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Dream Submission Guidelines

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As the # of animated wallpapers submitted increases, we're having to establish some guidelines on what is and isn't going to be accepted:

  1. Content MUST loop. An animated wallpaper should have a reasonably transitioning loop.
  2. Do NOT submit content other people's work without their permission. We are allowing some leeway right now on this rule for content that is based on content distributed on the net until we determine the legality of this.
  3. Content must be high-definition. That means the vertical resolution needs to be at least 720 pixels.

Additional rules on fair use of video clips:

Fair Use allows for the limited reuse of copyrighted material so long as it is not done for financial gain of the person reusing the work, nor does it financially harm the original author by denying them sales etc.  In the case of Dream animated wallpapers, users can make limited reuse of video files created by other authors provided they meet the following requirements:

  1. The animations used in the .Dream file is either 15 seconds in length of shorter OR less than 25% of the original video file in length (whichever is shorter).  So if you found a 20 second video you want to use in a Dream, you can use no more than 5 seconds of that video.  Anything else, you are limited to 15 seconds.
  2. You provide credit to the original author in the skin comments AND provide a link to your original source.
  3. Understand that if the original owner of the work asks us to take it down, provided proof of ownership, we will comply immediately.
Failure to comply with these fair use rules will result in an item being rejected from the submission queue. 

If you find your work is being redistributed here against your wishes, please contact a site admin with some form of proof that you own the original work, and we will remove the offending entry immediately.
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting amitsaran, reply 25
you may try looping it at another point or simply use a suitable transition such as crossfade, to make your dream just use 15 sec. or less

Thanks for the tip, maybe I'll try it for a future project (I might have one in mind, but I need better skills before I try it).

This particular dream really shouldn't be any shorter, though (if anything, I wanted it to be longer as quite a few nice images didn't make the cut). I primarily made it for my own enjoyment (and enjoy it I do), but then I got to thinking that if I shared it there might be a few others who would also enjoy it, or better yet: somebody else might like the concept and execute it better...

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Personal opinion - I think it looks really busy and lacks any kind of subtlety. Not really what I'm looking for on my desktop.

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 28
Personal opinion - I think it looks really busy and lacks any kind of subtlety. Not really what I'm looking for on my desktop.

Unless you viewed it on my YouTube site, you did not download the Dream, there is only one download showing and I'd like to think that Wincustomize were the downloaders, otherwise they did not give it a real chance.  So to view a video online and not as the background on a full screen is not really giving it a real chance either.

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Please don't bring up year old threads for something I already addressed.  If you have a specific issue with a skin, PM a moderator.

 

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ah drama.  How I've missed you.  ;)

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

"As the # of animated wallpapers submitted increases, we're having to establish some guidelines on what is and isn't going to be accepted:

  1. Content MUST loop. An animated wallpaper should have a reasonably transitioning loop."

 

Works that have poor looping sequences [stutter or jump in transition] should simply be rejected outright which makes this current 'issue' moot.

The only 'skill' involved in the creation of a looping fractal animation is in the editing of the 'transition'.  All else is machine-made artifice.  I expect the rating applied/attained is a simple reflection on the performance of the looping.

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

And yet a seamless loop was beyond you.

The reason issues relating to acceptance/rejection and/or ratings is REQUIRED to be direct with Admins/Moderators in PRIVATE is public debate is nothing if not embarrassing for the poster.

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Peggy2, reply 39
only to be told I have No Skills... isn't that what you said Jafo

 

No, he didn't say that.

 

Quoting Peggy2, reply 39
 Well my young puppy friend you need your nose rubbed in it.

 

Good luck with that.

 

I have been following your rants, here and on other threads and even your skin comments. I must say that you throw a good tantrum. So good, in fact, that my popcorn supply is running seriously low.

Having been here for several (7) years, and having had some of my work rejected, and having given away my work for 7 years for free, and having hung in there to make Master status. I think I can tell you that you are over reacting, you act like a little kid who didn't get his new bike for his birthday.

