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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: damiensfear on June 20, 2009, 10:12:36 pm
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Hi guys
I'm currently building my first cab and have been working on the artwork and this is what i have for the CP.
What do you guys think and what should I change?
If you havent guessed the cab is zombie themed (I REALLY love zombies lol) and the photo is a edited photo of me :D
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I'm definitely a fan of horror movies. I would be scared to touch the cp with that motive :laugh: . I think it looks great. nice touch with the blood and all.
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Wow!!
Very nice! What's the rest of the cab look like?
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Thanks guys ;D
At the moment thats all the artwork i have done but the plan is to keep the theme black, red and zombies.
not sure how im going to do the side art tho as i want photos and working on the cp art at 300dpi in photoshop killed the speed of my pc!
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Friggin' AWESOME!
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Just finished my Marquee
Once again let me know what you think guys
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I think that's it's wicked as hell!
Encryptor
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I love zombies, but I also like everyone being able to play my cab. I think that would scare the kiddos away! (This could be seen as a positive, though) ;D
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Just finished my Marquee
Once again let me know what you think guys
I think you need a little more depth to the "arcade", it seems a little flat and too white. Also some of the blood appears to be brighter than any of the blood you have on the cp.
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I think you need a little more depth to the "arcade", it seems a little flat and too white. Also some of the blood appears to be brighter than any of the blood you have on the cp.
The blood in the lettering was brighter so that it keeps it standing out.
however I have darkened the blood over the text slightly and added some depth to the text (or at least tried to lol)
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Much better!
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Freakin awesome... :notworthy:
If you have video expertise...You could take the scene with Bub(DayofDead) saluting and have Mame fade in the bottom...pretty cool intro...
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Bub FTW! (2nd greatest zombie ever....next to David Emgee (Flyboy) in Dawn of the Dead '68)
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You could take the scene with Bub(DayofDead) saluting and have Mame fade in the bottom...pretty cool intro...
I really like this idea might have to give it a go.
Im using hyperspin for my FE and was planning on using game themes but i think now im just gonna make a theme for each console i have and keep it zombies ;D
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Shutdown video could be Capt Rhodes meeting his end.
CHOKE ON 'EM!!!
(http://uashome.alaska.edu/~dfgriffin/website/rhodes.jpg)
(http://classic-horror.com/images/brutal_day_full.jpg)
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friggin awesome! zombie cab FTW!!!
whats the cab design you're gonna go with?
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Im building the arcade paradise 3 cab http://www.arcadeparadise.org/arcade/ap3/ (http://www.arcadeparadise.org/arcade/ap3/)
It seemed to have the best instructions for a first time builder like myself ;D
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I was just looking at their suggested 4-way stick. Don't get the E-stik (or Happ Universal). Go with the Ms Pac-man 4-way from Tornado Terry's (http://www.tornadoterrys.com/surplus.htm). It's an awesome dedicated stick.
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I'm planning on simplifying the cp layout to 6 buttons and a 4/8 way joystick per player to make it simpler for me to wire and i found this kit http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/cabbuildno1.htm (http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/cabbuildno1.htm)
I wanna use a kit as its my first build and i really have no idea all the bits i need to buy so i figured get a kit because it has everything ;D
UPDATE
Just finished my first draft of the side art. This is very low res compared to the real file (which weighs in at a hefty 4GB!) so its not quite as clear
The text does show up well at full size but is slightly blurry in the preview. Once again feel free to let me know what you think.
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Love it!!
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Funny, we would crap all over a cab that relies on large pics of the OWNER for its artwork, but infect the owner, cover him in blood, and toss in a healthy appetite for flesh, and suddenly it's fine. :D
That's how much zombies rule.
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Man that side art is freakin sweet...As for Hyperspin...good luck...( :o thats going to be a lot of themes)
All of a sudden, my mind is flooded with any zombie realted material you can use...
