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Re: New Skin - No Name
It's a nice looking shot, but I'd recommend spending more time on the actual skin design and graphics, and less time on the fanart aspects. I don't know what is behind this lust for fanart-heavy designs this past year but I think Maya has it right - use it sparingly.
Right now you have a good "Lost" themed skin. It looks good because you did a nice job fading in a particular image from Lost, one that works with the design you are going for. However, that's just one image. Other images may not come out looking so good, putting you in the position of either sticking to one image - in which case the skin becomes a theme for a particular bit of media - or rotating images, and accepting that some of them will look better than others.
I know lots of people love the "Aeon" look with horizontal menus and fanart backgrounds but honestly, it's been done before. That said, those efforts are scattered among different skins, and some of them are better than others (even though they all pretty much have the same goal in mind). Maybe you should consider just doing a custom basichome for other skins, and doing a basichome editor with it? Black Glass is a good example - several attempts to go for the Aeon look there. Same with StreamedMP. Instead of doing a whole new skin, how about a mod that can modify the home screen for a variety of existing ones? That would be something new.
It's a nice looking shot, but I'd recommend spending more time on the actual skin design and graphics, and less time on the fanart aspects. I don't know what is behind this lust for fanart-heavy designs this past year but I think Maya has it right - use it sparingly.
Right now you have a good "Lost" themed skin. It looks good because you did a nice job fading in a particular image from Lost, one that works with the design you are going for. However, that's just one image. Other images may not come out looking so good, putting you in the position of either sticking to one image - in which case the skin becomes a theme for a particular bit of media - or rotating images, and accepting that some of them will look better than others.
I know lots of people love the "Aeon" look with horizontal menus and fanart backgrounds but honestly, it's been done before. That said, those efforts are scattered among different skins, and some of them are better than others (even though they all pretty much have the same goal in mind). Maybe you should consider just doing a custom basichome for other skins, and doing a basichome editor with it? Black Glass is a good example - several attempts to go for the Aeon look there. Same with StreamedMP. Instead of doing a whole new skin, how about a mod that can modify the home screen for a variety of existing ones? That would be something new.
