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VOTE for the ORB skin contest winner!
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(In alphabetical order) The skins for the ORB Skin contest are all in, and - I'm delighted to say - they are all top quality. So download them (below), check them out, and vote for your TOP THREE favourites! Who can vote? Everyone! Voting Method: List your top 3 favourites in order of preference-------For example: 1 - Jane Citizen 2 - John Smith 3 - Joe Blow Your #1 choice receives 3 points, your #2 receives 2 points, and your #3 receives 1 point. After all the voting is finished, the skinner with the most points wins. (The name of each skinner is written under the thumbnail of their skin) How to place your votes: -----either- :winamp: Make a post here, clearly saying which 3 skins you are voting for. -----or- :winamp: If you prefer your votes to be secret, just PM me with your votes. (press the http://forums.winamp.com/images/sendpm.gif button) -Voting time will stop at 24:00 (midnight) on Sunday 29th September (GMT), and then I'll publish the results. All 5 skinners put in a lot of time and effort into these skins, and they are all definitely worth checking out - so please check them all out before you vote. DOWNLOAD THE SKINS HERE (1.35mb) -The winner of the contest will receive a custom-made music video for her/his favourite song. -I suppose that the 5 entrants may vote if they really want - but they may not vote for their own skin. Enjoy the skins everybody - and good luck to the skinners! :) |
Okay, i'll get this thing going!
#1 = Chiquita Chad #2 = E-Raser #3 = Dekt There all really nice skins, well done to you all, just thats my opinion, was quite hard but i make my mind up on things quick. |
And the votes from Gent belgium are:
1st place : Not In Santiago 2nd place : E-Raser 3th place : Dekt |
I agree it with Reanimation they're all great skins :up: :up:
but here are my votes #1 : E-Raser #2 : Chiquita Chad #3 : Dimichan |
cant vote for themselves????
1= dekt
2= dimichan 3= eraser they may not really be interested in the prize of this contest and just want the props for being able to say their design won so why hand out a total of 6 points to 3 of the other 4 skins hell by giving there own skin each a 1st place vote (3pts they then must hand out a 2nd and 3rd)and those points maybe the reason that the voters skin doesn't win its a contest and they are entrants contest = win whether their interested in winning or not |
1. chiquita chad. IMO it is one of the best skins i have seen in a long time, and it deserves to win. The shapes used are beautifully abstract (i am talking mainly about the eq), much like the cover design. You are getting ather good at this 'ere skinning job :)
2. dekt, again a very good skin, great use of colour and consistency throughout just not as mustard-cuttingly good as chiquita chad's. 3. e-raser, the whole composition of it (with the dotted lines going over the eq, and the pl buttons) is great, and probably worthy of 1st/2nd place...just not quite, close call |
1 = Chiquita Chad <~~ very close w/ raser, but just beats him by || dat much.
2 = E-Raser <~~ very close w/ chiquita 3 = Not in Santiago <~~ looks most like the skin i woulda submitted if i didnt lose the .psd :) :) |
well its too late, but i submited a newer ver. of my skin, its hasn't been published yet thought
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1. dimichan
2. not in santiago 3. dekt |
1. chad
2. e-raser 3. dekt I'd say the decider in my top two was the MikroAMP. Pretty much the part of the skin I use most often, so that's pretty important, and chad's was really well-done, while e-raser's was pretty much just the play/pause/stop symbol with a couple lines. |
Whoa whoa, that's the old version of mine there! Where's the new one?
