Some one please vectorize this Gun.Smoke logo; So I can use it as my Marquee

[mrclean]

This is the Gun.Smoke logo, I'd like to use as my marquee...which came from the flyer actually.. id like the original its just too hard to vectorize. the link to the original can be found here..http://www.system16.com/cybercade/games/gunsmoke.html
 the US Marquee would be the one.. *to me the bullet looks like the hardest thing to do because its soo small.


-off original flyer
-the one i really want but also the one i really thinks impossible, Please PM ME!
- a quick sloppy color live trace in ai.. i need help!

[Mista-FraggadeliX]

I'll go and give it whirl... takes me right back to school, vectorizing artwork

[mrclean]

I'll go and give it whirl... takes me right back to school, vectorizing artwork

I Apreciate it! which one are u gonna try the gun.smoke text on or that insanely hard one? never the less the bullit on the text on looks tough my live trace was ehh crap to say the least. Thanks for at least attempting!

[Mista-FraggadeliX]

Well, I went for the easy one...

But it will be hard to get that illustration right without some higher resolution pic's. I've tried and look it up on google, but the best one I could could find was the one you already posted

The metrics on this logotype were really quite horrendous, my old typography teacher would have slapped the original artist silly 

But still, that's the artwork, so who am I to judge...

[Mista-FraggadeliX]

By the way...

It's an illustrator editable pdf...

so you can take the whole thing apart, if need be...

[mrclean]

  Wow came out great!  thanks so much!

[Neilyboy]

Nice work Mista-FraggadeliX I should start with something like this to begin teaching myself vector tracing. Looks like something I could try and not get too stressed with.

Neil

[Mista-FraggadeliX]

This was an easy one indeed Neil...

If I can give you some advice:
First try and spot what pieces of a type/logo are identical. Not only do you save time by copy-pasting similar pieces, but it also insures a truly uniform look.

Use guides, align your artwork with the guides and the 'align'-tools in illustrator.

Keep in mind that 'round' letters, such as C, O, J, etc. have the round pieces protruding from the upper and lower guidelines. (This i called the x-height as you can easily align a guide to the upper and lower serif-strokes of th x) Otherwise the viewer will s these round letters as smaller than the other ones.

If there are outlines on a logo or type, first draw the inner forms, copy these to an underlying layer, boaden the stoke to match the outline and then expand the stroke to create a new outer form.
You can simplify the newly aquired vectors with pathinder -> combine -> expand...

Good luck