Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Leaving for some days

[Richard Kettering]

I assume you mean something to promote the game, or whatnot.  Proper  
promotion of wesnoth would entail some of the following:
  images suitable for desktop pictures ("wallpapers", I think, is  
the term MS coined for them), or printable posters.

Posters could be in a pamphlet format, with translatable text  
describing the game.
To demonstrate what I'm talking about with regards to desktops, one  
can look at:   http://fireemblem.gameboy.com/gba/launch/media/index.jsp

...

Of course, we'd kinda have those by now if I had finished proper  
versions of the unit portraits.  :(
It's not like anyone else on our actual team has come up with  
anything close to what I've done, save perhaps Jason Lutes, but my  
work so far is not yet professional enough for this.  It is darned  
close - when I finish the current Li'sar and Kalenz images, they will  
be.

What is aggravating is that it takes me something like 30 hours or so  
to finish a single, full-body image.
I compare myself to certain, far-above-average webcomic authors  
(machall.com applegeeks.com alpha-shade.com) - they take about a week  
of free-time work to produce something amounting to about 1.5x-2x the  
product.  Thus, my speed on these is a bit slow, though I've only  
recently come up with the techniques which give my work in this style  
a decent, professional look.  If I hadn't screwed up some structure  
work on the Kalenz image, the speed would have been much faster than  
the Li'sar image, which is a comforting improvement on only the  
second try with a technique.

So ...
I guess I'll just try harder. ;_;

(Also, I should mail the list with what I think are goals for 1.0, in  
the graphical dept.  I'm loathe to heavily promote the game until  
certain graphical things are fixed, like the logo and title image -  
fortunately these are all things that can be done after a code/ 
text-1.0, meaning that nothing else depends on them getting done.)

On Sep 13, 2005, at 3:11 AM, Isaac Clerencia wrote:

> Hi, people :)
>
> After a hard summer of work I'm going five days on holidays to the  
> Pyrenees :)
>
> I'll be back in Sunday and I expect to be able to release 1.0rc1 (if
> everything goes fine and the MP lobby agrees) in Sunday night/Monday.
>
> I would like to know if somebody (ettin, Jetryl, ...?) has any
> good/funny/impressive ideas for the 1.0 announcement. Please, if  
> you have
> suggestions for it we need to know them ASAP, as they may include  
> the work of
> translators/artists/web designers.
>
> Best regards
>
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