An 80's Classic Convertible: I'm taking my cab and leaving!!!!

[Xiaou2]

Pretty good inking style.

 Some missing highlights and shadows..  but not too bad.

 I kinda liked the Astronaut in without the blacks,  as it made him more of a background object.

 - The sun ?  (williams logo on it)   would not have a  "dark side" to it... but in some ways, it works regardless.

 - The astro. leg snipe...  its best to use a featured line that exists,  to follow the cut-off.   For example, cut off his left side stump at the first line, that starts at his crotch.   Follow the same angle of the line all the way across the cut off.

 - Another method of cut-off,  is to use a jagged edge fade... much like Asian inked lettering.

 - Inked works, tend to work better, when there is a black outline on all objects.   It would help for example,  separating the moon from the rocket.   Other methods are to invert colors on the breakups... however, that would not work with this kind of piece.

 - Whatever method you use to shade... should be duplicated equally on all objects.  Except when depicting depth...   for example, objects in a distance should be less detailed, and have less shading contrast.   Where as objects nearest, should have greatest details, with highest contrast shading.

 - Use of a banner / logo .. or broad or pinstripe lines... could also act as a separation level for the astronaut cut-off.

 - If you are sticking with grayscale,  then space might be better kept pure black.

 - If you are using blues, maybe better to also use black as the color for space.. and the blue as a dark-highlight.   Use white or yellow for the light-highlights  (each on opposite sides of all objects)    This simulates dual lighting,  such as a sun on one side.. and a dimmer moon/planet-light ... on the other.     And or at least adds a "cool" color to represent the shadows, without going full black... and or an accent added as a step in between black.

 - The art does look a bit busy... and a little flat.   To help this... you might consider changing the various sizes of objects.   If the Rocket is in front... then leave that as the largest object, and shrink the moon a little... and make the full astronaut 1/3 rd in size.    Or reverse that... and make the moon 1/3rd its size... and just reduce the astronaut size to 3/4ths its current size ..   keeping the rocket as the main focus.

 - Remember, that the Rockets flame tail,  is a source of light.   It should be bright, and it should light up edges of the rocket that are near it.

[Xiaou2]

Just playing around with some sizes / colors ...

 

[Superfrog]

Just playing around with some sizes / colors ...

The silver one is really good now, and that for a little playing around 
The size of your design is now in balance

[yotsuya]

While I get what you're doing, I think it runs counter to what Griffin's designing. He's trying to make something that looks era authentic. You would only have used maybe 2-3 colors at the time. Look at any classic sprayed cab.

[Maximus]

Yep 3 to 4 colors max for a Williams style art scheme. Bubbles only had 3 while Joust had 4 for example.

[Xiaou2]

While I get what you're doing, I think it runs counter to what Griffin's designing. He's trying to make something that looks era authentic. You would only have used maybe 2-3 colors at the time. Look at any classic sprayed cab.

 Sure, I get it.   But the size changes, and composition still can apply.

 I changed the angles and positions as well... to form a back and forth snake from bottom to top, that your eye follows up the cabinet.

 The size changes also create more space, and less clutter..   and allow for a greater feeling of depth.   Also allowing the guy to have his legs and feet back

 The extra colors,  well,  I just figured it was close in approximation to the way I recall the williams games looks,colors, and bezels.

  Anyways, it was a fun little dabble. 

[Maximus]

You guys are funny

[Maximus]

Haven't forgotten about this, it's still on the radar with one adjustment, I will be using this cab as my "base-station" for a VR rig too, so it will have a much more powerful computer in it than first planned and inputs to plug in a VR headset.

I did a lot of work rearranging the game room to release a small amount of floor space so I can do room scale VR in there...



The space in front of the theater seats is now approx 13'x7' which is a pretty decent size for VR. So with the game in the lineup along the wall next to the open space the headset will just connect under the front of the control panel and the cables will run out into the open space.



I'm close to finishing the build for the VR rig, just waiting on the new Nvidia GTX 1080 to become available and it will be done


I haven't decided on which VR rig to go with yet, but it will most probably be the HTC Vive due to their ground-up implementation of hand tracking.

[Slippyblade]

Sooo pretty.  *drool*