Anyways... 1. Dekt 2. Chiquita 3. NIS |
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send it here: dawidbleja(at)hotmail(dot)com e-raser: Sorry dude, but you should have emailed it to me. :( I waited a day and a half, in which time I tried contacting you, checked deviantart.com and winamp.com/skins repeatedly for the updated version, and tried to access your homepage. After dekt and not in santiago had worked for much of the weekend to try and get their skins done on time, I didn't think it was fair for me to delay the process much longer, especially since, as far as I knew, you were only going to include a readme, anyway - so I included one for you (I just cut and pasted the info you had in your mbinner). By all means send me the skin now and I'll upload it ASAP. (address is above) |
<--- points at avatar :o :confused:
ok, I deleted the new file and uploaded the old one by accident, yay me :p REAL final version :p |
IF YOU HAVE ALREADY VOTED, then I urge you to download Dimichan's skin again. It is the latest version of the skin (there was a mix up, and up until now an older version of the skin had been posted). There have been several button changes throughout the skin and the skin now has a considerably crisper style throughout. Please download it (from the link in Dimichan's post above) in case your votes would have been different had you seen the latest version. The new version of the skin is now in the original screenshot and the original download link (both at the top of this thread)
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Here are my votes:
1.- Orblivious (by Dimichan): 3 points 2.- Auntie Aubrie (by Not in Santiago): 2 points 3.- The Orb Amp (by e-raser): 1 point Of course, all 5 are great 5-star skins, but I had to choose, and I did it this way :) Why? Well, I found the first two the most original and self-consistent, Orblivious being funnier and with more subtleties. Then I had to choose between the other 3, not easy, but e-raser's Orblivion (which I've named The Orb Amp, because Chiquita Chad's is called Orblivion too) catched my attention better and was more rewarding to the user (to me, at least). As I said, the other 2 are great too, and I'm glad I don't have to order them :) Congratulations to all of you! |
Unofficial vote count update:
(Unnoficial because I'm not guaranteeing that I didn't make a mistake. When it comes to the real vote count at the end, I'll count, and re-count, and re-count, the votes carefully) Chiquita Chad:16 E-raser:14 Dekt:12 Dimichan:9 - Not In Santiago:9 I'm so happy with the quality of skins this contest has produced. And I'm obviously not the only one who thinks all the skins are great. The results speak for themselves. It's close, every skinner has been named #1 by at least one person, and anything can still happen ... |
1. not in santiago
2. dekt 3. dimichan |
yup te quality of the skins are amazing. Why more difficult to choose one then during the yaxay contest.
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Way and above, - 1. E-raser
2. Santiago 3. Dekt Its saying a lot that I am pleased with a band skin for a band I don't care about. ;) |
Almost forgot to vote! :igor:
1) dimichan 2) dekt 3) e-raser |
Me too! :)
1_Chiquita Chad 2_E-raser 3_Not in santiago |
um... can I still vote at this point? am I allowed? am I using too many question marks ?????????
1. Chiquita Chad :up: :up: :up: 2. N.I.S :up: :up: 3. E-raser :up: |
current stats:
chiquita chad: 22 pts. E-Raser: 21 pts. Dekt & N.I.S.: 17 pts. Dimichan: 13 pts. dont count this as official because it's late and the weekend so my math skills are g0mped |
holy cow...i thought i was out of the race, this is going to be just like the last contest i was in, neck to neck all the way.
P.S. vote for meeeeeeee!!!!!!:D |
1.Chiquita Chad
2.E-raser 3.Not in santiago |
#1 Chiquita Chad
#2 E-raser #3 Dekt :up: Well done, guys! :) |
NINIIIIII, long time no see :D
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Congrats to everyone, a very high standard of entries. They make for a great showcase of Orb covers, and all of them have made excellent use of their chosen art.
