So today I thought I would try to make my working files a little more organized with folders, selecting the colors that I'm going to use for the different themes, and making a new theme with the resulting template. Most of the artwork is actually done and the stuff that is left consists primarily of selecting images that seem to fit into the H's and look decent enough, along with the voice acted sound effects, folder icons, and finalizing the colors to something that "pops" out a little more.
All in all, it was a lot faster to get the general theme put together. I made another icon border to match the guy uniforms, so that can be reused for Koizumi's theme. Unfortunately, I still don't have a good folder icon to match with all of the themes, though the "M" logo is really tempting to use.
As a little rant about folder icons, I REALLY dislike folder icons that just grab the logo or a character's face and slaps it on as a folder. It doesn't take into consideration of the colors, or the fact that naming folders puts a huge letter in the middle of the folder, or ANYTHING. That doesn't mean to completely bar them from the folder icons, but I mean these icons are ones that may possibly be reduced to something like 20x20px icons. More likely than not "Dimension W" is not going to be readable at ANY point making it literally worthless. If anything, the preferred way to go about folder icons might be to just come up with an initial design first, and avoid the logos or faces at all costs. Then if all is really lost, and not even just a simple color pattern works well, then resort to logos. Just using them right off the bat feels like a cop out of some actual ideas and overall of the themes that I have seen that do end up using logos, faces, etc., they just don't look as great or as well planned as other themes.
All in all, it was a lot faster to get the general theme put together. I made another icon border to match the guy uniforms, so that can be reused for Koizumi's theme. Unfortunately, I still don't have a good folder icon to match with all of the themes, though the "M" logo is really tempting to use.
As a little rant about folder icons, I REALLY dislike folder icons that just grab the logo or a character's face and slaps it on as a folder. It doesn't take into consideration of the colors, or the fact that naming folders puts a huge letter in the middle of the folder, or ANYTHING. That doesn't mean to completely bar them from the folder icons, but I mean these icons are ones that may possibly be reduced to something like 20x20px icons. More likely than not "Dimension W" is not going to be readable at ANY point making it literally worthless. If anything, the preferred way to go about folder icons might be to just come up with an initial design first, and avoid the logos or faces at all costs. Then if all is really lost, and not even just a simple color pattern works well, then resort to logos. Just using them right off the bat feels like a cop out of some actual ideas and overall of the themes that I have seen that do end up using logos, faces, etc., they just don't look as great or as well planned as other themes.
