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First Cabinet: Unconventional Design
Mark70:
I agree with the others. The cabinet design has a lot going for it. It seems like a blend of a traditional upright with some showcase mixed in. I still prefer a classic cab, but I like what you've done.
The artwork I cannot say I like. It's fairly well done, but it pales in comparison to the craftsmanship of the cabinet. It also suffers from adolescent themes. If you read "Drawing on the Right Side of The Brain" you get you eyes opened to the whole idea of adolescent themes. Eyeballs and brains belong on your grade seven notebooks. If you can pull off a cabinet that nice, you can definately do better artwork to compliment it.
That sounds far more brutal than it should. I like the cab. The art is ok. It's the juxtaposition of the high quality cab against the less high quality art that makes the art suffer so much.
Crafty:
Well done on putting together a unique design..
This is why we all keep posting and looking at this forum..
:applaud:
Your artwork seems to be "not worthy" of the total design though...
Kremmit:
I like it, both the design and the much-maligned artwork. Well, not the beach side. :P Tell you what, though- if I'd walked into the pizza place when I was a kid and that machine was there, I'd have dropped the first quarter into it for sure.
Minor note- the guy who's cab you mention as a design inspriation just MAMEd a standard Xenophobe cab, so maybe you ought to be crediting Xenophobe instead of the guy.
NightGod:
If you read the story, he explains why the art is weird like that-the guy who did it had to move cross-country before he could complete both sides.
Hopefully you find a way to balance it out somehow.
Vigo:
--- Quote ---The camera I have at dispossal is annoying as it takes a picture and then takes the picture again about 2 seconds later so if you move even slightly it blurs. I have tried to find if it is some odd shutter feature or any way I can shut it off to no avail (If anyone knows of anyway to fix this it would be very appretiated).
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What kind of camera do you have?
sweet cab. It is actually very rare for a first cab to be of unique design! you definitly achieved that. :applaud: And since you titled the thread "first cab", it must mean that you might be considering making more. If thats the case. I really reccomend you to really give the next cab a lot of thought and more of that "outside of the box" thinking. You have potiential and you don't restrict yourself to make the same thing that other people are making. :cheers:
And for next cab, I suggest looking into finding a custom joystick for yourself. I think you mentioned wanting a trackball too. There are so many different arcade controls out there, and using x arcade controls is the most standard out there. Poke around the forums and you can find the pros and cons of each joystick on the market. One of the best sites for a custom control set is http://www.ultimarc.com/
you can find specialty joysticks, and cards to let you wire in whatever controls you want, and much more.
Anyway, I hope thats helpful to you.
Later
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