Secret of Monkey Island Cover Art

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  • jmmjmm
    edited February 2008
    For what it's worth, I'll try to bring this thread back on track with a little progress preview on the Zak-poster:

    {image}

    Still some stuff in the corners to be painted out (and the rest of the "And the Alien Mindbenders"-title), but other than that it's looking good to me.

    Good call, and nice poster... loved the bread, and all those inventory items...
  • edited February 2008
    DONE!!!

    zak_test4.jpg

    You can get the big thing HERE (60x80cm @ 200dpi) and HERE with the "Mindbenders"-subtitle.
  • edited February 2008
    any reason you chose to get rid of the alien mindbender words? just curious.
    great friggen work btw.. always.
  • edited February 2008
    Yeah, on second though I've added it back in (see edited links above), but as I wanted the artwork to be as "clean" as possible, I've erased it in the first place. If it wasn't so difficult, I would've created a version without the "Zak McKracken"-title as well, but there was close to no material out there to help.
  • edited February 2008
    you sir are awesome, and great at this, where have ya been for the last ohh 4 years of posting on jake's sites lol
  • edited February 2008
    Kaldire wrote: »
    you sir are awesome, and great at this, where have ya been for the last ohh 4 years of posting on jake's sites lol

    Well... uhm... on Mix-n-Mojo's forums... doing the same ;)
  • edited February 2008
    A little update (and a little bigger right HERE ):

    dottswa300mi4.jpg

    But there's some tinkering left until it's perfect.
  • edited February 2008
    That reeks of awesome.
  • edited February 2008
    Alright, the above poster can now be downloaded HERE at full resolution (60x80cm @ 200dpi).

    Furthermore another version (with a bigger preview right HERE):

    dottswb300cj8.jpg

    And at full res HERE (though this one is 60x90cm @ 200dpi).
  • jmmjmm
    edited February 2008
    Awesome work Laserschwert!

    The Death Star looks a bit odd though.
  • edited February 2008
    Yeah, sadly that one was covered up by text, so I had to repaint the upper part. Couldn't do it any better.
  • MelMel
    edited February 2008
    Your link doesn't go to a picture for me (and I just see an image banana logo for the pic in the post). :(
  • edited February 2008
    Damn... looks like ImageBanana doesn't like linking to foreign IPs anymore... mh...

    If all goes well I'll have my own domain up by next week.

    Edit: So, I've fixed up the links to the latest two images.
  • edited February 2008
    Man, I love the details on that retro film poster. I wonder if it'd be more "accurate" to list the voice actors as the cast, although I suppose that'd make the joke a bit more obscure. :p
  • edited February 2008
    Yeah, I followed the "Fate of Atlantis"-poster on that one, as there's Henry Jones, Jr. and Sophia Hapgood in the credits.
  • edited February 2008
    @Laserschwert
    Have you done the StarWars/Day of the Tentacle poster? It looks really good!
  • edited February 2008
    Yeah, I did that... thanks!
  • edited February 2008
    What kind of colours did you use or was it painted on the computer (tablet)?
  • edited February 2008
    Oh, I guess I got you wrong there... I didn't actually paint it... the artwork itself was done by Peter Chan for the cover of LucasArts' newsletter "The Adventurer":

    adv5qi3.jpg

    I just painted out the texts, logos and creases, and made that "poster"-design above. (I did the SW-like DOTT-logo though)
  • edited February 2008
    Ah okay, i've never seen this one before and it has those saturated colours so i was wondering if it's acryl or done with a good paint program/tablet from scratch.
  • edited February 2008
    taumel wrote: »
    and it has those saturated colours

    Yeah, besides other things that's what my efforts were aiming it ;-)
  • edited February 2008
    Well, as for the colours, mission accomplished! ;O)
  • edited February 2008
    great work.

    For the image hosts... you can try imageshack or photobucket...they dont block IPs
  • edited February 2008
    glenfx wrote: »
    great work.

