 Now it's a bit difficult to define what an artist is and surely there are many of them in KD and KD Plasma in particular but I wanted to showcase a couple of people in particular because of their work they have done on KD Plasma really really as an artist not even as developers to really show how you can just pick up I don't know inkscape as an example and make great changes to KD Plasma so you don't need to go down and write code if you don't know how to do that but you draw as an example it's still possible to help and I picked just a couple of people that I know in the KD Plasma project surely there are many others but you know this video can't be as long as I wanted it to be but let's pick a couple of people so the first one is related to wallpapers and if of course Kember met and so all of the wallpapers at least from 5.0 I don't know before that but at least from 5.0 are done by Kember met and this was four and then the style changed and the style changed and started using triangles and which shapes these are the first nine wallpapers from KD Plasma and you can see really the triangles and it has improved as an example you can see here these are the following ones I remember distinctly Opal because Opal is actually the first wallpaper I ever saw because I joined like I started using KD not joined but I started using KD in Plasma 5.11 so this was very first wallpaper and then there was Kokini and Cluster and it was clear to me that starting from this and then going into this from wallpapers like Bismuth which is this one two wallpapers like Kokini as an example there was an incredible improvement like the wallpapers were good before but I think the very latest ones were super good like I just loved Kokini and Cluster has been in my wallpaper for at least a year and luckily after Cluster well Ken couldn't make more wallpapers because he hadn't the time so we had to do a competition and Plasma 5.16 was the first time we actually held a competition and we actually held two and taken many wallpapers from competitions so all wallpapers up until 5.15 are made by Ken and then there's many made by other people but then for the very last wallpaper we have this is Cluster I mean it's beautiful it's just beautiful and then Ken managed to get back to us this is the website which is super nice and it did this one which is the latest one 5.24 for the next release so nine release later we still have Ken Vermont and you can see the whole process which I think is really nice he even live streamed it it wasn't like the first time even holder wallpapers I remember there was a live stream and starting from a drawing to making the wire frame actually this is entirely done from this point in on in Inkscape and Krita for the minor adjustments but nothing of this is 3D it's all hand drawn and then you can see that you get the triangles it's still triangles that's why we could keep a nice distinctive style for the Plasma 5 series that will probably work with the Plasma 6 ones and then the final wallpaper which is very nice like and also after coming back he also did new icons as an example these are the new ones these are the one being worked upon and new there's a new entire pipeline about icons because it's not as easy as it seems to do especially like folder icons because sure you do the folder but you can't do all of the folder manually maybe the one with emblems on it you need to automatically generate them especially the ones with different colors so you need a pipeline to actually generate all of them and well Ken did a new style for the folders and also a new pipeline so that's impressive and then sorry this is the wrong one there's about mockups so that was wallpapers and then there was mockups and doing mockups is extremely important because sure you're not actually doing the code that will result in those mockups being implemented but in order for a developer to actually implement something it's extremely useful to first of all convince him that it's a good idea by presenting a well done mockup if you take something that is as an example like this one well you're not going to convince anybody and yes that was my drawing so mockups are done again by many many different people and there are very good mockups done by almost all members in the vdg except me but manual is the i think one of the vdg members that did not most of them but surely a significant portion this is the ones about dolphin usually since he also shared the resources those were then taken and modified by other vdg members as an example we get here it was the task about trying to find a new style for breeze we eventually choose blue ocean but this is the current theme but it wasn't so clear and well many styles like manual did a mockup and then many styles were forked by that side and eventually blue ocean this one i think is directly the work of manual it surely did ocean and don't remember blue ocean maybe is a more collaborative work right now i don't remember but if you go see all of the tasks in fabricator related to doing actually mockups which is what i searched here you will see that many of them like the one i showed you here are done by manual and others sure i don't want to exclude anybody but many of them and then there's also this one the blue ocean update for breeze icon which is again made by camber net and this is the initial design proposal if it loads thank you you can see that there was a bit of work comparing oxygen windows 11 the current breeze and then blue ocean with accent color and many proposals and the idea is to make it like a bit more rounded maybe a bit more modern and i think it works pretty well this is not the this is the initial design proposal but but even the very style which should be better represented here is pretty good this one you can see all of the icons so in general i think it's very nice like let me make you a very straightforward straightforward example this is my ability at making mockups and as you can see it's not exactly the best and yes i did this on like a k-color paint so yeah but when i want to implement something like this well at first i have to convince other developers that it's actually a good idea and if i send them this they're gonna i don't know throw up so what i did back then was i draw this and then i sent it to manon asking can you please make a mockup that's actually somewhat convincing and it did it and it's this one let me zoom in and it's much more convincing you can see that well it is like floating and with this indicator on the bottom and well this wasn't actually implemented but surely having a mockup that actually showed how it would look if we actually implemented it was super useful back then when we were discussing it so even if you don't know how to code if you're not a c++ python guy don't worry because there are many many contributors that do a lot of things without writing a single line of code now both ken vermette and manual did write code do write code sorry present but a lot of the impact they have on kd plasma is not about code and i think that's a very nice thing now if you don't know how to draw either well don't worry because this is just an example there are many other ways like if you're if you're good at writing text you can join the promotion group and then you can start writing for like the announcements or if you know blender you can do 3d renderings for the promotion videos or you could help translate kd software to other languages it's not necessary to write code so i think it's personally i love the idea of being able to draw i'm trying out learning drawing it's not going very well right now but i'm trying and i'm always very happy to go around and see what artists are able to do really that i'm not like i always think i wish i could do that these icons are so nice another thing another bonus this one this is the designer of um oxygen and you can see that there's a lot of oxygen styled stuff he his was i don't know working on this oxygen revamped theme and even though personally i never used oxygen because i came in kd after breeze and i found breeze to fit my taste is better than breeze than oxygen i meant sorry the this new oxygen revamped theme has some very nice things like as an this icon as an example is beautiful like this is the one of the very best icons i've ever seen i just love it and then there is this which is also pretty good although it's not about oxygen i love the concept of this sphere i think it's very nicely done and then there's the actual interface which is this one and it looks nice like i thought that oxygen like had to look like something from 10 years ago no it's very modern actually and all of the stuff you can go into the instagram account and follow he even held like um um what was that progress bars even held a talk about academy at academy about this so you can go rewatch it if you're interested in the project i don't know if it will like become actually in the future the new oxygen theme but still it's pretty nice to see all of the work being done because it is very nice in general i love art look at this like just look at the wave i love that wave it's beautiful it's beautiful it's that was it it's very nice to know that my face is being cut from above and luckily my camera is really wants to fall apart during videos and i'm trying to fix that still i hope this was somewhat interesting as a video there's loss that i haven't shown many other mock-ups and wallpapers i do suggest that you go see all the wallpapers and if you're interested in the artists behind the wallpapers that were like not camber mats one but were actually chosen to be kitty default wallpapers the file dialogue that you open to actually change the wallpaper also shows all of the artists artists so you can go there and check them out search for their names and they're also i mean of course publicly available on the contest pages so that was it thank you for watching and see you tomorrow