iRacing Skins
A few of my friends are really into VR iRacing. To help with their clan identity and because I thought the design challenge was interesting I decided to help produce some logos for them to share along with skins for the cars that they most regularly race with.
Creating the vehicle skins was definitely the most unusual/challenging part of all this. Since I don’t have the VR iRacing software I ended up using photoshop to open/edit these files. It was really difficult to map a 2d image onto this vehicle where certain parts may be squished or wrapped around specific pieces of the car. This required a lot of trial and error uploading samples then having my friends test them out in the client.
Eventually, I started to get a feel for things especially with some of the templates available to show me how things were mapping. From there I mostly had to use a paintbrush (thankfully these aren’t super hi-res) to get small details filled or adapted small pieces or a pre-existing template skin.
Other than creating the pattern for the vehicle most of the other work here included adding their favorite brands to the vehicle to act as pseudo-sponsors.
The other work involved creating some branding for these vehicles. You may have even noticed it on some of the images above. The first logo they wanted was for the larger group or racers they are a part of called “Old School Racing”. Since this was for a non-profit, free work I ended up using some pre-existing assets I found online that matched what they were looking for. Then I added some rough textures to it to make it seem a bit more rugged. Overall pretty happy with the result for how quick it came together.
The next set of branding items I created was specifically for 2 of the drivers. They wanted to share a couple of the skins exclusively between them and I was happy to work on that with them. The colors definitely went in a different direction, but thankfully I was able to use some racing-themed assets I had produced in the past as a foundation for this new logo.
I was pretty surprised with how interested they were in keeping the 8-bit style text when I showed it to them. I guess it makes sense considering our roots as gamers though!
