legoboyvdlp wrote:Why not make it yourself then?
With GIMP, or even paint, all is easy.
I actually love that Livery, and it touches home (literally)... since Avianca is among the oldest Airlines in the World, and it is actually (as I am) from Colombia.
I will probably put this livery in my personal todo queue.
Respect your comment, Lego, this is what I think.
Our team work is/maybe a revolutionary way of doing things in FG. We aim for cooperative and shared development. This does not mean that anybody of us has to do it all, be proficient at everything. Instead, I would say that a certain degree of specialization in the field would pay off a long way.
So let me give you an example. I am rather uninterested in FDMs. So far, I can hardly even understand them. But JWocky has rapidly specialize in FDM improvements accross a wide array of aircrafts and plattforms. and the more planes he refurbishes, the better he becomes at that.
I have become more comfortably working my way in blender, and making 3D models. So I have teamed with JWOcky where I bring models up, and he gives them life.
Neither of us had needed to master the whole thing. We just cooperate. And at the largest we learn how to benefit from each other skill.
Likewise for Liveries. Like this particular project, the 727 has grown to have a lot of really awesome liveries. But they were made by a team of artists. We benefit from them. And they benefit from JWocky's work on the FDM on this plane, and other work by me, or Soitanen.
Finding a correct balance in cooperative efforts is difficult sometimes, but the ability to benefit from a higher level of expertise gained by the specialization on the field, again pays off.
The critical point here is not to assume that everyone will find equally easy to do computer artwork, and will navigate gimp or inkscape with equal ease, the critical point here is to gather people together, discover their interest and abilities, and foster their interest and capacity to integrate themselves as a important part of the collaborative team.
In that sense, I don't think is that bad to indicate a particular livery one may be interested into and see if any of the livery artists pick you on the request. If none, then obviously it just queues in the bucket list, which harms no-one. We actually have a livery thread specifically on our Free Speech Forum
viewforum.php?f=36
In the case of Falcon, per example, I will be very happy to see him bringing some skills to the development table as well
but we can't just assume that vector graphics is necessarily one of his immediate skills and interests.
IH-COL
