GUI Olympics: Week 3 Results

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: GUI Championships News

Week 3 results!

After lengthy and careful consideration, here are the results for week 3 of the GUI Olympics.

Event: WindowBlinds - Most creative visual style

Rank Author Skin
MikeB314 Airlock
essorant Pixel 8
^^Gabriel G-Pod
treetog Antares
danilloOC Sektor

Event: IconPackager - Best themed (icons that fit a specific theme) icon package

Rank Author Skin
treetog Thunder Storm (Icons)
volter15 Smile 3 ))
farid nafar HFN Sapphire

Event: WinAmp Pro - Most usable Winamp skin

Rank Author Skin
Andrew Mackowski EMP 2
Anemovatis AR7
kriptoner D-Reliction

Event: WindowBlinds - Best themed visual style (a visual style that fits a specific theme)

Rank Author Skin
treetog Thunder Storm WB
- vf - Alloy Bezel 4
Scarebear 10pin
EventHorizon Mime

Event: IconPackager - Best Pseudo-OS icon package (an icon package that you could see coming with an operating system)

Rank Author Skin
Miloszwl d3A
Leothar Amdio
Rokey The Last Order

Event: WinAmp Pro - Best power user Winamp skin

Rank Author Skin
Andrew Mackowski EMP 2
a-t-o-m-i-c Impulse
Muniom Designs Resurgence

 

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Frogboy
Reply #141 Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:55 PM
VAG: See other thread, you made it clear you didn't want to participate in the contest. Participation in the contest is voluntary. If that is not the case, we can put them back. Incidentally, moderators can remove any entries for any reason.

Frogboy
Reply #142 Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:03 PM
Your entries are live.

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #143 Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:19 PM
Thanks, I also replied over there, see and if you want to discuss anything e-mail me, I would be glad to help for a better tomorrow.

retiredmaster
Reply #144 Friday, May 28, 2004 8:16 AM
Yawn.... ZZZzzzzz.. Can we let this rest now?

Davebo
Reply #145 Friday, May 28, 2004 9:00 AM
I just had to comment on the sheer ignorance displayed in the following statement... Below was posted by Muniom Designs: ______________________________________________ Designing and coding a winamp5 skin is a long drawn out process, to make a good skin requires MUCH more knowledge and effort than to create a bloody icon package, hence why we had half the entries of the other catagories. _____________________________________________ You must think icons grow on trees, and are merely plucked off and stuffed into an icon package. I'm no artist, but from what I've read over the years, is that creating a good set of icons is one of the toughest graphical chores to do. You also have the number of entries wrong. Creating icon packages is so time/effort consuming that it's catagory has almost twice a FEW entries as Winamp. IconPackager [28] Winamp [46] Kind of shoots your theory right out of the water.

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #146 Friday, May 28, 2004 9:52 AM
Davebo, I think Muniom was talking about Winamp Modern skins, those require alot time and effort to be completed, of course Classic skins too, but it's not compared those 2 kind of skins. As about Icons, I agree that they need alot of time to make a great set, also WB skins, the number of those submitions added so far represents the mood artists had before GUIO and now...... I think.

Muniom Designs
Reply #147 Friday, May 28, 2004 10:49 AM
davebo, yea i admit there are lots of icons to make in and icon package and the process is also long and somewhat tiring. but in my experience, the skins i have made for winamp3/5 have all been under a week for gfx and a number of months for the coding alone, coding which most outside people take for granted. Resurgence alone took about 2 months for myself and hammerhead to code, and we were busting our guts working as hard and fast as possible. ignorance or experience?

JillUser
Reply #148 Friday, May 28, 2004 11:34 AM
Pretty arrogant for someone who hasn't made a WindowBlinds visual style or an icon package to claim that Winamp 5 skins are harder to make. Maybe they are or maybe they're not. But it sure seems to me that a lot of effort is involved in all of them. Putting down the others seems petty and uncalled for. It's definitely not the way to gain sympathy for Winamp skinners.

