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Are you kidding me? HERE you are offering a pre-order form for your Zak boxes. Which part of "don't sell boxes with my restorations on it" did you have trouble with?

I have to agree here. Of course, finally proper Williams music (sounds like it could be from the new score) helps a ton. But my god, Ford's "Are you still a Nazi?" is SO well delivered. How can this short spot hype me so much more than the teaser did?

I would love to see some kind of CRT filter added to DREAMM. Not the usual black-line overlay, but something that has the same effect CRT screens had on dithering in games like Loom. But it's probably out of scope.

As have most of their Star Wars and Marvel shows.

James Woodcock of Pixel Refresh interviewed me about the poster project, and for the first time I'll show a more in-depth look at my restoration processes. Also, this was my first appearance on a podcast, so I stumble over the English languange a lot. Still, I hope it's enjoyable! https://www.pixelrefresh.com/game-gadget-podcast-25-restoring-retro-game-posters-with-jan-hofmeister/

I firmly expect some key-less Collector's Editions to show up on eBay after they've been shipped.

The "sold out" is just a bug in their site that happens on all pre-orders that haven't started yet. And the date on the image is just an error, which was probably an earlier date they wanted to hit and forgot to update. Easy.

Ah okay, I guess it's easier to just repaint the windows if I want to clean up that poster. Thanks for digging those out!

Oh right, good catch. But I assume that specific angle is nowhere to be found? Or maybe in a cutscene?

Quick question about the Grim Fandango cover: Is the background with the oriental-looking windows used anywhere else? Is it maybe from a background in the game?

I might be a little late for this, but sure, I can tell you that they are also releasing LOOM. 😉 Of course, I couldn't tell you if anything else was in the works, but I CAN tell you that right know I don't know if anything else is in the works.

Also, the packaging and posters will feature completely new clean-ups of the artworks by me.

It's not. It will be on the USB drive, though. The disc will be the VGA version, as it is available on GOG.com https://twitter.com/LimitedRunGames/status/1611094445293817894?s=20

What he says. I'm glad that Jake got to be involved in this one as well, as the added case file and the overall design will have this fit nicely next to the S&M Remastered big boxes.

Samsung smart TVs up until their 2021 models don't even need an extra device, as they support the Steam Link app. Your controller can simply be plugged into the TVs USB ports. Newer models don't support the app anymore, though.

Just so we're on the same page, don't sell anything with any of my restorations or pattern recreations on it. Feel free to share your files for everybody to print them themselves, though, of course.

"Tomorrow Never Dials"

I don't care what the group wants 😉 Outlaws might be one of the next projects.

Welcome to my world. Image aspect ratios are tricky all the time, but in this case the clean and framed versions actually have MORE width than the other versions. The original poster was more of a 3:2 aspect ratio, so that's what I cropped them to. Most of my other posters usually stick to a 4:3 ratio, and that's what I picked for all the other framed posters (MI1, MI2, Zak). So to stay in line with them, the one for MM became 4:3 as well. For that, I needed to expand the artwork a bit on the sides (and the bottom), which is why I could just offer the clean version at 4:3 as well. If there was a question somewhere in your post, I hope this answers it. If smudginess refers to just lack of detail, then that's just because back then I couldn't do better. Sure, for many of the updated posters, more and better sources have turned up. But also the tools I use (and probably my skills) have improved over the years, so that even when using the same old sources, the results are considerably better today. I think the Zak poster - for the most part - uses the same source scan I used back in the day. It's just that I am now using a lot of machine learning tools and models to clean them up, fake detail or remove artifacts. See this post on the very first page, where I mentioned it briefly.

You mean even better than the update I made back in February? 😉

Hot on the heels of my Zak McKracken posters, I've finished my re-do of the Maniac Mansion artwork as well. Provided with two different logos and a marble frame version, there's a lot to choose from. Enjoy!

Professionally I haven't worked much with CMYK outputs. First and foremost I produce for screen, so that's what I usually color-correct for: my calibrated screen. And I'm pretty sure most of this project's potential audience doesn't know about CMYK, and is perfectly content with what a regular printing services produces out of my files. Those who DO care about it enough to preferably send a CMYK file to the printer, are most likely proficient enough to convert it properly themselves. That being said, most of the tools I use for retouching, upscaling, etc. don't even work in CMYK.

Yeah, color reproduction is a very fuzzy subject. I've found an online printing service here in Germany that matches my monitor's calibration quite closely, but it'll be different for everyone. But as much as you'd want a "correct" color on all the posters, I can tell you, it's impossible. A prime example is Monkey Island - here are scans of several different releases: Good luck, telling the correct colors from that.

Variants are a double-edged sword, as they quickly clutter up the thread (MI1 is already a beast in that regard), and adding color variations on top of layout variations multiplies the problem. The v2 variant for MI2 was never really close to the original coloring, so I ditched it for the updated version. I might revisit MI1 to slightly desaturate the coloring, and maybe adding more variants as smaller thumbnails might be an option? I'll think about it.