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Fedora 11's artwork process is going to work a little differently than our artwork process has worked in the past. Rather than having multiple theme concepts competing with one another and dividing artists' time and energies, we're going to try having one theme concept (inspired by the release codename) that everyone works together on. We're hoping to produce higher-quality artwork in a more timely manner this way.

The Timeline

Key Milestones

20 Jan - Alpha freeze
01 Feb - Visual concept for F11 decided
03 Feb - Alpha release
01 Mar - First draft wallpaper ready to package for Beta
10 Mar - Beta freeze
24 Mar - Beta release
02 Apr - splashes / rest of artwork done for packaging for preview release
14 Apr - final freeze
28 Apr - Preview release
26 May - final release GA

Detailed Task Breakdown

http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-11/f-11-art-tasks.html

The Concept

We first need to works towards a solid visual concept for the F11 theme. We'll need to have this defined by Februrary 1, which gives only about 3 weeks so we need to move fast.

The Fedora 11 codename as announced 10 January 2008 is Leonidas. What is Leonidas?:

A ship in the British Royal Navy <= this is the meaning upon which the selection of the codename was based
The king of Sparta, an ancient Greek militaristic society, as portrayed in the popular recent movie 300 which has a very distinctive visual style.
A maker of Belgian chocolates
many others!

Since the Royal Navy ship definition of Leonidas is the one upon which the codename was based and is themeable, we should go with this one so we have a solid focus and move more quickly.

Nautical Theme

HMS Leonidas gives an idea for a nautical association/theme.

Nautical navigation instruments - which can be quite steampunky:
- Barographs
- Barometer
- Brass telescope
- Binoculars
- Nautical Charts
- Brass Nautical Clocks
- Nautical compass
- Sextant
- Constellations / Sky Chart
- Globe
Components of a Ship
- Port Hole
- Ship's wheel
- Hemp rope
- Sail
- Communication Flags (hang off mast)
A Ship's characters
- Captain
- Pirates
- Parrot
- Navigator guy in the little platform towards the top of the mast
Trireme

Tools

Parts of a Ship

Port Hole Wood by the_majestic_fool on Flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0

Maps

These maps are actually old enough to be public domain! There are many beautiful maps including nautical charts made available here: Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL Flickr Photo Stream

Trireme

A nice cross of the nautical and Greek theme ideas.

Greek Theme

Inspired by Leonidas of Sparta (as seen in the movie 300 :) )

Golden ratio
- Greek Architecture
  - Parthenon
- Mathematical Formulas
Hellenic Age in Greece

Quick links

(to be cleaned up later)

Leonidas of Sparta

Golden Ratio

Mock-ups

Captain's desktop (CharlieBrej)
Trireme morning (CharlieBrej)
Trireme evening (CharlieBrej)
Greek Concept 1; Field is Balkan Highland Pastures by Boby Dimitrov on Flickr, CC-BY-SA; Sky is Sky Scrapers by eschipul on Flickr, CC-BY-SA; Columns are The Temple of Zeus by palindrome6996 on Flickr, CC-BY (Duffy)
Thermopylae-based greek concept.Pictures used:Stoa of Atallos,Epidaurus Theater,Hot springs at Thermopylae,View of Thessaly's Plain
Simple vector graphics based concept (MartinSourada), source svg Photos that can be used as reference: Greek Landscape by Kobal, Olympia Filip Temple by pufacz Ancient greek helmets by Kobal Greek mountains by Kobal Hot springs of Thermopylae by Fkerasar
Greek Concept 2; Field is Balkan Highland Pastures by Boby Dimitrov on Flickr, CC-BY-SA; Mountains are Mount Olympus, Greece by Wisniowy on Wikimedia Commons, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version (Duffy) Media:Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup2_mo.xcf
Rough sketch of Greek environment using columns, field, mountain, jars and agora Luya
World chart, day Deespky
Word chart, night Deepsky
Parthenon, day. Parthenon source. License: Wikipedia Public Domain; Deepsky
Thermopylae with a greek helmet. Landscape source. License: CC-BY-SA; Helmet source. License: Wikipedia Public Domain;Deepsky
Greek Concept 3; Field is Balkan Highland Pastures by Boby Dimitrov on Flickr, CC-BY-SA; Mountains are Mount Olympus, Greece by Wisniowy on Wikimedia Commons, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version; Sky is from Nicu's photo, Greek Columns are from Bob Peterson's photo (Duffy) Media:Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup23_mo.xcf
Greek Concept 4; Field is Balkan Highland Pastures by Boby Dimitrov on Flickr, CC-BY-SA; Mountains are Mount Olympus, Greece by Wisniowy on Wikimedia Commons, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version; Sky is from Nicu's photo (Duffy); temple is Model temple of Aphaia Glyptothek Munich by MatthiasKabel on Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 Media:Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup4_mo.xcf
Greek Concept 5; Field is Balkan Highland Pastures by Boby Dimitrov on Flickr, CC-BY-SA; Mountains are Mount Olympus, Greece by Wisniowy on Wikimedia Commons, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version; Sky is from Nicu's photo; temple is Model temple of Aphaia Glyptothek Munich by MatthiasKabel on Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 (Duffy) Media:Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup5_mo.xcf
Greek Concept 6; Field is Balkan Highland Pastures by Boby Dimitrov on Flickr, CC-BY-SA; temple is Model temple of Aphaia Glyptothek Munich by MatthiasKabel on Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5, Mountains and some sky are from Bob Peterson's photos sent to fedora-art-list, lower clouds are from Puffy Clouds by ^Berd under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (Duffy) Media:Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup6_mo.xcf.7z
Greek Concept 7; Field is Balkan Highland Pastures by Boby Dimitrov on Flickr, CC-BY-SA; temple is Model temple of Aphaia Glyptothek Munich by MatthiasKabel on Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5, Mountains and some sky are from Bob Peterson's photos sent to fedora-art-list, lower clouds are from Puffy Clouds by ^Berd under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 by Mola
Greek Concept 8 - Helm & Shield; ] by sstorari - Source Media:Leonidas sstorari mo1 1920x1200 b.xcf.bz2
Modification on Mo's Beta wallpaper mockup - source Media:Artwork_F11_Betamockup1_n.xcf.bz2

