Love, Life and Leon
I actually managed to get some sleep, fuck yeah. First, happy anniversary to my peanut butter! She's better than pasta, coke and a Brasgalla icon all put together. An' that's saying something.
Bits and pieces in today's entry. WinClone looks like it'll be very handy. For those that don't know, it lets you clone your BootCamp (well, any disk really) to a disk image and then lets you restore it. All this is doable through Terminal and Disk Utility but WinClone makes it easy, fast and it's free. It's icon is pretty hideous though, so I'll probably end up doing one soon.
I also want to talk about Lutetium; frankly I'm just not happy with what I've done so far. I gave one of the #TUMT regulars the saves for him to cut up and throw around for the other regulars, but I don't think I'll be working on them again. There's a few reasons and I thought it'd quell (at least a little) some of the fist-shaking if I went through them.
Number one: Lutetium Eon was started before I moved to pure-vector work. As a result the majority of the older work were bitmap at 256px to 16px. Ergo, I couldn't neaten them up to the standard I want nowadays. I did make a start on redoing the 32px sizes and some folks liked those. But they're just not how I wanted LEON to end up.
Number two: The style. Originally LEON was to be a rather Minium° like set. Focusing on matching the folders to Apple's current designs. It went through lots of changes. The first, frankly, took fucking ages for me to do. I just don't have the time to spend three to eight hours on every single icon. The second was more simplistic but looked 'old fashioned' compared. Lastly, the front-on Leopard view. It's not really exciting.
The hard-drives seem quite popular. I'm really disappointed with the 32px state I ended up with though. At the very least I want to redo the hard-drives to a higher quality. Maybe include a generic folder and PSD, let people work with it. Should be a decent compromise. I know it doesn't set a good standard (what with Myre and a number of other icon sets not being finished), but this really isn't a case of just Can't-be-bothered-itus. Lutetium has a very specific kind of aim in my head, and I just don't want to release it until it... Well... Matches. Unfortunately my brain is rather good at changes it's mind on what to focus on.
I do have another very simplistic set I've worked on, called Lätt. I will finish this, no teasers or any of that junk, because Raz will literally gut me like a fish if I don't. I'll try to have some goodies for you folks this weekend.
Have a good day guys.
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so, probably you can give a link here for those LEON folders that looked "like Minium°" as you say?
they are fcuking adorable, i really like them. i think they are better than Minium, and to be honest, i thought that LEON looked as one of the best sets... it's really pitty you are not going to work on them anymore
so.. could you share original leon? :)
Posted by: Steeply at May 22, 2008 7:24 PM
Happy Anniversary baby! One whole year of putting up with my bad moods and smoking habit and pudding addiction. Theres no one I'd rather put up with, smoochypants. Sorry I was such an MIA asshole today, I'll explain tomorrow. I love you and you're so patient and good to me.
Posted by: Heather at May 23, 2008 7:38 AM
@Lemonpip: I called the coast guard, air force and the navy and none of 'em could find you! You sneaky pie.
@Steeply: Yeah, I'll be releasing the package as the revamped hard-disk drives, the "laid-back" angle generic folder and the "classic" angle generic folder.
Posted by: Rick 
at May 23, 2008 5:24 PM
My Rick experience has become so periphery over the past 18 months.
I need more RP day-in, day-out.
Posted by: Anthony at May 26, 2008 4:02 AM
