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I loved the version recorded for "Poker Night at the Inventory":

I think you're confusing the two games here. That cover version is from the soundtrack to Telltale's Sam & Max, not LucasArts' Hit the Road. The original version of that soundtrack already used a bunch of live instruments, so a remaster of it is hardly necessary (the orchestral parts of those soundtracks n the other hand would benefit from live recordings). The Hit the Road soundtrack is a great Jazz/Americana soundtrack though, which I would LOVE to hear played by live players.

Wow, awesome! Does this mean you'll take Monkey Island out of its frame as well?

Lucasfilm is famous for archiving everything. I'm pretty sure the artwork is safely stored away. (raidersofthelostark.gif)

After I made them aware of the fact that it's my restoration of the artwork they were using on their promo material, they were VERY humble about it. In fact, they found my version on Google and assumed it was the source artwork (and Disney apparently were okay with them using whatever they couldn't deliver themselves). They even had one of their artists remove the logo from my version, so they were somewhat shocked when I linked them my logoless version. Anyway, yes, I've got compensated and am now doing more or less regular paid work for them. I've contributed artwork to their releases of "Jedi Knight", "X-Wing" and "TIE Fighter". We'll see how much artwork Disney can deliver for the Monkey Island collection, and if I can contribute to that as well. Their reaction to my complaint made clear that this is a group of fine folks, well aware of the value of fan contributions (hell, they are fans themselves, otherwise they wouldn't put effort into releasing old games). Another discovery I made was when watching a flip through of Bitmap Books' Amiga compendium on YouTube, spotting my Monkey Island and Simon the Sorcerer restorations in there. I felt a bit silly bringing it up to the author 6 years after the release of the book, but it turned out Steve Purcell himself directed him to my poster thread. Ah well, in an artwork heavy book like that I understand that those two artworks are just a drop in the bucket.

Given that there were obviously very high-quality reproductions made of the MI1 artwork via the promo poster, it surprises me that these aren't easily available on some database server. Granted, these were the early years of Lucasfilm Games and before storing stuff digitally being the norm, so maybe not everything was deemed important enough to archive properly. And for taking a trip to the archives to dig out an old artwork to scan and possibly restore, a licensed product might not appear lucrative enough.

That release does use my artwork.

Oh man, that detail is so great. For a promo poster from the 90s that is a very detailed reproduction of Steve's brushwork. Then again, the FOA poster is of very high quality as well. Scanning posters can usually be done in most copy shops, as they usually offer scan services for maps and architectural plans. I guess non-franchise copy shops are the better choice regarding scanning copyright protected stuff (the one I went to couldn't care less), although who the hell still knows what Monkey Island is? And an employee who does, would probably be happy to help out. SHOULD you be willing to do that, I'd be happy to clean it up and add it to the poster thread 😉 I guess this would be the absolute highest quality we could get of the artwork, save for the original. And speaking of which, anybody willing to buy the Rebel Assault II poster I linked to above? I actually already bought it from that seller, but he said ever since the virus, shipping costs to Europe have skyrocketed (and they were already as much as the poster itself to begin with), so he refunded me. If someone in the US or Canada is willing to get it AND get it scanned, that would be a huge addition to the poster project!

Be careful though, many of those eBay posters are my versions. That FOA one could be real, but hardly worth it (I got mine for a hundred bucks a couple of years ago). By the way, X-Wing got an official poster as well. I have a scan of that, but the print quality was very poor. I'll add proper XW and TF posters once my new thread opens. Also Rebel Assault 1 and 2, Dark Forces, as well as Full Throttle had official posters too. And the Grim poster in my thread is a scan of an official poster as well. Steve Purcell's "Hit the Road" artwork at least got an official artprint (hanging on my wall, thanks to Jake for snagging it at some long ago SDCC and Marius for delivering it safely to Germany).

Man, I'd love to have a scan of the official MI1 poster. Could you take a few close up photos of it? I'd like to check the level of detail...

