Are these looks and styles applicable to Kubuntu as well? If so, is there a preliminary palette for use on kubuntu work?
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 17:30, Frank Schoep wrote: > 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
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