Registered: Apr 2002
From: California, USA

Winter Skin Contest Results

First of all, my thanks go out to the judges (who can name themselves if they like), the winamp folks who helped get this off the ground (jones and wally), the skinners of course, ¤db¤ for providing guidance on how things like this are done, dimichan and Simon for the offering of webspace, skinme! for his bandwidth, and Not In Santiago for helping to pull this off...

Now, for the results...

The 5th place skin is xenosomething's "winter", with a score of 60.
To be fair to this skin, it was not completed, but xeno was nice enough to submit it anyway. All of the judges noted that it would have scored higher if it were complete, and I hope xeno finishes it.



Judge's comment: "I'm going to going to state the obvious: too bad it isn't finished! It's impossible to give this a mark because I'm sure the final product will look different, so you get a pass. (Plus bonus marks because that's the funkiest Christmas tree I've ever seen.)"

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The 4th place skin is kingstar's "faint winter", with a score of 74.
kingstar is relatively new here, and I think this is a great effort!



Judge's comment: "Simple, but nice to look at. The colour choice is great. I thought it needed more contrast, but this skin is called Faint Winter and that's exactly what you've presented. The Main is terrific. Skinning the little extras and snazzier playstacks would make this skin a definite contender for first place."

Download faint winter


The 3rd place skin is ¤db¤'s "zima", with a score of 82.
The judges were split on this skin - two had it at or near the top, while the other two had it lower down. This skin is filled with amazing animations.



Judge's comment: "The best picture skin anywhere ever! Probably. Practically seamless integration. Cutest animations ever. Ever. I say. Great mikro and all round well themed."

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The 2nd place skin is flatmatt's "construction paper winter", with a score of 88.
This is a really nice skin, and it would have won if the contest had ended as originally scheduled



Judge's comment: "This skin instantly hits you that it's a winter skin, it really hits the brief and completes it with style. Some buttons are a little bit hard to see but over all they are clearly labled. And I gotta say, flatmatt that snowman is so cool! I love it!"

Download construction paper winter


This year's winning skin is Simon's "snowflake", with a score of 92.
This skin had 3 first place votes, and one second place vote. Simon is on a roll!



Judge's comment: "Fantastic 3D modelling on snowmen, trees, etc. Wide colour range (not faded). Funky circular / wide style. Lovely backgrounds. Innovative EQ sliders. Absolutely trend mikroamp (great play/stop symbol integration). Great cursors. All round theme is well carried through. I wish I could raise the temperature in winter with those EQ bars!"

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Congratulations to all the skinners on the fine skins they made for us to enjoy!

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From: Gent, Belgium. does anybody know where the toilets are?

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Registered: May 2000
From: my 4 Houses on Park Place

How nice to see a slew of skins with no metal in sight.

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Registered: Feb 2001
From: 127.0.0.1 Website: skinme.net

Can you guess which of those comments are mine. I must say my voting went pretty much that way.

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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Somewhere under the rainbow

Congratulations to all, and especially to Simon!!!

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Registered: Oct 2001
From: detroit

congrats simon! looks sweet

db, i love those pl stacks. and the animations. very cool skin.

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Registered: Dec 2002
From: My gf's bedroom...

1 of them comments are mine! yey! hehe, /me reads my comments over an over

btw, nice snowman flatmatt

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Registered: Sep 2000
From: UK

Congratulations Simon, and everyone else who entered.

Simon, I have to say, this is quite the best skin I have seen from you in your long skinning life, full of neat 3d modeling, clever animations and super use of window positions make this one top notch

Would you like a custom title as a prize, ohhh, errrr on second thoughts

Well done anyhow, perhaps you'd like to sleep with my GF as a prize instead ?

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Registered: Oct 2001
From: detroit

jones has a girlfriend? haha thats a good one!

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Registered: Sep 2000
From: UK

Last count it was four, but maybe less, I don't think the married ones count do they?

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Registered: Apr 2002
From: California, USA

All you skinners are now free to submit your skins wherever you want to...sorry it took so long. Thanks for your patience!

