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Nitrous Oxide · 02-12-2019, 09:37 PM

I found a very interesting article a while back that I never paid much attention to at the time, but spending a fair bit of time making some jerseys and caps for OOTP, it's now come full circle; I love OOTP a ton and I figure it's my time to contribute something to the community for all the stuff you've given me to enrich my OOTP experience over the years.

Inspired by said article, I've set out to create 16+ uniforms that eliminate wordmarks and lettering in favor of globally recognizable symbols primarily for the World Cup of Baseball/World Baseball Classic tournament template. Some designs have mostly kept true to both the original WBC uniform designs and the caps in that article, others have had a little more of my own touch and creativity. It's a work in progress, so please bare with me.
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You can find everything easily available to download here: (outdated atm)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dK...3kdO8U3r22PZNz
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Australia
feat. Liam Hendriks

Hard to change a good look, these are pretty standard. The caps in the article are perfect and the kangaroo is pretty iconic. The crest is a minimal version of their modern coat of arms featuring a kangaroo and an emu. I've got to hand it to the Aussies, they made my job real easy here.
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Canada
feat. Joey Votto

I had some fun with this one. I don't like using black as a tertiary for Canadian baseball, quit trying to copy the hockey team—especially since we're nowhere as good at baseball as we are at hockey (Votto is the exception, not the rule). Black also makes sense in hockey, not so much in baseball. Silver complements white as the primary colors of Canadian winter. I was considering adding a baseball or similar to the crest, but opted for the simplicity and of the recognizable maple leaf.
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China
feat. Guiyuan Xu

I'm going to be a critic of the design in the article here—it's fine to turn the stars on their side, however, it gives it a less unique identity in the direction that the artist/author turned them. Venezuela, another tournament team, has an arc of stars in their flag already. The national emblem—which is featured as the crest in a flat, non-decorated style—shows us the proper orientation would have the large star on top with the smaller stars making a reverse arc.
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Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)
feat. Wei-Yin Chen

Pretty straightforward, the entire design is based off their national emblem and their Olympic flag.
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Colombia (not Columbia)
feat. Jose Quintana

This one was a bit challenging, since the author of the article designed his own symbol. I didn't really like it, because Ecuador has more of a claim to it than Colombia. A quick search tells me that "Colombia is among the world's 17 mega-diverse countries, and the most densely bio-diverse per square kilometer" and the land of flowers, so why not rock that? Their national flower isn't even found anywhere else in the world, for goodness sake. The cap logo is a stylized orchid/flor de Mayo and the crest is the flag inside a flower/Amazonian headdress—the original source is the coat of arms from the largest area in the country.
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Cuba
feat. Yasiel Puig

02-12-2019, 09:37 PM	#1
Nitrous Oxide Bat Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Canada Posts: 17	WCB/WBC Concept I found a very interesting article a while back that I never paid much attention to at the time, but spending a fair bit of time making some jerseys and caps for OOTP, it's now come full circle; I love OOTP a ton and I figure it's my time to contribute something to the community for all the stuff you've given me to enrich my OOTP experience over the years. Inspired by said article, I've set out to create 16+ uniforms that eliminate wordmarks and lettering in favor of globally recognizable symbols primarily for the World Cup of Baseball/World Baseball Classic tournament template. Some designs have mostly kept true to both the original WBC uniform designs and the caps in that article, others have had a little more of my own touch and creativity. It's a work in progress, so please bare with me. --- You can find everything easily available to download here: (outdated atm) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dK...3kdO8U3r22PZNz --- Australia feat. Liam Hendriks Hard to change a good look, these are pretty standard. The caps in the article are perfect and the kangaroo is pretty iconic. The crest is a minimal version of their modern coat of arms featuring a kangaroo and an emu. I've got to hand it to the Aussies, they made my job real easy here. --- Canada feat. Joey Votto I had some fun with this one. I don't like using black as a tertiary for Canadian baseball, quit trying to copy the hockey team—especially since we're nowhere as good at baseball as we are at hockey (Votto is the exception, not the rule). Black also makes sense in hockey, not so much in baseball. Silver complements white as the primary colors of Canadian winter. I was considering adding a baseball or similar to the crest, but opted for the simplicity and of the recognizable maple leaf. --- China feat. Guiyuan Xu I'm going to be a critic of the design in the article here—it's fine to turn the stars on their side, however, it gives it a less unique identity in the direction that the artist/author turned them. Venezuela, another tournament team, has an arc of stars in their flag already. The national emblem—which is featured as the crest in a flat, non-decorated style—shows us the proper orientation would have the large star on top with the smaller stars making a reverse arc. --- Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) feat. Wei-Yin Chen Pretty straightforward, the entire design is based off their national emblem and their Olympic flag. --- Colombia (not Columbia) feat. Jose Quintana This one was a bit challenging, since the author of the article designed his own symbol. I didn't really like it, because Ecuador has more of a claim to it than Colombia. A quick search tells me that "Colombia is among the world's 17 mega-diverse countries, and the most densely bio-diverse per square kilometer" and the land of flowers, so why not rock that? Their national flower isn't even found anywhere else in the world, for goodness sake. The cap logo is a stylized orchid/flor de Mayo and the crest is the flag inside a flower/Amazonian headdress—the original source is the coat of arms from the largest area in the country. --- Cuba feat. Yasiel Puig Last edited by Nitrous Oxide; 02-25-2019 at 11:37 PM.