Feedback wanted - New DIGITAL Animated gear watchface design for SW2

[julz]

Hi all,
I'm continuing to keep myself busy creating more custom watchface designs whilst I'm in between jobs and am keen to get your feedback on the following animated gears/cogs watchface design that I created. I'm quite happy with the end result and am keen to make some more but before I invest more time in them I'd like to know what you think? I believe it's the first of its type for the Sony SmartWatch 2 as it runs as a proper low-power enabled watch/clock widget rather than an app.

Video of the animation (only whilst the screen of the watch is on):

Picture of the designs (click to enlarge):
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New digital versions!
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No links posted as it will be one of my paid watchfaces as I've spent a lot of time working on this one (...and I don't have a job at the moment so every little bit helps...)

All feedback welcome! (don't forget to vote in the poll at the top of the page)

 

[vbrsekhar]

Excellent work dude. Marvelous Would you be able to make the watch face little smaller at the bottom or on the top so that other widgets like battery and weather can also be added or is it easy to embed them in your watch face?

 

[julz]

Excellent work dude. Marvelous Would you be able to make the watch face little smaller at the bottom or on the top so that other widgets like battery and weather can also be added or is it easy to embed them in your watch face?

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I've had this type of feedback from a few people about all of my watchfaces. Unfortunately with the relatively low resolution of the Sony SmartWatch 2 screen (220x176) it doesn't do well in displaying my watchfaces when scaled down to smaller sizes. Even when it takes the full 5x5 grid I need to do a lot of tweaking to get it to display clearly to make the watchface actually functional (i.e. you can read the time and the date). In terms of embedding widgets into the watchface - this isn't something that I know how to do as it is beyond my technical coding capabilities. For the meantime I suggest that people install the hack so that they can overlay other widgets on top of the watchface.

Originally I felt that it would be cool to have lots of the widgets on my watch, but after a while I realised that I didn't really need them as I could always turn the watch on to access the apps. I found that they cluttered the screen and detracted from being able to see a nice watchface design. That's why my watchface designs are based mostly on utilising the full 5x5 grid size.

 

[vbrsekhar]

Thanks for the immediate response dude. After reading your message, I now started to realise that I don't really use all the widgets as you said. All we need is a good looking watch face that make our watch looks great and is not memory or battery hungry. I will look forward to see the final version of your watch face to buy. Good luck with the project.

 

[enigma_x]

Does it use animated gif?

Sent from my phone - Note 10.1 (N8000)

 

[marcovittori]

This is gorgeous,seriously
Thanks for your work

 

[julz]

Does it use animated gif?

Sent from my phone - Note 10.1 (N8000)

Hi, no unfortunately not else that would open a lot of opportunities. It's manually coded in to rotate the gears.

 

[naheel azawy]

That's great idea :good:
let me guess, you've used the seconds view to make the gears movable

 

[julz]

That's great idea :good:
let me guess, you've used the seconds view to make the gears movable

Yep exactly right! You can potentially use this technique to do other types of animation.

 

[normie666]

Seems pretty neat dude, Ill definitely have to check this out

 

[DeadlyDazza]

Like it, I'd purchase but it would have to look bigger. Wouldn't be interested in using any widgets with that watch face so make it bigger. Lose the border & push it out to the edges of the screen & you've got a sale.

 

[Nomad1600]

Julian, great design, just purchased design #1, which was my wife and daughter favorite. One request? Would it make the hour and minute hands easier to see with a bit darker outline? I realize complications like open face are usually harder to read and the SW2 screen isn't very sharp by design, but it may still make it easier to see the hour and minute hands to tell time. Just a thought, and again, thanks for making the watch even better!

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[julz]

Like it, I'd purchase but it would have to look bigger. Wouldn't be interested in using any widgets with that watch face so make it bigger. Lose the border & push it out to the edges of the screen & you've got a sale.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what I can do in my next version

Julian, great design, just purchased design #1, which was my wife and daughter favorite. One request? Would it make the hour and minute hands easier to see with a bit darker outline? I realize complications like open face are usually harder to read and the SW2 screen isn't very sharp by design, but it may still make it easier to see the hour and minute hands to tell time. Just a thought, and again, thanks for making the watch even better!

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Sure, let me try it out and I'll release an update if I can fix it.

 

[julz]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what I can do in my next version



Sure, let me try it out and I'll release an update if I can fix it.

I've just rolled out an update to the white and the black versions of this watchface to make the minute and hour hands easier to read. Hope this helps!

 

[julz]

Like it, I'd purchase but it would have to look bigger. Wouldn't be interested in using any widgets with that watch face so make it bigger. Lose the border & push it out to the edges of the screen & you've got a sale.

When you say lose the border, do you also mean the border that currently has the roman numerals in it? I can make the hour markers float on top instead...

 

[DeadlyDazza]

When you say lose the border, do you also mean the border that currently has the roman numerals in it? I can make the hour markers float on top instead...

For example the gold style. Remove the gold border around the edge & push the minute/seconds markers right to the edge of the screen.

 

[steliosk]

+1 from me!

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[Nomad1600]

I've just rolled out an update to the white and the black versions of this watchface to make the minute and hour hands easier to read. Hope this helps!

Julian... yes, that makes it much easier for my ol' eyes to see and tell the time. btw, I also have your Jaeger design... enjoy swapping between them and get lots of compliments. Thanks again!

 

[marcovittori]

Can you make an animated digital clock?

 

[julz]

Can you make an animated digital clock?

Hi, I haven't yet worked out how to do digital watchfaces yet. It's on my to-do list so don't worry it'll come eventually