Artists needed

[reven]

ive added dvd menus support to my vids 5, but alas i suck making graphics so i need some help creating a few standard menus (want about 3-5).

ive made it so it will automatically generate a title list menu, a title information menu and a chapter list menu.

eg say you burn 4 episodes of "Enterprise"
menu 1 - lists the 4 episodes
menu 2 - shows info about the current episode and has the buttons "play", "chapters", "return"
menu 3 - the chapter list menu, with thumbnails/screenshots generated at each chapter point.

it uses a template format very similar to gbpvrs standard skin format (the skin.xml files) but my own code since i had to do some very boring special things to get it to work. i can handle all the code part, but i need a few images. namely
- 3 backgrounds (for each menu)
- 3 selector images (normal, highlighted, selected), maximum of 4 colours for each image (dvd limit)

the selector images are pretty much say just a box around the selected item, and selected and highlighted are just 2 different colours.

i want some really generic ones that you could use for pretty much any dvd, but its possible to do some custom ones eg a "Enterprise" one.

the available information for each screen is
menu 1
- title for each video (text)
- subtitle for each video (text) (episode name)
- titlesubtitle (just "Title - Subtitle") (text)

menu 2.
- title (text)
- subtitle (text)
- poster (image)
- description (text)
- rating (image)(star rating out of 5)
- year (text)
- director (text)
- writer (text)

menu 3.
- title (text)
- subtitle (text)
- chapter screenshots (images)


the backgrounds are the most work, just need some that look good . the menus will automatically be generated without any user interaction, i got a really simple ugly one working ill post some screen shots of that tomorrow (4:21 am here).

[reven]

heres the title menu (menu #2).

[reven]

heres the chapter menu (menu #3)

[Old Dog]

Gotta go to bed so this is really quick.

You have a lot of colorful info to present so you need a simple uncluttered background. Subtle is good, use grey, let the color come from the artwork.

Try this (I'm serious)...

[Old Dog]

Just try it.

[reven]

yeah ill try it, i dont want any gbpvr logos etc thou, since well you probably wont be play the dvd in gbpvr.

also i want some custom chapter menus, i was thinking of trying to use a film reel and the chapter thumbnails inside the reel blocks.

[Old Dog]

Good morning.

I knew you wouldn't care for the logo, but it was too late.

This background may not be right, but uncluttered, nuetral colors should work well.

Instead of grey, you might try sepia, it would be a natural with your film reel idea.

-David

[reven]

yeah but the problem is i suck at creating images, i was hoping a few people might be able to create some for me.

i just need some dvd menu images (photoshop files would be great) of how you would like the final dvd menu to look (given the available options/info) and ill worry about implementing them.

[McBainUK]

I also suck at creating images.

Point to the post follows... reven, isn't it like 1.30 am in NZ now!?

[tieke]

Hey reven, I finally have a bit of time available - did you manage to get some images for this?

[EDIT] - I was thinking of something like this:





cheers,

tieke