Icon Artist Wanted!

Good luck.
Making nice icons is very time consuming. I doubt anybody would do it for free. And your program isn't even freeware.
A friendly advice: if you want nice looking icons, I'd suggest you invest a little bit. It will be worth it in the end.

Hi.

I may be interested in doing that!

A sample will be along to you soon. What kind of icons do you need. I'll need to know hwat you want and how you want it. By "icon" I assume you mean windows ".ico" files (32x32 or 16x16 or 48x48) Can you please reply to my email whan you get it.

Thanks,
/Splash!

Hmmm...something for nothing sounds like a great deal for someone....

"This project is all about fame, not fortune. Chamaileon aims to set a new standard for email client software. If you want to gain exposure and earn a great reference to further your design career then we want to hear from you!"

Mr Weith,

May I assume you work for free? You are probably also interested in furthering your career, so is it your policy to give away significant portions of your time and effort to other commercial enterprises?

Yes, there are a vast number of talented. passionate artists that visit here. Most, if not all, do this for fun and personal use. We spend countless hours engaged in what we feel is the pursuit of personal perfection and expression. This is VERY different that working to specification on a project that we're not personally vested in.

Your message offers the artist nothing. Not even a free copy of your mail program. You invite us to send your company our work without contract, without any protection of artists rights, without hope of compensation, nothing. Your cavalier attitude is likely offensive to professional artists everywhere.

You state that you wish to create a new standard, implying that you believe the project is of some worth. In the next breath, you devalue the impact your GUI has on the perceved value. You will not get a professionally designed icon set for your project by offering only "fame".

You're asking $30.00 USD for this yet to be released product. Please reiterate the fame not fortune concept again. What makes you think anyone would donate their efforts for a byline that few people will ever see or notice. Thanks but no thanks.

"You get what you pay for".

What Russ said...

I take that back.
Russ is a nice guy and says things in a very diplomatic way.
I don't.
So to cut to the chase, I can sum it it in more frank terms:

People in Hell want icewater, and they ain't getting it either.

Russ...I said it in fewer words...
BTW...the bikes at Philip Island were good stuff....Rossi is a real talent...

I totally agree with you Russ!

My message seems to have been terribly misunderstood. Perhaps these kinds of inquiries should not be composed during the wee hours of the morning...

Please allow me to clarify:

I fully understand and appreciate the time, effort, and talent required for an artist to produce quality skins, icons, and the like. It was not my intention to imply that such work should not or would not be rewarded.

My mention of "fame, not fortune" was simply meant to emphasize that Interactix is not a commercial enterprise or an industry giant. I am an independent software developer working on my first shareware project so yes, my budget is limited. For this reason I am looking for an artist who, like myself, is just getting started and is interested in contributing to a project that will publicly showcase his or her talents.

Again, this does not imply that I am unable or unwilling to compensate. A variety of potential arrangements are available including flat fees and residual profit sharing. I have not posted any specifics because I feel that every artist should maintain the right to decide how much their time and talent is worth, and I prefer to keep the details of compensatory and contractual arrangements private between parties.

I hope this helps clarify my previous message. My intentions and ambitions are absolutely genuine. I am not someone who expects something for nothing and I certainly do not possess a cavalier attitude. If you feel that my approach in this forum is improper somehow then perhaps you can offer some guidance in that regard. I hope to establish an ongoing relationship with an artist who shares my enthusiasm and desire to create better looking and better behaving software.

Thanks,

Brian Weith
Interactix Corporation
http://www.interactix.com
[email protected]

"looking for a highly skilled and motivated icon artist to design a set of 50 button icons for our highly anticipated new email client, Chamaileon."

Hmmmm.. to be very honest with you your looking at $300 - $500 for that work, depending on the size and complexity of the icons, and the iconists's personal rates, which vary a lot.

If your lucky you may find someone who is just starting out and wants to 'showcase' his work as you have mentioned. However, if someone if just starting out then their icons may not be up to the quality you are looking for. I'm afriad any experienced iconists will be looking for some payment of some form or another to make it worth their time... so it's catch-22 really.

As Dangeruss mentioned, in the end you "get what you pay for".

hmmm, wondering here...where shoud be Essvid...for sure he could help on this thread.

tog calling for ess...yes, i am sure his reply to the original post would glow in the dark form a thousand miles away.

-brian,
you are not the first developer ot wash up on the skinning shores looking for one of these wonderful peopel to "help you out".
and yes, everyoen who makes a request without offering compensation gets "torn a new one".
a humble suggestion to you:
hold soem kind of contest for your program icon.
give the winner a free copy of your program.
look thru the submissions you get, then track down the high rollers. offer them "points" to do your 50 icons.

You might well find a great artist to take a chance on your share ware, adn these regs here wouldn't flame and demean you so hard.