And Jafo has more talent in his pinky finger than a lot of people will ever have. Not only that, but Jafo is no young puppy, has been here since Noah built the ark, and rubbing his nose in anything is a feat you're no doubt incapable of. You just started uploading here in Feb.

OK, Peg, why don't you just let this die and go on with your life? All you are accomplishing is making an arse of yourself. And giving us some good entertainment. You're no doubt rapidly losing your fan club by acting this way.

 

Just my 2 cents. Oh, and by the way.

https://forums.wincustomize.com/329684   Me.

 

https://forums.wincustomize.com/150760

 

 

For you. Thanks, and keep it up.     

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Let me make note again that being a customer of an application does not have any bearing on uploading of skins on WinCustomize.  Uploads from members are treated the same regardless of customer status.

Bottom line here:

The .dream should have been rejected for the bad loop.  It was sent to your personal page anyways as are a bunch others each and every day.  Instead of creating several posts about the rating, you could have PM'd someone, had the loop corrected, and reuploaded the file.

 

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Time to move on methinks...

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Peg, really. The fact that you had a submission go to your personal page, or that you disagree with an admin here, is no sign that the Stardock software is bad.  And BTW, it IS Stardock software, not WinCustomize software. (Get it right.... good PC Techs do that don't they?)

 

You're accomplishing nothing here but to make yourself look like a spoiled idiot. If you're gonna stay and make dreams, good, I'm glad.

 

If not, then go already. We'll be sorry you left, but you apparently aren't happy here, so cut the drama and go, if you wish.

 

 

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

OK

 

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 46
OK, now I look stupid. Where are his last comments?

So....nothing's changed, then....;)

Fuzzy was right in #44 .... so things have been 'tidied up'...;)

Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 47
Quoting RedneckDude, reply 46OK, now I look stupid. Where are his last comments?

So....nothing's changed, then....

Fuzzy was right in #44 .... so things have been 'tidied up'...

 

Hey I resemble that remark. :blush:    May as well clean up mine too then?  :moo:  

Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 47
So....nothing's changed, then....

Now that's funny right there. :rofl:

Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I cleaned this thread of the nonsense.

 

Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Does a dream also has to be no longer than 15 seconds If the animation Isn`t made from a video but from a jpg? (sorry my bad english I write from germany)

Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If you own the copyright of the image, it can be as long as you want.

 

If you are using a stock image,  it can be as long as you want but you have to include proof that you have permission to use the image.

 

If you do not own the copyright of the image and can not get permission to use it, you can not post a dream created by it.

 

Proof would be a screen shot of an email or forum post giving permission. You would need to create a zip of your dream and proof of permission and upload it as the dream.

 

Edit: I am not a Stardock Employee and do not represent them. If I am incorrect, someone will probably post a correction to the above.

Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top

CarGuy1 is correct...;)

Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Can I publish a dream using famous art pieces from dead artists? example: (Vincent Van Gogh)

 

Or would that be against the guidelines?

Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If you take a photo of the art you'd be OK, however if you 'borrow' it from a publication/book/website/etc the reality is that specific reproduction of the artwork will be copyright to the photographer and/or the publication.

As with any claimed 'royalty-free or free-to-use image available on the net....they would then be OK...;)

Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Well it's a moving version of the art that I found on youtube and not an exact copy of the real thing so I don't know if it would be ok or not....

Guess I will try to submit it and see if it gets rejected or not.

Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting jrolson, reply 48
it's a moving version of the art that I found on youtube

From YouTube's TOS.

YouTube hereby grants you permission to access and use the Service as set forth in these Terms of Service, provided that:

  1. You agree not to distribute in any medium any part of the Service or the Content without YouTube's prior written authorization, unless YouTube makes available the means for such distribution through functionality offered by the Service (such as the Embeddable Player).

and.....You may access Content for your information and personal use solely as intended through the provided functionality of the Service and as permitted under these Terms of Service. You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content. You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Content for any other purposes

It looks like your planned usage would require written permission.

Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I just uploaded a few dreams based on the movie interstellar and now they are gone....is this a no no? ....if so it leaves me scratching my head as i see plenty of stuff based on movies and video games all over this website.