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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: Spaced Ace on August 04, 2008, 02:20:16 am
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Hey guys, I have 6 huge peices of the backglass and they are in okay shape, things can line up mostly, but there is going to be a ton of photoshop touch ups to be done. I was wondering, would it be worth the effort to attempt this and would it really benifit the arcade community if I were to pull it off?
It is really going to be a challenge, and I don't want to spend the time & labor if only a hand full of people will ever use it. And lets not forget that the SW arcade game has a ton of artwork, this would be only a small peice so I wonder what the point would be to do this in the first place.
If you guys say do it, I'll do it...
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I am sure you'd be someones hero. I always thought Star wars had some neat artwork.
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is this the backglass you are referring to:
http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/unclean/StarWars_cock_backglass.jpg (http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/unclean/StarWars_cock_backglass.jpg)
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Do you mean the pinball backglass?
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If it is for the pinball game that would be awesome!
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is this the backglass you are referring to:
http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/unclean/StarWars_cock_backglass.jpg (http://www.arcadecollecting.com/caga/unclean/StarWars_cock_backglass.jpg)
Yeah, its that one, but the resolution and quality of this set I have is almost flaud. However, the sections are really huge. I have a monster computer that can crunch projects like this with no problem, but these are so huge I cant open more than one at a time. So, it looks like this is a no go. It sucks because the pixels are of excellent quality. If I resize them to make them smaller, the image quality degrades, so I cant do this one....
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What are the dimensions of each file, and how many files are there?
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Well, one thing; what is the resolution of the method of printing? because you may be 'over the top', a few folks I know of who do t-shirt designs often have the problem of submitted artwork of a higher dpi than their screens, for instance.
Sounds like you're probably past the resolution of Atari's own film-based screening methods of the time.
How I would approach this:
Build an illustrator file of the appropriate size, making a vector blue grid to scale. (easier typed than done, I know)
From looking at the referenced backglass.jpg file (which even that makes my computer hiccup)
it looks like the background colors are solid (dark blue inside the grid, black outside)
and what you would want to isolate would be each element unique to the source;
The 'Star' would need to be printed as-is, but the 'Wars' is a solid color.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/kayoteq/arcade/st.png)
for example. You'd have a vector white and a vector black placed in layers above the original gradient art for the letters.
The X-wing, and Tie fighters would also need to be used as-is. Same with the stars.
The death star is the only one that's really integrated into the grid, even the stars have been illustrated to fit within the blue grid rather than overlapping (note all the 'half-stars' throughout the design to account for registration errors in printing.)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/kayoteq/arcade/stars.jpg)
Hope I haven't confused the issue further. .
But that's how I took nic6paul's image (thanks!) and made my own upright marquee; Almost there.. still have some grids to fix.
I can see how you have a problem with the file sizes; mine adds up to 150 megs. But that's photoshop pixels, not illustrator.
(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v697/kayoteq/arcade/th_sw_marq.gif) (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v697/kayoteq/arcade/sw_marq.gif)
I would _not_ want to take on the whole big backglass unless I had a machine to put it on.. :hissy:
Somebody lend me theirs so I can.. um.. test the fitting. Yeah, that's it..