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Title: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: robbins on November 20, 2005, 05:56:28 pm

Anyone out there remember Turrican for the Amiga?  I was thinking I'd like to build a cab that had a nice Turrican marquee and some cool side artwork based on the series.  I am a game geek, but have no graphic skills.  Anyone out there interested in a side project for fun?  Did I mention that I am a poor game geek and I would be looking for a volunteer?  *grin*

James Robbins

Title: Re: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: Adeptus on November 21, 2005, 12:44:02 am

Step 1: Find the best high res pics you can of Turrican on the net
Step 2: Ask very nicely for someone to convert it to vector graphics
Step 3: Take the vector artwork to a company who can print it

(Step 2a: find money for the printing? ;) )

Title: Re: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: headkaze on November 21, 2005, 07:20:46 am

I tried auto-tracing the following image, unfortunately didn't come out very good. I thought it would work ok because it has large open areas of color, but I was wrong. Perhaps some tweaking of the image would give better results.

Title: Re: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: headkaze on November 21, 2005, 07:56:48 am

Here are some more links to Turrican art...

http://static.turricanforever.de/download/Scans/Super%20Turrican%20(JAP)%20-%20Cover%20Front.jpg

http://home.freeuk.com/markk/Consoles/superturrican-f.jpg

http://www.classicgaming.com/reviews/turrican/turrican-tg16.jpg

http://turrican.nemmelheim.de/other/turrican1/package_front.jpg

Title: Re: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: Felsir on November 24, 2005, 04:02:39 pm

I liked the Amiga titlescreen for Turrican:

(http://amigos.amiga.hu/ancientoys/screenshots/Turrican1_1.jpg)

Hard to vector though  :(

Title: Re: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: Crowquill on November 24, 2005, 07:50:20 pm

I'd suggest trying to pick up some box art and scan it. It should be big enough that you could get a decent-resolution scan of it and enlarge it to standard 18"x24" sideart.

If you're in North America, there's auctions on eBay for the genesis games with boxes.

If you like the Genesis art by Julie Bell, posters can be ordered here:
http://www.imaginistix.com/details.cfm?Id=221

This guy seems to have high-res scans by request:
http://www.nemmelheim.de/turrican/bonusfiles.php

Hope these help.

Title: Re: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: robbins on December 06, 2005, 12:35:49 am

The title screen for the Amiga is exactly what I would love to have.  Well, in parts, at least.  The "Turrican" title for the marquee, and the dude with lightning and explosions for the side art. 

I know that is pretty low res.  Do you think it would look like crap if I tried to print some large side are or a marquee based off the original graphic?  I could maybe run the game in WinUAE and use the Scale2x thing to get it a little higher res... 

Has anyone tried printing out low res gfx big?  Can it work?

Title: Re: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: Felsir on December 06, 2005, 01:45:59 am

The image is too lowres. A 320x200 image just doesn't have enough graphical information to make a nice marquee/sideart.
The scale x2 function in WinUAE doesn't help - the source is still a 320x200 image.

I have written a little explanation on my website here (http://www.felsirworld.net/artwork.php#rastervsvector) about this subject.

Title: Re: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: pgielen on December 07, 2005, 06:58:07 am

robbins,

I had a little spare time and vectoriced the tittle if you want it, send me your e-mail so I can send it to you.

I know it's not perfect, but I do not have more time at this moment.
You can use this and adjust what you don't like.

Patrick

Title: Re: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: headkaze on December 07, 2005, 02:55:45 pm

very nice pgielen

Title: Re: Turrican Cab Art
Post by: pgielen on December 07, 2005, 04:43:40 pm

Thanks,

If more people want this, send a PM so I can send it to you