Re: [Inkscape-user] Yoshimi needs an artist
The SVG are striped see here: http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2015/026/1/b/yoshimi2_by_jabiertxof-d8fgms... Regards.
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:15:22 +0100 Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2982...> wrote:
The SVG are striped see here: http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2015/026/1/b/yoshimi2_by_jabiertxof-d8fgms... Regards.
These are fun images, but the desktop icon has been Yoshimi's 'identity' since 2009 and is well known, so I don't think changing it would be a good idea.
However, we've never had a splash screen so just about anything goes.
We are thinking of something like 400x300 pixels for the final image, and the desktop icon (or a representation of it) needs to appear somewhere.
We've had one idea suggesting a top line of just "Yoshimi" with the robot head to the right, but with the eye 'pupils' shifted so it seems to be worriedly looking at the text. I quite like that myself as it creates a nice link to the way it came about, but as I said, the field is wide open.
As well as the image looking good and getting the viewers attention, we want it as clear as possible what Yoshimi actually is! Ideas we are also trying to promote are ease of use, exceptional quality of sound, great flexibility.
It would also be helpful if the lower part of the image had relatively clear space that could be over-written with progress/status information - we don't actually have any, but it might get added later.
Phew!
I know that's asking a lot, so we'll happily accept any 2 features out of a dozen :D
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Abrolag <abrolag@...16...> wrote:
We've had one idea suggesting a top line of just "Yoshimi" with the robot head to the right, but with the eye 'pupils' shifted so it seems to be worriedly looking at the text. I quite like that myself as it creates a nice link to the way it came about, but as I said, the field is wide open.
Here is a link showing the album art, and behind that, lyrics / embedded YT 'music video' of the namesake: http://lyrics.wikia.com/The_Flaming_Lips:Yoshimi_Battles_The_Pink_Robots,_Pt...
-Arlo James Barnes
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:01:47 -0700 Arlo Barnes <arlo.barnes@...155...> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Abrolag <abrolag@...16...> wrote:
We've had one idea suggesting a top line of just "Yoshimi" with the robot head to the right, but with the eye 'pupils' shifted so it seems to be worriedly looking at the text. I quite like that myself as it creates a nice link to the way it came about, but as I said, the field is wide open.
Here is a link showing the album art, and behind that, lyrics / embedded YT 'music video' of the namesake: http://lyrics.wikia.com/The_Flaming_Lips:Yoshimi_Battles_The_Pink_Robots,_Pt...
-Arlo James Barnes
Sorry, but I'm specifically avoiding looking at any official art. We're only a small group of volunteers , but I'm not going to take the risk of being accused of plagiarism and/or copyright infringement.
I apologise, I was not implying that Yoshimi should use anything other than original art, especially not copyrighted material; I was offering the cultural context that this page http://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/#LinkToFlamingLipsWebsiteIsBroken says the name 'Yoshimi' lives in. Some artifacts could serve as inspiration for potential artists, such as colour scheme or sense of silliness, but the ultimate splash screen must be novel.
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:57 AM, Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz < jabier.arraiza@...2982...> wrote:
Sorry, I understand bad the original propose of a splash screen.
A splash screen is a roughly window-sized piece of art that is 'splashed' (displayed as immediately as possible after the user attempts to start the application, for example by clicking a desktop icon) on the screen until the program has finished loading all of the components it needs into memory and is ready to be used. The contents of the splash screen have enough detail and visual interest to give the user something to examine during the program's loading time. This was a common practice ~20 years ago when many graphical applications took at least a few seconds to start up on the hardware of the time, but it remains popular even now that hardware advances mean that most applications start almost instantly. The splash screen, given that is has a lot of screen real estate to work with, is a chance to communicate the character of the software it represents (some of which Abrolag communicated in the email before last). It is also an opportunity to display some information the user might want to know, like version number, development news, tips (like KDE applications often do) and so on.
-Arlo James Barnes
Anyone interested?
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