I quite liked the green hummingbird you had previously. The color was maybe a bit too dark and uniform so it didn't stand out as much as it could, but the shape was beautiful and recognizable.
I'm not a fan of this wooden thing on your new icon. To be honest, my first association was something in an outhouse :)
- We didn't feel it was Mac OS X-y enough; it didn't seem to fit in with other icons in my Dock.
- The concept itself was too abstract. Given our product name is also abstract, we wanted something a little more concrete. The new concept is an animator's lightbox, which we felt is closer to its purpose. Admittedly not a lot of people have seen this in their lives...
- We wanted some way to convey the HTML5 given its importance in our app.
- Everyone is doing birds nowadays!
What if you dropped the wooden lightbox entirely, and just had the sheet of paper with metallic rulers and the two markers? That might make the "it's for design" notion more obvious.
[1]:http://static.tumultco.com/press/media/HypeIconShadow.png
That’s how much detail OS X icons are supposed to have. (Have you looked at the apps that come with the OS?!) Smaller versions with less detail are used for smaller sizes.
I wish more app developers would actually have such awesome icons. But HN has to complain. Of course.
The new one fits perfectly. It’s awesome. And: not blue.