Ha, same here. Looks like I used to be an ass every now and then. I hope THAT's over.

It's really a strange feeling to have the forums back... good strange. Like a sneeze. Anyway, since I still did a lot of LucasArts related stuff over the years, it feels kind of like a relief to show those things to people that actually value it (very few people I know in real life bat an eye when I tell them about posters or anything).

Looks like the final CoMI used many of those ideas. Really looking forward to the other stuff you'll uncover!

Ever since you've revealed that book I was hoping that one day we'll see an English translation. My French is way too rusty to be of any use here. On the upside, it gave us another Steve Purcell artwork (which I bought immediately!).

I guess one of the bigger things I did (literally) was using some machine learning models (via ESRGAN) to upscale all the CoMI backgrounds to 4x their size. All backgrounds can be found HERE, while I've posted several comparisons to the originals HERE. This is more of a proof of concept, because currently there's no way to use these inside the game (via ScummVM), plus all the sprites would need to be upscaled as well, which would be an enormous task on its own. Maybe I'll combine these with an offspring of the poster thread, in case someone wants to hang CoMI's backgrounds on their wall. And in the same vein I've also used ESRGAN (and further manual work) to clean-up and upscale the CoMI intro to HD resolution (while rebuilding the logo and credits): A side-by-side with the original cutscene can be found here:

I remember liking "Beyond Time and Space" the best, because of the time travel concept of going back into Season 1, BTTF2-style. That being said, I remember nothing else about that game.

Streamlined to a more animation-friendly level of detail, I could totally see MI1 and 2 in that POTC concept-art style without sacrificing the tone of either game.

With people rediscovering their old treasures, I hope we can get scanning contributions for the poster project up and running again. There's still a few exotic releases out there I could put to good use.

Yes, I have scanned the original poster. Plus I cleaned it up and used some great AI models to make it look even better. But LRG did get the original source files for both the XW and TF main artworks from Disney, so they didn't need my versions (they are probably going to use my restorations of the expansions artworks though). Crazy thing is, after all that trouble I went through to scan the TF poster (on my A4 scanner) and cleaning it up over the course of a few weeks, Jon Knoles casually posted the full-res source artwork (JPEG, but still) on Twitter: So to answer Jake's question: It seems to depend. LRG getting the key artworks for XW and TF, but not MI doesn't necessarily mean that those are lost. But with the former being originally created digitally (and finalized in Photoshop, no less), those were probably readily available in some asset database at Lucasfilm. Purcell's MI artwork on the other hand - while hopefully properly stored away at the Lucasfilm archives - might require a trip down there, maybe a new scan to be made of it, or whatever. I could see Disney not putting much more effort in than checking said database when licensing out stuff.

I found a smaller version of the photo, but it was good enough to clean up the Vader on the TIE Fighter poster. Those will be added eventually as well (once Limited Run Games have released and are done selling their CEs of XW and TF, which will include some of my restorations).

There are a few links in that thread that link to other posts or user profiles of the forum. Unfortunately they are still linking to the lucasforums.com URL, so none of those work. Also many of the individual images were hosted on sites like Imageshack, Rapidshare or Megaupload, so those are obviously gone too. The new thread will definitely host everything in one place (I think Mega will work well, plus Imgur).

Great! Now only the ability to permanently edit posts is missing.

Mh... editing posts seems to be possible only for a limited time. That would obviously need to be removed to update posts. Also it seems like formatting text is rather limited (changing font sizes, alignment, etc.). Any chance to support the full BBcode or HTML?

Yeah, I'd happily do a new one. I've done a bunch of new stuff since then, plus hosting got much simpler by now, so I would have to change all the opening posts anyway. May I get my posters.mixnmojo.com subdomain back for that new thread?

It feels good to be back. I guess one of the first things for me to do will be resurrecting my LucasArts Posters thread. What are the limitation regarding lengths of posts, number of images, etc.?