omg, i just noticed i didn't post here yet
Anyway, my nickname.. i got it randomly, although it's also a bodykit in NFS Underground. It originally was çr@nK @ the plus! forums, messengerskins.net, messenger mad and a bunch of others. But over time i got rid of the newb signs
Country: belgium (yeah, very close to matti)
Age: 19
My story?
Back in the day (i was 14) i stumbled upon mess.be, which led me to plus!
Plus! lead me to discover the skinning community (messengerskins.net at first) and got me started.
I made some skins back in the MSN Messenger 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 days.
I joined up with Ipab (dreamweaver
) and banky (The_Don iirc) which lead to great things
(mad-skinning.net)
Skins like Greenskin and Blueskin which where rather popular for the day (according to my dA only 3000something for the both of them, but iirc mad skinning's mirror had 20 000 for blueskin alone, also a lot of other skinners used my uifiles to start from) but graphically, they sucked
but so did most skins back then.
I worked with ipab on what could be called the skinstaller
A installer script (for both inno (me) and nsis (ipab)) which allowed skins to be distributed at the size of the images instead of the 8Mb installers (the msnmsgr.exe..) and which caused skins to keep working when a minor update happened to msnm. (Jaymach (aka the skin collector) used the installer during the high time of pre-plus! skinning to create,host and spread installers for loads of skinners)
Than i got laid.. end of story
