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waveryder:
Creativity is definetly key here. I cant get over the fact that people will spend hundreds getting their cabs built just right. The right controls, moldings etc; and then chuck on some crappy pixelated artwork they found on the net. I been a member here for years and it shocks me how many people actually do great project threads with amazing attention to detail and produce artwork that is contermount to sticking the dreaded "Marble Contact Paper" on their cabs. There are a million tutorials on the net and so much help avaliable on these forums. I just dont believe theres any excuse to just "cop out" on the art. Its just a waste! There is nothing worse than staring at your CP every time you play and knowing it is not what you actually wanted.....it was just free and easy. :soapbox:
MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: waveryder on January 22, 2008, 04:35:34 am ---Creativity is definetly key here. I cant get over the fact that people will spend hundreds getting their cabs built just right. The right controls, moldings etc; and then chuck on some crappy pixelated artwork they found on the net. I been a member here for years and it shocks me how many people actually do great project threads with amazing attention to detail and produce artwork that is contermount to sticking the dreaded "Marble Contact Paper" on their cabs. There are a million tutorials on the net and so much help avaliable on these forums. I just dont believe theres any excuse to just "cop out" on the art. Its just a waste! There is nothing worse than staring at your CP every time you play and knowing it is not what you actually wanted.....it was just free and easy. :soapbox:

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I don't see the point of fussing over artwork on a MAME machine in the first place. Original arcade artwork was created to go along with original arcade games. The few official multigame machines from "back in the day" (e.g. PlayChoice-10 and NeoGeo MVS) had very rudimentary "artwork" (I use the term loosely, it was more like labeling).

Just to reiterate: artwork was created to go along with a single game.  The only "artwork" that makes sense on a MAME machine is something that says "MAME". Since you are creating artwork to go along with the system rather than a game that you created, you might as well just identify the system and call it good, like Nintendo and SNK did with the PC-10 and NeoGeo systems.
waveryder:
I can see your point, but clearly we aren't dealing with single game machines anymore are we. The users of this forum in my opinion are "progressing" what seems to be a dead genre. Thats how it should be. No ones arcade cab sits in a arcade racking up coins anymore, They are in peoples gamesrooms, living rooms....or in my case the bedroom! Unless someone is building/restoring a dedicated machine unique artwork is important. Slapping "MAME" on the side implies that is all the machine does. You just need to look through project anouncments to see people use their cabs for more than just MAME.
BORIStheBLADE:
Everyone one here wants to be original, but when it comes to art alot of us aren't artist and a tutoial isn't going to fix it. To top it off if we can find a free picture that works why pay someone a couple hundred dollars to do some custom work for you?
 I have spent hours with photoshop and have posted questions regarding some photoshop techniques that have come up unanswered. In these situations people will get the cliche art.
waveryder:
Wow a couple of hundred dollars...Am I seriously undercharging! If you want some work done BORIStheBLADE Just roughly sketck out what you need and i'll do it for. As for price let me know what your budget is. Im always up for trades as well as cash (after lots of parts for my projects) . Believe me, myself and the other custom artists on the board dont do it for the money (not with our prices, we dont even get minimum wage). If we did we could pack in our suckfest jobs and just draw and play games all day.....wouldnt that be a beautiful world!  :angel:
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