JDavis's "Modern" style covers (Latest: Perfect Dark | WIP: METAL GEAR!?)

[Robert Martino]

@JDavis

Who is that kingdom hearts 2 copy signed by ? I cant really read it so Im not sure who it is xD

[JDavis]

Quinton Flynn, the voice of Axel.

I've also got both Street Fighter IV and Super SFIV signed by Kyle Hebert (Ryu)

[larryinc64]

Hey, JDavis, did you see the Mario 64 and Kart 64 PSD i posted last page?
All you have to do id fill in the back text, Screenshots, Copyright, ESRB and Spine product #.

[NightBlader]

I was never a fan of the vertical N64 covers, but these are very nice.

My only problem is that the Goldeneye cover has a typo.
It says "Feel youe weapons recoil..." instead of "Feel your weapons recoil..."

Other than that, very nice work.

[JDavis]

Hey, JDavis, did you see the Mario 64 and Kart 64 PSD i posted last page?
All you have to do id fill in the back text, Screenshots, Copyright, ESRB and Spine product #.

And barcode. I still have to do the Controller Pak icon as well for MK64

I'm trying to clean up the art some as well, while I'm at it, since it's nowhere near 300 dpi

I was never a fan of the vertical N64 covers, but these are very nice.

My only problem is that the Goldeneye cover has a typo.
It says "Feel youe weapons recoil..." instead of "Feel your weapons recoil..."

Other than that, very nice work.

Yeeeesh, I've really got to learn to spellcheck. I'll get that fixed and re-uploaded soon. Also going to change the ESRB on the back of Super Mario World to read:

Visit www.esrb.org
for more ratings
information.

Since I noticed that's what Super Mario 64 DS (and probably other games without content descriptors) says where the descriptors should go.

[JDavis]

Life's been busy. Here's larryinc64's Super Mario 64:

[larryinc64]

Looks good, can't wait too see what you did with the MK64 base. I may whip up some Zelda 64 cover bases for you.
Need a Yoshi Story or a Star Fox 64 cover? Found some good art for that recently.

[JDavis]

Well, let's... slow down a second.

While I appreciate the enthusiasm and helpful intent... I mainly intend to use covers I've made myself.

I realize I'm not being especially speedy at putting these things together, and that's part of why I'm working on getting the template presentable so that anyone else who wants to use this cover style doesn't have to wait on my slowness.

I'm not trying to be snobbish or whatever. I enjoy making these. Art, particularly photoshop stuff, has been one of my hobbies since I was in highschool, carried through as my minor in college, but nowadays these covers are about the only practice I get at it.

And there's just something really nice about looking at a shelf and seeing games in covers that you yourself spent hours putting together. It's that personal touch. This is my "A Link to the Past". There are many like it, but this one is mine.

...And it'll help me cull my collection down a bit. I'm not going to make a cover for a game unless I've spent some time with it... And if after playing a game for a while I decide I don't really like it enough to spend several hours making a cover for it, then it's probably not worth the shelf space.

So... if you're putting the covers together for yourself, that's fine, but if you're just trying to help me out... save yourself the time and just link me to the art

I threw together some blank covers for the many games I haven't gotten around to yet. They're grayscale 'cause I don't feel like wasting color ink on them. I'm gonna print these out, write the names on the fronts/spine with a sharpie, and throw them in the cases. That way I can at least tell what my games are. There's a small gray border around the outside so I know where to cut 'em out.

[larryinc64]

Its alright.
I just got all this art that I want to do something with, but I'm going retail for my covers, and Onion cases are probably not going to be clear so Inlays are out for now. I may make some posters, got a big empty wall in my room behind me.

I tacked Yoshi Story and Star Fox on after I posted it because I just came across some art, including a uncrowned image of the front box art.

I'll post the art I found into my Box.NET account.
HERE IS A LINK
Still working on posting more.

[JDavis]

Okay, I'm not dead! Been away from the site for a couple weeks while I focused on some other stuff... I'm always juggling too many plates >__>

Anyway, one thing I worked on was getting those temporary black & white covers on my games:



Probably wouldn't have taken nearly as long if I could resist the urge to doodle the logos instead of just writing them. I've also got plenty of loose carts there, since I don't have enough cases. That's going to stay the case until the Onion cases are out.

Anyway, I also realized during all of that that... I forgot 32X. Understandable, since I only have two games for the thing:



No other progress has been made on the template or any covers

[banisher]

I really like these, can you do Super Mario Kart

[JDavis]

*blows the dust off the thread*

*COUGH COUGH GASP CHOKE COUGH*  That was unwise.


Anyway, so.... Between casing all my games (that were in cases) with generic covers and trying to focus my efforts on finishing "the template" instead of just making more covers.... I completely killed my motivation to work on any of it. And then since I wasn't working on it, I stopped visiting the forum as well >__>;

BUT! Then something happened that gave me some inspiration!

My other favorite game series (besides Zelda) came out with a new entry... or demo, depending on who you ask. After playing it quite a bit I felt like going back and playing some of the older games in the series again including the mostly forgotten original games... And that brings us to the current work in progress:



I'm still not casing my NES games until the Onion cases are available (and I get more space), but as long as my muse wants me to work on a cover for the thing (which will coincidentally involve me working on the NES's side of the template), I should probably go along.

The front there is all placeholder. I'm planning to redraw all of that and try my best to match Yoji Shinkawa's (the lead artist on the series since the PS1) art style. Also going to give Snake his bandana

The cover as a whole is meant to match the Essential Collection covers for MGS1, MGS2, and MGS3 (even though I don't own said collection), hence the anachronistic Kojima Productions and Konami logos (instead of Ultra Games) and largely single-colored back.

Also because I don't really like the shoddy NES port of the game, I've used the original Japanese MSX version's color scheme for the logo. The  concrete texture for the back is also inspired by the Japanese MSX case. It's orange because... Well, the game feels "orange" to me. *shrug* Kojima went with red, blue, and green respectively for MGS1-3, which all fit perfectly, but I think this one's "orange"

Once I'm done with it, I'll probably adapt the cover for a PS2 case with Metal Gear 2's logo as well, for anyone wants to use it for the second disc of MGS3:Subsistance that had the MSX ports.

I really like these, can you do Super Mario Kart

With the upcoming release of Mario Kart 8, I'm likely to get inspired to do just that. Gotta finish this one first, though.

[JDavis]

Finished redrawing TX-55 Metal Gear. Next up is Snake himself.

[segamer]

The ESRB does have a rating for Metal Gear and they gave it an "E".

http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=4913&Title=Metal%20Gear&searchkeyword=Metal%20Gear

[JDavis]

That's actually the erroneously listed rating for "Metal Gear Solid" for Gameboy Color (better known to fans and those in Japan as Metal Gear: Ghost Babel)