jmik wrote: > I am managing an Open Source project that is presently in desperate > need of good user interface art. If you could help out by mentioning > the following stuff in your next "musings," on the Linux MIDI and > Sound pages you maintain, it would help us out greatly. > > As you already know, Quasimodo is a real-time MIDI controllable > software synthesizer. It runs on Linux, is fully compatible with > csound, and is distributed under the GPL. Quasimodo is being > developed by Paul Barton-Davis. I'm presently trying to assist him as > much as I can. There is a web site for Quasimodo up at > http://www.op.net/~pbd/quasimodo. Development is progressing very > quickly. Paul really wants this to be a very good-looking > application, and presently nobody on the project is at all a graphic > artist (which stands to reason, since it's ultimately software for > making music that we're interested in). What we need are a bunch of > small high quality color images that will look like parts of the front > panel of an analog modular. Here are our specific needs as outlined > by Paul himself: > > Overall, check the Creamware Pulsar Modular image for inspiration, and an >understanding of the > kind of thing I'm looking for. > > http://www.creamware.com/Andere/modular_waldorf_big.JPG > > Urgent items: > > 1) images of a small convex philips screw head, lit from the upper left. I >think these should be about > 20x20 pixels. the adjacent areas should be transparent. > > 2) a nice knob design, with 12 or more images to represent the knob as it >turns. again, lighting from > the upper left. rough size is about about 35-45 pixels square. again, adjacent >areas should be > transparent. Right now, I'm using the one from gsyn, which is not bad. > > 3) small audio-connector sockets. about 25x25 pixels. Preferably with a colored >lip around a black > circle. It might be nice if there was some 3d-ness to the lip, with lighting >from the upper left. > > 4) small MIDI-connector sockets. about the same size as the audio ones, and >ideally modelled on > the image of a MIDI connector (aka a DIN plug) > > Less Urgent: > > 5) Some nice textures for panels. I'm thinking of stuff with an overall >metallic feel. It would be nice > if there was some inherent lighting model, but maybe since the panels are flat, >this is irrelevant. > Panels will come in 5 sizes. If the texture can be tiled, it can be small, but >otherwise, I'll eventually > need a set of 5 all drawn the right size. > > 6) a cool logo for Quasimodo, possibly in 2 or 3 sizes. A good Q would be nice >too. > > 7) a nice fat push button > > 8) a multiposition switch > > Anything you can do to help us out would be fantastic. Thanks. > > (jfm3) I will certainly mention it in the next Musings, and I have cc'd this message to the linart mail-list in hope that someone there might be available for the work. Rather than quote this message in its entirety in the Musings I will add a link to an HTML version if that's okay by you... == Dave Phillips http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/index.html http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Linux-soundapp/linux_soundapps.html