Alas, my own effort, Higher Than The Orb (Ripe's Skinning Excursions Beyond The Call Of Duty), never made it off the drawing board. This is probably a good thing, as I fear I would have let the side down, (but hey, the title was good) :D It's very difficult to choose a winner, but I will tell you my personal favourites. 1. Dimichan 2. Dekt 3. Chad Well done to everyone involved. :up: |
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Has everyone else in the contest submitted their skin to winamp.com/1001/devart/etc? I wasn't sure if they were automatically getting submitted to a site as part of the contest. I'm just not used to having a skin people might actually want to download. Heady days indeed! :)
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I haven't submitted to any sites, not even winamp. Why? It just hasn't occurred to me! :igor:
I worry about my brain sometimes . . . . :D |
i vote for:
1st - not in sandiago 2nd - chiquita chad 3rd - dekt nice work pple |
submitted to winamp, didn't even think of the others though... right now I'm making minor fixes and updates to recent skins putting off cutting buttons and noting coords for WA3 project :p Which I really need to get to before my partner murders me! (I am a champion procrastinator)
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No, I'm not doing any submitting. They're your skins, and you deserve to have full control over them. For those of you who don't already do so (ie. dekt, e-raser, Not In Santiago), I strongly suggest submitting to 1001 - it's a quality site.
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I think these day's more wa2-skins are downloaded from there then from winamp.com.
I still think they should make a splash page here, so you can choose from the start where you go wa2 or wa3 |
Yeah, seems quite a few people still get confused looking for wa2 skins, and I know the vast majority of the people I know still use it most of the time just to save computer resources, myself included. I can't work in PS without my music going, and usually have my browser and AIM up as well, and WA3 slows things down noticeably for me.
As for 1001, yeah, I get more downloads in days there lately than weeks on winamp, which didn't used to be the case. |
yeah, 1001 used to be worse for only one thing - downloads. It always had far better screenshots, more comments, less idiot public reviews, fairer exposure, instant updating, better organised browsing, etc. Now it seems to be better for downloads too.
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OK. My turn to vote. As I wrote in the big introductory post to the earlier ORB contest thread, my vote will count for three votes - as both the organiser of the contest and the creator of the prize. So, my #1 choice will receive 9 points (3x3), my #2 will receive 6 points (2x3) and my #3 will receive 3 points (1x3).
It was hard to choose, the skins were to a large extent only a hair on a bee's dick apart in quality. But here we go: #4 Chiquita Chad: Very good skin. I like what you've done with the sporadic circles near the Eiffel tower, incorporating them into the EQ/PL buttons, Khz, and Balance. I especially like the EQ. As EQs go, this one's a minimalist treat - simple yet interesting abstract shapes, with those very cool green echoed green dots in them - with that mysterious factory chimney in the background for full effect. Those green dots are one of the most interesting parts of the skin - the way they skip and jump unexpectedly - almost like the notes in a piece of Orb music - as you move up the stacks or across the cbuttons. Really cool touch. However, the skin just looks a little rough around the edges for my tastes. There's still half of the word "Orblivion" there - decapitated by the EQ; the circle of buildings has been shrunk quite a bit and is now a bit blurry, and is covered up by a number of things and seems a little overcrowded. The buildings in the PL stacks are really shrunk, and it's hard to tell what they are. Lost minor points for not skinning the Mbinner. Still, this will feature regularly on my winamp (and by the looks of it - on many people's winamps) :) #4 dimichan: Ironically, this is one of the more orderly looking skins of the contest - even though it's the only one that extensively used art from a wide variety of albums. It's great how you've chosen elements from all over. I'm not even sure if I know the covers that everything came from, but I can see at least Orblivion, Pomme Fritz, Orbvs Terrarvm, BadOrb.com, UFOrb, not to mention lots of little orbs for buttons :-). Great idea for the volume bar - now that I see it, that rising row of buildings was just asking to be made into a volume bar. I'm quite fond of the shuf/rep as well. The factory chimneys in the EQ also look pretty cool. Colouristically, I quite like it - The black and green thing you've got going on is cool, and the soft clouds in the main add atmosphere. Hmmm, the only bad thing I've got to say about it is that the words on the PL stacks are small and hard to