Hi Damian, On Monday 24 September 2007 23:37:43 Damian Vila wrote: > Sorry, don't get me wrong, because I don't want to sound hash, but I > don't agree with the part that things were clear at the wiki. And also, > you are contradicting yourself.
Perhaps you are right on some points. > If it was that clear you should have gotten proposals that matched the > criteria. You got things you didn't expect because the guidelines were > vague. It said "The goal is to get back to something as unique and > beautiful as included in previous versions", with a few of the previous > wallpapers as reference (that were later reduced to 2), and also it was > stated that everybody should try to stick to the color palette. > I see many proposals there that are unique and beautiful (including > yours) and that stick to the palette. i intentionaly left out saying specific statements as to what we wanted becuase other than making something that is in some way close to the pics I posted there was nothing to say. > "Abstract", "dark", "fluid", "in brown, dark and earthy tones" was never > mentioned, just "beautiful" and "unique." Exactly. There was never a desire to create something intentionaly "dark" or "fluid". The point was to make something close to one of the pics I posted at the top of the page. It somewhat irratated me to simply try and recreate the wheel, so to speak, but that is what I was told to do. In Edgy I was told to create something along the lines of Feisty and that is what I did (and I don't like that pic so much either). > To be frank, at the end of the process, and trying to really understand > what was being asked, the image I thought was going to be the default > (specially when the reference images was narrowed to the Hoary and > Breezy wallpapers) was "solar anamorphic flare" by Troy Sobotka. Also, > that was the reason I stopped making images (I wanted to try other > animals). The fact that you decided for your own work (wich is really fine > by me, specially because I like the wallpaper and you have the last word > here) only reinforces me the idea that you, and only you , knew what you > were looking for, and that it was not ptoperly stated in the guidelines. Several people have said that I chose my own work. As stated on the wiki, that is not my pic. I did not make it, Joseph Connors did. I did ask him to submit pics because I thought that his work was very close to what we were looking for. I was hoping that others would make pics along that line as well after seeing them. As to Troy's pics, I really like them as well but I feel that they do not match the colors quite as well and that there is a bit too much empty space. > Again, I'm not criticising how it what selected or even if it was your own > work, but I just want to stand for all the people that submitted their work > and did a great effort to meet the criteria. For all the people that made > "beautiful" and "unique" artwork aticking to the color pallete. > As for the future, I'll be glad to help the team. I love the distro and > I really want it to shine and stand out from the rest of the OSs. Let's > use the enormous talent at our disposal to make the next release the > best it can be. Thanks for the great work. I look forward to your help on improving our processes in the future. -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art