White Zombie for music...(Track 10 or 4 , i cant remember....from devil music, got the commentary from NOLD with the cool riff in the background) ....hmmm Misfits...
Oh...try this link...
http://www.twilightcreationsinc.com/zombies/
Its a zombie board game that friends of mine play alot...it has art that you might can use and also a cool zombie mp3...(bottom of page)
OH OMG!!!!...Gota get Linnea Quigley (ROTLD) doing the naked dead dance!!!!!
:laugh2: :dizzy:
Man... with a zombie cab , the possiblilites are endless....
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White Zombie for music...(Track 10 or 4 , i cant remember....from devil music, got the commentary from NOLD with the cool riff in the background) ....hmmm Misfits...
Music-wise, it's gotta be Goblin. Any Dawn of the Dead (or Dario Argento) fan understands this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpAAQrJ93w8
Or there's always Fabio Frizzi's City of the Living Dead soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHU0FP1xRmg
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Man I forgot all about Goblin... :banghead:
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Man that side art is freakin sweet...As for Hyperspin...good luck...( :o thats going to be a lot of themes)
The plan for hyperspin is to have one theme for each console and use is as a default theme for each game i.e.
Mame theme
Snes theme
Genesis theme
etc
as for the zombie game I :censored: love that game. many a weekend have been spent playing that game ;D
Funny, we would crap all over a cab that relies on large pics of the OWNER for its artwork, but infect the owner, cover him in blood, and toss in a healthy appetite for flesh, and suddenly it's fine. :D
That's how much zombies rules.
I used pics of me as I'm a proformer and spend alot of time dressed up as a zombie all year round! plus i love zombies and classic zombie games like resident evil and house of the dead so i figured it world be fitting
I also have a HUGE ego so that added to the design direction alittle lol
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"Zombies!!!" is a great board game. We used to have more time to play it. I miss it.
Just to add to my zombi love, I'm at work right now listening to the audiobook version of The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. ;D
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Man that side art is freakin sweet...As for Hyperspin...good luck...( :o thats going to be a lot of themes)
The plan for hyperspin is to have one theme for each console and use is as a default theme for each game i.e.
Mame theme
Snes theme
Genesis theme
etc
as for the zombie game I :censored: love that game. many a weekend have been spent playing that game ;D
Funny, we would crap all over a cab that relies on large pics of the OWNER for its artwork, but infect the owner, cover him in blood, and toss in a healthy appetite for flesh, and suddenly it's fine. :D
That's how much zombies rules.
I used pics of me as I'm a proformer and spend alot of time dressed up as a zombie all year round! plus i love zombies and classic zombie games like resident evil and house of the dead so i figured it world be fitting
I also have a HUGE ego so that added to the design direction alittle lol
Ok I see where you going ( with the hyperspin themes)
Hey nothing wrong with showing ego, That cab is your baby...rock on man!!!
speaking of performing.....here what my friend did one weekend...it was funny because I got one of my friends to borrow a rascal from an elderly man and he went as a zombie on a rascal...
http://media.www.theeastcarolinian.com/media/storage/paper915/news/2009/06/03/News/Zombies-3745719.shtml
When I dress up...it more halloweenish than zombie, heres a shot of me...
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OK so I have been working on some themes for hyperspin and this is what i have done so far
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRZzxor9GKA[/youtube]
(sorry for the crappy capture lol)
since this video i have removed the blue pointer and all the video overlays.
All the background images are Desktop wallpapers i found odd google with the blood splats added by me ;D I have tried to keep animation to a min to keep it less cartoonie. also there is very little difference between themes so that overall it looks less messy.
I plan to edit all the console logos to make them look bloody lol
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I wish i could see it...( work internet blocks video)
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Ok so i have replaced all the wheel sound fx in hyperspin for gunshots and zombie moans but i have one question for you guys. Does anyone know why it will use the sounds for a while but then it just stops using them and stays quiet?
