Yet another marquee request

[drunkatuw]

I'm thinking of naming my still-in-progress cab "non-cents" for two reasons:
1. My fiance thought the whole idea was non-sense when I told her about it.
2. This cabinet won't take your quarters.

I like the cartoonishy look from this thread:
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=13;action=display;threadid=16186

I really want to get rid of the generic mame marquee and maybe incoorporate the red, blue, green, and yellow from the neo-geo button layout.

[fredster]

want a space theme?

[BobbyG66]

That looks great! The sky looks fairly real, where the planet is cartoony.

That would make a great marquee. It would be great if we could have a marquee background section. Then people could have something to start with.

[fredster]

The planet is from space invaders

[Stingray]

I thought that looked familiar, but I couldn't place it.

-S

[Brax]

Kids these days.  

'course I couldn't tell you a single character from the latest "Super Warrio Kick Fighter" though either.  

[drunkatuw]

fredster, that planet background is awesome!  What format(s) do you have it in?  I only have photoshop (and only know how to use photoshop), but I might have illustrator at work (but have no idea how to use it).  If you have it in a photoshop format, I could play around with the lettering.

Thank for the reply!

[drunkatuw]

I took fredster's background and added some text to it.  I thought the green would give a space/alien feel, what do you guys think?

One thing I couldn't figure out was how to wrap the text around the planet.  I tried the layer-> type -> warp text, but that just gives me a circle instead of the oval shape of the planet.

[drunkatuw]

I figured out how to "morph" the text a little bit and tried a different color?  Any suggestions?

[hulkster]

That looks great! The sky looks fairly real, where the planet is cartoony.

That would make a great marquee. It would be great if we could have a marquee background section. Then people could have something to start with.

I AGREE 100%!!!

[BobbyG66]

One thing I couldn't figure out was how to wrap the text around the planet.  I tried the layer-> type -> warp text, but that just gives me a circle instead of the oval shape of the planet.

In Illustrator you can draw a line and add text to that line. Not sure if that will work with your text as it is now modified.

[fredster]

I have the file in Adobe Photoshop with a psd extension

Here's what I did with the text...

[drunkatuw]

fredster,  I really like the cartoony look!  I appreciate your work!  I found fusion's marquee and loved the background!  How does this one look?  

Edit:  The image lost a lot of detail when down sampling.  It looks a lot better at full scale.

Editted again:  Took a screen shot and it saved some more quality...this is more what it looks like.

[drunkatuw]

My arcade is getting closer to completion and I decided to keep the name simple with "Dave's Arcade."  How does this marquee look?

It's not vector right now, because I couldn't find a high resolution picture of the background...so I'm not sure how it will print.

[SirPeale]

fredster,  I really like the cartoony look!  I appreciate your work!  I found fusion's marquee and loved the background!  How does this one look?  

Edit:  The image lost a lot of detail when down sampling.  It looks a lot better at full scale.

Editted again:  Took a screen shot and it saved some more quality...this is more what it looks like.

That's super-sweet!  Can do you that one for me, using that font, without morphing the text, and have it say 'arcade classics' instead, in all caps?  23.75" x 7.5"?

[drunkatuw]

Peale,  Check your PM.

[drunkatuw]

After a suggestion in the project announcement thread, I changed the background of my marquee to black & white to match my control panel.