    For the image hosts... you can try imageshack or photobucket...they dont block IPs

    Sadly Imageshack does block referrers though, and my "home forum" (a German DVD-forum) is obviously on their blacklist... whyever that is.
  • edited March 2008
    For whoever cares about it, a textless version of the FOA-artwork:

    foaclean300oh5.jpg
    Bigger preview
    Full size download (60x80cm @ 300dpi)
    (Thanks to the CGW Museum for providing me with the clean artwork!)
  • edited March 2008
    That is so awesome.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited March 2008
    That sort of thing makes me sad that so few game boxes get painted covers these days. (note: we are awesome)
  • edited March 2008
    Sadly the "Bone"-games didn't...

    You should really try to talk Jeff Smith into doing a nice poster-like artwork for the two games, so that some individual (*wink wink*) could turn it into a nice DVD-cover.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited March 2008
    Sadly the "Bone"-games didn't...

    You should really try to talk Jeff Smith into doing a nice poster-like artwork for the two games, so that some individual (*wink wink*) could turn it into a nice DVD-cover.

    If we lived in a weird, non-existent alternate dimension where there was a completed "season" of Bone games, that DVD cover might already exist. Sadly, that reality isn't... real.
  • edited March 2008
    But the two games ARE real ;-) ... as is the "Bone Gold"-double-pack, which - unfortuately - just got a lousy 3D-rendering of the trio on the front...
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited March 2008
    TTG didn't do the cover art for any of the retail releases -- those little gems were all handled by the publishers for the different regions in which the games were released -- and the box I did for TTG's Cow Race release was just following the precedent set by whoever did the Out From Boneville DVD cover, which was made well before I started working at TTG. If there was a real reason to do a proper cover for a Bone release, which I actually had control over, I would make something cool :P But I don't expect that to be the case.
  • edited March 2008
    wow, this stuff is awesome. i want a few for my dorm wall!
  • edited April 2008
    @Laserschwert

    I trudged through the registration procedure just so I could post this. Thank you so much for the huge amounts of time and effort it must have took to put these together. They're simply stunning :)

    After a quick trip to the local print shop they're now hanging on the walls of my study and preventing me from doing any work since I keep glancing at them.

    Another cover that would make an awesome print is the Loom one, which I consider one of the most beautiful covers ever made. I could just be looking at it with rose-tinted glasses, but it sure brings back memories of childhood.

    Someone definitely needs to start doing this kind of covers again.
  • edited April 2008
    Trudged? I always thought our registration process was pretty painless :p
  • edited April 2008
    What can I say, captchas are my pet hate :D
  • edited January 2009
    Gents,

    Very impressed by the work in this thread, it prompted me to register, I've done some hunting and want to make a poster of the attached photo, but can find a high enough res picture, does anyone know where i may find one?

    Any help appreciated (BTW the photo was originally from here: http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1430/dayofthetentaclezw3.jpg
  • edited January 2009
    timknott wrote: »
    Gents,

    Very impressed by the work in this thread, it prompted me to register, I've done some hunting and want to make a poster of the attached photo, but can find a high enough res picture, does anyone know where i may find one?

    Any help appreciated (BTW the photo was originally from here: http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1430/dayofthetentaclezw3.jpg

    Thanks to the nice and simple geometric shapes of this one, I managed to upscale it rather easily. I've done it at about 6500 wide, which seems to be plenty big enough for printing posters.

    I put it on sendspace as photobucket re-sizes them:
    http://www.sendspace.com/file/jorrq4
  • edited January 2009
    Oooo super, thank you very much, impressive speed.

    thanks again.
  • edited February 2009
    Looks like Laserschwert's work is making some waves. After he posted a compendium of his works so far on the LucasForums, it was picked up as a news story on Joystiq. Thought it was worth sharing with everyone, if only to show his LucasForums post with a list of all of the work he has done so far. Hope to see more soon!
  • edited February 2009
    I felt even more honored that I got mentioned by Tim Schafer himself... :)
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