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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: Mangalore on April 26, 2005, 01:13:14 am
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I am converting a Joust cabinet to a Mame machine.
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Pretty neat, but I agree it's a tad busy. At the least you might want to make your words pop out more.
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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.
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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
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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.
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I am converting a Joust cabinet to a Mame machine.
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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.
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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!"
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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.
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I hope your Joust cabinet was a piece of crap!? ;)
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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*
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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. :P