Its really confusing me now lol
I have also finished all the skins for the different consoles and used each skin as default for its console submenu (if that makes any sence lol
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I beleive, and you should ask on the Hyperspin forum, that the sounds are all randomized and sometimes do not "fire". Now if it goes completely quiet all the time i would say theres a bad sound in your pack that may have crashed the sound driver perhaps.
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Check the Hyperspin website...I think I saw a past thread there about the sound pack...I could be wrong, but I think there was thread where you had to have a certain number of sound mp3 to get it to work right...( I COULD BE WRONG)...I think I am going to double check....
MEANWHILE BEHIND THE FACADE OF THIS INNOCENT LOOKING BOOKSTORE.....
I say your post on HS....
BBB right....short and sweet and mp3s.
Now I think there is a bug...I made a fighter theme for my fighter games and i had placed a sound byte to play when i select a game....i saved it as an mp3 using editing software, but it wouldnt play correctly...I had to end up burning a cd with that sound byte and then rip it back to mp3 on wmplayer...
Never could figure that one out to save my life...
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I was bored so i (Badly) did a mockup of the cab in photoshop lol
Still cant work out the sound issue in hs but n/m im happy with the work i have done today
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MEANWHILE BEHIND THE FACADE OF THIS INNOCENT LOOKING BOOKSTORE.....
Though you're quoting from White Zombie, that's actually a Batman tv series (60s) quote. Not really horror related.
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No Ginsu, I was quoting from William Dozier, the narrator of the Batman series, and his voice sample was used on the White Zombie album.
Get it straight...damn you! :laugh:
I was listening to WZ yesterday when i was writing...so sue me...
Damien....The cab looks great...I cant wait to see it when it is completed...But promise me this....find a maniquin, and fix him up to look like Tarman and have em clutching the side of the cab, place a speaker in his head and have it say "BRAIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSS!"
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Damien....The cab looks great...I cant wait to see it when it is completed...But promise me this....find a maniquin, and fix him up to look like Tarman and have em clutching the side of the cab, place a speaker in his head and have it say "BRAIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSS!"
MUST.... DO..... THIS..... ;D
just finished a draft of the intro vid not 100% sure about it tho but it will do for now
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rU2FZivWo[/youtube]
The footage is from the intro for resident evil 1
the music is by a band called send more paramedics (they are a "zombiecore" punk band but they did a special cd of horror music)
And a couple of samples from dawn of the dead 2004 ;D
Let me know what you think cos i aint sure
Update
Tried the vid as the hs intro and it looks cool lol also i have resized it to take up the full screen cos i had rendered it wrong
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I'll try to check it out this weekend...
Hey check this site out...
http://www.arcticnightfall.com/tarman/
( found it when i was looking for the tarman pic)
Seems to me you can get the soundtracks for ROTLD and Zombi...
also some pics...might can help you out...
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ok ok. the artwork is killer. Now get to building the damn cab man! lol
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ok ok. the artwork is killer. Now get to building the damn cab man! lol
Its getting built as we speak lol I have trusted a friend of mine to do it as he has far better woodworking skills than i do
I lack the ability to put up shelves let alone a arcade cabinet ;D He is taking his sweet :censored: time tho. I also need to get the money together for printing and controllers so it should be a couple of weeks lol
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No Ginsu, I was quoting from William Dozier, the narrator of the Batman series, and his voice sample was used on the White Zombie album.
Get it straight...damn you! :laugh:
I almost said that it was William Dozier, but didn't want to be too specific.
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Its getting built as we speak lol I have trusted a friend of mine to do it as he has far better woodworking skills than i do
WHAT!!!!....Don't make us track you down!!!!...get in and get your hands dirty in the sawdust!!!
Trust me...its not as hard as you think...being new to woodworking is intimidating...I was the same way...but after i forced myself to just "do it" i don't regret it...It feels good to come to my house and see "my second child"...Now, I am like "Bring it ON!"...Next month I'm going to try to restore a cab...
all joking aside...seriously Damien...Do it, you wont believe how proud it will make you feel.
