[Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Christian,

On 30 May 2009, at 10:17, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:

> Hi Gary, this looks good, though I wonder about the loss of the XO in
> the center. The boot sequence was intended to establish the UI, and in
> many ways the XO does signify the Sugar brand as much (more?) as the
> logo. Suggestion: Could we not simply show the logo for a few seconds,
> before transitioning into the current boot sequence? I'd hate to lose
> the current sequence, I think it works very well, and Eben will attest
> that much time was spent arriving at where we are today...

Yes, agreed, the original boot up is very hard to beat (showing a  
child as central). Just bouncing ideas about here. My only criticisms  
of the original would be:

1) not liking the kid icon breaking into a rotating arrow treatment  
(seems too forced/smart, the whole XO icon is a stronger identity,  
appearing dots show progress just fine)

2) seemed odd for the dots to appear from 6 o'clock to 6 o'clock (12  
to 12 feels more natural to me)

3) lack of any colour (though this is tough to avoid breaking HIG  
iconography on colour use)

Regards,
--Gary

> Christian
>
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Gary C Martin  
> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Just to get a basic, safe, default starting point in there, I've  
>> uploaded
>> one simple treatment to:
>>
>>
>>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Sugar_Boot_Logo_Animations
>>
>> Will try to upload a couple more tomorrow.
>>
>> Night,
>> --Gary
>>
>> P.S. Should pull this back on list, your call Sean, but probably  
>> worth
>> getting a couple more ideas up so that folks can input to some  
>> alternative
>> treatments.
>>
>> On 30 May 2009, at 00:58, Sean DALY wrote:
>>
>>> Christian, Eben
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if you are on sugar-devel but this is I think an
>>> outstanding opportunity for Sugar branding, "celebrating" Sugar
>>> interface.iconography and greeting children.
>>>
>>> I know nothing about the plymouth boot animator, but i deduce that
>>> consecutively named files will do the trick
>>>
>>> I'm willing to attack this but before I try scraping screenshots, do
>>> you guys have any interface assets i could grab?
>>>
>>> Input greatly appreciated
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we could work on it together?
>>>>
>>>> here's my idea.... like my booth rollup banner mockup which  
>>>> Christian
>>>> 7 Eben both liked, I want to stay as much as possible within the  
>>>> Sugar
>>>> HIG and iconography.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> boot should start with our logo ... smaller than in the previous  
>>>> SoaS
>>>> ... (not sure yet if should be with or without "labs")
>>>>
>>>> The ring is iconic ... I want to keep a ring at boot... but  
>>>> instead of
>>>> dots, I want XO avatars - kids!
>>>>
>>>> In the middle... each succeeding image with a colored Activity  
>>>> icon...
>>>> matched to the corresponding XO avatar appearing in the ring. So  
>>>> kids
>>>> understand that Activities are for them.
>>>>
>>>> And ending with... kids around the Journal!
>>>>
>>>> Alternate idea: cycling through the 12 logo color combos?
>>>>
>>>> Not mutually exclusive... logo could be on the bottom of ring
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>> P.S. I've actually done something similar with a titling sequence  
>>>> for
>>>> a short film. I started with the final image and wiped elements,
>>>> backing down to the first image
>>>>
>>>> I use imagemagick a lot no problem to create a script which could
>>>> inject arbitrary text into a ppm file
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com 
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Sean,
>>>>> FYI, this came in off list.
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> --G
>>>>>
>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: James Zaki <james.zaki at gmail.com>
>>>>> Date: 29 May 2009 22:24:06 BST
>>>>> To: Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen
>>>>> I'm in touch with a design company who owes me a favour or two.
>>>>>
>>>>> I could get them to whip up some concept designs for inspiration?
>>>>>
>>>>> James
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2009/5/29 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sebastian, Gary
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea  
>>>>>>> brewing for
>>>>>>> awhile
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --G
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What's the deadline please?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>> Sean
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin
>>>>>>> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've  
>>>>>>>>> been
>>>>>>>>> spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our  
>>>>>>>>> SoaS Yum
>>>>>>>>> repo
>>>>>>>>> to reflect the changes for Fedora 11.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly  
>>>>>>>>> rewritten,
>>>>>>>>> and I
>>>>>>>>> was wondering (also with regard to #709), how we wanted to  
>>>>>>>>> deal
>>>>>>>>> with a
>>>>>>>>> new boot screen. For now, I've just implemented the old  
>>>>>>>>> Sugar logo
>>>>>>>>> again, but we might also want to have something more shiny  
>>>>>>>>> (probably
>>>>>>>>> with a progress bar).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some form of progress indicator would be a useful addition.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm not really that good at art and the Sugar logo thing  
>>>>>>>>> there was
>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>> first nothing more than a quick hack, so it'd would be really
>>>>>>>>> great if
>>>>>>>>> someone could have a look and work on such a boot screen.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm happy to give it a look/shot from a graphics point of  
>>>>>>>> view if no
>>>>>>>> one else steps forward.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So. When did you need it by?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> OLPC is currently doing the same for their 1.5 software  
>>>>>>>>> release,
>>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>>> gives us a good possibility to have a look at the file  
>>>>>>>>> structure:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/~halfline/olpc.tar.bz2
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Please let me know if there's anything I can help with.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm new to plymouth, but looking at the content of  
>>>>>>>> olpc.tar.bz2 it
>>>>>>>> seems simple. My main question is where should I look for the  
>>>>>>>> config
>>>>>>>> that describes which images get loaded in what order. Perhaps  
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> names just conform to some hardcoded protocol? How about the  
>>>>>>>> location
>>>>>>>> of corner-image.png, perhaps hardcoded again?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm just downloading your latest Soas build so will have a  
>>>>>>>> dig in
>>>>>>>> there to see what you have done already – I'm just wondering  
>>>>>>>> if this
>>>>>>>> is really as easy as generating a bunch of png files with the  
>>>>>>>> correct
>>>>>>>> file names :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> --Gary
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> --Sebastian
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