your patience. I will be judging the contest tomorrow morning between 8 - 10 a.m. EST which is in about 12 - 15 hours from now. Thank you!
- 10 years ago
1. momotaros
  - 10 years ago
  thank you to you ! c: also check the last message
  - 10 years ago
momotaros
- 10 years ago
http://sta.sh/027mtm97nnwe this one is the correct one, sorry xD
- 10 years ago
AkshayArtPawar
- 10 years ago
Check entry #125 and my message below.
- 10 years ago
1. AkshayArtPawar
  - 10 years ago
  i mean my message you can find underneath my entry... and the 2nd draft of my entry in it as well.
  
  Thanks,
  Akshay
  - 10 years ago
2. AkshayArtPawar
  - 10 years ago
  Check the 2nd draft of my entry #125 (if you missed my message in it) over here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/113026280@N03/12223567725/lightbox/
  
  - My entry is just not an illustration, but the visual has an idea that conveys the '3 Chicks & a Coop' message quickly.
  - Also if you reduce it to smaller size it will still be clear and visible.
  - The background has an egg oval shape that adds to the brand building.
  - And you can see chickens that actually are hens & they don't look like small kids or don't look too old, but perfect age.
  (the other entries by other participants have chickens that look like roosters, some look like kids & some look old)
  - Also has fresh look & colors that also adds to convey the fresh eggs message.
  - And the fonts are for commercial use.
  If you have any suggestions, I can do them & show you. Will send all the files after I am selected as the winner i.e. during the transfer of files.
  - 10 years ago
momotaros
- 10 years ago
I was uploading and the contest closed right in the moment. I fixed everything outlined the fence, fixed the wattles and added a new font, they are free for commercial use, please see the link i've provided here to see the thing http://sta.sh/01tgu268lmk2 Thanks
- 10 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 10 years ago
  The link shows something else.
  - 10 years ago
RedPhoenix2123
- 10 years ago
plzz keep the contest open sir...i'm about to submit my one by the time!!
- 10 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 10 years ago
  Look forward to your design. I cannot keep the contest open any longer. When the time is out, the contest is over. Thanks.
  - 10 years ago
2. RedPhoenix2123
  - 10 years ago
  Sir..did you check my entry?? it was no.119
  - 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
fellow artists - Want to let you know that I will not be able to judge the contest today when the contest ends. It will either have to be later today (maybe in about 10 hours) or tomorrow morning, EST. Thank you soooo much for your hard work. This has been a great contest. Still over an hour to go. Wonder what will come in...
- 10 years ago
Othello1
- 10 years ago
Added #118
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
tjayart- what's different about 117 than your other designs?
- 10 years ago
1. tjayart
  - 10 years ago
  i changed some colors.
  - 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Epirusink - your chickens look like scary ghosts. There is no frolic or fun in their emotions. The color scheme looks like combat khaki colors and, you didn't spell the name right. Thanks for your efforts but definitely not what I'm looking for.
- 10 years ago
momotaros
- 10 years ago
#114 please
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Wow! This contest has really come along!! You guys/gals are doing a great job!!! A couple of things - make sure that your chickens look like hens and not roosters. (For those who don't know, hens are females while roosters are males.) Also, it's IMPERATIVE that you check that your fonts are for commercial use. I will need to know the font you chose and may require that right before the deadline of the contest. I cannot choose someone who is using a font that isn't for commercial use.

I am really looking forward to seeing more entries come in the next couple of days. Let's see what you've got! :)
- 10 years ago
satherghoees1
- 10 years ago
new entry 113 :)
- 10 years ago
polomanolo
- 10 years ago
#109
- 10 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 10 years ago
  See comment above. Thanks.
  - 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
polomanolo - those chickens look scary! And, they look like roosters. Cute coop in the background and nice overall shape. The font doesn't match the frolic that the chickens are supposed to have. Thanks.
- 10 years ago
momotaros
- 10 years ago
check #110 please C:
- 10 years ago
polomanolo
- 10 years ago
hi there.. have a lok #105
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
tjayart - better ribbon than before. Need to center it, though and widen the 'farm fresh eggs' part so it's centered under the nest. Nice job. Nice fonts for both word areas. I see you added legs and feet. A nice addition.
- 10 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 10 years ago
  Good job on 104. Makes a nice balance, the words stand out. Cute. :)
  - 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Windmorrow - your chickens look like they're sleeping and they look like roosters. I don't like the coop. It looks like an Asian temple instead of a backyard chicken coop. Nice that you incorporated the farm fresh eggs into the design. Also, chickens have 3 toes not 2. Thanks.
- 10 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 10 years ago
  Fun way to add the 3 Chicks and a Coop. Nice job on that.
  - 10 years ago
momotaros
- 10 years ago
#102 Done C: check please
- 10 years ago
momotaros
- 10 years ago
HOHO #100 please added things
- 10 years ago