Dedicated Mr Do backglass

[kcorcoran]

In the effort to build myself a dedicated Mr Do / Universal Cabinet I aquired a Mr Do Backglass (not cheap!), scanned it and traced it in illustrator.

I still have a little color matching to do and then I'll send it out to get printed on adhesive vinyl to check the colors against the original. Then I'll put the original on ebay to make some of my money back on it...

THEN i'll upload it to the artwork site. haha.

Check it out.

A little bit of a pain since all the subtle color changes in it are basically hand laid screens so I made each color change a seperate shape. Blurred the image in photoshop to 'mix' the screened areas for an average color and sample that.

top is the pieced together scan.
bottom is the repro trace.

[zorg]

thank's for this nice addition, you've done a grat job with the color matching, just the lower left (pink and purple) seem's a little bit cearest than the scan.

anyway color matching is a real nigthmare, and I guess it could not be really accurate. it dependson the history of the original you are working from


I'm impatient to see it on AAL

[kcorcoran]

Those lower left and right corners were the first areas I worked on.. I was going to do most of this repro in actual vector gradients but it was too much a pain in the a**.

Also.. the colors down there were mached before I did any color correction to the scan so those were mainly the areas I needed to revisit.

k.

[Stingray]

It takes a lot of patience to trace something like that. Well done.

-S

[rohan]

Wow, it's so hypnotic ...I can't look away...Well done KCorkoran...It's so very Tron-esque

[Ravage]

No chance you could scan your monitor bezel is there as my dedicated missing it.
I know the AAL has a "universal bezel", but I saw someone elses mr do cab the other day and the bezel arts much more complicated than that vector and would love to vector it and get one made for my cab
Cheers
Rav

[kcorcoran]

actually all i have for this project so far is a working PCB with jamma adapter, marquee, backglass, green brick CPO (which i really don't want to use. rather use the original CPO).

i just put a WTB out on RVGAC for a good condition bezel. i'll buy it if someone has it then sell it after i vectorize it.

looks like the one on AAL is accurate though from what I've seen in photos though i havent seen a real one up close in a long time.

my question to you is...
do you think you could take some detailed measurements of your universal cabinet?
looks like i'm going to have to build one since i havent seen one available anywhere.

best bet would be to tape some brown packing paper to the side and trace out the outline of the cabinet.. then take some inside width measurements...

i could draw up a rough sketch and and show you the measurements i'm looking for if you'll measure it for me.

let me know.
 

[rotheblog]

Keith,

Did you ever release your vector trace of the Mr. Do! Backglass to Local Arcade and to the public?

Jeff

[zorg]

Did you ever release your vector trace of the Mr. Do! Backglass to Local Arcade and to the public?

AFAIK nop 

but one is comming + bezel check
http://vectorzorg.free.fr/WIP/#mrdo_upright_zorg
I'm tracing this one on request from MrDO for  the MAME Artwork project

I'm currently sticked by the color gradient on the central circle, it consist in a lot of dot gradients.

Jeff if you want the file in his current state lmk.

[kcorcoran]

actually this completely fell off my radar when I moved out to Cleveland. Sorry everyone.

And what's worse. I have NO idea where that file is now. I think i've gone through at least one hard drive since then.

All that work. uggg.

I ended up finally finding a very clean original dedicated Mr Do though after moving out here on ebay. Only $300.

http://www.keithcorcoran.com/arcade/mrdo/

I could try to find the file but can't promise anything now that it's over 2 years.

 

[rotheblog]

I would be interested in taking a look at the file in the current state it is in with the scan you are working from.  I don't have the machine, and have only seen one in person, so I don't know anything about the dot pattern you are talking about.

Send it to rothecreations at gmail dot com.  I appreciate you offering.

[zorg]

Send it to rothecreations at gmail dot com.  I appreciate you offering.

Jeff you have mail