Vectorized artwork site

[Hellfromabove]

Hey I was wondering if there were any sites that had some vectored art for download. The Mametrixreloaded site's graphics section has been down for like ever so I can't really get anything from there. Is there some site that has more arcade/ videogame based vectored art or just vectored art in general? Thanx.

-See Ya!!!

[mahuti]

The location for the vector art library is

the Arcade Art Library

The site has arcade art, side art, control panel overlays, bezels, marquees, and character art for arcades. It's updated by contributors.

[Hellfromabove]

You get the award for not paying attention.

Yeah me . Thanks for the link. Thanx.

-See Ya!!!

[blacktiger]

So if you see something on that site that you need.  How do you go about getting it made into your side art or CPO?  What does it usually cost to have this done.

Thank you!

[Mametrix-Reloaded]

Dead? no.

Out of commission due to workload? yes.

There was also a time where the status of my employment here was in question which is why the website moved for a time and the downloads kind of fell apart.

I feel really bad because saint even took the time to ask my permission last year to put the library in his new book and then I managed to let it go to pieces. (I still bought the book to support saint and just because its cool to see your site mentioned in print)

Many thanks to mahuti for picking up where I fell short on providing this resource. I am back and going to see what it will take to setup a mirror site of the new library to use up some of this free bandwidth I have hanging around here.

-mike

[mahuti]

Why don't you save the effort of making a mirror, and just help me moderate and improve my site.

I own a hosting company, so the bandwith isn't really an issue. I also have a cap set with a redirect to an alternate site, so I'm not worried about jumping my allotment under heavy traffic.

The most important thing we need to do to the vector library is to continually search for and add content, and make sure that it is good. If I could get your help on that, I think we'd all be in better shape.

If you want to help out, register at the arcade library, and I'll convert you to a Mod in no time. It doesn't take too much work to moderate, but it will become more difficult over time as more and more content is added.

[megashock5]

What all is required of a mod?

I may be interested in helping out if it's something I can do, and if you need any more people.

I just registered an account, my screenname is megashock5.

thanks!

[DarkKobold]

Every time I see this thread, I think: poor Hellfromabove, his silly question has been imortalized. And I use this thread to go to the archive often.

[mahuti]

On that note, I made some minor edits to my response  

Oh, and we don't need any additional mods, but thanks Megashock.

[legztec]

I am currently working on some artwork for my custom super neo 29.
So vectorized the atomiswave and the Sammy logo.

I am working on the sega-sammy holdings logo now.

I dont know how to get the logos on the site so here are two links:

http://member.novi.net/alex/awlogo.ai
http://member.novi.net/alex/sammylogo.ai

*edit* Btw I just begun with Illustrator so if you need to tweak or change it before using, be my guest

[Nannuu]

Just thought I'd post some of the sites that you can buy pre-printed artwork and others that will print custom.  I'm sure I"m missing some so feel free to add.

Custom:
http://www.mamemarquees.com/
http://www.emdkay.net/
http://www.classicarcadegraphics.com/    (http://classicarcadegrafix.com/)

Pre-printed:
http://www.phoenixarcade.com/
http://www.gatorcade.com/
http://www.mikesarcade.com/

[redcoats]

This is a noob question but what program can I use to open up those ai files? I downloaded a couple of files and would like to have them printed and made into side art but I can't view them? Thanks for the help.

[zorg]

ai files = illustrator files.

some other programs may open and view it.
photshop but it will be rasterized 
adobe acrobat pdf viewer
gimp
sketch

and some others.

[M3talhead]

ai files = illustrator files.

some other programs may open and view it.
photshop but it will be rasterized
adobe acrobat pdf viewer
gimp
sketch

and some others.

Umm...I have GIMP 2.2 and it doesn't open .ai files. If you want to open a vector file in GIMP, you must first export it into either .wmf or .psd.

[Flinkly]

what is the best kind of file to scan things as?   i've got some control panels that i'm gonna scan up as best i can to help the community out.

[conseit68]

i prefer a high resolution JPEG...anywhere between 300-600 dpi...

[skybluestav]

http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/

all company logos are there for download and other stuff too, found a few arcade stuff there!

also ask in the forums for anything and it might just pop-up. theres one guy that says he has all cartoons/anime/comic characters all in vector, im trying to pursuade him in sending me them.

if any of u guyz that have sites can do something to persuade him msg me so i can forward u his email

 

[typh92]

if you could get some of the anime vector, i would love to recieve a copy

[RayB]

i prefer a high resolution JPEG...anywhere between 300-600 dpi...

No, stay away from JPEG!
JPEG is a "lossy" format. It "re-encodes" the graphics so it compresses to a smaller filesize. Even at a high quality level, which your eyes might not notice, there is still some corruption going on. It is especially destructive with solid colors, gradients, and the edges of solid shapes (like text).

24 bit TGA is pretty good. 24 bit BMP. PSD. etc... use these so you preserve the highest quality possible.

~Ray B

[Rook3]

What about TIFF format?  What level of descreening should a person use when scanning? RGB or CYMA color?

Rook

[RayB]

24-bit TIFF is good too, but those files tend to be very large (too large!)

[mahuti]

Honestly.... JPG at higher DPI is fine. Artefacting IS a major problem at low DPI (i.e., small web graphics at 72 dpi)

A 300-600 DPI scan that is saved as a JPG will reproduce very cleanly... and for the average persons output, will be more than enough quality to produce a good final image.

