Author Topic: RoadBlasters Side Art and Marquee. DONE! (Read 16720 times)

allroy1975 · « **on:** June 21, 2005, 03:21:29 am »

I'm specifically looking for the big sticker that went on the back of the cockpit cabinet. I just got an upright and I think that sticker would look AWESOME on the side of an upright cabinet. Vector if possible...I'm asking an aweful lot.

Thanks

Allroy

clanggedin · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2005, 11:52:42 am »

Why not restore the cab and install the System 1 sideart?

allroy1975 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2005, 11:53:59 am »

I just think the stuff on the back is way cool looking. I could easily do the system one, I just think it's plain and kinda ugly. And expensive

Allroy

rohan · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2005, 12:55:06 pm »

That cabinet is so cool...I never knew that they even made a cockpit version of RoadBlasters, and it's one of my favorite games. The cheapest route is to buy a used NES cartridge for $3 with the art still on it. Scan that at like 1200 dpi or higher, enlarge it, and do a little clean-up. The artwork on the cartridge is nearly identical.

allroy1975 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2005, 02:29:52 pm »

That's a great idea, I looked at a cart on ebay though and it looks like the sides of the words are cut of...I'll have to check out other systems...

Allroy

allroy1975 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 22, 2005, 01:45:24 pm »

Anyone think they could clean this up and vectorize?

I suck at vectorizing....

Allroy

allroy1975 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 24, 2005, 02:02:24 pm »

are you kidding me? I thought guys would be dying to do something like this for me. lol!

Stingray · « **Reply #7 on:** June 24, 2005, 03:05:14 pm »

You're really going to need a cleaner picture to use for vectoring it. Neat artwork. I may give it a go if you can come up with a better original. Feel free to PM me.

-S

rohan · « **Reply #8 on:** June 24, 2005, 03:58:16 pm »

Here's a very compressed version of a quick MS Paint mock-up, but StingRay's right...you're sourcefiles are too small. I could send you a somewhat cleaner version of this and you could try filling in the blanks, but it won't be accurate for sh*t. I'd buy the Road Blasters NES box and scan it for a decent sourcefile. Good luck, and I'll keep my eyes peeled for other sources.

allroy1975 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 24, 2005, 04:20:42 pm »

That's what I'll have to do.

Of course if you like it you can use it too....
I'm off to ebay!

Allroy

allroy1975 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 24, 2005, 05:36:48 pm »

alright, it'll be here mid next week.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8152301626

Allroy

Stingray · « **Reply #11 on:** June 24, 2005, 08:22:23 pm »

I had a little time to kill this evening so I thought I'd see if I could do anything with the pic that you posted. The fine details are just too fuzzy. Scan that box that you bought and I'll try again with that pic.

-S

allroy1975 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2005, 01:09:33 am »

I shall start thanking you now. I'll scan it as high as I can.

What Res would you prefer?

of course it won't be here until next week..but that doesn't mean I can't be excited!

Allroy

allroy1975 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 27, 2005, 01:59:54 pm »

I got it today! even on the box that little space ship doesn't look too clear, but I think it's doable.

what's a good resolution? I'll scan it as soon as I get home.

WOO HOO! that was some fast shipping...I'll have to leave posative feedback.

Allroy

allroy1975 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 27, 2005, 05:56:33 pm »

Okay, it's 1.3mb.
http://pac-mat.com/Projects/RoadBlasters/NintendoBox.jpg

What do you think of that? Vectorizable?

I know some of you guys work real fast, and (to me) this one looks easy in comparison to some stuff people do around here. I'm hoping it's not too hard. Let me know if there's anything else I can do.....

Thanks
Allroy

Stingray · « **Reply #15 on:** June 28, 2005, 11:17:20 am »

That one looks about a zillion times better than the other one - I'm pretty sure I'll be able to use it. I'll work on it tonight when I get home, but I have to warn you, my air conditioner is broken and I'm not likely to get a huge amount of work done at home until it's fixed. I'm on vacation all next week so I'll likely knock it out then, unless someone else wants to jump on it before then.

