Classicarcadegraphics.com answer....

[mahuti]

I asked ClassicArcadeGraphics about the galaxian side art that they have at the site. His answer (which is below) was very polite. I think his inclusion of galaxian at his site at about the same time was just an unfortunate coincidence, so I hope this answer helps.

Thank you for letting me know about this, no one has mentioned it to me at all and I do not have the time to read/respond to the forums. Actually the galaxian artwork is mine, I scanned a full cabinet in 8.5x11 sections, 2.7 gigs of scans which took a full day to complete, and assembled the result a piece at the time, just as I have done with the starwars, mach3, and several other pieces. I am familiar with your art repository but most of the pieces are not usable for reproduction, for example the galaxian sideart has a number of inaccuracies in the outter edges and the halftoning of the planet and base are missing, I also recall a similar situation with the defender bezel. I had just finished creating my own bezel when I found your site and I thought "oh, all the time I spent fixing up this bezel and here is one already done" but when I actually looked at it, the star patterns were 'close' but not close enough, so I realized my time was well spent afterall. The artwork is all very nice but I need a much higher level of accuracy than can be achieved by low rez scans or vector approximations. Most of my artwork is scanned at 400 to 600dpi tiffs, a 2 meg jpeg printed along side one of my touched up scans is clearly sub standard and in this business people are often very demanding about accuracy and quality.

I do frequently borrow thumbnails either by web search or google images search, it is much faster than the cpu chugging time it takes to create my own especially for 1gig+ images which can take several minutes just to load, I do not know if I created the galaxian thumbnails or borrowed them but since they are so small the details are not visible anyway.

[patrickl]

Heh, that is a great "coincidence". A bit strange that he took the Galaxian thumbnail instead of just saving his own artwork as a jpg. How much work would it be to make his own? And yes he did take that thumbnail since it is identical. Or Tom borrowed it from CAG (which of course is not true)

I have to admit though, that working from pictures will give less accurate results than working of a high res scan. In fact it's a lot more work too. I can imagine someone with access to the real artwork would rather redo the stuff.

[mahuti]

I can identify with him on the thumbnail thing. He's right, when you are working on a HUGE (in his case, 1 gb) file, it could be very tempting indeed to just snag a thumbnail that's lying around.

[tbombaci]

What a load of crap. Nice insults too.

This guy is full of it.

[mahuti]

Don't let it get to you. As far as I'm concerned the issue is closed. You do great work, what we do is great for our comrades, and they appreciate it... regardless of what anyone else things or does.

[froggerman]

Mahuti, thanks for posting this response. Your art library is great!

[mahuti]

Thanks, I do what I can. Zorg and Mametrixreloaded were very much responsible for its creation. I have to thank them for getting it started.

[Wade]

Although he replied politely, and says he has his own work, no one will know for certain unless they buy his art.  Right?

Wade

[mahuti]

Right.