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Registered: Sep 2000
From: UK

Shall we put this thread back on the rails, someone say something nice about the skins, if you want the details of my private life, feel free to PM me, but lets keep this one at least slightly on topic.

Thank you.

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Halifax , Canada

yeah Simon, congratulations. It was obvious that you ' ll get the first place fromthe start ...now, i guess i ll submit my skin to winamp and wait for the next skinning competetion

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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Nov 1978

congratulations Simon and thanks for organising this, JB, and sorry to hear about your foot.

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Registered: Feb 2001
From: 127.0.0.1 Website: skinme.net

Personally, I had Simon's first... but not by much. I am absolutely in love with the general style of Simon's skin - it just epitomises what I've come to perceive Simon to be. It's him. I've used it extensively since I first got it (after judging of course).

DB, I'm not a great fan of picture skins. However, that didn't cloud my judgement by any stretch of the animation. So don't kick me. I'll tell you that you and Simon were one point apart in my judging. I can't add but luckily it didn't affect the outcome... just.

Flatmatt - great skin. I loved to play with it. However, I felt it a bit unusable to use. I found myself slightly missing the actual buttons.

Kingstar - a great entrance to skinlove. It didn't quite compete with the big boys this time round. I liked it. However, it lacked some stuff that will come to you after skinning for a while - like a better sense of the Winamp UI and how it's used. Also, it seemed a little faded for my liking. Perhaps that was the intention but it seemed a little too faded, even for the dreary winters I remember (lately most of them spent in sunny places ).

Xeno. I wanted to give it more but it was just unusable. I didn't feel it would be right to turn it out as a winner given all the nice finishing touches of the others. I'm sure it'll be a great skin when it's finished. Sorry, mate.

Jones - a girlfriend - of course! He's Britain's biggest playa. Ain't that right, Jonesy.

Jones - is your custom title Latin or Italian? Care to impart what it means?

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Kingstar - a great entrance to skinlove. It didn't quite compete with the big boys this time round. I liked it. However, it lacked some stuff that will come to you after skinning for a while - like a better sense of the Winamp UI and how it's used. Also, it seemed a little faded for my liking. Perhaps that was the intention but it seemed a little too faded, even for the dreary winters I remember (lately most of them spent in sunny places ).

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I thought it would be a great idea to come up with a new idea, since i am not an experienced skinner yet. But i guess making the skin a little bit faint made it lose some points ...

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Registered: Jun 2002
From: Shwhah?

good job all you who actually finished your skins (doesn't include xeno)
I know how dificult that is sometimes
congrats Simon
*clap clap*

I'd have to say my fav is Kingstar's
I'm not much of a fan of "scene" skins..they're neat for a little while, but then I lose interest
and, of course, xeno's isn't finished, but, even if it was, I think it'd be too complex for me

/me think's playlist track #95 is apt for this contest

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/me think's playlist track #95 is apt for this contest

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Dang, didn't even notice that! Good eye.

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Registered: Feb 2001
From: 127.0.0.1 Website: skinme.net

/me like the vandals

/me likes Less Than Jake's cover of the Grease album too

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Jones - is your custom title Latin or Italian? Care to impart what it means?

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Registered: Jun 2001
From:

feed me [something].
[edit]a quick hunt through a latin dictionary finds "shorts". feed me shorts, or a more simpsonic approach at "eat my shorts"? i was never any good with the endings.

[edit2]google has it. i am right, eat my shorts:
http://www.dribbleglass.com/Jokes/latin.htm

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Vescere bracis meis. (Eat my shorts.)

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Registered: Sep 2000
From: UK

BH wins, your prize is two goes in the "Barrel of Joy" at any sadomasochistic fetish club of your choice

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Registered: Jun 2001
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yay!

i feel so happy now.

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congratulations Simon and thanks for organising this, JB, and sorry to hear about your foot.

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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Somewhere under the rainbow

What? are you using those old-fashioned crutches?
Use forearm crutches!
http://www.hphdhelp.org/crutches.htm

P.S. Fortunately, I've never needed them, but my sister did once, and we bought them. I guess they've been the most used objects in our family since then. I wouldn't believe how often someone (an uncle, a cousin, a friend...) needs them and borrows them for a month!

