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Hi! Troy sent me a bunch of URL's where he'd carefully pulled together submissions from a bunch of different sources. Thanks Troy! I'll comment on each of these briefly here on the mailing list so that everyone can see these responses. Troy James Sobotka wrote: This is very classy - nice to see all the options laid out in a tight, compact format. I wish we had some tools to manage this flow for you so you didn't have to work in the wiki. Some sort of "artist flow CMS" would be ideal.I compiled the bits that other folks submitted into a main / more professional looking system. The CC won't comment on art directly. The job of the CC is just to ensure that there is a competent, fairly appointed, open and friendly group in charge of the art in Ubuntu (the Art Council).I have received very little steering from CC folks, so if you could perhaps at least have a peek as to the early directions and comment personally it would be useful. The look_sm sequence is very fiery. We have to be careful of fiery colours because they are angry and emotive, if they dominate the screen for long periods of time they will be exhausting. It's important that stuff which is large and visible for long periods (especially the wallpaper) be calm and abstract so that your brain doesn't exhaust itself dealing with the image.The links in question are:Thus far solo proofs of principle effort here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/BackingTexturesProposal The chocolate series is nice. The contrasts here would be too much for a wallpaper IMO but for short term things like the login splash it would be OK. CrystalXXX are IMO rather fuzzy. And the shell series have an organic, "slimy" look to them that I don't think works too well. The glass options are interesting but potentially "cold". I liked some of the ripple ones, especially ripple_shell162.ppm. But... none of these really reminds me of the Dapper login splash, which I think is a nice combination of glassy and human. Did nobody submit anything along those lines? I would really like it if we could shape the login screen around the Dapper login splash "feel" so that the Dapper splash could be reused in Edgy, but with a login screen that has the same "feel". On the gloos from, I liked the who_gloss.png option best, followed by weidel_gloss1.png. The latter tends to the "candy" side of things, which I think is a bit lightweight.Glossy stylings here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/GlossProposal Of these, the thing I prefer is to have relatively even lighting on all the letters, from a consistent direction and with a consistent level of brightness. Some of these options have light from a single source that tails off very quickly, so letters at one end or the other of the "ubuntu" are left in the dark, with an uneven lighting across the word as a whole.EXTREMELY rough gloss samplings (to determine lighting direction, etc). Niel and Frank are busy trying to refine many of the issues, but it should be considered a starting point: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/LogoProposal I liked the silver and brown ones from Weidel, with the circle-of-friends device. It's relatively abstract and has a very high-class feel. I would certainly see those as being good "alternate wallpapers" if we have room for alternates.Dumped everywhere 'Proposals' that aren't quite in the same development phase: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/WallpaperProposal Cheers, Mark |
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