Remember this one?
 

Well, I finally started this thing up again, and I sorta like how it's going, but... I dunno.

Can I have a quick review, and lemme know whether to use that vine-y thing or not? Is it too busy? Not busy enough? Needs more/less colors? Should I get rid of that big ring? I'm starting to like it less and less.

I'd say without. The rest of the skin has a certain unifom shaped look that the vine tends to spoil.

The skin kinda looks empty without the vine. If you add some smaller vines to the left, it might balance out. The ring needs a little smoothing out.

hrmm.. b4 i say anything stupid, is there a theme to this skin? or am i lost? :)

No theme. I'm abstract, and so are most of my skins. This thing has around 40 layers right now, so I can add or take away stuff easily.

I'm no good at fancy, nice skins :(

hmm.. the eq line thingy, i dunno what its called, the gray part, looks out of place, maybe change the color to the same coloar as that circle thingy in main? i dunno

I like the maze

It looks to me like the vine should either be more prominent or less prominent. At the moment, it's sort of too big to be ornamental, but too small to be able to 'stand it's ground', if you know what I mean. Maybe some more on the other side would be good

It doesn't look too busy to me, probably a little too sparse so far.

The grey colour of the eq-vis doesn't really go with the rest, as Shottie said.

I like the squares in the cbuttons/shuf/rep/balance.

You know how that ring is sort of tapered? How it's wider on some parts of the circle, and thinner on others? Well, it's the only shape like that - all the other shapes have a uniform (& thin) thickness - and I think it's what makes the ring stand out a little uncomfortably.

Colours. Hmmm, well, I don't like those light shades of blue or green - but that's purely personal preference. On a slightly more objective note, I think that the whole colour scheme there is pretty cold, and perhaps some warmer colours (amber?) used sparingly here and there might balance that up.

Overall, I like it :up:

i have to say i like it - this could develop into something really cool .. :D


I like the left ss better (with the green thing), it covers a bit of the empty areas. I think you should do something similar on the other side of the eq, too :)

definatly leave the ring ;) it looks kool! i'd also suggest making the maze cover more of the EQ possible bring a little bit of it, behind the cbuttons?? and then down to the On/Auto buttons on the EQ??

i think without the vine, or move the vine so that it goes straight down on2 the EQ and above the Repeat Button.

just my thoughts.

I don't like the vine, looks out of place IMO, maybe you could add some more of those maze looking green lines in the equalizer, to balance it out

yeah, i don't think that blue and green go all that well together either.

ummmm... yeah.

I think most of the changes have been good ones. I like the new, richer, darker, blues; I much prefer the new eq-vis; the maze looks great over the vis, but will it now look worse when music is playing, because it doesn't have a shadow on it? Either way, I think expanding the maze southwards would be great. I think the oranges are working well, but *puts on safety gear* maybe the oranges in the posbar and the nums_ex are too neon-y. I prefer the old \//\X buttons. But overall, I'm liking it more and more. Good stuff :):up:


Afterthought: hmmm, I wasn't looking at that ring properly before. It just wasn't appearing 3d last time. Now it is appearing 3d, and I think it looks very good. The shading seems a bit weird though, it looks like the top and the bottom parts have two different light sources.

////2nd Afterthought: hmmm, I'm retarded. I was looking at the old screenshot when I looked at the ring.