LucasArts Posters: The Revenge

[Laserschwert]

1 hour ago, MichaelSon said:

Which versions are you looking for @Laserschwert ?

The three on the left. If you've got anything, I'll happily take clean 600dpi scans!

[LoneWulf79]

On 10/16/2023 at 5:53 PM, LoneWulf79 said:

Here you have my collection of Lucas games, well pretty much (minus yours), sourced from press kits, websites, frankly I can't remember for every image. I do have other games if anyone is looking for something, but I guess that's a story for another thread.

 

Regards

Hello,

 

just a notice that I removed a link to google drive. Art will be available on my site, so check back once in a while.

 

Keep up the good work. Happy holidays everybody.

Edited December 29, 2023 by LoneWulf79

[LoneWulf79]

Hey,

 

found this on PC Gamer CD.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lnn3dCkGEp7cXw97zPaRcP6Ehqu4CgoX/view?usp=drive_link

 

Regards

 

Edit: Rogue Leaders The Story of LucasArts excerpt in digital pdf

Edited January 24, 2024 by LoneWulf79

[TimeGentleman]

For anyone not wanting to click through blind, it's a 14-page chapter excerpt of the Rogue Leaders book as a pdf on (presumably LoneWulf79's) Google Drive.

[Jake]

That’s cool! Wish the PDF had been exported at higher res. Wish the real print was one was available digitally somewhere. 

[Laserschwert]

Wait, why did I never realize that there are two versions of this painting??

 

 

And the first one looks final enough to be used. Did they just realize they needed a narrower aspect ratio? Why repaint it, though, instead of cropping it?

[RobMegone]

The new FMT Zak posters are a beautiful addition! Thank you for adding them, did they come from scans or some alternative source?

[Jake]

6 hours ago, Laserschwert said:

Wait, why did I never realize that there are two versions of this painting??

 

 

And the first one looks final enough to be used. Did they just realize they needed a narrower aspect ratio? Why repaint it, though, instead of cropping it?

I wonder if it’s a process test thing? To my eyes the top one looks fully painted, the bottom one looks like markers or water colors. Maybe the bottom one gives a good not approximation of the top one, but was quicker to produce?

 

The other reason might be, it’s not a crop but is a stretch - the top and bottom of the compositions are the same but one is taller. Maybe the original painting was done at “square pixel” aspect ratio and the second one was done at the true 320x200 full screen 5:4 tall pixel aspect ratio?

 

Those are my two theories at least 😛

[Laserschwert]

7 hours ago, sanguinehearts said:

The new FMT Zak posters are a beautiful addition! Thank you for adding them, did they come from scans or some alternative source?

 

Oh right, haven't posted it here yet. I've added this to the project:

 

 

For this I've used scans of both the FM Towns box and CD cover. With a bit of machine learning magic I've trained the smaller (but textless) image against the larger one, thus upscaling the smaller one to a similar level-of-detail. That and some manual touch-up and clean-up.

[RobMegone]

Amazing, so nice to see this!

[Lagomorph01]

Wow! This is one was on my wishlist! Thank you so much, Laserschwert, it looks fantastic! So clear!

[Laserschwert]

Here's a compilation of most of the logos and typography I've recreated in high-res over the years. It's always fun re-building these things or researching which fonts were used for taglines or subtitles.

[MichaelSon]

Don't know where to ask this:
Does anyone have the box art of the back of Fate of Atlantis without all the text as well as the sides of the box?
I would like to use these as a reference for a book I am doing for personal use.

Edited April 7, 2024 by MichaelSon

[RobMegone]

@Laserschwert, are you interested in creating poster art for the Fate of Atlantis Action game at some point? Someone on Facebook shared images for an Italian Amiga magazine(K), which has some full page advert art for it.

 

I've asked the person who shared the images but they don't have a scanner, If you are interested then I'd be happy to try and track down a copy of the magazine to purchase and scan, or offer to pay for the original poster to have it scanned somewhere.

 

The images are here: 

https://ibb.co/W3fWN5T
https://ibb.co/bQSMTHs

 

I also found these off-brand posters, presumably part of some magazine spreads at some point. Interesting, nonetheless.

Edited April 15, 2024 by RobMegone

[Laserschwert]

For completeness sake I should probably work on that one as well, no matter how ugly it is. So, if you can get me a proper scan, go for it!

 

Edit: Oof... one's worse than the other.

Edited April 15, 2024 by Laserschwert

[Jake]

Wow those are incredible. I mean, they are bad! But in a fun way. It’s rare to see games get the “bizarre off-model international movie poster” treatment, but its here in spades. 

[Laserschwert]

Thanks to @Scummbuddy's beautiful scans, I've finally started work on this:

 

It looks like the one above was a preliminary version of the art, with further additions and changes painted by Purcell after the fact:

 

Eventually, I'll try to offer both versions.

Edited April 19, 2024 by Laserschwert

[Laserschwert]

And there it is: I've added two versions of Steve Purcell's cover art for "Herc's Adventures":

[Lagomorph01]

It's not like there's no LucasArts games that I haven't played yet, but Herc's Adventures I honestly never heard of before I saw it appear in this thread. Thanks for being thorough though, the art looks great! 🙂

[Udvarnoky]

It's a hidden gem, basically Zombies Ate My Neighbors meets Greek mythology. We ought to publish a review some day.

[RobMegone]

@Laserschwert, I just bought a flyer for the Japanese Famicom version of Maniac Mansion and I'm waiting for it to arrive. It's a bit of a strange one, any interest in a scan of this for the poster project?

[ThunderPeel2001]

On 1/24/2024 at 7:25 AM, Laserschwert said:

Wait, why did I never realize that there are two versions of this painting??

 

 

And the first one looks final enough to be used. Did they just realize they needed a narrower aspect ratio? Why repaint it, though, instead of cropping it?

 

The first one was just a colour test. The second one was the finished thing. Purcell explains on his blog: https://spudvisionblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/cartographers-cabin.html

 

 

On 1/25/2024 at 11:13 AM, Laserschwert said:

Here's a compilation of most of the logos and typography I've recreated in high-res over the years. It's always fun re-building these things or researching which fonts were used for taglines or subtitles.

 

A transparent PNG of this would be... *chef's kiss*

[Laserschwert]

On 9/12/2024 at 5:10 PM, RobMegone said:

@Laserschwert, I just bought a flyer for the Japanese Famicom version of Maniac Mansion and I'm waiting for it to arrive. It's a bit of a strange one, any interest in a scan of this for the poster project?

I think it's well worth the addition. Its style is the same as the Famicon hintbook artwork (which I still have to start working on):

 

[Laserschwert]

On 9/13/2024 at 9:22 PM, ThunderPeel2001 said:

A transparent PNG of this would be... *chef's kiss*

Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BknKMY_nouaA4d6fWP021GtNuT8pcP5w/view?usp=sharing

[ThunderPeel2001]

On 9/23/2024 at 3:38 PM, Laserschwert said:

Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BknKMY_nouaA4d6fWP021GtNuT8pcP5w/view?usp=sharing

 

Wow! Thank you. Beautiful stuff!