-S

Stingray · « **Reply #16 on:** June 29, 2005, 08:34:22 am »

Messed around with it some after work yesterday. The new scan is much, much better than the first picture, but it's still pretty fuzzy in spots. In some area I was just taking my best guess, so I suspect that if you're after 100% accuracy, this isn't going to do it for you. In any case here's a jpeg of what I got done last night:

Edit: looks like the forum software shrank it down and made it look pretty crappy. Here's a direct link to the full sized pic: http://www.stingraysmadness.com/index.php?module=photoalbum&PHPWS_Album_id=19&PHPWS_Photo_op=view&PHPWS_Photo_id=178

-S

allroy1975 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 29, 2005, 08:43:02 am »

holy crap that looks nice!

No, I'm not really looking for 100% accuracy just something that'll look really nice on the side of my cabinet. Even though it should have the standard System 1 "ATARI" logo, that just doesn't do it for me. It's a dedicated cab, and I'd like to have dedicated artwork.

and when I say I'm not looking for 100% accuracy I mean like..once the Nintendo logo is removed, if there's a way to just pencil in some other smoke lines, that'd be cool. I assume that can be done....but I draw stick figures...so...I couldn't do it

Anyway, I think it looks great so far, and again, thanks!

Allroy

Stingray · « **Reply #18 on:** June 29, 2005, 08:55:13 am »

Quote from: allroy1975 on June 29, 2005, 08:43:02 am

and when I say I'm not looking for 100% accuracy I mean like..once the Nintendo logo is removed, if there's a way to just pencil in some other smoke lines, that'd be cool. I assume that can be done....but I draw stick figures...so...I couldn't do it

Yeah, that won't be a problem. The area on the bottom left side of the preview that I posted was partially covered by the "liscenced by Nintendo blah, blah, blah" stuff so I just had to wing it in that spot. I can do the same under the seal. Anyway, glad you like what I did so far.

-S

allroy1975 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 29, 2005, 09:00:58 am »

I think it's awesome!

I know almost nothing about vector art, how will you do the color fades?

Allroy

Stingray · « **Reply #20 on:** June 29, 2005, 09:13:57 am »

Illustrator allows you to fill with gradients, although I don't use that feature very often. I'll probably have to fiddle with it a bit to get it to come out the way I want it.

-S

zorg · « **Reply #21 on:** June 29, 2005, 10:49:06 am »

hey it look's promising.

Stingray · « **Reply #22 on:** June 30, 2005, 08:46:50 am »

Last night's progress:

Click here to view the full sized image
I wish the forum software wouldn't shrink the pic down like that, the full sized pic looks much better.

-S

allroy1975 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 30, 2005, 08:57:52 am »

again, it's looking AWESOME! I want to help! I'm going to print out the Vector Art tutorilal by Frosty today and try AI when I get home. If I vectorize the "RoadBlasters" (word I mean) can you import it?

Allroy

Stingray · « **Reply #24 on:** June 30, 2005, 09:38:39 am »

If you want to do the Roadblasters word, please feel free.

-S

allroy1975 · « **Reply #25 on:** June 30, 2005, 09:20:23 pm »

alright, I got caught up in the action. I went for the explosion instead of the words.

How's this look?

allroy1975 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 01, 2005, 01:12:43 am »

Geez....letters are harder than I thought...you have to be really exact on them or they look poopy...like this:

Doesn't seem like it should be that hard to trace....

allroy1975 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 05, 2005, 10:18:38 pm »

Here's what I've done. Someone tell me honestly how it looks.

The bottom hasn't been done. Everything that looks clear has been done.

Stingray: Where'd ya go man!?

allroy1975 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 06, 2005, 02:03:44 am »

I'm pretty happy with how this is turning out. :)I can't beleive how close I was able to get on the shading!

I wish someone would comment on this. It's depressing going it alone. Sice STINGRAY seems to have perrished in the heat.

seinfeldaddict78 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 06, 2005, 10:07:24 am »

I'll comment on it Allroy!

It's looking really good so far. Hopefully stingray will make a return and hook you up with the rest! Maybe he doesn't need to since you are doing so well!!!!

allroy1975 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 06, 2005, 11:12:49 pm »

Stingray, I could really use the stuff you've done.

I think it's coming along VERY nicely....especially considering it's my first real try with AI.

allroy1975 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 08, 2005, 01:47:31 am »

Alright, all I'm missing now is the stuff that that Stingray did. and a few other very small things.

Would I be considered insane if I tried to find his phone number and call him? hasn't replied to this thread in over a week. I'd rather not re-do the stuff he did, but I also don't want to come off as a lunatic.

