Project Artwork: Lost in Time

[Mangalore]

I am converting a Joust cabinet to a Mame machine.

[Veinman]

Pretty neat, but I agree it's a tad busy. At the least you might want to make your words pop out more.

[Thurman]

A few suggestions.... maybe instead of having 20+ mini characters, you could take about 4-5 of them and make them bigger.  Or another idea would be to lose all the mini characters around the words and just stick with the galaga/pacman/zaxxon border.

[JDSkydiver]

I like it!

I really disslike the past marquees with the throw every character you can think of at it look, but for some reason, yours ainm't so bad.

I think its because the SMALL size of the characters sort of looks like a star-field, and does not overpower the text.

Heck, I'd even reduce the size of eth pac-Man scene to keep it in line with the others.

Again, good job...!

JDSkydiver

[Nannuu]

Normally I don't like busy collage marquees but that's pretty cool.  You might try to underintensify (darken) the characters and see how it looks.  It may make it look less busy.  Or put a glow or light outline around the text to pull it forward.

[Crazy Cooter]

I am converting a Joust cabinet to a Mame machine.

[Mangalore]

Thanks for the feedback.  The Pac-Man does appear a little too big.  I think I will try and take a few of the characters out...maybe save them for a bezel location.  I took a print to work and most people like it.  It obviously looks much better full size.  Most people enjoyed trying to name the 20 games used in the marquee.

I like the idea of giving the text a glow effect, but I don't quite know how to do it.  I made it in CorelDraw 9.  Does anyone know that program, or PhotoPaint, who could tell me how achieve that effect?

I think Crazy Cooter was gonna give me grief over the Joust cab conversion.  It was already converted to a Final Fight and it was pretty beat up.  Anyway I will get into that when I start a "Project" thread.

[jdjuggler]

The first thing I thought of when I saw it was Lost in Space...  I like it.
Maybe you can add a little icon of Dr. Smith saying.. In the Dr. Smith voice of course -
"Come a little closer William... I have some quarter for you dear boy!"

[Fat_Trucker]

I like it.

Perhaps rather than having the characters scattered around the wording you could apply a kind of time warp/vortex background with all the characters spiralling into it.

[spriggy]

I hope your Joust cabinet was a piece of crap!?

[SirPeale]

I am converting a Joust cabinet to a Mame machine.

If it was empty he might as well, as long as it's tasteful.

If it wasn't...*shakes fist*

[Mangalore]

I like it.

Perhaps rather than having the characters scattered around the wording you could apply a kind of time warp/vortex background with all the characters spiralling into it.

That was exactly my first design idea but my I couldn't get the characters to look right in the vortex area.  I thought a "Twilight Zone" kinda spiral with stars and distorted clocks with the characters would look cool.  Especially if it could be done with a 3d perspective.  My somewhat meager skills couldn't pull it off very well.

No need to shake fists here.  That type of aggression is not warrented.  The cabinet was a working Final Fight conversion.  It is pretty beat up and I was really after a mame cab so I decided not to resto.  I am going to leave it relatively unchanged so it could always be changed back if it ended up being one of the last 10 cabinets left on the planet.