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[Pop Bumper Pete]

Speaking of which, have you ever seen this?

Nup, I have never seen that
Looks like a disaster

 

[shiva]

Nup, I have never seen that
Looks like a disaster

Original prototype design for EBD if others don't know. You could almost see the cardboard sides instead of metal if you look closer. Good thing they decided to change it. :)

 

[StevOz]

May still play with this one a bit...

Nice, though my thinking is that Frankenstein is cool though I would rather spend the night with Elvira...

 

[shiva]

Elvira is on my list... just gathering resources. I though she needed her own banner as there were 3 tables.

 

[shiva]

Was unhappy with the NHL banner, so decided to "fix it", and boy was there a lot to fix. I should know better than to try and rush things...

Any way, here's the new Banner, just in time as training camps are open and the season starts in 2 weeks.

 

[shiva]

Next one is Black Knight. The first version was released in November, but this will contain elements from all 3. Thanks to Pop Bumper Pete and bluenmaize20 (especially for the Backglass without the scoring displays, which saves me a lot of time) I'm getting a good idea of what I wanted to do.

The first thing that needed to be done is the PN logo in the BK style. I've just finished the lettering, and will start adding the flourishs and the borders. This will be BK2k style with the logo I think. I actually started a few days ago, but I did such a piss-poor job of it I had to scrape it and start over. Each element is drawn with the pen tool in photoshop, and is on it's own layer. There is also a black border for each element, also each on it's own layer. 60 plus layers so far... geez what a bitch to do, as this is all image drawn because there is no font for this...

I've also been thinking about a central image. None of the three versions have a style I can do, so it's been a struggle to come up with something. So, with the help of AI for posing and general ideas, plus quite a bit of photoshop work, and then AI and cartooning work, and then some more photoshop work, I've come up with a image. AI may have it's uses, but mostly it falls flat on it's face. The BK Knight Image is the one I am leaning towards, but I do have a couple other test images...

Of course I am very fussy, so may change my mind...

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[shiva]

I'm never gonna do this ever again just for a stupid banner...

So, after looking at the images I got, I came to the realization that it is never going to be easy for me, and I would just have to lump it. As much as I was wishing for a 300 dpi super high res image, just not going to happen. The images I got were just a little too far gone and badly artifacted, so out came Mr Lasso Tool and Mr Curvature Pen and I got down to work. This has taken about 8 hours, and I figure another 8 just to finish this one section.

Of course, this suffered from Williams rather indistinguishable silk screening, and having to fill in the missing art work covered by things like the text and the display graphics, I made a small artistic decision.

F**k it, I will just do it the way I want. So I just drew it like that. Who knows if it's correct? I also decided to remove the blobs by the bird, no idea what it was suppose to be, it looked pretty bad so I just didn't draw it.

Williams really did kind of half-assed the Backglass, didn't they?

Anyway here is the progress so far, looking at it now the image in the thumbnail is almost the same size as the banner, the actual image is 3 times the size.

 

[Pop Bumper Pete]

I like the Pin*Bot

 

[Gin]

Amazing NEW Site Logo!

 

[GeorgeH]

Looks beautiful!

 

[shiva]

Next banner. May still change things, but considering, should be fine. I ran out of gas on this one, took a good look at it last week, and it just wasn't working for me. Between the 2 color bg that was almost impossible to define shapes, 3 separate tables with completely different styles, and very few other resources, I just decided to throw it all out and start over, and just do my own style. So nothing but custom images, and it sort of is a "black knight" theme that is going on.

Even so, this one took a long time to do. The PN text was certainly far more difficult to do than others, and the entire thing pretty much followed suit in that vein. Bit of AI stuff to help out, but mostly photoshop work, about 45 hours or so.

Maybe I have time to do one more, I might be gone for a while as family business, but the next one for December should have a lot of resources to pull from so hopefully far easier. It's a December release game, so you all can guess which one it is.

 

[Pop Bumper Pete]

Shiva, don't burn out just yet. The Pin*Bot banner is amazing

 

[GeorgeH]

Next banner. May still change things, but considering, should be fine. I ran out of gas on this one, took a good look at it last week, and it just wasn't working for me. Between the 2 color bg that was almost impossible to define shapes, 3 separate tables with completely different styles, and very few other resources, I just decided to throw it all out and start over, and just do my own style. So nothing but custom images, and it sort of is a "black knight" theme that is going on.

Even so, this one took a long time to do. The PN text was certainly far more difficult to do than others, and the entire thing pretty much followed suit in that vein. Bit of AI stuff to help out, but mostly photoshop work, about 45 hours or so.

Maybe I have time to do one more, I might be gone for a while as family business, but the next one for December should have a lot of resources to pull from so hopefully far easier. It's a December release game, so you all can guess which one it is.

I think it looks nice.