Laserschwert
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My big hope is still that Skunkape will be able to remaster this like S&M once Devil's Playhouse is wrapped. (With the positive side-effect of ToMI getting a Switch release).
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With some artwork provided by yours truly (at least for the physical release).
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Thanks to the AMAZING contribution by @kiddomanteca we now have a high quality scan of the MI2 poster from "The One" magazine. This is by far the highest quality version we have of the artwork (brush strokes and canvas texture included), and after cleaning it up, I'll try to use some AI trickery to add the missing parts to this scan to create a textless version of it as well. Behold this incredible beauty:
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2 hours ago, kiddomanteca said:
Hi have the Monkey Island 2 Poster from U.S. Gold. If I can help, let me know the best options to scan it. I'm a begginer in here.
Posters are difficult to scan. The best way would be to have me scan it. Would you be interested in selling the poster, or lending it to me for scanning?
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2 minutes ago, ThunderPeel2001 said:
Nice! Are you any closer to getting your hands on the scan that VGHF used?
Not yet, unfortunately... that one hasn't been cleared yet.
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On a side note, I've acquired a bunch of new scans from more "exotic" releases of MI1, which would potentially allow me to extend my current MI1 poster a bit on all sides. I haven't done more than this little inventory check though:
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A little request for those of you who own any of the two-part big boxes with marbled borders (like SoMI, MM, Indy, etc.) AND have a way to do proper 600dpi scans:
Do the lower parts of the boxes (so not the lid, but the bottom part) have the marbled patterns on their sides without logos or text? Those might provide great sources to recreate the borders (with much more "meat" around them than the fronts of the lids).
Edit: Little update, I got a source who is going to scan these from his collection, so we'll see what I can do with those.
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Ah, damn it.
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Here's a look at the original pencil layer of the painting, both before and after upscaling:
For upscaling I used the ESRGAN model I've trained on posters by Drew Struzan, so the pencil work is interpreted based on his style. But I'd say it appears very faithful to what can be seen in the low resolution scan of Tiller's Ahern's original drawing, even if the detail is just created artificially. If the original background paintings were built the same way as the cover, they could probably be upscaled the same way as this (plus they'd still be at full color depth without dithering). If only those Photoshop files still existed somewhere...
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I finally got around to update the CoMI posters using some of my better upscaling methods, which keeps much more of Bill Tiller's Larry Ahern's original pencil detail. The links are updated in the opening post. A few comparisons:
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13 hours ago, TomVDJ said:
I do have the original box / manual / hintbook ... in great condition. If I can help out be sending over high res scans of the artwork, to get it adapted in such wonderfull posters, please let me know!
Scans are always helpful, thanks a lot! I already have a few scans, but it's never enough. I also have high-res versions of the original promo photos used for the covers of both the adventure and the action game, but everything else I'll have to take from the boxes. So please, go ahead and scan away! As always, 600dpi, no filtering, please.
By the way, the problem with this "poster" is that the logo placement forces the inclusion of the marbled border. Until now, I've shied away from including the borders - and apart from Fate of Atlantis (which came with its own, artwork-appropriate frame) none of the other artworks "required" their respective frame to work. However, lately I've grown more fond of those marbled patterns, so ultimately I'd like to add versions of all the posters with their frames intact. Easier said than done though, as those frames on the edges of the boxes are hard to scan.
By the way, your name reads familiar, but I can't remember where I've read it before.
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23 hours ago, Udvarnoky said:
Chariot of the Gods remastered!
Chariot of the Dogs 😉
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Without seeing the art up close, my only gripe would be that the green record's label isn't yellow. It doesn't necessarily look like an official release (too much art plastered on it), but a well-made fan release.
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To be fair, helping Harmy out was just a small side effect of localizing his Despecialized Editions into German. I think I've only contributed a handful of restored shots, all of which have now become obsolete with the releases of 4k77/4k80/4k83 and their offsprings anyway. I put much more work into re-creating the German crawls, subtitles and credits, plus editing multiple audio tracks from the different German releases (although I had a lot of help on that), and creating cover/labels/inserts to make them look nice on the shelf. Here are my original release threads, which I've moved on from a long time ago, even though people are still asking for download links:
And to bring this back on-topic, a more important side gig for me was Telltale Games allowing me to create the cover artwork for "Back to the Future: The Game" (which I should add to the thread eventually):
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Just a little heads up: The UK magazine Retro Gamer interviewed me for their latest issue, so be sure to check it out!
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I remember buying them alongside tons of other stuff when EVERYTHING in the TTG store was 90% off and worldwide shipping was free when they had to clear their warehouse. In hindsight I should have bought so much more.
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I've updated the existing EU artwork to Zombies Ate My Neighbors with a higher quality version and added the US cover to the game. I've also added several artworks from Ghoul Patrol.
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My pleasure! I always thought that artwork would be lost to time, as I've only ever seen it used on the back of the box, covered with text and screenshots and on those tiny auction photos. So finding out that it was used on the Korean manual, got me thrilled to find somebody who could scan it for me. And when I finally found someone AND it turned out that the art was also used on the Taiwanese manual AND that someone was able to scan both for me, I was beyond excited.
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Mighoet Sündback made a restoration of it:
https://mighoet.artstation.com/projects/aRzON0
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And thanks to Jake, I finally scanned and stitched this:
Detail isn't great, but after some AI-tinkering, it'll do:
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I've added the rear box artwork of MI2 to the main post:
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The image link is broken, but I guess I know which artwork you are talking about. The painted Kyle/Jerec fight, right? I haven't seen a full version of it (I don't think I've even seen a full-size version of it).
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Still not working... the last time it got back to working again much faster.
Edit: And we're back!
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Yeah, it happens from time to time... then it goes back to normal. No idea if it fixes itself or someone actually has to do any work for that
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors 2
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Yes, stay tuned: