Arcade Artwork

Steve X2 · 10-02-2012 5:01pm #1

Ok, I said I was going to try and set up some resource for arcade artwork a long time ago. I got around to setting up the basics of it the other day.

Its still in the very early stages and I know there are other sources for artwork but I hope to make this the easiest and hopefully biggest over time.
I'm working out the best way to share vector art and other non standard web formats at the moment as well as improve other parts of the site.

There's also console artwork and stuff like as well.

You can sign up and upload your own artwork if anyone feels like sharing what they have.

http://www.arcadeartwork.org/

The website looks very simple and basic and that's the whole idea. The focus is on the artwork and getting to it.

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Andrew76 · 10-02-2012 5:14pm

Looks very nice Steve, just registered. Is there any procedure for uploading pics? Do we need to resize or anything? My camera is fairly crap and takes pics in a 3648x2736px resolution.

Can we delete a pic we upload in case it's crap?

Steve X2 · 10-02-2012 5:25pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Looks very nice Steve, just registered. Is there any procedure for uploading pics? Do we need to resize or anything? My camera is fairly crap and takes pics in a 3648x2736px resolution.
Can we delete a pic we upload in case it's crap?

No need to resize anything. But the biggest upload allowed at the moment is 20MB per image(larger via ftp but thats not enabled for everyone yet).

I'm working on allowing people to remove and edit their uploads and it should be running later tonight.

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Andrew76 · 10-02-2012 5:29pm

Cool stuff. My pics would be 5MB max I think. Only reason I asked about deleting was in case a pic I upload looked crap compared to others.

Steve X2 · 10-02-2012 5:34pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Cool stuff. My pics would be 5MB max I think. Only reason I asked about deleting was in case a pic I upload looked crap compared to others.

Actually its live now. If you view a picture you've uploaded you can edit the details or delete it.

Just click on the image, the lightbox will pop up, then click the image name at the bottom middle of the lightbox to open up the normal page.
You should see an "edit" option on the right hand side of the screen. You can edit or delete the picture here.

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Dale Parish · 10-02-2012 5:58pm

It's a cool idea

Always thought it would be nice to archive gaming magazines.

Steve X2 · 10-02-2012 9:09pm

Just under 10,000 images up there now and a large selection of them are in very high resolution.

Just the start, lots more stuff to upload including some serious arcade artwork once I sort out a good system to view the preview in say .jpg and then download the source vector/ai/eps file.

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Optimus Prime · 24-06-2012 6:59pm

hey Steve, just wondering that high res arcade art you mention above, any control panels, sideart, marquees in there for Street Fighter 2 games? cheers. ive had a look through the site and there are one or two on there alright, just wondering what the rest are like! its hard to find any good vector ones by googling

Steve X2 · 24-06-2012 8:01pm

keithgeo wrote: »

hey Steve, just wondering that high res arcade art you mention above, any control panels, sideart, marquees in there for Street Fighter 2 games? cheers. ive had a look through the site and there are one or two on there alright, just wondering what the rest are like! its hard to find any good vector ones by googling

I dont really have a lot of SF2 artwork.
Here's a rar file with what I have at the moment. It's mostly high resolution jpg's and some vectors of the Street Fighter 2 name and logo. No decent side art unfortunately

www.retrovia.ie/dls/SF2art.rar

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Optimus Prime · 24-06-2012 8:03pm

Thanks Steve.

TechnoFreek · 25-06-2012 10:49am

Nice site Steve. Fair play and best of luck with it.

o1s1n · 25-06-2012 10:54am

Great site alright, can't believe I missed it the first time around. Will definitely be getting some of these printed out for sure.

Steve X2 · 25-06-2012 1:15pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Great site alright, can't believe I missed it the first time around. Will definitely be getting some of these printed out for sure.

yeah, few nice high res bits of artwork on it alright and some other not so high res but ok for frontends and other things like that.

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Optimus Prime · 25-06-2012 1:29pm

its hard to find decent artwork for control panels and sideart just on the web. I cant find any at all. im looking to redo the images on that cab and was hoping to get something to cover up the entire side as some of it is a bit chipped, but cant find anything to do it thats big enough!

