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Crystal Castles control panel artwork?
« on: October 24, 2006, 06:51:51 pm »
The short story: Anyone know where I can find high(er) res Crystal Castles control panel artwork?


The Long version:
I'm thinking about redoing my control panel and I'd like to work in some artwork.

The design of my cabinet is a somewhat demoralizing hodgepodge. On the bright side it reminds me and my friends more of an authentic arcade than any other cabinet with a cohesive theme.

The prized artwork is a custom marquee that a friend of mine created for me (Note it says, "Joey's Arcade Cabinet" not "Atari Crystal Castles" as expected):
http://singleclick.com/gallery/v/Joe-Elwell/album395/DSC08033.jpg.html

The side art has the remnants of it's former self (Time Pilot 84) with stickers that I've collected over the years:
http://singleclick.com/gallery/v/Joe-Elwell/album/DSC07301.JPG.html

The control panel "artwork" (if it can be called that) is atrocious at best (at least, pictured with a baby next to it, I can hopefully keep some of my dignity):
http://singleclick.com/gallery/v/Joe-Elwell/album324/DSC06429.jpg.html

When I redo the control panel I'm thinking about integrating a more cohesive artwork theme. I'm not even sure I want to continue mimicking Crystal Castles. But I'd like send a high res crystal castles control panel to my artistically inclined friend to get us thinking about ideas.

So far I've found this:
Low Res artwork including control panel(s)
High Res flyer
High Res artwork but no control panel
Company that sells the control panel
Vector files including speaker overlay (I'm surprised this website isn't listed in the Artwork FAQ sticky.

Obviously I can't just buy the printed control panel, because I need to customize it to support 4 joysticks, among other things. Which means I could use any hi-res Crystal Castles artwork since the control panel may end up being a hodgepodge of Crystal Castle artwork.

Any pointers or suggestions would be appreciated, including ideas for sideart (although as I pointed out, part of me likes that the thing is a frankenbeast so I may not go for a 100% cohesive theme)
Joseph Elwell.
P.S. I already submitted my cabinet to CrapMAME. Sadly they're not accepting applications.

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Re: Crystal Castles control panel artwork?
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2006, 05:14:26 am »

So far I've found this:
Vector files including speaker overlay (I'm surprised this website isn't listed in the Artwork FAQ sticky.)

don't be surprised, this site is just a partial (vector files only) backup of AAL, that I maintain.
all the files in vectorlib are available thru AAL.
I'm on the planning stage

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Re: Crystal Castles control panel artwork?
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2006, 08:50:42 pm »
all the files in vectorlib are available thru AAL.

But that's not true. Vectorlib has a crystal castles speaker illustrator file that AAL does not.
Joseph Elwell.

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Re: Crystal Castles control panel artwork?
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2006, 04:46:44 am »
But that's not true. Vectorlib has a crystal castles speaker illustrator file that AAL does not.
Joseph Elwell.

huuuu ...

http://localarcade.com/arcade_art/details.php?image_id=936
traced by myself and upped on 24.07.2005

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I'm on the planning stage

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Re: Crystal Castles control panel artwork?
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2006, 02:36:26 pm »
huuuu ...

http://localarcade.com/arcade_art/details.php?image_id=936
traced by myself and upped on 24.07.2005

:D
You might want to change the keywords (if that's possible). A search for "crystal castles", or "crystal" or "castles" doesn't hit your speaker grill.

Thanks for creating the speaker grill illustrator file.
Joseph Elwell.

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Re: Crystal Castles control panel artwork?
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2006, 06:53:46 am »
keywords adjusted.
I'm on the planning stage