read (sorry!). I guess the main reason you only placed fourth (after much undecidedness) was because, stylistically, the other skins slightly won me over. :) #3 Not in Santiago: A skin that will be a pleasure to use. It has a really great 'magical story-book' vibe to it. To me, it feels like I'm looking at a story-book version of the Baltic, under a starry sky, complete with magical flying turtles and all, and that sublime EQ. As I said earlier, that EQ may not have the best animation, but when still (which is what matters most to a frequent winamp user after all), it looks fantastic under practically any setting. I'm not usually a fan of playlist stacks which require you to move the mouse to see what each button does - but yours are labelled so clearly that it almost doesn't matter (The extended turtle heads are cool by the way) - and that font looks quite good throughout the whole skin. The floating pos bar is a great addition, and, as far as looking like it's always floating despite just being a rectangular posbar, it works surprisingly well. The whole circle thing you've got going on with the cbuttons isn't the most user-friendly cbutton package ever, but it's purty. Wonderful mbinner. :) #2 Dekt: One hell of an elegant skin. One of those skins which is a pleasure to use, because not only is the functionality almost perfect, but it looks great. To paraphrase a rather cynical Polish saying regarding translations of poetry - "skins based on album covers are like women - either faithful or beautiful." Well, your skin does pretty well on both counts. On the one hand, it is extremely faithful to the album cover art. It in fact looks like the album cover - renovated and suped up to become a skin. BUT, rather than covered up mercilessly by necessary components - they, in their own quietly stylish way, make the album cover look like it was always meant to be made into a skin. With some careful mimicking of the pictures' colours, elegant, clean lines, and some damn sexy cbuttons, you've made a skin that simultaneously succeeds through the subtle-yet-deep imagery of the clouds, and through the quiet stylishness of the ultra-functionality of the components. :) #1 e-raser: One of the best skins I've seen in a long time. The skin has been very faithful to the design of the Orblivion cover art, yet has got a very strong element of your own creativity. I love how you haven't tried to squeeze as much as possible into the skin, yet those Orblivion elements which you have selected feature very prominently. The whole geometric, dotted line flavour is brilliantly carried onto the skin here, and often in a very interactive way - as many of those elements form the clickable components. I love how the skin - all the way down to the MB - has got a totally consistent design. This is helped really well by the several lines going through the entire skin. In most WA2 skins, the EQ is usually quite monotonous, and the PL is usually quite square - this has been cleverly avoided in both cases here. Here, every window forms part of one big, attractive whole. For me, you've hit the right balance between symmetry (eg. the way the buildings carry on throughout the whole skin; the way the cbuttons, PL stacks, and MB buttons all match; the way the on/auto buttons match with the preset buttons and the LIST stack) and anarchy (which gives your skin so much flavour). And both versions of the Volume animation are very classy (though I prefer the alternate one), as are the shuf/rep buttons. Also a wonderful mbinner - it sums up the skin nicely, not just with the title, but also aesthtically. It's also good that you skinned cursors and made a custom AVS preset, although the preset didn't give you any points in my vote because I don't think it really matches the skin or the theme. :) So: #1 e-raser (+9 points) #2 dekt (+6 points) #3 Not in Santiago (+3 points) |
wow. last place rank by the creator of the contest.
that's a kick in the balls |
Chad: Don't be too down on yourself. db said 4th equal and was probably trying to explain his decisions and give hints on areas where you might improve. I know you might think "easy for you to say" but you got a lot of praise too. I personally think your skin has the most visual impact of the five. :up:
db: Wow, thanks very much. I always hope when I'm designing something that people appreciate what I'm doing but I never really expect much feedback. It's really gratifying to get praise like that from someone I have a lot of respect for. At more than one point during the making of the skin I thought "why am I doing this?" and it was only really cos I'd made a commitment that I saw it through. The skin would never have been made if you hadn't started the whole thing, and wouldn't have been as good wthout your suggestions, so some of the credit goes to you too. :) "...and I'd just like to thank the Academy and my family and..." :D Nah, but if I actually won i might do the tearful Gwynie/Halle thing. Without the evening gown though! :) |
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