Artist's Corner > Universal Game Case Covers
TF's Nintendo Fusion Covers for UGC
TyrannicalFascist:
--- Quote from: zakurowrath on March 29, 2012, 07:30:48 PM ---I really like them, the fact you have the original cover art with the extra artwork in the background, gives it a special touch than just 3 TV shaped boxes on the back. I can't wait to see what the rest of the Mario games look like, you're an amazing artist. And thanks alot for the template :)
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Thanks, I appreciate it!
Here's a special pair of NES covers - Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (or Super Mario Bros. 2J if you prefer).
The art on that first one took a butt-load of work to clean it up, but I think it was worth the work. 10 points to anyone who knows where the art came from! If you look at the original source, you can see all the text and unnecessary things like UPC and the Nintendo Seal that needed to be removed, let alone extend and clean it up since the can I got had a lot of dings and marks.
Also thanks to AppleQueso for making that vectorized The Lost Levels logo for me! That is actually the official logo for The Lost Levels, you can even see it on the cover art for Super Mario All-Stars.
DOWNLOAD: http://www.box.com/s/e5928a871b467ce25878
zakurowrath:
OMG that cover, isn't that from an old issue of Nintendo Power? That is so cool! You cleaned all that up, that's just wow, im speechless ;D
Oh the link goes to the template instead of your NES Fusion box folder, here's the correct one for ya to copy and paste: http://www.box.com/s/e5928a871b467ce25878
;)
AppleQueso:
--- Quote from: TyrannicalFascist on March 29, 2012, 11:18:49 PM ---Also thanks to AppleQueso for making that vectorized The Lost Levels logo for me! That is actually the official logo for The Lost Levels, you can even see it on the cover art for Super Mario All-Stars.
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It really was nothing. Like an hour or two of work at most.
I take it you're experimenting with other N64 cover ideas too?
Velmeran:
--- Quote from: AppleQueso on March 30, 2012, 08:46:41 AM ---
--- Quote from: TyrannicalFascist on March 29, 2012, 11:18:49 PM ---Also thanks to AppleQueso for making that vectorized The Lost Levels logo for me! That is actually the official logo for The Lost Levels, you can even see it on the cover art for Super Mario All-Stars.
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It really was nothing. Like an hour or two of work at most.
I take it you're experimenting with other N64 cover ideas too?
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He's got to be --- I've found once you start down a path of doing a custom template for 1 system... you start doing them for all other systems that could occupy the same shelf space.
Just makes them look nicer and more unified and once you start it's hard to stop.
TyrannicalFascist:
@Zakurowrath - Yep, you got it - Nintendo Power #52. Even though it's supposed to be for Mario All-Stars, it shows basically The Lost Levels, and I came across that cover while searching and it looked perfect for what I wanted.
Here's the original: http://www.mariowiki.com/images/7/7f/Npissue52.jpg
Thanks for the catch on the download link. I've fixed it in my post. I must've been worn out enough from all that photoshopping that I copied the wrong link. :P
@AppleQueso - That logo came in very handy on several of my covers now. I'm still a novice at redrawing logos. If you don't mind taking on another one, would you mind remaking the "Special" part of the Super Mario Bros. Special logo? It doesn't have to be perfectly the same, just look nice and fancy and similar to that, kind of reminiscent of "Deluxe" on Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. I can't find any kind of decent version of that SMB Special logo anywhere, probably because it's so obscure. I'll be putting it below the bottom right corner on the Super Mario Bros. logo I used on The Lost Levels cover. http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/smbs1.jpg
--- Quote from: Velmeran on March 30, 2012, 10:23:10 AM ---He's got to be --- I've found once you start down a path of doing a custom template for 1 system... you start doing them for all other systems that could occupy the same shelf space.
Just makes them look nicer and more unified and once you start it's hard to stop.
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Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny...consume you it will! </Yoda>
As far as N64, early on in this thread I experimented a little with it, and came up with some very very early possibilities of what it would look like:
My original though (left) was to have red where the black on the SNES was, which would match the spine. Then like SNES, there would be a colored background on the front and back, using related art. In the case of Goldeneye, I thought black would look cool (incidentally giving that cover a PAL-ish feel), though on other games it would have been different, like maybe blue for Super Mario 64. It was suggested that maybe alternatively I should keep the colors used on N64 boxes, leading to having all of them have a yellow back and a blue front (right). I'm not sure which I prefer, since the yellow and blue definitely captures that N64 feel, but consequently all the covers would look much more identical to each other than the NES and SNES ones we're making here. I also thought the best place for the controller/memory card/rumble pak/etc icons was below the main art on the far right, since there wouldn't be room on the red. Maybe I should do a mockup of another game using the first option - maybe Super Mario 64 as I mentioned?
Thoughts?