Steve X2 · 25-06-2012 1:38pm

keithgeo wrote: »

its hard to find decent artwork for control panels and sideart just on the web. I cant find any at all. im looking to redo the images on that cab and was hoping to get something to cover up the entire side as some of it is a bit chipped, but cant find anything to do it thats big enough!

You could always create some and use that. Or are you only looking for original and not custom artwork?

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Optimus Prime · 25-06-2012 1:41pm

Im thinking about creating something yeh, but i wouldnt be able to draw anything myself to be honest, im handy enough with photoshop though when it comes to meshing different images together, but in order to do that i need to have fairly large images of characters to begin with and again i cant find them anywhere either!

A lot of links seem to point to a website that used to have a lot of arcade artwork on it but has been gone a long time, all the links to this paticular site are broken now.

Steve X2 · 25-06-2012 1:59pm

keithgeo wrote: »

Im thinking about creating something yeh, but i wouldnt be able to draw anything myself to be honest, im handy enough with photoshop though when it comes to meshing different images together, but in order to do that i need to have fairly large images of characters to begin with and again i cant find them anywhere either!

A lot of links seem to point to a website that used to have a lot of arcade artwork on it but has been gone a long time, all the links to this paticular site are broken now.

Yeah it's a pain alright. You could always look for artwork thats not just Street Fighter 2, as in just look for generic Street Fighter vectors and see if you can combine then into a custom SF2 cpanel or sideart.

Here's a Ryu and Ken vector:
www.retrovia.ie/dls/sfvector.rar

And I quickly resized that vector to this jpg as a sample(10731x15624 4.27MB):
www.retrovia.ie/dls/sf2vector.jpg

Optimus Prime · 25-06-2012 2:08pm

Cool, ive been looking for generic street fighter vectors all morning but cant seem to find any decent ones.

Steve X2 · 25-06-2012 2:28pm

Not sure what look you're going for but I came across the full artwork for this cab if you're interested.

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Optimus Prime · 25-06-2012 2:34pm

Do you mean you have it printed out? or the files?

A mate works doing printing and can do them for me for a few quid if i can get the images together.

Optimus Prime · 25-06-2012 2:35pm

sorry images are blocked on boards in work so i didnt know you had a pic embedded there!

I found that one earlier, to be honest im not mad on it.. its a but too flashy..

edit: do you have the individual characters or just the full side art? thanks

Steve X2 · 25-06-2012 2:42pm

keithgeo wrote: »

Do you mean you have it printed out? or the files?

A mate works doing printing and can do them for me for a few quid if i can get the images together.

The files, I think I got them from arcadecontrols.com a while back but I don't have the link to credit the guy who made them. They're photoshop .psd files so not vectors but the guy got them printed out and they look quite sharp. Most of them do appear to have been created from a vector based source though.

433MB for the full set.

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Optimus Prime · 25-06-2012 2:44pm

I wouldnt mind taking a look at them if get a chance to put them somewhere, i might be able to mess around with them. Im not mad on the blue but i might be able to do something with the characters heads. thanks a lot!

Steve X2 · 25-06-2012 2:48pm

keithgeo wrote: »

I wouldnt mind taking a look at them if get a chance to put them somewhere, i might be able to mess around with them. Im not mad on the blue but i might be able to do something with the characters heads. thanks a lot!

Yeah, the layers are all intact in the .psd files and he has layers for all the characters, logos, backgrounds etc. He also has a layer done up for the blue colour so you can easily change or delete it which is handy.

I'll sort out a link a bit later for ya, either the original or I'll re-upload them to my server.

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Optimus Prime · 25-06-2012 2:49pm

Thats great! Love layers! thanks a lot Steve

Steve X2 · 25-06-2012 3:25pm

Here's that artwork.

Right side art (118MB):
www.retrovia.ie/dls/sf2art/SF_side_RHS.zip

Left side art (117MB):
www.retrovia.ie/dls/sf2art/SF_side_LHS.zip

CPanel and Marquee art (196MB):
www.retrovia.ie/dls/sf2art/SF_control_marquee.zip

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Optimus Prime · 25-06-2012 4:31pm

Thanks a million Steve.

Steve X2 · 25-06-2012 4:58pm

keithgeo wrote: »

Thanks a million Steve.

no probs

Doctor DooM · 25-06-2012 6:30pm

Dunno if you'd care but that SF artwork is HDR, it'd never have appeared in an arcade.