Has anyone seen Stingray around at all?

Anyway, check it out:

darktemp · « **Reply #32 on:** July 08, 2005, 03:26:04 am »

Maybe he doesn't have the internet, he said he would be on vacation. Nice job btw allroy, you've given me hope to try learning AI again.

allroy1975 · « **Reply #33 on:** July 08, 2005, 03:48:38 am »

holy crap...he said he was on vacation, and for some reason I took that to mean he'd be sitting around working on the RoadBlasters vector....lol I'm an idiot.

well, thanks for pointing that out to me.

Allroy

Stingray · « **Reply #34 on:** July 11, 2005, 10:46:29 am »

Actually I did intend to work on the Roadblasters art while I was on vacation, but my wife & I sort of impulsively decided to get out of town. This is the first day I've had internet access since the first. Sorry I didn't get any more done for you, but it looks like you did very well on your own. I think I have that .ai file on the USB memory stick that I have in my pocket. I'll get it to you ASAP.

-S

allroy1975 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 11, 2005, 10:47:41 am »

I love you.

zorg · « **Reply #36 on:** July 11, 2005, 06:45:21 pm »

Quote from: allroy1975 on July 11, 2005, 10:47:41 am

I love you.

did you read is post

he was talking about himself and "Madame", is maried

allroy1975 · « **Reply #37 on:** July 11, 2005, 07:17:30 pm »

but he obviously doesn't love her. That's why he's vectorizing for ME! HA!

okay...i'm sure he loves her and that's why he left town with her instead of staying for my artwork...but I meant it in a platonic way.

no....really! I did!

Allroy

Stingray · « **Reply #38 on:** July 12, 2005, 08:33:57 am »

I think it's better if we're just friends Allroy.

Sent you the other Illustrator file this morning.

-S

Stingray · « **Reply #39 on:** July 13, 2005, 09:40:07 am »

Hey Allroy, as soon as you finish putting the parts that you did together with the parts that I did be sure to upload the finished artwork to the arcade art library. I just came across a guy on Atari Age who is looking for this artwork too.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=72681

-S

allroy1975 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 13, 2005, 09:54:54 am »

NO WAY! I'm not sharing!!

Just kidding.

That's amazing. Kinda sucks though, i would have rather vectorized his side art.

I'm excited about posting my first vectorization to the library!

Allroy

allroy1975 · « **Reply #41 on:** July 14, 2005, 10:02:54 pm »

Can anyone help with this? I don't know how to make the white explosion in the middle of the pictures. It's just a bunch of dots. what's the easiest way to accomplish this look?

Thanks
Allroy

zorg · « **Reply #42 on:** July 15, 2005, 02:49:28 am »

Quote from: allroy1975 on July 14, 2005, 10:02:54 pm

Can anyone help with this? I don't know how to make the white explosion in the middle of the pictures. It's just a bunch of dots. what's the easiest way to accomplish this look?

I'm affraid you will have to trace a "bunch of dots"

Felsir · « **Reply #43 on:** July 15, 2005, 03:09:19 am »

Yup, I agree with Zorg.

Kremmit · « **Reply #44 on:** July 18, 2005, 01:39:47 am »

Just saw this thread. Too sweet. I just picked up a (not working) R.B. upright with no sideart. If I get it going, guess what'll end up on the sides?

(I need a marquee, too, if anybody happens to have a good one sitting around. Mine's faded.)

allroy1975 · « **Reply #45 on:** July 18, 2005, 09:32:45 am »

I can scan mine, it looks pretty good, and I've gotta take it off to change the light anyway.

I don't know if you wanna vectorize that...maybe I will. Getting a little burned out on the RB thing though.

Allroy

jcroach · « **Reply #46 on:** July 18, 2005, 10:23:14 am »

The color fades look great. But the bottom right corner loks a little off. Is something missing?

allroy1975 · « **Reply #47 on:** July 18, 2005, 01:35:29 pm »

yeah, SMOKE!

I can't draw for anything though, so I can't make some new good looking smoke lines..

ChadTower · « **Reply #48 on:** July 18, 2005, 02:52:26 pm »

I played a Roadblasters sitdown a few weeks ago... it's cool, has a fresnel lens in the screen so the screen looks really big, even in the narrow cockpit.