Media:Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup6_mo.png

Beta Mockups

Thanks to Mola for a lot of help in iterating this mockup to this point!

Media:Artwork_F11_Betamockup1_Source.xcf.7z

Gallery

Download RPM to Try

yum --enablerepo=rawhide install leonidas-backgrounds

Download Bitmaps to Try

Widescreen

Standard

Brushes Used to Create

WxMom Clouds (CC-BY-SA 2.0): Media:Artwork_WxMomCloudsBrush.gbr
midiman Clouds (CC-BY 2.0): Media:Artwork_midimanCloudsBrush.gbr
AlanFalcon Clouds (CC-BY 2.0): Media:Artwork_alanfalconCloudsBrush.gbr
Whalesalad Trees (CC-BY-SA 2.0): Media:Artwork_whalesaladTreesBrush.gbr
Damork Birds (CC-BY-SA 2.0): Media:Artwork_damorkBirdsBrush.gbr

Credits

Field is Balkan Highland Pastures by Boby Dimitrov on Flickr, CC-BY-SA
Temple is Model temple of Aphaia Glyptothek Munich by MatthiasKabel on Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5
Mountains and some sky are from Bob Peterson's photos sent to fedora-art-list
Trees are Treetops by whalesalad on Flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0
Birds are Flock of Birds by damork on Flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0
Some of the clouds are from Great Clouds by WxMom on Flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0
Some of the clouds are from Monsoon Clouds by midiman on Flickr, CC-BY 2.0
Some of the clouds are from Magnificent Clouds by Alan/Falcon on Flickr, CC-BY 2.0

Beta Collateral

Web Site Banners

Thanks to Paolo Leoni for the great design!

SVG Source

Original background image is by Tony the Misfit and was downloaded from http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonythemisfit/3387589463/

King Concept

by user:Sstorari.

King Concept - Lion; ] by sstorari - Source Media:King_2560x1536_def.xcf.bz2
King Concept - Lion; ] by sstorari - Source Media:King_4070x1536.xcf.bz2
Anaconda progess - Lion; ] by sstorari - Source for Splash Media:Anaconda_splash_def.xcf.bz2 , Media:anaconda_central_part.svg - Source for Header Media:anaconda_header_def.xcf.bz2
Welcome sidebar - Lion; ] by sstorari

Reference info:

Rust texture comes from:

http://www.lostandtaken.com/search/label/rust

you can download it and use it for free.

The Spray paint brushes I used comes from here:

http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/freebies/free-hi-res-spraypaint-photoshop-brushes-set-one

http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/freebies/free-hi-res-spraypaint-photoshop-brushes-set-two

The Lion's photo it's a CC resources that I've found on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/494118044/ Thanks to author for gaving me the possibility to use the image.

You can find he's profile here:

http://www.flickr.com/people/tambako/

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+Original background image is by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonythemisfit/ Tony the Misfit] and was downloaded from http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonythemisfit/3387589463/
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