Laserschwert Posted April 16, 2011 Author Posted April 16, 2011 maybe it was projected and painted on the wall? Unlikely, as it contains noise and dirt from the original... plus you can see the widths of paper used (so it has been printed to wallpaper, I'd say). Also I doubt a handpainted version would look exactly like the original (and this one does). They might have used a sharpened (and edited) version of Plamdi's image (on which I've based my versions). The colors seem to match.
Laserschwert Posted May 3, 2011 Author Posted May 3, 2011 Here's two little somethings Mr. William Eaken sent to me today (click for full size): Now, these are just snapshots taken with a digicam (off his original paintings), so the quality isn't the best. And while the "Fate of Atlantis"-one isn't as detailed as the clean-up job I've made, the "Rebel Assault II"-artwork should be the biggest version available of it. Although I wanted to stay clear of any "Star Wars"-related posters, I think this one is just too special to not be used (since it's probably the only actually painted SW game-cover... well, maybe aside from the first "Rebel Assault").
QueZTone Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 that is one of the best SW game covers. I think Shadows of the Empire is also painted btw
Laserschwert Posted May 6, 2011 Author Posted May 6, 2011 So, this is how the "Rebel Assault II"-poster might look like (click for big): It's considerably less work than the Grim mural
cksubs Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 Can someone tell me what the original source image is for the Star Wars themed Day of the Tentacle poster? Where did that come from? That would be good info to add to the first post, for all the posters... were these box art? Actual posters that were ever produced? Does anyone collect the "originals" rather than the reproductions here?
elTee Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 It was on an issue of the Adventurer - the LucasArts catalogue that shipped in US copies of the games in the early 90s. See here As I understand it, Laserschwert has reconstructed these images from hi-res scans of boxes and magazine ads, and some other sources in certain cases. I believe there were only official released posters for the first LucasArts games - Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (?), Loom (?) and the Secret of Monkey Island. Those posters are extremely rare! I've never even seen one for sale. Well, except the Maniac Mansion ones - but a few years ago, the LucasArts Store found a box of those from way back and put them on sale
Laserschwert Posted May 17, 2011 Author Posted May 17, 2011 Yeah, my main goal is to reconstruct the artworks themselves as cleanly as possible. I usually work from as many sources as possible (and necessary) to get the job done. Most of the time the images are the box-artworks, with a few exceptions that come from ads, magazine covers or concept artwork. Some are even purely made up by me - like the normal DOTT-poster (since the original box-front only has Bernard and Purple on it) and of course the DOTT-SW poster in One Sheet style. Regarding official posters: About a month ago a bunch of these turned up at eBay, to be exact "Fate of Atlantis", "Maniac Mansion", "Full Throttle" and "Monkey Island". I bid on all of them, but the prices went higher than I was willing to pay. I guess after all my versions are good enough for me most of the time (plus they are made without terrible stuff like that ugly 90s-pattern-frame around the original MI1-poster). I actually have the original "Fate of Atlantis" poster on my wall, so I'm good.
elTee Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 Oh yes, I forgot about Fate of Atlantis. There was a time, about ten years ago, when many copies of that poster were available on eBay. I remember buying one for a relatively low price The source was European which made me suspect forgery, but, to be honest, if it's a fake it's damn good and I don't care
Laserschwert Posted May 20, 2011 Author Posted May 20, 2011 I've added three versions of "Rebel Assault II" to the opening post.
plamdi Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Unlikely, as it contains noise and dirt from the original... plus you can see the widths of paper used (so it has been printed to wallpaper, I'd say). Also I doubt a handpainted version would look exactly like the original (and this one does). They might have used a sharpened (and edited) version of Plamdi's image (on which I've based my versions). The colors seem to match. They most certainly did! Have a look at the scratch marks present on my scan: As for the detail, that's because I used the KIXX box primarily, although difficuilt to tell for that particular part it is significantly more detailed than the IBM box. (same section from my IBM scan). Nice to see people using these things... intelligently?
plamdi Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Mine are at: http://scummgames.net/miposters.php and http://plamdi.deviantart.com/gallery/ I've had two PM's about the codewheels... here's a 2MB download (temporary link): http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7682/codewheelprint.jpg They print at 512dpi. It's a full A4 sheet.
Laserschwert Posted June 21, 2011 Author Posted June 21, 2011 I've just realized that I haven't posted this here yet... my first official job for Telltale Games: And a few close-ups (though these are still only at half size... the full-size poster is somewhat close to one sheet size): I finally got to work a bit more on the "half pencil / half digital"-workflow I've used on my Narwhal-poster, although this was so much more work compared to Narwhal. It's a daunting task to mimic Struzan, but I've tried to at least keep the spirit of the original poster. The workflow was similar to Narwhal though: Telltale hooked my up with the 3D models of Marty and the DeLorean, which I posed, remodeled, lit and rendered in 3dsmax. Those renderings became the basis for the pencil drawings, while everything else (background, flames, grain, more paint-overs) was done in Photoshop. I've created several custom brushes to recreate Struzan's spattery style from back then (it became a bit "cleaner" in the 90s and 00s), and was really glad to have my trusted Intuos4 tablet at my side during this (actually I've worked my normal job during the day, and workend on this during the night... it was brutal, but totally worth it!) With a little luck, prints of this might be available at the Telltale store some day!
QueZTone Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 That's really amazing work you did there! Chapeau! You've really come so close to Drew's style with this one, even more so than on the Narwhal piece.
plamdi Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 "Official"? Nice! Is that the completed version? I really like it. Would have been interesting to see what Struzan would have come up with and done differently after all these years!
plamdi Posted July 4, 2011 Posted July 4, 2011 Okay guys, shortly (within a few weeks) I'll be making a printable resource page on my website that will include my M1 and M2 posters (but in slightly better quality then I have provided before) and additionally a "recreated M1 poster" - in other words, I'll be making a poster that looks almost identical to the real Monkey 1 poster. (The main difference will be that the Monkey1 logo cannot be moved to the correct position, nor do I intend to since it would make it near impossible to distinguish the two from low-res pictures). Then I will also be providing the manuals I created in 07 (possibly editied versions), and hopefully a new Madness manual too. I've found a highly reccomended website for printing these things, and once I've checked it out hopefully I can also reccomend it.
RiemJ Posted July 8, 2011 Posted July 8, 2011 Hey there. I tested posterxxl in germany, and I'm not very happy with the result. So I ordered the same Poster at link removed. Now I got a perfect print. :-) Maybe interesting for you. Greetings
Laserschwert Posted July 8, 2011 Author Posted July 8, 2011 That's weird, mine were always fine... what was the problem?
QueZTone Posted July 9, 2011 Posted July 9, 2011 RiemJ is prooobably a spammer. Odd he uses his name+initial though, makes it all the more easy for us.. https://www.facebook.com/people/Jakob-Riem/100001905115063?sk=info = everythingforyou.com
Laserschwert Posted August 11, 2011 Author Posted August 11, 2011 Is there a chance anybody here from the US could buy this and have it scanned? http://cgi.ebay.com/STAR-WARS-TIE-FIGHTER-POSTER-1994-LUCASARTS-FANCLUB-/400119516873 The seller only ships inside the US (and clearly states in the auction that he won't make any exceptions), so maybe someone could do this?
Samnmax221 Posted August 12, 2011 Posted August 12, 2011 I happen to have that poster, but I'm not at home and taking it out of the tube would be a pain in the ass and all....
Laserschwert Posted August 12, 2011 Author Posted August 12, 2011 Oh, now we have two? Any chance one of you can have it scanned at a copyshop?
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