Nerd Alert (marquee)

[Traintruction]

Yahoo! I got my marquee, cp art and side art back from Scott at Mamemarquees!

I couldn't be happier with the results. Scott was great to work with. He tweaked my blacks (after contacting me to double check), so they'd be perfect. Somehow, the background was a slightly reddish black. How much more black can it be now? None more black.

Anyway, this was a fun opportunity to mess around with Illustrator. It took me a while to figure out how to do what I wanted, but I found that working on it over the course of several days made it much more bearable. I actually woke up in the middle of a dead sleep one night with a solution to an annoying problem that I was facing. Yikes.

Credit goes to the original vector wizards who posted the full marquees on the vector arcade art site. The Centipede art, in particular, is a masterwork.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share. I'll be sure to post pics of the finished job when ... it's finished.

[mahuti]

That looks really aweseome. Great job. Fresh twist.

[javeryh]

That is fantastic!!!  I'd seriously consider something like that for a future cab because my wife is constantly saying that reminding me what a nerd I am...

[Jabba]

nice job...original..

[menace]

It's like a game let's see if I'm as big a nerd as you are

N from ?
E from centipede
R from Street Fighter
D from donkey Kong

A from pacman
L from ?
E from q-bert
R from frogger
T from Joust

damn missed 2... ah well..

edit: oh looks great !

[mahuti]

n=punch out

[brack]

L= final fight?

[spuddybuddy]

l = mortal kombat?

[BobbyG66]

If L=Dragon's Lair, then fire up the nerd alert alarm...I got all the other ones.

[mahuti]

I think the L is from Mortal Kombat, but slightly Kompressed. You can juuuust see the a on the left, and the little yellow bit down at the bottom coincides with the yellow from the MK badge on the marquee.

I initially thought that was MK, but the Kompression threw me off.

I didn't get the Street Fighter one, though.

[Traintruction]

Yup, it's Mortal Kombat. Nice work, all! 

This last week has been agony! I have all the parts for my cab scattered around the house, but I need the time to put it all together.

This has been such a fun project. I just can't wait to get the monitor installed. (I need to take it downstairs and get it mounted. Man, that thing is heavy and scary!)

Thanks for the feedback!

[mow_dee]

Looks great, does the side art and cp match?

[Traintruction]

Yup, it's a matching set. The CP is just plain black, with the logo centered at the top. It'll be positioned between the 4-way and spinner. The sides are the logo blown up, and they'll be stuck there diagonally. (The cab is going to be black, so I'll cut out the logo.)

I knew that my measuring skills are lousy, at best, so it seemed like the fewer details I had on the CP, the better. Plus, it gives me the option to move things around a bit if I suddenly come up with an amazing new layout at the last second. It's unlikely, but you never know... 

[javeryh]

It would be really cool if someone made a vectorized font out of this idea.

[mahuti]

kerning.

[mow_dee]

Any chance that you'll be updating this to the arcadeart bank?