It's easy to tell... save a copy of the file as a high res JPG. Open it, if the file still looks clean at 100% then you are OK. JPG IS a lossy format, but its original intent was to allow easier transport for high DPI images and was created with that in mind. If you were going to keep the file at home, or you had a huge drive to transfer it on, that's all well and good, but if you are going to share it on the web, JPG makes a lot of sense. Just be sensible about it.

[xonix_digital]

I was recently designing the final version of my RADICADE! CP and I started out at 300dpi. The only problem with that is I was doing it actual size (37x17) and the file was stupid huge. Whenever I tried to compress it down so I could post it I ran out of memory (1.8Ghz P4, 512mb DDR). I probably had it too big for a WIP but my pc just had a hard time with it in photoshop.

I know Ill probably catch some flack for this but I dumped it to 72dpi at a really high Q jpeg and at 100% mag it looks great (to my eyes). Now I don't know why it looks so good but I'm curious to see the results.

-=XD=-

ps- a lot of ppl say not to do it @72dpi, so I wouldn't if you don't have to. I just couldn't deal with a 298 mb PSD file.

[skybluestav]

i think its realy harder to design something from scratch in photoshop, thats why i always use vector based programs (preferably for me freehand). This is coming from a graphic designer, but u dont need to be one to design in vector. Design something in vector and u wont have anything else to do, u can play with it as much as u want and it wont lose anything.

different story if u have spent loads of time designing in photoshop.

[AlanS17]

I was recently designing the final version of my RADICADE! CP and I started out at 300dpi. The only problem with that is I was doing it actual size (37x17) and the file was stupid huge. Whenever I tried to compress it down so I could post it I ran out of memory (1.8Ghz P4, 512mb DDR). I probably had it too big for a WIP but my pc just had a hard time with it in photoshop.

I know Ill probably catch some flack for this but I dumped it to 72dpi at a really high Q jpeg and at 100% mag it looks great (to my eyes). Now I don't know why it looks so good but I'm curious to see the results.

-=XD=-

ps- a lot of ppl say not to do it @72dpi, so I wouldn't if you don't have to. I just couldn't deal with a 298 mb PSD file.

Full size at 72dpi is ok. You just need a higher dpi if you're blowing something up. Full size @ 300 dpi is probably overkill.

(Somebody correct me if I'm full of it.)

[fantasymaven]

 Hi everyone, does anyone a company that reproduces side art for a
Classic stand-up Space Invaders from Midway?

Also I'm looking for a Bezel for a Mimi caberette SEGA TURBO game.
Does anyone know someone that has one?

I also need a power supply for a SPY HUNTER...

THANKS EVERYONE

[wintermute]

I'm just started designing my first CPO.  I'm using photoshop, and my CP is about 43.5x20".  I set to 300dpi.  This works, but my PSD file is 450MB.  When I tried to do a "save for web", I got an out of memory error (Athlon 64, 1GB RAM).  I had to save, re-open, flatten, scale down to a reasonable resolution, and then save for web worked. 

If I want to use one of the on-line graphics printing places, do you think they'll accept the 450mb file?  I'll attach a sample, I still need some directional arrows around the joysticks..  The outline of the controls is on it's own layer, so i'll turn that off before I have it printed   Let me know what you think, it's all stuff  I got from NASAs web site:

[Rahzel]

If you can, use even higher DPI. 600 is ideal. Most large format CMYK printers print in the 1200 DPI range. You don't need to "save for web". When you're preparing it to be printed flatten the image first, that will reduce file size and have less chance of errors when opening on the other end. 44x20 isn't too big so when saved as .PSD your filesize should be 300megs max. Don't save as .JPG for reasons already explained in this thread and you're good to go.

[chukdotcom]

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why can't I download this image:

http://www.localarcade.com/arcade_art/details.php?image_id=242&mode=search

The download boxes are greyed out.

[mahuti]

On the main page... there is a note about which items you do, and don't need to be logged in to download.

All non-vector stuff requires you to register with a legitimate email and be logged in to download.

Why? Well if people are going to download hundreds of megs on my dime... I want to know who they are. I don't do anything with the registration info, other than just keep it for morbid curiousity. 

[skarr]

Any idea when localarcade will be back up ? Been done for over a week now 

[mahuti]

There is a note there you know. And a pretty detailed one at that. 

[hanelyp]

No, stay away from JPEG!
JPEG is a "lossy" format....
24 bit TGA is pretty good. 24 bit BMP. PSD. etc... use these so you preserve the highest quality possible.

I like PNG, compressed and lossless.  BMP files are HUGE when resolution and bitdepth get up there.

[ehpotsirk]

hello, new vectorized artwork site for pinball : http://www.pinball-artwork.com

artwork FREE


bye


EhpotSirK

[Witchboard]

Cool.  I would love to find a site with vectorized backglasses.

[Rook3]

The pinball site is gone. Anyone know if it's permanent?

Russ

[zorg]

The pinball site is gone. Anyone know if it's permanent?

currently (Tue Mar 28 09:59:11 CEST) up and running

[menace]

I'm getting no response from the sign up at the arcade art library.. has it been abandoned?

[javeryh]

A Google search for vector magic will bring up a site that will vectorize any image.  It's not precise but the effect is pretty cool.  Cartoony graphics work the best.

[zorg]

I'm getting no response from the sign up at the arcade art library.. has it been abandoned?

seems the main admin over there is not more active on AAL
menace your your account is now activated