Voodoo - WIP
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 by k10w3 | Discussion: Sneak Previews
Since I'm pretty much finished with my GUIC submission (still sitting on it, giving myself some time to make sure all things are perfect), I've been putting my creative juices towards my Halloween desktop, which is my favorite skin to create. 
You know how some skins just seem to build themselves, and others are kind of an agonizing frustration? This one is an agonizing frustration. Something's just not right, and no matter how many times I look at it and change things, it's not feeling like it's working, (maybe it's cursed?) so I thought I would post a WIP thread and get some help from the community.
Give me your thoughts on what needs to change.
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Reply #62 Saturday, September 8, 2012 9:03 PM
Wow, now that is something right there! A classic in the making. 
Reply #63 Saturday, September 8, 2012 9:40 PM
Not sure about the red text, but hey, it's your vision. 
Reply #64 Sunday, September 9, 2012 12:20 AM
Yeah the red text.. in another skin would look great.. but, i feel, in a Halloween skin.. sorta makes it all look very.. umm.. digital?
Sorta like a 1979 LED watch.
Rest of it looks great.. you're getting dangerously close to.. usable 
Reply #65 Sunday, September 9, 2012 9:58 AM
I had a National Semiconductor wristwatch back then. I know the red digits of which you speak.
Reply #66 Sunday, September 9, 2012 3:19 PM
Hmmm...so LED watch does not equal spooky glow. I've changed it to gray with just a hint of orangish-yellow. Looks a lot better. I'm glad I gave myself enough time until October to get this completed.
Reply #69 Sunday, September 9, 2012 3:35 PM
Shaping up too well to be just a Halloween skin. I think this will look great any time of the year.
I am really hoping someone makes an IP to go with it.
Reply #72 Sunday, September 9, 2012 4:26 PM
If my family would leave me along long enough, I could get the blind done, and try my hand at an IP -- I can see where all the little glyphs/accents would make good icons.
Don't ever let skinning keep you away from your family. It'll never end well.
I speak of painfull, personal experience.
Reply #73 Sunday, September 9, 2012 5:13 PM
Don't ever let skinning keep you away from your family. It'll never end well.
I speak of painfull, personal experience.
If it were quality time spent with the family, Snowy, I would have no issues with my family time vs. skinning time. It's just that lately, it's about 50% having to play amateur psychologist, 30% nurse maid, 10% personal trainer, and 10% cook/waitress/maid, and I'm a little too codependent to put my own desires to play before their mental and physical needs (it's hard for me to say "grow up" or "get it yourself").
Reply #74 Sunday, September 9, 2012 9:29 PM
Already envisioning docks and a Winstep theme for this 
Reply #75 Sunday, September 9, 2012 9:41 PM
Reply #78 Saturday, September 15, 2012 12:58 PM
Sorta like a 1979 LED watch.
Well, I guess I now know why you gave me this advice. Wouldn't want our WIP to overlap each other, would we?
Karen, it is my opinion that John was being sincere.
The (red LED) look fits his skin, it didn't fit yours. It's that simple. If you look back, I was the first to thumbs down the red text. And I had no knowledge of John's wip at that time.
I don't think John had any motive other than helping out a fellow skinner with an opinion, just like the rest of us.
Reply #80 Saturday, September 15, 2012 1:28 PM
I still can't post to any of his threads, because he's blocked me, because "I don't exist to him." Forgive me if, now, in retrospect, I doubt his sincerity in helping this fellow skinner.
I don't normally post WIP, but I got stuck with the first version and sought outside opinions. There's a part of me that's saddened that I still find myself immediately thinking the best of people, and it's only in retrospect that it dawns on me I may have been played.
Ah, well...life is too short to be possessive about font colors. I'm not going to let it bother me today. I have skinning and cake decorating on my plate today...can't let this mess with my head anymore.
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Reply #61 Saturday, September 8, 2012 2:13 PM
This rocks! Love the titlebar buttons!!
Better than the first draft, only because I hate green.....hehe.
Yo go girl!!
