The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Artwork => Topic started by: Kayden on April 11, 2009, 05:14:04 pm
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Well, I have to admit, it's not really my cup of tea. And the brownish background made me immediately think of a UPS truck.
I guess the main thing that kind of bugs me is the pacman is nice and crisp, but the spaceship (I'm guessing grabbed from a screen grab) is fuzzy. They just don't jive with each other to me.
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Yea, I did the Pacman myself (circles aren't hard...) but I grabbed the sprites from Rtype... didn't really turn out nice, but I can't think of anything else to put on the bottom half.
I don't normally like brown myself, but my CP has a kinda brown retro sticker/cover/thing. So I wanted the marquee to look retro-y.
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Ah, Makes sense then.
Yeah, Giving that rType ship a retro look could be cool.
Maybe run it through a Sepia filter and sharpen it, or possibly use art from another source
I found this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/R-Type_NA_flyer.png
Some of the artwork here is pretty slick
http://www.irem.co.jp/e/game/r/index.html
Maybe take some of the black/red stuff and change the colors?
Also here
http://www.rtype.com/menu.htm
of maybe this, flipped, shrunk and filtered.
http://downloads.khinsider.com/wallpaper/1280x1024/2726-rtype-009-afupw.jpg
Or to get complete wacky (this would take some significant mods to do what you're wanting, I think but it might be a good start.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jenncutter.com/images/rtype1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jenncutter.com/2008/07/&usg=__pOPD_wAwyKQHrGv3E1SZaGl0Sjg=&h=417&w=448&sz=95&hl=en&start=61&um=1&tbnid=Z2zNhaab2uDXkM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drtype%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26start%3D60%26um%3D1
Could you do the MAME logo in the R-TYPE font maybe? That tubular font....
http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulator_game.php?id=mame&game=rtypej
Just some ideas
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I still hate it. The only thing I like is the pacman. :timebomb:
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Hmmm... I think this looks better... but I'm not a huge fan of PacMan. :laugh:
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You are trying to mix two different art styles which is very, very hard to do (pull off).
What kind of cab is this? a mame cab, dedicated, vertical only, horizontal only?
What color is/will everything else on the cab?
What is it about pacman that you like (art wise)?
Post some pics of your favorite marquees or marquee styles that you like.
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It's a MAME cab... It plays anything I feel like at the time.
The real reason I got it was to play Raiden/shooters. Unfortunately, I like more vertical shooters than horizontal shooters, so I can't think of anything horizontal for the marquee. Both Rtype ships were fail. The first one was too blocky and the second was too photo realistic.
The cabinet was originally a Joust cab that got turned into a Ninja Gaiden Cab. The sides are blue, the front is black and the CP had a fugly gray cracked up sticker wrapped around it. http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/11/1181242141156.jpg
I replaced the top of the CP entirely as the wood was covered with metal. I covered it with a birds-eye maple sticker I had laying around to make the old and new parts match and to cover up what was left of the horrid Tecmo sticker.
It looks like this, just a tad darker. http://www.withygrove.co.uk/gfx/desk_woods/veneer/birds_eye_maple.jpg
It gave it a nice retro look.
I think I like the pacman because it's clean and to the point.
This is round... 4?
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You are getting closer.
Post some pics of your cab. I'm having a hard time imagining it with the wood and blue sides.
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Left:
(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/164/hpim0253k.th.jpg) (http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim0253k.jpg)
Right:
(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2532/hpim0254k.th.jpg) (http://img14.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim0254k.jpg)
CP:
(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6320/hpim0255.th.jpg) (http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim0255.jpg)
Here's one with the marquee added:
(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5238/testdbf.th.png) (http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=testdbf.png)
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I think the marquee looks fine, the Redux may be a little hard to read. The bigger issue is the wood in my opinion. Just doesn't go with the rest of the cabinet. I think anything would look better.
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I agree, but it was all I had and it is far better than what was there.
I'm not really crazy about the blue sides anyways. Once I build the cash cache back up, I'm probably going to into replacing the sides. It'll give me time to design that too.
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I agree with the wood comment. It really shouldn't be too hard to paint it. Any reason why you wouldn't?
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It doesn't go with the blue or it just doesn't fit at all? I thought it gave it kinda a nice vintage Atari feel.
I plan on someday doing something with the sides, but just not any time soon.
I have a really good reason why I don't want to paint my CP; that :angry: was a total :angry: to put together and I don't want to :angry: with it unless I absolutely have to.