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santiagocezar
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Ice Cold

Wed May 22, 2019 9:24 pm
Hi! Here are my submissions for the contest.

There are 2 variants:

One, with some penguins:
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and another one, without the penguins:
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I uploaded the wallpapers also on OpenDesktop here, included with the source SVG file.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

Hope you like it!!
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Re: Ice Cold

Thu May 23, 2019 10:13 am
I love these. Easily my favourite ones.

The only thing I don't like too much, is the water on the bottom left, I'm not a big fan of the strong contrast between triangles there.

Penguins are just so cute.
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Re: Ice Cold

Thu May 23, 2019 6:55 pm
This is quite lovely, and very faithful to the current geometric aesthetic. However I find the area near glow where the ice meets the water to be a almost eyeball-searingly bright. I think that might benefit from being reduced in visual intensity a bit. Also it's rather monochromatic. I think one more contrasting color used as an accent would really set this off.
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Re: Ice Cold

Sat May 25, 2019 11:10 pm
Great work. I agree with what the previous posters said :)
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Re: Ice Cold

Sun May 26, 2019 4:35 pm
So, I added more contrast between the ice and the ocean making the water a lot darker, and removed the glow on the ice.
There weren't many colors I could add, apart from blue, the arctic itself is a bit monochromatic.
Anyway, here it is:
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Without the penguins:
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I hope this is better ;D
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Re: Ice Cold

Sun May 26, 2019 7:16 pm
Stunning! And yet, maybe a bit *too* stunning. :) I think it might benefit from having the color saturation reduced just a little bit. Not a lot, just a bit.
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Re: Ice Cold

Sun May 26, 2019 9:19 pm
Maybe like this?:
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Comparison:
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ngraham
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Re: Ice Cold

Mon May 27, 2019 1:10 am
Yes, exactly!
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Re: Ice Cold

Mon May 27, 2019 2:02 am
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Just uploading the full size wallpapers of the last post

(click for the full size)
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Re: Ice Cold

Tue May 28, 2019 7:27 pm
Thank you very much! Do you think you could make one last version with a less bright color for the dark blue water area? It still feels like it stands out a bit much. Maybe take inspiration from the shade of blue uses for the water in the original version.
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Re: Ice Cold

Tue May 28, 2019 7:38 pm
ngraham wrote:Thank you very much! Do you think you could make one last version with a less bright color for the dark blue water area? It still feels like it stands out a bit much. Maybe take inspiration from the shade of blue uses for the water in the original version.


Agreed, I think the water looked somewhat better in the first version.
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Re: Ice Cold

Wed May 29, 2019 2:36 pm
It's not too late! Wanna make another version with reduced water brightness?
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Re: Ice Cold

Wed May 29, 2019 9:18 pm
Yes, here it is
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ngraham
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Re: Ice Cold

Wed May 29, 2019 9:39 pm
Thank you very much!
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Re: Ice Cold

Thu May 30, 2019 1:40 pm
The panel of judges has decided to do a quick second round with our favorites, and I have congratulations to offer: Ice Cold (the non-penguin version) has been chosen as a finalist! In the next 2 days, we would like to help you polish up your wallpaper, and to that effect we have some detailed feedback:

- Make the water still softer and less attention-getting, closer to how it looked in the original.
- Adjust the geometry so that when it's on the lock screen, the clock is entirely over a relatively simple area by moving this boundary a bit: https://i.imgur.com/6PEtdvd.png


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