Marquee help needed

[menace]

[edit]:  change of plan--I still need help though in finishing this.

[SNAAAKE]

Sure,use my thunder background !  
The marquee already looks nice.
Drop me a line and I will email the background.


http://myarcadepictures.bizhosting.com/cgi-bin/image/templates/final.jpg

[menace]

thanks snaaake-i'll Pm you that info--just curious--could you make a classic pacman,donkey kong or q-bert resemble one of your fighters--you know how they always have that dramatic "lets fight" look to them--I think that would look kind of cool in a cheezeball kind of way

[menace]

What about this?

[Brax]

Why would you put a governor on your marquee?

On a similar note, why is everyone in California on CRACK?

[menace]

All kidding aside.  I put this together thinking of the old "challenge of the Superfriends" opening i.e. hall of justice flying to meet the legion of doom (see pic).  Anyways, I like that part of it but don't know what to do with the font--it seems plain to me--any suggestions?

[menace]

heres the marquee...

[eRA186]

cool idea!also a great name. although i would change some of the "good guys" maybe put popeye in there,got to put bentley bear in there,change pacman to superpacmanand that mario is awful put the one from mario bros.i might borrow your idea good vs. evil what a concept.if you don't mind  

[menace]

Good points--changed pacman to superpacman and doctored luigi to look like mario-also replaced dopey peter pepper with a more aggressive one.--still don't know what to do (if anything) with main logo.

Feel free to take the idea--god knows I've stolen enough ideas from this board

[eRA186]

Why would you put a governor on your marquee?

On a similar note, why is everyone in California on CRACK?

no we are just burning in hell

[menace]

Along the storm theme here is control panel 1/3.  It looks empty somehow--thoughts/advice/flames?

Edit: what's the widely recognized BYOAC symbol?  is there one?  I would like to give a nod to this site on the panel too.

[neuromancer]

I think this last CP does look empty. Maybe because it's mostly the same color. I like the one at the top of the list better.

Bob

[eRA186]

yeah its empty where is the trackball?

[papaschtroumpf]

Where'd you get he "Evolution to mame" logo that's at the bottom of your panel? I want one on my cabinet!

[menace]

trackball and spinner are on control panel #2.  So what could I do to make this look less barren?  different colors maybe?  more graphics--I was trying for simple and uncluttered but ended up with empty--makes me appreciate the fact that I'm an engineer, not an artist.

[neuromancer]

I think the thunderstorm is a good backdrop, but not good as the main graphic.

It's complexity makes you search it for meaning, but there really isn't any. Your first concept, with the text-over works, because there's a lot of complexity, but there are words too.

I think if you either put some characters or other objects on the storm, or some words, it would help a lot.

I think I'm also bothered by the clouds on the buttons. Since it's stormy, there shouldn't be fluffy clouds.

Bob

[Brax]

It's complexity makes you search it for meaning, but there really isn't any. Your first concept, with the text-over works, because there's a lot of complexity, but there are words too.

I like the post-modernist overtones that support the minimalist aura.

Ok, so who's serving the martini's at this showing?

[CthulhuLuke]

Along the storm theme here is control panel 1/3.  It looks empty somehow--thoughts/advice/flames?

Edit: what's the widely recognized BYOAC symbol?  is there one?  I would like to give a nod to this site on the panel too.

Hmm.. try looking through www.deviantart.com   Wallpapers: Sci-Fi for good backgrounds to use, that lightening I personally think will just not go well on a larger scale.  You'd be same off using marble contact paper if you just want a random pattern.  The liquid around the buttons also kinda look like someone drolled all over the buttons, but thats not too big of a deal.
   -Chu

[menace]

I think I'm also bothered by the clouds on the buttons. Since it's stormy, there shouldn't be fluffy clouds.

  :-[those are actually water ripples--didn't get quite the effect I was striving for on that one i guess.  Alright back to the old drawing board i guess...

Also I really don't like the idea of little characters running around my control panel--they always seem ad-hoc unless its a themed design like 1-up's for example.  just an observation, I'm no closer to knowing what the hell i want.