MIA Friends - Great skinners, where are they now?

Skinners Hall of Fame....

What do you think Brad?

Professor is one that comes to mind...
DSL https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?Library=1&skinid=485...and Win 3000 https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?Library=1&skinid=520...were some of the best WindowBlind themes back in the early days

I agree with you, Brad, I really miss them, here a few more:

Lorenela
Vendicator
precurser
Ist
zts
$teven
Steve Moss
Mobius Co. (still around but not offen)
Kyte
Gillon (still around but not offen)
Aleksyandr

Yes! Steve Moss! The Winamp Master!!!

What ever happened to 'Misery', I remember seeing his wallpapers on Customize.org way way back when some dude named Gllen used to run it. That was when I first learnt what a 'skin' was...

And what ever happened to Shoggot from the old skinz.org???

for your information, precurser isn't as good an artist as he was. His quality dropped.

iST is deceased... he is now pseudoartist, or Jake.

And for Shoggot, he's fine, doing well, and one of my best friends in the world (personally). He works odd hours, and he's really left pretty much all the online communities/stuff.

I think he took a lot into maintaining Skinz single-handedly (yeah, you want the world's best admin, he is it).

Doodle
Tananda

I remember all these folks from the old days when I was just a skinz.org lurker.

John Folden occasionally pops up every now and then. Here and on the winstep groups list. John did some great stuff with windowblinds and winstep.

DAK has shown up on #stardock a couple times the past year. WBMania skins are classic.

Shawn Murdock has been MIA for some time. He was seen on his website about a year ag with the intent of updating some of his skins to the then new WB3. His Sigma3 skins are my all-time favorites and are some of the most understated, elegant skins of all time.

Haven't seen any sign of Morphh at all. His Toxic skin was a major evolution in WB skinning, IMO.

Mercury still pops up every now and then. He use to create all sorts of creative skins years ago. Assimulated was a classic.

I haven't seen Scratch in awhile.

I though Crumbut was active on lotsofskins for awhile. You could always identify a crumbit on first glance. he had a very nice distinct style.

As for some otherss who may not have been as popular as the above, but created some very memorable work:

The Professor
Dan Boldon
MDsigns
jfm
Tleilaxu Organics
Masatoshi Ueji
Ed Deans
CheeseCow
Inkman (whose skins some us have been trying to rescue before they lost forever)

i joined wincustomize after many of these people left, but since u mentioned them and i haev to say much of there work is fabulous, best from back in the day

Morphh is still "lurking" arround. I have seen him end of last year on the news groups or on the WC message board.

I still have an unpublished skin of DAK. I mailed him to ask permission to finish it, but haven't received an answer. He probably has another e-mail address. If someone has a recent one then please mail it to me.

In the readme text of DXPlayer are some interresting names of skinners and users that helped me developing WBAmp and DXPlayer. Some of them are still active. Others are gone.
* Andrew Buzzo
* Cartier Hung
* Craig
* CyCoPaTh
* d (for hosting WBAmp and DXPlayer at http://go.to/WBStuff)
* Dan Boldon
* David D'Antonio
* DavidK (ultimate CoolPlayer tester!)
* dbqp
* Douglas Quebbeman
* Ge0ph
* Hippy
* Jafo
* Jason Haag
* jef
* Martin Conroy
* Morphh (the originator of WBAmp)
* Mercury
* Philip Powell
* Salvador R. Manzo
* scratch
* The GreenReaper
* Viro
* Werewolf

Buzz popped up recently. Good to see him back in action.

Inkman made some incedible skins. They were Mac-ish, but had their own style. Inkman was one of those silent skinners that influenced a lot of today's skins. I am not sure if he started the trend of smooth and slick skins, but he was at least very dedicated to it. I am glad that Chris found them all. pjpowell and I will ask permission to add WB4 features to some of his skins. It would be even greater if he did them himself. Inkman lost the skins and I think he is glad that Chris found them and sent them to him.

Dmer [Deven]...[on odd occasions on ICQ]
Grimspoon [Jerry]...[MIA]
Doodle....[Doodlebug]...one of the great LS themers.

Hus.....Misery is now 'Deaddreamer'...difficult to contact, though....

People who's work I'll always admire ... Mercury, Crumbut and Dangeruss, plus Mobius Co for great walls!
And Shog for being an all round good guy!

Misery's Website: http://www.deaddreamer.com ...............My hero!! Go feast your eyes.....

For those asking about Crumbut, Chad is now active in the Sports car GT community, where he builds and skins car models for the game.
He's even got quite a popular site, which hosts downloads for others in that scene.

Aleksyandr is away at film school and he's learning about being a director, if I recall.
He uploaded a really nice WB about 2 months ago, but been quiet since then.

Film school? Imagine that. I wonder what ideas he will come up with if he has some time to skin a WB

and Crumbut? GT huh? Is he working on GT 4 for the Playstation? I hope this time they have more street racing curcits... and new night track... and amybe some speacil downloadable cars to drive on the tracks. or better yet a downloadable track to race on.

Post no 2...(Its often not offen)

I havent been here too long so I only recognise Dangeruss and Mobius Co. from your list of missed persons...A friend of mine works in St. Louis as a game tester for Sony. Hes doing some new game called 'Planteside'(Or something like that) I kinda wish hed post here...he used to do some awesome images with Bryce, 3dsmax and Rhino.

I found one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grimspoon is still alive...[that's the main thing]...

Must have been last year that I saw him last...

OMG! It's SKINtacular!

Remember: ess-vid, pixelfreak, shinter, dirk, jigit, vendicator, bronze, tierne, scrow and the ever intriguing eSperii!

I don't skin anymore 'cause people make fun of me!

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That'd be right .... Chad was something of a Petrolhead if I remember correctly!
Russ must've been a bad influence on him!

Again (very old): Copland and D.O.T, Scrow (seems to have dissapperared somewhat), Digitalgarage for Icons , Fli7e, Thredz, Tech13, Bronze. Anyone remember Digi ? He did some wicked walls and art...

Another one I just remembered: FearOfFours A real nice guy....wonder where he is?

goran, fathom, webba?, matiz?, Malshai?, MickeM?

What about OGG ? He was an up and comer back in the day. He used to skin LaunchKaos alot.

Oh and how about Allen bond ?