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Digital Pinball Disasters

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RayB:
As far as color difference, has it occurred to you Xiau that maybe the gamma / contrast on your monitor is too high? Monitors are fickle things and no two look alike. They might have looked exact on the artist's monitor but not yours.

Xiaou2:
Ray, Im well versed in knowing how to calibrate a monitor.

 But hey, its yet another thing to teach people about.

 Mine is a viewsonic 21" crt, in excellent condition.  Far superior than most peoples LCDs
that they are using for trying to do their crapptastic artwork cleanups (err..  butchery).


 As for PBWs comments... they are so lacking in understanding that theres no reason to bother.
Hes pretty much part of the reason we are in this Mess, and have such Crap as a result.

pinballwizard79:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on February 27, 2011, 03:36:42 pm --- As for PBWs comments...
Hes pretty much part of the reason we are in this Mess, and have such Crap as a result.

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pinballwizard79:
 ;D

studmuff:
Looks better than a lot of "touchups" I have seen people do to machines.  There are differences in color, inserts, etc but your comparing apples to oranges.  It's just not the same fruit.  If you even start comparing the gameplay then I'll know you really have nothing better to do but complain about everything.  ::)


--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on February 27, 2011, 02:50:30 am ---
 Compare the Pictures below, side by side, for yourself,  and you tell me if Digital Pinball is
up to Par...

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Well, since Dazz is pushing the digital pins, and states that the new tables are identical to the originals... lets do some comparisons, and start Skoolin their QC dept.

Dazz, when challenged, presented SFII table.   Lets look at a real picture -vs- his re-draw, and see what happens when someone who has No clue, gets behind the wheel.

1) INSERTS:

 Inserts look Awful.   Flat.  Lifeless.  Cartoony.  Why?  Because theres no depth, no shadows, and no color interplay... all of which happens on a REAL insert.

 Look at how there is a light shadow on the upper left corner of the real insert.
 Look at the highlight on the upper right side.
 Look at the shadows under the letters spelling "campion"
 Look at the CORRECT line thickness of the insert+playfield outter circle.
 Look at the feint diving line between insert and playfield.  This is a reality.

 Look at how much detail is missing in the phony inserts.
 Look at how much it looks like a flat cartoon... and not beautiful and crystalline.
 Look at all the color and shading missing.

2) Artistic Integrety

 Look at the missing stippling on the dark blue of Bisons face.   Instead of dots that make an
INTENDED rough shading look... they have decided to alter it to make it smooth instead.

 Look at the Missing stipple (dots) on the hat front.
 Look at the change of the hats skull and wings

 Note changed in line widths and altered and missing details, such as on the ears.
 Note the missing teeth details
 Note that the shape of the hats middle black line isnt correctly "circular" as drawn on orig.
 Note the missing black facial lines on the bottom, and the black thickness change on the lower
teeth.

3) COLORS

 Look at the change of colors, from navy blue to POWDER BLUE. And Royal Red to Brick Red.

 Note the difference in shades of the clouds.  The change from light color to dark colors is a small jump in the original... and a huge leap on the modified version.  They not only changed the colors... but used too great a leap in shade... making the colors too contrasted... and completely different than the original intended look.

 You can also see this is the light and dark red on the hat.  The color difference is too great on the mod.

 Also, the white is way too bright on the mod... even for a brand new playfield.

 Note the missing red under the eyes.  (could possibly be a leak of the mask.. have to research it against other fields.  This is standard practice with All pins, as poor mask alignment can reveal lost details/changes)

 
 Ohh, but this is only the tip of a mighty iceburg of bungles.

 Its a real tragedy that anyone would allow "classic" butchery... let alone make something this awful
and call it Good/Better.


 A REAL Artist would EASILY understand what they were doing, and instead of cleaning up intended details.. would not have erased and changed them.   Only an untrained fool would do something like this.

 
 More to come...



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