Rontz
Reply #149 Friday, May 28, 2004 12:09 PM
frogboy: a while ago you said you didn'T see much constructive critics in here. no offense but, if you really don'T, you have to be blind. there were constructive critics since the first events. brother rabbit, you're pissing me off, again. you seem really to have NO idea about skinning at all. try to make a skin working without a coder/CODING and tell me when you're successfull. and... don'T mock up until you've entered ONE SINGLE skin! to the guys complaining about our complainments: you're not better than we are,you're even worse as you don'T have a real reason.we do! about the qualification of the judges: from the winamp-side, i think the most qualified people would have been the mods of the forum,the knnow what they're talking about and what to look at. i don'T think any of the other judges are really qulified enough.. frogboy, you should read better: vag said he won'T participate in FUTURE guios. no word about THIS competition. i would never dare to say it's easier to make a wb-theme than making a winampskin.sure you can easily put together a cheap wbskin as well as a cheap wa skin, but what's making the effort is quality. munium designs, you said you're pissed because some cheap skins were rated better than d-relic and resurgence. i think the case of ar7 is clear, but emp2? anyway, i'm glad vag said metaskins won'T participate in the future. perhaps i'll do myself when the things cleared up a bit and things are more clear but not when things stay like they are.

Emilio Cerra
Reply #150 Friday, May 28, 2004 2:17 PM
Wow, I can't believe I read the whole thing! *burp* P.S. Congrats to the winners of these categories (yes, even the WinAmp folks). These were all beautiful and well deserving skins.

Frogboy
Reply #151 Friday, May 28, 2004 2:35 PM
Complaining about the events post-facto is what I am getting at. The GUI Olympics judging is fairly similar to how it was done last time and that went without a hitch. Obviously one can always improve any system if enough effort is put into it. Our advice would be that those who feel this contest is poorly run set up their own contest and run it as they would.

dlinkwit27
Reply #152 Friday, May 28, 2004 4:51 PM
This little contest was a joke. Enough said. Also, it's bullshit that only premium members get to vote for user's choice. Pure bullshit.

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #153 Friday, May 28, 2004 5:49 PM
Frogboy sorry tobother you once more, but yeah we WILL make our own international competition as a winamp community real soon (I'll inform you to know if you are interested) and this competition won't have any catchy and illegal name such is "Olympics" PS: Just a question, do you (not you personaly but the organizers) have licence to use this name or written permission from International laws? I've got this question 2 months ago from an Greek friend of mine over www.pcmag.gr (Greek PC Magazine's portal)and I didn't knew what to answer to him. Thanks.

Plague_
Reply #154 Friday, May 28, 2004 6:02 PM
VAG, no offense, but as I haven't even heard of the contest you're talking about, I'm not completely sure you should say that it will be made as a winamp community, as it can be misleading, making people think the _entire_ winamp community is onboard this one, which I highly doubt they are, yet anyways.. I know I'm not, yet anyways.. And this goes to everyone: Let's not stir shit up again here, a discussion is beeing held on the forums, and personally I think _everyone_ should stop with the flame throwing and instead start a constructive discussion about this whole thing, on the forums, not here.

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #155 Friday, May 28, 2004 6:16 PM
Ok let me correct it Plague, a group of friends and Greek companies will make one ONLY for WA skins but more news in WA forums soon....... I've thrown them that idea last week, with prizes only cash, so everyone can buy whatever he wants, and other goodies.... PS: I think will be only for European Union citizens, still discussing about that. Anyway, yeah let's move to forums, river never goes back in any chance.

Davebo
Reply #156 Friday, May 28, 2004 7:38 PM
All the people complaining about the Winamp results - can we hear from you your choices? What is exactly wrong with the picks? Can you list the faults as you see it?

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #157 Friday, May 28, 2004 7:47 PM
Davebo let's all get over it, don't restart all this again please. I'm tired to write in this post and in the forums..... I have better things to do atm.

Davebo
Reply #158 Friday, May 28, 2004 8:17 PM
Comments weren't direct at any one individual. Go do your better things... What forums - here? Or Winamp?

VAG - METASKINS
Reply #159 Friday, May 28, 2004 8:47 PM
Here.

Muniom Designs
Reply #160 Friday, May 28, 2004 9:00 PM
EMP2 is a good skin no doubt, but as someone else said, its a bit of a slap in the face to allow it to win opposite catagories. and as for power user, i REALLY want to know how impulse has more/better power user features, iv been looking at it and looking at it.... im not continuing the shitfight, as said we are over it, i just want some clear reasons to sort things out.

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