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If you seriously want to zombify that cab, you'd nail boards across the front of it like a boarded up door or window :lol
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Its getting built as we speak lol I have trusted a friend of mine to do it as he has far better woodworking skills than i do
WHAT!!!!....Don't make us track you down!!!!...get in and get your hands dirty in the sawdust!!!
Trust me...its not as hard as you think...being new to woodworking is intimidating...I was the same way...but after i forced myself to just "do it" i don't regret it...It feels good to come to my house and see "my second child"...Now, I am like "Bring it ON!"...Next month I'm going to try to restore a cab...
all joking aside...seriously Damien...Do it, you wont believe how proud it will make you feel.
Oh dont worry im still gettin stuck in and getting my hands dirty! but under strict supervision lol im not very trustworthy with tools. I get a bit, lets say "smashy" lol
If you seriously want to zombify that cab, you'd nail boards across the front of it like a boarded up door or window :lol
I really like this idea i'v been stuck on ideas for the front as im not using a coindoor so thought it would be a bit plain but i might give this a go and see how it looks
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Of course, if you want to go all out, you'd have to install a window, board it up, put a zombie inside, some green light, a fog machine, and a solenoid that knocks on the inside.
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He is taking his sweet :censored: time tho.
Thats cause some of us have actual jobs :P
Should be finished with the build this week, gonna get some pics either up or to you soon
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Ooooooo snap. ;D
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He is taking his sweet :censored: time tho.
Thats cause some of us have actual jobs :P
Should be finished with the build this week, gonna get some pics either up or to you soon
:notworthy: :lol
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Got nothing to do tomorrow so it will be ready for artwork as soon as you've got it, and now i can work on my (obviously going to be better than yours) cab!!! YAY
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Got nothing to do tomorrow so it will be ready for artwork as soon as you've got it, and now i can work on my (obviously going to be better than yours) cab!!! YAY
Yayness on cab completion ;D
Is there any chance a mod can move this thread to project announcements so i can start adding build pics and stuffs?
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Just start a new thread for the project. This is fine as an art thread.
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This artwork is incredibly good. Nice work. I like the changes you made to the marque text, and I have to say the nose indentation and hand prints are great touches. No comments on the videos right now since work blocks them.
Good luck with the build.
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OK so I have been working on some themes for hyperspin and this is what i have done so far
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRZzxor9GKA[/youtube]
(sorry for the crappy capture lol)
since this video i have removed the blue pointer and all the video overlays.
All the background images are Desktop wallpapers i found odd google with the blood splats added by me ;D I have tried to keep animation to a min to keep it less cartoonie. also there is very little difference between themes so that overall it looks less messy.
I plan to edit all the console logos to make them look bloody lol
Very very cool. Love it.
Hit us up on the HyperSpin site about the sounds issue and we can look into it further...
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Not a fan of the Horror/Zombie Genre, but i can appreciate one hell of a good looking cab! Fantastic work right there ;)
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I think it's a great theme to go with. This was my initial idea also although I have not pursued it now. I grabbed lots of ideas together at the time, maybe a couple of these may inspire you further.
For the intro I had in mind using a sound bed of radio tuning as it has an odd feel like this -> [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYZjYoSxRfk[/youtube]
Some test sequence picture for good measure -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVsXUZnn9bY
Perhaps some cheap grindhouse crackly sound/picture and comforting music. Short intro of that combined with fast break point/cut scenes with the above thrown in in short bursts and the odd zombie scene for good measure -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZmlEh34unM
Couple of extra pieces
http://www.overkillpostercreator.com/
http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_poster/28_weeks_later_2007.htm
I actually picked up two of the Style E poster for the side as it isn't named. Anyway, look forward to seeing it all come together :cheers: