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Universal Nintendo Handhelds Cover Thread
KaiserWAVE:
Good work! It was well worth the effort, turned out great :)
Doom:
--- Quote from: shenske on June 20, 2010, 01:21:11 AM ---After working on this off and on since October of last year its finally finished. Both covers we have on the site have pixilated front artwork so i had to touch up every little detail by hand. Now i am very proud to have it complete ;D
Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins
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Could you detail what went into this cover? Did you layer over the original cover and trace? Your post indicates you didn't just put the cover through a filter and call it complete.
shenske:
--- Quote from: Doom on June 20, 2010, 11:05:13 PM ---Could you detail what went into this cover? Did you layer over the original cover and trace? Your post indicates you didn't just put the cover through a filter and call it complete.
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Sure I can :)
Basically filters would not really help me with this image. I had to zoom in very close to the front artwork and manually smudge the pixels to make the appropriate color and get rid of pixelation. There was also a lot of cases where i had to completely retrace and recolor.
The spine logo was changed because the spine area was not really fitting to have a square logo (obviously long horizontal logos work best). It took me forever to figure out what font to choose that would match the original font used in the original logo. After closer examination i found out it is the same font the Madden games used prior to 2006. The spine logo also matches very nicely next to my remake of the first Super Mario Land for the Game Boy.
The back has everything retyped with a filtered image of the front artwork behind all the text. The original box was very bland only having a solid monochrome color for the background so i decided to liven it up a bit while still keeping the feeling of the original.
Here is a comparison shot from the original scanned artwork we have on the site vs. what mine looks like.
There you go Doom ol' buddy :)
juan0tron:
Looks awesome! For all the time I've been on this site I wish I had more to contribute and make awesome covers like you do. Keep it up :)
Doom:
Thank you for the info Shenske.