Build original BO2 robot, television, and arcade emblems with screens, antennas, lenses, panels, and clean mechanical silhouettes.
8 minute BO2 tutorial - Updated July 2026
Choose a machine body
A television frame, robot helmet, cabinet, or round lens gives the design an immediate structure. Start with one large body shape and a darker shadow plate before adding screen details.
For a square canvas, a wide screen or head can carry the full design. Keep antenna tips, side bolts, or arms as small silhouette accents.
Use panels instead of texture
Mechanical depth comes from stacked rectangles, circles, and dark gaps, not from complicated texture. A recessed screen, two eyes, and one lower panel can read more clearly than many tiny buttons.
Use a limited palette such as charcoal, cyan, pale highlight, and one warning color. Let the screen or lens own the brightest contrast.
Create an original machine personality
Brows, eye angles, alarm lights, and mouth openings can make a machine calm, frightened, or mischievous. Do not copy the proportions, logos, or distinctive details of an existing robot franchise.
Name the machine's role in one sentence before building. For example, a nervous broadcast monitor should use an anxious screen expression and visible alert lights.
Plan the in-game reconstruction
Use a documented step-by-step Build Guide when you want a manual BO2 companion. Website layers and exported images are references, not account imports.
Practical example
Panic Channel builds personality from a screen, two eyes, alarm tips, and an open mouth. Arcade Cabinet uses the same broad mechanical idea with a display, controls, and frame. Both keep their small parts inside one large object silhouette.
After setting the dark frame, add only the screen or face needed to communicate the machine's role. More buttons do not necessarily make it more mechanical.
Before you finish
One main machine body dominates the canvas.
The display or lenses have the highest contrast.
Small accents support the body instead of replacing it.
No protected robot, console, or product logo appears.
Panic Channel is an original frightened television mascot designed for BO2-native reconstruction rather than adapted from custom SVG artwork. The antennae and heavy frame establish the object before the oversized eyes and open mouth deliver the joke.
Two antenna pairs sit behind three nested square body layers. A cyan screen contains mirrored brows, eyes, pupils, teeth, and cheek alerts around a centered mouth, giving the expression a deliberately rigid broadcast-device frame.
Charcoal defines the television and facial cavities, cyan carries the screen glow, warm white keeps the eyes and teeth readable, and red is reserved for alarm tips, side flares, and cheeks.
Try this variation: Change cyan to sickly green for a corrupted broadcast look.
Arcade Cabinet is an original retro machine that uses a simple full-screen cabinet silhouette, not any game logo, title, or protected character.
Nested square modules establish the cabinet and cyan screen. The lower control deck holds a tilted joystick, two buttons, and a centered coin slot.
Peach background creates contrast, dark slate forms the cabinet, cyan is reserved for the screen, and pink-cream controls provide small readable highlights.
Try this variation: Change the screen to green for an old terminal cabinet.
Satellite Signal is an original communication icon built around a blue dish, pale directional rays, a warm core, and one low mint base.
Nested circles establish the dish. A diagonal cream split creates its receiving surface, while four offset bars form a balanced orbit of broadcast rays.
Mint provides the field and base, blue holds the dish, cream signals transmission, orange marks the center core, and charcoal maintains the edge hierarchy.
Try this variation: Use purple field and pink core for a more playful signal.