Re: [libreoffice-design] Happy Holidays - and there I go again with the logo

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 12:56 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> Hi Drew, *
>
> drew schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well, it's only fair that I ask...
>
> :-)  Thanks for thinking at asking ;-)
> >

> In my eyes it is nearly OK - even with the green light it stands on it's 
> own and stays visible and recognizable.
>
> Perhaps you could have a bit more room between the symbol and the text 
> below it - the distance to the "G" is smaller than half the width of the 
> symbol.

Yes - I need to remake the opening frames. I first did 3 variations on
the, super nova, you have seen one, the green lantern. The file I put up
tonight uses the 1st one, which is a simple blinking light, right on the
tip of the icon..so even more egregious (smile)..  I'm going to remake
those frames next and I think I'll go with the green. ( Question - is
the center of the icon void, will light come through? )

> The green light is inside the white space area too, but if Christoph 
> doesn't object, I'd like to allow this as an exception (we should add 
> "single case decision for special cases" to the wiki page [1]).
>
> > There is also use of the full contemporary Logo, and here I am
> > overlaying a background image...but I think this is OK here?
>
> The background image is meant to be a background - just structured like 
> linen. It's color is neither too dark for the colored logo, nor one of 
> our accent colors (in fact it is quite near to the "Yellow 4" from our 
> color scheme).
>
> Even if the background becomes slightly darker behind the last two 
> characters of LibreOffice, I think discrimination is still enough, so 
> it's OK too.

Well, I'm not really happy with the logo on the background - in three
frames I altered the layout, moving the logo and re-sizing it, in
impress..I'm hoping when I re-generate the logo from the svg file with
this new size it will clean up - if not I will be, doing something
(changing the background, just around the logo - maybe a cut-out style
nameplate..or..maybe even dropping them from the first three frames
where they are used.

The logo on the Manifesto Plaque frame is passable _IF_ one is careful
about the codec used for encoding - after I'm done, if you want, I'll
point to some of the test files I've got - some are terrible with the
logo, on a couple of different backgrounds - including white...but that
is another day conversation. 

Anyway - for the first time, since starting this on Friday, I plopped
all three pieces together - none of these are final runs - so a few
oddities, such as winks, timing wise it is getting close, but not quite
yet..

http://oucv.org/libreoffice/full-pass-1.ogv.tar.gz

that's 1:23 and I expect to trim another few seconds.

It's a nice morning here, 4 AM, think I'll get a little sleep.. so, any
comments on - anything with this is appreciated - but I plan to start on
a hopefully final (or first of the final) pass on building each piece as
it and finishing sound track...tomorrow night?

Talk to you later..

Drew


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