Windows Art

So, I've created backgrounds and various graphical replacements for Windows over the years, and the following is some original artwork I created for that purpose.

What's really funny, is that if you compare these pics I made back in 1995-1999 to the intro animation from Windows 7, it's eerily similar.  Should have submitted the design to Microsoft... oh well. :(

Also note that some of these were created with Windows Paint, so don't be too judgmental :P

I remember adding this frog and going pixel-by-pixel to get the glouds to blend into the skewed Windows 96 label.  After it was done and I applied it to the login screen of Windows 95, I realized I forgot to do anything with the tree stem he hung from.  At that point, I gave up.  It was 'good enough'!

I used to go by SpIDer VeNoM, hence the reference.

This was a cloud concept I was paying around with before Windows Vista / Win 7.  Years after I created these images and Windows 7 started for the first time, I was reminded of these pics I created.  Should have submitted the design to Microsoft. :(

A strange combo, I was playing around with a ring around the earth, and it really started to resemble the MS logo for Internet Explorer.  If I remember correctly, I ditched my ring and superimposed the IE ringer just playing around.  Granted it's all pixelated and nasty, but hey it was cool back in the day!

I found another background involving clouds that I apparently spliced in with some waves.  Don't remember what I used this for, but I've included it with the OS stuff, since I used the Windows 95 clouds...