Starting My First Theme, Nightmare before Christmas! Options

[JeffyLube0]

ok guys, im going to try to make a theme based on the popular tim burton movie: the nightmare before christmas, this will be my first theme as stated above and any help would be appreciated. i won't have much time to do it (school's starting tomorrow) and im a noob to this stuff, but i'll keep you posted. it might be a while (have to make time to take screenshots of the movie and photoshop it (which i suck at) so if anyone could help that would be great. thanks

-Jeffy

EDIT: I am very new to this photoshop thing so it might take a while

This post has been edited by JeffyLube0: Sep 6 2006, 04:01 AM

[sotu]

To get the feel for the names of the parts of the xpr you might want to make something simple first so you get a grasp of how things fit together. I know that helped me alot with my theme. Good luck you've picked a pretty ambition first project.

[roormonger]

Yeah really. You can look at my first theme here. As a matter of fact, that was the first time I had ever used photoshop too. Anyway, it was ass. You should definately play around first. I have been using photoshop everyday scince then and I still suck at it.

Also If you want to know how much you can put into a theme, check this out.

Anyway i'm done with my drunkin rambling.

[JeffyLube0]

i thank both of you guys for the suggestions. it makes sense to mess around with it first. I'll do that first. thanks

-Jeffy

[dhrandy1]

XBMC skin editor is also good for finding the names for the xpr to add that little extra touch. You can find it here.

[UK_joker]

Hello JeffyLube0....

Here is the latest version of Nightmare Before Christmas theme.....



Needs the blades and blade-runners to be improved and xbmc-ad box to be framed.

I have other images which are very near jet black, so if you wanted I could make a 2nd version using the black images. Like I said in our PMs I have not seen this movie so I relied purely on google images, hope it is shaping up to expectations.

Thoughts, comments?

[JeffyLube0]

wow, this is excellent! almost exactly what i was looking for. maybe a little more dark and dismal images. (like the images of jack in halloween town) maybe a mix of christmas images and halloween images. This is great. thanks uk_joker

any chance of a dl link so i could test it out and maybe add more suggestions?

This post has been edited by JeffyLube0: Sep 25 2006, 05:00 AM

[UK_joker]

wow, this is excellent! almost exactly what i was looking for. maybe a little more dark and dismal images. (like the images of jack in halloween town) maybe a mix of christmas images and halloween images. This is great. thanks uk_joker

any chance of a dl link so i could test it out and maybe add more suggestions?

Sorry I haven't done much else with the NBC theme yet mate, been Ill for a few days and busy with college stuff.
I will sort out the blades and runners right now and then get an upload ready in XPR and PNG formats for you to look through I'll send the links via PM for now until the theme reaches final version

[UK_joker]

OK did some more work on this theme -

Blades reworked, now look smoother and have a 'goth' feel
New backgrounds, removed the cheerful coloured ones that were used before and replaced with 'darker' images


I have uploaded XPR and PNG files

XPR

PNG in RAR file

I decided to let others view the XPR and PNG files too

[jonboy666]

Thanks, It looks awesome!!!

[UK_joker]

Thanks, It looks awesome!!!

I'm not quite done with it yet, each time I work on something I see another aspect which needs reworking on, once I get this one and Toejam theme 100% to my liking I will release them in a new fresh thread so that people can tell they are final versions.

I have never seen the movie Nightmare before Christmas, so trying to get images is quite difficult and then getting them to feel like they belong in a theme is even more taxing.

Thanks for the vote of confidence though jonboy....much appreciated

[JeffyLube0]

joker you are the best. thank you for making this theme as i have no knowledge of this. thank you also for taking up my request and this is an excellent job! i'll dl the xpr and post back thank you

[UK_joker]

I've been away for a few weeks and haven't done anything with either of my 'work in progress' themes (Toejam and Earl and also The Nightmare Before Christmas) but I'm going to get cracking from Monday onwards (best ease myself back into the swing of things first
Now that I can view my themes in HD I can see more small aspects which stand out as poorly executed, but I promise to fix them up and get both themes released in XPR and Full PNG formats along with images I have used (some grabbed by debug others sourced from google) for anyone who wishes to add or alter any aspect.

[JeffyLube0]

wow, i can't thank you enough. Excellent uk you're the greatest.

This post has been edited by JeffyLube0: Oct 11 2006, 06:10 AM

[UK_joker]

Yet again I'm finding it hard to find the time to do anything with these themes I have on my PC......just started a part-time college course and have a full time job. I will get them finished just not as soon as I have said...sorry!