Hello artists, I can imagine many of you are wondering what is happening behind the scenes so I'll present a status update on the progress of the community artwork process.
What I am doing right now is writing down the directions we will follow for each of the four artwork targets. This basically consists of several steps: first I'm defining overarching styles that run throughout each artwork target, for example a style which only uses the Circle of Friends logo as a branding element. Currently I have defined three of these styles, currently called "Circles", "Rounded" and "Failsafe". These styles describe the elements and compositions for each artwork target, but do not define textures and colors. That's the second part: I'm defining two "looks" which do describe the textures, gloss and reflections to use. By combining the two "looks" with the three styles, there are six possible artwork directions which are fully described. By limiting production to those six and quickly evaluating what does and does not work out, we can save a lot of wasted energy and focus on the artwork directions that work out beautifully. The finishing touch is the use of palettes. "Looks" themselves will not describe the color usage for elements, those will be provided by palettes. We will leave out palettes in the early game and work towards applying and refining one once the style and look direction becomes clear. I will offer some initial palettes so that you can have a base to work from. Describing the styles, looks and palettes will be finished tomorrow, after which I'll make sure that these get an official approval stamp. Besides the community artwork, I'm working and collaborating with a lot of people to get other artwork related things done. Think of the GTK Theme tweaking and assisting the Theme Teams. I'm also following and talking with Pete Savage's on his sound work which is developing nicely. Thanks for reading. I'll be here to answer all your questions and comments. With kind regards, Frank Schoep -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
