At MXskinz, it started out with two people skinning like crazy, and then as time went along, so many wonderful talented people have contributed to the site to make it the variety that it is!

Here as a big thanks to each of them, MXskinz will feature a skinner each month or so! Thanks so much to all of them!


Name: Laurie Ellis

Net Nickname: sezmra

Where do you live? Middle Tennessee, USA

What programs do you skin? Yahoo Messenger, mostly. I mainly started skinning that because I could never really
find any good skins for it that fit with my desktop choices...
and so I ported a bunch of popular skins. Currently I'm
dabbling in skinning other proggies, such as Kewlpad and BoxNote.
Hopefully I'll tackle the tougher stuff in the future.

What programs and graphics programs do you use to make your skins? I use Notepad and Winzip for the delivery, and usually just
Corel Photo-Paint as far as graphics.
I'm apparently chained to that program forever.

Website URL? www.thallos.net which is unfortunately down for a bit while
I switch Hosts.

Hobbies? Oy, skinning(of course), painting/drawing/computer graphics,
and gaming.

Do you have a favorite skin? IHmmm, that's a tough one. For the most part, my favorite ends up
being the one I use at the time. I'm still really digging the Logika suite
by Treetog and Alexandrie. I really love their work , but who doesn't! :D
Now if I were to pick a favorite of *mine*, I'd have to say Lunar Base
for YM.

Do you have a skinning philosophy? Since 99% of the skins I've done have been ports of other skins,
my philosophy as of now boils down to trying to keep the port true
to the original yet at the same time be a tad original in itself. I'll
simply take some elements of the original skin and arrange
them in a way to fit yet not be a complete carbon copy.


What do you like to skin the most? I suppose that's Yahoo Messenger! I think I could do it blindfolded with one hand tied behind my back at this point...
I'm the mildly impatient type so it's a simple, perfect program to
skin for me.

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