Just like it says in the title.
Published on October 7, 2004 By farkusmarkus In Icons

Anyone who has had an online chat with me will know that I'm nothing if not narcissistic. And even that is an understatement. Having said that, this article will probably only be of interest to me. I also wanted to test out the article system for my new Wincustomize page so what better topic to talk about than me?

So here I present the evolution of the Marcintesh icon set:

Working Title: Farkus OS-X

Riding off what I thought at the time was a successful icon set, FarkusXP, I sought out to create a second set. I started this one just like I do with any of my creative works, I threw up a vomit of shapes and colors, and saw what stuck. This is what I ended up with. At this time I was planning ahead to mimic Apple's file types so, based on the name of my first set, I named it Farkus OS-X.

Working Title: Funk-e Simple

I've always had a fascination with the art style used in the Leisure Suit Larry video game series. Any old-school gamer will know what I'm talking about. It's slightly retro, a little art deco. I have no idea what I'm talking about but the art majors out there know what I'm trying to get at. I was trying to emulate that funky, off-tilt look. The name also seemed lame, so I changed to an equally lame Funk-e Simple.

Working Title: Kitchen

While working on this new set, I was also reading the comments people were leaving for FarkusXP. Among the most prominent complaint was that there are too many blue icons. I wasn't too thrilled with my color choices thus far anyway so I went with another fascination of mine, 70's Kitchen Green. If I ever renovate my kitchen, every appliance will be green. And on that thought, I renamed the package Kitchen and rounded off the monitor's base.

Working Title: Kitchen

It still wasn't right. I couldn't place my finger on it but something just wasn't working for me. It was at this moment that I decided to try my hand at rendering. This stage of the evolution shows how badly I was at it.

Working Title: Marcintesh OS-W

A couple tutorials later and this is where the set landed. I was never really able to do that glossy, shiny look so I just abandoned it altogether. I also went a slightly different direction with the overall look and feel. I was shooting for a Jetson's post-modern futuristic look and missed completely. Still, I'm happy with the results. Another comment left for the FarkusXP inspired me to rename this set. Someone was complaining that I was being self-congratulatory by naming the set "FarkusXP" when my nick on WinCustomize was "farkusmarkus". This made me giggle. So, at the time, I decided that everything I do will be named after me. A lot of inspiration for this set came from the Mac OS-X Panther icons, so I parodied that title (obviously), combined it with my name, and dubbed it Marcintesh OS-W Tabby. And just for good measure, I threw a tabby in the trash can. However, the name struck me as too long so I shortened it to Marcintesh OS-W.

Title: Marcintesh OS-W

And then the inevitable happened. I lost my mind completely. I'm not sure how it happened or why I thought it was a good idea but I threw in six new colors. I also wanted to try and skin every single file type I could get my hands on as well as any application that I felt needed an icon. I was mad with iconifying. Before I knew it, I ended up with a 12 meg download and several emails to a mod asking if that was okay. I did, however, manage to stop myself before trying to apply funny names to the color schemes, similar to the old iMacs.


Comments
on Oct 08, 2004
Nice to see how these nabies devloped, and hopefully some of stuck up in the ole' brainy for later use.
on Oct 08, 2004
duh...nabies?... babies sounds better, me thinks!