Wiggy SNES covers

[Seraph Man]

Psst! The booger doesn't show up until Earthworm Jim 2.

Otherwise, very nice.

[sexxie]

Great covers Wiggy!  Is there a way to download the Jungle Book cover?

[djshok]

Nice! I'm really diggin' the Maximum Carnage cover, that's one of my favourite games ever. 

The Uniracers and Sim Earth covers are pretty slick too.  Great job man!

[wiggy]

Psst! The booger doesn't show up until Earthworm Jim 2.

Otherwise, very nice.

Come on, you know me

Maybe I'll chop him out just for you 

Great covers Wiggy!  Is there a way to download the Jungle Book cover?

DL links are all on the 1st page right under the images  

Nice! I'm really diggin' the Maximum Carnage cover, that's one of my favourite games ever.  

The Uniracers and Sim Earth covers are pretty slick too.  Great job man!

Thanks!

You know what's funny, I've never even played Max Carnage.  I've had 99% of my SNES collection for over 10 years (including MC), and I STILL haven't gotten around to playing it.  But, making these covers has really pushed me into playing more SNES.  I'll prolly give it a go this weekend.

Uniracers is one of the few that I just went ahead and made from scratch.  I love the simplicity of the game, and I really felt that a clean set of simple vectors would work well for it  

The Sim covers were all fun and easy.  They're all based on sort of generic things that exist in real life, so finding images is a snap!

[Seraph Man]

Psst! The booger doesn't show up until Earthworm Jim 2.

Otherwise, very nice.

Come on, you know me

Maybe I'll chop him out just for you 

Or maybe you could just add a 2 to that cover.

Kidding. Do what you want. It looks great.

[wiggy]

Fixed 





I'll actually up the high res later (of 1)

[wiggy]

Got a few new ones.

[wiggy]

Seems like Box.com is down at the moment.  I'll up the high res images tomorrow if it's up-and-running again by then.

[wiggy]

I can easily make US/PAL versions of these if anybody wants. 

[AppleQueso]

yeah i don't know if i'm too into that template of yours

the minimalism is very cool and all, but I don't know, the template feels like it's cluttering things up somehow

just my 2cents

[wiggy]

Wait, so the template is minimal but it's cluttering things up?  Am I understanding that correctly?

[AppleQueso]

No no I mean uh

the artwork choices all have this really cool minimalistic quality to them, but the template kinda seems to clutter it up a little to me.

If I were doing this, I'd probably not even worry about stuff like ESRB ratings, number of players type stuff, etc. Probably would amount to a small system logo in the upper corner/on the spine or something.

Again, just sayin'. Not like, ragging on you or anything.

[Arseen]

I think AppleQueso means that the lack of text makes the covers look minimalist, but at the sametime covers have many small details and lack of consistency between ciovers make them look cluttered.

If that is the case I agree.

I like the most of images on the covers really much.
But the lack of text and consistency keep me from using them.
Those and the fact that I'm too comitted to the US Vertical style.

I might use some of the images as alternative front images for games that we don't have retail front image.
That is if it OK with you, that I publish them?
I'll credit you where I can.

[wiggy]

Dude, no worries. I didn't take any offense or anything at all like that   I know that my work isn't gonna be for everyone


I see what you're saying.  Well, here's why my templates are what they are.  I started off making some EXTREMELY minimal templates when I was creating covers for some Saturn/PS2/Wii/etc games.  Here's what I mean by that.







Then I stumbled upon this site and it made me really wanna case up my cartridge games.  So, I started downloading a bunch of Shenske template covers for the N64.  After DL-ing a bunch, I realized that I don't really like the colored spines, whether they're red, purple, green, yellow, etc.  Plus, his templates are a tad too busy for me.  Again, not everyone is gonna dig someone elses style.  That's actually a good sign that you've created good artwork.  If everyone liked it, then it's not really pushing the genre any.  Too vanilla.  But, on the other end, if everyone hates it, then you either made something that sucks, or you're just trying to piss people off

So, I made my own template that better suited my taste but I still wanted to use the art in Shenske's covers in order to make life easier.  This meant making a template that shared a fairly similar layout, at least in terms of the windows for the graphics.  Of course this left me with large, unused areas where all the extra blah blah goes.  It seemed easiest to just recycle that extra junk to fill the space as opposed to searching for artwork to fill the entire front and back (which I'm finding really quite difficult now that I've completely moved away from using original box art).  After finishing the N64 games, I moved on to the SNES titles. 

It wasn't until I ran into a couple of titles for which I couldn't find or hated the original art that I started using non-original art.  At that point, I was deep enough into the project that I wasn't gonna start over from scratch.  So, here I am with this template.  There's definitely things that I'd change about it at this point even if I were to keep all the copyright info and whatnot.  I'm about 100 titles deep now, so there's NO way I'm gonna go back and make those adjustments for my own covers.  I'll prolly tweak it when I'm all done with my current crop of SNES games, which will likely make me wanna do them all over LOL!


For the last batch of templates that I've made or am working on I've moved back to a far more minimalist look like these double UGC cases I made for my portables.








I'm honestly gonna run out of carts to case really soon.  I've been scoping big SNES/SFC lots lately.  I really wanna keep up my pace with these, and I know that running out of carts will really sap my motivation.  Anywho, that's my SUPER DUPER long-winded explanation regarding my templates. 

[wiggy]

I think AppleQueso means that the lack of text makes the covers look minimalist, but at the sametime covers have many small details and lack of consistency between ciovers make them look cluttered.

If that is the case I agree.

This is probably largely due to the transition from original art and all the text on the back, to original art with less text, to original art with no text, then finally on to non-original art with zero text.  I AM revising all of those slowly, but surely.  I posted my variant Chrono Trigger so far.  I've still got a bunch to do, and many of them are some of my fav games, which is why I did them first.  So I really want to get them into a state that matches the newer titles that I've done. 

I like the most of images on the covers really much.
But the lack of text and consistency keep me from using them.
Those and the fact that I'm too comitted to the US Vertical style.

Well thanks!  I can totally understand having already been committed to another template.  It's not like I've been here since the beginning or anything and that MANY folks were also knee deep into their casing long before I showed up.

I might use some of the images as alternative front images for games that we don't have retail front image.
That is if it OK with you, that I publish them?
I'll credit you where I can.

Of course you can use the images and publish them.  It's not like I created most of that art from scratch (some I did, but prolly only about 10 or so, tops).  Just let me know and I can upload just the images if you'd like