Mjolnir
Author: Nathaniel Daught
Final Score: 70%
Description: Design bases closely on the "Mjolnir armor" and other related technology form the popular game Halo. Attention to the original game design was the first concern under usability for a true Halo theme.
Biography: I am a 19 year-old full time graphic design college student. I will be getting my A.A.S. in web design this coming December. I've never owned anything but a Mac and am a die hard Mac evangelist to the end. I've been abscessed with changing my Mac's interface as long as I can remember and have been involved in the Mac theme community in some way or another since Jag.
Comments
Posted by Phillip Ryu (Panel) at March 30, 2004 08:02 PM
Again, this goes near the top of the list for unique themes in my opinion. I simply LOVE the bright blue lights, they look quite brilliant on the dark black backgrounds. Generally, I love the theme. However, I'm not quite sure about the green metal. The highlighting or shadowing or something looks a bit off; the metal seems curved inward almost. I love the Apple menu item, and like the idea of large textures in the brushed metal window, though I think more zoomed out texture would be better.
Posted by William Bart (Panel) at March 30, 2004 08:03 PM
Doesn't really look like Mjolnir armor to me, but hey. Dark regions seem to lack enough contrast for definition as well.
Posted by Joe Kohlmann (Panel) at March 30, 2004 08:52 PM
Wow. Mjolnir says very faithful ot the aesthics of the Master Chief's body armor in addition to nailing the gloss and LED light effects perfectly. However, I personally think that the overall theme is a little too dark. Granted, the Master Chief's armor isn't very bright to begin with, but a little extra brightness would help. One thing that I noticed is that the inactive state probably should be slightly darkened or something; the active pop-up button could easily be confused for an inactive element if it weren't for the end arrows.
Posted by Angel Rendon at March 31, 2004 12:05 AM
It's pretty ugly in my opinion.
Posted by ZachRL at March 31, 2004 12:26 AM
Very cool look. I can agree that it might be better to lighten it a tad, but as a dark theme it looks more user-friendly than most. Not to mention most dark themes seem to be done just for the sake of being dark and I don't get that impression here. Good luck to you, Thor would be proud.
Posted by NetworkShadow at March 31, 2004 12:53 AM
Lighter, can do if I win top 6. It will be tweaked to the comments as much as I see fit if it gets made. Thanks for your comments.
Posted by Eddy at March 31, 2004 01:01 AM
i love it!
anyhoo...its really awesome, like all of your stuff ^_^
Posted by Max Rudberg (Panel) at March 31, 2004 04:59 AM
This is one of my favorites, really nice!
The selected areas melt into the background somewhat, but I love the idea of a Masterchief theme and the lights are really cool.
Posted by Chris McElligott at March 31, 2004 06:02 AM
Great work! I love the look this and while its a dark theme the colour chosen doen't mean its totally unusable. I hope this gets made!
Posted by Michael Salbato at March 31, 2004 06:11 AM
Very nice. Good choice of colors, and the sparse blue lighting is sweet. I particularly like the scrollbar design, and really like the use of texture on the metal windows. That was the first thing I noticed.
My only suggestions would be a bit of prettying up the menus a bit, as they seem too flat compared to the rest of the theme. Even a simple gradient on the selection would help, if not a gloss effect. Oh, and maybe higher contrast on the progress bar. If you could work that cool blue glow look into it somehow, that would be excellent.
Posted by Dan Shannon at March 31, 2004 09:44 AM
Pretty cool. I like the color scheme, and the interface elements, even though the "Active" button looks less active than the "Inactive" button. The Apple menu doesn't do it for me, though.
Posted by sb at March 31, 2004 02:23 PM
A little more contrast and yes!
I'd love to see some other variations on the blue bits, but otherwise, I like!
SB
Posted by Philip Beck at March 31, 2004 03:57 PM
A little too dark for me to use regularly but cool anyway
Posted by Harlan Lewis (Panel) at March 31, 2004 04:55 PM
Sorry, but I'm not a big fan. Something about glossy green turns me off, and lot of this seems too smooth. A bit of variation would help a lot, but this reminds me of the Lantern theme from Unsanity's contest too much. There are some things that look like they're trying to be cool, but they just don't do it for me.
That said, the indeterminate progress bar is excellent, as are the active and selected checkboxes and radio buttons (although they might be a tad too similar to be usable).
Posted by Telcontar at March 31, 2004 09:54 PM
Is it just me, or is the progress bar almost totally invisible? And the slider is also useless as you can't tell where the ends are. And what does the text on the inactive button say? (imagine you didn't know)
The general idea is nice, but some more thought needs to go into making it even remotely usable...
Posted by NetworkShadow at April 1, 2004 11:55 AM
I'm guessing it varies from display to display, it's bright enough on the display I designed it on to be brighter than some of the existing dark themes. Any little thing like the progress bar would be easy to fix also.
Posted by Gramage at April 5, 2004 06:32 PM
Needs a bit of work, but has some awesome potential.
One of the few in this contest that might pull me away from TiSkin.
Posted by HALO FAN! at October 14, 2004 11:38 PM
Where do I download it? I would like to try this my self
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