Just sayin'

Andrew76 · 25-06-2012 6:43pm

What does "HDR" stand for?

Steve X2 · 25-06-2012 6:45pm

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Dunno if you'd care but that SF artwork is HDR, it'd never have appeared in an arcade.

Just sayin'

Yeah but with a bit of work and some layer adjustments he might be able to use it or parts of it. It is a bit garish as it is alright.

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Steve X2 · 25-06-2012 6:47pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

What does "HDR" stand for?

In photography it's High Dynamic Range and I think that's what he means here.

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Optimus Prime · 25-06-2012 6:56pm

yeh i messed around with it a bit, but still doesnt do anything for me. I think im just going to stick with the originals, get them printed up again fresh.

I was looking at it earlier, even though the art is a bit mad on the cab, there is something about those originals that just look better than any of those user created ones i think.

Steve has all the originals posted here, so if i get them done again and the control panel one printed up (which isnt on the cab at the minute) i think it will look fine. ill just fill in some bits missing in the wood and paint them black.

Doctor DooM · 25-06-2012 7:12pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

What does "HDR" stand for?

Sorry, forgot I wasn't in the fighting game forum- it means HD remix, the version of Street Fighter 2 released in 2008/9 (I forget exactly). The art is nice, it's just completely inauthentic, if that's what you're looking for. It was only created a few years ago.

Steve SI wrote: »

Yeah but with a bit of work and some layer adjustments he might be able to use it or parts of it. It is a bit garish as it is alright.

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I more meant that if you want something that appeared in the old days... well, by definition, there was nothing like that

Andrew76 · 25-06-2012 7:54pm

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Sorry, forgot I wasn't in the fighting game forum- it means HD remix, the version of Street Fighter 2 released in 2008/9 (I forget exactly). The art is nice, it's just completely inauthentic, if that's what you're looking for. It was only created a few years ago.

Cheers. I was thinking along the lines of a SF version but "Hyper Deadly Revision" was all I could think of.

Doctor DooM · 25-06-2012 8:07pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Cheers. I was thinking along the lines of a SF version but "Hyper Deadly Revision" was all I could think of.

If it helps, I'd definitely play a hyper deadly revision

Optimus Prime · 26-06-2012 2:11pm

Steve, sorry to bother you again, i dont suppose you have SF Champions edition artwork? mainly looking for the control panel, that kind of static looking graphic. but if you have anything else that would be great! thanks.

Steve X2 · 26-06-2012 3:14pm

keithgeo wrote: »

Steve, sorry to bother you again, i dont suppose you have SF Champions edition artwork? mainly looking for the control panel, that kind of static looking graphic. but if you have anything else that would be great! thanks.

No, don't think I have that one.
If you come across any let me know and I'll add it to the website so others can get it as well.

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Optimus Prime · 26-06-2012 3:41pm

I found a website that has loads of it, you have to donate 10 dollars to download, i might sign up to it later. it hasnt been updated since 2010 though, but i think ill risk it, its only a tenner! ill let you know, because there is loads of high quality stuff on it.

Steve X2 · 26-06-2012 3:49pm

keithgeo wrote: »

I found a website that has loads of it, you have to donate 10 dollars to download, i might sign up to it later. it hasnt been updated since 2010 though, but i think ill risk it, its only a tenner! ill let you know, because there is loads of high quality stuff on it.

Charging for letting you download artwork that they probably don't own!!
The cheek of them.

Edit:
But do send me on a link so I can have a gander.

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Optimus Prime · 26-06-2012 3:55pm

haha yeh, from what i can tell the BYOAC forum setup an FTP and they all uploaded artwork onto it and chipped in and bought a load of it from somewhere then uploaded it onto this website. its a donation of 10 dollars to get access to the files to download.

http://artwork.joymonkey.com the gallery up the top.

Optimus Prime · 26-06-2012 5:29pm

I donated there and got a username and password back off the guy, so its all good.

Steve X2 · 26-06-2012 5:34pm

keithgeo wrote: »

I donated there and got a username and password back off the guy, so its all good.

cool, is it an ftp type thing or just download from the website?

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Optimus Prime · 26-06-2012 5:35pm

just download it seems. some great stuff on there. would take an age to grab it all though

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