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Title: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: Doom bucket on June 28, 2007, 02:53:01 pm
http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=marqueecomingalongic2.jpg

I'm at a loss as to what to put on the right side. any ideas?
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: shardian on June 28, 2007, 03:27:00 pm
I think the battle scene would look killer if it took up the whole background. Anything else on the right side would throw the whole thing out of balance.

Of course, I'm a major stickler for symmetry - it may work just fine for you.
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: Doom bucket on June 28, 2007, 03:32:03 pm
Can't, not high enough resolution, and itd look wierd stretched out
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: shardian on June 28, 2007, 04:00:07 pm
Try mirroring it and see what you think.
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: BradC on June 28, 2007, 04:33:46 pm
I would also suggest mirroring that image on the other side, but then changing the color scheme on that side. That way it would seem more like a two player FPS where each team is a different color.
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: Doom bucket on June 28, 2007, 05:10:58 pm
awesome idea

thanks
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: Doom bucket on June 29, 2007, 12:07:51 am
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1051/starfiresagajg8.jpg

how about this?
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: bfauska on June 29, 2007, 03:19:18 am
I think you have a pretty sweet marquee there.  I like the 2 sided nature of it with the reds on the one side and the blues on the other.

Very nice, It looks like a commercial video game marquee to me.
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: BradC on June 29, 2007, 10:28:49 am
It looks awesome like that!
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: Kaytrim on June 29, 2007, 10:30:51 am
Very nice job.  I'd call it done. :applaud:
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: shardian on June 29, 2007, 11:40:38 am
I don't like the border on the right side. On the left it appears you are looking through blast doors, but on the right it looks chopped off. Do you have a picture of the guy on the right that isn't chopped off?

Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: Doom bucket on July 06, 2007, 11:49:15 am
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/1985/controlpanelprotocopyvn0.jpg

heres my rough copy for the control panel. it's still in a very rough stage but I'm kind of... running out of  ideas. That is, I don't know what else to put on there and I've run out of sources for high resolution vector images. So if any of you guys can point me to websites that have high res images of like... space tanks or something, that'd be awesome.
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: leapinlew on July 06, 2007, 12:26:08 pm
I like the artwork. I think the text can be bigger and it's hard to read. The R looks like an A.
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: lanman31337 on July 06, 2007, 01:11:55 pm
you should add an egg beater to the picture, a little hardware wars reminisce
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: shardian on July 06, 2007, 02:07:46 pm
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/1985/controlpanelprotocopyvn0.jpg

heres my rough copy for the control panel. it's still in a very rough stage but I'm kind of... running out of  ideas. That is, I don't know what else to put on there and I've run out of sources for high resolution vector images. So if any of you guys can point me to websites that have high res images of like... space tanks or something, that'd be awesome.

The balance of the image is way off. It is very obvious that it is a cut/paste job -  specifically the girl and the ship. You might want to play with each individual image and try to spread you color theme throughout the CPO.
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: hng on July 06, 2007, 07:39:01 pm
Quote from: Doom bucket
I'm kind of... running out of  ideas. That is, I don't know what else to put on there

how about the controls?

maybe its just me, but I haaaaaate when there's so much going on, that it looks like a movie trailer with buttons sticking out of it. You should start with your control layout, and then see how you can fit stuff in.
Title: Re: Suggestions on improving my marquee design?
Post by: Doom bucket on July 07, 2007, 12:03:25 am
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/5822/controlpanelprotoversioji4.jpg

I think I went a little overboard