Kremmit · « **Reply #49 on:** July 19, 2005, 12:03:04 am »

I've never seen a RB cockpit- didn't know about the fresnel lens. I always loved the effect the fresnel gave MACH 3 in the cockpit I played it in- especially the way it blurred around the outside edge of the screen if you moved your head the wrong way. Somehow made it seem more real, though I don't know why that should be.

Allroy- would be dope if you did the marquee. The library needs a full art package for this game. (and I need the marquee!)

allroy1975 · « **Reply #50 on:** July 30, 2005, 02:02:00 am »

ha! You guys thought I'd quit!

Nope...just kinda lost interest for a little bit.

captainpotato · « **Reply #51 on:** July 30, 2005, 05:38:47 am »

Quote from: allroy1975 on July 30, 2005, 02:02:00 am

Here's what I've got. I'd apprecaite comments as this is just about done. Almost how I'm going to send it off to the printers.

From what I can tell from the low quality images that appear in these forums, it looks great. I'd be happy with it, if I were you.

allroy1975 · « **Reply #52 on:** August 01, 2005, 03:50:07 am »

Okay, touched up a few things..faked a few things (like all those tiny dots. I just couldn't do it..so I made the desired effect with Radial white to black fade) and I think I'm happy with it.

I'm sending it to the printers today.

Hopefully I'll have the artwork installed by the end of the week and can have posted pics.

Thanks Stingray!

Click the file name under the picture to view it large.

Allroy

allroy1975 · « **Reply #53 on:** August 02, 2005, 02:31:24 am »

Quote from: Kremmit on July 19, 2005, 12:03:04 am

Allroy- would be dope if you did the marquee. The library needs a full art package for this game. (and I need the marquee!)

When I looked closely at the condition of my marquee, it was obvious that this needed to be done. It's been scanned, stiched and the vectorization has begun.

Allroy

allroy1975 · « **Reply #54 on:** August 07, 2005, 12:24:41 am »

well holy crap. I don't like to brag but I think the marquee is beautiful. as for you guys who gave advise on how to make all those little dots, I really apprecaite the advice and still have way more respect for you than I do for the average joe, but I went in a different direction. I went ahead with fades and accomplished virtually the same thing. Granted up close they look different, I think mine looks BETTER than the original.

Maybe not on the side art, although I think it looks good, this marquee is AMAZING.

However, I do have a few color questions. My marquee is a POS. it's got colors faded and burned, and I can't tell a few things. the top of the marquee (pinched between the wood of the cab and the metal of the marquee retainer) is clearly a different shade of blue than the rest of the sky. So I went with that blue for the whole sky. now..in the middle there's an exlopsion (like on the side art) and it's got lines coming out of it (like on the side art) but I can't tell if the stuff that LOOKS like it SHOULD be white actually fades to yellow closer to the explosion. If anyone has some idea and can confirm that this should or should NOT have fades in it. As it is, everything is pristine white. I think it looks DAMN good.

So..without further ado...

Not bad, eh? of course these are shrunk down by the board. Download them and check them out.

in contrast here's what I started with:

Allroy

rohan · « **Reply #55 on:** August 07, 2005, 01:32:26 am »

If only I could get over that damn learning curve in illustrator!

I'd be spitting stuff out like this left and right. That looks really good...So what's your next artwork project?

allroy1975 · « **Reply #56 on:** August 07, 2005, 01:34:58 am »

I just started doing a Pac-Man T-shirt....I wanna put it on my Spare tire cover on the back of my car....I just hope the guy doing my printing can do something like that....either way it's going in the vector library. It's that goofy shot of him giving a thumbs up.

I think I might even be getting better at AI!

Allroy

Edit....this was it...Easy.....

allroy1975 · « **Reply #57 on:** August 07, 2005, 02:59:15 am »

so then next I think I'm gonna do some pinball side art.

Kremmit · « **Reply #58 on:** August 08, 2005, 04:48:35 pm »

Sweet! Thanks, man!

Minwah · « **Reply #59 on:** August 15, 2005, 06:04:50 am »

Allroy: Great stuff, are you gonna submit to the arcade art library?? I might be tempted to grab the marquee image for a spare for my System1 inspired cab...

Oh, and nice Pacman t-shirt, I've got one of them

allroy1975 · « **Reply #60 on:** August 15, 2005, 08:46:26 am »

Quote from: allroy1975 on August 07, 2005, 12:24:41 am

However, I do have a few color questions.


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