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How do you feel about VGBoxArt.com?
juan0tron:
Yeah, seems like a waste of time. Ran across it multiple times trying to find a site like this. I do not need a cover for Mario 64 on the playstation, thank you.
One interesting custom cover I saw was FFX redesigned for a jewel case, but the template was a mess and doesn't even seem worth trying for.
Shugo Takahashi:
--- Quote from: Lumberjack42 on March 03, 2009, 07:56:44 AM ---I can't stand that site. They have no quality control whatsoever, nor do they check if the cover is actually an original composition.
Case in point:
http://vgboxart.com/view/19209/star.wars.episode.i.racer/?replies=13
Look familiar? Well, it should...
http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?game_id=5852
How about this one?
http://vgboxart.com/view/19156/sonic.adventure.2/?replies=18
Now where have I seen that before?
Oh, yeah! Here:
http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?game_id=3817
and here:
http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?cover_id=7260
Look familiar don't they. And if you read the comments you'll see that I've asked them to remove them and oddly enough, they are still there. There are others, but those two are ones that really erked me.
Lumberjack42
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Yeah, I figured there was probably some of TCP's covers stolen on there somewhere, but I just hadn't run across any. A shame that it was your work, too. :(
shenske:
Stealing covers happens all the time. Lumberjack42, Vt102 and my own (to name a few) covers are found all over with someone else trying to take credit. It gets under my skin sometimes and almost make me want to put my logo on the covers i make but i'm against that in general.
About VGBoxArt.com it is plagued with very low quality and just flat out odd covers. I know the artists try but if i try to play in the NFL it doesn't mean i should make the cut.
I've read through a few forums and comments about their covers. Some bash TCP and say that our standards our unjust and their covers got rejected so they uploaded them to VGBoxArt. Good for them, they found a place to upload their MS Paint "covers". Just about all of the covers on their site would not meet the same standards we stand by.
I'm not trying to diss all of their artist, just the majority need better programs to make their covers with and more time with the programs.
Symptoms0fMercy:
LJ, your FDS covers have also apparently become the standard of the internet :-/ custom template and everything
GameFAQs DDP
Wikipedia DDP (cached, apparently they deleted the DDP page)
LJ's cover here
ive seen other FDS games like this too, i just dont feel like looking for them again and DDP was an easy example
BACK ON TOPIC, I'm not a fan either. Even if you do find the 1 in 1000 half decent looking covers on that site, they're almost always garbage quality and covered with spelling errors...
nodge2k:
Yeah. I stumbled across the site whilst looking for a cover (which I incidentally found here and became familiar with TCP) and was appalled by the quality. Sure it's a good concept for younger people wanting to hone their photoshop/graphic design talent. But the flaming in the comments (which could easily be changed for constructive criticism) and the overall general standard made it not my scene.
Also, plagiarism is something that really gets my beef. Especially when most, if not all, of the artwork on this site has been made by people who go out of their daily schedule to do such an awesome job. I for one appreciate all the work that's done here as I have tried and failed many times before with certain graphic design projects. Therefore, when people take this and pass it off as their own really irks me. I wouldn't even like to imagine how livid and/or upset you guys are who actually made the artwork.
Therefore, good site concept, but the average manner of the internet seems to pull the website down a fair bit in my estimation.
Just my two cents. nodge2k.