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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Nov 1978

I've had crutches twice, once for a fractured ankle and 3rd degree sprain*, and the second time for an aggravation of that same injury a couple of years later. Crutches are terrible. I've never tired the forearm ones, but they sound like something worth trying.

*I love the way the physio tested to see the severity of the sprain: He wrenched my shin under his arm, grabbed hold of my foot then bent the crap of it in a direction it wasn't supposed to go, then said "yup. It's a 3rd degree sprain". "How do you know? What's a 3rd degree sprain?" "It's when the nerves have been torn off the ankle - if it was less than a 3rd degree sprain, you would have been screaming in agony when I did that." Wonderful.

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Registered: Aug 2000
From: Gent, Belgium. does anybody know where the toilets are?

Well, thanks all
My previous post in this thread was like five seconds before i went to bed, so It was rather short. (even for me)

I would like to thank JB for organizing this and keeping everybody reminded of the d-line(s). Major thanks to you people who have supported this project and made constructive critesizm.
A special little thanks to Rean and Naamloos.
I hoped I would finish 1st, but I really thought ¤db¤ would be.

and because i was bored at work I made these prizes
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Registered: Sep 2002
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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Somewhere under the rainbow

Oh, my God... That's cheaper than the previous one!

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Registered: Nov 2000
From: Winamp Island

Congrats, simon, I'm glad my skin didn't win. Because I just couldn't live with myself knowing I had made a winning skin. (Well, plus your skin's a helluva great skin. Great trees and thermometers.) Good job to everyone else, too, all were great skins.

Hmmmmm, perhaps I'll somehow work that medal into flatmatt.com.

Uh, ahem, simon? Am I the only one for whom the animated cursors are broken? They're like 64x64 scrambled thingies. Are they made to be 32x32?

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Registered: Feb 2001
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Works fine on my PC.

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Registered: May 2002
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Congrats to simon and all the entrants! It's nice to see 5 skins so different from each other. I like all five of them.

JB - I hope your recuperation is speedy and painless. I fractured my foot playing basketball in 7th grade (actually, I sprained it - the fracture was self-inflicted during my 1.5 hour wait for x-rays). I had crutches. It was February. There was two feet of snow and a thick layer of ice between my crutches and the ground. It was miserable getting to and from school. I know you don't have any snow to deal with, so I will give you one word of advice: Beware wet linoleum!

Seriously....


/When I activate simon's cursors on my computer, I can see they look garbled for a few seconds before my whole system crashes.

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Registered: Nov 2000
From: Winamp Island

Yes, your cursors, other than titlebar and normal, seem to be cropped only to their actual size, which is a definite no-no, simon. Breaks computers quite often. Cursors must ALWAYS be 32x32, or else they will definitely cause problems.

Well, I'm off to do English homework. I have to watch TV. I hate TV. TV sucks.

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Registered: Feb 2001
From: 127.0.0.1 Website: skinme.net

TV is evil. Except for the news, the p-rock channel and whale porn.

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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Somewhere under the rainbow

Another issue with Snowflake, Simon... The playlist borders don't match the eq and main ones...

By the way, xmms (linux's winamp) accepts winamp skins, but I can't enjoy mikro, minibrowser, avs or cursors

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Registered: Sep 2000
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Just as a side note, these skins look great on a dark background as well, really brings out the details, just noticed as I've switched forum stlyes for NSDN

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Registered: Mar 2002
From: Nov 1978

well while we're letting people know of bugs, I think flatmatt's has got the Mikro pause bug (see Skinner's Atlas)

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Registered: Nov 2001
From: The foot of the bed

Congrats all. Personally I think zima could hasve won if it had a better eq.
Now lets not have a contest for some time. Too many contests recently.

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Registered: Nov 2000
From: Winamp Island

It does not have the Mikro pause bug. It's fixed if you've got pixel switch and pixel-80 mode unchecked. Evil MikroAMP legacy bugs...

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