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Restore: Paperboy: 'Exclusive!' - Restore with enhanced side art
alfonzotan:
Good grief, I have nephews that aren't as tall as that PCB.
At least they wised up by then and put the power supply on the bottom of the stack...
griffindodd:
Ok so it seems I have an A.G.I Disco 19" Medium Res AGM-20M which is pretty common for an Atari cab I assume, a high possibility it is the original screen.
Apparently the monitor would start up 50% of the time until it finally just didn't come on at all. When it did come on I am assuming the picture was fine as the guy who had it before would play it, this is the info I got from the last owner, so that's my starting point in this trouble shooting process.
Also it seems like it may be one of the lesser found configurations of this monitor where only the brightness POT is on the neck board, everything else is on the chassis board, so far my research has indicated that the usual Cap Map for the AGM-20M doesn't match this variation of monitor.
griffindodd:
So today I started on my first real work for the cab which is the art.
I've going to completely re-ink and redetail the artwork from the side of the Paperboy Prototype cab so that I can use it on the side of this one. I'm a total perfectionist when it comes to artwork so I really wanted to pay respect to one of the all time greats by making sure the artwork for it is the best I can manage.
My final goal is to blend the prototype art into the system 2 art in a way that is true to both, but also gives a new spin to the original designs.
So my first job was to hunt down as much high res artwork as I could so that I could comp together a working base to do the redrawing over. I noticed for the computer game packing of the game the artwork had been redetailed, so I took those elements and used them to build out a foundation.
So far this is how far I have gotten...
Best shot of the art i could find ________________________________________ My composite base for the redraw
The new artfile is 24"x30" @ 300DPI, this is the resolution I plan on working to for the final piece.
I'm trying to decide if I should introduce text into the newspaper rather than staying with the lines. If I did I thought it would be nice you make it all the comments and speech from the game wirtten out in a story.
Also, if I were to include a picture on the newspaper in the artwork, what should it be? Something from 1984, maybe a picture of the designers, or Atari headquarters or Bushnell???? It would be nice to include something that is relevent to the game's history.
griffindodd:
Took a crack at the artwork redraw today and opted to do it in Illustrator, at least the newspapers anyway so they are all vector. I'm going to try and keep all the linework vector and then use photoshop for the colorwork.
Here's the styling outcome, trying to keep the character of the original but also bring something extra. The photo is of the Atari programming team from 1984
Vigo:
The Daily Sun never looked so good. :applaud:
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