2D Flat skins as used on tv and movies
Do they exist?
Thursday, November 24, 2005 by Jez2k | Discussion: OS Customization
Watch almost any episode of La Femme Nikita, Theatre Matrix, Andromeda, Stargate etc.. and you'll see the computer screens have very flat, yet functional designs with basic colours (usually light blue wireframe borders on a plain black bacground.. you get the idea). I spent all day & night yesterday scouring the archives for skins like this but the nearest I could find was a Longhorn skin but even that was a far stretch from what I'm looking for. I suppose the only utility that could perfect this would be something like winstep or litestep but alas my skinning skills are about as proficient as an elephant learning to drive a motorbike on an ice rink. Those two programs are a bit old and not many skins exist for them.
For those of you who might be getting the wrong idea.. I'm not looking for tv-themed or movie-themed skins with pictures and paraphanaelia cluttering up the desktop. I have always liked the clutter-free "what you see is what you get" simple, almost monochromatic, layout of the computers in those kind of shows and movies. This approach is often used in games because each game has it's own interface instead of relying on the windows interface.
This is the sort of thing I am talking about:
-------www.sectionoperative.com/index.html---------
Imagine that filling the entire screen.
That's obviously from Nikita but I don't necessarily want that exactly, just something generic but would not look out of place in a modern espionage or sci-fi show. When you see this type of thing on tv, it is unrecognisable as anything we currently use, like XP. Now I still want the functionality of XP (I'm never going to install Linux for example) as my PC is mainly for games and a few Windows apps.
So the bottom line.. does this sort of skin exist or not?
For those of you who might be getting the wrong idea.. I'm not looking for tv-themed or movie-themed skins with pictures and paraphanaelia cluttering up the desktop. I have always liked the clutter-free "what you see is what you get" simple, almost monochromatic, layout of the computers in those kind of shows and movies. This approach is often used in games because each game has it's own interface instead of relying on the windows interface.
This is the sort of thing I am talking about:
-------www.sectionoperative.com/index.html---------
Imagine that filling the entire screen.
That's obviously from Nikita but I don't necessarily want that exactly, just something generic but would not look out of place in a modern espionage or sci-fi show. When you see this type of thing on tv, it is unrecognisable as anything we currently use, like XP. Now I still want the functionality of XP (I'm never going to install Linux for example) as my PC is mainly for games and a few Windows apps.
So the bottom line.. does this sort of skin exist or not?
thomassen
Reply #2 Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:08 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:08 PM
My first ever skin was inspired by that. Not sure if it's the same as you envision though. Unfortunatly it's quite old now, but I was working on an update a couple of months ago. But then my course started again and I got loaded by work and no spare time. The old one if located at dA if you want to have a look: http://www.deviantart.com/view/58307/
scorpio-logic
Reply #3 Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:43 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:43 PM
this is a pretty cool skin. Thanks for the link to it. I don't normally go to DA for skins...takes too long to look throught them, organized differently and you can't categorize like you can elsewhere. Nice skin, thomassen. I was thinking of making a skin similar to this, but I thought, now why would I make it all flat when I can make it rounded and all that. But seeing it finished looks good, fast too. I really like the startbutton, pretty cool. 
thomassen
Reply #4 Friday, November 25, 2005 5:10 AM
Reply #4 Friday, November 25, 2005 5:10 AM
It's only at dA right now because I made it before I really started using WC. When the update is done it'll be posted here.
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Reply #1 Thursday, November 24, 2005 5:39 PM
i get photoshop working again i'll see what i can make...